He should be concentrating on his game only and nothing else, especially now there is a lull/dip in his performances.
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He should be concentrating on his game only and nothing else, especially now there is a lull/dip in his performances.
Has his game dipped or is he just playing in an uninspired team? Sunderland's modus operandi is basically to defend in numbers and then give it to Fletcher.
McClean and Ferry are BFF's - McClean took him to the Euros and all over. I think there's a measure of mild homesickness involved as well (not to mention a big possibility of Eugene speaking with his tongue firmly in cheek).
4 Lyfe?Quote:
Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
4Ever is greater than 4life, in death - as in life...
4eva, 4lyfe, 4keeps - 4defs.
4reals?
This is a low point even on a James McClean thread
I was going to say FFS.
4FS, surely?Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
He's in the papers having a whinge again about Euro 2012. Let's see, he's a left-winger. Did he expect to be playing ahead of Duff?
He's starting to remind me of Stephen Ireland.
Any quotes?
He could certainly have been used more...Quote:
Originally Posted by brine3
He has set an impossibly high standard for himself, not on a football level but to "prove the Ireland manager wrong".
He really needs to just shut up and apply himself for a season or so. He's a player with potential who needs to work really hard to deliver on it so his best bet is to keep quiet and knuckle down...
To be fair to him, that's pretty much what he admitted himself:Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
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Originally Posted by McClean
Yes but while having another moan about it in the same breath. Footballers these days are expert at this type of thing. Take Micah Richards recent whingefest:
‘It’s something we have not worked on a lot. That’s twice we have gone to a back five and conceded but the manager likes it. If we want to do well with it we are going to have to work on it.’
Footballers possessing opinions isn't something new. A football-saturated media dedicated to providing conveyor belt news is what ensures that their opinions are now presented on a much greater scale for public critique than they might have been in previous times. McClean didn't publish the comments himself and was probably designated with press duties before Sunderland's last game, or perhaps he was asked in a press conference or by a Northern Echo reporter with special access to the club's players.
Yeah, so he needs to now stop talking about doing it and actually shut up and apply himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
James can retort, '65 pages about me? have you lot nothing better to do'.
Jesus, he played no part in the qualifiers and then expects to get more game time in Euros.
Stephen Hunt didn't get a look-in in Euros but didnt complain.
McClean spoke about the honour of being named in the squad for Euros and now he's moaning he didn't get enough game time.
He got more game time than a lot of the players who had been in the squad a lot longer than him.
This lad is starting to annoy me.
He's not the brightest at all is he...
Dropped for Sunderland today. Probably long overdue and I don't see him getting back in.
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Originally Posted by Murfinator
Back in on 67 minutes :p
Not so sure, given the defeat. Sunderland appear to have gone very stale under O'Neill. A malaise that has struck many of his teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Judging from the fans clamber to get him off the team I doubt they'll be looking for him reinstated unless he does something good from the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by elroy
It's in his favour that they went a goal down without him and were at least level with him on the pitch.
One of four players given a rating of 7 (top rated). Rated 5th out of 14 on the 'your rating'.
Because he plays the same 11 every week injury permitting and they become either fatigued or predictable. At any other club, James not starting a game wouldn't be a story because he'd have been rested many times.Quote:
Originally Posted by elroy
Ive always thought O'Neill would make a far better International manager than club manager. He is far more suited to that, where he can really motivate players to excel, and getting the best out of ordinary/average players for the big games particularly. But this doesn't work over a 36+ games season, which is why you always see his teams do well in patches. I also notice that his teams seem to tire towards the end of the season, but sunderland look now like they are at the end of the season.
Hopefully he might fancy a crack at a certain relatively mediocre national side in the next year or so...
starting todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Sunderland 1-0 up. He's finished.
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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
2-1 Everton - he is now!
Everton up to 4th, you probably would not expect Sunderland to get much against the 4th place side,
I mean that like going to Chelsea or Arsenal and getting a result.
Would be nice if Coleman s playing in the Champions league next season!!
McClean played the full game not one of the the three subbed.
How did he fare today?
I see he's been getting some stick on a Sunderland forum for declining to wear a poppy on his shirt: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=741464
For what it's worth, I believe Martin O'Neill was the only member of the coaching staff who also declined to wear one.
This poppy stuff is a most bizarre form of thought control. Personally, I could wear or not wear one, it makes no difference to me, but people being villified for conscientious objection is just depressing. Sadly the UK is full of people who have absolutely no clue about the experience of Irishmen in Derry and their suspicion of British soldiers.
While you'd commend someone taking a stand against this all-pervasive poppy onslaught in recent years.... the kid has invited a world of sectarian pain upon himself at a time when his career is at a critical point.... guess joining up with Irish squad for next week might be a welcome relief for him at this time...
MON didn't wear one. Why is all the rumpus being directed at McClean?
It would be hard to find anybody more thick and contradictory than poppy fascist dullards on an English football related, internet discussion board.
Post #1296 continues to apply...
http://foot.ie/threads/160177-James-...=1#post1639164
I thought McClean was so so today, Sunderland played well enough to get a point.
O'Shea got nutmegged twice, for both Everton goals as the ball found its way into the net.
As Andy Reid would say, 'twice is careless'.
Can't agree. Any player should have the right to choose to wear one or not whether their form is good, bad or indifferent.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
AFAIK O'Neill did wear one in his post match suit but just not on his pitchside training gear.
I thought it was a brave thing to do, considering he's breaking rank completely. If it gets seized upon by morons well so be it.