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Irish_Praha
15/12/2012, 5:18 PM
Anything serious?

I'm not sure I was just following text updates on it and it sounded like he picked up a knock late in the first half, played on but didn't come out at half time.
DannyInvincible
15/12/2012, 5:21 PM
Sounds more precautionary than anything. Hopefully...
geysir
15/12/2012, 8:17 PM
Looked sore enough, his foot was stamped upon in the attempted tackle. He stayed on the grass, grimacing for a few minutes, it looked then that his game was over but he came back on and hobbled around for 10 minutes, until he could move more freely. He was subbed at half time.

I didn't watch the 2nd half. Wigan were poor in the first, they actually missed the presence of Caldwell. Norwich were a little better but not much.
gastric
16/12/2012, 9:53 AM
Interesting gossip - while just rumour would be a great move for McCarthy and hopefully in time Ireland when Gibson finally returns.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/everton-want-wigan-midfielder-james-1492364
CraftyToePoke
17/12/2012, 2:29 PM
Being targeted in more ways than one according to Martinez

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20756372
gastric
20/12/2012, 5:48 AM
Good news on his injury.


http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/wigan-relieved-as-scan-reveals-only-minor-damage-for-star-mccarthy-3332431.html
tricky_colour
20/12/2012, 10:41 AM
How is the news going down in the Everton forum?
tricky_colour
20/12/2012, 10:49 AM
Couple of posts from the Everton fourm.

The response to this one


McCarthy is very very good and only getting better. He will move on to big things soon and i really hope we are in the hunt for him when wigan do decide to sell him. Anybody who cant see the potential in him hasnt seen enough of him or doesnt know their arse from their elbow.

Made me chuckle.


*wipes elbow with toilet paper*
BonnieShels
20/12/2012, 11:16 AM
Are you having a comversation with yourself in here?
Crosby87
20/12/2012, 11:33 AM
Macca looks like a young Kevin Bacon.
tricky_colour
20/12/2012, 11:33 AM
Are you having a comversation with yourself in here?

Seems to be just me and you atm.
BonnieShels
20/12/2012, 11:35 AM
I'm standing at the door with my last canape and prosecco and am getting out of here soon enough.
tricky_colour
20/12/2012, 11:35 AM
Macca looks like a young Kevin Bacon.

I like Bacon, him and Bunn together are a mouthwatering prospect.
Charlie Darwin
20/12/2012, 2:17 PM
I'm not sure why McCarthy is being touted as a replacement for Fellaini. He's 'not that type of player' in more than one sense.
tricky_colour
20/12/2012, 3:29 PM
I'm not sure why McCarthy is being touted as a replacement for Fellaini. He's 'not that type of player' in more than one sense.

Pretty much my thoughts exactly bit like replacing Peter Crouch with Wes Hoolahan.

But there must be some truth in in because James was photographed doing a trial at Everton.


http://www.halloweenmart.com/core/media/media.nl?id=348285&c=801044&h=3e6952151a819d4d7f25
DeLorean
20/12/2012, 4:10 PM
Can't believe you were caught by that spoofer TC. Here's the real Mac...

http://i.imgur.com/wiGRt.png
The Fly
20/12/2012, 4:14 PM
Sweet Jesus!!!
the bear
22/12/2012, 12:35 PM
Having a good first half against Arsenal. Looks comfortable on the ball. Commentators were saying that he was named as a centre back in the starting lineup but seems to be playing as a holding midfielder. Martinez has obviously told him not to go forward. He was leading a breakaway there a minute ago, had Arsenal under pressure, when he reached the halfway line he passed it off to Stam and started running backwards.
Stuttgart88
22/12/2012, 1:42 PM
I thought he looked classy throughout. An Audi A5 coupe rather than a Bentley, quality but not flash.

McCarthy, O'Brien, Coleman, Hoolahan and Long are all playing encouragingly well. All should be starters for Ireland and if you add in Gibson then that's 6 players playing very well in the EPL at the moment.

