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Roy Keane

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Because he was manager of the champions of League One last year? They played good, attacking football and had a lot of self belief about them. Johnson has never got a team promoted and he lacked self belief.
Could be me mind playing tricks, but I seem to remember a few Saturday afternoons when it came down the business end of the season where they came back from behind a few times to win games.

Just a quick look there, Peterborough away, Crewe away, Fleetwood home. Came back twice to draw 2-2 with us.
 
We want to get promoted. I am not saying McCann is my choice but he isn't nearly as bad as people are making out.He got Doncaster to the play offs which is good, he got Hull promoted as champions playing good attacking football. I happen to think, listening to Speakman, we have a structure around the head coach that is better than all League One clubs and better than most Championship clubs. This should make a manager perform better - it didn't so much with Johnson it could work with McCann or Alex Neil.
He can have done all that and more, BUT...and this is key. He is the very definition of uninspiring. The kind of appointment that has had the fans so low for so long.
 
If you watched the Gary Neville interview with Keane the other day I think it’s fair to say Keane won’t have a private number plate !!

I’m under no illusion it’s him. There’s no logical reason he’d have driven down my street.

Just saying it’s a sign I tell ya!
 
Who was their manager when they got relegated from the championship after they’d finished 13th the season before?
I get it mate. I am not saying he is the answer or my choice. There are many reasons for clubs to be relegated as we know. That getting Hull promoted on his cv is beyond argument a positive. Getting Doncaster to the play offs is a positive. I am sure the interview process would focus on what went wrong for him to get relegated.
 
He can have done all that and more, BUT...and this is key. He is the very definition of uninspiring. The kind of appointment that has had the fans so low for so long.
When we appointed Denis Smith he was quite a dour steady character but he had grit. When we appointed Coleman he had charisma in buckets. We all want Keane but it is blinding us to exactly what we need.
 
We want to get promoted. I am not saying McCann is my choice but he isn't nearly as bad as people are making out.He got Doncaster to the play offs which is good, he got Hull promoted as champions playing good attacking football. I happen to think, listening to Speakman, we have a structure around the head coach that is better than all League One clubs and better than most Championship clubs. This should make a manager perform better - it didn't so much with Johnson it could work with McCann or Alex Neil.
At this stage I think the bulk of the resistance to McCann (and other candidates) is that they’re not Roy Keane.
 
The social media age is to blame like. Journos would get time to research prep and write articles but now they get usurped by a club DJ in a woolly hat with a smart phone so have to churn out regular regurgitated baseless pap.
I wonder if Downie et al took any stick for not being alive to a story that went nuts on Twitter and was the second most watch feed that day .It was due to the way Phillie did his job but highlighted a much bigger problem with the media
Downie s comments after also showed his contempt for a large amount of people in the north east where he represents .
We may be division 3 but still should be reported on in a fair unbiased media .
Phillies reporting highlighted a much bigger issue in my humble
 
I get it mate. I am not saying he is the answer or my choice. There are many reasons for clubs to be relegated as we know. That getting Hull promoted on his cv is beyond argument a positive. Getting Doncaster to the play offs is a positive. I am sure the interview process would focus on what went wrong for him to get relegated.
Parkinson got teams promoted from this division as well.
 
This is what Danny Collins said -“what you don’t see with Roy Keane is the other side -his dry sense of humor “
“He lets the lads have a few beers and relax but when it comes to work time ( training and games ) he’s very focused “
He went on to add that if players are late for training ect he gets annoyed and will call them out on it and “ rightly so “ as Danny put it
If you are turning up on time and someone is late regularly in any walk of life that needs sorting but particularly when you only train for an hour and a half
Danny is one person I would really trust with his insight
I'd rather listen to Danny than Marco
 
I doubt this is done, because if it was surely they’d be announcing it today the day before a game.
More ticket sales, introduced before the kick off tomorrow to really ignite the place.
Nah, there’s nowt there yet.
 
We want to get promoted. I am not saying McCann is my choice but he isn't nearly as bad as people are making out.He got Doncaster to the play offs which is good, he got Hull promoted as champions playing good attacking football. I happen to think, listening to Speakman, we have a structure around the head coach that is better than all League One clubs and better than most Championship clubs. This should make a manager perform better - it didn't so much with Johnson it could work with McCann or Alex Neil.

I think the choice for me is down to who do we think can inject a bit of something immediately to give us the best chance of going up this season. I'm not really looking beyond that.

McCann and others are, I think, solid coaches potentially, but I'm not sure there's a better person to come in right now and get an immediate reaction than somebody like Keane.
 
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