Mile Jedinak - Released

[UK Redsox]

Jedi is one of the poorest midfield passers of the ball ive seen for Villa. In that aspect of the game, he's worse than Pointy.

Add to that his complete inability to direct headers in a specific direction.

He's just not very good.

[PaulWinch again]

He's not even very good physically.

[TheTimVilla]

Call me a maverick but I thought he played quite well tonight

[tomd2103]

Like Westwood in that he is a limited player who is only effective in one specific role - holding midfielder in a midfield three.  Also like Westwood, he gets badly found out when playing in a midfield two.

[saunders_heroes]

I used to stick up for Jedinak but he looks as useless as everyone else in midfield these days. The only thing he offers is his heading ability, which is decent.

[curiousorange]

Before we signed him, I thought Jedinak was the answer to a question. Now I know that question is 'who would I like to see sold back to Palace?'

[AGRIPPA]

He's a crock o shite and I'm faster than him at 51

[PaulWinch again]

I've never really seen him before he joined us, but surely there's got to be more there than we've seen. He isn't even a blocker because he's so slow players just go past him. On the odd occasion he does stop someone he seems incapable of making a 3 yard pass and gifts possession back to the opposition.

[UK Redsox]

I used to stick up for Jedinak but he looks as useless as everyone else in midfield these days. The only thing he offers is his heading ability, which is decent.

Really?

To me he seems to head the ball either straight up in the air or weakly in a random direction.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

What is the point of Jedinak? What is his role? He is as much responsible for our midfield woes as anybody else at the moment. He offers presence and a few headers (that mostly seem to go straight back to the opposition) but what else doe he offer? If he's playing as a midfielder, surely he needs to offer himself as an outlet by finding space, receive and make passes provide some drive. He offers no attacking intent when we have the ball. Instead he seems content to wait for our attacks to break down, so he can become effective again. This is a waste of a midfield position. For this reason he needs to have 2 able midfielders in front of him which the club just don't have. If Bruce is playing to hold out for 70 minutes and then hit teams on the counter (eg QPR) then Jedinak may have a role. If the plan fails and we concede early (eg Wolves) then Jedinak will not get us back into the game. Tish could do the Jedinak role better. He can head, move, pass, tackle and drive forwards without getting in the way of our 2 CB's and making us look like we play with 5 at the back. We would still need two good midfielders alongside Tish, but then we might be able to link with and supply our forwards and possibly rescue games that are running away from us.

[Toronto Villa]

To me the signing of Jedinak is starting to feel a lot like Lescott. That he was a very good player at times on his day but has rapidly declined. He's now best served as an occasional player and needs to be supported by much younger and faster legs around him. He could still be valuable in a rotation capacity but certainly no longer an every week player.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Jedinak was a typical lazy signing

Legs gone - check
overpriced - check
minimal resale value - check
best days behind him - check
Only good for one season - check

nothing against the bloke he just isnt very good

the thing with lazy signings like him, lescott and elphick is that our youngsters dont get a sniff. They may be good enough the may not but without game time we will never know

[chrisw1]

Jedinak was a typical lazy signing

a signing, that along with Elphick, was repeatedly stated as exactly what we need by many, many people on here.

It just goes to show this game ain't as easy as some of us think.

[kippaxvilla2]

Well yes and no.  I think it is easier if he plays in a 3 - he has always looked so much better effectively being a sweeper.  The problem is he is surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.  Gardner was sort of playing okay well until he got a new contract.

[Clampy]

I think overall he's been pretty good. God knows what the midfield would have been like had he not been there.