Yankee_Jack
Key Player
My thought is that he reminds me of Ossie Ardiles ... in one respect and here's how.
We've all seen McKay (aka McShit, McCrap etc) cough up the ball under minimal contact or even the threat of contact from an opposing player. The first time it happened, I thought that's odd. But it's remarkable in its consistency. @ivoralljack and I both know of a guy called Ducks who would have been absolutely merciless with anybody playing for him or against him that had this lack of substance ... it would almost make me feel pity for him.
Cast your minds back ... if you're old enough ... to a League Cup tie against Spurs at the Vetch in September of 1978. Tommy Smith was playing for us. Ossie Ardiles, after a winning the World Cup for Argentina had arrived at White Hart Lane with a fellow Argentine named Villa. Ardiles was the cat's meow ..... but he had not faced our Tommy yet (who by the way detested the arrival of foreign players into our leagues) or anybody like him. Tommy was of a unique vintage.
In the first few minutes of the match, Tommy lined him up and no sooner had Ardiles put a deft touch on the ball than Tommy put a crunching touch on him. From my perspective in the Enclosure a perfectly fair but nonetheless bone chilling challenge. Ardiles was laid out on the grass, the only thing moving was his chest raising up and down in shock ... at least we knew he wasn't dead. It took them 5 minutes to peel Ardiles off the grass and stand him up straight still trembling. There were gestures to the bench pleading for a substitution but the Spurs boss would have none of it.
Here's where Ardiles and McKay are similar ... for the rest of the match all Tommy had to do was glance in Ardiles' general direction, even from the other side of the field, and the little guy’s shorts would get browner and browner ... funny when this was in September and the Vetch still had grass instead of mud down the middle. Ardiles disappeared for the rest of game.
McKay is the frailest of players I think we've seen in our colors in all of the years I've been following the Swans. And he hasn't even got really crunched yet ... not Tommy style, not any style of hurt that a full back can put on a winger. Let's face it if a full back so much in as farts in his neighborhood he jumps.
And then we have Dyer, Routs and Narsingh sitting in the stands or at the bar going WTF over.
We've all seen McKay (aka McShit, McCrap etc) cough up the ball under minimal contact or even the threat of contact from an opposing player. The first time it happened, I thought that's odd. But it's remarkable in its consistency. @ivoralljack and I both know of a guy called Ducks who would have been absolutely merciless with anybody playing for him or against him that had this lack of substance ... it would almost make me feel pity for him.
Cast your minds back ... if you're old enough ... to a League Cup tie against Spurs at the Vetch in September of 1978. Tommy Smith was playing for us. Ossie Ardiles, after a winning the World Cup for Argentina had arrived at White Hart Lane with a fellow Argentine named Villa. Ardiles was the cat's meow ..... but he had not faced our Tommy yet (who by the way detested the arrival of foreign players into our leagues) or anybody like him. Tommy was of a unique vintage.
In the first few minutes of the match, Tommy lined him up and no sooner had Ardiles put a deft touch on the ball than Tommy put a crunching touch on him. From my perspective in the Enclosure a perfectly fair but nonetheless bone chilling challenge. Ardiles was laid out on the grass, the only thing moving was his chest raising up and down in shock ... at least we knew he wasn't dead. It took them 5 minutes to peel Ardiles off the grass and stand him up straight still trembling. There were gestures to the bench pleading for a substitution but the Spurs boss would have none of it.
Here's where Ardiles and McKay are similar ... for the rest of the match all Tommy had to do was glance in Ardiles' general direction, even from the other side of the field, and the little guy’s shorts would get browner and browner ... funny when this was in September and the Vetch still had grass instead of mud down the middle. Ardiles disappeared for the rest of game.
McKay is the frailest of players I think we've seen in our colors in all of the years I've been following the Swans. And he hasn't even got really crunched yet ... not Tommy style, not any style of hurt that a full back can put on a winger. Let's face it if a full back so much in as farts in his neighborhood he jumps.
And then we have Dyer, Routs and Narsingh sitting in the stands or at the bar going WTF over.
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I had a few of those off him, the insane bastard! 