Edit: add Ciaran Clark to that list.
Charlie Darwin
22/12/2012, 1:43 PM
I can't wait for the day when Trap plays all 6 on the left wing in the same game.
ArdeeBhoy
22/12/2012, 2:20 PM
McCarthy, O'Brien, Coleman, Hoolahan and Long are all playing encouragingly well. All should be starters for Ireland and if you add in Gibson then that's 6 players playing very well in the EPL at the moment.

Agreed. And Pilkington too. Sadly though with Trap, about as much chance of as a real Santa Claus...
Sullivinho
22/12/2012, 2:44 PM
I can't wait for the day when Trap plays all 6 on the left wing in the same game.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7854/1341601249866.jpg
Eminence Grise
22/12/2012, 11:44 PM
Can't believe you were caught by that spoofer TC. Here's the real Mac...

http://i.imgur.com/wiGRt.png

Sweet Jesus! It's a traffic light with a face!!
Bungle
26/12/2012, 10:08 PM
After watching Liverpool tonight and how Gerrard is living on his reputation as being a great player in the past, I'm convinced McCarthy will end up there. He's the nearest thing I've seen to a younger Gerrard in the English game, especially when he's given the licence to get forward which is rare at Wigan.

The big question is whether Rodgers has the balls to drop Gerrard, which I wouldn't be sure about. McCarthy is head and shoulders above the Henderson's and Shelvey's of this world so I think he'd walk into their team. Everton might be a better move for him though, as it's a far more stable place for a young talented player.
Charlie Darwin
27/12/2012, 12:12 AM
Does McCarthy have the capacity to break forward and score goals like Gerrard does? I'm a big fan but I'm not convinced he is that type of player.
Bungle
27/12/2012, 9:51 AM
Does McCarthy have the capacity to break forward and score goals like Gerrard does? I'm a big fan but I'm not convinced he is that type of player.

I agree with you that this is the one attribute that he hasn't shown on a consistent basis. I do think he has this in his locker though and I would say that much of the reason for him not getting more goals is the fact that he is told not to go too far forward by Martinez. To be fair, I think Wigan have been great for his development, but I do think if he is to reach his talent, he needs to move to a big club in the summer.
Charlie Darwin
28/12/2012, 6:39 PM
McCarthy included on the BBC's top 50 players who could move this winter. Surprisingly, it says he's already turned down Liverpool twice - I don't recall this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20521275
tetsujin1979
28/12/2012, 6:51 PM
He had a trial with them when he was 16/17 but didn't move. Don't remember any other offer from Liverpool
boovidge
28/12/2012, 7:56 PM
"The Scot" :rolleyes:
SkStu
29/12/2012, 12:22 AM
He is a scot though! He simply plays international football for Ireland...
BonnieShels
29/12/2012, 2:54 PM
He is a scot though! He simply plays international football for Ireland...

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/131/393/ohoq9.jpg
BonnieShels
06/01/2013, 1:11 AM
Linked with Arsenal according to the ever reliable Mirror.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-prepare-8m-bid-for-wigan-1519640
tetsujin1979
10/01/2013, 10:23 AM
The as-reliable-as-the-Mirror Daily Star has linked him with Everton, as a replacement for Fellaini if he moves to Man United or Chelsea: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/292162/James-McCarthy-s-new-good-Fella-for-David-Moyes/
DannyInvincible
10/01/2013, 10:31 AM
Fellaini and McCarthy aren't remotely similar players. :confused:
ArdeeBhoy
10/01/2013, 10:33 AM
He is a scot though! He simply plays international football for Ireland...


Strange thing to say...
Even by your standards.
:rolleyes:
SkStu
10/01/2013, 7:33 PM
How is that strange? He was born in Scotland to Scottish parents.
ArdeeBhoy
10/01/2013, 10:52 PM
Whose parents were from Ulster.

Next...
Colbert Report
10/01/2013, 11:24 PM
How is that strange? He was born in Scotland to Scottish parents.

I'd like to see you tell Ray Houghton that he is a Scot.
SkStu
10/01/2013, 11:35 PM
Whose parents were from Ulster.

