i still can't believe he got the job in the first place.
hopefully robbie can bag a few goals to keep the confidence high, proving he can still cut it in the epl would give him a great lift
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i still can't believe he got the job in the first place.
hopefully robbie can bag a few goals to keep the confidence high, proving he can still cut it in the epl would give him a great lift
Looks like it is going through, cue David Kelly saying Villa was a boyhood dream for Keane...
"Given expects Keane to be a success at Villa": http://www.u.tv/Sport/Given-expects-...-64ab5dac7554~
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Fit-again goalkeeper Shay Given believes Aston Villa will reap the benefits if they sign his Republic of Ireland team-mate Robbie Keane for a loan spell from Los Angeles Galaxy.
Keane's move to Villa for two months on loan is expected to be completed on Wednesday and in time for him to be under consideration for Saturday's home clash with Everton.
Given, who is back in training after his five week lay-off with a hamstring injury, is confident Keane can still be a threat at Barclays Premier League level.
He said: said: "It's great for Villa to secure a player of Robbie's calibre, even in the short term.
"I didn't know how fit he was before the last couple of days in training but he looks really sharp, to be honest.
"We're all delighted that he's here and I think he's just given the whole dressing room a lift.
"He's a big personality and he's a big-game player. I think even in training the lads have been very impressed with what they've seen."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...n-villa-galaxy
A "compliment sandwich" of an article about Keane!!Quote:
Keane is essentially a small, rather slow, rather unathletic man, blessed with great skill, a revered instinct for space and a wonderful footballing intelligence.
"Keane is essentially a small, rather slow, rather unathletic man, blessed with great skill, a revered instinct for space and a wonderful footballing intelligence."
Perfect summation of Robbie Keane's abilities.
Slow yes, but unathletic? I don't agree. He could run for days.
Keane and Bent didn't really gel at Spurs did they?
Amazing how Keane got ran out of Liverpool within a few months of signing for em yet a 35m donkey like Carroll is still given chances.
That article wasn't bad actually.
1 of the comments from that blog.....
I'm Irish. We DON'T all love him.
He has a brutal touch, an annoying visage, an inability to speak, and an inability to finish.
He's the Irishman's Franny Jeffers.
Tad harsh?!
He's quick to change direction though, and defenders hate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Anybody who thinks Keane has a brutal touch has a brutal appreciation of football. It's frightening the level of idiot that Keane seems to lure from the undergrowth.
That barstooler must have mistakenly typed "The Guardian" into google instead of "The Daily Mail".Quote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
Except for those 53 occasions there.Quote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
sums up the averge football "fans" attidude to our national team and captain really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
saw a post on another forum back just before the draw in december saying we would be hammered in each of our 3 group matches (remains to be seen) and that we had only qualified by the "skin of our teeth"..... a 5-1 aggregate win in the play off after a group where we finished 4 pts ahead of 3rd would say otherwise.
Also on a side note, I absolutely can't stand when Irish people begin their sentence with "I'm Irish" and then proceed to claim to be devine authority on whatever the topic of conversation is in relation to Ireland. I've seen it happen quite a bit here in Sweden. Your average Scandanavian knows far more about Irish trad music than your average Irish man as the trad music scene here tends to be much bigger here than it is on the East coast of Ireland. Yet about a week ago I heard an Irish man from Dublin who would cite his musical influences as U2 and The Cranberries, proceed to "inform" a Swede (who visits Connemara regularly and plays fiddle in a trad band) about the Irish trad music scene, despite the fact he had never darkened the door of a trad session before. The locals here would be too diplomatic to point out the fact he was talking utter rubbish.
Generally people who preface any remarks with "I'm Irish so ..." tend to proceed with a gross misrepresentation of the overwhelming view of the Irish people, like the idiot discussing Robbie Keane above.
Sorry, tangent over.
I'm Irish, and that makes a lot of sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by French Toasht
He has a fine touch, is the picture of innocuous, has been known to speak and has finished to record-breaking proportions. What's more, Franny Jeffers is surely the most authentic occurrence of Franny Jeffers known to man, Irish or otherwise.Quote:
I'm Irish. We DON'T all love him.
He has a brutal touch, an annoying visage, an inability to speak, and an inability to finish.
He's the Irishman's Franny Jeffers.
I feel like striking through the word 'Irish' and replacing it with 'mistaken' so as to pull one of those riotous 'fixed that for you' capers on that silly billy!
I'm Irish and I think Keane is a knob:)
ugh, I still don't get why the best goalscorer we ever had is so berated, especially since the other goalscorers had for the most part a much better squad behind them...
worth posting on a football forum alrightQuote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
http://www.villatalk.com/index.php?n...r=asc&start=15
Villa fans disgusted at this signing
They Dont want him near the place
That's from a couple of weeks ago. The more recent posts are a little more realistic.
The fans disgust isn't primarily because of keane, its confusion at the signing of a striker for 6 weeks and the reasoning behind it.
There's no short term cover problem with injuries or African Nations so what exactly do Villa stand to gain from this? Dropping Bent or Agbonlahor for him won't exactly play them into form, changing the formation to accommodate all 3 will be unsustainable when Keane leaves and using him purely as an impact sub seems a poor way to spend half a million and damaging to their young talent Delfouneso and Weimann.
They're also concerned that chance creation is their problem so signing a finisher won't help with that and their main solution to that creation problem in recent weeks has been Ireland and they're also worried Keane could shunt him out of the team or onto the wing and damage the progress he had been making.
Its a strange one from McLeish, hope he knows what hes doing here. A lot of Irish interest at Villa these days.
Goal Robbie! Wolves attempt to clear it, ball comes to Clark about 40 yards out, heads it down towards Robbie who is about 25 yards out. Lets it run across his body, turns and fires a low right footed drive past Hennessey who might've done better. Don't think he'd done a think up until that point to be honest but won't matter.
A really good first time finish from Keano.Quote:
Originally Posted by theworm2345
Another! Absolute cracker. Ball comes in from the right, headed out. Finds Robbie maybe 25-30 yards out, takes a touch to control it before letting fly a rocket that hits the underside of the bar and goes in.
still got it!
And he shows his class by not celebrating against his old club.
only saw a small bit of the gane. was he playing centre mid?
what do they say now?Quote:
Originally Posted by an_ceannaire
very annoynmous but good finishes, however we all know how woeful the wolves defence is so these opportunities wont come as easy again.
Didn't see the game, but I don't get how 2 goals and anonymous go together. A striker's job is mainly to score goals.
You'd swear he had scored 2 tap-ins from the 6 yard boxQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Here's the first anyway: http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos...eane-v-wolves/
Can't find the second yet.
http://theoriginalwinger.com/2012-01...nner-vs-wolvesQuote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
If it was Liverpool I bet he would celebrate.Quote:
Originally Posted by EastTerracer
:-)
if he keeps going like he is there wont be many clubs left that he'll be able to celebrate against!! :D :D j/k
Fair play Robbie.
To score twice on your debut for the club you dreamed about playing for as a boy!
It doesn't get any better than that.
Just the goals but I see they have already been posted and in better quality.
http://footyarena.com/Wolves-2-3-Aston-Villa_v1934
I wonder what they are saying at the moment?Quote:
Originally Posted by an_ceannaire