| Kasey McAteer 19:04 - Oct 22 with 1786 views | thebluewizzard |
My thoughts on last nights and you could say the last few home games – In last nights game - first half, Kasey McAteer made himself available numerous times down the right side usually in acres of space or made breaks through the defence into space, yet it appears that as soon as other players see him in space they pass the ball left / back basically any other way except in front or anywhere near him. Yet people on here give him a ridiculously low score on the player ratings. How is a player going to shine if the team does not seem to want to play to him?? Happy to see what you think. |  | | |  |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:06 - Oct 22 with 1758 views | redrickstuhaart |
When he did have it, he wasted it. He doesnt beat players, doesnt have enough speed to get behind them and hasnt shown any eye for a pass which might warrant checking back and looking up, as he often did.
His attempts at beating players always seem to be just going towards them and hoping they sell themelves, before ambling into them with the ball. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:20 - Oct 22 with 1648 views | bournemouthblue |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:06 - Oct 22 by redrickstuhaart |
When he did have it, he wasted it. He doesnt beat players, doesnt have enough speed to get behind them and hasnt shown any eye for a pass which might warrant checking back and looking up, as he often did.
His attempts at beating players always seem to be just going towards them and hoping they sell themelves, before ambling into them with the ball. |
When he does make a decent run into a decent position we should pass to him though, it's not rocket science
I thought there were signs of improvement in his play, he still isn't where we want him to be but who in this team is? |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 19:22 - Oct 22 with 1633 views | Scuzzer |
Had a similar convwith another Town fan this lunchtime. First half the amount of space, mainly on the right, was astounding. But as you said the ball was never moved to the wide players quick enough. By the time it got to them they had been closed down. So in the case of McAteer I wouldn't be too hard on him. But he does need to find a way to beat a player. |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 19:30 - Oct 22 with 1588 views | thebluewizzard |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:06 - Oct 22 by redrickstuhaart |
When he did have it, he wasted it. He doesnt beat players, doesnt have enough speed to get behind them and hasnt shown any eye for a pass which might warrant checking back and looking up, as he often did.
His attempts at beating players always seem to be just going towards them and hoping they sell themelves, before ambling into them with the ball. |
Would add that we do this all the time, last year how many times did we break down the right? It doesn't matter who it is we just don't seem to use him. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:34 - Oct 22 with 1542 views | HighgateBlue |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:20 - Oct 22 by bournemouthblue |
When he does make a decent run into a decent position we should pass to him though, it's not rocket science
I thought there were signs of improvement in his play, he still isn't where we want him to be but who in this team is? |
On his performances thus far, I have a pretty low opinion of him (as a player, not a person, obviously). His shooting in particular has stood out, and in the context of our wasteful bunch that's impressive.
However, this is professional sport, and not the school playground where you pass to your mates. Kieran rates him, Kieran picks him, and his colleagues should trust him unless and until he's no longer in the side. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:21 - Oct 22 with 1355 views | Mark |
I noticed that too. I wonder if players don't have much confidence in him, and his own confidence is low too. Surely he must have something about him for us to have paid £12m! He turns 24 next month, so it not a youngster. I see he scored 7 goals in 44 appearances for Leicester, plus 1 in 18 during a loan at Wimbledon. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:25 - Oct 22 with 1337 views | brazil1981 |
Clearly short of confidence along with most of our squad bar half a dozen!
Think he also should take a share of blame for first goal last night, he could have stopped that long ball forward from the left back, jogged across half heartedly and didn’t even attempt a block! | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:28 - Oct 22 with 1319 views | Smoresy |
I absolutely saw what you saw, in the second half also as it was right in front of me. Too often his limited moments have resulted in blazing over the bar or testing the full back's shin pads, I'd be lying if I said I've seen good things as yet, but he's also getting a rough deal from teammates. | | | |
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| Kasey McAteer on 20:36 - Oct 22 with 1287 views | stickymockwell |
Its not just McAteer. Ive seen the same happen to Sindre so many times. Sindre only seems to recieve the ball with his back to the defenders. Every time hes been in space the CMs have either passed backwards, not seen him or been too slow to release.
I think Liefs attacking makes it so much easier for the left midfielder also. Our RBs dont make the same runs. [Post edited 22 Oct 20:38]
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| Kasey McAteer on 20:39 - Oct 22 with 1250 views | Alberto_the_frog |
I also noticed that he was not being passed to much. I am yet to see what he offers us. Perhaps his team mates are not confident that he is often the best option either. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:55 - Oct 22 with 1175 views | DavoIPB |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:36 - Oct 22 by stickymockwell |
Its not just McAteer. Ive seen the same happen to Sindre so many times. Sindre only seems to recieve the ball with his back to the defenders. Every time hes been in space the CMs have either passed backwards, not seen him or been too slow to release.
I think Liefs attacking makes it so much easier for the left midfielder also. Our RBs dont make the same runs. [Post edited 22 Oct 20:38]
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It's how we play. The quick forward pass is rarely used apart from young who set some nice moves flowing yesterday. Even on the left we seem to take an age to spot a run and release the ball it's all so slow and deliberate. So easy for teams to read and get back into position.
Having said that McAteer was awful every time we did pass to him summed up by his control which was non existent.
