Robbie Keane

Murray must have been of interest, he seems to be on good form, 7 goals in 18 matches.
Indeed prior to this recent game he had 5 goals in 4 matches. He was subbed after 35 mins
in this match though, an injury one would assume?
Also might have been worth having a look at Sheehan, although he is a bit older at 27
however he too is on goal scoring form despite being left back.
He has 6 goals in 106 game but 5 of them came in the last 19 games.
A free kick specialist apparently.

County had been on a winning run until O'Neil turned up and put and end to that!!

County had a player red carded, Murray was sacrificed for a substitute

Keane: Me raking in 5th most amount of Dough in MLS.
http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stori...m-a-year-in-la

Robbie scored LA Galaxy's only goal in their 1-0 victory the Vancouver Whitecaps last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Xc-cAl5pI

Some more highlights and a match report here: http://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/2014...k-back-matches

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Robbie scored LA Galaxy's only goal in their 1-0 victory the Vancouver Whitecaps last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Xc-cAl5pI

Some more highlights and a match report here: http://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/2014...k-back-matches

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Love the carefree face at 0:10

Bummer dude. Conceded a goal. Gnarly.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/six-...-30192891.html

Interesting what he is making of robbie keane here....

I wonder what his agenda is for lumping Robbie Keane in with the likes of Jo and David Bentley? Streets ahead of the pair of them.

Sincerely doubt he would have said that if Keane was born in Britain.

Ye know well what he meant, and I think its unfair.

Internationally certainly he has more than justified it, but ask any spurs fan they will tell you the same. Maybe not liverpool or some other clubs, but he generally did quite well in the goals and assists department.

Irish players will never be valued the way they should be.

'China and India are gagging for football content to watch and we're going to tell them that City is their content. We need a superstar to get through that door. Richard Dunne doesn't roll off the tongue in Beijing.'

Garry Cook on Richard Dunne.

"If Andy Reid was Argentinian, we'd all be cooing over him right now."

Bobby Robson on Andy Reid.

Caught between a rock and a hard place, we are; not British enough so we don't have the overinflated market value and not exotic enough.

Robbie scored against the Vancouver Whitecaps again last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYmb4y1DV4

The game ended 2-2.

I see that Rob Friend is LA's version of Long or Doyle whose sole purpose is to do all the donkey work to try and help Robbie score so he can do his camp celebration.

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I see that Rob Friend is LA's version of Long or Doyle whose sole purpose is to do all the donkey work to try and help Robbie score so he can do his camp celebration.

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I don't post much in the Ireland section but your obsession with petty digs at Robbie Keane is fascinating. Did he turn down an autograph request of yours or something?

I love Robbie Keane, and this is a really good striker's finish.

But that is such a crap celebration, it really is. Can he not come up with anything better?

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I see that Rob Friend is LA's version of Long or Doyle whose sole purpose is to do all the donkey work to try and help Robbie score so he can do his camp celebration.

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Serious question....what age are you TOWK ?

Not liking Robbie Keane as an Irish fan is like a Yankee fan not liking Derek Jeter. I don't get it.

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Not liking Robbie Keane as an Irish fan is like a Yankee fan not liking Derek Jeter. I don't get it.

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Yeah an analogy like that will ensure that we don't get what you're talking about either.

I think most Irish fans like Robbie, maybe even love him. But this can be a country of begrudgers and very very few Irish sportspeople are universally loved. I can think of very few. McGrath, Brady, O'Driscoll, Shefflin maybe .....I'm out

It's like a fan of breasts not liking Nigella Lawson. Better?

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Not liking Robbie Keane as an Irish fan is like a Yankee fan not liking Derek Jeter. I don't get it.

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yeah, but everybody else hates Jeter.

Much much better!

It reminds me a bit of (and I'm not comparing the two as athletes) ho a lot of boxing fans give out about Muhammad Ali and say he wasn't that great.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/27-...t=20&start=900

Interesting discussion about Keane and Ireland in general. I'd probably start from anywhere between page 30 and 40 for convenience sake.

I don't hate Keane and I'm not a begrudger. Trust me! I have no allegiance to him either. I'm more interested in the advancement of our national team than him racking up more goals against mediocre opposition and personal accolades. It's pretty simple.

blah blah blah "I'm not a begrudger" blah blah blah "him racking up more goals against mediocre opposition and personal accolades" blah blah

:rolleyes:

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.

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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.

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could be on google cache somewhere? or the way back machine?

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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

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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.

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

could be on google cache somewhere? or the way back machine?

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It doesn't even show up on google anymore. Might give the Wayback Machine a spin.

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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.

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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.

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It doesn't even show up on google anymore. Might give the Wayback Machine a spin.

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searched his twitter account for mentions of Robbie Keane: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A...keane&src=typd
looks like it was published in 2011: https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/st...26066748858368

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A breakdown of Robbie Keane's record http://bit.ly/j2aE58

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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

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

searched his twitter account for mentions of Robbie Keane: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A...keane&src=typd
looks like it was published in 2011: https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/st...26066748858368

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

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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.

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/...er-month-april

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.

Meet the Korean food trucks yet? :D

I havent had the pleasure yet :)

Crosby87: Me rikey me food trucks.

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

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:

But he did stay in a Holiday Inn Express that night.

That to me is a soft PK

Recent article on Robbie Keane, from the Guardian.

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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

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Scored a close range header against Portland Timbers earlier