Ireland's next superstar

**cheifo** · 30/04/2006, 4:54 PM

In fairness he does seem a bit special.

**Qwerty** · 30/04/2006, 5:32 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

If you alter the question to superstar by Irish standards, a first choice top notch player for our team like Stapleton or Robbie Keane then doesn't it look like Kevin Doyle is most likely to emerge.
Doyle has had a meteoric rise similar to what Robbie had with Wolves
His star is still rising, will play premier next season.
Most crucially hasn't been cursed with the next Brady comparison.
He is very confident, a goal scorer, one whoose manager values him the most from the forward line.
If Reading did not make it to the epl you could imagine there would be quite a few clubs sniffing around.

He has had a great season and has surprised everyone including himself, however there is a big gap in class between Premiership and Championship levels and he will need to take his game to a much higher level. The Chanmpionship was prett ****-poor this season.

Clinton was banging them in for fun at Palace but didn't have the same success at St Andrews, his form has a slipped a lot but he still scored 13 for Palace this season in a quiet season for him. He only scored 16 times in 97 appearances for Birmingham.

At Palace he scored 13 in 43 appearances this season and 43 in 129 in his last stint at Palace.

**eirebhoy** · 03/05/2006, 7:12 PM

I'm just watching McGeady atm and there is absolutely no doubt he is going to be a truely excellent player. There are so many doubters that I was doubting my own opinion but the lad is class. He's at the heart of everything so far. He's playing on the right but is drifting inside a lot as he has Petrov, Keane, Pearson and Thompson also in midfield to cover.

**TheJamaicanP.M.** · 03/05/2006, 8:03 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

I'm just watching McGeady atm and there is absolutely no doubt he is going to be a truely excellent player. There are so many doubters that I was doubting my own opinion but the lad is class. He's at the heart of everything so far. He's playing on the right but is drifting inside a lot as he has Petrov, Keane, Pearson and Thompson also in midfield to cover.

That's great to hear and interesting from Ireland's point of view. The right side of midfield has been a problem in recent years and it would be great if McGeady can play himself into that position.

**princeofoslo** · 04/05/2006, 9:57 AM

You definitly know more about the SPL eirebhoy so hopefully your right but I mean if he has not established himself as a first team player by next christmas he can give up the ghost and be on his way to Hibernian. Right now he is no further forward in his football career than wilo flood , wes hoolihan or Mark Yeates

When scottish football teams regulary do well in champions league then you can say the standard of these players keeping him out of the team is high.

Even crappy Rosenburg have done better than scottish teams in Europe
And there are none of those norwegian players on that side who would get a game for Ireland

**eirebhoy** · 04/05/2006, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by princeofoslo

When scottish football teams regulary do well in champions league then you can say the standard of these players keeping him out of the team is high.

You'll have to wait until next season as Nakamura and Maloney have never played in the champions league. If McGeady turned out to be as good as either of those players he'd be one of Ireland's key players. It's not hard to judge a good player in the SPL, no more than it is in the premiership.

Last season was his first season in the first team squad. he cemented his place in the team. He has been injured for half of this season. Give him until the end of next season and if he's not playing regularly I'd want him out of Celtic for his own good. I doubt he won't have got back into the team by then. I'd be more worried about Duff than McGeady atm.

Right now he is no further forward in his football career than wilo flood , wes hoolihan or Mark Yeates

Well he is at least a year younger than Yeates and Flood and has played 70 times for Celtic. No matter how well McGeady plays in Scotland most people won't notice unless you watch the SPL regularly. Most Irish people wouldn't know how good Maloney is. Most Irish people didn't even know who Leo Messi was before he played against Chelsea.

**Stuttgart88** · 04/05/2006, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by princeofoslo

You definitly know more about the SPL eirebhoy so hopefully your right but I mean if he has not established himself as a first team player by next christmas he can give up the ghost and be on his way to Hibernian. Right now he is no further forward in his football career than wilo flood , wes hoolihan or Mark Yeates

When scottish football teams regulary do well in champions league then you can say the standard of these players keeping him out of the team is high.

Even crappy Rosenburg have done better than scottish teams in Europe
And there are none of those norwegian players on that side who would get a game for Ireland

McGeady's best ever game - in my opinion anyway -was in the CL, against AC Milan. And I don't think you can say that Scottish teams playing well in the CL is a prerequisite for a player to be deemed good. McGeady is a very talented player who blows hot & cold. Injury has disrupted his season which can happen to anyone. As eirebhoy correctly points out, his final ball is poor. He also takes the ball standing still too often for my liking. His form for our U21s has been erratic too - brilliant 12-15 months ago, totally ordinary (at best) in recent U21 games.

I don't have Setanta so I haven't seen a Celtic game since January so maybe my opinion needs refining but he was out for most of the subsequent time anyway.

However, I've already seen enough of him to think that he's still a tremendous prospect but he's got to work hard on his weaknesses.

**livehead1** · 04/05/2006, 1:15 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

McGeady's best ever game - in my opinion anyway -was in the CL, against AC Milan. And I don't think you can say that Scottish teams playing well in the CL is a prerequisite for a player to be deemed good. McGeady is a very talented player who blows hot & cold. Injury has disrupted his season which can happen to anyone. As eirebhoy correctly points out, his final ball is poor. He also takes the ball standing still too often for my liking. His form for our U21s has been erratic too - brilliant 12-15 months ago, totally ordinary (at best) in recent U21 games.

I don't have Setanta so I haven't seen a Celtic game since January so maybe my opinion needs refining but he was out for most of the subsequent time anyway.

However, I've already seen enough of him to think that he's still a tremendous prospect but he's got to work hard on his weaknesses.

nesta commented after the game that mcgeady had everything to be a world class player.

**Qwerty** · 04/05/2006, 11:10 PM

He played with the fearlessness of youth that night, very often players like McGeady loose that self belief as they grow older, he has a long way to go but give him time, he is still very young and parsing his performances game by game isn't of any value. Overall he has had a decent season for Celtic, let's wait and see what next season brings......

**Plastic Paddy** · 05/05/2006, 5:50 AM

Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

The difference here is that Adam Rooney is 18 and Irish and . . . er . . . Clinton has neither Irishness or age going for him.

So that's an apparition we've been watching play for Ireland then.

Clinton is an established Irish international who just happens to come from Tooting rather than Tipperary. Get over it.

PP

**livehead1** · 08/05/2006, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

The difference here is that Adam Rooney is 18 and Irish and . . . er . . . Clinton has neither Irishness or age going for him.

what an idiotic and offensive comment

**Irish_Praha** · 08/05/2006, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by totalfootball

Article about Adam Rooney here.
�There�s no question of the exposure going to his head,� Blake says, �he�s a completely down-to-earth young man, the type of guy you�d be proud to call your son.�

Funny quote