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Roy Keane

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KEV_SAFC_FTM said:
Firstly, can I say I’d be happy If Keane does take over. He done a good job here in his first spell and raised the club’s profile. He would give everyone a massive boost but there’s certainly a few reservations this time.

How will he cope with managing poorer players? His standards were huge as a player and as a manager. He was used to managing Premier League players. No disrespect to the players here now, but our team is made up of championship/league one players who aren’t as skilful.

He’s been out of a job for a decade and his last managerial roles have hardly been a success. Will he be out of touch? Will his non-nonsense approach with players be accepted in the dressing room nowadays?

Will he commit and put everything into the job? Rumours of him being away from the training ground during the week in the latter stages of his reign and his reluctance to move here permanently did not help him at boardroom level or with the players (disclaimer. Not sure if this was true, but there was definitely rumours at the time).

Does he know the league? He’s a premier league panellist but I doubt that he knows much about league one, if at all. Will he have the feintest idea about teams like Wimbledon and Cheltenham?

How will he work with the off field hierarchy? His relationship with Short was rumoured to be strained. What will it be like with Kyril? How will he work with Speakman over transfers? Will he expect a war chest?

Obviously a lot of these questions can’t be answered and time will tell but there’s a lot of doubt in his appointment and there’s no guarantees that he will be as successful this time. Then again, there’s no guarantee any manager will be.
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Couldn’t care less what any reservations are or the downside….Keanes appointment would be immense just for the sound bites alone, never mind reminding the word that we do still exist! The buzz man….be absolute class
 
Realist said:
I'm not bothered if he lives on the moon, if he gets us promoted that's all I care about. Knows the fans and the club, done it before and probably alot better than other managers mentioned to come here. Give him a chance man.
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Have you looked at his signings , I know promotion is what we all want , his style of management is no good now , he might get us up but it would takes years to recover , most of this board were taking the pass out of him when he was at Ipswich , he should stick to TV
 
mackemdr said:
I dont want Keane.

Want someone who has managed in he last decade and managed well.
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Same here, the clamour to always bring back people who’ve been here before is strange.

It can work every now and then, like with Defoe, but just can’t see Keane coming in and making the same impact as last time, game has moved on. Most of our young players will only think of him as a funny pundit on TV rather than the recently retired Man U great who walked through the door in 06.
 
Fair points mate for me the club are looking for the lift and momentum this could give us and hoping we can ride it to promotion (by any means) risky strategy and overall I think your last sentence nails it 👍🏻
 
People are getting their fannies in a flap, worrying about this and that. We had an utterly miserable few years with godawful managers, some terrible humpings and, despite our spending being massive, are still down here.
Is Keano coming back, perhaps only until the summer, really such a terrible thing to try?

The bloke’s a footballing expert, ffs! He’s had no choice but to follow the game intently all his career, he is after all a pundit. He’s played at the highest level, captained one of the greatest English footballing success stories of all time, and knows everyone who’s anyone in the business. People saying he doesn’t know the modern game! Don’t be ridiculous!

Sit back, relax, and just see where he takes us. If nothing else, the players will be better motivated and organised than under LJ! The team were crumbling under LJ, and looked likely to miss out on automatic promotion anyway.
Enjoy the buzz, even if we don’t make it to the championship this season.
 
gastap said:
Might be a good time to return to your old ways if you think roy keane is the answer , he would destroy these kids
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Yeah mate... the last SAFC kid that was half decent went on to captain and win the Champions League with Liverpool and play in the Euro Finals for England... Oh and he only has good things to say about the positive impact Roy Keane had on his career, "I wouldn't be where I am today without Roy Keane's influence"
 
Lionel Hutzz said:
Yes it is my opinion but what is yours based on ? The fact that 15 years ago he had a good season when he had a large budget then managed to blow over 100 million on mostly shite then threw his toys out the pram and left when the going got tough?

Keane won’t like having a DoF and won’t lack the fact he isn’t manager
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Was his budget that big when he won the championship? Birmingham seemed to spend big around that time. We signed Hysen 1.7m, varga + Wallace 600k, kavanagh + Connolly 2.5m? then added edwards 1.5m and stokes 2m in jan the rest were loans or frees iirc. To take a side from bottom to top it doesn’t seem like a massive spend to me.

I agree about the prem spending tho. I remember reading a quote from drumaville at the time that what Roy wants Roy gets. They just let him spend without really questioning.

Hopefully KS and KLD have explained the new structure well enough that he realises he’s coming in as head coach not manager.
 
We have literally hours of footage of him displaying that he has most ridiculously archaic view on football.

The game had well and truly outgrown his outdated philosophies long before he took the Ipswich job. I Shudder to think how far ot has surpassed him now with almost a decade out of management.

Plus he's a serial bottler. He walked out on Ireland, he walked out on us and he'll walk out on us again.
 
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