Jack Ross admits that he is tempted to throw Aiden McGeady straight into the matchday 18 on Saturday.McGeady played no part in pre-season due to a calf injury but he joined in with the squad during training this week. "I always look at each player individually, because they react in different ways. Aiden, now he's back and fit, he's better in with us as a group than doing conditioning work," Ross said. "Normally if you look at the time he'd been out, he'd have continued to do work on his own and be fed into us. "With Aiden it's better just to get back in, he'll get more from it. "So then it's the same question [with first team return], do we just throw him back in. "We have to weigh that up, whether it be from the bench or starting or whatever that may be. We'll continue to assess that. "We film training and we'll take a look and take a decision from there. "Saturday is quick but if you asked Aiden, he's just the type of player who loves playing," he added. "You see how he plays, the ball is the most important thing to him. "We did some things in training that I'm going to watch back this afternoon and there'll be a balanced decision from there. "His quality means that it is tempting." Ross has had one or two fresh injury concerns this week with Dylan McGeouch, Denver Hume and Jack Baldwin all picking up knocks in training. All three trained on Thursday, however, and so should be fit for the trip to Burton. The Black Cats boss will make a late decision on Bryan Oviedo, who only returned from international duty late on Wednesday night. The left-back had traveled from Seoul, where his side fell to a 2-0 defeat against South Korea.
Be great to have him back. I wonder how common it is to record training and watch it back, doesn't strike me as something every manager would do, not by a long shot.
“Set the goal up” is stretching it a little. It wasn’t anything magic. He passed the ball to Maguire who rifled it home from 25 yards! If he’s fit and up for it kind, he starts. If fit he will tear this league more than one new one!!
Not sure he fits our new philosophy. We need 11 players working hard, pressing the play when we haven't got the ball. McGeady is a bit of a lazy bastard and a luxury player.
I’m not sure he is what we need. He won’t be fit enough to last 90 minutes, and despite an abundance of ability the application doesn’t always match. He often gets dispossessed dawdles on the ball, when we need to be much quicker with it. A good option from the bench, but probably too r pensive for that
Just watched the highlights, McGeady didn't set up the goal all, he passed to Honeyman and it was his pass to Maguire that set up the goal
I'm with you mate. Still not keen on Catts inclusion either. Slap two Max Powers and a Honeyman in the centre of the park all day long. I must add I'm not impressed with McGeouch either. Between him Catts and Mcgeady, I see what they bring but what I don't see in any of them is hard graft. A bread and butter requirement at this level and I just haven't seen it in them. I know catts is limited from a careerer of back and hip problems but the other two have no excuse.
Thought it was Honeyman from the video highlights. Agree about McGeady as well, bit of a luxury starting him atm. Good sub option though.
We defo miss power! The entire midfield benefits from his presence. Mcgeouch and catts don't work together as well. Either of them paired with power should be good though
Power is the signing I've been most impressed with. Cracking player for this level and should be an asset if we went up.
Absolutely thus. McGeouch or Cattermole and him are our best pairing. He’s missing again this Saturday isn’t he? Last of his 4 match ban
