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Excellent pressing by Swansea and a trademark finish by Hourihane. You can't give him that much space on his left foot in those kind of areas.
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Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 
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Fantastic goal Clap

Would be great to see him get a vital goal for us in the upcoming qualifiers as I'm sure he was kicking himself over the Slovakia chance. 

Would Kenny try him in that No 10 role? 
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Daniel Farke must be sick of him. This is the 6th goal Hourihane has scored against Norwich since Farke was appointed, and a 7th career goal against Norwich.
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just named man of the match.
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Daniel Farke must be sick of him. This is the 6th goal Hourihane has scored against Norwich since Farke was appointed, and a 7th career goal against Norwich.
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Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 

If he had been doing that at 19 his potential would have been huge, with so much more scope for development of his game ahead of him. Unfortunately at 19 he was failing to get a game for Sunderland and Ipswich and had three years in League 2 ahead of him, but at least he is now doing it at 30. 

He is still a bit of a luxury player at international level unfortunately, the question remains whether we can carry his limited contribution to the midfield in general play in the hope he might someday produce something similar for us. Because, outside of one free kick against Gibraltar, he has achieved very little at international level.


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Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 

Probably right but the 24 irish caps and a lot of villa games where he was a passenger brings down the hype with hourihane.

Still questionmarks on his overall contribution on games.

But fair play to him hes scored some cracking goals for Swansea. No question his left foot is a traction engine. With talent like that he should be just hitting them from all angles.
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Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 

If he had been doing that at 19 his potential would have been huge, with so much more scope for development of his game ahead of him. Unfortunately at 19 he was failing to get a game for Sunderland and Ipswich and had three years in League 2 ahead of him, but at least he is now doing it at 30. 

He is still a bit of a luxury player at international level unfortunately, the question remains whether we can carry his limited contribution to the midfield in general play in the hope he might someday produce something similar for us. Because, outside of one free kick against Gibraltar, he has achieved very little at international level.

Unfortunately true. 

I can accept his lack of ability off the ball for Ireland, but he's been very disappointing in possession and taking responsibility to seek out possession. 

A big question mark still remains over Conor when it comes to international level
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Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 

If he had been doing that at 19 his potential would have been huge, with so much more scope for development of his game ahead of him. Unfortunately at 19 he was failing to get a game for Sunderland and Ipswich and had three years in League 2 ahead of him, but at least he is now doing it at 30. 

He is still a bit of a luxury player at international level unfortunately, the question remains whether we can carry his limited contribution to the midfield in general play in the hope he might someday produce something similar for us. Because, outside of one free kick against Gibraltar, he has achieved very little at international level.
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Originally posted by Banjaxed Banjaxed wrote:

Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 

If he had been doing that at 19 his potential would have been huge, with so much more scope for development of his game ahead of him. Unfortunately at 19 he was failing to get a game for Sunderland and Ipswich and had three years in League 2 ahead of him, but at least he is now doing it at 30. 

He is still a bit of a luxury player at international level unfortunately, the question remains whether we can carry his limited contribution to the midfield in general play in the hope he might someday produce something similar for us. Because, outside of one free kick against Gibraltar, he has achieved very little at international level.

Unfortunately true. 

I can accept his lack of ability off the ball for Ireland, but he's been very disappointing in possession and taking responsibility to seek out possession. 

A big question mark still remains over Conor when it comes to international level

He has also been directly responsible for the concession of 2 goals since Kenny took over.
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Originally posted by Banjaxed Banjaxed wrote:

Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Originally posted by t_rAndy t_rAndy wrote:

Imagine he was a 19 year old breaking through and his performances in the last 3 games. We would be saying he is the new messiah 

If he had been doing that at 19 his potential would have been huge, with so much more scope for development of his game ahead of him. Unfortunately at 19 he was failing to get a game for Sunderland and Ipswich and had three years in League 2 ahead of him, but at least he is now doing it at 30. 

He is still a bit of a luxury player at international level unfortunately, the question remains whether we can carry his limited contribution to the midfield in general play in the hope he might someday produce something similar for us. Because, outside of one free kick against Gibraltar, he has achieved very little at international level.

Unfortunately true. 

I can accept his lack of ability off the ball for Ireland, but he's been very disappointing in possession and taking responsibility to seek out possession. 

