QuoteI thought it was a penalty myself. Not a heinous foul but a foul nonetheless. Walters should have been sent off, and Barry was lucky too.
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Problem was James went down to making it look like there was a lot of contact when there was little contact
it looked like a dive to me but with James going down too it looked bad, not sure what James was doing there.
I think it was more the guy ran into James and they both went down, ie he actually brought down James,
I don't think James wanted to bring him down because there was not that much danger but the guy ran across him.
I thought it was a penalty myself. Not a heinous foul but a foul nonetheless. Walters should have been sent off, and Barry was lucky too.
My first though was it was a penalty but if a player kicks the ball across you like that and then runs across you
it is kind of hard to not make contact with the back of his legs But I guess it is up to McCarthy to make sure that
does not happen otherwise it is pretty inevitable a penalty will be given.
Exactly. Nothing wrong with playing to win a penalty. It's quite different to faking being hit.
I thought what James did yesterday was quite similar to what Paul criticises Coleman for doing, often with good reason.
Are you saying James was a penalty waiting to happen?
It's already happened Charlie that was a recording, the game was played yesterday.
I think I know what you mean, but a video of Coleman the same would be helpful.
The thing is though, Coleman usually gets away with it.
I think the fact McCarthy seemed to dive too won him no favours from the ref.
Last edited by tricky_colour; 27/12/2014 at 3:30 PM.
Hence the use of past tense, tricko.
Got your r's and h's mixed up there Charlie.
Walters has four goals in the league this season, not three, so it's ten goals so far this season before New Year's Day, which is the lowest total since I started compiling appearance data for Irish players. The current record low scoring season is 2010-2011 with 16 goals scored before January 1st and the most goals scored was the following season, when there were 32 goals scored by Irish players
McCarthy was taken off at half-time on Sunday as he was feeling more effects of his hamstring injury: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30869368.html
Ah but sure he missed the Scotland game because he was too afraid to face his real country.
He's a fragile young fella.
Lets talk about six baby
That must be the 16th time you have made that same joke Charlie. Never gets old.
And yes, James must be the 9th or 10th Everton player to get this kind of injury this season.
Who said it was a joke?
Dunno but it made Martin O'Neil laugh.
What amazes you about a regularly injured player seeing little game time exactly?
Well, he obviously didn't fall over intentionally to make it look like he had fouled the guy.
Hits a nerve, does it? How many times did you accuse McCarthy of faking injury (or Martinez of faking his player's injury) again?...
A team of fraudsters following their manager's example, no doubt!And yes, James must be the 9th or 10th Everton player to get this kind of injury this season.
Aren't Everton supposed to have some fitness guru who plans their training to avoid these type of injuries? Arsenal always have players out with strains and pulls, so much so that Wenger called for an investigation into their training methods and I even think they hired a guy full time recently to consult. But I think I remember Everton being highlighted last season (when they beat Arsenal 3-0) as an example of a team that was benefitting from a very sophisticated approach to these things.
McCarthy misses out today completely with his hamstring problem
Good article from Everton fansite "Grand Old Team" on him: Everton's lynchpin: http://www.grandoldteam.com/2015/01/...tons-linchpin/
@ Danny
The bone of contention would be McCarthy missing a game he was adjudged fit enough to participate in. Not adjudged by me but by his managers and doctors. The fact that virtually an entire team has missed game time this season due to similar injuries also raises the possibility that, perhaps, unlikely though it is, the injury that McCarthy has been dealing with is not married to the one he allegedly missed a Scotland game with. Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Just look at the sheer number of Everton players that have had problems due to lack of rotation among other things. But I'm sure you know better than Martin, Roy and the Irish medical staff, Danny, so I will delegate to you.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30874567.html
McCarthy linked with a move to Arsenal. No idea how his present injury problems may affect this move. Wenger is normally very pernickety about these things.
Last edited by TheOneWhoKnocks; 01/01/2015 at 3:24 PM.
As a follow up to this article, I've crunched the numbers on McCarthy's appearances for Everton since joining and you can read the results here: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...58226553370010
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