McGeady

agree with you there

 

True mate,so true,so many people on here dont know how good a player we got, Teams down here are willing to pay £10 mill for him with Brum and Spurs leading the way.

 

Dribbing: Excellent. No doubt

Shooting: Terrible (Vast majority of shots stay on the ground with little power) His shooting Great but it isn't terrible, He has scored some really good goals in his time so it's not great but I think branding it terrible is over doing it.

Crossing: Below average:??? Who are you baseing this comparison on. because I don't know too many footballers who can turn and hit a striker bang on the head evertime he gets to the by-line. His crossing isn't below average based on most other wing men IMO.

Passing: Average: Fair enough but he can pick a decent ball now and again.

Decision making: Terrible: I don't get it? Did you hear the co-commentator say that after he passed instead of shooting last night and now all of a sudden everyone is saying his decision making is terrible.

TBH I don't get how people can say he's worth 5 million and still want rid of him, how many more of our players can you say that about?

Without him what's the attraction to watching us (from a footballing prespective) Poor poor judgement by some fans.

 

Plus, he is our most creative player so if his creativity is crap, what does that say about the rest of the squad?

 

Dribbing: Excellent. No doubt, .................... I'd say its good, as good as McCourt at one on one's not a chance.

Shooting: Terrible (Vast majority of shots stay on the ground with little power) His shooting Great but it isn't terrible, He has scored some really good goals in his time so it's not great but I think branding it terrible is over doing it. ....... His shooting is possibly the worst i've seen for a player earning more than 20k

Crossing: Below average:??? Who are you baseing this comparison on. because I don't know too many footballers who can turn and hit a striker bang on the head evertime he gets to the by-line. His crossing isn't below average based on most other wing men IMO............Very rarely picks out a player with his crosses, McGeady could have 10 crosses and have 1 good one.

Passing: Average: Fair enough but he can pick a decent ball now and again. ............... In general its shocking aswell.

Decision making: Terrible: I don't get it? Did you hear the co-commentator say that after he passed instead of shooting last night and now all of a sudden everyone is saying his decision making is terrible.................. His decision making has always been his poorest quality, you were taught as a kid never run with you head down and thats exactly what he does. Doesnt ever look up and play the ball at the right time or make a run at the right time. Its all about McGeady and thats all that matters to him

TBH I don't get how people can say he's worth 5 million and still want rid of him, how many more of our players can you say that about?

Without him what's the attraction to watching us (from a footballing prespective) Poor poor judgement by some fans.[/QUOTE]

 

Ha Ha Ha Brillaint mate.... :icon_mrgreen:

Lets hope I'm waiting on you then dude

 

Im really torn with McGeady, this year has been a huge dissapointment for him, a part of me thinks his time with Celtic is completely up but another part of me thinks that selling McGeady will be a bad move. People are spot on when they say he runs with his head down and never looks up to look for a pass. When he loses the ball he acts like a little kid, moaning instead of busting his gut to win it back. I feel that McGeady is only happy when he is the centre of attention and skinning full backs, not a very good team player.

Would love to see him do a bit of dirty work and track back and help his full backs. The question is who will try and sign him? If Birmingham were interested and watched the County game they might be having second thoughts. If a offer came in of 8m I would sell, anything below I would think very seriously, does McGeady deserve one finall season to prove what he's made of? The talent is certainly there, up to him to get his head down and improve his game (crossing, shooting)

 

I agree with those posts who note Aidan has a flawed game in many ways but I do not understand the timing of this thread. Aidan had a good game v well, one of his best in ages.

 

And do you think 6 goals in a season is good enough for an attacking midfielder? Maloney only played till October and he scored 4 goals, oh and none of them were penalties...

You have to be joking, I can't remember the last time he beat the first man with a cross... That is what probably frustrates me the most with his crossing, if he gets 10 chances to cross in 1 game then probably about 6 of them won't beat the first defender!

Put it this way mate, if he had a final ball, would he be at Celtic?? I think not.

 

Quality Post

Add goals to that!

 

You have pretty much hit the nail on the head here in my opinion. Agree with all of your points. Great minds and all that...

 

McGeady is a very important outlet for us in Europe - when we've got 9/10 men behind the ball and holding onto something, we can find McGeady who will take the ball upfield and keep a hold of it. His work-rate is immense.

Crossing, shooting and passing are average but made worse by his poor decision making. He is very greedy, so when he is on fire, because he's greedy he looks even better.

But when he's on a poor run of form his greediness highlights his poor decision making.

He has become to important to our play over the past few years. I suspect if our team had less emphasis on him and he was given more space then he'd be a more successful player for us. I guess that's how he always looked good with Naka or Maloney on the other wing.

But with Kamara/Samaras/Robson on the other side? We begin to look very one-dimensional and lop-sided and start depending on McGeady to have a good game. Not a good situation to be in given his temperament.

 

Pretty much sums it up for me Mmmikey, he's nowhere near as bad as some make out and nowhere near as good as others make out but he's important to us, unfortunately we are too dependant on him.

 

well i have to agree i am totally fed up with this wee ball bag his displays this season have been rank rotten and i think it has been one season to long at celtic for him we should of took the 8 mil that we were offered and to hear about the abuse he hurled back at supporters after the ross county game i just felt sick. another thing i will say is mcgeady thinks mcgeady is better than he actually is!!!!

 

spot on mate, totally agree

 

mmmikey i dont agree mcgeady loses the ball 95% of the time he gets it as the op says his crossing,passing and shooting are common place in the sunday pub league sure if you want to see step over after stepover watch barca and messi cause that guy actually has end product. i know people will say you cant compare a player in a world class team to the dross at celtic at the mo but i do believe we has a team under mon that could beat any team in the world on our day i know it was an old team but it just got stripped and now we have ended up with the blundie

 

McGeady - 6 Goals. Winger/Attacker/Creative Force.

Steven Whittaker - 11 Goals. Full Back

A bit shocking that the rangers defender is doing more for his team than our TALISMAN does for ours.

Can't wait for him to leave

 

Nah I think the times you see him lose the ball he is in a crucial position - i.e. trying to take on the full-back. Wingers take bigger risks to beat these players in order to achieve a goal-scoring chance.

So he might look like he loses the ball all the time (and it can't be 95% of the time!) but this is because he's trying to beat the last man, take risks, and make something happen. Not many are capable of doing that for us.

His ability is mostly over-stated but he is still our most important winger. Maloney may be better on paper but Maloney doesn't play for a season.

 

I think people exaggerate the whole Maloney thing, ye's he been unlucky the last 2 seasons but he played a full season when we won player of the year and I personally think that he will be back next season more determined than ever. He had a great start to this season, just unfortunate that he got injured.

 

Sell him for a fiver n a penny chew