All Time Worst XI

[TaxDodger]

I'd like to jump to the defence of poor Mr Senderos. From memory I'm pretty sure he played about 4/5 games at the start of the 2014/15 season, most of which we won and looked solid at the back, then he got injured and disappeared and was never seen again.

So in theory, based on performance level per game he should be closer to our best eleven than our worst eleven!

[PeterWithesShin]

W3 D1 L3 with Senderos. Although the defeats were Arsenal when we'd been hit by squad sickness and then Chelsea and Man C. Think he made a sub appearance after that and then was injured the rest of the season.

[TheTimVilla]

Well I thought he was gash :oD

[TheTimVilla]

Well I thought he was gash :oD

Perhaps it was due to his gormless face.

[LeeB]

Moreira
Richards, Senderos, Lescott, Gallacher
Djemba, Drinkwater, Holman, Bradley (both!)
David Hunt, Bowery

Manager: McNeill

I'd go with that Tim, but I'd swap the keeper for that Croation keeper we chased for ages and was absolute dog shit and who's name escapes me.
The cup defeat at home to Swansea in the Championship was the worst goalkeeping display I've ever seen, and as bad as your nominee was he did save a penalty.

[Villa in Denmark]

Moreira
Richards, Senderos, Lescott, Gallacher
Djemba, Drinkwater, Holman, Bradley (both!)
David Hunt, Bowery

Manager: McNeill

I'd go with that Tim, but I'd swap the keeper for that Croation keeper we chased for ages and was absolute dog shit and who's name escapes me.
The cup defeat at home to Swansea in the Championship was the worst goalkeeping display I've ever seen, and as bad as your nominee was he did save a penalty.

Lovre Kalanic played 7 times for us according to Wikipedia.

[paul_e]

Moreira
Richards, Senderos, Lescott, Gallacher
Djemba, Drinkwater, Holman, Bradley (both!)
David Hunt, Bowery

Manager: McNeill

I'd go with that Tim, but I'd swap the keeper for that Croation keeper we chased for ages and was absolute dog shit and who's name escapes me.
The cup defeat at home to Swansea in the Championship was the worst goalkeeping display I've ever seen, and as bad as your nominee was he did save a penalty.

Kalinic, he's definitely near the top of the list for shocking keepers.

I don't think it's fair to have Bowery in there, he was a very cheap punt from the lower leagues who at lest seemed to realise how lucky he was to get the chance. Most of the time a player like that would've had 1-2 season with the reserves/U21s maybe get on the bench a few times and then leave with no one being all that surprised, he's only even remembered because the rest of our squad was so poor at the time.

I'm much more willing to put players like Hogan, McCormack and Gestede on the shit list because they were signed to be first team players and were fucking terrible, 2 of them barely looked like footballers and the other was a lazy fat twat who couldn't be arsed to put in the minimum of effort for us.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've said before that I think it's harsh to include any player that wasn't good enough, and instead include players that should have been good enough but couldn't be arsed often enough. Gestede was never a top flight player, we were the ones stupid enough to sign him to replace Benteke. I never remember thinking Gestede wasn't trying his best, plus the stuff he did helping the homeless gives him bonus points.
Although Gestede did turn more into McCormack after leaving us.

McCormack is the the perfect example of a player that should be listed. Was 30, rattled goals in for fun at that level, don't think he even managed another 50 games in the rest of his career once he was getting our wages.

[dave.woodhall]

I think Hogan was a bit unlucky as well. It wasn't his fault we were throwing around stupid money and neither was it his fault he didn't suit our style of play, such as it was.

[adrenachrome]

Some perspective.

This is, I think, when we were relegated to Division 3.


I had most of these players inked on my satchel.



https://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-sheffield-united-13-april-1970-114735/

[ADVILLAFAN]

Thought Bunn was maybe the worst Keeper I've seen play for us and Baston was truly dreadful up front. Not sure either played that much for us though.

[KingstandingVilla]

Enckelmen

Beye Richards Lescott Grayhab

Agathe, Darren Bradley, Ireland, Djemba Djemba

Boulding Penrice

[LeeB]

Enckelmen

Beye Richards Lescott Grayhab

Agathe, Darren Bradley, Ireland, Djemba Djemba

Boulding Penrice

Enckleman is way too obvious, and had a stormer later in the season away at West Ham in a game we couldn't afford to lose.

[Rigadon]

Have we ever done an absolute ****** XI?  DOL would be that teams manager, with Craig Gardener captain. 

[Flamingo Lane]

Some perspective.

This is, I think, when we were relegated to Division 3.


I had most of these players inked on my satchel.



https://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-sheffield-united-13-april-1970-114735/

That's pretty much the team that took us to the League Cup Final the following season, knocking out Man Utd in the semi final.