Love his attitude. He's not short on fight, exactly what we need in FranceQuote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
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Love his attitude. He's not short on fight, exactly what we need in FranceQuote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
I only saw the second half of WBA at City today. He nearly equalised with a right footed volley with the last kick of the game. He took up lots of good positions during the half but he was ignored by his teammates on almost every occasion. He was very frustrated, rightly so. Berahino has a bigger ego than his finishing ability warrants.
DeBruyne was immediately influential from when he came on with about 30 to go but City's midfield disappeared for the last 20, WBA could well have drewn.
Maybe they dont trust him? thinking he will run down an alley and deliver nothing from it?!
Delivered pretty well for their goal.
It was more a case of bad decision making or taking too much out of the ball. There were a few occasions where he was in such a good position even I could have done something useful if passed to in that position.
Stutts, you're not giving yourself enough credit there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Just the two missed penalties by Saido Berahino today.
Having a great game today by the sound of things.
interviewed on NewsTalk: http://cdn.radiocms.net/media/001/au...audio_file.mp3
Was a great interview. As a definition of the gut test few come closer.
Anyone who pronounces captain ""cyaptin" passes my gut test
Key-apt-un
used to work with a girl from Derry. Had a really thick accent, that hard-c + a sound (e.g. captain, car, etc) was all pronounced like k-ya. And, of course, we used to slaughter her for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
There was one point in the interview about 17 or 18 minutes where Gilroy asks ".... and is this like an experience that you're always gonna have for the rest of your life?" and you just know he wants McClean to go on about the bond in the team and the relationship among the player because the Irish public would love to hear that. What I loved was McClean doesn't give it to him straight away. Refers to the "experience" of this tournament and of Euro 2012 and other aspects of the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Then, he gives Gilroy what he's looking for. And it's absolutely glorious: band of brothers, very close, will go that extra yard on the pitch, don't want to leave your mate in the sh*te (yes he says that), will have eachother's back. Glorious.
Love James. I don't know how I'd cope if I met him.
typical Gilroy, gives the answer he wants to hear in the questoin
on RTE2 tonight for the Euro 2016 highlights show
scored for West Brom v Northampton tonight...
Has he featured much for WBA at all this season so far?Quote:
A goalkeeping howler.
There's no danger when West Brom's James McClean strikes a low shot at goal from outside the area, but Northampton goalkeeper Adam Smith can only palm the ball into his own net.
Has come on as a sub in both their games, set up their winner on the opening day at Palace.
Playing very well so far.
Needs to be starting against Serbia.
taken off with half an hour to go, the lads on commentary on NewsTalk couldn't believe he was taken off when Field (who was taken off later) had done nothing
Was a strange decision alright. Hope he's not injured...?
I think it was just tactical, just to try something else.
Anyhow he went off injured after 5 mins apparently so it didn't work too well.Quote:
Jonathan Leko replaced McClean after 65 minutes in the hope he would inject some pace and penetration to West Brom's game which had failed to get out of first gear.
I think McClean had a half chance early on but Guzan smothered it
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Darren Fletcher's neat pass found the on-rushing McClean but Guzan smothered his six yard effort with the keeper relatively untroubled during a non-event of a first half.
It was a non event.
KrisLetang
Crosby
I see West Brom have signed Nacer Chadli from Spurs for £13m no less. McClean could have probably done without the extra competition.
from football365: http://www.football365.com/news/the-...sive-attackers
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James McClean (West Brom)
The Baggies have not lost a game started by the Irishman this season and that’s due in no small part to the industry of a player who finally looks like the perfect exponent of Pulisball – covering every inch of the touchline and tracking the opposition full-back like a particularly hungry Bear Grylls. Nacer Chadli might get all the headlines but McClean is tackling even more than Claudio Yacob, and there is a man who likes a tackle. Oh and he’s not done anything daft for aaaaaaages.
Nice to read but I have to say he was given a tough time by the Georgians who seemed to get by him at will. He is also inclined to jump in and sell himself a bit too easily on occasions in his enthusiasm. The recent goals and near goals are a bonus. Not someone who I'd expect to have a Robbiesque eye for being in the right position in the box. I think he should be kept away from the frees though.
nasty cut on his leg after today's game: https://www.instagram.com/p/BL4IaXTjnh_/
(warning - it's graphic)
Yea those tattoos are horrible!!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Celebrating his brother's horror tackle online. Saying Sean Maguire should remove his tampon.
I like James but he should be banned from the Internet.
Got involved with some idiot about the Bloody Sunday anniversary too. Pretty obvious you're going to draw a reaction by posting that kind of stuff.
To be fair to James here, far as I can tell some guy said his brother tackles like him, he responded in kind and then went on to post that he'd need to teach his brother how to tackle. Which isn't the worst ever...(as an aside, I read an article on Balls.ie which really seemed to want to make this a bigger thing than it was, particularly James' involvement).Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
I completely agree that he should stay 10 miles from social media at all times, but if the only lesson here is 'McClean shouldn't get involved in social media' then that ship has sailed, sunk and been picked over by scavangers five times over.
Why do some people get so upset about him commemorating Bloody Sunday?
Is this how some working class English people process their guilt and shame over what happened?
I understand he shouldn't be posting stuff like that, but it's a two-way street. Remembrance Day shouldn't be politicised the way it has and used as a weapon to attack other people's beliefs.
Shane Duffy got involved too.
It was a friendly. By all accounts, Maguire would have been severely injured had he not pulled out at last minute.
Maguire is an u-21 international.
Why are Duffy and McClean getting involved when they could possibly be international team-mates in a few years?
Silly stuff.
Duffy was just commenting on his mate's picture and didn't say anything bad from what I saw.
Patrick McClean comes out the worst of the. But James shows little class too. As I said, silly stuff
http://www.derryjournal.com/news/jam...lant-1-7800240
James letting himself down again.
He really is as thick as two planks.
http://extra.ie/sport/soccernews/jam...-cork-city-row
It's just a bit of harmless banter.
I've seen far worse on my own timeline from people who are educated enough to know better.