Scott Hogan - retired

[brian green]

That is an interesting story about Jordan Bowery.  The story goes that he was on the open market for £250,000. We paid £500,000 for him I believe.

[ChicagoLion]

No point dressing it up, he’s the worst centre forward I’ve seen in a Villa shirt. 

You’re having a laugh, mate. Jordan Bowery is easily the worst striker I’ve seen in 40 years watching this team. No one comes close to how shit he was.

This.

Jordan Bowery was a competition winner. I met a Chesterfield fan just after we signed who said he didn't even stand out for them!

Bosko Balaban is right up there.

[Ad@m]

No point dressing it up, he’s the worst centre forward I’ve seen in a Villa shirt. 

You’re having a laugh, mate. Jordan Bowery is easily the worst striker I’ve seen in 40 years watching this team. No one comes close to how shit he was.

This.

Jordan Bowery was a competition winner. I met a Chesterfield fan just after we signed who said he didn't even stand out for them!

Bosko Balaban is right up there.

I never saw enough of Balaban to know how crap he was.

Shame I can't say the same about Bowery.

[mike]

No point dressing it up, he’s the worst centre forward I’ve seen in a Villa shirt. 

You’re having a laugh, mate. Jordan Bowery is easily the worst striker I’ve seen in 40 years watching this team. No one comes close to how shit he was.

This.

Jordan Bowery was a competition winner. I met a Chesterfield fan just after we signed who said he didn't even stand out for them!

Bosko Balaban is right up there.

Good shout, he cost a fair bit.

[robleflaneur]

No point dressing it up, he’s the worst centre forward I’ve seen in a Villa shirt. 

You’re having a laugh, mate. Jordan Bowery is easily the worst striker I’ve seen in 40 years watching this team. No one comes close to how shit he was.

This.

Jordan Bowery was a competition winner. I met a Chesterfield fan just after we signed who said he didn't even stand out for them!

Bosko Balaban is right up there.

I never saw enough of Balaban to know how crap he was.

Shame I can't say the same about Bowery.

No one saw enough of Balaban.Can't even have a Villa T shirt printed 'I saw Bowery (or Balaban) score'

[Nunkin1965]

No point dressing it up, he’s the worst centre forward I’ve seen in a Villa shirt. 

You’re having a laugh, mate. Jordan Bowery is easily the worst striker I’ve seen in 40 years watching this team. No one comes close to how shit he was.

This.

Jordan Bowery was a competition winner. I met a Chesterfield fan just after we signed who said he didn't even stand out for them!

Bosko Balaban is right up there.

I never saw enough of Balaban to know how crap he was.

Shame I can't say the same about Bowery.

No one saw enough of Balaban.Can't even have a Villa T shirt printed 'I saw Bowery (or Balaban) score'

I saw him in a reserve game and he scored a penalty I think. He looked like he was running through treacle most of the time from memory.

[ChicagoLion]

No point dressing it up, he’s the worst centre forward I’ve seen in a Villa shirt. 

You’re having a laugh, mate. Jordan Bowery is easily the worst striker I’ve seen in 40 years watching this team. No one comes close to how shit he was.

This.

Jordan Bowery was a competition winner. I met a Chesterfield fan just after we signed who said he didn't even stand out for them!

Bosko Balaban is right up there.

I never saw enough of Balaban to know how crap he was.

Shame I can't say the same about Bowery.

I saw him make his debut, he came on as a sub against Manure to great acclaim, someone passed the ball to him and he stood on it and fell over.
It was quite comical, I think that was his Villa highlight.

[Jockey Randall]

He's very one dimensional. If we could get players around him playing quick, intricate passing his movement could get goals but every time he plays no one seems to be anywhere near him and he's going to create very little through individual skill.

Signing him when we did shows how poor our thinking as a club was back then. There's no point signing a player like him unless you play a certain way. We just seemed to look at goals scored. I really hope we've learned our lessons as a club going forward.

[Ad@m]

Bruce is on record saying he signed Hogan because "his stats were good".

Bruce was signing players as if he was playing Championship Manager.

[aj2k77]

Less than 40 goals for Brentford and Rochdale and we shelled out nearly £10m for him. Disasterous.Simply not good enough.

[Des Little]

Hogan is basically a shaved Gary Penrice with a fat arse. He’s shit.

Goodnight

[Goldie.7]

Headless chicken - get rid.

[SoccerHQ]

Bruce is on record saying he signed Hogan because "his stats were good".

Bruce was signing players as if he was playing Championship Manager.

Didn't know he actually had said that, I just imagine he was like Nyland and SB had been "tracking him for years."

My big fear at the time when signing him was our style was completely different to Brentford's and Hogan was only effective with quick short throughballs which we didn't really do as we relied on more individualism in final third which Kodjia could do.

If you look at the mountain of strikers SB has signed in his career many of them have just been flavour of the month type strikers and very few have been good long term strikers for the clubs he's been at.

[hipkiss92]

He's very one dimensional. If we could get players around him playing quick, intricate passing his movement could get goals but every time he plays no one seems to be anywhere near him and he's going to create very little through individual skill.

Signing him when we did shows how poor our thinking as a club was back then. There's no point signing a player like him unless you play a certain way. We just seemed to look at goals scored. I really hope we've learned our lessons as a club going forward.

Oh yeah, slick intricate passing like what Leeds, Swansea today and previously Brentford played.

[SoccerHQ]

He's very one dimensional. If we could get players around him playing quick, intricate passing his movement could get goals but every time he plays no one seems to be anywhere near him and he's going to create very little through individual skill.

Signing him when we did shows how poor our thinking as a club was back then. There's no point signing a player like him unless you play a certain way. We just seemed to look at goals scored. I really hope we've learned our lessons as a club going forward.

Oh yeah, slick intricate passing like what Leeds, Swansea today and previously Brentford played.

We have played that aswell in last few months. Problem was Hogan still struggled to get into even those games even if he made it off the bench. Boro away only one when he made a bit of impact although of course it's not easy to make impact with 10 minute starts.