| Kasey McAteer 08:16 - Mar 1 with 1901 views | quad |
I thought he played very well when he came on.
His pace was a constant threat, he worked hard out of possession and won some good tackles, and he slipped a lovely through pass to someone (I think it was Mehmeti) which created a really good chance. He just needs to build more confidence to take players on.
Deserved a lot higher rating than the 5.9 he got on TWTD in my opinion.
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| Kasey McAteer on 08:34 - Mar 1 with 1790 views | EddyJ |
I thought he was pretty poor. Was put into good positions and did nothing with them. Lost the ball several times. Missed tackles.
I want him to come good as much as anyone, but I didn't see it yesterday. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 08:52 - Mar 1 with 1676 views | belgablue |
He was a very good save away from another assist via. Hirst's header back across goal |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 08:58 - Mar 1 with 1616 views | cbower |
| Kasey McAteer on 08:52 - Mar 1 by belgablue |
He was a very good save away from another assist via. Hirst's header back across goal |
Wasn't that a Mehmeti cross? I might be wrong. |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 09:11 - Mar 1 with 1533 views | Dubtractor |
| Kasey McAteer on 08:58 - Mar 1 by cbower |
Wasn't that a Mehmeti cross? I might be wrong. |
Yeah, was Mehmeti. |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 09:18 - Mar 1 with 1492 views | jas0999 |
Not for me. Thought he was okay, but certainly not great. 6/10 seems reasonable. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:22 - Mar 1 with 1467 views | farkenhell |
| Kasey McAteer on 08:34 - Mar 1 by EddyJ |
I thought he was pretty poor. Was put into good positions and did nothing with them. Lost the ball several times. Missed tackles.
I want him to come good as much as anyone, but I didn't see it yesterday. |
Near the end of the game, he took up an excellent position but Mehmeti chose to shoot. It was similar to the Burns goal against Coventry, but Nunez played him in on that occasion. That sort of thing is happening to McAteer at the moment. I wouldn't mind if he had showed a bit of displeasure towards Mehmeti for not passing to him but he didn't. He just seemed to shrug his shoulders. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:27 - Mar 1 with 1438 views | DanTheMan |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:22 - Mar 1 by farkenhell |
Near the end of the game, he took up an excellent position but Mehmeti chose to shoot. It was similar to the Burns goal against Coventry, but Nunez played him in on that occasion. That sort of thing is happening to McAteer at the moment. I wouldn't mind if he had showed a bit of displeasure towards Mehmeti for not passing to him but he didn't. He just seemed to shrug his shoulders. |
He did get annoyed from what I recall, he turned around to him and gestured he was open and I think Mehmeti apologised.
Would have to watch it back to be certain. |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 09:28 - Mar 1 with 1431 views | farkenhell |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:27 - Mar 1 by DanTheMan |
He did get annoyed from what I recall, he turned around to him and gestured he was open and I think Mehmeti apologised.
Would have to watch it back to be certain. |
That's good, I must have missed that. | | | |
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| Kasey McAteer on 09:35 - Mar 1 with 1402 views | Exiled2Surrey |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:11 - Mar 1 by Dubtractor |
Yeah, was Mehmeti. |
From memory he slid a really nice pass in for Mehmeti to put that cross in - good awareness there. The stats guys would not doubt rate that strongly as an expected pre assist… | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:40 - Mar 1 with 1358 views | Simonds92 |
Jesus christ
No matter how desperate people are to support our players, when they put in a performance which is very very average (probably being generous) in the limited amount of time they had on the pitch, going on about how good they were just has the opposite effects. The reality is people will look at this and say well hold on, he didn't really do anything at all other than run offside when there's no way he should have been offside, and lose a number of duels with opposition players. Sometimes its best to just not mention it.
If you genuinely thought he was great I don't know what you're watching. (Although there were a number of fans who appealed for hand ball yesterday against their own player when Mehmeti played the ball in to his own arm, so clearly some people are watching a completely different game). | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:48 - Mar 1 with 1294 views | _CliveBaker_ |
Wouldn’t go that far. I thought he was alright, little more. To be fair to him he got 20 minutes when the game was dead and both sides happy to hear the final whistle, so it was always likely to be the cameo we saw. Don’t see any reason why he would be singled out for praise off the back of yesterday’s contribution TBH, nor criticism.
I do think he’s got a lot of the things that you can’t learn. He’s rapid and as fit as a butchers dog, a natural conventional wide man who likes to get to the byline. He’s the exact profile of Ogbene. Needs to be cuter in possession for me but doesn’t warrant the criticism that’s gone his way this season. Is he worth £12m? Probably not, we overpaid and I think we were all saying that on day 1. Nonetheless he’s a good option out there and personally I’d rather it’s him taking the load off Burns as a more like for like replacement. Swansea suited both, they narrow the pitch to create an overload centrally where they press aggressively, and the wide threats we offered yesterday were always going to be important if we were to win. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 11:40 - Mar 1 with 1048 views | DanTheMan |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:11 - Mar 1 by Dubtractor |
Yeah, was Mehmeti. |
Will say though he put in a lovely cross for Hirst and only didn't get an assist due to a fantastic save. | |
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| Kasey McAteer on 13:10 - Mar 1 with 829 views | BouncebackIpswich |
Do we have to have a new thread scraping the barrel for anything to praise mcateer for every single time he comes on for a cameo?
