Andy Reid(b 1982)

**Closed Account 2** · 30/09/2013, 1:51 PM

Kav was something like 4-5 years in the wilderness before Brian Kerr played him in Basel.

**paul_oshea** · 30/09/2013, 2:00 PM

"What are ye? You're a ******!"

And that man is now managing basel.

**Closed Account 2** · 30/09/2013, 2:17 PM

And the other one is managing Carlisle, 100% record.

**paul_oshea** · 30/09/2013, 2:38 PM

I was just going to ask what he is doing. Still Carlisle are no Basel.

**shakermaker1982** · 30/09/2013, 3:28 PM

Delighted for Reidy.

Has been excellent for Forest & good to have a midfield player who can pass a football without having a nervous breakdown.

**Bungle** · 30/09/2013, 4:00 PM

Delighted for Reidy. He always reminds me of a street footballer.

**ChrisRed** · 30/09/2013, 7:59 PM

Originally Posted by Yard of Pace

If he does play, would this be the longest time a player has been absent from the team and then returned?

Didn't Wes Hoolahan go about 6 years from original call up to debut....

**Crosby87** · 30/09/2013, 10:28 PM

Noel, I promise. I will leave me guitar at home.

**Stuttgart88** · 01/10/2013, 7:10 AM

Originally Posted by ChrisRed

Didn't Wes Hoolahan go about 6 years from original call up to debut....

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?

**ger121** · 01/10/2013, 7:24 PM

Scored again tonight. He's certainly in fine form.

**tetsujin1979** · 02/10/2013, 2:58 PM

goal from last night (with other highlights)

**Serb** · 02/10/2013, 4:12 PM

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?

**Grafter** · 06/10/2013, 8:37 PM

Of course a former Faroes player as well lol

**Grafter** · 06/10/2013, 8:47 PM

Andy remembers The Thundercats fondly....

**Grafter** · 06/10/2013, 8:51 PM

Andy picks his best ever Irish eleven!

**Yard of Pace** · 07/10/2013, 7:11 AM

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.

**CraftyToePoke** · 07/10/2013, 3:25 PM

Originally Posted by Yard of Pace

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.

**Grafter** · 07/10/2013, 7:08 PM

Originally Posted by Yard of Pace

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.

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...

Deserves to play on Friday though on form....

**Stuttgart88** · 07/10/2013, 7:35 PM

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.

**Fixer82** · 07/10/2013, 8:49 PM

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