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McGeady can't cross

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Shutup eirebhoy we all know its easier to cross in the SPL....


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    He is a very good player I just feel sometimes he takes a couple of steps more than he needs two,which sometimes over complicates things.

    I have no doubt he will come good for Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Shutup eirebhoy we all know its easier to cross in the SPL....
    :D Made me laugh out loud. :)
    Dub13 wrote:
    He is a very good player I just feel sometimes he takes a couple of steps more than he needs two
    I think stuff like this, basically his intelligence, is very underrated. He's proving that football intelligence isn't something you're born with because he was a bit brainless a few years ago. Strachan is turning him into an intelligent player though and he makes the right option much more than he used to. His through balls are excellent so I don't like to see him played on the right where he tends to stay on the wing. In saying that, his left foot is almost as good as his right and I've seen him take corners with his left.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Where would you play him for Ireland?

    I insist he would be perfect playing in a 2007 Real Madrid formation with 3 men playing behind Robbie Keane, and two centre midfielders(Andy Reid and Steven Reid)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    I only see him for Ireland and the very odd Celtic game but I have noticed a marked improvement in his play over the last 18 months.Looks like Strachan is doing a good job coaching the lad.He still has a lot of work to do defensively IMO,but as you say the lad is still young.

    We will have two very exciting players in Duff and McGeady out wide,with these two playing well and maybe swapping over could give any defense a run for there money.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Yeh I agree and that's the formation Trapattoni uses.

    Reid----Reid
    --Duff---Ireland---McGeady--
    Keane

    Quality attacking line up there imo. Reid and Reid are playing deep in midfield for their clubs too so I don't think it'd be too attacking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Seriously? If he plays that we are sorted, as we manage to get all our best midfielders in the team. Seeing as Steven Reid always gets injured who would you have as his replacement, Garvan I would like but maby that leaves us way too exposed.

    **** this might become another Ireland thread.

    Once again I don't know how someone, who has no knowledge of the Bulgaria team could look at the team eirebhoy just posted and say we can't qualify for the WC.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Seriously? If he plays that we are sorted,
    Italy

    Buffon
    Panucci---Nesta---Cannavaro---Zambrotta
    Perrotta
    Zanetti
    --Camoranesi--Totti----Del Piero

    Vieri


    Benfica

    Quim
    Miguel
    Luisão----R.Rocha---D.Santos
    Petit
    Almeida
    --J.Pereira
    Geovanni
    Simão---
    Nuno Gomes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Class.....post of the year. Bring on Trappa!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭scruff321


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    Yeh I agree and that's the formation Trapattoni uses.

    Reid----Reid
    --Duff---Ireland---McGeady--
    Keane

    Quality attacking line up there imo. Reid and Reid are playing deep in midfield for their clubs too so I don't think it'd be too attacking.

    eirebhoy that looks a decent formation ever consider applying for the ireland job?:D
    yea think mcgeady is a very good player have seen a big improvement the last year,hes aman with great potential just hope he can fulfil it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Drop Keane from that front line and stick in Doyle and you are on to a winner..


    Oh yeah, McGeady can only run with the ball it seems. He can't actually kick it at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    You think Jesus? I can see your logic, but Keane is better with the ball at his feet, allowing for greater movement.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    Absolutely superb player imo.He can cross/shoot with either foot, has pace, great dribbling skills, scores, works hard, tracks back, tackles and does all of this consistently (this season).

    Can Celtic hold onto him?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    He got his 9th booking of the season today for this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUh3mox2BuA

    His only foul in the game and all. He gets treated very, very harshly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    Shutup eirebhoy we all know its easier to cross in the SPL....

    :D:D:D brilliant!

    As for celtic holding onto mcgeady, i reckon they will...theres no chance hel move to england now that Huttons down there ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,176 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Don't really watch Celtic at all but from Ireland performances he is crap except for the friendly against Brazil

    He has a LOT of convincing to do for me yet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    You think Jesus? I can see your logic, but Keane is better with the ball at his feet, allowing for greater movement.

    There is no doubting that Keane is a better all round player but I think you need a striker that is good in the air and holding play up in the type of system above. Keane could certainly play where Ireland is though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,404 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    eirebhoy wrote: »

    Does it have 'is not as good as' in the middle of it? ;)


    Translation;
    If your house is full of videos from Maradona and your favorite television program are images Messi in action, something spectacular footballer you. And that is indeed the case of Aiden McGeady, dorsal'46 'Celtic and the offensive weapon that Barça would do well to tie in the short and imminent eliminatory round of the Champions.

    En anglosajón In Anglo-Saxon

    Aiden McGeady is a version blond and imperial Diego and Leo, but - for now-without the media exposure of the cracks and azulgrana former azulgrana to which both admires.

    Scots attacker himself, who nevertheless defended the colors of Ireland, explains, "I just had three months when Maradona won the World Cup-86, but always fascinated me. Estudiándole I spent hours in the tapes that I have been piled. A I walked out doing touch with a golf ball and another tennis, I decided to try it and it is fantastic, because then you control the ball better. " What is not silent to err on the side of fanfarrón is that he has been able to give 500 taps followed with the tennis ball and 200 with golf, alternating also both feet.

    A McGeady loves "the way that Maradona had to circumvent the adversaries, as now Messi. How I love playing, his technique is much more than just watermarks. Seems to be slipping and apart from him only Ronaldinho is fully capable of do something well, "continues indicating Aiden, whose father John, the former Sheffield United, used to tell little salt and enjoy," to paraphrase the man himself, Johan Cruyff.