Yes he's improving and I doff my cap to him for work ethic to get better, but the reality is he's way way off the level needed for what he was brought in for, aka a first team regular.
No way on earth Town make that purchase again with the benefit of hindsight. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 13:29 - Mar 1 with 755 views | pointofblue |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:48 - Mar 1 by _CliveBaker_ |
Wouldn’t go that far. I thought he was alright, little more. To be fair to him he got 20 minutes when the game was dead and both sides happy to hear the final whistle, so it was always likely to be the cameo we saw. Don’t see any reason why he would be singled out for praise off the back of yesterday’s contribution TBH, nor criticism.
I do think he’s got a lot of the things that you can’t learn. He’s rapid and as fit as a butchers dog, a natural conventional wide man who likes to get to the byline. He’s the exact profile of Ogbene. Needs to be cuter in possession for me but doesn’t warrant the criticism that’s gone his way this season. Is he worth £12m? Probably not, we overpaid and I think we were all saying that on day 1. Nonetheless he’s a good option out there and personally I’d rather it’s him taking the load off Burns as a more like for like replacement. Swansea suited both, they narrow the pitch to create an overload centrally where they press aggressively, and the wide threats we offered yesterday were always going to be important if we were to win. |
I think you sum it up here with we overpaid and were saying that from day one. Most of us could see that - why couldn't Ashton?
Maybe something will click for him. I hope it does. I suppose the issue is he hasn't had a chance to build on anything decent. He did well as a sub against Derby but has hasn't had many minutes since then, so doesn't have the opportunity to find form. | |
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| Kasey McAteer on 13:50 - Mar 1 with 703 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Eh?
Pretty poor tbh. Had little impact and still not looking across the line, which is a bit of a cardinal sin for wide players. |  |
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| Kasey McAteer on 14:44 - Mar 1 with 599 views | bazza |
He will always have his critics, purely for the price tag, I thought he looked ok yesterday. Hopefully he can contribute towards our promotion with a few more assists and a goal or two. Stranger things have happened. |  | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 14:46 - Mar 1 with 591 views | quad |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:35 - Mar 1 by Exiled2Surrey |
From memory he slid a really nice pass in for Mehmeti to put that cross in - good awareness there. The stats guys would not doubt rate that strongly as an expected pre assist… |
That's the one. Slid a really good, perfectly weighted pass through to Mehmeti who crossed it to Hirst who had the header that was brilliantly saved.
Obviously 12 million for McAteer was way too much. And agree he's not good enough to start, but I thought he played well when he came on and is certainly a half decent squad player. I guess I'm in the minority. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 15:50 - Mar 1 with 471 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Kasey McAteer on 09:18 - Mar 1 by jas0999 |
Not for me. Thought he was okay, but certainly not great. 6/10 seems reasonable. |
Indeed. The first two posts on here are exaggerations in opposite directions. He did fine. Nothing more, nothing less. If you see him as a Town player who you want to do well you would have no issue with his performance today. If you worry about his fee and think he should be our best player, you will be disappointed that he isn't.
At the end of the day, I would say we have paid a fee based on what is seen as potential. If you look at how the likes of Taylor have progressed over time, you would have to say let's give it that time to see. The same is true of Egeli. Unfortunately, too many fans don't have that patience. [Post edited 1 Mar 15:59]
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| Kasey McAteer on 16:29 - Mar 1 with 378 views | _CliveBaker_ |
| Kasey McAteer on 13:29 - Mar 1 by pointofblue |
I think you sum it up here with we overpaid and were saying that from day one. Most of us could see that - why couldn't Ashton?
Maybe something will click for him. I hope it does. I suppose the issue is he hasn't had a chance to build on anything decent. He did well as a sub against Derby but has hasn't had many minutes since then, so doesn't have the opportunity to find form. |
Not excusing the fee but I think we were probably fishing in a limited pond in terms of the profile we wanted, and signing off a club that looked like a promotion rival at the time. Ultimately if we identified him then we pay what Leicester were demanding or we don’t get him. He’s a good age and has decent experience, but for me he’s one who probably sits in the £5m - £7m bracket and nobody bats an eyelid. I said the day he joined that we had overpaid by about £5m and would stand by that. Some will look expensive, some will look cheap like Mehmeti owing to his contract situation, I think that’s just how it is and we shouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Ultimately all that matters now is his contribution. He’s still got time on his side and he’s got the physical attributes to be an asset. Hopefully he can impact the game a bit more and improve his consistency and decision making. He’s got a good role model in Burns. | | | |
| Kasey McAteer on 17:52 - Mar 1 with 247 views | LankHenners |
Came on to see the game out, did that without doing anything particularly noteworthy. 6/10 about right.
Appreciate him and others have come in for some unnecessary stick but does seem to be a fair bit of overcorrection going on with some players. |  |
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