Stephen Hunt

[bellavistaman]

These are all Scottish League results. They meaning absolutely nothing. :rolleyes:

i said that in a earlier post, stokes proves that league worth nothing.

Hunts reaction t carsleys tackle just adds to my feeling the friendship in irish camp is minimal. Duff passing comments about ireland now this!!!

[eirebhoy]

While not as gifted technically as Duff or McGeady, His brain is seemingly always three steps ahead of his feet
I think the opposite. I don't rate Hunt as an intelligent player at all. Maybe I just relate him to Kilbane too much.

[eirebhoy]

i said that in a earlier post, stokes proves that league worth nothing.
Stokes showed to me that he's a fantastic striker. He's still yet to play a game as an out and out striker for Sunderland as far as I know. He played pretty much as a loan striker with Falkirk. Alan Gow supporting him and Latapy the main supplier.

When someone scores over 20 goals in the SPL and proves to be an average player then let me know. Almost all the players that have hit the 20 goal target in the SPL have proven themselves at the top level (the 2 players that haven't proven themselves have yet to play outside the SPL).

[Billsthoughts]

Think its different for Mageady as he is a player who beats and takes on other players. If they are substandard, beating them every week isnt really going to stand him in good stead when he comes up against internationals. But again he has never played well for Ireland so in the context of the thread doesnt deserve a place ahead of Hunt.
I think Stokes has played up front for Sunderland a few times, but didnt do much. Although if he is any sort of confidance player(and his run of form in Scotland would suggest he thrives on it) maybe Sunderland with their notorious fickle support is not the best place for him.

[jmurphyc]

How can you say McGeady has never played well for Ireland? You really do seem to have a vendetta against him. Granted, when he's started a competitve match he hasn't played well (aside from Wales, which I'm pretty sure he started) but neither has Hunt. McGeady is a lot younger and a lot more talented than Hunt. He will come good for us.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Should also be pointed out that the last two games have been the first time McGeady has gotten a chance to play in his best position. Suprise, surprise suddenly improved performances...

[Billsthoughts]

How can you say McGeady has never played well for Ireland? You really do seem to have a vendetta against him. Granted, when he's started a competitve match he hasn't played well (aside from Wales, which I'm pretty sure he started) but neither has Hunt. McGeady is a lot younger and a lot more talented than Hunt. He will come good for us.

He is a lot younger and is a lot more talented. But his performances for Ireland have not been good. I dont have a vendetta against him. Id love him to be playing well for Ireland. People need to take off the Celtic tinted glasses. When he puts in a few good performances he will have earned his place. Until then he should be on the bench.

[BigmanCas]

Have a read of that Bill: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7237835.stm

[Billsthoughts]

Have a read of that Bill: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7237835.stm
How does this prove me wrong? I said he was good in Scotland but cant translate that to international stage. If only we played Aberdeen in the quailfiers.

[Larks]

Since making his début, aged 18, McGeady has picked up the following awards:

December 2004 - SPL Player of the Month
Season 2004/05 - Celtic Young Player of the Year
November 2005 - SPL Young Player of the Month
Season 2005/06 - SPL Championship winner
Season 2005/06 - Celtic Young Player of the Year
August 2006 - SPL Young Player of the Month
September 2006 - SPL Young Player of the Month
October 2006 - Young Player of the Month
Season 2006/07 - Celtic Young Player of the Year
November 2007 - SPL Player of the MonthHe deals week in week out with naysayers and people who want to cut him down at every turn beacuse he is the best thing Scotland have produced in years / maybe ever and he has decided to play for his spiritual home. But then there are people like yourself Bill who make him maybe regret his decision. It is terrible that he is getting slack here as well as there. He has started how many competitive internationals - maybe 4? and you have written him off at 22 Bill. You know nothing and remind me of E Dunphy. He wasn't the worst in Bratislava - Stephan Ireland, Jonathan Douglas, Sheasy were worse. He was the easy sub. Granted poor in Prague - but look what happened his replacement.. Waken up Bill.

I reckon Mcgeady has class in abundance and could be our best player, in the future. However, with regards your long list of awards, Anthony Stokes broke records with falkirk, probably would have gotten player of the year along with top goalscorer, is he one of our best players? Point is you cannot compare the SPL with with International football. Granted, he has done well in the champs league. Hunt has been one of Reading and Irelands best players recently so I think that putting duff before him would have been unfair in a competitive game, due to it being a friendly I'd say it's alright to be annoyed but keep it beween you and the manager not go moaning to the media.

