James McCarthy

toffee-bhoy · November 30, 2013

Timak said:
Awaits the Irish posters going mental

grrrrrrrrrrrr

Brennan · November 30, 2013

180 top flight appearances at the age of 23 is ridiculous.

davek · November 30, 2013

Timak said:
Awaits the Irish posters going mental

You happier with Everton now Timak?

micknick · November 30, 2013

davek said:
You happier with Everton now Timak?

You are Dave arent you!

chicoazul · November 30, 2013

He's getting better and better. He's a bit like Peter Reid in his play, all over the show.

davek · November 30, 2013

micknick said:
You are Dave arent you!

Playing some nice stuff now.

bluejock · November 30, 2013

chicoazul said:
He's getting better and better. He's a bit like Peter Reid in his play, all over the show.

High praise indeed. Was superb today. Him and Barry are our best centre mid partnership since Reid and Bracewell.

Gwladys St. Glory · November 30, 2013

Brennan said:
180 top flight appearances at the age of 23 is ridiculous.

It shows in his play, TBF...

Timak · November 30, 2013

Playing very well so far.
Lukaku and Duelefu are great to watch so I shall enjoy them whilst I can.
After all it will be Kone and Mcgeady next year

chicoazul · November 30, 2013

He's coming along fine. Fits in very well, still early days so its not fair to be vaulting posts from those who thought he was rubbish.

chicoazul · November 30, 2013

HOLLA!

Tubey said:
The only positive I can take from this deal is that he's better than Leon Osman and improves the squad for that reason.

The problem is that we could have paid £13m on hundreds of other players who would have replaced Leon Osman and improved the squad more IMO.

He's a decent player and I'll get behind him, but he has to stop producing the non-stop 6/10 performances he did at Wigan when I saw him and step up to the big leagues.

Tubey said:
He put in a stereotypical passenger performance for Ireland the other day, but the tactics were grim so it'd be unfair to judge him overall.

The problem is that I've seen him put in similar anonymous performances for Wigan too. The hope is that he'll be more consistent and step up in a higher calibre team, but there's a definite real danger that we've just spunked away £13m on the new Mark Pembridge.

Tubey said:
I didn't say I knew him inside out. I'm making the point that he's hardly been invisible to any football fan who follows the Premier League has he? I've certainly seen enough to "justify a proper opinion on him", let's put it that way.

I have an opinion on Chris Brunt, James McClean and hundreds of other footballers too. If you don't watch football and take an interest in other players other than those who wear the blue of Everton, that's your business, but you shouldn't be writing off legit opinions on a player on this forum based on your own limited knowledge of football.

My actual view is he's a decent, 6/10, consistent player for what it's worth.

Tubey said:
To be honest, the fact that some of them rate McCarthy over Fellaini just makes me realise that a good portion of Manc fans are pretty special in the head.

Tubey said:
There was a moment where he collected the ball in space, had Osman and Barkley near him, had the opportunity to take the ball, drive with it and take the game by the scruff of the neck...

But instead he crabbed a one yard pass to Osman.

Another moment when a poor Chelsea ball gave him the chance to take the ball down on the chest and drive them back towards goal...

But instead he tried an implausible stooped header towards Barkley that didn't have a prayer of coming off.

Very unimpressed.