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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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Better players?

We had some bog standard Championship players such as Nyron Nosworthy! Dean Whitehead and Liam Lawrence were hardly superstars 😂
 
humbug said:
it broke the world record. mainly because there wasn't a world record for air guitar at the time.
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christ they didn't even last the h/t break because of the noise from our lot,got the lip on and fukt off:lol::lol:,i can still feel that bloody stand shaking yet,tremendous day,and his post match interview wasj ust class
 
gastap said:
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
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We already have the players in though and if he did do well for us again doesn't he deserve the chance in the championship if things went well? Or if he did badly for us then of course I would agree. He might get us up you say, isn't that what you want? What we all want. Just give him some time to at least manage and see how it goes. He won't take any nonsense from the players that's for sure.
 
Very nervous about this.

It's a bit different to the Defoe move, which made total sense and was a high reward, low risk kind of play anyway. And I'm a bit concerned by the combination of them both - this is the kind of crowd-pleasing populism that typically blew up in our face under the previous shitbag owners.

But these owners have to this point run us much more professionally. I would hope that this means Keane is buying into the model. I would hope it shows that despite his worryingly basic pundity on ITV, he has convinced them that he has sharp ideas about the game. I actually there is a marriage here where a DoF model can protect him from the boardroom bullshit that drove him insane last time here and let him focus on being Keane. I would think he has had to convince Speakman and KLD he is buying in to this and I think he is so desperate to get back into the game - and harbours genuinely deep affection towards us - that he may just even believe it himself.

But idk. He was not a training ground coach when he was here before, he was a manager. That's fine, but it's not our model. And whilst he is absolutely the best manager we've had since Reidy in my eyes, I'm more sold on the Speakman/KLD model than I am that Roy is right for us now.

Maybe as some OPs point out - this is all just neurosis at this level, maybe all we need from him is the lift, the charisma, the belief to get us out of this shithole. If it blows up in the Championship, frankly who gives a fuck. But really wouldn't want it to blow up this year and tarnish the amazing memories of what it was like when he was last here. So I'm pretty nervous, tbh.
 
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