Aiden McGeady

[Billsthoughts]

He is a hot prospect Bill and not he was a hot prospect.

when he declared for Ireland.

[eirebhoy]

Good to see McGeady smiling and having a laugh as he always seems a bit depressed.

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[eirebhoy]

Zambrotta and Sylvinho the 2 full backs for Barca tonight. Puyol back at centre half. Celtic are playing 4-5-1 so McGeady might play in a central role.

[irishfan86]

Good to see McGeady smiling and having a laugh as he always seems a bit depressed.

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All of their faces look like something out of Barney (the dinosaur).

[eirebhoy]

He's having to play very deep tonight and every time he gets the ball there's literally 3 players on him. Good experience for him anyway.

[paul_oshea]

this game is exactly what im talking about, mcgeady needs to be showing for the ball coming down to pick the ball up and relieve the defence....ive only seen nakamura do anything like that, mcgeady should be trying to get into this big time.

[paul_oshea]

ya they are too smiley alright

[eirebhoy]

Naka had the same problem in the first leg though. He's having to cover for the full back for most of the game.

[paul_oshea]

mcgeady tried the kevin kilbane special there and looked like a flute.

[paul_oshea]

he is coming into it more now, but constantly flagged by 2 alright, celtic need to be smarter, great cross there though. his crossing has definitely improved since the games last autumn

[paul_oshea]

in this sorta game samaras should have been playing way earlier.

[cavan_fan]

Are Barcelona as dominant as they were in Glasgow? (Am watching Milan-Arsenal) so looking for updates!

[paul_oshea]

yes they are, its mad to think that in the last 16 of the CL there would be such a mismatch in clubs. Celtic are coming back in but thats only cos barca know they have it won and taken the foot off plus they have looked like scoring everytime they have gone forward.

[cavan_fan]

yes they are, its mad to think that in the last 16 of the CL there would be such a mismatch in clubs. Celtic are coming back in but thats only cos barca know they have it won and taken the foot off plus they have looked like scoring everytime they have gone forward.

It says a lot about one of the teams, I guess future rounds will tell us whether Barcelona are a great team or Celtic are a team who have grossly overachieved

[eirebhoy]

Barca had loads of chances but it was nowhere near as one sided a game as the first leg was. Hartley and Naka misplaced about 3 passes between them out of about 60. McGeady did well enough. Brown good in patches. Off the ball Celtic were terrible as usual but on the ball they looked much, much better so I'm happy enough.

[geysir]

Barca had loads of chances but it was nowhere near as one sided a game as the first leg was. Hartley and Naka misplaced about 3 passes between them out of about 60.

Then it must have been Hartley who missed the 3, I thought Naka had a perfect score - was not dispossessed once, 100% pass success and not one tackle made.

[ramsfan]

still has lots to prove , doing well in scotland is not much he is a big fish in a small pond so to speak, i think working with trapatoni and brady will help his career no end, i feel if he came to england at mo he would end up in the liam miller class . a good prospect but still needs to be more consistent in europe and for ireland imo

[paul_oshea]

ya thats a very good assessment ramsfan.

[BigmanCas]

still has lots to prove , doing well in scotland is not much he is a big fish in a small pond so to speak, i think working with trapatoni and brady will help his career no end, i feel if he came to england at mo he would end up in the liam miller class . a good prospect but still needs to be more consistent in europe and for ireland imo

Liam Miller can't even trap a ball? - Mc Geady is in a different class. How anyone can say that it would be better for him to remain at Celtic is bonkers. Whoever says this generally harps back to Miller/Stokes. Maloney and Petrov doing good things at Villa at the moment - why can't Mc Geady. I have no doubt that he is more than capable of taking the premiership by storm. He does not have to remain in the SPL for another two/three years to do this - he could do it yesterday.

[Billsthoughts]

Liam Miller can't even trap a ball? - Mc Geady is in a different class. How anyone can say that it would be better for him to remain at Celtic is bonkers. Whoever says this generally harps back to Miller/Stokes. Maloney and Petrov doing good things at Villa at the moment - why can't Mc Geady. I have no doubt that he is more than capable of taking the premiership by storm. He does not have to remain in the SPL for another two/three years to do this - he could do it yesterday.

Think he was making the comparison in terms of moving to the premiership too early and how it had a negative affect on Millers career. Dont think he was saying the two players were similar ability.