Worst SWFC Player of the past 10 years (Owlstalk Ratings)

[Emerson Thome]

Aiden McGeady

A loan signing by Carlos Carvalhal in February 2016, McGeady squeezes into our undistinguished list with 10 starting appearances. While most of the Top 10 are bad players in bad Wednesday teams, McGeady is that rare beast of a bad performer in a good team, the 2015/16 vintage. Brought in to provide competition for Ross Wallace on the flank, McGeady ended up falling out of contention with Marco Matias and Jeremy Helan replacing Wallace from the subs bench in the 3 play-off games.

 

In 9 of those games that McGeady started, he was hooked well before the end, only playing the full 90 minutes in his final appearance (an end-of-season rotation game ahead of the playoffs).

 

Of the 10 games that McGeady started, Wednesday’s record was decent; winning 4, drawing 3 and losing the other 3. Although dig a little deeper, and those 4 wins were a 2-1 win at Birmingham (McGeady subbed on 66 mins with Wednesday 1-0 down), a 3-0 win at home to Charlton (McGeady subbed at half-time with the score 0-0) and a 1-0 win at Huddersfield (McGeady subbed on 76 minutes with the score 0-0).

 

So, the only win McGeady can take full credit for is the 3-0 win at Forest (subbed at 2-0 on 73 mins). McGeady scored one and assisted another in this game, easily the highlight of his Wednesday career, earning his highest match rating of 7.75.

 

In four of the other ten games he started he received the worst rating of the side (at Birmingham and Derby, home to Rotherham and Charlton). In three out of the ten starts McGeady was subbed at half-time, the aforementioned Charlton game, a 1-0 loss at home to Rotherham and a 4-1 defeat at Bristol City, with Wednesday down 3-0 at half-time.

 

A player with almost 600 career club starts, and with distinguished spells at Celtic and Sunderland and 93 caps for the Republic of Ireland, McGeady can’t be classed as a bad player over his career. But for Wednesday he was the wrong player at the wrong time – a natural winger in a team that liked to play narrow and cut inside from the flanks. A player brought in to add spark, either from the bench or from the start – but in the end Wednesday only scored 4 goals from the 676 minutes he was on the pitch.

[Five Archers]

11 minutes ago, Emerson Thome said:

So here's our number 10 worst player.....

 

Could he not have a bonus point for having long sleeves?

[Craig enock]

2 hours ago, Emerson Thome said:

Aiden McGeady

A loan signing by Carlos Carvalhal in February 2016, McGeady squeezes into our undistinguished list with 10 starting appearances. While most of the Top 10 are bad players in bad Wednesday teams, McGeady is that rare beast of a bad performer in a good team, the 2015/16 vintage. Brought in to provide competition for Ross Wallace on the flank, McGeady ended up falling out of contention with Marco Matias and Jeremy Helan replacing Wallace from the subs bench in the 3 play-off games.

 

In 9 of those games that McGeady started, he was hooked well before the end, only playing the full 90 minutes in his final appearance (an end-of-season rotation game ahead of the playoffs).

 

Of the 10 games that McGeady started, Wednesday’s record was decent; winning 4, drawing 3 and losing the other 3. Although dig a little deeper, and those 4 wins were a 2-1 win at Birmingham (McGeady subbed on 66 mins with Wednesday 1-0 down), a 3-0 win at home to Charlton (McGeady subbed at half-time with the score 0-0) and a 1-0 win at Huddersfield (McGeady subbed on 76 minutes with the score 0-0).

 

So, the only win McGeady can take full credit for is the 3-0 win at Forest (subbed at 2-0 on 73 mins). McGeady scored one and assisted another in this game, easily the highlight of his Wednesday career, earning his highest match rating of 7.75.

 

In four of the other ten games he started he received the worst rating of the side (at Birmingham and Derby, home to Rotherham and Charlton). In three out of the ten starts McGeady was subbed at half-time, the aforementioned Charlton game, a 1-0 loss at home to Rotherham and a 4-1 defeat at Bristol City, with Wednesday down 3-0 at half-time.

 

A player with almost 600 career club starts, and with distinguished spells at Celtic and Sunderland and 93 caps for the Republic of Ireland, McGeady can’t be classed as a bad player over his career. But for Wednesday he was the wrong player at the wrong time – a natural winger in a team that liked to play narrow and cut inside from the flanks. A player brought in to add spark, either from the bench or from the start – but in the end Wednesday only scored 4 goals from the 676 minutes he was on the pitch.

Still gutted Carlos didn't have him at least on bench for play off final 

[Craig enock]

2 hours ago, Emerson Thome said:

Aiden McGeady

A loan signing by Carlos Carvalhal in February 2016, McGeady squeezes into our undistinguished list with 10 starting appearances. While most of the Top 10 are bad players in bad Wednesday teams, McGeady is that rare beast of a bad performer in a good team, the 2015/16 vintage. Brought in to provide competition for Ross Wallace on the flank, McGeady ended up falling out of contention with Marco Matias and Jeremy Helan replacing Wallace from the subs bench in the 3 play-off games.

