MCGEADY FINED AND SUSPENDED

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You don't have to be a manager to have a clue about football.

And my club, Celtic FC have said McGeady made a serious breach of the club's rules. That's more than enough for me.

 

However long ago you first went to a Celtic game, that changes none of my points. You don't support Strachan, so how can you support Celtic?

 

if he was the kid of someone temorarily at work in another country I would maybe have a different view but we are well beyond that now. He is the 3rd generation to live in Scotland.

TBH, I am only being so hard on him because he also seems to be amonster ego who put his wishes before national team duty and now looks like putting himself before club interest. I see a pattern. I am not surprised because his demeaner is so spoilt and petulent on the pitch too. Still, he is only 22 and may a decent person is a * at that age but he needs to grow up soon.

 

surprising stuff They probably have a list for his replacement -Keane, McCarthy, Gerry Adams blah blah blah.

 

As Hammer said earlier,give it a rest FFS.

 

If a quality Irish-born player played for Scotland, most of you would have no qualms with it.

 

Our national team has been dining out on, and I word this carefully, "quality" English players for decades....

 

This thread is careering off track, let's get back to the topic - did McGeady have the right to react the way he did?

Here's a great couple of paragraphs i've just read:

From McGeady's point of view, he played the best football of his career last season and he did so when he appeared to take on board the direction that was afforded to him on the training ground. Yet Strachan's praise of him in games when he had been a clear standout always seemed to be of the parsimonious variety while others were often singled out for far more effusive praise.

That he sees himself as a dressing room whipping boy is the catalyst behind McGeady's reaction to the criticism he was on the end of this weekend. Reports earlier this season that he was told not to come to a first-team meeting in the wake of the Old Firm defeat does not paint Strachan in a clever light. It comes across as destructive, puerile and churlish and was never going to leave anything other than a sour taste in the mouth of the player.

That McGeady has a conceit of his own ability that has yet to be genuinely proven is without doubt. But to dismiss him as little more than mouthy and arrogant is a lop-sided slant on a feud that has been building for the last three years.


And the link:

Evening Times: Sport

 

Yeah, I think there are two English guys in the team now, Morrission and Commons. And one Malaysian guy lol. It's hypocrisy of the highest order.

 

No I wouldnt want anyone who is not at least of Scots parentage. Maloney is the sort of fair exception because he was born abroad because his Scots parents were away for a few years. Thats a lot different from being the 3rd generation to live in Scotland but not play for the national team.

 

Weve never had a decent player who wasnt a real Scot. I never wanted them.

Shauns the real McCoy. His parents were just temporarilly working in Malaysia when he was born. Thats just one step up from the missus dropping a wean early when on holiday somewhere. His parents are Scots, he was predminantly brought up in Scotland and I think his accent is a dead give away about his upbringing.

 

lol

 

he should keep his * mouth shut mcgeadys a good wee player but really he should learn 2 button it

hopefully hel be sensible enough 2 say sorry 2 strachan and shut up the media

 

I'll bet McGeady is gone now. This is going to be bad for GS if the team falls apart.

 

thing is McGeadys arrogance is something I dont think anyone can deny. He is arrogant and childish on the park, he apparently is the same out in the town and there is every reason to believe he is in the dressing room too. He sounds like a destructive element in a happy team. You never hear of any other players having the problems he has. I am fairly sure those who are trying to make WGS share the blame are wide of the mark. It sounds like one mans huge ego is the issue. Actually publically going to appeal to the SFA or whatever is yet another level of extravegant egotisitical madness on his part. His ego is clearly more important than the club. I say let him go. His end product never matched the tricks anyway and we might find a less fancy player who actually produces more results.

 

Does it really matter how good they are? Is it not just the fact that both Scotland and Ireland have players born in different countries on their books (excluding Maloney then)? To be honest, I wouldn't say it makes a difference how good they are. A lot of fans would never want a Steven Gerrard for example, because he is English, not because he's fantastic and English. And yet when we get the worse English players, it's OK because they're not fantastic?

 

This is staying off topic but I would say I would be consistent. I would only make exceptions for those whose parents are temporarily outside the country when the player is born. Otherwise I would make birth the rule. I would maybe also allow those from elsewhere who were brought up most of their childhood in a country (say a minimum of 5 years pre-18) because place of upbringing and your peers are a lot more important than blood lines (unless you go in for that * sort of blood race stuff). I just dont want people representing a country they were not either born or brought up in it. I would happily hand back all the players we have ever had that dont fit those criteria.

The problem for Aidan was that in the history of Scottish football Aidan is the first really high quality Scottish player to not play for us. For me, someone who got into football watching Scotland at Argentina WC, that is just astonishing honour to turn down- to walk in the footsteps of Dalgleish, Law, Bremner, Jinky etc and something I never thought I would live to see. Anyway, this is sidetracking the major issue.

 

They've done me wrong | The Sun |Home Scotland|Scottish Sport|SPL

 

Unfortunately I think Strachan's viewpoint is similar to gunt's (keltoi?). I simply don't know any reason why Aiden is being treated this way... he isn't an angel but this punishment is a bit heinous.
*edit I don't know why that icon was put up...