McGeady
2 for a fiver on the old white lightening tonight?
Giving players some stick is counter productive methinks ( it backfired at Deepdale with McGeady).
If I were getting grief in a highly competitive game I would try even harder - it’s the only fight back I have.
I think the only beneficiary is the one vented their spleen at the player.
If I were getting grief in a highly competitive game I would try even harder - it’s the only fight back I have.
I think the only beneficiary is the one vented their spleen at the player.
It’s just those knuckle headed thick gits who boo him, just look at the good he did for us and had Grayson stayed he might have signed for us but that’s football, hope those who booed him at Deepdale stay away as they are not proper supporters.
Could be thick and knuckle headed to accept 11th in the league for eternity whilst getting 1 greedy bastard to try to save the managers job ....
Problem is - it's usually our own players whose mistakes are ridiculed rather then the opposition. The reaction alan browne received against Forest has made him into a much better player - what a guy!
Disagree - very often in interviews last season Mcgeady often praise the support/crowd and talked about how he was back in love with the game at PNE. It was quite obvious that Mcgeady loved to play football - he hated his time at Everton. I mean why leave everton where he was getting paid 40,000 a week to move to a club a league below and not getting paid as much. Also, for a player who doesn't care if he plays - why leave Everton in the first place? Why not stay at everton last season and this season to earn money for rotting in the reserves. It doesn't make any sense.
https://www.pnefc.net/news/2017/march/mcgeady-im-loving-it/
The last few comments on the above article prove that any comments about Mcgeady holding our fans in utter contempt is absolute garbage.
He was trying to be polite. What he was trying to say was those who booed him are thick and have no common sense, but he didn't want to upset them.
I'm not sure how McGeady views football but there is no denying he was brilliant on the most part for North End, he won games single handedly and was a joy to watch and was a great loan signing for North End.
In the summer I would have been inclined to have him back but it would seem that much like our previous manager he knew he would be at Sunderland in the near future. Given his antics in and around the dressing room basically telling the lads how much money they could earn elsewhere, how poorly paid they where at Preston blah blah he more than irritated the hierarchy at the club.
Football wise going to Sunderland (even with Grayson as manager) was an abysmal move, financially though it was a great option for him. He is soon to be a league one player although I don't think he will kick a ball for them in league one and can't see anyone else taking him on given he will have two years left on a 30k a week contract.
The interview prior to the home game was a silly throw away comment which irked some, many more where irked when he ignored the Town End applause, probably shouldn't have been booed but his celebration was very sad indeed and he should have celebrated with the Sunderland supporters.
However, like I said earlier in the thread. If he plays Saturday he should be ignored aside from a bit of banter IF we are clearly ahead with about 30 seconds left.... winding him up again probably wouldn't be the best idea. Ultimately we will be at least one division above Sunderland next season, maybe two......
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Spot on, you could tell McGeady genuinely enjoyed his time here and he seemed popular amongst the squad.
I think the fans were very patient with him at the start as he took a while to get going, not helped by injury and he appreciated that. He needs to be the fan's favourite and not get stick when he loses the ball if you want to get the best of him imo and our crowd loves a flair player so we're more tolerant than most when they mess up, especially when we were starved of genuinely talented players for so long. I imagine Everton and Sunderland fans give him dog's abuse whenever he runs a ball out of play or runs into a dead end, we didn't. (If only we could do the same with a young player like Callum Robinson).
He was only on loan though and when another £30k-a-week, 3yr contract is on the table with a big signing on fee he was never coming back to fit within our wage structure, who would? I wouldn't and I support PNE.
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No doubting his quality, it’s always been his application that’s lacking, and his relationships with other figures at clubs/in squads.
Don’t think he gets on with Coleman, his name was circulated around to clubs such as PNE in January for loan but nobody could afford it.
He mustn’t have got on with a manager since leaving Spartak other than Grayson.
The club didn’t try to sign him in summer due to finances and also some of the awkwardness he caused in the squad. Will always be problems putting someone on £40k+ a week into a squad of relatively lowly-paid players at our level.
He’s the type of player we’ve lacked all season behind the striker but we need someone less disruptive ultimately.
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if we go for Wes Hoolahan or someone similar in summer. He’s OoC at Norwich, was a favourite of Neil’s there, and could do a job on a 1 year deal to give us more creativity.
Don’t think he gets on with Coleman, his name was circulated around to clubs such as PNE in January for loan but nobody could afford it.
He mustn’t have got on with a manager since leaving Spartak other than Grayson.
The club didn’t try to sign him in summer due to finances and also some of the awkwardness he caused in the squad. Will always be problems putting someone on £40k+ a week into a squad of relatively lowly-paid players at our level.
He’s the type of player we’ve lacked all season behind the striker but we need someone less disruptive ultimately.
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if we go for Wes Hoolahan or someone similar in summer. He’s OoC at Norwich, was a favourite of Neil’s there, and could do a job on a 1 year deal to give us more creativity.
Hoolahan a great shout on a 1 year deal.
There are three reasons not to barrack McGeady on Saturday:
*he played well for us last season and deserves some credit for that.
*it might provoke him to turn on his undoubted skill.
*it would disgrace the name of Preston North End.
Give him a polite round of applause and then get behind our lads to spur them on to the win we absolutely need to keep in the play-off hunt.
*he played well for us last season and deserves some credit for that.
*it might provoke him to turn on his undoubted skill.
*it would disgrace the name of Preston North End.
Give him a polite round of applause and then get behind our lads to spur them on to the win we absolutely need to keep in the play-off hunt.
Bit over the top, it's a football match....