Talldarkandransome Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 39 minutes ago, BOF said: Just a note that this thread is now back up and running for obvious and welcome reasons Cos there aren't enough threads to moan in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 On 24/06/2008 at 11:48, BOF said: by OutByEaster Come the 19th July it will be 2174 days or almost six years since we last played a European tie; back then Darius was at number one in the charts and we were about to go out of the Intertoto cup against Lille. In a months time we’ll be back. Thankfully Darius won’t. Still too soon! RIP D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villatillidie95 Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 i remember 2002 and colourblind was everywhere the darius song, along with will young and gareth gates....now we are back in europe woo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted September 5, 2023 Moderator Share Posted September 5, 2023 The opening post is from 2008 - sorry Darius! Thank you @BOF for reformatting it so it works again. Over to you Oliver George Watkins - fill your boots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 I expect Watkins, Diaby, Duran or even Bailey to be top or near top spot by seasons end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 I assume the key is European Cup, UEFA Cup, Europa League, Super Cup, Conference League and Intertoto.? As for seeing them I've only made one in person. Dublin's goal against Rennes in the Intertoto Cup SF second leg 2001. Me and a mate had driven over from Wales after work and got to villa park well late, grabbed some tickets from the ticket office for the north stand before kick off and ran up the stairs just as Ginola crossed the ball IIRC and Dublin put it away. No sooner than we'd sat down we were up again celebrating straight away. We then hung on for an away goals win for 85 mins Villa won 2-2 and off to one of the 3 finals. Jeebus that was 22 years ago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Do we count qualifying rounds? Does uefa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Traoré got 6 for Ferencvaros last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 1 hour ago, MrBlack said: Do we count qualifying rounds? Does uefa? If we're counting the Intertoto then hell yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomC Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 On 24/06/2008 at 17:42, kkr said: I am surprised to see JPA and Vassell so high up the list! Probably because all competitions have a group stage now. As long as you make it into the group, you're guaranteed 6 matches plus the knockout phase. The older players all played in knockout-only competitions...they played fewer matches, especially if they went out early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 (edited) 53 minutes ago, TomC said: Probably because all competitions have a group stage now. As long as you make it into the group, you're guaranteed 6 matches plus the knockout phase. The older players all played in knockout-only competitions...they played fewer matches, especially if they went out early. Worth noting perhaps that we've only qualified for a group stage once before and that was 08/09 the last year of the UEFA Cup before it changed to the Europa League. It wasn't home and away but they did potentially play 4 extra matches compared to the 70's for instance and there were the 4 other games to get there via the Intertoto and the qualifying round. But we went out to CSKA Moscow in the round of 32 (damn you Wagner Love). So yeah, there's more games these days, but our numbers aren't really affected that much by group stages. Mostly because of Austria Vienna of course. Since 2000 we've only played 10 games in the UEFA proper, the rest are all in qualifying or Intertoto (or glorified qualifying as it should be remembered imho) matches. Or to put it another way that time we went out in the first round to Varteks and the 8 matches in 08/09. Edited September 5, 2023 by VILLAMARV numberwang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 4 hours ago, MrBlack said: Traoré got 6 for Ferencvaros last season Not sure what that has to do with Villa European scorers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 11 hours ago, TomC said: Probably because all competitions have a group stage now. As long as you make it into the group, you're guaranteed 6 matches plus the knockout phase. The older players all played in knockout-only competitions...they played fewer matches, especially if they went out early. As in most of the time. Haven't we only reached the quarter finals of European competition twice outside of 1982? (83 and 98 in the Uefa?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 14 hours ago, Zatman said: Not sure what that has to do with Villa European scorers Currently plays for Villa, was only on loan thanks to the clown, and should mean he's an option for us in some ECL games this season. I guess in context of the thread...the point being he scored 6 for a team weaker than villa. So we should be expecting Bailey, Watkins, Diaby, et al to be getting around that number also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 35 minutes ago, MrBlack said: Currently plays for Villa, was only on loan thanks to the clown, and should mean he's an option for us in some ECL games this season. I guess in context of the thread...the point being he scored 6 for a team weaker than villa. So we should be expecting Bailey, Watkins, Diaby, et al to be getting around that number also. Its not the same Traore Bertrand was in Turkey last season 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 13 minutes ago, Zatman said: Its not the same Traore Bertrand was in Turkey last season Eurrgh...oops. Somewhere in the back of my head Ferencvaros was Turkey, and I'd convinced myself that's where he'd been... I need to stop relying on my brain, I'm old now . Thanks for correcting my ignorance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unused Sub Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 A great list. Note that one of the own goals was by Ivo Stas. He was signed shortly after, but retired 12 months later without playing a competitive game. Staunton’s goal was unusual as it was from a corner. Not direct from a corner as he done before for us (like Douglas Luiz), it was towards the back end of this career and was at centre-back. Nodded it home from a few yards out. For many years he took corners, just seemed odd to see him on the end one instead. Yorke should have had few more but for the 3 overseas player rule. Staunton, McGrath & Saunders would generally be the 3. How the system worked was very strange to me. At the time we had 4 Ireland Internationals; Irish born Staunton was an overseas player, McGrath was an English born overseas player, Townsend was English and didn’t count, while Scotland born Houghton didn’t count either! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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