I liked Barrie McKay for half a season
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He was fairly decent, then went to Swansea, then dropped to League One to play at Fleetwood at the age of 26 making 23 appearances in 20/21. Returned to Scotland to Hearts where he was back in regular first team football, which is a decent reminder of the level of the Scottish Premiershipleague.
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Forest fans seem to have a blindspot for mediocre wingers who can run a bit but actually produce little threat or value. Barrie McKay and Garath McCleary were both shit from the outset but a large part of the fanbase were determined to manifest them into the next coming of Gary Crosby when they were both at best Temu Chris Allen.
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Do what?
McCleary clearly had it, right from the off. What he needed, unfortunately for us, was a couple of years adjustment to the physicality of the professional game (and to get the other side of the billies).
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And Chris Allen was fucking dreadful.
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Barrie McKay was decent in his first few weeks but lost it quickly (probably defenders realised that they could get physical and he'd give up) and was no use after that. McCleary had a great two months at the end of the season when we stayed up under Cotterill/O'Driscoll (won PotS, as well) but did nothing outside of that for us and I'm not aware of him being brilliant at Reading subsequently.
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Rubbish. Could run fast. Quite jinky as well, if you like that kind of thing. Fuck all end product. Again, it's a blindspot for a lot of Forest fans.
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Yes he was. My point entirely.
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I think that's slightly harsh. McCleary was no world-beater - I think we can all agree with that. But he played in the Premier League with Reading, who he also went on to play nearly 250 times for (presuming most of them at Championship level). That was after more than a century of appearances for Forest (and 13 goals).
He was a good level above Barrie McKay. Or maybe he was utterly useless, as you say, and somehow managed to con four clubs into allowing him in excess of 550 professional run-outs.
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40 in May. Still playing in the EPL. Not bad for a player who had dropped down into non-league before working his way back up, and is completely shit.
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That seemed a stretch, but think you mean EFL
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You are correct, I am wrong. I tend to forget about the branding.
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Frankly amazing this conversation has happened without Leeds being mentioned.
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But he was really fast. His legs were too fast for his brain and feet.
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Nice little Anderson farewell montage on the socialz...
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It is. A mate played against him in a veterans tournament earlier this year and said he was still pretty quick for a bloke in his 50s.
