Michael McGlinchey (Weston FC | Australia)

Michael McGlinchey (CCM)

Itll be interesting to see if McGlinchey is in the frame for a start for the Mariners in the league opener via Melbourne. Now I am particularly grumpy that game wont be shown live by SKY. Marius Lacatus2010-03-16 13:59:14

Mariners fans are in love with him. Has been MOM once at least

Here is some info on his career to date, (pinched from their site), interesting reading

"" Michael McGlinchey- the facts.

Michael signed for Celtic in Jan 2003 after leaving school. He is the youngest player ever to play in Celtic fc first team when Martin O'Neil put him on against Wycombe fc for a friendly,  he was 15 years and 274 days old.

He went straight into the reserve team at 16 and won the reserve league 6 years in a row. Also played in Celtics under 19s side where they won 2 Scottish cups and 1 league title.

He made his first team debut in Dec 2005 for Strachan, going on when the score was 1.1 and winning 2.1 against Livingston fc. He also went on loan to Dunfermilne fc when they were 2nd bottom of the league. He played in 4 wins 4 draws and 2 defeats

He has played for Scotland 35 times from u17s to u21. He played in the final of the u19s European Championship losing 2.1 to Spain,  and played at the u20s World Cup in Vancouver.
One of his most memorable games was playing for Scotland u19s against France when they knocked out France in the European Championship.  France had Real Madrids Benzima playing and Arsenals  Sammy Nazari  playing. Not too bad a cv.""

Quite agree, a very good CV

Years ago I was hoping he'd end up a star for Scotland, but he never quite developed to that quality - though he was talked up as the next best thing. He turned down going to Manchester United cuz he wanted to stay with Celtic. He had one or two bad games for one of the Scotland youth teams and Strachan was very unimpressed. He apparently knew then he had pretty much blown his chance with Celtic. He didn't seem to impress at Dunfermline, as he wasn't able to get a contract anywhere in Scotland after Celtic dumped him. That's possibly to do with the style of the game in Scotland as much as a direct reflection in his ability.

Oh well, the rough last few years has been New Zealand's gain.

Checked out some Motherwell forum. Sounds like it was a terrible, boring match. Not too many positive comments about McGlinchey, though some of them seem (typically) a bit anti him cuz they'd rather a local lad getting a run instead of someone in on loan. You can read some comments here:

Warmed the bench for 90 minutes this morning.  Motherwell beat hibs 1-0 2ndBest2010-02-21 12:21:29

That's a big win for Motherwell. Will probably make it tricky for him to make the team next weekend.

Got on in the 90th minute!  They won 1-0 against a Old-less Killy

On again in the 90th minute.

must be annoying getting 2 minutes and nothing else.

According to this article Mcglinchey is improving his chances to play with motherwell`:

thanks to combination of the draw and cup football its been a long time since motherwell played

Got 20 odd mins v Dundee United this morning - they lost 3 nil but McGlinchey didn't come on til after the third goal.

he wasnt in the squad for the 2-1 loss to Celtic yesterday either - dont know if he's injured or not required. Has played very little since signing with Motherwell.

Three losses in a row maybe they should change their midfield and give McGlinchey a start for a change and rev up to the usual playing line-up.

From the tweetisphere LawrieMcKinna

  

I just spoke to michael mcglinchey in scotland,he has missed the last 3 games with motherwell due to an ankle injury.he is fit for weekend

and there we go, thank god. thought they just didn't want to play him.

yes, actually I just found an article confirming the ankle injury:

His 'comeback' include 90 mins of sitting on the bench.  They won 2-0 away from home though.

Good ole Lawrie McKinna, keeping an eye on things. . . .

Starting on the bench vs celtic:

Finally played 30 minutes in celtic loss 4-0

CAme on in the 69th min when motherwell were down 6-3, final score was 6 all draw

MOTHERWELL 6 HIBERNIAN 6 .

ludicrous game. they scored 4 unanswered while mcglinchey on the park so he cant have done too bad! Marius Lacatus2010-05-06 10:12:23

Yeah, crazy stuff. I can't think of another professional game with 12 goals in it - can think of a 7-4 and 8-3 in recent times.

Hard noised bunch the motherwell fans most of them walked out on the team at 6.2 but slinked back in to sign their hearts out at the end, its been the best preperation for the world cup he could have asked for going back to scotland and watch out for a start against rangers on sunday. 

mcglinchey started the game vs rangers but was substituted at the 46th minutes by jamie murphy who scored a goal 5 minutes later!

pictures from rangers game yesterday

Mcglinchey sets up a goal on a preseason game:

Played 45 minutes in a preseason game:

full 90:

In CCM best XI same than moss and smeltz in GCU, according to the sydney morning herald. Brockie and Barbarouses are still but have a chance to win a starting spot:

First kiwi to play in this seasons A-League.

Thought he was ok, no more. But then it was a pretty ugly game and nobody shone.

good game for mcglinchey in a 1-1 draw:

Michael played full 90 last sunday in the a league lowest ever attendance: