Ron Saunders' Villa suffer their heaviest defeat of the season to make it ten wins, twelve draws and eight defeats in thirty division one games this season. Casualties abounded as the Forest debacle would prove to be centre forward Andy Gray’s final Villa appearance. Villa had signed Gray from Dundee United for a fee of £110,000 as a 19 year old and he went on to represent Villa between 1975-76 and 1978-79 but was significantly out of favour with boss Ron Saunders in 1978-79 and ostracised in 1979-80 before his departure from the club to Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 1979 for a fee of £1,469,000. Also seeing his Villa career end was midfielder Tommy Craig who made his final appearance aged 26 before moving on to Swansea City in July 1979 for a fee of £150,000. Villa had signed Craig from Newcastle United in January 1978 for £270,000 and he played for the club between 1977-78 and 1978-79 making 32 appearances and scoring twice.