Aiden McGeady

Just a response to that article.

"Eamon Dumphy who just can’t see why there is any fuss over a winger who doesn’t score goals, provide any assists and finds it difficult to beat a man, which is supposed to be his forte."
He has the most assists from any Irish player. So this is incorrect. He should be scoring more goals however.

"But McGeady has not become the player he could have been - it's time to take when you can't get a game for Sheffield Wednesday -"
He played 14 times in approx 10 weeks.

"But he did okay in Russia, no more than that"
He was named in the team of the season twice out of 3 seasons. Scoring 14 goals and 31 assists.

it’s unfortunate the amount of people who quote Dunphy after an Ireland match the next day . Despite his nonsense it sticks in some people’s brains . It’s spouted out by many a taxi men and plumber ..usually starting with derogatory comments on Glen Whelan and the like ...

Edited by depechemode - 26 Apr 2018 at 8:59pm

Alot is made of Aiden's poor goal return. His goal to games ratio is no worse than the likes of Wes and Duffer. When you look at Daryl Murphys 3 in 27 for a centre forward, its pretty terrible yet Aiden's poor goal return would get more of a mention. He would have had to lots of defensive work especially under Trap and would have come off the bench in lots of his appearances. He was arguably our best player in Euro 2012 qualification, most assists and 2 goals. He will still be a good player to bring off the bench in 2nd half of games. Yes, he can be frustrating, but so can lots of others. 

I agree, it should be better, but its consistent with a lot of others yet he seems to be the only one who gets stick for it.

It has been disappointing because our expectations of him have been so high. We all thought we had a genuine superstar on our hands because he was a world class talent, but that shouldn't cloud the fact that he has been a fine player for us and, to use am overused and often annoying cliché, a fine servant.

John Wick wrote: The O'Shea wrote: John Wick wrote: depechemode wrote: it’s unfortunate the amount of people who quote Dunphy after an Ireland match the next day . Despite his nonsense it sticks in some people’s brains . It’s spouted out by many a taxi men and plumber ..usually starting with derogatory comments on Glen Whelan and the like ... I like Aidan , at least he has a buzz about him and may do something on the ball .. may being the problem. I like McGeady but he really has done very little for us over the course of 10 years. A few assists pathetic goal return. Its time to move on. A few assists? Try the most assists of any Irish international, a record he's held for quite some time. He had alot of assists in the campaign that got us to Poland. But as I said his time in an Irish shirt has been mostly disappointing....Which is a shame.

I don't think 'he got us to Poland' as you say. He was part of a squad that got us to Poland.

The Rovers wrote: Well said pre madonna and Baggio and very true.

you know it’s been a sh*tty year pwhen the only conversation on here is an Aiden McGeady career retrospective 

horsebox wrote: Coleman saying in his presser that McGeady has been playing with injections in his heel to get him through the games.