Maguire is in line to make only his seventh start of the season tonight for Aberdeen - but the striker is determined to prove he should be a first-choice pick every week.The 18-year-old was warned by Jimmy Calderwood to change his ways at Pittodrie despite being top scorer in the reserves for the past two seasons.Maguire worked overtime in the gym and altered his diet to boost his prospects and vowed to fire the Pittodrie side up the table when he got the call from Dons boss Calderwood.Despite following orders Maguire demanded talks with Calderwood when he was still being overlooked for a first-team start.He said: "I have been here since I was eight years old and full-time for the last three years so it is frustrating not to have played a full 90 minutes for the first team yet. I asked the manager why I hadn't had a good whack at first-team level and he admitted it had been partly his fault and I just needed to stick in."Hopefully the gaffer can see I deserve my chance to get a good run in the team from the start now and I had a word with him about it last week."As a striker you need a run of games to raise confidence and get among the goals. I am confident I can do that. Hopefully if I keep working hard my chance will come."Maguire is set to get his chance against the Steelmen but is aware defeat will end Dons' chances of retaining third place in the SPL and a return to Europe.

 

I did think at the start of the season he hadnt been givena fair crack at the whip but...In his last start (against hibs), he was so gash he had to be subbed!

As a striker you need a run of games to raise confidence and get among the goals.

 

Christ, even an 18 year old ned can see that Lovell needs to get a run of games in the first team, yet our superstar manager can't?

IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

 

Padre got him spot on, the most ineffective player I have ever seen. Thinking of the competition, I still agree.

As I said in the motherwell thread, this guy is having a laugh. He's a complete joke a player and probably a person. Bebo, GTF! What a waste of space you are. At least Mackie hussles defenders, what do you do Support the local hairdressers. 

IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

 

Padre got him spot on, the most ineffective player I have ever seen. Thinking of the competition, I still agree.

 

Spot on.

 

The guy just isn't good enough for the SPL imo.

The only thing that hopeless wee cunt contributes towards is an extra couple of points to my blood pressure.  Fuckin cunt.

The only thing that hopeless wee cunt contributes towards is an extra couple of points to my blood pressure.  Fuckin cunt.

 

Uh oh! He's revving back up again! Anyone got a can of JD and coke for him! Stat!

We seem to have a habit of over hyping youngsters.  I don't know if the EE is to blame, but Mackie was the next Owen, Maguire is the best youngster Nichol has ever worked with, and Diamond too was hyped up.  Diamond is doing well now that he has stopped believing the hype. 

 

Not sure Maguire will ever make it for the Dons.  Another John Stewart I fear.

He's got too much confidence and nae enough baws.

Supposedly he's rather too fond of the drink. At the start of the season he couldn't even keep up with Brewster in training, apparently.

The thing I don't really get is that Michael Paton has gone to Brechin on loan without getting a sniff of the first team.  Heard alot of good reports about him and it would've been good to see him come off the bench a couple of times.  I think Calderwood has a tendency to leave players in teh reserves for far too long and lets them get stale.  Martin Skinner and Stuart Smith are another couple who should've been blooded by now if you listen to some of the folks that go to the reserve games.  You should be giving the young lads a whiff of first team action at 18, work out there and then if they're up to it because reserve team football is nowhere near the level that first team action is.  Maguire has proved time and again that he isn't up to it and should be moved on, even if only on loan.

Spot on.

 

The guy just isn't good enough for the SPL imo.

 

You're not allowed to say that here!

He sort of reminds me of when you'd be playing football with your mates at school and one of their younger brothers/sisters/handicapped neighbours would want a game.

 

The play would stop, everyone would humour them for a few kicks then someone would brush them off the ball and away you went again.

He runs like a girl.

Van Persie runs like a girl and even has a girly name.  But he doesn't take fresh air swipes at footballs nor does he get brushed off by the weakest of challenges.

Fucking hell I wasn't particularly looking forward to tonights game as it was but now Maguire is starting 

 

             

You're not allowed to say that here!

 

How come? 

Any other manager being faced with a wee shite like McGuire challenging him in this way would surely tell him get ti f**k and tell him he will be playd when THE MANAGER decides and not before. This boy needs put in his place. I reckon a stronger manager would send a player who acted like this out on loan at the very least!!!

Maguire should be made to look at his performances when he has come on. The fact that he's not had a full 90 minutes is nobodys fault but his own. At this point in his career he would be lucky to be a regular starter for a first division team. If I have to watch him chase his first touch halfway across the pitch one more time I'm going to explode. In the same token, I'm not sure how flapping your arms around like a tourettes sufferer helps you play football. The kid can put in a reasonable cross but getting into the position to cross is usually down to pure luck than anything else. Get him loaned out to Peterhead or somewhere like that where he can learn to graft for a season and then see where he is ability-wise. He hasnt proven himself at the required level so he's got no right to demand a start.

The only thing i appreciate about Maguire is no matter how shite he is he always looks to get involved.

 

He's still not good enough and like playing with a man down.

I've said it before but to bring Maguire on and leave Lovell on the bench is madness, under any circumstances.  Maguire has only played so often because of Jimmy's petty dislike for Steve Lovell.  

 

It's pathetic.

The only thing i appreciate about Maguire is no matter how shite he is he always looks to get involved.

 

He's still not good enough and like playing with a man down.

 

Darren Mackie Mark II  :hammer:

If he continues playing the way he does my foot will be looking to get involved with his arse.

 

Rational thinking aside, I wish he would just go away.

Darren Mackie Mark II  :hammer:

 

I'm not one to berate players during games but I stood watching him ping 25 yard crosses to a.n.other and trap the ball between his ear lobe/shoulder, both knees, shin/ground, bum/ankle during the halftime break in Munich.

 

Half an hour later he was on the park playing and the ball was passed to him at the edge of their box, during open play.  A peach of a ball which he 'controlled' with about three touches, ran after, then weaved his way back to our half because there was a nasty looking defender there.

 

I screamed my guts out at the wee fanny. 

How come? 

 

Someone criticised me the other day in another thread for saying that he'd never make it as an SPL player.

He has never convinced me on what I've seen on TV and the (far too) few games I can make.

 

Give him 2 seasons in the Highland League getting "physical" matches, see how many he plays or is fit to finish, see if his "performance" or goal scoring matches his ego. (By his reckoning it should be 60 a season doon there).

 

Then see if he's good enough for a start.