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Roy Keane

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Georgewhitt said:
He could. But just by being interviewed, he's showing he wants the job. He obviously has no personal reasons for turning it down, or he wouldn't go for interview. Only obstructions put up by KLD could f**k this up now.

Give him what he asks for, give him the job, give him backing, and leave him alone to do it his way.

Success written all over it.
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Roy Keane needs to fit in with our, modern, stucture, not the other way round. He can bring a lot of positive things to the club, but we shouldn't go backwards to accommodate him.
 
Georgewhitt said:
He could. But just by being interviewed, he's showing he wants the job. He obviously has no personal reasons for turning it down, or he wouldn't go for interview. Only obstructions put up by KLD could f**k this up now.

Give him what he asks for, give him the job, give him backing, and leave him alone to do it his way.

Success written all over it.
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He would bankrupt us in no time.
 
Mackem00 said:
Baffling the way our support seems to fawn over certain ex players/manager's like lovestruck teenagers. Always looking to the past.
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What is "baffling" about wanting the last manager we had success with, to re-ignite our season and push for promotion?

Apart from Ried, he is the only man who has go close to achieving what he set out to do.

GIVE HIM THE JOB NOW.
 
James said:
I bet he is. He's playing in the pub leagues and he's 40. His game relied entirely on having blistering pace and that went about a decade ago. :lol:
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And he’d still be out pacing L1 defenders. Just to clarify, I’m not endorsing bringing him home.
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
He's had plenty of jobs within the game and has been analysing the game at the top level for years. He's hardly been at home in the garden
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I'm just playing devils advocate really. Anyone we appoint is a risk, but for me, Keane is a greater risk than some others IMHO. That's not to say it couldn't work, like you say it's not like he has been completely out of the game.
 
Mackem00 said:
I was under the impression his and O'Neills time at the ROI was pretty disappointing tbh and ended badly. Again tho he wasn't the manager and hasn't done owt positive in management in over ten years. Didn't think that would be a point to argue tbh. It's pretty clear.

I loved his time here all those years ago mind. Great memories.
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They had a decent World Cup campaign that ended with a bad result against a good Denmark side in the play-offs.
 
darius said:
Roy Keane needs to fit in with our, modern, stucture, not the other way round. He can bring a lot of positive things to the club, but we shouldn't go backwards to accommodate him.
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Backwards!!!!!!!!

And I suppose our modern structure is brilliant is it?


The very structure that has us scrambling around to make the play offs again in the THIRD TIER of English football.

Give me strength.
 
chriswallace85 said:
He didn't hamper us whatsoever.

There're some penny pinchers on this board who'll have you believe that money is a bad word and spending it's a sin, but it really is not the case.

Yes the club was mismanaged. Yes money was pissed away over a ten year period. But that is not the fault of Roy Keane. It wasn't Roy Keane who allowed players to see out their contracts. It wasn't Roy Keane who sent multi-million pound signings out on loan whilst we languished at the bottom of the Championship.

The players Roy Keane spent real money on, we got value from. The likes of Jones, Richardson, Ferdinand, Gordon, Malbranque, then the likes of Edwards, Connolly, Wallace, Miller (RIP), Fulop (RIP). Of the signings that didn't work out or who became surplus to requirement, we tended to get our money back.

He wasn't afraid to take a punt. You try things, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But he certainly never led us to anything like financial ruin. The arse fell out of the Irish housing market, but that wasn't Roy Keane's fault either.
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this.

we were mostly backed by an Irish billionaire property developer and then there was a worldwide crash and Ellis short came in.
 
Mackem2017 said:
Was starting to like him after baiting the terrorists but he can piss off now :lol:

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Last Thursday morning on TalkSport.

Brazil and McCoist were debating Chelsea's attacking options, they then asked Agbonlahor what he thought about Hudson Odoi, his answer "well he sometimes beats the FB but sometimes he doesn't" :rolleyes:
Next topic, players being good or bad in training, his answer "sometimes I was good when training sometimes I was bad, well it depended if it was warm or cold, I didn't like the cold" :rolleyes:
 
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