“If you watch the games, the lads aren’t losing these games based on lack of effort. So clearly there is an issue somewhere. [shrugging shoulders emoji]<\/p>\n
Given am around it every day and have the CV to give my opinion, I think I’ll give it whether anyone likes it or not. If you don’t like it, then you’ll excuse me for not caring about your opinion, given that 99.9% that have a lot to say have never played a professional game in their lives.”<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n McClean was not a part of Derry City\u2019s matchday squad for the fixture at the Brandywell.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been a terrible season for Derry City. The Candystripes spent huge during the off-season and currently sit sixth on the LOI table, just seven points above the relegations places.<\/p>\n McClean was hoping for a fairy tale end<\/a> to his decorated career with the club where it all began, alongside his brother Patrick. However, he has been hampered by chronic back injury<\/a> and found himself in a number of rows<\/a>.<\/p>\n Roddy’s original criticism<\/p>\n Back in February when speaking on the Sons Of Dave podcast<\/a>, Collins likened the signing of McClean to Manchester United bringing Ronaldo back to the club<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n When you get to a certain age, obviously he couldn’t compete at Championship level in England, because being a great athlete and crossing the ball from the halfway line doesn’t work. You need to get to the end line, that part of his game is gone.<\/p>\n I notice his brother has been signed back. I wonder who orchestrated that one?<\/p>\n The manager is finished. He won’t be able to drop him. His voice in the dressing, he lives in the area and it’s a community of so called football experts who have huge opinions. His opinion will be paramount to every supporter. And he has opinions.<\/p>\n That manager is a dead man walking. Everybody else within that squad will look to James McClean.<\/p>\n It’s a disaster. It’s like bringing Ronaldo back into United.<\/p>\n Collins himself managed Derry City in 2014, though his reign only lasted for 12 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roddy Collins has waded into the on-going tensions between James McClean and Derry City, and has doubled down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,244422,112],"class_list":["post-579656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-roddy-collins-james-mcclean","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n