He certainly proved the manager wrong for dropping him/telling him he was no longer wanted
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He certainly proved the manager wrong for dropping him/telling him he was no longer wanted
For all that I favour focusing on youth, Mcgeady is one of the very few potential match-winners available to us.
Should this sort of form really be ignored?
Agree. I wouldn't take him to Serbia just have him fresh for Luxembourg to play as a 10 and give us some chance at creativity. Unfortunately we dont have any player like him coming through from what I have seen with crowley been the closest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
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Originally Posted by Trequartista20
No, we need him on one last campaign as a super sub.
Kenny has to be looking at that and thinking about how he'd use him anyway. There are not too many players in contention for the squad with that kind of a pass in them.
It really was the one moment of quality they speak of that decided the match too, a fairly turgid affair.
I'd like to have him as an option for Serbia but can see your thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Can't understand how he's been frozen out of the Ireland set up in recent times. One of the few players of his style we've ever had. He's a creator and a threat and creating and scoring goals is our weakest point. He should have been playing in the hole for Ireland, or on the side of a front 3, for the last 10 years. He was wasted, but let's give him a final 1 or 2 years in an effective formation.
Tons of caps as well. Experience badly needed in the squad.
Who gets dropped for him? Hourihane, Hendrick, Knight and Browne are just four off the top of the head starting at a higher level.
Let's face it, he's only an option in the middle of the field now, and doesn't have the legs to keep up with the style SK has adopted with Ireland.
How much did he ever produce for Ireland given all the opportunities he had ? he is now playing at a much lower level. He has alway been a player that flatters to deceive == For us anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bottle of Tonic
It's more a question of who gets dropped from the squad and you don't need to worry about that, there's so many injured he can come in pretty seamlessly. The four you mention don't really need to worry, he plays a different position, a position where we're seriously blunt, and compounded by McGoldrick's retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
The style SK has adopted has yielded one goal in eight games, I wouldn't be too afraid of pushing the boat out on something slightly different.
I think mcgeady would only play in games where you need to win like Luxembourg not in away games like Serbia or Portugal where you will have no e of the ball and need a three man midfield who are athletes or wide players who can work back all day which mcgeady certainly isn't st this stage. . We have plenty of artisans but no artistsQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I hear that but I also think of the McGeady whose composure on the sideline led to the equaliser in Gelsenkirchen and turning into space led to the winner in Lille. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of quality, which we generally and otherwise lack. Seriously, who'd actually be a better option if chasing a goal in Belgrade... Curtis... Collins... etc?Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Absolutely. He was excellent in that Gelsenkirchen game and has it in his locker to take the ball forward at speed. Maybe he should've always been a no.10 instead of a winger. Cos his crossing was always a let-downQuote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
McGeady scored five goals for Ireland. One every 19 games. To see him now as some kind of potential saviour is rose-tinted glasses stuff, because he rarely was in the past. Who was it said a few posts up that he flattered to deceive for us? Lots of ability and flashes of guile but too little end product - finishing or crossing. Maybe he should have become a ten six or seven years ago and his career might have had a late flourish, but two bald facts stand out – he last played top flight football six seasons ago when he should have been in his absolute prime, and now he’s three weeks shy of his 35th birthday having spent his last three seasons in the third tier, where any player with his experience at international and Champions League level should look like a thoroughbred in a paddock of pit ponies. But it doesn’t follow that he’d look like a thoroughbred in more exalted company and I think he's well past being able to offer what we need.
I think he was unfortunate to play a lot of his career under the likes of Strachan, Trap and O'Neill. Fairly rigid 442 set ups. Put the tricky wee guy out wide. His was a thankless task most of the time. Receiving the ball static with his arse on the side line and expected to beat 2 or 3 men and create a chance. He wasn't Messi and its no wonder he's ended up with the flatter to deceive label. Under different management or perhaps if he was coming through ten years later I think his talents would have been better utilised in more fluid or imaginative set ups.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
I think he should be a Wes type player for us for a couple of years and should have been so for the last few as well. League 1 or not. We've no one else.
Edit to the above.
I didn't realise he was nearly 35. Thought 33. Ah well. That horse has long bolted anyway.
You make it sound like what we need is what we have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
What we need is a bloody miracle!!!
Well I can't argue with that ;)
McGeady is our miracle though.
And there we part ways, DeL. Once, maybe, if we'd used him better. I'd be very happy to be proven wrong all the same.
You're too scared to dream. I hope SK isn't ��
I live by the motto dum spiro, spero (it was on a jumper I had as a teen - impressionable age and all that!). But hopes and dreams aren't exactly the same, though the outcomes may be. I don't mind who our next 10 is, as long as they're good, and we win.
Out of contract this summer and linked to Peterborough, who have been promoted to the Championship. A major salary drop coming for him whether he stays or goes, but he has made his money at this stage.
Will he play for Sunderland in the playoffs?
I would expect him to, yes. He's been central to them getting this far, along with Charlie Wyke.
If they get promoted, any chance he'll get another contract with Sunderland?
Potentially yes, but it would need to be on substantially reduced terms than what he was previously on.
Read on Sky Sports that according to the Scottish Sun, McGeady waived an automatic one year contract extension to be able to play in this match here today, the second leg of the League 1 play-off against Lincoln City.
Seems like an interesting move. If he gets injured today, surely that's his career over with? I know he's made a pile of money but his agent can't be happy with this.
I assume that he would still be insured.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
He could be playing his way into a new contract with Sunderland. They were down 2-0 heading into this second leg, now it is 2-2 on aggregate largely because of McGeady.
McGeady playing well, 2 assists. 2-0 Sunderland at HT to even things up on aggregate. Lincoln like a deer in headlights, set up poorly from the start to defend what they have (had).
Scully barely in the game. In any case, I’m not overly excited by him. In and out of a league one team, 19 substitute appearances this year. Yes, he’s scored a few league one goals, he’s reasonable technically and is industrious. But he needs to prove himself at a higher level before senior international chance. He’s pretty average IMHO. Hopefully he gets to play championship next year one way or another
Playing his way into a move to a Championship club I'd say. It's not his fault Sunderland are doing a Sunderland.
Scully is very much a prospect, but today was not his day.
Yeah, McGeady was a different class. Two gorgeous deliveries for his assists.
Tough day at the office for Scully. Sunderland were well on top in first half and Scully went off at half time so he couldn't benefit from the Sunderland second half dip. Though, the first half dominance may have had something to do with Sunderland being well on top in midfield. There was one stage in the first half when the ball was beginning to move out left for Lincoln and Scully was screaming for it on the right. The ball kept moving out left and eventually someone decided to try peg a ball across to Scully at the back post- it was so poorly executed it went out for a throw. Summed up his half.
In his heyday he was accused of having the legs but no end-product. Now, it's vice versa.
In my opinion he was worth a half an hour against Luxembourg and I thought that before those games in March.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snapshot
McGeady has been offered a contract extension at Sunderland. (Evening Chronicle).
Plenty of Sunderland fans on the readytogo forum have stated their hope that McGeady would stay (as in, the only current player in the Sunderland squad they feel it is worth retaining).Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
I still think it absolutely criminal (man) that McGeady wasn't utilised in order to try to avoid a morale-sapping home defeat against Luxembourg. If the general consensus is that he's a cut above the English third division (checks out), and our squad contains third division players...for me that's the manager not doing the job. And I was a huge supporter of Kenny.
Would we have created more chances against Luxembourg with McGeady on the pitch? For me, it's as simple as that.