As Dan Harvie seems to get better with each game and is so important to the team, I ask the question - Is Dan Harvie the best left back / wing back we have ever had?
If he is out of contract in the summer, as someone suggested on another thread, what can we do to ensure he stays with the Chairboys and for him to resist approaches from Championship clubs who come knocking on his door.
If Dan Rice can get Harvie to extend his stay with us, it could well be the best bit of business the club has done since Rice took control.
Great leader, strong and fantastic at corners - I remember the 2 he scored but his tackling back infuriated me at times. He would let players run on to him and kind of turn sideways and back peddle and then his lack of pace would let him down. Harvie is better but I liked Chris Vinniecombe as well.
Surely Steve Brown is the greatest left back we ever had! I know he played more in midfield, but when I started watching in 1994/95 he was a regular in the #3 shirt.
Chris Vinnicombe put in a shift for the club at left back too.
At this risk of completely derailing the thread, I was just looking at Chris Vinnicombe’s wikipedia page. It says he received a winners medal for the Scottish Premiership with Rangers.
That must but him in a fairly exclusive club of WWFC players who have won a major(ish) top flight league?
Comparisons can be invidious and I very rarely make them. I really don’t have a picture or video in my mind for Steve Brown’s or Chris Vinnicombe’s performances (and I honestly don’t remember Steve Brown wearing number 3 and playing left back but I never cease to be amazed by the unfailing consistency and versatility of Daniel Harvie. He covers an incredible amount of ground, constantly surprising me by how often he pops up with vital clearances on his side of the pitch, centrally and even, when (for example) Captain Jack hasn’t tracked back from one of his rampaging forward runs, on the right.
That’s just Harvie the defender. Such is his energy (and engine I think they call it) that he gets forward on numerous occasions every game down the left hand side, swapping passes en route and, as often as not, getting in a cross. Maybe he hasn’t scored direct from a corner or from a penalty or free kick but I’m guessing he’s one of the 23 (?) members of the present remarkable squad who’ve scored at least once this season.
I liked Craig Woodman from the recent olden days. Harvie is class though, he went from looking out of his depth the first two games last term (Wrexham and Birmingham) to looking a different class as we then stormed the League. Very consistent performer even when we are struggling. Great signing.