Matt Doherty

Young Doherty still has lots of time to learn at this level

gufct wrote: he’ll be 28 in January hardly a young lad !

Just shows how ahead of schedule he is to be in the international side already at his age

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Is that 1 campaign the Euro campaign now or the end of the WC qualifying campaign coming up which ends in 3 years time? By the end of the Qatar 2022 campaign Doherty could be finished at the top level, retired, or a Balloon Dor winner. Who knows. 

In football 1 year is a long time, 3 years is like a lifetime. Which is why anybody calling for Doherty to be involved over the past 12 months has been 100 percent correct. Doherty has been used appallingly under McCarthy. He is probably out best performing player at club level over the past 18 months and McCarthy effectively discarded him after the Gibraltar away game. Played Doherty for 45 minutes out of position, then subbed him off as a F*ck you to the media and all the other know it alls out there. After all, that washed up bozo McCarthy knows best.

So you should give a nod to all of those who were demanding Doherty be used recently, they were spot on. 

The fact that you believe that James McClean should be an integral part of our team, and are willing to scream loudly and consistently about it says enough for me. McClean, a lad with no form whatsoever for what 2 or 3 years now is it? Yet a player like Doherty who is ripping it up for 18 months is just dismissed, as it suits your agenda to shut down commentary around the horrid team selections over the past year or so.

It's pathetic tbh. Worse still, you are completely wrong about the likes of McClean, about the likes of Doherty, about our managers toxic presence. The saddest thing of all is that even though every single minute of McCarthys tenure proves how wrong you are, you just can't see any different now. You are too far gone on the road to nowhere.