James McClean M Wrexham b.1989

**paul_oshea** · 25/10/2012, 2:59 PM

He should be concentrating on his game only and nothing else, especially now there is a lull/dip in his performances.

**Charlie Darwin** · 25/10/2012, 3:04 PM

Has his game dipped or is he just playing in an uninspired team? Sunderland's modus operandi is basically to defend in numbers and then give it to Fletcher.

**SwanVsDalton** · 25/10/2012, 3:09 PM

McClean and Ferry are BFF's - McClean took him to the Euros and all over. I think there's a measure of mild homesickness involved as well (not to mention a big possibility of Eugene speaking with his tongue firmly in cheek).

**Charlie Darwin** · 25/10/2012, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton

McClean and Ferry are BFF's - McClean took him to the Euros and all over. I think there's a measure of mild homesickness involved as well (not to mention a big possibility of Eugene speaking with his tongue firmly in cheek).

4 Lyfe?

**paul_oshea** · 25/10/2012, 3:27 PM

4Ever is greater than 4life, in death - as in life...

**SwanVsDalton** · 26/10/2012, 12:53 AM

4eva, 4lyfe, 4keeps - 4defs.

**tetsujin1979** · 26/10/2012, 7:37 AM

4reals?

**the bear** · 26/10/2012, 8:23 AM

This is a low point even on a James McClean thread

**ArdeeBhoy** · 26/10/2012, 8:05 PM

I was going to say FFS.

**DannyInvincible** · 27/10/2012, 2:10 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

I was going to say FFS.

4FS, surely?

**brine3** · 27/10/2012, 5:57 PM

He's in the papers having a whinge again about Euro 2012. Let's see, he's a left-winger. Did he expect to be playing ahead of Duff?

He's starting to remind me of Stephen Ireland.

**DannyInvincible** · 27/10/2012, 6:06 PM

Any quotes?

**dong** · 27/10/2012, 6:27 PM

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soc...325814764.html

**ArdeeBhoy** · 27/10/2012, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by brine3

He's in the papers having a whinge again about Euro 2012. Let's see, he's a left-winger. Did he expect to be playing ahead of Duff?

He could certainly have been used more...

**geysir** · 28/10/2012, 6:39 AM

He has set an impossibly high standard for himself, not on a football level but to "prove the Ireland manager wrong".

**SkStu** · 28/10/2012, 7:24 AM

He really needs to just shut up and apply himself for a season or so. He's a player with potential who needs to work really hard to deliver on it so his best bet is to keep quiet and knuckle down...

**DannyInvincible** · 28/10/2012, 8:48 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

He really needs to just shut up and apply himself for a season or so. He's a player with potential who needs to work really hard to deliver on it so his best bet is to keep quiet and knuckle down...

To be fair to him, that's pretty much what he admitted himself:

Originally Posted by McClean

The whole Ireland thing is out in the public. It's really knocked my confidence. I thought I had a good season but I still couldn't get in the team. There's no point sitting here and sulking about it. I just have to work hard, prove people wrong and that's the attitude I have to take.

**dong** · 28/10/2012, 10:17 AM

Yes but while having another moan about it in the same breath. Footballers these days are expert at this type of thing. Take Micah Richards recent whingefest:

‘It’s something we have not worked on a lot. That’s twice we have gone to a back five and conceded but the manager likes it. If we want to do well with it we are going to have to work on it.’

**DannyInvincible** · 28/10/2012, 1:51 PM

Footballers possessing opinions isn't something new. A football-saturated media dedicated to providing conveyor belt news is what ensures that their opinions are now presented on a much greater scale for public critique than they might have been in previous times. McClean didn't publish the comments himself and was probably designated with press duties before Sunderland's last game, or perhaps he was asked in a press conference or by a Northern Echo reporter with special access to the club's players.