penno13
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Should never have even got to this stage, Keane should have been in the monday lJ was sacked
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Roy Keane
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Sack Fatto
Striker
Patience dear boys and girls. It’s going to be Royston.
Thats a separate issue to preparing properly for our most winnable game of the season on paper which has now been thrown away.
Altidore Step Overs
Midfield
That same squad was 1st about a month ago though. It's clearly a decent squad.
That's not true. I have serious concerns about his competence and I'm basing that on facts and publicly-available info.
He has overseen a recruitment "philosophy" which has us fielding a first-choice back five (assuming Huggins was fit), which includes four players with an average age of 20 and with no full senior season between them. And we are all wondering why we leak goals like we do? I mean, really?!
He sacked a manager over a week ago with no replacement lined up, and that led to the absolute circus of having three youth coaches holding a live crisis meeting in the technical area for an hour and a half on Saturday. Not to mention three easy points pissed away.
In the meantime, he decided on Monday that it would be a good idea to leave the club with only two fit "senior" centre halves (I use the term senior loosely, as one of those two has not long turned 18). No "football person" - no actual manager with responsibility for results - would even contemplate doing something so f***ing stupid as that.
Father Jack Hackett
Striker
Absolutely Keane
The Cabbage
Striker
samaistonsrightfoot
Striker
Not sure how Keane will go as much as I still want him. Can't help but feel this squad will buckle under him. Dodds on Saturday was almost crying for the players (poor lads) because they were focused in training. Keane would have battered them.
10 Gary Rowells
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What if its Roy who is taking his time? What if they only learned of Roy's interest after sacking Johnson? If only life was as straight forward as you would like it to be.
Even if it is, how much damage is this needless delay doing? He should have been taking training by last Wednesday.
SebastienELLISbexter
Striker
The frustration towards Speakman comes from the fact that we are dithering, f***ing around, with Roy Keane. The other options have been well documented, they have been interviewed. They do not compare to Keane. So there's the frustration. It's because it should be so simple. Keane should be number 1 choice and this should have been sorted by now. Regardless of results recently, or even how well anyone might think we've done in the transfer window, this whole 'process' has been utterly infuriating. I am actually one of the people who think up until now Speakman has done a good job. I like the way the recruitment of players has changed. I know he's doing good work in other areas of the club too and cares about different age groups. However, I do not understand why it's taking so long to get Keane sorted. Still hoping for the correct outcome, and hoping it's soon. Get it done.
The squad has buckled anyway. What we need is someone to come in, bluntly identify the spineless players and ship them out.
Flavonoids
Striker
Accusations of acting dishonourably are just daft though, the manager has still been sacked, so what does it bother him if the club have sorted his successor prior to pumping him? I think those accusations can be easily ignored.
samaistonsrightfoot
Striker
Shouldn't be difficult to ship them out half of them are away in the summer. Got promotion to achieve in the meantime.
10 Gary Rowells
Striker
Its such a tough call. I have the same fears as you. I felt strongly that Johnson would flop yet again in the play offs. Keano has the mental strength but do the team? Alex Neil probably makes more sense than Keane but would go down like a shit sandwich with many on here. I liked the comment from Speakman about football being an emotional game regarding the signing of Defoe. It is an emotional game and that's why I want Keane. Equally I'd be happy with Neil (with just a little disappointment).
North of the Smoke
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It will be interesting to see IF he comes back how he handes the players, just volleying them will achieve nothing. You would think he is smarter than that, he also needs the right team with him with experience of bringing lads through, maybe we will see some of his UTD contacts roll up?
I think this squad is very decent, although patchy in some areas, with the correct organisation and motivation we should do well, but we are leaving it late.
thecloughywobble
Striker
I'd go a step further: all accusations can be safely ignored, not least those on this message board (including mine, ha, ha).
The Cabbage
Striker
Disagree. That's not facts. That is all your opinion based on what is available publicly. You have no idea if we've already got Keane in the bag and are merely extricating his chosen assistant - or if we've made a clear and obvious play for him but, Keane being Keane, he's making us wait a bit. And as for the centre half thing, we have four on the books with O'Nien capable of playing there. The numbers are fine, the current situation is transient. It maybe wouldn't be the choice that all would make but does it allow us to get Defoe on contract while keeping within SCMP regs? I'm speculating here, of course, but that's the point. We don't know the whole picture. It's all opinion and we're filling in the blanks.
So with only a small amount of the information available, how is what the club has done 'negligent'?
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rubberface
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f***ing farce now, don't know why it hasn't been announced.
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