Tony McMahon turned down Peterborough Last Summer

As are your views on players and managers. Damn, let’s extend it to any aspect of football.

 

I think your last sentence is part of the answer. Everything about Hansons game was about the physical threat he brought to the game. Knowing how much punishment he has taken and injections just to get him through games when under Parky has to me diminshed that threat. Reminds me of Stuart Fielden at the Bulls, once his physical threat started to drop because of age and injuries he was just a bog standard rugby player, his whole game was built on that physicality, he didn’t have the ball playing prop skills like a James Graham. Same with Hanson, take away the physical side and he isn’t good enough for league 1 where the players you mention were.

 

WINNER

 

Fair enough - all valid points (even if I know feck all about Fielden, Graham and the Bulls)

 

Can you explain why Parky considered him for Bolton, McCall preferred him to the very good Darby, Mowbray wanted him at Blackburn, Scunthorpe wanted him and now Peterborough

In case you hadn't noticed all these teams ended above us

So either they're worse than us as they want him, but apparently he's not good enough for us. Hence we must be better than them. Great news!! Roll on next season

Or you're writing before thinking, yet again

 

Top level rugby Cougar .

 

He's very disruptive to the opposition. The impressive Nick Powell simply stopped playing after Mac, finished winding him up. Without that Powell would have continued to run riot and we'd probably have lost another match by three or four

We seem to want players and owners to be nice people we could go down to the pub with. Few winners are like that. They have a ruthless cynical streak

 

Go fight with yourself in a phonebox.

 

Can you explain why he is still here if he is so good?

Tony McMahon is shi&e and he is no loss to the club.

I like to think Megan Fox wants a bit of me but I am stuck with my midget.

 

One could argue that the reason those teams finished above us was precisely because they didn't have him in their teams.

 

I'd back Parky and Mowbray's judgement over the scribers on these boards

Let's face it, he was doomed the minute he took Darby's place and so any chance to bury him after the January fiasco is gleefully accepted by some on here

I'm happy to replace him, but we've a squad that needs far more 'up yours' characters not get rid of them

 

Am I correct in believing it is his back that is the problem? If so, then there is a very good chance he will never be 'normal' again, and indeed could rarely if ever play his usual game again. (A family member injured her back over half a lifetime ago; now approaching 90, she remains liable to days of back spasms and severe pains if some unfortunate movement tweaks that spot.)

RCB

 

Back in the day .

 

I’m sure its part of the problem, at times in the latter part of his City career he was struggling to jump. Hope for his sake he can still have a few years left but his style of play does catch up with you.

 

Too many loud mouths talking utter crap in this thread.

Tony McMahon is one of our best players. He is consistently our top assist-maker, and no, there aren't many players in League One who get higher figures and yes, some of them do take all their team's set pieces.

There's a lot of talk about corner-to-assist ratios and percentages, and they are all INCREDIBLY low.

I mean, INCREDIBLY low.

Regarding set pieces in total, only 3 % ever lead to a goal.

Corners provide 0.32-0.38 goals per game, and that's at the top level where they're being delivered with consistent quality.

That's one successful corner every three games.

And they're not all direct, and therefore don't count as assists. That's goals from corners TOTAL.

If Tony McMahon couldn't take corners, he wouldn't have ten assists this season, or hit double figures virtually every season, generally always ending up in the top ten in League One.

To assume you could easily replace Tony is moronic, myopic, and typical of the modern levels of impatience currently blighting the game. Any top team wants a set piece taker that can deliver quality some of the time (not all of the time, because those players don't exist). That's why any side in League One serious about going up will have a real interest in McMahon.

If we don't have a real interest, we aren't serious about going up.

 

Aren’t they in the same league as the mighty Keighley?

 

I wonder what ‘bit’ that is? Is it the only ‘bit’ that makes your midget look proportioned?



As for why he’s still here, in case you missed it, we rejected the offer from Scunny. But I fully expect him to leave within the next month.

 

Absolutely spot on.

And let’s not forget that, having delivered the perfect cross from a corner or free-kick, it’s not his fault the ‘receiver’ then directs their efforts wide. How many times have we seen the likes of Vince, NKP, Killa, Dieng and Wyke head straight at the keeper or put it over/wide.

Had they been more competent, the assists rate of McMahon would have been even greater. I like him as a City player. But I can’t see him still being here come August, regardless of whether we offer a new deal or not.

 

Yeah cos if he had we might have the run of defeats we had in January (when he was out of the team) at the start of the season and had longer to get over it.