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Arrival of Barnsley's Jamal Campbell-Ryce ends Bristol City's interest in Watford's Jon Harley

5:06pm Thursday 28th January 2010 in Sport Photograph of the Author By Frank Smith

Arrival of Barnsley's Jamal Campbell-Ryce ends Bristol City's interest in Watford's Jon Harley. Picture: Holly Cant Arrival of Barnsley's Jamal Campbell-Ryce ends Bristol City's interest in Watford's Jon Harley. Picture: Holly Cant

Bristol City will not be signing Watford midfielder Jon Harley.

Bristol’s interest in the former Chelsea man was revealed yesterday and Hornets manager Malky Mackay confirmed last night there had been an approach from City but it had “gone quiet”.

However, Robins boss Gary Johnson has today announced they are no longer interested in the 30-year-old following the signing of Barnsley’s Jamal Campbell-Ryce last week.

"He [Harley] was on our list and we did ask about him, but since we've signed Jamal there's nothing there now," Johnson told the club's official website.

"I think that's probably Jon's agent or representatives making others aware of his availability."

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Rick Holden Forever says...
5:46pm Thu 28 Jan 10

We should never let him go but the Scott and his obsession with the kids will ensure that Harley will be gone by the end of the window.

Mackay has also just said that Buckley is not part of his immediate plans and with the boy McGinn only likely to be on the bench, what a shambles of a transfer policy this is.

So we take to the field with the same team that has failed to win for almost two months. No defender, no experience, no hope for Saturday.

Mackay is fast becoming the most incompetent manager since Roeder in my view.

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Dr. Oftaw says...
6:02pm Thu 28 Jan 10

We have no money, just a few weeks ago we had no future. Feel sorry for C. Palace because there but for the grace of Lord A go WFC - we could be looking at -10 pts and being in the bottom 3 right now. So please, Rick Holden Forever and all you other Malky bashers stop being so blindly and persistently negative about the club you are supposed to support. If we finish 10th or there about this season that will be success beyond expectation. Championship and financial survival and building for the future is what this season is all about - so signing cheap youngsters with potential is a sensible move. Get real and Get off Malky's back. Or go and support the s**m if you want to see where unrealistic ambition and dodgy deals takes you.....

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Hexham Hornet says...
6:06pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Let's see him play at left back. Doyley can go on the right, and LH can have a rest. We still need a central defender.

Rick Holden, we all know that the two younger signings this month are long term and will mean we won't have to rely so much on loanees next season. If we could get the players we need now then all will be well.

I am not sure what you would have done in the transfer window with the fund restriction Malky has got. Unfortunately there is not a lot of strength in depth as he has been left with players that many of us might agree with him not selecting. Please give your 18 man squad for the next match, from what he has available. Then also give us the names of the first 4 players you would go for on the market, stating how much you would pay for them or whether they would be loanees. You are obviously an expert, so show us how good you are!!

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Rick Holden Forever says...
6:30pm Thu 28 Jan 10

I'm not talking about silly signings, but surely getting an experienced central defender on loan cannot be that difficult. Covering that area must be the priority in this window. There must be experienced centre backs from top half championship/ bottom half premiership teams waiting to get out and play first team football.

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a1derek says...
7:00pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Hexham has it spot on give LH a much needed rest and Rick Holden, give us a rest! Support the team for goodness sake!

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romseyhorn says...
7:20pm Thu 28 Jan 10

okay lets look at the facts we have not won since demerrit returned to the centre of defence also everyone states we need a new centre back yet our manager spends the little money we get hold of on a winger and midfielder someone dosent know what they are doing 10th isnt success for a fan who wants his team to play in the premiership

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Prof Plum says...
8:04pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Rick Holden Forever wrote:
I'm not talking about silly signings, but surely getting an experienced central defender on loan cannot be that difficult. Covering that area must be the priority in this window. There must be experienced centre backs from top half championship/ bottom half premiership teams waiting to get out and play first team football.
Yawn....

