Jeff Hendrick

King_Kenny wrote: John Nice wrote: Jeff's a legend! Alex Miller @AlexMiller91 John Buckley delivered a 'decent' rendition of Ben E King's 'Stand By Me' for his Sheffield Wednesday initiation effort. Jeff Hendrick surprised a few by dropping Vanilla Ice's 'Ice Ice Baby'. That was a hit the last time Jeff had a good game.

He was 2.

Alex Miller

Weirdest thing i was tipping round the arcade in Newcastle co down bout 2 weeks ago the day this thread was bumped,  youngest loves the tipping point penny machines, was wearing an old ireland shirt. Passed a guy pushing a pram absolute double of jazzy jeff i mean doppelganger sh*te. Was a weird brief stand off, he looked at me like i was going to start chatting i kind of stopped looked at him went nah and walked off. Anyway other than being his absolute double he had a tattoo of an anchor above his hand seen jeff signing a new contract online and low and behold he has a tattoo on the a exact same spot,. So was jazzy jeff hanging about a scummy arcade in Newcastle, i suppose perfect foil

Artie Ziff wrote: Some lads crying about him been called Geoff,  while making hundreds of jokes about Young Doherty

John Nice wrote: kevin100 wrote: Good move for Hendrick this and a team like Wednesday were always likely to bring him in decent squad depth if nothing else. Hopefully he gets minutes but do wonder would he be best served doing a Hourihane and dropping to League 1 where he’d get regular minutes.  He played almost every single minute for Reading last year and you think he wont get regular football at Sheffield Wednesday? He'll be a regular starter. Do people just not pay attention or what?

 

Good move for Hendrick this and a team like Wednesday were always likely to bring him in decent squad depth if nothing else. Hopefully he gets a decent spot of gametime. 

Edited by kevin100 - 01 Sep 2023 at 9:19pm

Jeff Hendrix

Artie Ziff wrote: Some lads crying about him been called Geoff,  while making hundreds of jokes about Young Doherty

You Tell Me wrote: John Nice wrote: You Tell Me wrote: Objectively he offers only a limited amount.  He's not a tackler really, he's not someone that's going to dig in and protect the centre backs.  He's a capable passer, can thread a nice through ball, but doesn't seem to do it very often. He's not really much of a crosser of a ball I don't think.  I'm sure I remember him having a decent long range shot in him back in the day, but we rarely see it these days. Most midfielders are told not to shoot much from range now anyway. He doesn't really do set pieces. At Burnley he was good at winning second balls and giving them to other players to recycle the play. This suited a Sean Dyche team who weren't overly focused on keeping hold of the ball compared to other teams in the league. He is by all accounts a model professional, he keeps himself in good shape and is rarely injured. Overall he's the kind of player that can pad out a squad, won't do anything much wrong, won't look especially out of place, but probably won't do much of note either. He remains in the squad because we currently only have at most five or maybe six midfielders who are better than him and one of them is also covering right wing back at the moment. And I think its only fair to point out that objectively our other midfield players also offer only a limited amount. Indeed it would be quite easy to do a similar critique on several of them. SO objectively, what he offers is pretty close to what most of the rest of them offer, he's just a bit older. I would say with Cullen, Molumby, Knight and Smallbone you could pick out specific things in their game that they do particularly well in a way that's hard to do with Jeff, because not much stands out about him beyond his application, fitness and resistance to injury. Similarly McGrath offers a set piece threat at a minimum. Browne is more of an all rounder like Jeff, but Browne probably offers more of a goal threat and can also - at a stretch - cover the right side of defence. However this squad shows that there is room for seven central midfielders, and on that basis Hendrick is still in on merit, but as the seventh of the seven for me.