[BigmanCas]

Your missing the point Bill. I doubt you are clueless. Watch and make comments afterwards.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1yCKKh7TY4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1yCKKh7TY4)

[Morbo]

Hunt is a Kunt....he started thelling Steven Ireland to "be a man" in the paper a few months back. what a t osspot
He is a kunt for saying that? Good advice he gave S.Ireland there, wish he would be a man and just admit he didn't want to play for us rather than hiding behind dead grannys

[McGinty]

Mageady gave two of the worst performances I have ever seen from an Irish player EVER in Slovakia and Czech Republic. Best player my hole.

bout time i heard some sense on here about McGeady. The vast majority of people on this board seem to have a huge horn for him...

[eirebhoy]

I don't know about that. There'll always be one or 2 that go over the top with every player though.

[NeilMcD]

ahhh dont be so hard on yourself Eirebhoy!!!

[eirebhoy]

:) I probably mentioned McGeady's name more than anyone on this forum but I never went ott with him. I don't think so anyway. ;)

[Stuttgart88]

You can't just dismiss anyone's achievements in the SPL, just as you can't state them as definitive proof of quality either. It's obvious that, say, Nakamura and McGeady are more gifted than almost anyone else up there though.

There have been plenty of players who did OK in the EPL or other decent leagues who have flopped in Scotland. As far as I'm concerned I think it's a good place for a 20/21 year old to be doing well, especially with European experience. He has already shown he has great talent and great potential but has plenty to do to establish himself as an international.

I think to rely on him to get a grip on a game for us is daft, but we could get a lot out of him if the rest of the midfield has already got a grip on the game.
McGeady would probably do very well in a Hleb-like role for Arsenal for example but would be anonymous at a Wigan or Bolton.

[Larks]

You can't just dismiss anyone's achievements in the SPL, just as you can't state them as definitive proof of quality either. It's obvious that, say, Nakamura and McGeady are more gifted than almost anyone else up there though.

There have been plenty of players who did OK in the EPL or other decent leagues who have flopped in Scotland. As far as I'm concerned I think it's a good place for a 20/21 year old to be doing well, especially with European experience. He has already shown he has great talent and great potential but has plenty to do to establish himself as an international.

I think to rely on him to get a grip on a game for us is daft, but we could get a lot out of him if the rest of the midfield has already got a grip on the game.
McGeady would probably do very well in a Hleb-like role for Arsenal for example but would be anonymous at a Wigan or Bolton.

I'd have to agree with you although I think he'll never be as smart a footballer as Hleb, he could be that style of player. However are we, ireland, an Arsenal or a Bolton? Pity.

[paul_oshea]

I think to rely on him to get a grip on a game for us is daft, but we could get a lot out of him if the rest of the midfield has already got a grip on the game.
McGeady would probably do very well in a Hleb-like role for Arsenal for example but would be anonymous at a Wigan or Bolton.


I think that was the a bit of the problem in eastern europe, he was isolated and no support so the usual running that he does, ended up with him ALWAYS losing the ball as oppossed to every second or 3rd time like we saw at the brazil game at home. I think you summed it up very well.

[BigmanCas]

You Tube his name and you'll find all the clips showing him against top class club sides. He is still learning Paul and has come along way. To quote Beckett:- "ever tried, ever failed? no matter, try again, fail again, fail better". Mc Geady understands that it is very important that you got to fail to succeed. His mistake while occuring less and less are making him into what will be one of the best. He will be a better player than Alex Hleb eventually. He was our best player against Brazil. He has had a few bad games in a Green Jersey but that will go down to experience.

[eirebhoy]

Did he really lose the ball every 2nd or 3rd time against Brazil? I thought he kept on to it very well.

[jmurphyc]

Against Brazil he was obviously excellent, but I do sometimes worry that whilst he has some pace, he doesn't have enough pace to escape the last man and has to use other techniques in order to do so. This was evident against Brazil. Also, rewatching a bit of the recent Ireland games, Andy Reid and him are closed down by 2-3 players very quickly or otherwise marked tightly.

[BigmanCas]

That what happens to the best players. Rumour has it that Celtic have employed a French speed coach to work with him??

[jmurphyc]

Rumour has it that Celtic have employed a French speed coach to work with him??

Yeah I heard that on here a few months back. His pace is the only thing that worries me. He has pace, but just not a huge amount of it. If he is changed from a winger into an "attacking midfielder" as he says he wants to be, then it wouldn't worry me as much. When I first started watching him I thought that this would be his best position and where we needed him the most as at the time we were really lacking creativity.

[paul_oshea]

EB, id have to watch it again but i can remember clearly on 3 occassions where he ran diagonal in the second half and lost the ball. not to mention a good few stray passes.

anyhow im not denying he had a good game, but it could have been a good bit better too if he had used his loaf a little more.

[eirebhoy]

I did watch it again and I just can't agree. Gave the ball away less than most of our players.

[sligoman]

Tubridy Tonight, now.