    McGeady has been compared with Cristiano Ronaldo (ManU) for his explosiveness and months after the raid on the scene with Celtic, in a match against Milan in Champions dating back to April 2004, a portion of the swollen dubbed him 'Aidendinho' an allusion to'10 ', Barcelona.

    From small parties combined with the team at his school, of course Catholic, with the suclub, "always playing on Saturday and Sunday, so I curtió." And now, according to its technical Gordon Strachan, a professional of physical preparation, particularly strengthening exercises torso.

    At 15 wanted to join the Celtic first team, but she said they wait a little bit, and the 16 he said 'no' to Arsenal to circumvent a 'one to one' with nostalgia Glasgow. On the other hand, went with Eire category in Sub-15, to debut with the total in 2004. Being Irish his paternal grandfather 'defected' to his native Scotland, which made him stick to defend those colors in the combined lower.

    If Messi, who because of their involvement in the Copa America enjoyed holidays, had participated in the stage of St. Andrews last summer, it would have gone to see him live. And when he emphasized that with cuts and supersonic football is not enough to succeed, and perfected his style retocó to put his incredible technique in the service of the team.

    For example last Sunday, when McGeady made a 'roulette' in the area visiting with three defenses hinder, and the wire used to the ball 'pichichi' liftándolo McDonald. A marvel of action, without nerve-Aiden do not know what pass-through and making it clear that Messi or 'Kun' are not only heirs of Diego Armando Maradona

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    He got his 9th booking of the season today for this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUh3mox2BuA

    His only foul in the game and all. He gets treated very, very harshly.
    WTF? A yellow card for that? Referee shoulda went to Specsavers, especially considering he's sponsored by them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    For all the "its easy to do it in the SPL" brigade, watch the Aberdeen V Bayern Munich game tonight in the UEFA cup. I guarantee you that nobody in the Bayern team will come even close to putting in a performance like McGeady did at the weekend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Excellent point Pighead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    oooh look, McGeady cut inside on his right foot. would never have guessed that would happen...

    in fairness he's obviously making a lot of improvements, but he's still getting an awful lot more time and space than he'd ever get at the Premiership or international levels. more intelligent defenders would obviously never let him cut inside so easy. The cross that Naka scored from would not have gotten through at a higher level either, feck it shouldn't even get through at the underage level. i just hope he gets to make the move to a better league at the right time, to stay in Scotland for much longer would stunt his development i feel, although a move now would probably be too early.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,415 ✭✭✭Racing Flat


    I bet McGeady didn't say "circumvent the adversaries";)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    oooh look, McGeady cut inside on his right foot. would never have guessed that would happen...

    in fairness he's obviously making a lot of improvements, but he's still getting an awful lot more time and space than he'd ever get at the Premiership or international levels. more intelligent defenders would obviously never let him cut inside so easy. The cross that Naka scored from would not have gotten through at a higher level either, feck it shouldn't even get through at the underage level. i just hope he gets to make the move to a better league at the right time, to stay in Scotland for much longer would stunt his development i feel, although a move now would probably be too early.

    Would ronaldo be as good in spain or italy? he gets loads of space in england and always does the same tricks and cutbacks and cuts inside very easily:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    I honestly can't believe that people are so quick to dismiss McGeady. Did any of you guys watch him against Milan? He made some world class defenders look very silly at times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    Badabing wrote: »
    Would ronaldo be as good in spain or italy? he gets loads of space in england and always does the same tricks and cutbacks and cuts inside very easily:rolleyes:
    Probably not in Italy, but I reckon he'd have just as easy a time as scoring in Spain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭cm2000


    That second assist is one of the best i've seen in a long time. 360 degree spin in between two defenders in their box and an amazing cross. incredible. hopefully he keeps up the consistency


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    oooh look, McGeady cut inside on his right foot. would never have guessed that would happen...
    I've heard quite a few people make this point. Do they make the same point about Messi cutting in on his left all the time? McGeady's not a winger. And he's one of the most accomplished players with either foot playing the game atm.
    in fairness he's obviously making a lot of improvements, but he's still getting an awful lot more time and space than he'd ever get at the Premiership or international levels.
    I don't agree at all. I think he'd get a lot more space playing for Ireland. Obviously he's coming up against better players though. Against teams in the CL he'd get more space, bar Milan who are the masters of marking.

    Bayern managed a 2-2 draw against Aberdeen tonight btw. ;)

    Also, the thing with McGeady is because he's being double marked in Scotland he has to learn how to play in really tight pressurised spaces. He's not going to be taking players on for the rest of his career. He's turning into a playmaker. He'll always be a marked man though. Therefore, learning to play under such tight marking is probably more important than playing against top class defenders. Either way Celtic will probably get a bid for him in a year or so that they can't refuse. There's no better league for a player of his type to learn his trade though. I've no doubt the likes of Pirlo and Riquelme would struggle to get to grips with the SPL.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    McGeady is up and down, but he's still young. Sometimes he's great, sometimes he's not. Ultimately though, he has to move on. He needs to play consistantly against top defenders, week in week out, if he is really going to push onto that next level.

    Maloney ripped it up in the SPL, but is only now starting to find his feet in the premiership. IMO he moved too late. If McGeady moves now, he can continue to be developing, but in a better league. Sunderland in the summer wouldn't be the worst idea in the world I think, but maybe O'Neill would take a chance on him? Somebody in mid-table/challenging for UEFA would give him a bit of freedom to develop naturally


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