Similar ability defensively to Marcos Painter in my opinion. He'll struggle against a lot of the wingers like Buckley, Phillips, Ince and so on, because he has absolutely no pace.
Remember he's 3 years older than Bridge, and was never close to his ability in the first place. Wayne Bridge actually had a great deal of pace for his age. Harte has never had that, let alone now.
Hmm.........I've just noticed the 'Ignore user' function - how useful!
When I saw that Harte was being released by Reading, I did think he might be a useful signing for us. Not that he'd be an improvement on what we had last season - far from it - but just in view of the fact that we don't actually have a left back at all, do we? Unless there's someone a bit special ready to step up from the development squad, but let's face it, that doesn't seem to happen very often.