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Roy Keane

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JL1985 said:
I love Keane so much but I'm torn on this. I don't want his reputation with us tarnished if it goes wrong.
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The thing is it could only really go wrong on the pitch and it certainly won't be through lack of commitment. If he is considered he will have his own demands and if the club or Keane are not happy they will not agree and we move on. Reputation stays intact either way.

If the club and Keane have the same philosophy it could be a match made in heaven. Keane is a different beast nowadays I can't wait to see him back in management here or elsewhere. I think he has the tools to be a top manager.
 

It’s puzzling how people have a sort of set rigid view of a person.
Keane is an intelligent man.
If he genuinely wanted the job I’m sure he’d go along with structure that his employers wanted.
Also his management style I’m sure he would be able to adjust and learn from any mistakes he’s made in the past and does have the little matter of getting us promoted and staying up in his first season on his CV.
The managers he’s played under and the level he’s operated at as player, I would think he’ll have the capacity set up a team that is good offensively and solid enough defensively.
I’m not saying he’d be my first choice, but I wouldn’t be disappointed if he was appointed.
 
I can't imagine for the life of me that he would return right now, but compare the excitement of just thinking about it, to that of the thought of (for the sake of argument) Warnock or McCarthy......it's worlds apart.
Ha'way Keano!!!!!
 
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vinegar hill said:
It’s puzzling how people have a sort of set rigid view of a person.
Keane is an intelligent man.
If he genuinely wanted the job I’m sure he’d go along with structure that his employers wanted.
Also his management style I’m sure he would be able to adjust and learn from any mistakes he’s made in the past and does have the little matter of getting us promoted and staying up in his first season on his CV.
The managers he’s played under and the level he’s operated at as player, I would think he’ll have the capacity set up a team that is good offensively and solid enough defensively.
I’m not saying he’d be my first choice, but I wouldn’t be disappointed if he was appointed.
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People go on like he’s a proper caveman like
 
Shite crack this not having managed for 11 years, he hadn't even managed before he took us on the last time and as far as he's been shit everywhere else he's been can I remind you all of the shitfest that was moyes at man utd, the Spanish team and then us just Look what he's doing at West ham now. I wouldn't be concerned at how long or how's shit he's been with other clubs
 
vinegar hill said:
It’s puzzling how people have a sort of set rigid view of a person.
Keane is an intelligent man.
If he genuinely wanted the job I’m sure he’d go along with structure that his employers wanted.
Also his management style I’m sure he would be able to adjust and learn from any mistakes he’s made in the past and does have the little matter of getting us promoted and staying up in his first season on his CV.
The managers he’s played under and the level he’s operated at as player, I would think he’ll have the capacity set up a team that is good offensively and solid enough defensively.
I’m not saying he’d be my first choice, but I wouldn’t be disappointed if he was appointed.
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Agree. As for him having too big an ego to follow someone else’s footballing ethos, he’s also on record saying this recently:

“I spoke to a Championship club about three months ago. It was very casual, it was at my house – a chat with the chairman.

“And to be fair, he was straight up, he went: ‘Listen, we just want somebody who can come in and win football matches.’

“That was fine with me, I didn’t have to break down styles of play. And I think if you’re winning matches, people don’t then question, ‘What’s your style of play?’

“You just bounce into the next match, don’t you? And we did it as players.”

Imagine ‘just bouncing’ between wins between now and the end of the season… 😎
 
IF this did happen, really hope he's learned from last time. Needs to commit and be in the training pitch with the players. Too many stories of him only being around a couple days a week etc. If he wants the players to buy into what he's doing, he needs to be there with them.
 
banburysafc said:
He hasn't managed in what, about a decade. Don't think he'd fit in with the style the club are supposedly after, and seems strange to jettison any 'vision' we have this early.

Some of our fans are ridiculously obsessed with the past.
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He hadn’t managed at all when he came the first time. We have less than 20 games to face this season and come hell or high water we really need to get out of this dogshit league. I welcomed the long term thinking and planning but to be honest staying in League 1 will mean starting all over again with the loaners gone and the likes of Stewart and Neil sold on.

Lets see what happens and I’m counting on KLD coming up with the goods given the fact he was prepared to move Johnson out when it would have been the easy option to let him stay. A victory over Doncaster would have appeased some supporters until the next defeat but KLD sees what many also see, the fragility of our defence, the tinkering and changing of effective formations being instrumental in our wavering form.

Keane might not fit exactly, may not work long term nor even this season but my goodness the positivity and general uplift he would bring is far superior to anyone else I’ve seen linked.
 
It's a throw of the dice worth making for the sake of the remaining 17/18 games or whatever it is. Someone to enforce good habits, make players believe in themselves and play to the whistle, enforce a winning mentality and get the basics right.

No other manager (BSA aside who won't come) will give you the sort of lift we need.

Imo he's our best shot at promotion now, but that's just my opinion.
 
Keith S30S said:
When you're in the shit (3rd with more games played) you need passion, momentum and desire to the do the seemingly impossible. That is Roy Keane in a nutshell.

If we end up in the play offs you need people to step up for the big occasion. Again experience wise Keane ticks that box.

This isn't about being clever or cute. This is a grasp the nettle and go for it scenario. If we fall short at least we have given it our best shot.

Or we could have kept Johnson or employ someone of his ilk and sleep walk to another season or 2 in this backwater of a division.

Could Roy Keane achieve promotion this season and sweep through the Championship next season? Yes he could. Who else could? Not f***ing many. Yes, any appointment could go wrong but I say roll the dice and strap ourselves in. It won't be boring!
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I’ll say this for Roy. There’s no way those players would have given up at Bolton if they faced the prospect of facing him afterwards.

That promotion season under Keane was one of the very best I’ve witnessed.
 
Morse said:
Perhaps ironically, it was a catastrophe v Bolton that finished Keane, iirc!
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Remember my ST that year was in the concourse.

Keane stood there arms folded the entire second half like a statue.

Thought the changing rooms were going to end up demolished at full time.
 
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