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I'm sure this has been on here before but someone had to bump this thread to the top...

Why don't blind people skydive?

It scares the shit out of the dog

I agree with a lot of what you said there mate but this I just can't understand...

Quality IMO = Rooney, Parker

Would you really put Parker in the same bracket as Rooney?

Well if we sign Baros, who's to say if we will or not, would that make you happy with our summer spending?

We'd have signed 2 strikers, 1 midfielder, 1 defender and 1 keeper and lost 1 striker (first team that is) and one midfielder unless I'm missing someone.

Our net summer spending would be roughly 6.25m I reckon. That's not the "significant funds" we were promised, but it is more than a lot of clubs.

Personally I still wouldn't be satisfied, but more satisfied than I am at the moment I guess.

It was between BL and JG for me. But eventually BL won it for not being corrupt

But anyone who signs Mellberg, Angel, Delaney and Barry amongst others deserves credit, he even got Collymore playing for a bit. Even if he did sign Balaban, Stone, Watson etc

Merson should be CM instead of McCann. Solid player tho he is I can't believe he made it into this team.

If you looked at the polls to see who he's up against you'd see how he made it in. It was him or the crab basically, Merson was counted as a striker, don't ask why

I think JPA will miss Vass big time, we'll see though.

I'm surprised no-one has gone for Nobby seeing as he was top scorer last season (I think)

Ok OUT OF OUR CURRENT CROP (that means you can't say Baros), who do you reckon will be our top scorer this season? I was thinking about this earlier today and came to the decision that as much as I didn't think much of him as a signing, now that Vass has gone Angel won't be getting so many so I think "Super" Kev will end up top scorer, what do you reckon?

Linked with that Baros chap again

Never heard of him :roll:

I hope to god Merse wins this.

He won midfielders hands down for me, but not strikers, mainly because he wasn't one no matter what people say. Up front I'd have Dion any day.

Deano, first Villa hero I've had and I'll always look back on him as an absolute legend

Dion for me, before he got injured.

Earnshaw... Should be able to get him for a decent price

That's only because he's crap

Olly for me. Southgate was ok but Mellberg is just a class act.

Never saw Mountfield so can't comment on that.

wheres magicman? tayls is winning the other CM poll so we would need flair in the middle

Tayls may not have had flair but I bet his goalscoring record was better than that of Merse.

Still Merse would win this poll for me, surely we're not counting him as a striker?

steve stone should be in yeah. solid if unspetacular but he was for some reason one of my faves

I was joking, he was shit

Could be a favourite of yours for the reasons I love DLC maybe but still, shocking.

I still can't believe Stone was so bad having been so good in the past.

And where is De La Cruz? Some people can't even see the World's greatest ever player when he's clattering down their wing!

What about Steve "The Builder" Stone

Got to be Nobby I suppose but I'm not as impressed by him as some are.

He tackles and he passes, he harries and harrasses, he gets up people's asses, he's better than Roy Keane....

There was no choice there really.

I take it Merson isn't being counted as a central midfielder?

It shows that for all the players we've had there over the past few years none of them have been much good.

Ian Taylor first second and third, the 2nd Villa hero I ever had (first was Deano just for reference)

Where's the "your guess is as good as mine" option? It makes no sense at all in my eyes. Out of those options I'd say DOL didn't rate him I guess.

Just for your information I left the OS because of how shoddy the site was and how it was impossible to moderate because of the way it was set up. If they get a decent set up I'd drift back (continuing with this one too obviously) as there were some good people on there. I was the first person to make the jump I believe and I've just about caught up my OS post count on here now I reckon.

you met me aswell. the same time as villatoff and john. guess i made a good impression then!!!!!

Such an impression I still don't remember you! Sorry mate, that's actually 6 then. Presumably you were sat next to Cresser?

You don't need a picture of me by the way, just picture Michael Owen and it seems you won't be far wrong...

I think rather than "Moderator" under your name Lancs you should have "Goldfish"

But then you'd go to change it and forget what you were changing it to anyway so there's not much point.

I hope you didn't miss AJ off the list because you left him somewhere last week and forgot about him.

Ok just remembered it's 5. Anyone remember "Little Uli" or something like that, some kid who looked like a small De La Cruz (the only similarity really being he was fat and black), well I met him too.

You can see how his thought process works can't you, "right so they're all fans of ASTON Villa, so let me think... mmmm beeeeeeeeeeer, Risso...."