Zatman Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Zat Knight Hadji Lee hendrie(a good player though his reputation made some people not rate him) Ronny Johnsen another one for the Julian Joachim campaign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Outside of B6, Ian Taylor doesn't get the respect he deserves in my opinion. I can remember having a furious argument with a plastic Scouser, who described him as "the epitome of average". Agree, I was going to say Ian Taylor too. Not underrated by Villa fans but hugely underrated outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Tayls is all Villa, same as Gabby.....they'll always stand out for me. Have to agree with turnbull, though. Hamilton, Carrodus and Bremner were great examples; understated, modest and total workhorses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 my dad always takes the mickey out of me for it but when I was younger I had a soft spot for Julian joachim. I remember him being brilliant and scoring a lot of goals(probably helped by the 98/99 season being one of the first I fully remember) but my dad tells me I was wrong, haha of course I still don't believe him =] I was coming into this thread to write about Julian Joachim, great shout! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpet Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Mine would be Mark Delaney. I may get some stick for that but I thought he was good defender who gave a lot for the villa. Now a youth coach as well. Edited January 20, 2014 by Crumpet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted January 20, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2014 Mark Delaney (If he could be considered under rated) and before his acrimonious departure George Boateng. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I had the striped LDV shirt with Joachim on the back.... Really liked him when I was a lad! Im going with Joachim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted January 20, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2014 Earl Barrett never got the credit he deserved either. A proper athletic full back. He'd be ideal for the modern game now too. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Zat Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Paul McGrath. The God nickname doesn't do him justice, he was better than God. Very deep Villa89, very deep. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Hamilton, Carrodus, Bremner. All 3 did the donkey work, all 3 were vastly underrated but played such great parts in Villa's successes. I always thought that Ray Graydon was a better player than he was given credit for. I was very young when `Chico` was in the team & in those day's I was completely hypnotised by all things claret & blue. I always felt `Chico` did get his due recognition & was loved by the Holte End. I also saw him score an absolutely fantastic individual goal against Sheffield Utd once in a terrific 5-1 home win in the 1975-76 season. Our first season back in the top flight under Ron Saunders. He beat 3 players & curled the ball into the goalkeepers top left hand corner from just outside the box. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Jlloyd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Burgundy Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Barry Bannan - and im not even joking #LittleBaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Hamilton, Carrodus, Bremner. All 3 did the donkey work, all 3 were vastly underrated but played such great parts in Villa's successes. I always thought that Ray Graydon was a better player than he was given credit for. I saw Frank Carrodus dribble the ball from the half way line past about five players get to the opposition box and fall over! Des Bremner for me all day long and twice at weekends I was going to post this !!! My recollection was he did that every game, 10 times a game............maybe a little distorted through time but in our family that was his 'thing' ...either fall over or run out of pitch - he had no left or right turn ! Des Bremner for me too, by a mile. Although someone else who rarely gets mentioned anymore is Leighton Phillips- a bit of a disaster at first but turned into a Beckenbaur type sweeper. Brilliant and very understated. And I remember being at St Andrews when it all kicked off after he was sent off for giving the ref the V sign - scary days !! Edited January 20, 2014 by terrytini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intercourse_The_Penguin Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Anticipating getting slated for this, but... Savo. There, I said it. (Ok, it ended horribly and the spitting at the fans things was appalling, but... for all the abuse and ridicule he came in for, I thought his all-round play was good, he was a tidy player with the ball at his feet, brought others into play well, had some intelligent running in him when he was on form, and his goal-scoring record wasn't actually that bad) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted January 20, 2014 Author Share Posted January 20, 2014 Barry Bannan - and im not even joking #LittleBaz Thank you Con. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForfarVillan Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Speaking in context,right now its Alan hutton. The amount of hate he gets is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. I don't think he's great or anything but nowhere near as bad as most make out on here. In fact he's pretty goodAnticipating getting slated for this, but... Savo. There, I said it. (Ok, it ended horribly and the spitting at the fans things was appalling, but... for all the abuse and ridicule he came in for, I thought his all-round play was good, he was a tidy player with the ball at his feet, brought others into play well, had some intelligent running in him when he was on form, and his goal-scoring record wasn't actually that bad) I loved Savo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Anticipating getting slated for this, but... Savo. There, I said it. (Ok, it ended horribly and the spitting at the fans things was appalling, but... for all the abuse and ridicule he came in for, I thought his all-round play was good, he was a tidy player with the ball at his feet, brought others into play well, had some intelligent running in him when he was on form, and his goal-scoring record wasn't actually that bad) And the scorer of the most under-rated Wembley goal...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_c Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Kevin Richardson, good captain, great facial hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Gabby not just by our own fans, criminally underrated by other fans obviously lightning quick, strong, great crosser, instinctive rather than a great finisher (we all know what happens when he has time to think) can hold it up, and most importantly big game player should be going to the world cup in place of the injured theo, brazil wont know whats hit it when those step overs come out 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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