Jordan Bowery

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Would like to see Bowery in the centre, did pretty well on the left though and should have scored juust prior to their goal.
Looks promising so far, could be a steal at £500,000.

[Ger Regan]

Looks promising so far, could be a steal at £500,000.

£500,000 is nothing really in today's game. As close to risk-free as it's possible to get really.

[pestria]

He's young and has got a chance to develop by playing with better players and getting more match experience.

But ... I must admit to being unimpressed yesterday.  To me he looked slow, had a poor touch on several occasions and should have done better with the chances that came his way.  TBH Gabby (just back from injury and loss of form lets remember) showed him up against what I suspect was a poor right back.

[rutski]

The original comments about Benteke look to have been made after the Christmas period debacle.

some unbelievable comments over benteke, shows how much alot of people know about football and for this bowery, he will never make the grade as a top flight footballer. yesterday he had a couple of chances and should have definitely scored. you dont get many gilt edged chances like that in the premiership. him and stevens, i shudder when i see their names on the team sheet.

[brian green]

You could be right rutski or you could be wrong but I will have a small bet with you that we sell him for more than we paid for him.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm not going to judge Bowery yet, he's had a couple of nice cameos. However anyone having a go at Benteke is nuts.

[OCD]

Bit harsh to be writing Bowery off. Players develop at different rates. 18 months ago Weimann didn't look like he would make it when he went out on loan (Watford?). He suddenly hit a rich vein of form around February last year, scoring a load of goals for the reserves and started making small cameos in the first team. We've obviously seen some raw potential in him and Lambert hasn't exactly had a bad track record of spotting players.

[Ad@m]

I had a chat with a Chesterfield fan not so long ago about Bowery and he was amazed we signed him as he wasn't really standing out for Chesterfield.

I hope/assume our scouts saw something else in him.

[ozzjim]

Amazed how fast people are written off. Benteke had 3 games and people were saying he was useless. Weimann was never going to make it after 4-5 games in the first team. Westwood was shit after 40 minutes at Southampton. Bennett has already been consigned as useless by some.

500k, and first start in Jan should say something about where he is in his development. I agree with Soccer, when we are up to full strength 3 months in the Championship getting games would be good for his development and then lets see how he looks.

[not3bad]

Only saw a glimpse of Bowery in the Wigan match but I saw enough to think he has some promise.

[neo_Villan]

More writing off players after a couple of games I see. Same thing happened with Westwood  (after the Soton game) and I thought that might have taught some people to give players a bit of time before passing judgement on them but I guess some will never have the patience for this.

[LeeB]

More writing off players after a couple of games I see. Same thing happened with Westwood  (after the Soton game) and I thought that might have taught some people to give players a bit of time before passing judgement on them but I guess some will never have the patience for this.

It's because, frankly, some people are idiots.

[WarszaVillan]

I understand why people lost patience with Benteke, I mean he had that long goal drought at the beginning of his Villa career of about what ten mins

[PaulTheVillan]

I thought Bowrey looked decent enough. Better than Gabby at the moment.

[pestria]

I thought Bowrey looked decent enough. Better than Gabby at the moment.

I'm not writing Bowery off, but he way short of Gabby on Saturday.