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Roy Keane

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Exapno Mapcase said:
Clear leader and motivator certainly but we need some serious tactical nous too, someone who sees what the opposition are doing in the game and dealing with it, having plans for when the 11 we start with aren't working or are tactically outwitted. Johnson constantly had one plan and no answers when we went behind, didn't address defensive dithering and that immediate slump after half time
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I'm sure I read somewhere one of the players under Keane saying they were always well prepared for the next opposition, their strengths and weaknesses etc.

Just because Keane gets angry sometimes I don't think that means he has no tactical nous or that training will just involve running lots of laps.
 

HoxtonMackem said:
IIRC he had a rental place in Durham he used during week when needed as a base for training/matches/whatever else then commuted back home when he wanted. That seemed to work no bother at all until Short opened his trap.

Keane's kids are fully grown up now too.
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Yes he had a place at Neville's Cross, not far from where Lee Johnson was living. I used to see Keane in the Duke of Wellington now and again.
 
Turnip from the Tip said:
Might go against the general mood, but surely it’s about time the club got a managerial appointment right.

If that process takes a couple of weeks, or longer, but if it means we can start a proper rebuild so be it.

It’s likely we’ve got another season in league 1. Get it right now with the right coaching team - point the ship in the right direction now and we have the capability to smash promotion next season and be ready to compete in the championship. Hopefully under Roy Keane (but if not Alex Neil) we can finally sort this mess out.

The goalposts have moved after the last 10 days or so, abandon the quick fix and plan for the long term. IMO.
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Wasn’t that the plan the last season? And the season before that? And the season before that?
 
If Keane is appointed, I wonder who will be his assistant? Could Father O'Neill be persuaded, or would his ego not permit? Would the venerable man of the cloth be a good assistant in any event?

When Keane was our manager he was 35. He's now 50. Would he need an older, more experienced assistant alongside him, or a younger bloke with more up to date experience & ideas? Would Keane conform to stereotype by playing 'bad cop' or might he confound by playing 'good cop'? Or will his approach be something completely different?

I tend not to over engage in the speculation game, but this time, not least because I'm pig sick of all this clarting on, and purely in a doubtless doomed attempt to inject a little levity into the mire, I'm going at it, pell-mell....
 
Turnip from the Tip said:
Might go against the general mood, but surely it’s about time the club got a managerial appointment right.

If that process takes a couple of weeks, or longer, but if it means we can start a proper rebuild so be it.

It’s likely we’ve got another season in league 1. Get it right now with the right coaching team - point the ship in the right direction now and we have the capability to smash promotion next season and be ready to compete in the championship. Hopefully under Roy Keane (but if not Alex Neil) we can finally sort this mess out.

The goalposts have moved after the last 10 days or so, abandon the quick fix and plan for the long term. IMO.
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Ooh no it should have been done in a knee jerk fashion man, don’t be using that common sense.
 
thecloughywobble said:
If Keane is appointed, I wonder who will be his assistant? Could Father O'Neill be persuaded, or would his ego not permit? Would the venerable man of the cloth be a good assistant in any event?

When Keane was our manager he was 35. He's now 50. Would he need an older, more experienced assistant alongside him, or a younger bloke with more up to date experience & ideas? Would Keane conform to stereotype by playing 'bad cop' or might he confound by playing 'good cop'? Or will his approach be something completely different?

I tend not to over engage in the speculation game, but this time, not least because I'm pig sick of all this clarting on, and purely in a doubtless doomed attempt to inject a little levity into the mire, I'm going at it, pell-mell....
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O’Neill wouldn’t take it but he would be a disaster anyway. Keano needs a first class coach as assistant imo, and by all accounts…O’Neill doesn’t spend a lot of time on the training pitch. I think that’s why Robertson and him were such a great team.
Raker said:
What’s everyone’s “sick of this shit now like” rating out of 100? I’m a solid 87
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