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blah blah blah "I'm not a begrudger" blah blah blah "him racking up more goals against mediocre opposition and personal accolades" blah blah
TheOneWhoKnocks
22/04/2014, 4:21 PM
:rolleyes:
Charlie Darwin
22/04/2014, 4:22 PM
Miguel Delaney did a pretty comprehensive dissection of Keane's scoring record about 18 months or so ago and conclusively demonstrated that more often than not his goals are critical to the outcome of a match and he has a very good record against top teams. Unfortunately it was on Eircom Sports Hub, which no longer exists, but it might be archived somewhere. Maybe somebody can ask him on twitter.
tetsujin1979
22/04/2014, 4:24 PM
Miguel Delaney did a pretty comprehensive dissection of Keane's scoring record about 18 months or so ago and conclusively demonstrated that more often than not his goals are critical to the outcome of a match and he has a very good record against top teams. Unfortunately it was on Eircom Sports Hub, which no longer exists, but it might be archived somewhere. Maybe somebody can ask him on twitter.
could be on google cache somewhere? or the way back machine?
Stuttgart88
22/04/2014, 4:26 PM
blah blah blah "I'm not a begrudger" blah blah blah "him racking up more goals against mediocre opposition and personal accolades" blah blah
TOWK has inadvertently improved his appreciation of Keane. A few weeks ago he only scored against minnows, now he racks up goals against mediocre teams. That's a step up. Given that we're a mediocre team ourselves I think it's fair to say that his goals are indeed very important.
Charlie Darwin
22/04/2014, 4:34 PM
could be on google cache somewhere? or the way back machine?
It doesn't even show up on google anymore. Might give the Wayback Machine a spin.
TheOneWhoKnocks
22/04/2014, 4:37 PM
TOWK has inadvertently improved his appreciation of Keane. A few weeks ago he only scored against minnows, now he racks up goals against mediocre teams. That's a step up. Given that we're a mediocre team ourselves I think it's fair to say that his goals are indeed very important.
And I never said he shouldn't be starting against those mediocre teams. All along, I have been questioning the wisdom of playing an aging MLS striker feeding on knockdowns against teams the calibre of Germany or Poland; instead of a pacier forward (like Long) who is intelligent enough to make runs for players like Hoolahan, Ireland and Reid to create opportunities and to launch counter-attacks. That's another thing. How do we change formation and/or accommodate players like Hoolahan, Ireland and Reid and continue with Keane in the side? Do we play Keane as a lone striker or do we just forget about changing formation and the way we play football against big teams and persevere with a 4-4-2 and using another striker as a human target for knockdowns for Keane? IDK.... if Keane performed or scored against these teams on any kind of recurring basis there wouldn't be any questions from me. And people can go on about Long or Stokes not being good enough but Stokes hasn't been given the opportunity and even Long has barely started competitively and when he does, he is doing donkey work for another player that doesn't have the legs or the workrate (a la Doyle).
At the end of the day, Keane is going to be starting come September anyways - no matter what - so all you can ask for is that he scores regularly in the MLS and he is doing that.
tetsujin1979
22/04/2014, 4:42 PM
It doesn't even show up on google anymore. Might give the Wayback Machine a spin.
searched his twitter account for mentions of Robbie Keane: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3AMiguelDelaney%20robbie%20keane&src=typd
looks like it was published in 2011: https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/75926066748858368
A breakdown of Robbie Keane's record http://bit.ly/j2aE58
the bit.ly link resolves to this url http://home.eircom.net/News/robbie-keane-record.aspx
which is dead (of course) and doesn't appear on the way back machine or google cache
grrr
Charlie Darwin
22/04/2014, 4:55 PM
searched his twitter account for mentions of Robbie Keane: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3AMiguelDelaney%20robbie%20keane&src=typd
looks like it was published in 2011: https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/75926066748858368
the bit.ly link resolves to this url http://home.eircom.net/News/robbie-keane-record.aspx
which is dead (of course) and doesn't appear on the way back machine or google cache
grrr
Ah, that's annoying. I outlined the gist of it above. If anyone wants to tweet him, I'm sure he'd send you a text file or whatever.
Crosby87
02/05/2014, 8:50 PM
Breakdown of the Irish skipper's solid month of April in which he garnered 4th place in the POTM voting, with an outstanding 3.58%.
http://www.lagconfidential.com/2014/5/2/5675410/la-galaxy-forward-robbie-keane-player-month-april
Razors left peg
02/05/2014, 9:22 PM
I moved over to Southern California recently myself and I have to say Ive gained a whole new appreciation for why Robbie decide to come here rather than stay with some plodding mid to bottom of the table team in England. The lifestyle is just amazing. As long as he keeps scoring goals for Ireland it doesnt matter a bit where hes playing.
