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Not Roy Keane

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I've said it before. If I was Keane I wouldn't touch this mess with a barge pole.

Got a cosy little earner with Sky (ITV or whoever it is), why bother with the stress.
 

If it's the case not wanting the job, where is the ire directed at him?
We seem to have gone from "Get Keane in!" to "Ah feck Grant McCann" or other potential candidate.

Where is the same fury directed at someone might actually want the job as opposed to someone who the fans may want, but didn't want to come?

Isn't the worst kind of love meant to be unrequited? You want him here, but he doesn't want to be here.
The bottom line to that is, it'll always be the fans getting hurt.

If he doesn't want it, fine. I'd rather him not want it and not come along, than not want it, show up and be half arsed about it.
 
Realist said:
I'll get behind any manager coming in but sorry I need some time to get over the Keane hype first, still pissed off. Whoever it is they will need to turn team around fast, he'll be feeling the pressure alright if we continue to get beat.
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I won't get on their backs, but any appointment now will be greeted with apathy from me I'm afraid.
 
Betty Swollocks said:
So what do you think he was likely offered and what would be the stumbling block?
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I have no idea mate. Not itk, but he would have kicked that into touch long before now.
I have nothing to back it up, but my thoughts are that he looked how the club is being run, and ran out of faith with the ownership/board/upper management because of the amateur way they were dealing with it all.
Just my opinion. Not itk.
 
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exiled_in_manc said:
I've said it before. If I was Keane I wouldn't touch this mess with a barge pole.

Got a cosy little earner with Sky (ITV or whoever it is), why bother with the stress.
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That is true, although he has stated over the past couple of years that he wants to be in club management again but not many clubs will have him on the shortlist. He was in a good position to negotiate a good deal given he has a good job as a pundit but the club probably didn't want to give in to what he was asking for whatever that may be.
 
Boo said:
I agree, totally. In these mad times, I even find myself rooting for Neil Warnock!
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Same. Was appalled at the suggestion a week ago, would welcome him with open arms now.

Out of work "done it in League One" managers are usually trading on a reputation earned by a good run of 15 games 3 years ago. Someone like Warnock has seen it all, could see how he'd turn down the noise and guide us to the playoffs.
 
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He would love the job, he can't hide it, just look at his interviews, you can see it when he talks about another go at management.

It would be his last chance and he would need to feel he was in a competent structure to do well. You've then got to ask yourself why he would turn it down?
 
For the 'process' to go on so long, he obviously had more than a bit of interest in it.

For me I am most angry about our complete lack of imagination or ambition in considering alternative candidates. Why does it always have to be a drab merry-go-round loser who's failed elsewhere and whose absolute ceiling if everything goes perfectly will be dossing around the lower reaches of the Champo for a season otr two?
 
I suspect we’ll never know why talks broke down. The itk’s will of course pontificate but I fear their credibility is shot after this sorry episode.
 
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