| I thought McAteer was dreadful today 18:45 - Dec 26 with 1984 views | davblue |
He hardly completed anything passes, crosses, shots, dribbling it was as poor a performance as I’ve seen for a long time.
I don’t want this to be a pile on on him but I’m not sure where we go from here. Looks like he needs to get away on loan I thought the same about Jack Clarke and he’s come though it but we don’t have the option to send him on loan anywhere so we are going to have to stick with
Him. Whilst I don’t think he’s a brilliant player he obviously better than what we are seeing currently. Might be one where we have to wait a while I.e. next season but we need someone for now. |  | | |  |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 18:53 - Dec 26 with 1908 views | MattinLondon |
He’s clearly very low on confidence and isn’t performing anywhere close to where we need him to be. He looks like a pretty average championship player but we need players much better than that level.
He was overpriced - not his fault but he does work hard which could be why KM trusts him to be in the first team. For what I’ve seen of him, I think we wouldn't be worse off if we promoted a youngster from the U23 team. Would have saved a lot of money.
He’s not the only player regularly underperforming which is rather damning of our recruitment. [Post edited 26 Dec 18:58]
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 18:55 - Dec 26 with 1900 views | pointofblue |
First half McAteer was poor, but I thought he improved in the second. Indeed, we subbed both him and Philogene just as they were starting to have an impact on the game, which makes me think the subs were pre-planned rather than what was actually happening on the pitch. Egeli did OK but Clarke was poor today. |  |
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:07 - Dec 26 with 1776 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
McAteer grew into the game well, and 2nd half was probably our brightest player for the 15-20 minutes he was on. Don't see why you need to single him out. |  |
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:13 - Dec 26 with 1753 views | Illinoisblue |
He was better second half but as someone else pointed out, not giving the ball away and putting a cross in, is a pretty basic ask of a player who repeat after me, COST TWELVE MILLION POUNDS.
Would like to see a Town in 5 special of Ashton being quizzed repeatedly on how they came to the conclusion McAteer was worth that kind of money. |  |
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:16 - Dec 26 with 1702 views | billabasblue |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:07 - Dec 26 by LegendofthePhoenix |
McAteer grew into the game well, and 2nd half was probably our brightest player for the 15-20 minutes he was on. Don't see why you need to single him out. |
Possibly because half a season has now elapsed and we haven’t seen him
Produce a single assist ,goal , good bit of dribbling , good shot that was unlucky etc literally nothing that gives you any hope that there is actually a footballer in there somewhere ! | | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:18 - Dec 26 with 1688 views | MattinLondon |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:13 - Dec 26 by Illinoisblue |
He was better second half but as someone else pointed out, not giving the ball away and putting a cross in, is a pretty basic ask of a player who repeat after me, COST TWELVE MILLION POUNDS.
Would like to see a Town in 5 special of Ashton being quizzed repeatedly on how they came to the conclusion McAteer was worth that kind of money. |
His price tag isn’t his fault - but so far, he appears ti be as total waste of money. | | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:18 - Dec 26 with 1692 views | pointofblue |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:13 - Dec 26 by Illinoisblue |
He was better second half but as someone else pointed out, not giving the ball away and putting a cross in, is a pretty basic ask of a player who repeat after me, COST TWELVE MILLION POUNDS.
Would like to see a Town in 5 special of Ashton being quizzed repeatedly on how they came to the conclusion McAteer was worth that kind of money. |
My bigger issue is his position. He plays on the right wing. We had Egeli, Ogbene and Burns coming back for the new year. Why sign him and let Ogbene go? Did Ogbene ask to leave for first team football? If not, why not spent the money on another CM or striker? | |
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| Is any of Azor, Akpom, or McAteer performing at top end championship level? on 19:20 - Dec 26 with 1671 views | PioneerBlue |
This can be nothing but objective. Let’s not make it about one player.
Im not interested in gut feel, i have a gut feel. Gut feel says the answer to the question is no but id like data (and this is nothing about personality, they all seem like good guys).
I would love KMck to be able to get them into form, the squad needs it, and its not surprising the team looks a bit bereft of final third ideas and capability when three of your bottom performers are in that part of the pitch and are lacking the current game contribution to offer the team a push to the next level. | |
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:30 - Dec 26 with 1574 views | CaptainAhab |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:07 - Dec 26 by LegendofthePhoenix |
McAteer grew into the game well, and 2nd half was probably our brightest player for the 15-20 minutes he was on. Don't see why you need to single him out. |
Didn't mean to downvote apologies.
He looked decent second half, but I've never seen a player look so bereft of confidence as he did first half. He really needs a goal, theres definitely a decent player in there. | | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 22:38 - Dec 26 with 1215 views | billlm |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 18:55 - Dec 26 by pointofblue |
First half McAteer was poor, but I thought he improved in the second. Indeed, we subbed both him and Philogene just as they were starting to have an impact on the game, which makes me think the subs were pre-planned rather than what was actually happening on the pitch. Egeli did OK but Clarke was poor today. |
Just said on another post pre planned but christ have some flexibility and brains, at the time of their subs macateer and philogene were becoming very dangerous, oh it's planned take them off, that's crazy, |  | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 23:42 - Dec 26 with 1027 views | Simonds92 |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 18:53 - Dec 26 by MattinLondon |
He’s clearly very low on confidence and isn’t performing anywhere close to where we need him to be. He looks like a pretty average championship player but we need players much better than that level.
