James McCarthy

[Baines' left foot]

Dont take my comment out of context, James is indeed a very cultured intelligent midfielder, not since Gravenson and Carsley have we had that tenacity... You jump over James back wall and your gonna get bitten is all i,m saying FFS!!!

Agreed. We've not had a central midfielder with that aggression since Carsley.

 

[Raymondo077]

Agreed. We've not had a central midfielder with that aggression since Carsley.

Cheers mate, you get it.

 

[Baines' left foot]

He's already far surpassed that muppet

Wind it in 'muppet'. Your opinions are f*cking ridiculous.

 

[toffeeben15]

Good Little player but he does need to improve his acceleration and speed . Our midfield is to slow look what happened when Barkley played there we dominated

 

[Baines' left foot]

Cheers mate, you get it.

Like you said, he's very intelligent, he covers the whole pitch and can chip in with defending or attacking. A proper CM.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Could have won the game for us yesterday.

 

[FTY]

Could have won the game for us yesterday.

If he'd hit it fist time I reckon he might have been able to slide it in but he probably thought he had more time.

 

[Azzurri]

Just watching a bit of the game back. Suarez doing all sorts of arm waving about a Coleman tackle on Gerrard and you can clearly make out McCarthy look him in the eye and say '[Poor language removed] off you [Poor language removed]', great stuff.

 

[bluejock]

Just watching a bit of the game back. Suarez doing all sorts of arm waving about a Coleman tackle on Gerrard and you can clearly make out McCarthy look him in the eye and say '[Poor language removed] off you [Poor language removed]', great stuff.

Ace. well in wee man.

 

[BlueLlama]

Thought he was ace yesterday. Real box to box stuff and made sure we didnt get swamped when we changed formation

 

[Bilko]

So is it agreed we'd pay 13m then?.

 

[Azzurri]

I. Like. James. McCarthy.

I. Think. He's. A. Good. Player.

I've. Lost. Count. Of. The. Amount. Of. Times. I've. Said. This.

Followed by:

Yes - it's called "average". Which is what I'm calling him. Ordinary. Bog standard. Mediocre. Whatever word you care to use.

Interesting.

So Jelavic will still come good but this change of opinion is based on 20 minutes when defending a lead against Chelsea, eh?



Some of the posts in this thread are brilliant.

 

[Tubey]

Followed by:








Interesting.

So Jelavic will still come good but this change of opinion is based on 20 minutes when defending a lead against Chelsea, eh?



Some of the posts in this thread are brilliant.

He still hasn't proved it at all. I think he's done a "good" job since joining but I think he can be even better. At the moment I think he's a decent Premier League midfielder but not much more. Let's not overhype the kid after being at the clubs three months.

Of course, this will once again be warped into "Tubey hates McCarthy" FFS

 

[bluejock]

WHY DO YOU HATE JAMES TUBEY? WHY?

 

[Tubey]

WHY DO YOU HATE JAMES TUBEY? WHY?

Because he's ginger or something, obviously.

He's settled in a lot quicker than I expected and he's stepped his game up to the higher level. I thought it'd take him a season and in the meantime he'd be in and out, mostly on the bench. Glad to be wrong on that count, but it's just three months, we need to see him maintain and step up another few levels over the next year and become a dominant force a bit further up the field as well, as I don't think he's a sitting midfielder.