Crosby87
02/05/2014, 11:16 PM
Meet the Korean food trucks yet? :D
Razors left peg
03/05/2014, 12:36 AM
I havent had the pleasure yet :)
Crosby87: Me rikey me food trucks.
DannyInvincible
04/05/2014, 1:27 PM
Robbie missed a penalty last night as LA Galaxy lost 1-0 to Colorado Rapids. The penalty miss is at 05:30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duzj6DGNk0o
geysir
04/05/2014, 3:03 PM
He didn't look confident in the run up, he didn't exude any confidence at all, you can see it in his body language, the strut of his gait (or the gait of his strut).
For all Keane's bravado we can now see it stripped down to it's bare worthless core value, when faced with the pressure of taking a penalty to save his team from the ignominy of defeat against a lowly opponent, his false mask of bravado hits the floor.
:rolleyes:
Crosby87
06/05/2014, 12:35 AM
But he did stay in a Holiday Inn Express that night.
Fixer82
06/05/2014, 10:27 AM
That to me is a soft PK
TheOneWhoKnocks
11/05/2014, 3:58 PM
Recent article on Robbie Keane, from the Guardian.
Loss reminds Galaxy of the importance of Robbie Keane
With the blink of an unanticipated coaching move, Colorado has completely changed. Gone is Oscar Pareja's 4-2-3-1 that got so much out of threats like Deshorn Brown. Pablo Mastroeni instead employed a more staid, pragmatic, and narrow diamond midfield, part of a growing trend in MLS's tactical universe.
Like the Rapids, LA has shifted to a diamond, though Bruce Arena's has been a more progressive approach. Through April, the Galaxy led the West in average possession and had only been shutout once this season. The switch has also gotten the most out of players like Baggio Husidic, whose success adds to Arena's history of leveraging recycled parts.
For better or worse, though, LA's key remains Robbie Keane. Most of the time that's for the better, with the Ireland international collecting four goals in the Galaxy's recent four-game unbeaten run. Twice this season, however, Keane's looked like a degraded version of himself. In the season's opener, Keane missed two open chances and a penalty as the Galaxy lost to RSL.
Saturday was Keane's second bad game, the first indication of which came in the 37th minute. On a ball lofted to the middle of the area by Husidic, Keane had an open chance to pull back Vicente Sanchez's opener. Instead, the LA captain shanked his header over the bar, leaving him to tacitly apologize as he jogged back upfield.
The off night was confirmed midway through the second half when LA's leading scorer had a chance to salvage a result from the spot. Pushing his chance wide, Keane instead replicated his first week's misfortune: blown chances from open play; missed conversions from the spot; a one-goal loss.
It's the latest example of LA's over-dependence on Keane. At one time Landon Donovan's team, the Galaxy's shift began with the former captain's 2013 sabbatical, a transfer confirmed with Donovan mired in an eight-match scoreless, record-delaying run. In the four games this season in which Keane has scored, the Galaxy are 2-2-0. When he doesn't score, nobody picks up the slack, and they're 0-0-2.
A team known for its star power shouldn't be a one-man show, but more and more we're seeing that Donovan's influence is limited to spurts. As Saturday showed, the Galaxy's fate is increasingly tied to its 33-year-old focal point. So far in 2014, as Robbie Keane goes, so go the four-time champs. RF
tetsujin1979
11/05/2014, 10:12 PM
Scored a close range header against Portland Timbers earlier
DeLorean
22/05/2014, 7:38 AM
Cracker in 2-1 win against Dallas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk6MCX2SVUE
Stuttgart88
22/05/2014, 9:33 AM
They needed that win.
tetsujin1979
26/05/2014, 7:20 AM
scored the third goal in a 4-1 win over Philadelphia Union last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q4_lNjLiPw&t=4m36s
Landon Donovan broke the MLS goalscoring record in the same game
DeLorean
02/06/2014, 9:57 PM
A touch of the Roy about Robbie (http://balls.ie/football/audio-robbie-keane-pretty-****ed-3pm-kickoff-yesterday-nsfw-ish/)
BonnieShels
05/06/2014, 6:07 PM
12 years today Robbie scored against the Germans.
https://www.facebook.com/offtheball?fref=ts
coming up on OTB tonight.
BonnieShels
05/06/2014, 7:26 PM
And let's not forget how great this ad was...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ls5bzISPGs
Fixer82
05/06/2014, 7:44 PM
Yer man out of 'Adam and Paul' goes bleedin mad at the end!
BonnieShels
05/06/2014, 7:52 PM
Yer man out of 'Adam and Paul' goes bleedin mad at the end!
He died in 2007 from cancer. Found that out only recently after watching hiim in Intermission and Man About Dog.
