Aiden McGeady

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 The O'Shea wrote:

Give me Jake Mulraney or Anthony Forde over him any day, sure they're young and untried and that's all that matters.

Complete & utter bollix. Neither of those 2 players mentioned are within an asses roar of an ROI call up, even allowing for MON's 53 man preliminary squads and his recent statements about finding 'new' players. 

We really need to look at this in the bigger picture scheme of things, as O'Shea has pointed out before, we have a good few wingers currently injured, O'Dowda, Hayes & Brady are all likely absentees from the Turkey game, maybe O'Dowda might make it, the other 2 won't. 

McGeady is proven over a recent medium period of time (I'm being generous here) to be absolutely f.airying useless & ineffective in our jersey. I've watched him enough times to not give a flying fcuk about what he does or doesn't do for Sunderland or Preston, going on his international history, it has little bearing on what he does/doesn't produce for us. 

His potential replacements aren't limited to the above 2 mentioned, for example, we can, or maybe should, change formation to 3 at the back (maybe Clark, Duffy, Rice, or Clark, Duffy, K. Long) with 2 wing backs. Should we do that, Coleman is nailed on for the right hand side, maybe McClean could do so on the left, maybe Ward could manage it. Even in our current 4-5-1, Christie could fill in on the right wing, Matt Doherty could possibly do either wing. Seeing as Shane Long has given up goalscoring, maybe his work rate could be used to good effect on one of the wings. 

Whichever or whatever, this notion that McGeady is somehow still relevant to us, or deserves a place in the squad, is misguided at best. Genuinely can't credit how the consensus after the Denmark home game result was to generally agree that the team needs changing, an opinion seemingly shared by MON  (if we are to believe his most recent statements) , but yet we still have lads trying to persuade us that a fella who last had a good game for us 4 years ago should be part of that change. 

Whether Doherty, Christie, Pilkington, Forde or Mulraney are the solution, I don't think any of us can really say that with any degree of conviction, but anyone thinking McGeady should, or will be a part of that change is either still living in the early 2000's, or optimistic to the point of delusion. 