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Roy Keane

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sorry if SEB I’d missed this one earlier!
 
MEEKLANGLEYFTM said:
Sorry for longer post than usual but I need you all to convince me this could be the right appointment and not a romanticised mistake.
Hear me out keanos 1st stint as manager co-incided with the 3 seasons in a row I got to every game league, cups even friendlies, I was early 20's on the drink each game we were brilliant to follow that promotion season some of the best memories, however Keane spent a lot of cash to get us out the league and also hampered us spending again in the prem, he leads through fear a tactic that this day n age of weak minded players really doesn't work his stints at other clubs didn't really work out either.

I want to be excited by this I honestly do I've remembered the young hungry team he put together with the few wise heads to help and of course nothing less than 100% is good enough for keano, the way it should be, I think honestly I'm just fearful of another disappointing kick in the balls come may
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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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Whitburnmakem said:
qualified for Euro 2016???
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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.
 
woodlebert said:
That's just not true. Keane could turn it down for plenty of understandable reasons that are nothing to do with how hard the owner has tried to get him
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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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