 

In 9 of those games that McGeady started, he was hooked well before the end, only playing the full 90 minutes in his final appearance (an end-of-season rotation game ahead of the playoffs).

 

Of the 10 games that McGeady started, Wednesday’s record was decent; winning 4, drawing 3 and losing the other 3. Although dig a little deeper, and those 4 wins were a 2-1 win at Birmingham (McGeady subbed on 66 mins with Wednesday 1-0 down), a 3-0 win at home to Charlton (McGeady subbed at half-time with the score 0-0) and a 1-0 win at Huddersfield (McGeady subbed on 76 minutes with the score 0-0).

 

So, the only win McGeady can take full credit for is the 3-0 win at Forest (subbed at 2-0 on 73 mins). McGeady scored one and assisted another in this game, easily the highlight of his Wednesday career, earning his highest match rating of 7.75.

 

In four of the other ten games he started he received the worst rating of the side (at Birmingham and Derby, home to Rotherham and Charlton). In three out of the ten starts McGeady was subbed at half-time, the aforementioned Charlton game, a 1-0 loss at home to Rotherham and a 4-1 defeat at Bristol City, with Wednesday down 3-0 at half-time.

 

A player with almost 600 career club starts, and with distinguished spells at Celtic and Sunderland and 93 caps for the Republic of Ireland, McGeady can’t be classed as a bad player over his career. But for Wednesday he was the wrong player at the wrong time – a natural winger in a team that liked to play narrow and cut inside from the flanks. A player brought in to add spark, either from the bench or from the start – but in the end Wednesday only scored 4 goals from the 676 minutes he was on the pitch.

Still gutted Carlos didn't have him at least on bench for play off final 

[Django]

Joost Van Aken 

 

Never seen a player so out of his depth in a Wednesday shirt 

[Django]

He was a trier but my lord Pelupessy was a very limited footballer

 

Reach whilst talented was an absolute no show for the last 2 years of his contract, so much so it was embarrassing to watch at times 

 

 

[83owl]

2 hours ago, Craig enock said:

Still gutted Carlos didn't have him at least on bench for play off final 

Struggling when you’re behind Jeremy “the reverand” Helan in the pecking order

[Guest Willow Owl]

On 02/06/2022 at 20:56, Mike Hunt said:

Don’t care how many games he featured in his legs had gone , first time I saw him you could see he was towing a caravan 

 

Have a look at the Bolton game in the cup when he was trying ( and then gave up ) trying to track Buckley 

complete crock 

Yeah okay, When we signed him virtually nobody was against it. Turned out to be a bad signing but hindsight is a worded full thing.

[room0035]

Alman Abdi - I win thread over 

[Degryse14]

1. Jacob Butterfield

2. Elias Kachunga

3. Joost Van Aken

4. Stephen Mcphail

5. Ash Baker

[Tony Pulis]

On 31/05/2022 at 17:14, Nero said:

Worst Players

 

Van Fakin

Baker

Buttercup

Kachunga

Lavery

 

Worst Performers

 

Abdi

Boyd

Jones

Rhodes

Maghoma

Poor Baker was in way above his head. Poor lad always gave his all so I'll never critisize him

 

[Emerson Thome]

Okay - number 9 on his way tomorrow or Wednesday (when I get around to writing up his lowlights). A Carlos signing, not sure if it is a little harsh to put him in the worst 10, or has he found his level?

[Guest Garryswfcowl72]

David Jones Butterfield Van Aken Abdi Kachunga Fox Pelupessy Odubajo Wiggins Emanuelson Rhodes Paterson 

[MartinOwlMan]

Cannot see beyond Marriott who we had on loan from Derby, he never made a positive contribution in any game and ended many an attack of ours by giving away silly fouls or kicking the ball out of play

[FlyingOwl]

Floro.

[Emerson Thome]

19 hours ago, Garryswfcowl72 said:

David Jones Butterfield Van Aken Abdi Kachunga Fox Pelupessy Odubajo Wiggins Emanuelson Rhodes Paterson 

Nope. Number 9 incoming.....

[Emerson Thome]

[Emerson Thome]

The first time I saw George Boyd was when he gave an interview on signing. And all I could think was “Why does he keep playing with his hair?”. He was one of our last high wage signings before FFP kicked in, back in the days when our scouts never ventured far beyond Burnley. Famed for his engine and being able to run all day, the problem was he never seemed to know where he was running from and to.

