Ron Saunders' Villa end the season with a win to help them finish 8th with fifteen wins, sixteen draws and eleven defeats in forty two division one games. Meanwhile, John Gregory made his final Villa appearance aged 25 before moving on to Brighton in July 1979 for a fee of £300,000. Villa had bought Gregory for £60,000 from Northampton Town in June 1977 and he went on to play for Villa in 1977-78 and 1978-79 making 76 appearances and scoring 11 goals and returning in the late 90's as a cult hero Villa manager.