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Hexham Hornet says...
8:57pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Rick Holden Forever wrote:
I'm not talking about silly signings, but surely getting an experienced central defender on loan cannot be that difficult. Covering that area must be the priority in this window. There must be experienced centre backs from top half championship/ bottom half premiership teams waiting to get out and play first team football.
Are you related to Gordon Brown? Can't you give a straight answer to a simple question? The question was: "Please give your 18 man squad for the next match, from what he has available. Then also give us the names of the first 4 players you would go for on the market, stating how much you would pay for them or whether they would be loanees." Please answer this and then we can take your comments more seriously? Malky has had to work in very difficult circumstances and all you can do is slate him. Well help him out with some of your great ideas. Put up or shut up.

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Feff says...
8:58pm Thu 28 Jan 10

I am not being negative about MM but I don't understand Dr. Oftaw's posting. Lord A saved us from losing 10 points. What has that to do with MM? We need a Central Defender, we need a Skipper and we need another Striker. We did not need McGinn this season. Buckley? Perhaps.

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Only 2 Ross Jenkins says...
10:01pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Rick Holden Forever wrote:
I'm not talking about silly signings, but surely getting an experienced central defender on loan cannot be that difficult. Covering that area must be the priority in this window. There must be experienced centre backs from top half championship/ bottom half premiership teams waiting to get out and play first team football.
There are probably experienced centre backs, yes, waiting to get out and play first team football. But we can't afford them.
Do try to keep up, there's a good chap.
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WFC4ever says...
10:15pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Rick Holden Forever wrote:
We should never let him go but the Scott and his obsession with the kids will ensure that Harley will be gone by the end of the window. Mackay has also just said that Buckley is not part of his immediate plans and with the boy McGinn only likely to be on the bench, what a shambles of a transfer policy this is. So we take to the field with the same team that has failed to win for almost two months. No defender, no experience, no hope for Saturday. Mackay is fast becoming the most incompetent manager since Roeder in my view.
Steady on...he hasn't wasted the millions like Vialli/Boothroyd just yet.

Agreed we must be able to get an experience playerr or two in..

I am not sure what good leaking goals hear and there is doing to the cofidence of certain players...

Trouble is the defence has a "leader" who isn't one and wants out anyway in the summer so how bothered/comitted is DeMerit?

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Andrew1963 says...
11:19pm Thu 28 Jan 10

I doubt a defender is likely to turn up, not sure if the right player is about anyway. I fear the defence looked better without demeritt. I think the keeper fails to support the back 4 at set plays and looks poor at crosses. He like many keepers is a great shot stopper, but Loach has a worse record than richard lee with basically the same back four. Shittu made more impact as a goal scorer than goal stopperin his second season with us. The fact is Gavin mahon protected the defence far more effectively than Eustace. a role undertaken effectively by Cort last year. I think welimp across the line into another championship season next year. That will be the time to addresss the defence (and i include the keeper)

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JB11 says...
11:26pm Thu 28 Jan 10

Hexham Hornet wrote:
Rick Holden Forever wrote: I'm not talking about silly signings, but surely getting an experienced central defender on loan cannot be that difficult. Covering that area must be the priority in this window. There must be experienced centre backs from top half championship/ bottom half premiership teams waiting to get out and play first team football.
Are you related to Gordon Brown? Can't you give a straight answer to a simple question? The question was: "Please give your 18 man squad for the next match, from what he has available. Then also give us the names of the first 4 players you would go for on the market, stating how much you would pay for them or whether they would be loanees." Please answer this and then we can take your comments more seriously? Malky has had to work in very difficult circumstances and all you can do is slate him. Well help him out with some of your great ideas. Put up or shut up.
here, here!
c'mon holden let's see it!

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BuRP says...
2:53am Fri 29 Jan 10

He'll reply to you when he gets home from kindy.

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stuboy1983 says...
7:53am Fri 29 Jan 10

sorry but i have to agree with rick the pr!ck, we really need a central defender. i ve been a season ticket holder for 15 years. im watford till i die but are defence is shocking. too many goals conceded.(lucky we have loach or a few more goals would of been conceded).
any thing else i wouldnt agree with rick. malky is the man to take us forward.

