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Thread: McGeouch
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13-01-2019 02:12 PM #31
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13-01-2019 02:17 PM #33
Checked the thread through and there is no mention of bedwetters, happy clappers or doom and gloomers. I wouldn't take the site seriously.
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13-01-2019 02:22 PM #34
Surprised that Sunderland fans can't recognise a good player 🙄
Hope they stay down as long as possible.
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13-01-2019 02:43 PM #35This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-01-2019 02:51 PM #36
Maybe McGeouch's another one like Scot Allan, he didn't look anything special for Celtic (although he didn't play many games for them), who knows, maybe it's the same at Sunderland. Good player for Hibs though. When he was at Celtic he did seem a more attacking player than when he was with us, maybe he just found his niche.
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13-01-2019 03:00 PM #37This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They both keep the ball and move it on and receive it in tight spaces while probing looking for small openings.
A quality player.
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13-01-2019 03:05 PM #38This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If you are lucky as a footballer you find a natural position where you have the players around you who can bring out your best.
Allen had McGeouch and McGinn, but also linked in beautifully with Hanlon and Stevenson. That, combined with the increase in his work rate made him very special.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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13-01-2019 03:09 PM #39This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Any team with ambition needs that kind of player.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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13-01-2019 03:12 PM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That's the one thing McGinn always had over the other 2,he was a better athlete and had the physicality to play at a higher level despite Allan and McGeough arguably being better technically.
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13-01-2019 03:23 PM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
McGeouch will be lost when he has a plodder in midfield with him.
McGinn's all-round game is very good though, and with athleticism being a big part of the game down there he was always the favourite to go the furthest.
I do find it funny who goes down South and does well and who goes down South and struggles, same with the players you would expect to come up here and do better than they do.
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13-01-2019 04:45 PM #43
I always felt he was almost like a Quarterback picking the ball up and distributing it allowing things to happen
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13-01-2019 05:25 PM #45
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13-01-2019 05:32 PM #46
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Die hard Sunderland fan I know was pretty much mixed about him. Think like when he first joined us injuries have hampered his progression.
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13-01-2019 06:42 PM #47
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Maybe being at hibs and playing alongside McGinn brought the best out of Dylan
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13-01-2019 06:45 PM #48This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-01-2019 06:58 PM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Dylan would do very well in this team. He'd make Mallan and Slivka etc better.
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13-01-2019 07:02 PM #50This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-01-2019 07:23 PM #54
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very good player and I’d of course have him back in a Hibs shirt.
However... although the Sunderland poster hasn’t pitched it in the nicest of ways and has gone over the top. His observations aren’t as wide of the mark as reactions on her suggest?
I don’t have many memories of him taking a shot, Splitting a defence, or making a tackle. Does the simple stuff well and helps make a team tick. Does that very, very well. But isn’t that essentially what the mackem boy is saying - albeit putting it like a d1ckhead.
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13-01-2019 07:55 PM #55This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-01-2019 08:41 PM #56
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Dylan's main asset was ball retention - ie keeping possession in tight midfields where the tackles could be flying in thick and fast. This made perfect sense for a team like Hibs who try to build from the back through the midfield - and where the available outballs included talents like McGinn, Allen and Stokes who were also great at receiving the ball to feet in tight situations.
That he's not being appreciated at Sunderland perhaps speaks volumes about the style of football they are trying to play (more direct? just guessing here) and the quality of some of his teammates. It's all very well being able to pass the ball neatly but that's not much use if the player you're passing to has a poor first touch. I am speculating here but the prevailing style in the English lower leagues tends to direct percentage based football utilising big, athletic (but not necessarilly very talented) players in my experience - do Sunderland like to play that way? If so then Dylan's talents are pretty much wasted there.
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13-01-2019 08:54 PM #57This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Last edited by Lancs Harp; 13-01-2019 at 08:57 PM.
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13-01-2019 09:03 PM #58This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Neil Lennon did the same sort of job at Celtic in his time there and Scott Brown became exactly the same, nothing dynamite in the way of goals or incisive defence splitting passes, but an ability to just keep the ball moving between defence and the more creative and dynamic players. Perhaps the way Sunderland play they don't suit or need that type of player …. the way Hibs play ( or would at least like to ) a McGeouch would suit us just fine …. a great wee player, I'd have him back in a heartbeat
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13-01-2019 09:10 PM #59
A Sunderland report I read had him as an 8/10 with 'outstanding' as the comment. So surprised to then see those comments.
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