Aiden McGeady

Definitely . Mcgeady had the ability to be a match winner. Neither of them lads do 

Suggesting he be considered is not off the wall at all, our wide options are absolutely dreadful and have been for a while, particularly on the right.

He is doing enough to be ahead of O'Dowda, Horgan and Curtis so I'd have no issue with having him in the squad.

Just because he’s not scoring goals week in week out doesn’t mean he’s doing f**k all. He’s doing extremely well at Wycombe atm, who are probably overachieving by having 19 points the overall team is that bad, I was thinking they’d be lucky to get double digits but the players including Horgan are putting graft in so that they’re not humiliated every week.

Here’s one for you....your the manager...there’s 25mins left and your 1-0 down....you’ve Horgan and mc Geady on the bench...who do you bring on???I certainly know who’d I’d bring on.

Granted most of his goals for us came against lesser opposition, eg Gerogia away. One of his best displays and helped us qualify for Euro 2016 in the grand scheme of things. He struggled Martinez to get regular football and he went on loan to Wednesday. 

I honestly thought he should have been called back up a couple years ago when he got into form with sunderland in league one. If we are struggling to break down a azerbaijan/luxembourg, he would definitely be one which you could throw on for a go.

He did prove it. 

He proved it to the manager(s) he was playing for, which is why he has 90 caps.

Also, I think given what has happened in the past five years (not least that Kenny, and MM didn't select him, and in 2018 MON didn't have him participate in his attempt at a rebuild), and the decline from PL player to League 1 player, there is genuine questions as to whether he would be an impact player against a Serbia or Portugal (we've got much bigger problems if we need older players to get results in Luxembourg or Azerbaijan). Is it not like Wales looking to Joe Ledley, or Scotland looking to Charlie Adam? In spite of everything, McClean has shown significantly more as an impact player (either off the bench or starting) since Euro 2016, either with goals or assists. The only difference being his ability to run consistently with the ball at feet, which McGeady does have. The difficulty is, that if the end product is inconsistent, its skill for the sake of skill. And as an alternative, I would also see Brady as having more of an ability to create something. I feel, when watching him from Burnley he has a one track direction towards goal which has its merits. Robinson is likely to hold that wide right position too, even as part of a 4-3-3. Out left Connolly has decent feet and speed, not a distance from McGeady.

I understand why there might be calls right now, and there is something of a debate to be had. Although not entirely four square, due to necessity, age and level, Glenn Whelan certainly had decent moments during the last Euro campaign, and there is no reason why McGeady wouldn't also. Like Whelan he has never stropped and retired, and when selected was always available. However, when we look a bit deeper, I think we do have options in this positions, and focussing on Horgan or O'Dowda overlooks the options that would be picked, with a full squad available.

We've got major problems selection-wise. We don't know who our most appropriate selection for keeper is, we don't know who our best striker is, our two key players (Coleman and Doherty) are struggling at club level, our most recent captain has had an exceptionally disappointing season at Celtic. Our traditional left-wing back has suffered from injury, one of our most selected CM's had to drop a division to get games. But these are problems that are beyond our wide men in the midfield-forward area.