- Jul 7, 2003
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going back to Dan Harding, I think a few people on here are being incredibly harsh.
He came into the team last season and looked at home, keeping his place and including the play offs. He had an admittedly shocking start this season, giving away a couple of goals, a penalty and getting sent off, but I personally like to think he's got over that.
He played well at both Gillingham and Forest- at Forest he got in a couple of brilliant defensive headers when most of us thought the beanpole Taylor was odds on to score, and he made a superb last ditch tackle at the Pissfield to foil the pikeys only real goalscoring opportunity. His passing against Sheffield United was excellent, I lost count of the number of pinpoint balls he played down the touchline to our players.
Yes, occasionally you think "just boot it into touch" rather than nervously watching him try and play his way out of trouble, but he appears to be learning pretty fast from where I sit. Hopefully he's got over the confidence battle he had for the first few games, and it says a lot to me that McGhee put him straight back in when he returned from injury/suspension, despite his indifferent start. That's bound to give him a psychological boost.
If Cardiff offered loads, then I guess we'd have to take it, but I just can't understand how some of you on here can dish it out to a 20 year old lad because of 3 or 4 below par performances at the start of his second real season of professional football!
Give the boy a chance, he might just develop into something a bit special and then you'll all be kissing his England U21 backside!
He came into the team last season and looked at home, keeping his place and including the play offs. He had an admittedly shocking start this season, giving away a couple of goals, a penalty and getting sent off, but I personally like to think he's got over that.
He played well at both Gillingham and Forest- at Forest he got in a couple of brilliant defensive headers when most of us thought the beanpole Taylor was odds on to score, and he made a superb last ditch tackle at the Pissfield to foil the pikeys only real goalscoring opportunity. His passing against Sheffield United was excellent, I lost count of the number of pinpoint balls he played down the touchline to our players.
Yes, occasionally you think "just boot it into touch" rather than nervously watching him try and play his way out of trouble, but he appears to be learning pretty fast from where I sit. Hopefully he's got over the confidence battle he had for the first few games, and it says a lot to me that McGhee put him straight back in when he returned from injury/suspension, despite his indifferent start. That's bound to give him a psychological boost.
If Cardiff offered loads, then I guess we'd have to take it, but I just can't understand how some of you on here can dish it out to a 20 year old lad because of 3 or 4 below par performances at the start of his second real season of professional football!
Give the boy a chance, he might just develop into something a bit special and then you'll all be kissing his England U21 backside!
