James McCarthy M Celtic b.1990

**Junior** · 23/05/2013, 10:03 PM

? key broken as well. Also ,er, comma combo. In fact just trash the laptop Ardee you'd be better off, well we all would be in truth.

Criminal.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 24/05/2013, 8:23 AM

That reads even worse than one of my posts...

You out on Sunday?

**Junior** · 24/05/2013, 8:41 AM

Nope, off on hols so it will be the wireless for me!! Will PM (actually your inbox is full)

**paul_oshea** · 31/05/2013, 5:34 PM

I can see many reusing this phrase "McCarthy always suggests that time is on his side." Thats an eloquent way of putting it. I like it.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-29309869.html

**BonnieShels** · 31/05/2013, 9:17 PM

I think it's been a very positive week for all concerned.

He's the fulcrum of this side and clearly the next captain.

**gastric** · 04/06/2013, 5:00 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I think it's been a very positive week for all concerned.

He's the fulcrum of this side and clearly the next captain.

Not sure if this supposed article about Trap is questioning McCarthy's commitment, but it certainly doesn't come across as completely positive. Trap's trap does not always help with team morale IMO!

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...pple-1.1416075

**BonnieShels** · 04/06/2013, 10:13 AM

He's starting to annoy me with these jibes and the constant reference to us not having "great players". Gah.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 04/06/2013, 10:22 AM

Why?

Because we don't currently.

**Stuttgart88** · 04/06/2013, 10:23 AM

His press conference last week annoyed me. "We have no Messi or Ronaldo but we have our attitude and seestem". Defeatist twaddle - especially in advance of Georgia and Faroes - and frankly it highlights his mistrust of anyone we have available who can actually play football.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 04/06/2013, 10:27 AM

C'mon though. Does anyone actually take these pronouncements seriously?

He's just a silly old man letting off steam...

**gastric** · 04/06/2013, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

C'mon though. Does anyone actually take these pronouncements seriously?

He's just a silly old man letting off steam...

True, but he also has the potential to alienate players - ask Darron!

**ArdeeBhoy** · 04/06/2013, 11:15 AM

Tbf, Gibson and Trapp were almost as bad as each other, on this one.

But ultimately Trapp should know better. Which is why I tend to dismiss his ramblings...

**Crosby87** · 04/06/2013, 11:31 AM

What are the odds he doesn't come to the states to play spain? That article made me nervous. It would start the whole thing up again....good grief.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 04/06/2013, 11:42 AM

Who cares?

We're gonna get humped anyway. In a fixture even more pointless than Georgia.

**BonnieShels** · 04/06/2013, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

C'mon though. Does anyone actually take these pronouncements seriously?

He's just a silly old man letting off steam...

Whilst I wouldn't be one for taking them seriously it feels like a death by a thousand cuts. If you keep telling players they're not great, and I'm not saying that we do have great players, then we will never have them as we will have a bunch of underconfident mediocre players.

We need positivity not negativity.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 04/06/2013, 12:09 PM

A fair point about having a positive atmosphere. But Trap's not going to be there for ever...
Plus I'm sure the average EPL player would be far more bothered about how they're seen at club level?

**geysir** · 04/06/2013, 1:29 PM

Maybe James need this game in the US like a hole in the head.
I don't mind Trap going on about pride, duty and commitment. On first appearance it looks he adds an implication that James might be looking for an escape, based on a "little bit of pain" and comparing the wimps of today with the invincible gladiators of the past, like himself and Marco, who were lauded by emperors.

**jbyrne** · 04/06/2013, 2:00 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

Maybe James need this game in the US like a hole in the head.
I don't mind Trap going on about pride, duty and commitment. On first appearance it looks he adds an implication that James might be looking for an escape, based on a "little bit of pain" and comparing the wimps of today with the invincible gladiators of the past, like himself and Marco, who were lauded by emperors.

he wants his best players for the match. yes, his way of putting this accross it is a bit waffly but players and their feelings shouldnt be mollycoddled so much all the time