Brett Holman

[Chipsticks]

Risso's suffering from the longest period ever about The Villa at the moment - best thing to do is just leave 'em to it. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see who has the better Villa career.

Bollocks Percy, go and read the match threads for the lot of matches, he was pretty well universally rated as playing poorly in all of them.

I have to admit that all I'd heard about was how poor he was until Match of the Day.

[peter w]

Not saying he's Messi but you can't use a justification for your opinion that he's shite being that he's clubless after 18 years and 62 caps playing at the highest level. You can fool some of the people some of the time, and Emile Heskey can fool every manager he's played under all of the time, apparently.

By that justification there are no bad players anywhere, including Alan Hutton.

No but my benchmark for a 'poor' player is set higher than someone rated by manager after manager and by his peers.

[Risso]

Not saying he's Messi but you can't use a justification for your opinion that he's shite being that he's clubless after 18 years and 62 caps playing at the highest level. You can fool some of the people some of the time, and Emile Heskey can fool every manager he's played under all of the time, apparently.

By that justification there are no bad players anywhere, including Alan Hutton.

No but my benchmark for a 'poor' player is set higher than someone rated by manager after manager and by his peers.

My benchmark is set by what they do for Aston Villa and not what Michael Owen might have thought 12 years ago.  Emile Heskey, by any standard you care to set, was an abysmal signing for Villa.

[Legion]

Marlon Harewood was worse.

[Risso]

Marlon Harewood was worse.

He was.

[john e]

Marlon Harewood was worse.

He was.

he was

[Percy McCarthy]

Well the good thing about Harewood was he hardly played. When you're talking about players like him and Heskey that's a positive.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Well the good thing about Harewood was he hardly played. When you're talking about players like him and Heskey that's a positive.

I wouldn't say Heskey hardly played, I thought he played a lot considering how shite he was.

[Percy McCarthy]

No, I agree, Emile played too often for me. I meant to highlight the positive Harewood had over Heskey. Didn't phrase it well.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Ah right, I see. Either way they were both cack.

[Dante Lavelli]

Back to Holman...  I think his work ethic will have a good/great impact on the other players.

Just seeing Holman busting his balls will hopefully set an example to the whole team.  We’ve lacked an identity for a while and Lambert is known to like hardworking teams.  Holman could be the conduit for getting the whole squad chasing and hassling like barca and spain.  Ironic as he wasn’t a Lambert signing.

[Chipsticks]

Marlon Harewood was worse.

Aside from the overhead kick at Anfield he was indeed wank.

[AV82EC]

Marlon Harewood was worse.

Aside from the overhead kick at Anfield he was indeed wank.

I couldn't go that night and thought we'd get stuffed and lo and behold we were 1 down at half time.  I switched on 5Live to hear Green and Lawrenson confidently stating how Liverpool were going to cruise it and Villa had nothing on the bench and I quote:

Lawro: Villa have got nothing to change the course of this game, I mean Marlon Harewood, its not going to get you anything is it....

Cue Lawro and Green chortling under their breath as they handed back to the studio. 

Then cue Marvellous Marlon with his overhead. Ha Ha Ha.

Back on topic, impressed with the work rate of Holman needs to make better use of the ball.

 

 

[Chipsticks]

Marlon Harewood was worse.

Aside from the overhead kick at Anfield he was indeed wank.

I couldn't go that night and thought we'd get stuffed and lo and behold we were 1 down at half time.  I switched on 5Live to hear Green and Lawrenson confidently stating how Liverpool were going to cruise it and Villa had nothing on the bench and I quote:

Lawro: Villa have got nothing to change the course of this game, I mean Marlon Harewood, its not going to get you anything is it....

Cue Lawro and Green chortling under their breath as they handed back to the studio. 

Then cue Marvellous Marlon with his overhead. Ha Ha Ha.

I'd love to find the guy that decided to make Alan Green and Mark Lawrenson a commentary team. It's almost as if they thought "what's the worst combination of wankers involved in football that we can have call a match?".

It's one Robbie Savage away from being the worst thing in the world.

[OCD]

Harewood was good as an impact player in his first season. We could bring him on for the last few minutes of a game and suddenly it would lift the tempo. Beating Newcastle 4-1 at home comes to mind. When we were ready to go up a level, we sold him.