Where was Gary Hart

[Roger Mellie]

Not putting him down really cos didn't see him really do anything. Where was he? Some tactical thing that I missed that meant he wasn't in the game but snuffed out a line of attack. Or?

 

[cardboard]

I agree totally
I didn't hear his name mentioned until about 40 minutes

 

[Ned Zelic]

He works hard but i'm afraid he is very limited at Championship level. His reading of the game and lack of guile is shown up in games such as tonight.

 

[Easy 10]

Not so sure it was his fault tonight. Our complete lack of anything resmbling a midfield meant he was largely starved of service, and just spent all night chasing back. Not once did he receive the ball in a position to run at their defence.

 

[London Irish]

Not so sure it was his fault tonight. Our complete lack of anything resmbling a midfield meant he was largely starved of service, and just spent all night chasing back. Not once did he receive the ball in a position to run at their defence.

Except he is part of that midfield you slag off - and it's partly his job to provide the service to others. OGH did well in Plymouth but has looked below par in the last two. He's not done so well this season to be considered automatic first choice so I would expect his place to come under threat from others who've played on the right midfield flank this season, such as Hammond and Reid.

 

[magoo]

It's totally unfair to single out any one player last night. The first half seemed a group excercise in giving the ball away, poor crosses etc.

Exceptional bad luck with the 3 forced substitutions. But the second half we improved and deserved a draw at least.

 

[ditchy]

looked as though we missed chippy big time !

 

[Binney on acid]

It's very unfair to single out Gary Hart. He can peform at this level. He's proved that. Circumstances dictated events, and we lost to a very poor Reading side. The madjeski millions has only bought them mediocrity. I resent seeing us beaten by a team compiled mostly of players and a manager that were plundered from our ranks. I live for the day when the madjeski mausoleum receives its missing component.

 

[Stinky Kat]

Its not Harty - he had to chase back alot, the midfield were deep especially in the 1st half to counter Readings midfiels threat and it worked.

I think we are toothless up front, Virgo, Knight and McCammon all give 100% but we need another striker (as McGhee has said last week)and quick or its not Elland Rd but Donny for us next season

 

[king Wombat]

Hart, Oatway, Jones were all awol last night - didnt see any of them do anything worthwhile at all.

this resorting to aimless hoofing is not working - if we keep doing that and not playing proper football we will be in league 1 next year.

 

[Skaville]

Hart is a weak link. He should have been dropped weeks ago. Okay, he scored a last minute winner a month or so back, but that was after another totally inept 90 minutes.

He can't take players on and he can't play a decent through ball, which means that we have no potency down the right at all.

We have several options:

- Bring back Watson or El Abd at right back and push Reid

- Keep Reid at right back and put Knight on the right wing (if Mayo is fit enough to play at left back behind harding.

- Jarret

 

[perseus]

Looked like there was two players on Harty all the time.

But all told, their passing was accurate, their trapping was better, and they did not give the ball away because of this. If you don't have the ball we can't win.

Luckily they seemed to have two duff players in Mittey and Morgan and their scorer looked a bit slow as well.

 

[Simster]

We had a ragtag midfield weakened by suspension to our best player in that area. And they were up against Steve Sidwell (voted best player outside the Premiership by 4-4-2 magazine) and Glen Little (a £750k purchase from Burnley and another class act).

I think that is why our midfield was so anonymous.

 

[Storer68]

the midfield was so annoymous because we kept hoofing the ball over the top of it.