He was overpriced - not his fault but he does work hard which could be why KM trusts him to be in the first team. For what I’ve seen of him, I think we wouldn't be worse off if we promoted a youngster from the U23 team. Would have saved a lot of money.
He’s not the only player regularly underperforming which is rather damning of our recruitment. [Post edited 26 Dec 18:58]
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I think 'pretty average Championship player' is being extremely generous to be honest. Forgetting the price tag, it's not relevant to whether he should be playing regularly, he fundamentally has a real lack of quality. At least when things weren't going for Clarke, you could see there was ability there. McAteer really lacks any technical ability and vision, he's unable to keep himself onside despite being able to look along the line, his end product is terrible, his ball retention is bad, he takes too long on the ball and everything is telegraphed. I genuinely don't see anything in him at all other than he works hard, which is nowhere near enough. | | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 23:47 - Dec 26 with 1005 views | Nutkins_Return |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 19:16 - Dec 26 by billabasblue |
Possibly because half a season has now elapsed and we haven’t seen him
Produce a single assist ,goal , good bit of dribbling , good shot that was unlucky etc literally nothing that gives you any hope that there is actually a footballer in there somewhere ! |
That's not fair or true at all (and I think it was really poor business for the money). It's the money that is baffling. At a fraction of the price he is a young player that can be developed. We paid finished product money though so a return looks difficult.
Back to you point he has has some moments of quality. Been a bit unlucky not to have an assist. I'm sure it was his ball to Azon against Wednesday where it was a miracle we didn't score. Was a quality pass. Would have given him much needed quality. Has out a few decent balls in. Not nearly enough end product yet of course.
I hate this always picking him out though.. | |
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 06:28 - Dec 27 with 798 views | billabasblue |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 23:47 - Dec 26 by Nutkins_Return |
That's not fair or true at all (and I think it was really poor business for the money). It's the money that is baffling. At a fraction of the price he is a young player that can be developed. We paid finished product money though so a return looks difficult.
Back to you point he has has some moments of quality. Been a bit unlucky not to have an assist. I'm sure it was his ball to Azon against Wednesday where it was a miracle we didn't score. Was a quality pass. Would have given him much needed quality. Has out a few decent balls in. Not nearly enough end product yet of course.
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Which part isn’t true ? How many goals or assists does he have for us ? How many times you seen him skin a full back and leave him for dead ? How many times has he produced something which made you think F me we have a serious talent on our hands here ?
Had we paid £2m for him you would be disappointed with the return we have had but might think ok it’s only £2m he may come good , we paid £11m for him which currently looks like the worst value for money singing we have ever made at that price !
I would now much rather see Egli start all games with Wes sharing the role as and when required. | | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 07:37 - Dec 27 with 667 views | Wickets |
He had a decent second half , ok not doing enough to justify his price tag but the fee was not his doing . If you watch the game back he did make two very important interceptions second half and should have finished with an assist . Pity we dont have an on form central striker this season . |  | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 08:11 - Dec 27 with 558 views | ashtonscoffeecup |
so many of them underperformed yesterday, but he really stands out doesn’t he.
moves breaking down when the ball goes to him, poor control, passing miles off the crispness you’d expect.
i’m rather concerned more that KM continues to play him. it’s absolutely obviously he hasn’t the quality or confidence to be in the squad, yet he persists. i’d like to think that fee isn’t playing into him being picked, but struggle to see beyond it at times | | | |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 11:18 - Dec 27 with 363 views | DJR |
It didn't help McAteer to be met with a very loud collective groan* from most of the away end we attacked in the first half every time he "made a mistake".
He was much better in the second half and maybe it was because he wasn't attacking the away end.
We really do have to get behind our players, warts and all.
*groan probably doesn't capture it, it was much angrier than that. [Post edited 27 Dec 11:25]
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 11:33 - Dec 27 with 310 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 11:18 - Dec 27 by DJR |
It didn't help McAteer to be met with a very loud collective groan* from most of the away end we attacked in the first half every time he "made a mistake".
He was much better in the second half and maybe it was because he wasn't attacking the away end.
We really do have to get behind our players, warts and all.
*groan probably doesn't capture it, it was much angrier than that. [Post edited 27 Dec 11:25]
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It is notable that McKenna starts him in away matches and gives him very little pitch time at home. It is like he is trying to protect him from the fan negativity. I suspect it is also why the likes of Humphreys haven't been introduced off the bench at all. It will be interesting to see how he does in the cup match because I think he should be getting pitch time at this level. I would certainly expect him to be playing midfield or left back ahead of Ashley Young.
The determination of some fans to single out some players and use the price tag to bash them even more is very disappointing. I guess that if we had been a Premier League club regularly spending 10s of millions on players for a few seasons no one would bat an eyelid at £12M for him. Unfortunately we have come from a position where that is seen as a particularly big fee. |  |
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| I thought McAteer was dreadful today on 11:34 - Dec 27 with 305 views | waveneyblue |
Did McAteer play ? I havent seen anything on here or on social media about him. |  | | |
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