Keith Fahey

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

You might not like hearing it but who do you think'll be right on Fahey in a few months time? I'd love if he proved me wrong but I have no belief in him.

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Have you ever said anything positive about an Irish player since you joined the forum? Your the Victor Meldrew of Foot.ie :D

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Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

Have you ever said anything positive about an Irish player since you joined the forum? Your the Victor Meldrew of Foot.ie :D

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There is one, a very important one...

B'ham hadnt won in four before last night so good to see him part of the winning side, even if it was just Derby at home. Hopefully he'll hold down a place there now.

Some comments from Birmingham fans on other forums

"He looked good, man of the match for me"

"Fahey looked good. Was everywhere and sprayed some lovely passes about. One awesome 60yrd crossfield diagonal ball that Bouazza messed up."

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Fahey looked excellent tonight; some good passing and an excellent corner along with some good movement - he was also full of running, which was good.
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Any links to those forums gustavo?

Fahey got MOTM last night

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

I have no belief in him.

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Based on what?

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Any links to those forums gustavo?

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http://bcfcforum.co.uk/index.php?act=idx

Ciaran - heres a crazy thought but have you ever seen Fahey play? I can't say i've seen a huge amount of him (mostly Pats matches on tv) but have to say he always looked a class act in the LOI but again wouldn't say i've seen enough of him to make the sort of absolute statements you've been making...

Just a thought...

Debut boy Fahey helps Blues back to their winning ways

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KEITH Fahey spoke of his relief in helping Blues get back to winning ways – and finally making his bow.
The midfielder signed from St Patrick’s Athletic for £300,000 was given his starting debut by manager Alex McLeish last night.
Red tape, suspension and postponements had made it a frustrating few weeks for Fahey.
But he was accommodated against Derby County in the centre of the park, with Lee Bowyer moving to the right flank.
“From my own point of view, it was a bit difficult. It was my first game at this level and it took me a while to find my feet,” he said.
“But it was just good for me to finally get out on the pitch.
“I’ve been here for a month now and wasn’t able to play at first, it’s been on-going.
“I’ve been training hard and it was just good to get out there.
“To play in the team as well with the likes of Lee Bowyer and Lee Carsley, it was brilliant.”
Fahey outlined his role, saying: “The manager wanted me to drive on and get forward and not really worry too much about getting back because Lee Carsley will always sit.
“But towards the end it didn’t work out like that, I was up and down. You have to do it at both ends.”
Reflecting on the 1-0 win, Fahey said: “I think maybe at the end we made it hard for ourselves, but we had a little spell when we went 1-0 up so we probably could have killed them off.
“After the goal we seemed to settle down and started to knock it around a bit.
“We need a bit more of that from the beginning.”
“We need to start winning games, home and away,” Fahey added.
“It’s important as I think the fans are getting a bit itchy at the moment. We will just keep plugging away.”

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

Yes, but only briefly.

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That one line in defence of your previous comments about Fahey prove to me without any dount you are absolutely clueless about football

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Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever

That one line in defence of your previous comments about Fahey prove to me without any dount you are absolutely clueless about football

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Having briefly read Ciaran's comments on this and a few other threads I think it's safe to assume he's a bit of a wind up merchant :)

Keith "because Lee Carsley will always sit" :)
So it should be Keith.

Great news about Fahey, I hope Pats have a few beneficial clauses in the contract yet to kick in.

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

I was very impressed with what I saw with Mooney, O Donovan and completely in awe with Hoolahan in the EL. I learned after they secured their moves away that dominating the EL is more a testament to how poor quality said league is rather than how good a player they were and also how easy it is to up your game for a couple of big European games a year when you're largely uncompetitive for the rest of the season.

Maybe Fahey will be the exception but I doubt it, say I don't understand "football" all you like if it makes you feel better, we'll see who's right in a few months time.

