Aiden McGeady

Where is this tracked and how many are we talking?

I’ve a feeling most of McGeady’s assists came from either corners or crosses into the box from set pieces. I’d be interested to know how many are assists from in play i.e non dead ball assists.

McGeady has got 29 of his 92 caps (nearly a third of them, although I'd say around half of those 29 were as a sub) since 2014. In that time, he scored 2 goals V Georgia and won a game for us almost singlehandedly, and all credit to him for doing so. He has done absolutely fcuk all for us since then. 

The whole point re O'Dowda is that if O'Dowda is as ineffective for us in the next 4 years as McGeady has been in the last 4 years, he won't ever get to 29 appearances, never mind 92. Arguably a more valid comparison is McClean, a player with half of McGeady's natural talent or skill (and I'm being generous to McClean there) who has got 10 goals in 57 caps, he is definitely a player who has got the most out of his relatively limited talent, I don't think McGeady can say the same. 

I'm not arguing with anything McGeady achieved up to 2014 for us, he was one of our most important players and sources of creativity and the stats invariably proved that. At this point it should be stated that I couldn't give less of a fcuk what he did for Sunderland, Preston or Sheffield Wed during those years, as whether his club form was good, bad or indifferent in the past 4 years, his form with us has been consistent - very poor at worst, average at best. 

Was wondering the same and found this ; 

It only goes back to 2008, but given there were very few of our current players knocking about back then (Whelan, Walters & Long probably the only other ones bar McGeady) - I think it is valid for comparison purposes. 

In that time, McGeady is indeed our top man for assists, with 9. (I'm not doubting Horsebox when he says he has 12  in his career, the others must have been pre-2008). The important thing to note though, is that he hasn't had any since 2013. In the same timeframe;

Stephen Hunt has 6

Wes has 6

Coleman has 6- a full back who doesn't take set pieces

Duff has 5

Kevin Doyle has 4

Glenn Whelan has 4 (Glenn Whelan !! )

Robbie Brady (who takes poor set pieces) has 4

Keith Andrews has 3

Liam Lawrence (our last player who was actually any good at set pieces) has 3

Paul McShane (Paul McShane !!) has 3

So really, seeing as McGeady has none since 2013, Whelan is likely on his last legs for us and was never exactly a huge attacking influence anyway, McShane is unlikely to play for us again, and the rest are retired, really only Coleman & Brady are relevant on that list. It also kind of shows what a huge loss Coleman was in the last campaign, as he has proved to be not only our best defender, but one of our best attackers & sources of goals as well. 

So basically what you've illustrated is that the next "leading assister" that we've have in the last 10/15 years only has half as many assists as McGeady. Well done, you've really buttressed your argument tremendously there 

Ya because 9 divided by 2 is 6..

Not comparing like for like either. Wes and Hunt has less than half of the appearances than McGeady. I don’t think an assist every 10 games is something to champion 

Could we possibly get an official clarification over these three assists prior to 2008? Thread should be locked until such time.