[frog-gufc]

tubridy asked hunt about stephen ireland, hunt replied well hes a munster man like myself, :p isnt hunt from wexford????
poor fella was pure nervous, ,my girlfriend who knws nuthan about football asked me was he a retard

fair play to him though hes an honest lad and always give 100% unlike that toupet wearin wack job(stephen ireland) he should be ashamed of himself i hope i never see him in an ireland shirt again

[Irish_Praha]

tubridy asked hunt about stephen ireland, hunt replied well hes a munster man like myself, :p isnt hunt from wexford????
poor fella was pure nervous, ,my girlfriend who knws nuthan about football asked me was he a retard

fair play to him though hes an honest lad and always give 100% unlike that toupet wearin wack job(stephen ireland) he should be ashamed of himself i hope i never see him in an ireland shirt again

Pot kettle black?

He was born in Laois but brought up in Waterford.

[Splurge]

Pot kettle black?
He was born in Laois but brought up in Waterford.


Is he not from Cobh?

[Irish_Praha]

Is he not from Cobh?

Hunt is from Waterford
http://www.officialplayersites.com/players/hunt/biography/

Ireland is from Cobh
http://www.cobhramblers.ie/cgi-bin/news/front.pl?record=54

[frog-gufc]

Pot kettle black?

He was born in Laois but brought up in Waterford.

well still a leinster man from birth, had lovely things to say about wexford alright

[Splurge]

Hunt is from Waterford
http://www.officialplayersites.com/players/hunt/biography/

Ireland is from Cobh
http://www.cobhramblers.ie/cgi-bin/news/front.pl?record=54

which is what i meant

[Irish_Praha]

which is what i meant

Which is what I thought ;)
Thread title is Hunt though :p

[Lionel Ritchie]

Initially I thought he just wasn't the sharpest tool in the box ...like say Robbie. But the more he spoke I began to think he's actually a bit smarter than that but just not particularly eloquent. He also appears to say virtually everything he thinks. :D

[dr_peepee]

He also appears to say virtually everything he thinks. :D


"How shall I tell them that I've no inner monologue!!"

[zenokelly]

I was quite pleasantly surprised Tubridy asked such football related questions, didn't think that was him.

But at least he told Stan what we all thought, DONT GO ON REPUTATION!

And felt he didn't get a fair bite at the cherry under Stan.

I'm worried that the comments he made about Ireland are the sort of comments that would put him off coming back. He said in effect that he was going to get a slagging when he came back about what happened in Slovakia.

There's nothing wrong with that but I feel if S.Ireland is tentative about returning that won't help. But if he is put off by that the lad needs to get a life.

By the way it showed Ireland's range rover again on the show last night. Another embarassment for Mr. Ireland outlining to all the Irish public what a sap he is.

[kingdomkerry]

I could of sworn hunt was from tipp?

[NeilMcD]

Thats Shane Long.

[kingdomkerry]

oh yeah your right

[kingdomkerry]

I think theres a repeat of Tuberty Tonight on Sunday nights for anyone who did'nt see it

[tetsujin1979]

Should be on rte.ie in the next day or so here: http://www.rte.ie/tv/tubridytonight/

[Nathan]

Was he P1ssed?

[CupWinner99]

He's very opinionated. to be fair to him he's passionate about playing for Ireland which can' be said for a number of players.

[Lionel Ritchie]

I wouldn't have thought so. I was actually trying to check his eyes for dilation to see if he'd been overtly availing of the green room complimentary bar but I wouldn't have thought he was ****ed no. No slurring. Some occasional "ticking" and eyes darting but I'd have thought that was nervousness.

[razor]

I wouldn't have thought so. I was actually trying to check his eyes for dilation to see if he'd been overtly availing of the green room complimentary bar but I wouldn't have thought he was ****ed no. No slurring. Some occasional "ticking" and eyes darting but I'd have thought that was nervousness.Could hardly understand a word he said, thought he came across terribly.

[reder]

Could hardly understand a word he said, thought he came across terribly.

Agree. He was either incredibly nervous or he is incredibly thick.

[Morbo]

I wouldn't say he is thick just not very eloquent, good point about Stan picking players based on rep rather than form and at least he was honest enough to admit that Ireland could expect a bit of slagging if he came back, glad to hear he has his priorities right too with football 1st, marriage 2nd even if it wasn't the smartest way to put it

[greendeiseboy]

he was very nervous and i dont think tubridy gave him a great interview especially quizzing him over the Ireland affair - what did he expect him to say

[Block G Raptor]

I don't think Stephen Ireland should be slagged off if he comes back. O.K. inventing fake dead grannies is not the cleverest thing to do but ffs people forget his partner had a miscarraige and that is not as easy to deal with as people think believe me I've been through a couple of them in the last couple of years.