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Wes Houlahan and O Donovan are both playing at Championship level and doing reasonably well. What about Readings 2 main strikers that have come from the League of Ireland, Doyle and Noel Hunt arent bad are they??
To make a statement like the one you made about Fahy when u have admitted yourself that u have only seen him play briefly shows that you are just basically a wind up merchant and only looking for a bit of attention.You have proven plenty of times on this forum that your knowledge of football is very poor

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Originally Posted by ciaran

i was very impressed with what i saw with mooney, o donovan and completely in awe with hoolahan in the el. I learned after they secured their moves away that dominating the el is more a testament to how poor quality said league is rather than how good a player they were and also how easy it is to up your game for a couple of big european games a year when you're largely uncompetitive for the rest of the season.

Maybe fahey will be the exception but i doubt it, say i don't understand "football" all you like if it makes you feel better, we'll see who's right in a few months time.

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kevin doyle.

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

I was very impressed with what I saw with Mooney, O Donovan and completely in awe with Hoolahan in the EL. I learned after they secured their moves away that dominating the EL is more a testament to how poor quality said league is rather than how good a player they were and also how easy it is to up your game for a couple of big European games a year when you're largely uncompetitive for the rest of the season.

Maybe Fahey will be the exception but I doubt it, say I don't understand "football" all you like if it makes you feel better, we'll see who's right in a few months time.

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You have no idea about football and one thing for sure you are consistent in proving this. Do you spend time on other sports forums contributing to them too pretending you know something about them? I bet you have never attended a football game in your life? I watched Fahey play yesterday and he was one of the best players on the pitch and once he settles in he will be better. As for Hoohalan in particular he is doing as well as anyone in the Norwich team.

Why on earth do you guys bother?

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

I never disagree with anyone on other soccer forums I just find this one especially close minded. It overrates the EL to ridiculous heights and seems completely oblivious to the sport outside of here and the UK.

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what are u talking about? we talk about IRISH NATIONAL TEAM here. sadly because of a mentality in irish culture our football culture is focused in british football(at age 8 all u ever hear is trials for an english club), hence english football comes up on here generally because thats where our players happen to play for the most part.

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

I never disagree with anyone on other soccer forums I just find this one especially close minded. It overrates the EL to ridiculous heights and seems completely oblivious to the sport outside of here and the UK.

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Au contraire Ciaran I think you'll find the LOI supporters are far more open minded than the rest in here, and generally have a decent knowledge of football worldwide. I've yet to read anyone claim that Fahey should play at a higher level than Birmingham, or indeed that anyone else in the LOI did. At most 10/15 people claimed he should be in the Ireland squad, at least as many LOI supporters (myself included) said he shouldn't be (at least until he proves himself).

The fact you never argue elsewhere kinda backs the point being made about you being here solely to wind up people (which is your right). The fact you only ever seem to read posts that disagree with you is another.

If people don't want to read Ciaran's posts, please use the Ignore user feature. It'll help your sanity...

i agree with that. loi supporters are much more open-minded as they see british football as just another league.

How did you find that ignore option Dodge? :)

If you haven't got the will power to voluntarily ignore a poster's ramblings then the ignore option doesn't make that much difference, as other exasperated posters will quote Ciaran and you'd end up reading his posts anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

Some of the stuff I've read from people talking about La Liga, Serie A or the Bundesliga on here would make me seriously question that. I remember during Euro 2008 someone on here saying that Peter Crouch was a better player than Zlatan Ibrahimovic and 4 or 5 agreeing with him and I recall thinking that not even Sky Sports would say something so absurdly pro-premiership as that.

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Maybe u should stop using this forum so if u think its so bad

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Au contraire Ciaran I think you'll find the LOI supporters are far more open minded than the rest in here, and generally have a decent knowledge of football worldwide. I've yet to read anyone claim that Fahey should play at a higher level than Birmingham, or indeed that anyone else in the LOI did. At most 10/15 people claimed he should be in the Ireland squad, at least as many LOI supporters (myself included) said he shouldn't be (at least until he proves himself).

