Midfield options

[Handsome Man]

I'm pleased with what I have seen of Karacan and Tabb: both have played effectively and with energy. However the play-offs are probably a time for picking yourn best players and Harper is definitely one of them.

Marek must never be picked for Reading again. He is the worst player I have seen play for the club since the Tommy Burns days. I don't know how it would be possible to pass as badly as him.

[Chuckle Brother]

Murty was a winger?!?!

Yes. And a winger worth paying nearly £3/4 million for according to Tommy Burns.

[Ian Royal]

Murty was a winger?!?!

Yes. And a winger worth paying nearly £3/4 million for according to Tommy Burns.

Didn't he do exceptionally well for York(?) in the season befor ehe joined us? Lots of assists and a few goals?

Wasn't the reason he got converted to full back, because he spent about a season out injured (one leg longer than the other and back problems?) and we had got another winger in by then...?

[beno]

its true.. murty was a winger in 1997........

[Ian Royal]

Scored against Oxford and Brentford the season before joining us.

[RobRoyal]

its true.. murty was a winger in 1997........

Well, he was, but not because Champo says so. He was right-sided, not left

Also, Dribbing 18? Pace 16?

[beno]

injury proness only 6? hehe

[beno]

how i would like to see this man in our midfield again...

[Candu]

I watched Monday's game on the internet. Reading lack two true box-to-box midfielders. Moreover, with the softening of the offside rules the defensive line has to be deep and leaves too much space of the centre-mids to cover effectively in modern football playing 4-4-2. My other club Toronto FC just switched from 4-4-2 to 4-2-3-1 with amazing improvement. If Reading play Tabb and Karacen as holders/ratters with Kebe, Marek, Little/SHunt/Doyle/Long as attacking midfielders with Kitson as a back-to-goal target striker I think that on be an awesome team that would build from the back and stop being so annoyingly hoofy.

[Gus the teenage cow]

I watched Monday's game on the internet. Reading lack two true box-to-box midfielders. Moreover, with the softening of the offside rules the defensive line has to be deep and leaves too much space of the centre-mids to cover effectively in modern football playing 4-4-2. My other club Toronto FC just switched from 4-4-2 to 4-2-3-1 with amazing improvement. If Reading play Tabb and Karacen as holders/ratters with Kebe, Marek, Little/SHunt/Doyle/Long as attacking midfielders with Kitson as a back-to-goal target striker I think that on be an awesome team that would build from the back and stop being so annoyingly hoofy.

as a fellow wum i applaud this effort

[The whole year inn]

Scored for York against Everton in the League cup..

pretty sure he was used on the wing during that time

[Handsome Man]

Typical Tommy Burns signing: bought for a huge fee as an injured winger.
Eventually found a place in the team as a full back.

[Hoop Blah]

Typical Tommy Burns signing: bought for a huge fee as an injured winger.
Eventually found a place in the team as a full back.

To be fair to Burns he played him at right back quite a bit, with Gurney infront of him on the wing so he obviously saw him as a defender at the time.

[statto]

"However the play-offs are probably a time for picking yourn best players and Harper is definitely one of them.

Marek must never be picked for Reading again. He is the worst player I have seen play for the club since the Tommy Burns days. I don't know how it would be possible to pass as badly as him."

What a strange post, Harper's done nothing all year and Matejovksy is quite clearly not a bad passer, quite the opposite.

[Sarah Star]

Murty was a winger?!?!

Yes. And a winger worth paying nearly £3/4 million for according to Tommy Burns.

Didn't he do exceptionally well for York(?) in the season befor ehe joined us? Lots of assists and a few goals?

Wasn't the reason he got converted to full back, because he spent about a season out injured (one leg longer than the other and back problems?) and we had got another winger in by then...?

I was surprised because I imagine wingers to be quite pacey and Murty doesn't look that sort...but I suppose you don't have to be - like Little - and he was younger then.

Interesting. Thanks everyone.

[Hoop Blah]

Murty certainly wasn't slow back then.

He's lost a bit of pace over the years though, but when he gets going he can still keep up with most.

[marekisgod]

I'm pleased with what I have seen of Karacan and Tabb: both have played effectively and with energy. However the play-offs are probably a time for picking yourn best players and Harper is definitely one of them.

Marek must never be picked for Reading again. He is the worst player I have seen play for the club since the Tommy Burns days. I don't know how it would be possible to pass as badly as him.

Are you taking lots of drugs , worse player you've ever seen play for the club .
On monday night did we not score both our goals after Marek came on and did he not start the move for the first goal by collecting ball in midfield after it had been played to him around his ears bring it down and then knock a very simple 5 yard ball along the floor to start the move .

Marek should start every game for me the most attacking midfiled player we have ever had FACT!

[rotherwick_royal]

To be honest with you. It is a weak centre midfield partnership. Jay Tabb is a winger by trade,really.

Totally disagree - Tabb's been excellent in Centre Mid. He must play there if he's fit.