Aiden McGeady

[fozzy]

i think he looks very good.

give him more minutes and he will be ace.

imo

 

[tim cahill]

Surprised at some of these comments. He looks far better than i expected him to be and i expected him to be a good signing. What did we pay £1m-2m?? A steal!! Our best winger based on what I've seen so far.

 

[chicoazul]

Thought he looked very sharp the other night personally.

Reckon he'll come good. But equally being the type of winger he is he'll be prone to being inconsistent. We do need someone in the box to get on the end of his crosses though, Latchford stylee.

Roll your socks down Aiden lad.

 

[Royal Blue Jersey]

Yes....you can see the scapegoating starting already.

Crazy.

Genuinely think it's the fancy foreign names. Mirallas and Deulofeu are tricksters from the continent, failed stepovers are just a given

 

[ilikecheese]

With Naismith coming good, it's like the melts around here just have to find someone to moan about.

This lad looks like he's got a trick or two up his sleeve...I've liked what I've seen so far. He'll come good I reckon.

 

[evertony]

Been a breath of fresh air.....clearly Roberto rates him, and what's not to like about that?

 

[Roztitute]

Dat McGeady spin tho.

 

[Khalekan]

Thought he looked very sharp the other night personally.

Reckon he'll come good. But equally being the type of winger he is he'll be prone to being inconsistent. We do need someone in the box to get on the end of his crosses though, Latchford stylee.

Roll your socks down Aiden lad.

Remember Dave Thomas banging 'em across and Big Bob soaring like an eagle.

Happy days.

 

[chicoazul]

Remember Dave Thomas banging 'em across and Big Bob soaring like an eagle.

Happy days.

Just before my days but my old man has educated me on their aceness mate.

 

[bluemangroup]

About 10x more aware of what's on and what's not than Delf. Hope to see him more often.

 

[ChicT]

The answer

lol @ that bit.

There was a time, a long time ago, when we used to look at players and say "he is not an Everton player" and we meant it.

But decades of watching boys like Ian Wilson, Ray Atteveld, Neil MacDonald, Danny Williamson, John Oster, Gareth Farrelly, John O'Kane, Klaus Thompson, Ibrahim Bakayoyo, Alex Nyarko and a hundred more of that ilk, including most famously of all The Blue feckin' Angell himself I am afraid that term is long since redundant.

And anyway....he has already contradicted you about his style being "out of place" in the current Everton as his cross led directly to the winner v Cardiff and his sublime pass let in Mirallas for the goal which turned the Fulham game back in our favour.

If Aiden Mac never kicks another ball for us he has justified the relative pittance we paid for him.

Fair point. He was well worth taking.
Just my thinking that a player of Mcgeady's type is normally best suited by having a big target man to aim for but you are right, he can be of benefit the side even without that.

Consistency has always been a problem with him in his career and he can go missing in games all too often. That's a worry. I can't see him changing this pattern in his game this late in his career and we can't afford passengers.
The answer for me is to keep him hungry and coming on from the bench gives that. So for me he's never a starter, too unreliable in that department but he offers something from the bench.

I think that RM needs convincing too but we will see what happens.

 

[davek]

His 'sin' the other night was basically that he started a game we lost unexpectedly. The conclusion drawn was that that change was the problem. His performance looked at in isolation though makes that conclusion nonsense. He was one of the more credit worthy performers first half.

 

[davek]

Aye Dave, atm what he is doing well isn't being complimented by those around him, atm we do play very like arsenal around the bergkamp/henry era especially (not as good obv atm), and I remember how little they actually crossed the ball due to basically having no one decent in the air, we're very similar - wouldn't be shocked if we were at the bottom of the league or thereabouts on headed goals for example. For sure we don't have any player who actually attacks the ball, even Naismith doesn't beat people to get his headers off ala Cahill like

Solution is either bringing someone on who actually benefits from a guy putting the ball in as he does, or simply getting him to cross less pull more cutbacks etc much the way kev and gerry do atm (not that they do it half as often as they should be like) - but i also think that players a lot of the time coming in the box aren't sharp for those balls either, just think its growing pains under a new system and will be a lot more fluent next season myself

I really think we should be getting more out of Lukaku in the air. I wonder if his knock out at West Ham is in the back of his mind now when challenging? He can meet crosses - it's in his locker - as he proved at West Ham and against Liverpool. I suspect Martinez will be looking to recruit a forward who has that string to his bow.

 

[Blue Cheese]

There is no point having all his skills if the final ball or delivery is crap and that's exact.ly what you get with McGeady, not good enough for me. Highly frustrating because he's great to watch on the ball but then he never delivers a good final pass.

 

[streeky]

dave k i agree i don't think lukaku is going to be worth the money chelsea will ask for him.Gone of the boil second half of the season,looks nothing like a cl player