The fact you never argue elsewhere kinda backs the point being made about you being here solely to wind up people (which is your right). The fact you only ever seem to read posts that disagree with you is another.

If people don't want to read Ciaran's posts, please use the Ignore user feature. It'll help your sanity...

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Why ? sure when your scrolling down and you see Ciaran's name its always a good laugh to read his posts.

Ciaran would do absolutely anything for attention (presumably something to do with his background but who knows, I won't pass further comment though as I'm probably as au fait with him as he is with Keith Fahy maybe I could...)! Seriously I can't understand why so many people indulge him... :confused:

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Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Ciaran would do absolutely anything for attention (presumably something to do with his background but who knows, I won't pass further comment though as I'm probably as au fait with him as he is with Keith Fahy maybe I could...)! Seriously I can't understand why so many people indulge him... :confused:

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I think we should start an "Everybody Ignore Ciaran" movement (started by a sign up thread). Get as many posters as possible to sign up.

Don't respond to Ciaran, don't quote him, just completely ignore 100% of his posts.

I am sure some of the regulars would be up for it. Once completely ignored he will either leave or see that his muppetry no longer garners a response, it certainly never merits comment in my opinion.

Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Brendan 82

I think we should start an "Everybody Ignore Ciaran" movement (started by a sign up thread). Get as many posters as possible to sign up.

Don't respond to Ciaran, don't quote him, just completely ignore 100% of his posts.

I am sure some of the regulars would be up for it. Once completely ignored he will either leave or see that his muppetry no longer garners a response, it certainly never merits comment in my opinion.

Thoughts?

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Has my vote

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Has my vote

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Nice one Razor. I will start working on the thread starting post

I've told you how to ignore him. its up to users to do thsi individually. He's entitled to post his thoughts, and if people don't agree with him, they're enitlted to respond.

Some of the Birmingham City fans comments on BBCs 606 - seem pretty positive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A46606962

Ciarán is the new SuperGretna.

starts on the bench for game at sheffield wednesday.

game starts at 5.20 and is live on SkySports 1

in the midst of mindless long balls and generally lack of composure, fahey came into his own. brilliant watching him when he actually got the ball, so composed, a real irish underage style ball player player who normally never make it.

Sigh! 93rd minute equalised for Birmingham :mad: One or two nice touches from Fahey when he came on. O'Connor and Potter for Wednesday didn't impress me.

Came on for the last 20 mins or so.Changed the game imo.Very good use of the ball ,brought other players into the game and got stuck in when needed. I would love to see him get a full game.

Obviously 'm biased but I think he made more telling passes in his 15 minutes or so than the rest of the two teams put together. He's played a part in all 4 games he's been eligible for so far and interestingly Birmingham haven't conceded a goal when he's been on and have scored 4. Bouzza misses next week so he'll probably get his 2nd start. Around 50 or so Pats fans heading over for a **** up

Just scored for the Brums. Meant to be good!

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Originally Posted by rambler14

Just scored for the Brums. Meant to be good!

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Saw that alrite. "A cross is delivered by Keith Fahey, Keith Fahey gets on the score sheet with a goal from close range to the top right corner of the goal." - BBC Sport. Fair play to him

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Originally Posted by Ciaran

He's not going to score and I don't expect him to score anything in the championship this season.

He'll drop out of the first team before long, then when Birmingham get promoted he'll get offloaded on loan to some crappy SPL side where he'll continue to look awful before getting released on a free and rejoining pats.

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quality forecasting!!

Sounds like a quality goal. This is from de forum.
"Guys guys guys - that was best Blues goal I've seen at home in a long while.

Fahey from a ridiculous angle - runs in from left down byeline infront of Tilton and chips keeper - looked impossible - he was almost on the line but just curled inside the far post - confidence and quality- just what we've been lacking.

He ran off with his hand cupped over his mouth as it to say 'look what I've just done!'
Set your Sky Plus for later"

:)

Delighted for him. Take note Trap!