Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Shrek on December 17, 2011, 11:46:00 PM
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Chris Herd has signed a new three and a half year deal.
Great news, has been the big surprise for me this season.
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Good news.
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Very good player, his natural role is defensive CM but he can also play RB imo, he'd be much better than Hutton.
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Crackin' news, great young prospect. Personally I'm more into him than this Gary Gardner fella.
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Good for him. He has demonstrated that he is competent at this level and in effect is saving us 3m in buying a person for the role. Another success for our youth academy.
Hopefully soon one of the big names from our yoof will break through.
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Well done!
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Good luck to him and I hope he builds on it
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I have a feeling he may be this season's Hogg. Encouraging start, signs a long-term deal and is sold to a lower-league side within a year. I hope not as I like him and he's a warrior. But at this moment in time he's not good enough to be in a midfield two with Petrov. Clark should be ahead of him.
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I have a feeling he may be this season's Hogg. Encouraging start, signs a long-term deal and is sold to a lower-league side within a year. I hope not as I like him and he's a warrior. But at this moment in time he's not good enough to be in a midfield two with Petrov. Clark should be ahead of him.
I don't think anyone is claiming that he will be the next gerrard or whatever but he's doing a reasonable job and I'd guess he is better value for money than hmmm Davis who'd cost us maybe 2m to buy back (as rumoured). If he's sold on then that is fine too as it'll subsidise the youth squad for another year or so.
Basically I like the fact that he's being given the chance to see how good he can be rather than a Cahill situation or spending Xm on Hutton when Licaj and probably Herd could have done just as well.
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I have a feeling he may be this season's Hogg. Encouraging start, signs a long-term deal and is sold to a lower-league side within a year. I hope not as I like him and he's a warrior. But at this moment in time he's not good enough to be in a midfield two with Petrov. Clark should be ahead of him.
My views exactly. He's not good enough to be playing in the starting eleven. He's basically a runner and that's it. Don't see what the hype with him is to be honest.
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I seemed to have jumped the gun, he has agreed the new deal and is poised to sign. It's all but done by the sounds of it do still great news.
And I totally disagree with the comparison to Hogg, Herd has much more about him, he can play midfield (a much better footballer) and anywhere across the backline.
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I have a feeling he may be this season's Hogg. Encouraging start, signs a long-term deal and is sold to a lower-league side within a year. I hope not as I like him and he's a warrior. But at this moment in time he's not good enough to be in a midfield two with Petrov. Clark should be ahead of him.
Hogg had how many starts for us before being shipped out to Portsmouth on loan? - 3 or 4.
No comparison IMO.
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I like herd. Glad he has signed and can build on a very good start to his villa career.
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Good news
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Very good player, his natural role is defensive CM but he can also play RB imo, he'd be much better than Hutton.
How many right back appearances have you seen to inform that view?
I like him, he's got the right attitude and a lot of self confidence which gives him a chance of going further than more naturally gifted players.
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Good news, he has been the surprise package this year.
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Can only be good news signing up good "own grown" young players on longer term contracts
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Signed a Contract in January till 2014 as well. Has really impressed and deserves what I assume will be a pay rise with the extra year. Well done Herdy!
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Good news.
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One of the few bright spots of the season so far.
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Still needs to work a bit on his passing but he's impressed me in a lot of other aspects in his game that suggests he'll stick around a bit longer than Hogg did.
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We missed him today.
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The fact that Herd now appears to be first choice is a measure of how far we have fallen . Herd would be a decent squad player and I think he has been asked to play a role which is difficult enough for an experienced player so it hasn't surprised me that he has looked lost at times, particularly the top sides. He needs some help from an experienced partner but he hasn't got it.
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We missed him today.
Typical Villa, signing yet another injured player
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Very good player, his natural role is defensive CM but he can also play RB imo, he'd be much better than Hutton.
How many right back appearances have you seen to inform that view?
To be fair, his one game at right-back this season did see him win Man Of The Match.
So the argument could certainly be made that he has done better at right-back than Hutton so far in their respective Villa careers.
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We can only hope that Herd doesn't burn himself out or become too injury prone. A typical 'roll your sleeves up and get stuck in' player. That is what we have always needed to get Villa Park buzzing. It has been like that as long as I can remember. He is not all about hard tackling either.
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A sweeping generalisation but it's typical of an Aussie to break though rather than some of the more recognised and celebrated players from our academy. He seems to have that aussie tenacity whereas most english sportmen seem scared of failing rather than busting a gut to try and win.
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Very good player, his natural role is defensive CM but he can also play RB imo, he'd be much better than Hutton.
How many right back appearances have you seen to inform that view?
To be fair, his one game at right-back this season did see him win Man Of The Match.
So the argument could certainly be made that he has done better at right-back than Hutton so far in their respective Villa careers.
He looked great at right back against Wolves. Hutton has looked very dodgy in most of his.
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1703 FOOTBALL: Aston Villa utility player Chris Herd vowed to keep on improving after signing a new four-year contract with the club. The Australia Under-20 international had 18 months remaining of his current deal but has earned his new contract after impressing manager Alex McLeish.
Source: BBC
Good news, one of the few chinks of light this season.
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Good luck to him I like his all action style.
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I think it's interesting to compare him to NRC. Is he a worse player in any discernible way? I think he's probably slightly better technically although he makes the wrong choice a fair bit and is probably less composed?
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Has only just started playing there to be fair MC, previously played RB or Central Defence.
I think he has all the attributes to be a good defensive midfielder.Excellant in the air, likes a tackle, not too bad on the floor either, and more importantly, has a bit of pace.Buy a Capoue, or a Livermore to play alongside him, and we will have a good strong defensive midfield.
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He's done well, but playing Clark there today made us look much more composed on theball. Herd is a bit all action and tends tO charge around a lot I think, sometimes down blind alleys.