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Roy Keane

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nessen said:
But Keane has been out of management work for years now.
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When he signed last time He had no managerial experience whatsoever!We have tried the parky clones ,the cheap and the delusional gobshite and non have worked ....time for something different! We need to start a new journey with a refurbished BUS ,a new driver and a new tour operator,we need to have enough fuel to reach or destination and the bus needs to be an express with comfy seats and not some pseudo rikshaw going nowhere fast as were on now.
 
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jsdftm04 said:
Recruitment hasn't been dreadful. But there's areas where it hasn't addressed what we need. I think a more forceful personality like Keane could help with that personally.
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Recruitment has been very good and is the least of our problems. We had Defoe, Matete, Roberts, Clarke, Hume and Dajaku on the bench on Saturday. We have had injuries but McGeady, O Neinn, Wright, Broadhead and Huggins back soon.

That is by far the strongest squad we have had in years and the strongest in the league! We have strengthened our squad in the January transfer window more than any other team in the league - in fact no other team comes close! All clubs in our league struggle with cover in the latter half of the season - we are better placed than any our team in the league.

I think it is fair to say another central defender would be good but we have Doyle, Barrt, Wright, ONeinn who can play there and a free agent is on the radar. Flannigan was a liability and anyone who witnessed his last games would know that. He should have been sold after his first season at the club. He has gone to a lower half League 1 team - say no more.

Upfront, OBrien and Hawkes have gone - replaced by Defoe, Clarke and Roberts. If that’s not progress I’m not sure what is!

Matete is a great buy and will be a first X1 player for sure.

The missing link is the manager! One of the attractions of the job to Keane is the strength of the squad. We are massively under achieving when you consider the strength of squad. Motivation levels seem to have dropped off - an issue that was raised with LJ. Keane makes perfect sense in this context.

Fans are writing off the season but I think if Keane is appointed and he has the desired impact, we will finish the season very strongly.
 
HoxtonMackem said:
I'm not saying there wouldn't be a power struggle for sure, but I'm not 100 percent convinced that Keane would refuse to be a head coach as many believe.

He has publicly acknowledged that the game has changed massively since he retired (and on that assumption he also means since he was last here).

He wouldn't have even entertained declaring interest in the job had he wanted to be an old fashioned hands on everything manager overseeing recruitment etc unless he hadn't done his homework on us.

Again, it is my strong belief that he is massively misunderstood as an individual. He's extremely sharp minded and for someone who is paid to watch Premierleague and International football closely, he surely must be someone who understands that a DOF setup appears (to potentially) be the future model throughout the game.

Yes the bloke has an ego but I think he'd be smart enough to change with the times. That applies to his man management as well. Provided a player is prepared to strive to meet standards and give it their all with the right attitude, then I think he would be prepared to cope with league 1 players making the odd mistake here and there without resorting to heavy handed tactics. I think he has mellowed of recent.

I may be wrong but that's my view.

I bloody well hope it's announced very soon.
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Yes, but the lines of demarcation and what power lies where within the structure are important... we don't know what that is, so it's perfectly reasonable to assume it may be a point of discussion, and maybe a sticking point. Rightly or wrongly.

Director of football - OK, sure.
Fuhrer of football - stick it up yer bollocks.
 
Flavonoids said:
Yes, but the lines of demarcation and what power lies where within the structure are important... we don't know what that is, so it's perfectly reasonable to assume it may be a point of discussion, and maybe a sticking point. Rightly or wrongly.

Director of football - OK, sure.
Fuhrer of football - stick it up yer bollocks.
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Oh, agreed 100 percent.

As you say we don't know.

If he takes the job then at least we can assume they have passed stage 1/1000 of Roy Keanes sussing out test. :lol:
 
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Nelson! said:
That’s what happened last time and it ended up with Johnson getting the job when Poyet decided “the way the club want things” wasn’t right.

Looking at a similar disappointment here I am afraid: Speakman has done very little to justify it being his way or the Highway.
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Speakman is not immune to the chop..if the system is right you just replace the head..sadly i dont think the system is established enough to support losing its figurehead and i think thats how speakman likes it!over to you KLD.If we dont appoint Keane and we fail again to get promoted our season tickets will drop below 20 thousand and we will lose our better players and more league one beckons as the financial constraints will get worse as our revenue plummets!
 
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