Brian Howard

[TBM]

Is he on loan or have we signed him?

I keep hearing/reading contradicting reports

[Maguire]

We permanently signed him on loan, forever.

[CMRoyal]

Think which you would prefer to be the case. It's the opposite.

I've been disappointed with him thus far, but hopefully he will come good. Yes, we bought him.

[Stranded]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1784707,00.html

Howard, 26, becomes one of seven new faces brought to Madejski Stadium by Brendan Rodgers this summer, and he signs a contract until 2012.

That useless lump of wasted space will be receiving wages from our club until 2012.

Seen him play for us then?

[TBM]

The Football League show on Saturday said he was "onloan from Sheffield Utd"

[nev monkey]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1784707,00.html

Howard, 26, becomes one of seven new faces brought to Madejski Stadium by Brendan Rodgers this summer, and he signs a contract until 2012.

That useless lump of wasted space will be receiving wages from our club until 2012.

Great, just enough time for him to try & lose some weight, improve his speed, narrow his turning circle & look under the bed to see where he put his ability

[Muskrat]

I think he's a good player.

[bcubed]

Thought he was excellent first half v Posh, ran the midfield, always available and accurate passer
Not so good on Saturday and missed his target on quite a few passes
The jury's still out as far as I am concenred

[Hoop Blah]

Never been impressed by him in the past, and can't say I've seen much to change my opinion of him since we got him.

I thought he was signed on loan but only to cover him until we make it permanent in the January transfer window.

[Row Z Royal]

The Football League show on Saturday said he was "onloan from Sheffield Utd"

The Football League show got it wrong.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

He's looked as utterly average as all the Sheff Utd fans said he was. Don't know why we signed him when the side was begging out for a quality defensive mid.

No one has made that attackin mid role there own this year.

[Hoop Blah]

He's looked as utterly average as all the Sheff Utd fans said he was. Don't know why we signed him when the side was begging out for a quality defensive mid.

No one has made that attackin mid role there own this year.

Agreed.

Maybe we needed to do it in order to get Harper off our wage bill and onto Sheff U's? I'd much rather have seen us use a combination of Matejovksy and Sigurdsson in that role and we'd got a decent winger or defensive midfielder instead.

[Pablo]

Does he have any assist or goal this season?

[Barry the bird boggler]

Perhaps if he didn't play in a midfield with 2 or 3 other attacking midfielders he might look a bit better - it must get awfully confusing out there for them after all!

Perhaps we should trade him back to Barnsley for that Cammel-Laird bloke, or whatever his name is.

[Wycombe Royal]

Don't know why we signed him when the side was begging out for a quality defensive mid.

But according to many we have Karacan who is superb and turning out MOM performances every week.........

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

Average player with Sheffield United seeing us coming!!

Thanks you for £££££ they said!!

[Barry the bird boggler]

[nickbob_sexypants]

He's looked as utterly average as all the Sheff Utd fans said he was. Don't know why we signed him when the side was begging out for a quality defensive mid.

No one has made that attackin mid role there own this year.

I thought Karacan was quality the other day and I'm sure he can play that defensive mid role and will only get better

[size 12]

I'd forgotten Howard was playing after the first 20 minutes on Saturday. He was almost anonymous

[Huntley & Palmer]

Personally, I don't see how Sigurdsson is managing to keep our best two attacking options out of their preferred positions on the pitch.