A big question mark still remains over Conor when it comes to international level



 Very true...he’s at his level in the championship....international football is a step to far for him,end of.
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Playing Hourihane just in behind the strikers does help him. If he’s playing we should play him just off the striker too. His goal getting ability an asset. 

They are a ball playing side who are going to dominate a lot of Championship teams which suits Hourihane. He’s deadly in that scenario it’s when you play superior teams and have to forego possession he doesn’t have the legs and gets runover. He shouldn’t be near the team against Portugal or Serbia for example as we may have to chase them a bit. He goes “missing” as they say.

Very simple Aston Villa are a side looking to push into the top half and Hourihane is a rotation/bench player for a team of that calibre. He was a huge asset for a bottom 6 PL club in certain scenarios like he was for Villa last year. They wouldn’t have stayed up without him. 

He’s probably even too good for Championship. It was an all merciful signing by Swansea to pull off. I suspect if they go up which they look like they might be will sign there permanently. 


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Playing Hourihane just in behind the strikers does help him. If he’s playing we should play him just off the striker too. His goal getting ability an asset. 

They are a ball playing side who are going to dominate a lot of Championship teams which suits Hourihane. He’s deadly in that scenario it’s when you play superior teams and have to forego possession he doesn’t have the legs and gets runover. He shouldn’t be near the team against Portugal or Serbia for example as we may have to chase them a bit. He goes “missing” as they say.

Very simple Aston Villa are a side looking to push into the top half and Hourihane is a rotation/bench player for a team of that calibre. He was a huge asset for a bottom 6 PL club in certain scenarios like he was for Villa last year. They wouldn’t have stayed up without him. 

He’s probably even too good for Championship. It was an all merciful signing by Swansea to pull off. I suspect if they go up which they look like they might be will sign there permanently. 

Hourihane is not a creative player, he's a dead ball specialist and has a great shot. Playing him in behind the forwards would do very little. 

The further up the pitch you go the more creative you need to be. Hes not good in tight areas with players closing him down. 

Hes had a fantastic start at Swansea but I wonder will Swansea fans be saying the same things they are about him now, in 20+ games. 
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Happy for him, comes across as a great bloke in interviews, it's a pity he has had so many Hendrickesque performances for Ireland. If SK is going to play him anyway, this fine spell can't do him any harm at least. 
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Originally posted by Left foot Left foot wrote:

Originally posted by kevin100 kevin100 wrote:

Playing Hourihane just in behind the strikers does help him. If he’s playing we should play him just off the striker too. His goal getting ability an asset. 

They are a ball playing side who are going to dominate a lot of Championship teams which suits Hourihane. He’s deadly in that scenario it’s when you play superior teams and have to forego possession he doesn’t have the legs and gets runover. He shouldn’t be near the team against Portugal or Serbia for example as we may have to chase them a bit. He goes “missing” as they say.

Very simple Aston Villa are a side looking to push into the top half and Hourihane is a rotation/bench player for a team of that calibre. He was a huge asset for a bottom 6 PL club in certain scenarios like he was for Villa last year. They wouldn’t have stayed up without him. 

He’s probably even too good for Championship. It was an all merciful signing by Swansea to pull off. I suspect if they go up which they look like they might be will sign there permanently. 

Hourihane is not a creative player, he's a dead ball specialist and has a great shot. Playing him in behind the forwards would do very little. 

The further up the pitch you go the more creative you need to be. Hes not good in tight areas with players closing him down. 

Hes had a fantastic start at Swansea but I wonder will Swansea fans be saying the same things they are about him now, in 20+ games. 

He does the opposite of that.

He's best position is behind the front 2 as he can score goals from there. He's a player that will have very little influence on the game and go missing for large periods, but will produce a moment of quality like the goal last night. 

Kenny for some odd reason deployed him in a more deeper position for Ireland and he was anonymous. 
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yeah hourihane as a number 10 behind the striker will probably mean he he a better goal threat and also his lack if mobility isnt as much of an issue as he doesn't have to tracker runners as much.  However left foot is correct he is not great in tight spaces and is certainly not someone who picks out short passes that creates a chance.  

Saying all that if you are going to play him its probably the best position to do so with least amount of risk. 
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