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I think Hugill was a good fit for what Neil wanted to do with his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation - the lone striker needed to be able to be a target to hit, needed to be able to get in behind and bring the attacking 3 behind him into the game. He did all of that pretty well, I thought - he happened to score a few as well.

His main weakness for me was being a little bit "raw" - he wasn't that great with the ball at his feet, which fed into his inability to reliably finish when through 1v1.

It's a real shame that the great money we got for him just got burned through by giving new contracts to existing players and wasn't reinvested in any kind of effort to raise the calibre of player in the squad, it feels more like it was just a means to subsidise running costs for the owner.
 
survey said:
I've said it before and I stand by it. He'll never be a footballer while he's got a hole in his Arse
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For a lad who'll "never be a footballer", he's had a very good (and no doubt well-paid) career as one.

He scored a fair amount of goals for us, brought in some money for us with a large transfer fee and was alright as a person and as a player whilst he was here - we've had far worse than Hugill at this club, so why he gets so many people on his back I'm not entirely sure.
 
It was a great thing Moysey did for us, there.

And just shows how much Dosh is sloshing around everywhere in the Premier League.
 
He was developing very well under Grayson and then was excellent for that half a season under AN.

Never good enough for the prem but I dunno give Alex Neil 18 months of Hugill-Robbo- Maguire and Barky when they were still effective counter attack championship players and he'd have got this club into the play offs in either of those seasons.

You replace him with respect to him Louis Moult and the slide down the league starts.

Last few years he's just bench warmed so he's not going to be effective as in 2017 given his build. Thought he'd have dropped down to league one now and at a Derby or Charlton, that will probably happen next season as can't see Rotherham being able to afford him full time.
 
MattPNE17 said:
I think Hugill was a good fit for what Neil wanted to do with his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation - the lone striker needed to be able to be a target to hit, needed to be able to get in behind and bring the attacking 3 behind him into the game. He did all of that pretty well, I thought - he happened to score a few as well.

His main weakness for me was being a little bit "raw" - he wasn't that great with the ball at his feet, which fed into his inability to reliably finish when through 1v1.

It's a real shame that the great money we got for him just got burned through by giving new contracts to existing players and wasn't reinvested in any kind of effort to raise the calibre of player in the squad, it feels more like it was just a means to subsidise running costs for the owner.
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Bodin and Moult came in that January. Injuries hurt both here big time just as they were getting into their strides but even if fully fit I couldn't see either being as important as Hugill was leading the line for those months.

Had a look at summer 2018 to see who else came in. šŸ¤£ Finishes two points off 6th in AN's first full season, still a good age profile and some quality players in key positions and only signings are Michael Howard (who on earth was that) from Cork City and Crowe on a free from Ipswich as a filler goalkeeper.

Another 4m came in that summer aswell as according to soccerbase Greg went to Cardiff for that amount although I assume not all in one go but still a decent price.
 
SoccerHQ said:
He was developing very well under Grayson and then was excellent for that half a season under AN.

Never good enough for the prem but I dunno give Alex Neil 18 months of Hugill-Robbo- Maguire and Barky when they were still effective counter attack championship players and he'd have got this club into the play offs in either of those seasons.

You replace him with respect to him Louis Moult and the slide down the league starts.

Last few years he's just bench warmed so he's not going to be effective as in 2017 given his build. Thought he'd have dropped down to league one now and at a Derby or Charlton, that will probably happen next season as can't see Rotherham being able to afford him full time.
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The last season under AN he ripped villa apart second half and was unplayable. Think if heā€™d moved to a top championship club then he wouldā€™ve had a much better career but heā€™s made a very good living since then for little return.

Iā€™m sure footballing wise he has regrets or will at end of his career.
 
milkyken said:
The last season under AN he ripped villa apart second half and was unplayable. Think if heā€™d moved to a top championship club then he wouldā€™ve had a much better career but heā€™s made a very good living since then for little return.

Iā€™m sure footballing wise he has regrets or will at end of his career.
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Doubt it, he would have regretted it a lot more if he never at least tried to get that Prem move.
 
Personally I rated him and, like others have said, we've had a lot worse. On the other hand, I know a West Brom fan and he hated him, said he was shit and a lot more. On a more humorous note, he told me about a song their fans sung for Jordan. He was on loan from Norwich at the time.
He can't shoot,
He can't score,
He is worse than shit Zohore,
With a knick knack paddywack get Norwich on the phone,
Jordan Hugill fuck off home.
 
MattPNE17 said:
I think Hugill was a good fit for what Neil wanted to do with his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation - the lone striker needed to be able to be a target to hit, needed to be able to get in behind and bring the attacking 3 behind him into the game. He did all of that pretty well, I thought - he happened to score a few as well.

His main weakness for me was being a little bit "raw" - he wasn't that great with the ball at his feet, which fed into his inability to reliably finish when through 1v1.

It's a real shame that the great money we got for him just got burned through by giving new contracts to existing players and wasn't reinvested in any kind of effort to raise the calibre of player in the squad, it feels more like it was just a means to subsidise running costs for the owner.
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In all fairness I think the money was reinvested. It was just reinvested really badly. And for that P riddy has to take the vast majority of the blame.

750k for stockley and over 1 million for potts could have both been used to bring in kieffer more. Potts has done a job but nothing more.

2 million on bayliss.
Over a million on bodin, moult and rafferty. God knows how much ripley cost.
1.8 million on bayliss.
Wasting 20 grand a week on Sinclair.

I could go on. This has been going on for years.
 
The lad was pulling pints playing part time at the age of 20. 10 years later he (if he has been sensible) is set financially for the rest of his life and played premier League (alright barely any) football.

If he has any regrets he needs his head looking at.

Our fans have some strange almost stalkerish attitudes towards ex players.
 
milkyken said:
The last season under AN he ripped villa apart second half and was unplayable. Think if heā€™d moved to a top championship club then he wouldā€™ve had a much better career but heā€™s made a very good living since then for little return.

Iā€™m sure footballing wise he has regrets or will at end of his career.
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He was never good enough for West Ham (considering they've had likes of Di Canio and Aranutovic upfront so fans were never going to accept his lack of technical quality) but pretty sure he got loaned to QPR and did o.k so it was just a move that didn't work out.

His error was going to Norwich and bench warming behind Pukki and his career lost momentum. I was going to say if he'd gone to Cardiff when Warnock was there he'd have got going again but pretty sure he was at Boro for a bit with Warnock and seemingly didn't work out either.
 
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