I can't listen to that in work but I hope it's Positively 4th StreetQuote:
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I can't listen to that in work but I hope it's Positively 4th StreetQuote:
Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo
No way, that's a culchie rock band.Quote:
Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo
48 passes per game 83.1% successful with 3.1 key passes per game?Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
16.9 per cent of passes go astray. One of them could lead to a goal. Liverpool gave a goal away in a match recently and they passed the ball a few times.
:)
Indeed,
but if a 17% rate of misplaced passes for an Irish midfield player is not good enough, then I must be missing something :)
Judging by reports, most every Andy Reid pass is described glowingly as clever, graceful, etc
Most every Andy Reid shot is described as stunning, a thumper.
All Andy need to do for us in addition, is do a bit of covering now and again.
McClean can shoot but he doesn't manage it, McGeady can shoot but mostly weakly.
Only Brady atm can take his shot.
But he is an attacking midfielder, Whelan has a higher pass success in his only game but he only made 16 passes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Andy also has 4 goals and 3 assists.
I would imagine most of the passes that go stray are attacking passes in the final third, not routine passes in the first third.
He's the top rated Championship player, what more does he have to do?
I'm almost 100% sure that Stutts was just taking the píss and not entirely taking it from you,Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
although you are soft target, Tricky.
You're right, I am pretty thick.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Robbie Brady is also in the Premiership top 100 players at no 76
1.4 key passes 32.2 average passes a game 82.6 %success
Andy beats all his stats but then Robbies is at the bottom end of a better league.
So both have a case for a starting place, and of course we have Aiden who is first choice presumably.
We seems to produce enough good left wingers to form a new political party.
Another assist for Andy Reid, setting up Jack Hobbs for the only goal in the Forest-Derby derby. Richard Keogh was harshly sent off in the same game.
Yeah Keogh was unlucky, I think he got a nick on the ball. Reid had a great chance, put through in the 94th min but didn't quite have the legs, was closed down and rushed the shot.
Just watching Forest's goal against Derby today... how many goals have we scored from set-pieces in this campaign? I can remember Keogh's v Germany and Walters' v Austria, but overall we haven't offered half the threat that we did when Duff, Lawrence and Hunt were in the team. I remember in the first Trap campaign in particular, it seemed like any time we got a corner or free kick there was a real sense we could sneak one. I wonder if somebody like Reid, in spite of his lack of athleticism, would bring that element back into our game. With players like Dunne and Clark around we surely have players who can dominate in the opposition penalty box.
Well, yeah.
He should play against the Kazakhs...
Not Germany?
Give him a chance!
If he does play, would this be the longest time a player has been absent from the team and then returned?
interesting questionQuote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
Depends if Stephen Ireland gets back before him!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
Come on folks, any suggestions?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
I find it hard to imagine him not playing a part now he's been called up. I've watched all Notts Forest highlights this season and he's simply a beautiful footballer. He's also svelte, fit and in the mood for goals.
Roy Keane? :)
In terms of starting XI, I'd hazard a guess that the only other contender would be a goalkeeper, maybe Gerry Peyton.
Kav was something like 4-5 years in the wilderness before Brian Kerr played him in Basel.
"What are ye? You're a ******!"
And that man is now managing basel.
And the other one is managing Carlisle, 100% record.
I was just going to ask what he is doing. Still Carlisle are no Basel.
Delighted for Reidy.
Has been excellent for Forest & good to have a midfield player who can pass a football without having a nervous breakdown.
Delighted for Reidy. He always reminds me of a street footballer.
Didn't Wes Hoolahan go about 6 years from original call up to debut....Quote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
Noel, I promise. I will leave me guitar at home.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...wI3hoCjFvb9V_7
I think he got about 5 mins at Craven Cottage against Colombia, then next game was Georgia at home. Almost exactly 5 years I think?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisRed
Scored again tonight. He's certainly in fine form.
goal from last night (with other highlights)
Delivered the cross with a load of pace and got a bit lucky with the direction. Reid always delivered a decent set-piece. Himself and Brady seem to excel at dead ball situations. I'd be inclined to include him in the team for that reason alone, unless we have a better set piece specialist? Pilkington took a few corners when he came on against Sweden, and I think he takes set pieces for Norwich. Anyone else?
Of course a former Faroes player as well lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USI61Qls3sg
Andy remembers The Thundercats fondly....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_1rGr4kQc
Andy picks his best ever Irish eleven!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eQM0xOK2Y
Is anyone else getting increasingly angry that Reid was ignored by the previous management team for the guts of 6 years?
I'm starting to get very ornery about it.
I loved Reid from the very first moment I saw him.
Not to forget recruiting such luminaries as Chambers, Bunn, Ambrose, Stearman, Gerrard, etc instead. Time and effort well spent there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
To be fair, bar a good start to 2009-10 season with Sunderland and a good 2013 thus far with Forest he probably didn't merit a place sadly in the intervening period... his weight was an issue and there was an inauspicious time spent with Blackpool in the Championship I seem to recall...Quote:
Originally Posted by Yard of Pace
Deserves to play on Friday though on form....
Reid could gave been playing well in the EPL and he'd still have been ignored. Trap clearly took a disliking to him after Mainz and just never trusted a luxury type player. In his early years at Ireland Trap played with a rigid back 4 with full backs kept on a leash, a very definite defensive midfielder and a midfielder with some but not much room to get forward. With 6 outfield players forming a shield any attacking threat had to come from either wing and the front two. Trap didn't want a Reid-type player in his midfield.
Hunt and Duff did well and we got a fair few goals from set pieces.
Then something changed. Either opponents figured us out or we just got less efficient at playing large parts of games without the ball.
We were lucky to get to the play offs against France though for WC 2010. We stuttered into the play offs.
We beat Georgia 2-1 in Mainz when Glenn Whelan's shot was bumbled by the keeper and at home we got a penalty that was a shocking decision to equalise with them.
The only times we really played good football under Trap was in the France away play-off and the Estonia away play-off...and a few friendlies too