Interview with Ben Harris

[rebelade]

Next up should be an interesting interview as Ben Harris takes the hot seat, any questions then please leave them on here. Ade

[sdelaney]

Great interview with Ben. The Oxford away game me Ginger and Mike standing halfway and Ben does the theatrics wins a free kick but while still on the ground the ref comes over and Pat's him on the head the big smile just beamed from his face the three of us were in hysterics all the there supporters were going mad.

The away game at Hemel when Jack was down injured we could see from other side of the pitch he put the gloves on dying  to get on and you could see him take the gloves off in disgust in a funny way when Jack recovered.

That Eastbourne goal me and Mark Hunter chatting away as close to the netting of there goal you could get we both looked up in amazement when the ball flew over the goalie into the net.

Great character for me you need in the game like Callum Donnelly the type of player you want in your side also.

 

[Alan Greenaway]

2 hours ago, sdelaney said:

Great character for me you need in the game like Callum Donnelly the type of player you want in your side also

reminds me very much of Eddie Smith- sails close to the wind sometimes but very committed, there is never such a thing as a lost cause  and loves to get up the noses of the opposition defence. Even their fans as well from time to time. Rather these sort of players in my team than playing against them.

[sdelaney]

1 hour ago, Alan Greenaway said:

reminds me very much of Eddie Smith- sails close to the wind sometimes but very committed, there is never such a thing as a lost cause  and loves to get up the noses of the opposition defence. Even their fans as well from time to time. Rather these sort of players in my team than playing against them.

Rugby Semi final phew just waiting for the red card to come out.

[Reading Rebel]

Eddie Smith, very good player and top goal scorer.

The challenge on the Rugby keeper in the play-offs was IMO reckless and more a sending off than the red card he previously got against Rugby.

I can think it was early in the game and the ref didn't want to brandish a red so early. 

Often wonder where we'd be now if he got sent off and we'd lost the game.

[3spirit]

That's the problem with these types of strikers. A manager will run the risk, when playing them. They can be match winners or match sinners in any game.

Ed Smith and Ben Harris were/are talented players but were/are liabilities at times.

To me Eddie Smith was a first eleven player, in the divisions we were in back then. His all round game, the fact he was a prolific in finding the net, he could play as a 9 or 10, and was an ideal link man who could play the telling ball through and set up numerous chances for other players, made him an automatic pick for me at the time. However, his temperament/hot head,always made me feel he was going to do something idiotic at some flashpoint, so this was always going to be the reason he would get the elbow from the team eventually.   

To me Ben Harris is similar. He is a good option for a squad with budget restraints in the Conference South but he wouldn't be my first or second choice striker in my first eleven IMO, due to his injury record, level of fitness, and his over feigning of injury on the pitch/getting embroiled in silly arguments. It's just about what I like in a striker. If it was a choice out of someone like Chris Flood or Ben Harris. I would go for Chris Flood [I don't mean Conf South material, I mean persona/fairness of player]. I've had the same issues with other players[different positions] who have played for Slough over the years. It is obviously more to do with what I like a player to be about. It is nothing personal to Ben,as I don't know him [off the pitch], and am only judging him on what I see he brings to the football field. 

I was impressed by what Ben said in the interview, and you certainly can't argue that he hasn't got character, and obviously he's been a sought after player in his time and now, has a good range of experience. Also I can recognise his acumen on the football field. I've even been impressed with some of the goals he's scored in a Slough shirt but for me, he's just not my type of player. Each to their own, I say. 

Bakes and Unders like and rate him, that is what matters. I can see why, as he isn't a shrinking violet and is willing to put himself about. I don't like all his antics but I'm not dumb enough, to NOT appreciate his attributes either.

If he can stay out of trouble, I can see why he is a useful player to have but like Eddie Smith back in the day, it's always going to be IF.

[sdelaney]

 3Spirit and look at the non stop success we have had with these two players in our teams just like the success Hitchin had with Callum in there side.

In the late sixties and seventies Slough Dagerham Hendon Sutton Enfield Wycombe all these teams were equal in talent but the number of times we could not beat them was only because of a nasty winning streak they had in them.

Just like the Amateur Cup Final Walton had Dave Bassett Colin Woffinden Willie Smith and Dave Donaldson all had that streak to  stop us playing as I have said before on here how Bassett got away with not getting sent off I still don.t know.

 

[Reading Rebel]

2 hours ago, sdelaney said:

 3Spirit and look at the non stop success we have had with these two players in our teams just like the success Hitchin had with Callum in there side.

In the late sixties and seventies Slough Dagerham Hendon Sutton Enfield Wycombe all these teams were equal in talent but the number of times we could not beat them was only because of a nasty winning streak they had in them.

Just like the Amateur Cup Final Walton had Dave Bassett Colin Woffinden Willie Smith and Dave Donaldson all had that streak to  stop us playing as I have said before on here how Bassett got away with not getting sent off I still don.t know.

 

Probably because it was the 70's and there was no such thing as a bad tackle, you could literally get away with murder on the football pitch.

[Shredding Green]

5 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

Probably because it was the 70's and there was no such thing as a bad tackle, you could literally get away with murder on the football pitch.

And you didn't get the whole world demonstrating against it either.