RUMOUR - Harper to Middlesborough

[juanpablo]

Convey is better than Downing

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[Row Z Royal]

^'greed.

[brendywendy]

love the bobster

but i have to 'gree too

[rotherwick_royal]

Harper deal "all but wrapped up" according to this....

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 25,00.html

[Royalee]

Good.

[Drew_3]

"Harper showed in Reading's two-year top flight sojourn that he is a more than capable performer"
quoted from skysports
some of you would do well to listen and recognise that fact!!!!!!!

[Royalee]

"Harper showed in Reading's two-year top flight sojourn that he is a more than capable performer"
quoted from skysports
some of you would do well to listen and recognise that fact!!!!!!!

Some of you would do well to read the amount of tackles we made in midfield and look up our pass completion percentage instead of talking complete and utter rubbish.

[brendywendy]

"Harper showed in Reading's two-year top flight sojourn that he is a more than capable performer"
quoted from skysports
some of you would do well to listen and recognise that fact!!!!!!!

Some of you would do well to read the amount of tackles we made in midfield and look up our pass completion percentage instead of talking complete and utter rubbish.

youll be moaning about selling all our stars on another thread in a minute

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[Drew_3]

"Harper showed in Reading's two-year top flight sojourn that he is a more than capable performer"
quoted from skysports
some of you would do well to listen and recognise that fact!!!!!!!

Some of you would do well to read the amount of tackles we made in midfield and look up our pass completion percentage instead of talking complete and utter rubbish.

oh yes sorry that was entirely harpers fault and no one elses, i forgot. how silly of me

[papereyes]

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years. Just because he had one successful season doesn't mean that the weaknesses of last season didn't happen.

[brendywendy]

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years. Just because he had one successful season doesn't mean that the weaknesses of last season didn't happen.

just because we as a team failed last year doesnt suddenly make harper crap either.
he was a massive part of what helped build us up to where we are over the last 7-8 years

[Roger the Rabbit]

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years. Just because he had one successful season doesn't mean that the weaknesses of last season didn't happen.

And just becasue last season wasn;t the greatest doesn't mean you have to deprive him of recognition for the things he did before the last 2 seasons....
I thought he was pretty good in our title winning season which seems to have slipped off your timeline.

[Muskrat]

"Neither have the craft of Rochemback, but with Downing having excelled last season, it could be that Southgate elects to confine his flair players to the flanks."

Given Harpers propensity to pass the ball sideways I'd say that's a pretty astute observation...

[papereyes]

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years. Just because he had one successful season doesn't mean that the weaknesses of last season didn't happen.

And just becasue last season wasn;t the greatest doesn't mean you have to deprive him of recognition for the things he did before the last 2 seasons....
I thought he was pretty good in our title winning season which seems to have slipped off your timeline.

If I was a manager of a mid-ranking Premiership team, I'd pay a lot of attention to how he performed when things weren't going his way as opposed to a season in the division below when the whole team was going great guns, wouldn't you?

Unless, you think, like what happened to Sidwell, a team nearer the top-end of the Premiership are going to go for him.

[Roger the Rabbit]

If I was a manager of a mid-ranking Premiership team, I'd pay a lot of attention to how he performed when things weren't going his way as opposed to a season in the division below when the whole team was going great guns, wouldn't you?.

I'd be interested in everything he'd done during his career and I certainly wouldn't make an arbitrary cut off point of 2 seasons, unless I was trying to make some kind of obscure 'point'.
I'd also be more interested in what he has done, rather than what the team had done.

Unless, you think, like what happened to Sidwell, a team nearer the top-end of the Premiership are going to go for him.

We know Middlesboro are the ones he's likely to join so I'm not sure of the point here.
Whether Harps would have attacted interest from teams higher up the league if he'd been available for nothing like Sidwell was I'm not sure. I suspect Harps may actually get a place in the Boro team though, unlike Sidwell managed.

[brendywendy]

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years. Just because he had one successful season doesn't mean that the weaknesses of last season didn't happen.

And just becasue last season wasn;t the greatest doesn't mean you have to deprive him of recognition for the things he did before the last 2 seasons....
I thought he was pretty good in our title winning season which seems to have slipped off your timeline.

If I was a manager of a mid-ranking Premiership team, I'd pay a lot of attention to how he performed when things weren't going his way as opposed to a season in the division below when the whole team was going great guns, wouldn't you?

Unless, you think, like what happened to Sidwell, a team nearer the top-end of the Premiership are going to go for him.

no, i would look at how he played during the championship season, the 8th place finish season
and the season in a struggling team where he managed 6 goals and some assists never let his head drop, always displayed a proffessional attitude, and never stopped running or working for the team, and never uttered a negative word.

[papereyes]

If I was a manager of a mid-ranking Premiership team, I'd pay a lot of attention to how he performed when things weren't going his way as opposed to a season in the division below when the whole team was going great guns, wouldn't you?.

I'd be interested in everything he'd done during his career and I certainly wouldn't make an arbitrary cut off point of 2 seasons, unless I was trying to make some kind of obscure 'point'.
I'd also be more interested in what he has done, rather than what the team had done.

and, as was pointed out, the two might be related.

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years.

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[papereyes]

And just becasue last season wasn;t the greatest doesn't mean you have to deprive him of recognition for the things he did before the last 2 seasons....
I thought he was pretty good in our title winning season which seems to have slipped off your timeline.

If I was a manager of a mid-ranking Premiership team, I'd pay a lot of attention to how he performed when things weren't going his way as opposed to a season in the division below when the whole team was going great guns, wouldn't you?

Unless, you think, like what happened to Sidwell, a team nearer the top-end of the Premiership are going to go for him.

I agree.

[Roger the Rabbit]

If I was a manager of a mid-ranking Premiership team, I'd pay a lot of attention to how he performed when things weren't going his way as opposed to a season in the division below when the whole team was going great guns, wouldn't you?.

I'd be interested in everything he'd done during his career and I certainly wouldn't make an arbitrary cut off point of 2 seasons, unless I was trying to make some kind of obscure 'point'.
I'd also be more interested in what he has done, rather than what the team had done.

and, as was pointed out, the two might be related.

As a central midfielder, he may have had an important part to play in both our success and our failures over the last two years.

...

So you're backing off your arbitrary two year cut off point then....

[papereyes]

Nope, and it really isn't arbitary. His Premiership games are going to be the ones freshest in the memory and also the ones which would have the most impact simply due to the 'hype' surrounding the league. They would also be, rightly or wrongly, the ones that show most strongly his ability and aptitude to continue playing in the Premiership.

Just the nature of the beast, isn't it?