BonnieShels
05/06/2014, 7:53 PM
He died in 2007 from cancer. Found that out only recently after watching hiim in Intermission and Man About Dog.
That's a different lad.
Charlie Darwin
05/06/2014, 8:13 PM
Half-expecting Bonnie to quote that last post and say "sorry, my mistake".
BonnieShels
05/06/2014, 8:21 PM
Half-expecting Bonnie to quote that last post and say "sorry, my mistake".
They look similar alright.
The lad in the ad is not dead the lad in Adam and Paul, Intermission and Man About Dog is dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murphy_(actor)
geysir
06/06/2014, 2:22 PM
Only Bonnie can correct Bonnie.
BonnieShels
06/06/2014, 9:29 PM
Only Bonnie can correct Bonnie.
I am the Chuck Norris of posting.
Grafter
09/06/2014, 10:39 PM
Romantic Robbie crooning at back of bus.....
http://www.independent.ie/sport/video-robbie-keanes-singing-on-ireland-team-bus-gets-little-reaction-from-teammates-30337856.html
DannyInvincible
18/06/2014, 9:58 AM
Robbie names the best XI he's ever played with for Four Four Two magazine: http://balls.ie/football/robbie-keane-named-best-xi-played/
Shay Given;
Javier Zanetti, Ledley King, Richard Dunne, Gareth Bale;
David Beckham, Roy Keane, Clarence Seedorf, Steven Gerrard, Damien Duff;
Dimitar Berbatov.
http://ballsdot.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-171.jpg
back of the net
18/06/2014, 11:17 AM
Robbie names the best XI he's ever played with for Four Four Two magazine: http://balls.ie/football/robbie-keane-named-best-xi-played/
Shay Given;
Javier Zanetti, Ledley King, Richard Dunne, Gareth Bale;
David Beckham, Roy Keane, Clarence Seedorf, Steven Gerrard, Damien Duff;
Dimitar Berbatov.
http://ballsdot.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-171.jpg
I forgot he played with so many great players
Himself and Berbatov in 2008 season - just a perfect partnership
OwlsFan
18/06/2014, 12:41 PM
The only other Irishman he might have had in that team is Steve Staunton.
BonnieShels
19/06/2014, 8:22 AM
Poor Denis.
geysir
19/06/2014, 9:26 AM
Either Robbie was too young to play with Irwin or Irwin in his latter years didn't prove himself to Robbie.
back of the net
19/06/2014, 8:39 PM
Either Robbie was too young to play with Irwin or Irwin in his latter years didn't prove himself to Robbie.
Robbie wud have played with Denis a fair few times in the Euro 2000 qualifiers ..didn't he?
osarusan
19/06/2014, 10:43 PM
He and Irwin would have played together loads of times at Man. United. An overlap of about 6 seasons in their times there.
Maybe he just thinks Zanetti is better.
EDIT: oops, Robbie, not Roy!!
Closed Account
19/06/2014, 10:51 PM
He and Irwin would have played together loads of times at Man. United. An overlap of about 6 seasons in their times there.
Maybe he just thinks Zanetti is better.
Not sure what's happened there osarusan but you've had a bit of a mare.
Anyways, Robbie picked this back in Jan 2013, all explained here:
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The thing is with people like Denis Irwin is I played with them at the end of their careers, so it was only kind of a year. Steve Staunton, Stan, played more center half when we played in the World Cup"
osarusan
19/06/2014, 11:03 PM
[QUOTE=joe_denilson;1761121]Not sure what's happened there osarusan but you've had a bit of a mare.
Haha, yes indeed, a mare!!
tricky_colour
19/06/2014, 11:30 PM
Poor Denis.
Denis Rousos?
back of the net
19/06/2014, 11:31 PM
[QUOTE=osarusan;1761119]He and Irwin would have played together loads of times at Man. United. An overlap of about 6 seasons in their times there.
[QUOTE]
was that failed sarcasm or a genuine error?
osarusan
19/06/2014, 11:38 PM
was that failed sarcasm or a genuine error?
Genuine error. For some reason, thinking of Irwin just made me think of Roy.
Charlie Darwin
20/06/2014, 12:23 AM
I know what you mean, all Cork people look the same to me too.
Olé Olé
17/07/2014, 9:02 AM
https://vine.co/v/MQJp93W0ZnY
Take a bow, Robbie.
tetsujin1979
17/07/2014, 9:32 AM
highlights of the game here: http://www.lagalaxy.com/video/2014/07/16/la-galaxy-vs-new-england-revolution-highlights
scored twice, second goal is just before the 8 minute mark
took advantage of a horrific back pass to race clear, round the keeper and score. Looks easy, but it could all have gone Ronny Rosenthal on him!
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