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I have often wondered why players who fail to make it as wingers don't covert to full back. Physicality is not required and what is needed is pace, positional sense and ability to turn quickly. Any half decent winger should be able to play as a full back or wing back. Big Jack even had Ronnie Whelan playing full back and he did ok there.
McLean's club career has stalled a bit. Should be an option to consider.
I femember Howard Wilkinson saying they worked with Gary Kelly initially as a winger but they felt he was more reactive than proactive so put him at full back.
O'Neill has said he doesn't think full backs should play RHM. I'm not sure. I think Kelly played RHM a few times with Finnan behind him, and sometimes Finnan at RHM if we were playing more defensively.
I think we have good wide options without playing Coleman further forward.
Wing back in a 352 could be very interesting for both Coleman and McClean.
Cyrus started out as a striker/right winger, as was pretty apparent from his performance v the USAQuote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
The truth of his mercenary motives were already shamefully exposed by his own foolhardiness, but listen now to Christie's desperate attempts at damage limitation!:
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Originally Posted by Cyrus Christie
First he has the audacity to pull on the green jersey just to get an international game of football - for any team would have done! - and now to try and cover his selfish motives behind a facade of false national sentiment... Too late, Christie. How very dare you![/TOWK]Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyrus Christie
What did you expect him to say?
"It was a sh*te experience. I don't want to be here. I would rather be anywhere else. I'm never playing for your country again"?
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Why can't you just take people at face value sometimes? Why is it so hard for you to imagine that he might actually have felt some pride and honour in it?
I mean, is that concocted quote there what you believe he really thinks behind the words, or something along those lines; that he'd rather not have been there, only for the fact he was getting a bit of international exposure for the sole and selfish benefit of his career?
I'm sure he is proud and thinks it is an honour to be given the chance to play Intl. football. Did I say otherwise?
Erm, well, you've been going on about being so sure that there was no sentiment for his Irish heritage in his decision to declare for us. You were simply in no position to say.
On the bench this evening.
'Cyrus Christie & Rovers': http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/news/la...hristie-rovers
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Originally Posted by Shamrock Rovers
So his great great grandfather played for Rovers? Am I right?
At the time he made his debut I really felt in interviews that he was playing for Ireland as a career move. He didn't seem too proud or excited.
Because of that I was surprised to read he has family in Ireland he's still in touch with (or maybe he's not.)
Either way, he had a great debut and is a great option for us
I think you were influenced by TOWK. Christie said when the call came that it was a no brainer and that behind Coleman there wasn't much competition in his position. What he didn't say was taken as "proof" that it was a career move. If he had come out with lots of fluffy nice stuff about his Irish roots he'd have had all that forensically analysed too, a bit like McGoldrick. I think declarants need PR advisors to carefully craft and word their statements to the media, and probably provide DNA samples too.
No I wasn't influenced by TOWK. I'm not regular enough on here to really know the other posters.
Although if you look back over this thread you'll probably find me saying something after viewing his interview with FAI TV where I felt he didn't seem too arsed about Ireland. It's probably just his natural demeanour. Anyway, I'll reserve judggement until the next few games but, as I've said before, if he does the business on the pitch nothing else really matters
Reserve judgement? He committed fully when approached at the age of 22, with his whole career ahead of him. I'm sure he has enough belief in his own ability that he envisages a career as a PL right back for many years, and therefore in the England reckoning at some point, if he keeps his head down. He also knows that Seamus Coleman is better than anything England have at right back at the moment so he could be biding his time on the bench for a long time. We're taking gut tests to new depths if we can't feel okay about a guy like him.
Unfortunately he doesn't seem to be playing too well of late for Derby. A lot of the Derby fans feel safer with Shotton at right back at the moment, and seem to think that Keogh also plays better when this is the case. Christie got the nod last night again though in a crunch game with Bournemouth, so McClaren must have plenty confidence in him.
it's equally likely he couldn't be arsed with the interview with FAI TV!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
Very true. And yes indeed, in response to Delorean, I will reserve judgement on a player's commitment and use to the squad until at least a couple of games. I think it would be unwise to get too excited based on one gameQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Well yeah, fair enough to reserve judgement on his ability and attitude, but he's obviously committed to playing for us. That's all I'd hope for at this stage.
http://www.football365.com/transfer-...n-Admin-Gossip
A move to West Ham rumored.
announced as young player of the season at Derby's awards tonight: https://twitter.com/dcfcofficial/sta...00237915414529
He would have had practically no competition really but great to see after a poor finish to last season. The only others I can think of that would definitely be eligible would be Jamie Hanson & Will Hughes, the former only playing sporadically and the latter only returning recently from a cruciate injury. I'm not sure if George Thorne would qualify at 23, but he's missed a lot of games through injury also.