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BuRP says...
8:10am Fri 29 Jan 10

Please don't make out he's some sort of leading light into insight and opinion making.
We have all known what the team needs. Most fans have been saying this and it's not disloyal to have another opinion Stuboy1983.
He is anti -Watford and it's his problem.

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peter welstead says...
8:38am Fri 29 Jan 10

Hexham Hornet ( John I presume) I agree with most of what is being said and I applaud the purchase of young emerging talent for tthe future. But we do need to ensure that we have a future in this division. Fo me Jay and Adrian are not working effectively and we need to do something quickly. I have always felt that Jay coming into professional football so late has missed out on some of the basics and his positional sense often lets him down. I appreciate his commitment and mobility but it is just his reading of the game that lets him down sometimes. We do need an experienced centre back and goal scorer/poacher.

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Dr.Oftaw says...
9:37am Fri 29 Jan 10

Dr. Oftaw wrote:
We have no money, just a few weeks ago we had no future. Feel sorry for C. Palace because there but for the grace of Lord A go WFC - we could be looking at -10 pts and being in the bottom 3 right now. So please, Rick Holden Forever and all you other Malky bashers stop being so blindly and persistently negative about the club you are supposed to support. If we finish 10th or there about this season that will be success beyond expectation. Championship and financial survival and building for the future is what this season is all about - so signing cheap youngsters with potential is a sensible move. Get real and Get off Malky's back. Or go and support the s**m if you want to see where unrealistic ambition and dodgy deals takes you.....
hey wtf you`ve stolen my name!!!!!!

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Dr.Oftaw says...
9:41am Fri 29 Jan 10

Feff wrote:
I am not being negative about MM but I don't understand Dr. Oftaw's posting. Lord A saved us from losing 10 points. What has that to do with MM? We need a Central Defender, we need a Skipper and we need another Striker. We did not need McGinn this season. Buckley? Perhaps.
its not me, grrrrrrrr

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Only 2 Ross Jenkins says...
9:45am Fri 29 Jan 10

stuboy1983 wrote:
sorry but i have to agree with rick the pr!ck, we really need a central defender. i ve been a season ticket holder for 15 years. im watford till i die but are defence is shocking. too many goals conceded.(lucky we have loach or a few more goals would of been conceded). any thing else i wouldnt agree with rick. malky is the man to take us forward.
It doesn't take a genius to work out we need a central defender. We've need one since the start of the season.
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Holden's continual criticism is destructive, stressful and ultimately tiresome.

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imuz says...
10:25am Fri 29 Jan 10

Yea shut up ****, it would seem that NOONE values any of your opinions...does that not speak volumes to you??

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ralphinator says...
11:08am Fri 29 Jan 10

Rick you dunderhead, try reading today's WO re centre back situation.

MM doesn't need to employ you as a poor man's Frank Lampard senior to appreciate that we're deficient in this area; he simply can't fund the necessary wages.

Do try to keep up.

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eltonsarmy says...
1:01pm Fri 29 Jan 10

Shocking management another game looms and the same crap defence on show, how has he not addressed this by now and the only left back at the club is sent to Stockport SHOCKING relegation on the cards if not sorted now. secret code: JOHN WARD

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eltonsarmy says...
1:35pm Fri 29 Jan 10

I will take that back Martin Taylor from Birmingham just signed on a free good solid CH!

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ralphinator says...
2:55pm Fri 29 Jan 10

Good timing elton's army

Just wish it had been Rick made to look stupid like that...

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stevyweavy says...
3:13pm Fri 29 Jan 10

Rick Holden Forever wrote:
We should never let him go but the Scott and his obsession with the kids will ensure that Harley will be gone by the end of the window. Mackay has also just said that Buckley is not part of his immediate plans and with the boy McGinn only likely to be on the bench, what a shambles of a transfer policy this is. So we take to the field with the same team that has failed to win for almost two months. No defender, no experience, no hope for Saturday. Mackay is fast becoming the most incompetent manager since Roeder in my view.
Ooops!
Big experienced defender 1 Ricky H 0
:)

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WFC4L says...
10:14am Sat 30 Jan 10

How can u say he is that inompetent. Were 14th!!!!!! Above expectation of relegation/ just above. You cannot complain. w****r

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