 

For Burnley, in the previous 3 seasons, 96 of his 115 appearances had come as a right-sided midfielder. For Wednesday, only 6 of his 37 starts would come on the right. With the rest as a left-sided midfielder (15), left wing-back (12), central midfielder (3) and even as a centre forward (1).

 

Injured after his first four games, with a shoulder injured described as “nothing serious”, he disappeared into the Abdi vortex for four months, not returning until Carlos Carvalhal had been sacked. Carlos had deployed Boyd as a right-sided midfielder in his first three starts, but Jos Luhukay saw him as many things, first as an impact sub, then one of a three in midfield, next as a left-sided wing back, and finally, as someone best deployed training with the youth team in Siberia.

 

Of the games played in that first season, Boyd only achieved a fans rating above 7 once (in his second game, under Carlos, on the right).

 

Given just two league cup starts at the start of the 2018-19 season (as a left midfielder and left wing back, naturally), Jos then froze him out following the 2-0 loss to Wolves. He remained in deep freeze until Lee Bullen took over, restoring him to his right-sided birth for a draw at West Brom and another at home to Birmingham. Boyd earned rave reviews in the latter game, earning his second highest Owlstalk Rating of 7.82 and finishing narrowly behind Steven Fletcher in the Man of the Match voting.

 

It would be the last game he ever played on the right. Flickering occasionally into life on the left wing for the Steve’s, he would be voted the worst player in 6 of his last 15 starts for Wednesday and earn another worst player effort for his second half performance from the bench in the goalless draw against Sheffield United at Hillsborough.

 

Strangely, like many of our flops (McGeady, Abdi, Rhodes, Odubajo) he mostly got to celebrate goals playing Nottingham Forest, scoring his only goal of the 18/19 campaign and also registering an assist in a 3-0 win over the Tricky Trees. This would be the game he achieved his highest ever Owlstalk rating of 7.85, and for once playing on the left. But even that wasn’t enough to earn him an elusive Man of the Match award as Marco Matias (naturally) bagged twice in the same game. 50 games, 0 Man of the Match awards, and 876 times readjusting his hair, welcome to the Hall of Fame, George Boyd.

 

[mcmigo]

Dreadful spell with us  and a terrible signing.  The Carlos seasons 2 and 3  policy of signing players two years past their peak - abdi, Boyd, hooper, fletcher, Rhodes- what were we thinking ? 

[Inspector Lestrade]

3 hours ago, Emerson Thome said:

The first time I saw George Boyd was when he gave an interview on signing. And all I could think was “Why does he keep playing with his hair?”. He was one of our last high wage signings before FFP kicked in, back in the days when our scouts never ventured far beyond Burnley. Famed for his engine and being able to run all day, the problem was he never seemed to know where he was running from and to.

 

For Burnley, in the previous 3 seasons, 96 of his 115 appearances had come as a right-sided midfielder. For Wednesday, only 6 of his 37 starts would come on the right. With the rest as a left-sided midfielder (15), left wing-back (12), central midfielder (3) and even as a centre forward (1).

 

Injured after his first four games, with a shoulder injured described as “nothing serious”, he disappeared into the Abdi vortex for four months, not returning until Carlos Carvalhal had been sacked. Carlos had deployed Boyd as a right-sided midfielder in his first three starts, but Jos Luhukay saw him as many things, first as an impact sub, then one of a three in midfield, next as a left-sided wing back, and finally, as someone best deployed training with the youth team in Siberia.

 

Of the games played in that first season, Boyd only achieved a fans rating above 7 once (in his second game, under Carlos, on the right).

 

Given just two league cup starts at the start of the 2018-19 season (as a left midfielder and left wing back, naturally), Jos then froze him out following the 2-0 loss to Wolves. He remained in deep freeze until Lee Bullen took over, restoring him to his right-sided birth for a draw at West Brom and another at home to Birmingham. Boyd earned rave reviews in the latter game, earning his second highest Owlstalk Rating of 7.82 and finishing narrowly behind Steven Fletcher in the Man of the Match voting.

 

It would be the last game he ever played on the right. Flickering occasionally into life on the left wing for the Steve’s, he would be voted the worst player in 6 of his last 15 starts for Wednesday and earn another worst player effort for his second half performance from the bench in the goalless draw against Sheffield United at Hillsborough.

 

Strangely, like many of our flops (McGeady, Abdi, Rhodes, Odubajo) he mostly got to celebrate goals playing Nottingham Forest, scoring his only goal of the 18/19 campaign and also registering an assist in a 3-0 win over the Tricky Trees. This would be the game he achieved his highest ever Owlstalk rating of 7.85, and for once playing on the left. But even that wasn’t enough to earn him an elusive Man of the Match award as Marco Matias (naturally) bagged twice in the same game. 50 games, 0 Man of the Match awards, and 876 times readjusting his hair, welcome to the Hall of Fame, George Boyd.

 

 

You should do an in depth report on him.