Aiden McGeady M Ayr Utd b.1986

[Fixer82]

He certainly proved the manager wrong for dropping him/telling him he was no longer wanted

[DeLorean]

Beautiful defence splitting pass to give Sunderland the lead at Wembley.

[Trequartista20]

For all that I favour focusing on youth, Mcgeady is one of the very few potential match-winners available to us.

Should this sort of form really be ignored?

[liamoo11]

For all that I favour focusing on youth, Mcgeady is one of the very few potential match-winners available to us.

Should this sort of form really be ignored?

Agree. I wouldn't take him to Serbia just have him fresh for Luxembourg to play as a 10 and give us some chance at creativity. Unfortunately we dont have any player like him coming through from what I have seen with crowley been the closest.

[Bielsa´s irish]

For all that I favour focusing on youth, Mcgeady is one of the very few potential match-winners available to us.

Should this sort of form really be ignored?

No, we need him on one last campaign as a super sub.

[John83]

Kenny has to be looking at that and thinking about how he'd use him anyway. There are not too many players in contention for the squad with that kind of a pass in them.

[DeLorean]

It really was the one moment of quality they speak of that decided the match too, a fairly turgid affair.

[DeLorean]

Agree. I wouldn't take him to Serbia just have him fresh for Luxembourg to play as a 10 and give us some chance at creativity. Unfortunately we dont have any player like him coming through from what I have seen with crowley been the closest.

I'd like to have him as an option for Serbia but can see your thinking.

[Bottle of Tonic]

Can't understand how he's been frozen out of the Ireland set up in recent times. One of the few players of his style we've ever had. He's a creator and a threat and creating and scoring goals is our weakest point. He should have been playing in the hole for Ireland, or on the side of a front 3, for the last 10 years. He was wasted, but let's give him a final 1 or 2 years in an effective formation.

Tons of caps as well. Experience badly needed in the squad.

[nigel-harps1954]

Who gets dropped for him? Hourihane, Hendrick, Knight and Browne are just four off the top of the head starting at a higher level.

Let's face it, he's only an option in the middle of the field now, and doesn't have the legs to keep up with the style SK has adopted with Ireland.

[seanfhear]

Can't understand how he's been frozen out of the Ireland set up in recent times. One of the few players of his style we've ever had. He's a creator and a threat and creating and scoring goals is our weakest point. He should have been playing in the hole for Ireland, or on the side of a front 3, for the last 10 years. He was wasted, but let's give him a final 1 or 2 years in an effective formation.

Tons of caps as well. Experience badly needed in the squad.

How much did he ever produce for Ireland given all the opportunities he had ? he is now playing at a much lower level. He has alway been a player that flatters to deceive == For us anyway.

[DeLorean]

Who gets dropped for him? Hourihane, Hendrick, Knight and Browne are just four off the top of the head starting at a higher level.

Let's face it, he's only an option in the middle of the field now, and doesn't have the legs to keep up with the style SK has adopted with Ireland.

It's more a question of who gets dropped from the squad and you don't need to worry about that, there's so many injured he can come in pretty seamlessly. The four you mention don't really need to worry, he plays a different position, a position where we're seriously blunt, and compounded by McGoldrick's retirement.

The style SK has adopted has yielded one goal in eight games, I wouldn't be too afraid of pushing the boat out on something slightly different.

[liamoo11]

Who gets dropped for him? Hourihane, Hendrick, Knight and Browne are just four off the top of the head starting at a higher level.

Let's face it, he's only an option in the middle of the field now, and doesn't have the legs to keep up with the style SK has adopted with Ireland.

I think mcgeady would only play in games where you need to win like Luxembourg not in away games like Serbia or Portugal where you will have no e of the ball and need a three man midfield who are athletes or wide players who can work back all day which mcgeady certainly isn't st this stage. . We have plenty of artisans but no artists

[DeLorean]

I think mcgeady would only play in games where you need to win like Luxembourg not in away games like Serbia or Portugal where you will have no e of the ball and need a three man midfield who are athletes or wide players who can work back all day which mcgeady certainly isn't st this stage. . We have plenty of artisans but no artists

I hear that but I also think of the McGeady whose composure on the sideline led to the equaliser in Gelsenkirchen and turning into space led to the winner in Lille. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of quality, which we generally and otherwise lack. Seriously, who'd actually be a better option if chasing a goal in Belgrade... Curtis... Collins... etc?

[Fixer82]

I hear that but I also think of the McGeady whose composure on the sideline led to the equaliser in Gelsenkirchen and turning into space led to the winner in Lille. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of quality, which we generally and otherwise lack. Seriously, who'd actually be a better option if chasing a goal in Belgrade... Curtis... Collins... etc?

Absolutely. He was excellent in that Gelsenkirchen game and has it in his locker to take the ball forward at speed. Maybe he should've always been a no.10 instead of a winger. Cos his crossing was always a let-down

[Eminence Grise]

McGeady scored five goals for Ireland. One every 19 games. To see him now as some kind of potential saviour is rose-tinted glasses stuff, because he rarely was in the past. Who was it said a few posts up that he flattered to deceive for us? Lots of ability and flashes of guile but too little end product - finishing or crossing. Maybe he should have become a ten six or seven years ago and his career might have had a late flourish, but two bald facts stand out – he last played top flight football six seasons ago when he should have been in his absolute prime, and now he’s three weeks shy of his 35^th birthday having spent his last three seasons in the third tier, where any player with his experience at international and Champions League level should look like a thoroughbred in a paddock of pit ponies. But it doesn’t follow that he’d look like a thoroughbred in more exalted company and I think he's well past being able to offer what we need.

[Bottle of Tonic]

How much did he ever produce for Ireland given all the opportunities he had ? he is now playing at a much lower level. He has alway been a player that flatters to deceive == For us anyway.

I think he was unfortunate to play a lot of his career under the likes of Strachan, Trap and O'Neill. Fairly rigid 442 set ups. Put the tricky wee guy out wide. His was a thankless task most of the time. Receiving the ball static with his arse on the side line and expected to beat 2 or 3 men and create a chance. He wasn't Messi and its no wonder he's ended up with the flatter to deceive label. Under different management or perhaps if he was coming through ten years later I think his talents would have been better utilised in more fluid or imaginative set ups.

I think he should be a Wes type player for us for a couple of years and should have been so for the last few as well. League 1 or not. We've no one else.

[Bottle of Tonic]

Edit to the above.

I didn't realise he was nearly 35. Thought 33. Ah well. That horse has long bolted anyway.

[DeLorean]

McGeady scored five goals for Ireland. One every 19 games. To see him now as some kind of potential saviour is rose-tinted glasses stuff, because he rarely was in the past. Who was it said a few posts up that he flattered to deceive for us? Lots of ability and flashes of guile but too little end product - finishing or crossing. Maybe he should have become a ten six or seven years ago and his career might have had a late flourish, but two bald facts stand out – he last played top flight football six seasons ago when he should have been in his absolute prime, and now he’s three weeks shy of his 35^th birthday having spent his last three seasons in the third tier, where any player with his experience at international and Champions League level should look like a thoroughbred in a paddock of pit ponies. But it doesn’t follow that he’d look like a thoroughbred in more exalted company and I think he's well past what being able to offer what we need.

You make it sound like what we need is what we have.

[Eminence Grise]

What we need is a bloody miracle!!!