travie500 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 why did you have to bring that back up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneill Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 No reason just looking at some of the old threads and thought it might be ok to have my say as i was not a member at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hero!!! :notworthy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wol. Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 why not ? I voted flop, We seemed to have a habit of buying forwards with a good reputation and turning them shite. hope we have changed this when our next new big name forward comes to VP surprised its 70% hero tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ricardomeister Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 For me he is clearly neither a hero nor a flop but somewhere in between. He had 1 very good season, 1 decent season and a couple of poor seasons so a good player but lacked the pace to be really top standard. Sounds like he was a genuinely nice guy off the pitch though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrogers Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 He was playing excellently, he had scored 24 goals one season and had scored 16 before GT MkII turned up and bought that waste of space Crouch, dropped JPA, whilst Crouch was being shit, JPA lost fitness, got injured and never really recovered. JPA would have IMO been one of our best strikers ever, had GT MkII not ruined his previous reputation (GT's) and come back to manage Villa. GT really has gone down to numpty level, by neqarly relegating us and **** up JPA's career, by replacing him with Rodney Trotter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa84 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 flop/hero... neither Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaceydeaceyaggro Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Who gives a shit, he's gone (thank God). Get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark8691 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hero.. Though we should have let him go a little sooner than we did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrogers Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Clearly some do give a shit, hence 13 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derryvillan Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Yeah but 12 of them Nick are nearly 2 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrogers Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I know Derry, but there have been another 10-15 in the last few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derryvillan Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Sweet as mate,carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villabromsgrove Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hero, I loved the guy and he loved the Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Fookin' 'ell, this is a blast from the past! I remember watching his debut from the Trinity and thinking he was a class act. It was obvious to me he was going to have to acclimatise to the PL but it was equally obvious he was an intelligent player with a great touch. He had a rough time here at times so I was very pleased when he had some great times as well - the guy had cojones but he was also a thoroughly nice guy, it seemed. Did we get the best out of him all the time he was here? No, of course not and the club learned some lessons from it. It would be interesting to see how a prime JPA would fare coming into this team and the club as it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackio1986 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 The guy came and played through his footballing prime with us, i'd love to see the early JPA in the side now. I was pretty gutted we never got to give him a good send off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 If the guy wasn't a class act thru and thru, than you might have an argument that he was a flop, cuz there were LONG periods when he was invisible and ineffective. And that nightmare hand ball/penalty miss game....oh my...... :shock: But he was an honest successor to the Dwight Yorke mantle, in that he had flair, great ability, scored goals ( though not enuff), and had name value. I love JPA, because he's a great person who loved Aston Villa. He was proud to play for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I was pretty gutted we never got to give him a good send off Yeah, there is something unfinished there. If this poll is representative then 70%+ would acclaim him as a hero and I would expect the remaining 30% to applaud politely. It would be great to hear the old "Juan Pablo Angel! There's only only Juan Pablo Angel, Juan Pablo Angel!" ringing and echoing around VP again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrogers Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Not to mention how badly he was treated by that numpty Graham Taylor. NB, I don't give a toss what he did first time around, he ruined it all on his second coming and almost relegating the club and replacing a goal scoring, inform JPA, with that lanky, talentless, waste of space Peter Crouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 There's nothing more annoying than people saying he had one good season! He scored over 60 goals for the club, how many Villa players have done that in recent years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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