Andy Reid(b 1982)

**Yard of Pace** · 23/09/2013, 3:33 PM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

If he's in the squad for Germany will he have to do another initiation song given it's been so long since he last played for us?

He might go for this if so.

I can't listen to that in work but I hope it's Positively 4th Street

**geysir** · 23/09/2013, 4:02 PM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

If he's in the squad for Germany will he have to do another initiation song given it's been so long since he last played for us?

He might go for this if so.

No way, that's a culchie rock band.

**tricky_colour** · 24/09/2013, 4:28 AM

Originally Posted by geysir

Andy celebrates his centenary foot.ie page with a late equaliser for Forest.
What can we say in praise about this player that hasn't already been said?

48 passes per game 83.1% successful with 3.1 key passes per game?

**Stuttgart88** · 24/09/2013, 6:48 AM

16.9 per cent of passes go astray. One of them could lead to a goal. Liverpool gave a goal away in a match recently and they passed the ball a few times.

**geysir** · 24/09/2013, 11:03 AM

Indeed,
but if a 17% rate of misplaced passes for an Irish midfield player is not good enough, then I must be missing something

Judging by reports, most every Andy Reid pass is described glowingly as clever, graceful, etc
Most every Andy Reid shot is described as stunning, a thumper.
All Andy need to do for us in addition, is do a bit of covering now and again.

McClean can shoot but he doesn't manage it, McGeady can shoot but mostly weakly.
Only Brady atm can take his shot.

**tricky_colour** · 24/09/2013, 4:52 PM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

16.9 per cent of passes go astray. One of them could lead to a goal. Liverpool gave a goal away in a match recently and they passed the ball a few times.

But he is an attacking midfielder, Whelan has a higher pass success in his only game but he only made 16 passes.
Andy also has 4 goals and 3 assists.
I would imagine most of the passes that go stray are attacking passes in the final third, not routine passes in the first third.

He's the top rated Championship player, what more does he have to do?

**geysir** · 24/09/2013, 5:19 PM

Originally Posted by tricky_colour

But he is an attacking midfielder, Whelan has a higher pass success in his only game but he only made 16 passes.
Andy also has 4 goals and 3 assists.
I would imagine most of the passes that go stray are attacking passes in the final third, not routine passes in the first third.

He's the top rated Championship player, what more does he have to do?

I'm almost 100% sure that Stutts was just taking the píss and not entirely taking it from you,
although you are soft target, Tricky.

**tricky_colour** · 24/09/2013, 5:26 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

I'm almost 100% sure that Stutts was just taking the píss and not entirely taking it from you,
although you are soft target, Tricky.

You're right, I am pretty thick.

**tricky_colour** · 24/09/2013, 5:41 PM

Robbie Brady is also in the Premiership top 100 players at no 76

1.4 key passes 32.2 average passes a game 82.6 %success

Andy beats all his stats but then Robbies is at the bottom end of a better league.

So both have a case for a starting place, and of course we have Aiden who is first choice presumably.

We seems to produce enough good left wingers to form a new political party.

**Charlie Darwin** · 28/09/2013, 2:36 PM

Another assist for Andy Reid, setting up Jack Hobbs for the only goal in the Forest-Derby derby. Richard Keogh was harshly sent off in the same game.

**Closed Account 2** · 28/09/2013, 3:14 PM

Yeah Keogh was unlucky, I think he got a nick on the ball. Reid had a great chance, put through in the 94th min but didn't quite have the legs, was closed down and rushed the shot.

**Charlie Darwin** · 28/09/2013, 10:35 PM

Just watching Forest's goal against Derby today... how many goals have we scored from set-pieces in this campaign? I can remember Keogh's v Germany and Walters' v Austria, but overall we haven't offered half the threat that we did when Duff, Lawrence and Hunt were in the team. I remember in the first Trap campaign in particular, it seemed like any time we got a corner or free kick there was a real sense we could sneak one. I wonder if somebody like Reid, in spite of his lack of athleticism, would bring that element back into our game. With players like Dunne and Clark around we surely have players who can dominate in the opposition penalty box.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 29/09/2013, 12:48 AM

Well, yeah.

He should play against the Kazakhs...

**Charlie Darwin** · 29/09/2013, 1:02 AM

Not Germany?

**ArdeeBhoy** · 29/09/2013, 9:40 AM

Give him a chance!

**Yard of Pace** · 29/09/2013, 11:59 AM

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

**Fixer82** · 30/09/2013, 12:37 AM

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?

interesting question

**tricky_colour** · 30/09/2013, 1:21 AM

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?

Depends if Stephen Ireland gets back before him!!

**Yard of Pace** · 30/09/2013, 1:20 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?

Come on folks, any suggestions?

I find it hard to imagine him not playing a part now he's been called up. I've watched all Notts Forest highlights this season and he's simply a beautiful footballer. He's also svelte, fit and in the mood for goals.