Next...

Oh, so his grandparents were Irish.

He is, despite his eligibility for the Irish team, a Scot. Ditto Ray Houghton. It's not that controversial lads. Wind the necks in.
ArdeeBhoy
10/01/2013, 11:49 PM
Luckily the FAI aren't as small-minded...

And my pal was at school with Houghton;he always wanted to play for Ireland...
SkStu
11/01/2013, 12:24 AM
Really don't know what you're trying to accuse me of now. Smallmindedness? Au contraire mon ami! The recruitment policy of the FAI has served us very well. Some of my favourite Irish players were born in other countries to parents who weren't born in Ireland. They (may have) felt Irish and they were proud to represent the country of their ancestors. That made me proud and delighted to welcome them on board but it didn't make them not Scottish or not English. Do you consider Clinton Morrisson Irish? Martin Keown?
Charlie Darwin
11/01/2013, 12:48 AM
Just because a Scotland-born player is Irish, that doesn't mean he's not also a Scot too. This isn't controversial - these players are Irish and Scottish, and they have every right to be proud of that.
ArdeeBhoy
11/01/2013, 1:25 AM
Well it's up to them to choose. Not for us to say.
ArdeeBhoy
11/01/2013, 1:28 AM
Morrisson was eligible. And good enough at the time, so what?

And Keown is my pal's distant cousin. Not that my pal was ever too impressed by his choice of national team. But down to them and FIFA's criteria.
geysir
11/01/2013, 7:12 AM
Really don't know what you're trying to accuse me of now. Smallmindedness? Au contraire mon ami! The recruitment policy of the FAI has served us very well. Some of my favourite Irish players were born in other countries to parents who weren't born in Ireland. They (may have) felt Irish and they were proud to represent the country of their ancestors. That made me proud and delighted to welcome them on board but it didn't make them not Scottish or not English. Do you consider Clinton Morrisson Irish? Martin Keown?

Maybe you were being deliberately obtuse when you said of James, "he is a scot though! He simply plays international football for Ireland..." as if he had no Irish ethnicity or nationality that held a meaning or value. If you want to be accurate, McCarthy is Scots Irish, same as McGeady, Houghton, Coyle etc, that's how they describe their own ethnicity.
BonnieShels
11/01/2013, 9:08 AM
What geysir said.
paul_oshea
11/01/2013, 9:24 AM
Really don't know what you're trying to accuse me of now. Smallmindedness? Au contraire mon ami! The recruitment policy of the FAI has served us very well. Some of my favourite Irish players were born in other countries to parents who weren't born in Ireland. They (may have) felt Irish and they were proud to represent the country of their ancestors. That made me proud and delighted to welcome them on board but it didn't make them not Scottish or not English. Do you consider Clinton Morrisson Irish? Martin Keown?

If a donkey is born in a stable does it make him a horse?
BonnieShels
11/01/2013, 9:43 AM
If a donkey is born in a stable does it make him a horse?

Ask the Duke of Wellington or Daniel O'Connell.
ArdeeBhoy
11/01/2013, 10:10 AM
Maybe you were being deliberately obtuse when you said of James, "he is a scot though! He simply plays international football for Ireland..." as if he had no Irish ethnicity or nationality that held a meaning or value. If you want to be accurate, McCarthy is Scots Irish, same as McGeady, Houghton, Coyle etc, that's how they describe their own ethnicity.

Actually, I've met Houghton and said he was proud to be 'Donegal Irish'. Though also said he was proud of being a 'Weegie' !

Don't care if he came from N*van, gave us two of the best goals Ever...
Junior
11/01/2013, 11:17 AM
Is Kilbane a Brit/Anglo/English - Irishman? (Morrison, Keown are too easy targets).

I think he'd say otherwise. I think he'd say he was an Irishman. Pure and simple and that wouldnt be controversial either.

Just because someone is born in Scotland or anywhere else for that matter does not automatically make them a 'Scot' + A.N.Other Nationality (if they have the ancestory elsewhere) IMO.