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Roy Keane

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ivanthereasonable said:
I'm not sure it would work. Would Roy even be able to get through an interview with the owner ? How dare he question me.

It would certainly put a buzz in to the club.

"You will be required to work, without predudice, with players the DOF signs". I wouldn't like to be the owner that has to give him a bollocking after our next heavy defeat.
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That's just for the cameras that man. I think Roy's softened over the years, but he does know how to wind people up and get a reaction.

I think he'd probably be very interested to sit down and talk to KLD and Speakman, one thing he won't do is try and sugar coat the conversation with baffaling footballing terminologies.

For Roy to get the role, he would have to bow down to some new ways of thinking and coaching, but the fundamentals of getting a side fit and up for a game are always the same.

I don't think he's the dinosaur everyone thinks, but it would be up to him to prove that if he was ever to get a sit down with the board.
 
Just move on. I loved him at the time but he’s hardly set the world alight since . What we need is a stats based couch who plays the style Johnson did but can tighten the defence
 
The Great MES said:
I don't know why people are wanting Keane. He hasn't managed for over 10 years and he failed miserably at Ipswich. He'd lost the plot here by the end and I think the game has moved on from managers stood there screaming and shouting at halftime.
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I wonder how his time with Sky has changed him. Week in and week out he'll of seen up close all the top managers, their tactics, and approach.

People say the likes of Warnock and Allerdyce are dinosaurs, and there's no doubt that tactically they believe in getting the fundamentals sorted and I'm not a fan of the way they set up their team (which is prehaps why at the elite level both struggle - especially more recently). But both are well known for their scientific approach to fitness and health. Both bring sports psychologists with them to every team they go to for example. I also know Allerdyce is big into statistics and data as well. Meanwhile, we had Jack Ross who was much younger and you'd of hoped would embrace the modern game, but he was fundamentally "old school" in that he didn't put any trust in data. I don't think how someone acts, or is perceived, is necessarily the truth.

I have zero idea how Keane would approach management now. But perhaps he's used the last decade to reflect on the modern game and how he'd approach it. The only people who'd know would be the people who interview him.
 
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HoxtonMackem said:
Nonsense.

Players from that promotion season have all spoken in the years since how he massively helped them develop technically and mentally that year on a 1 to 1 basis.

He instilled basic good habits into many, particularly young players. We could do with that now.
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He also brought a professionalism and pride to the club that had been long since lost.
 
The Great MES said:
I don't know why people are wanting Keane. He hasn't managed for over 10 years and he failed miserably at Ipswich. He'd lost the plot here by the end and I think the game has moved on from managers stood there screaming and shouting at halftime.
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I think he's a viable option to some that have been mentioned who've been managing in the last 10 year and done very little.....even Parky had 2 promotions from this league on his CV and look what happened there.

If we can bring in someone with good credentials, on the up and who has some actual idea of how to play then I'm all for it, maybe it's time for someone European to come in?

For me, if its from the usual line up, then I'd pick Keane, but I'd like to think we'd be casting our net a little further with KLD mentioning interest from around the world.
 
SAFC Wilks said:
Not falling for it this time, I lumped on Poyet when the odds started to come down and got nowt. :lol:

Wasn’t the main problem Keane had with Short was that he was telling him he had to move to the area?
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It was and he questioned at the end the lack of time Keane was spending at the training ground.
 
SAFC Wilks said:
Not falling for it this time, I lumped on Poyet when the odds started to come down and got nowt. :lol:

Wasn’t the main problem Keane had with Short was that he was telling him he had to move to the area?
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Didn't Keane live with his family up Weardale and his bairns were very close to some older neighbours? I thought Short was at odds with Martin ONeil for not moving to the area and thought that ONeil wasn't spending enough time one site at the Club.

I did like Keane He had a lot of good ideas like insisting the AoL should display photo's of old players and the Club's achievements and impressing the club's history on new players. He certainly had a genuine affinity for SAFC .

If he does return and we are promoted in the summer you can bet your life that there won't be a bloody open top bus ride to celebrate . It will be almost worth giving him the gig just for that.
 
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