Should Harley get one last chance?

[Phat Baz 68]

No the lad tried but no sorry !!

 

[TottonSeagull]

Harley NO, however what about JFC?

 

[Phat Baz 68]

But if he ever dons the Albion shirt again he will always get my support as any player in the blue and white stripes does.
PEOPLE WHO BOO OUR PLAYERS SHOULDN'T BE AT THE AMEX FULL STOP !!! IMHO

And I don't want to hear the lamest and dullest excuses ever of "ooohh we pay our money we are entitled to moan" pathetic !!!!
Yes moan and boo about pie and beer prices but neve,r ever your own team !!!

 

[Mutts Nuts]

I know I'm going to get slated for this but I want to know what others think. Harley gets a huge amount of stick from fans (some wrong, some right) despite the fact he's never had an extended run in the team. The modern football formation is to play 2 holding midfielders and one other attacking, free role midfielder. Bridcutt is always going to be one of our holding midfielders alongside either Hammond, Dicker or Crofts and in recent games Crofts hasn't looked his usual self (maybe getting fitness back after injury). I don't want this to become another thread about how rubbish we are (we're not) but we have looked a bit sluggish going forward from midfield recently compared to Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley games for example.

In my opinion Ryan Harley is our only central midfielder who looks to make runs forward and tries to make that pass to unlock defences (not always 'unlocking' admittedly). Essentially he is our only CM with that trait and to be fair he did look promising around October time last year (Coventry at home springs to mind).

Thoughts?

No he realy is not good enough

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Everything we have seen says he is exactly the opposite to what we need at the moment. Too slow, not committed enough and lazy.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

Harley NO, however what about JFC?

putting JFC out on loan was another massive mistake by Gus,Jake is a quality young attacking midkielder who came of age in the stains game, opening up the scoring and giving the team confidence when we were in a losing run,and then what does the dictator do,loanout our only decent attacking midfielder

 

[Baaaald]

No. Definitely not up to this level. Having said that your point around that position in that formation is valid but just not him!

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

putting JFC out on loan was another massive mistake by Gus,Jake is a quality young attacking midkielder who came of age in the stains game, opening up the scoring and giving the team confidence when we were in a losing run,and then what does the dictator do,loanout our only decent attacking midfielder

Couldn't agree more. JFC ideal but not Harley. Would have loved us to have signed Trotter rather than Hammond on loan and Lopez.

 

[Rugrat]

We need physicality, pace and aggression .... Harley's got none of those

 

[somerset]

We need physicality, pace and aggression .... Harley's got none of those

No we don't, we need craft and guile, I think he has more of that than a certain AB.

 

[Rugrat]

No we don't, we need craft and guile

OK so that too ... but none of those things? It was because of those that Crofts and Hammond were spectators yesterday

 

[StonehamPark]

We asked the same question back in July.

NSC - Ryan Harley Last Chance Poll

He didn't take it.

 

[BHAFC_AMEX]

But let's be honest, we are arnt we...

We must be if we're a top 10 championship team......

 

[JOLovegrove]

Our current first XI isn't working, we need to change something. Most people agree that is more of an attacking central midfielder we need, and if Gus thinks Ryan can do that, then good luck to him. I would sooner have someone in that position, then Bridcutt, Crofts and Hammond again.

 

[terryberry1]

Sadly Harley is a league above his level

Like a few of our players

 

[Rugrat]

We must be if we're a top 10 championship team......

as over simplifications go that's right up there with the best

 

[BHAFC_AMEX]

Like a few of our players

Who in the starting 11 yesterday was a league above their level?

 

[maltaseagull]

I would be interested to see this, i think there may be legs to it - defensive stability but with enough going forward.

If we played him as the most advanced in a 4-2-3-1, like;
Kuszczak
Bruno El-Abd Greer Bridge
Bridcutt Crofts
Buckley Harley Orlandi
Mackail-Smith

I would prefer to see Dobbie in place of Harley in this formation.

 

[brightonmark1234]

no hes crap and a waste of time

 

[StonehamPark]

no hes crap and a waste of time

You're not the most positive NSC member are you buddy!