On a side note Clarke and philogene rarely use Davis on the overlap even when he is in acres of space. Again though his crossing and accuracy of passing, decision making and shooting have been really woeful this season. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:59 - Oct 22 with 1138 views | badadski |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:39 - Oct 22 by Alberto_the_frog |
I also noticed that he was not being passed to much. I am yet to see what he offers us. Perhaps his team mates are not confident that he is often the best option either. |
Do you remember at school where someone picked you to be on their team but the last player to be picked was always the crap one that no one wanted to pass to as they knew he would fall over his Own feet or something. It seems a lot of our players don’t have trust in their team mates ability so won’t pass to them or they try ti do too much themselves. It’s getting worse now and when you see what happens when they do a great pass or cross and anteam mates mis controls, blows an easy chance or just can’t be bothered to run then who can blame them. Unlike the previous team that would run through walls for one another and knew the limits of strengths and would play to them this team doesn’t seem to have the faintest idea of what to do which is why it’s so slow and laborious. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 05:40 - Oct 23 with 761 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| Kasey McAteer on 20:59 - Oct 22 by badadski |
Do you remember at school where someone picked you to be on their team but the last player to be picked was always the crap one that no one wanted to pass to as they knew he would fall over his Own feet or something. It seems a lot of our players don’t have trust in their team mates ability so won’t pass to them or they try ti do too much themselves. It’s getting worse now and when you see what happens when they do a great pass or cross and anteam mates mis controls, blows an easy chance or just can’t be bothered to run then who can blame them. Unlike the previous team that would run through walls for one another and knew the limits of strengths and would play to them this team doesn’t seem to have the faintest idea of what to do which is why it’s so slow and laborious. |
Note last season Delap hardly passed to anyone either. Imagine having Delap in the side right now, he would win most of these games on his own.
This McAteer is one of the more bizarre signings of recent times of which let's face it there are a few.
I mentioned this on another thread but when he fell over himself after being put clean through by Young, that was not good based on the fee paid. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 05:59 - Oct 23 with 732 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
He’s kind of a victim of his own fee really, if he was a £3m squad player like Furlong the expectations wouldn’t be so high. But £12m in most people’s eyes is a substantial sum for which you’d expect an impact player. Maybe the weight of that is affecting him, but it did seem that even Leicester fans thought he was a fairly average player. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 06:05 - Oct 23 with 720 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| Kasey McAteer on 05:59 - Oct 23 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
He’s kind of a victim of his own fee really, if he was a £3m squad player like Furlong the expectations wouldn’t be so high. But £12m in most people’s eyes is a substantial sum for which you’d expect an impact player. Maybe the weight of that is affecting him, but it did seem that even Leicester fans thought he was a fairly average player. |
Exactly.
If you go back to pre KM managers, McAteer looks no better than the likes of Jackson, Ward etc
I would go as far to say that Kayden who plays pretty much every game for Derby is at a very similar level, but, much quicker. [Post edited 23 Oct 6:21]
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| Kasey McAteer on 06:16 - Oct 23 with 703 views | Blue_Heath |
You have a point in that most of our play always seems to go down the left. He doesn't possess the break away skills of an in form Burns but from what I have seen is he really any better than Ogbene? I feel we have discarded too many players too quickly and replaced them with at best players who are not any better. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 06:38 - Oct 23 with 651 views | franz_tyson |
I'd actually start him in front of Egeli. He's been bang average so far, but it's the massive fee that has been the main problem. He should focus on the basics and putting in a shift. He can't do the tricks like Omari, but he can still be available to put in crosses and be a presence on the right. He's not a 12 million player, but he's still won promotion and has PL experience. He can do a job and we need to protect Egeli as he's a young kid and new to this league.
As long as McAteer can put in a shift... I'll stick with him. Not his fault we paid over the odds for him. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 06:40 - Oct 23 with 645 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| Kasey McAteer on 06:38 - Oct 23 by franz_tyson |
I'd actually start him in front of Egeli. He's been bang average so far, but it's the massive fee that has been the main problem. He should focus on the basics and putting in a shift. He can't do the tricks like Omari, but he can still be available to put in crosses and be a presence on the right. He's not a 12 million player, but he's still won promotion and has PL experience. He can do a job and we need to protect Egeli as he's a young kid and new to this league.
As long as McAteer can put in a shift... I'll stick with him. Not his fault we paid over the odds for him. |
I don't think he is anywhere good enough to do the basics, at Champ level sorry to say.
What happens if we were to go up, we would need to buy another right winger again ha | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 08:51 - Oct 23 with 467 views | BtreeBlueBlood |
| Kasey McAteer on 19:20 - Oct 22 by bournemouthblue |
When he does make a decent run into a decent position we should pass to him though, it's not rocket science
I thought there were signs of improvement in his play, he still isn't where we want him to be but who in this team is? |
I forgot he was on the pitch until he was on popped up in front of me at start of 2nd half.
He was making sprints for young to slide him in or make space-but passes went astray.
I only saw him at Leicester alongside a rampant Vardy in their promotion season!
Buying from another relegation side where morale was low has been low - has that continued?
I just can’t see where he would fit in!
That right side, obviously we had pace with Burns and ogbene in the premiership obviously both injured.
Yeah, we bought two right sided players £30 million - now we lost all momentum last season when our speed had gone from that side these two players haven’t shown the pace .
Clarke could play wide right as we’ve seen but needs to mix it up and go to the borderline like you did and then the strikers I’ve got a gamble to get to that front post
Why not play Wally as a number 10?? He big n skilful. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:12 - Oct 23 with 373 views | franz_tyson |
| Kasey McAteer on 06:40 - Oct 23 by WolfieAtTheBack |
I don't think he is anywhere good enough to do the basics, at Champ level sorry to say.
What happens if we were to go up, we would need to buy another right winger again ha |
If we go up and need to buy a new right winger.... its a good problem to have. We need to stop worrying about life in the PL next season.
Mcateer is not a baller.... but he's got promotion and spent a season in the PL. He's not some wild punt from lower league or like that Brekke Skaard dude. He can do a job if he gets some confidence. We have other concerns apart from him. | | | |
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