Keane to miss Italy friendly

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

This age thing is an excuse. He did his best many times to avoid friendlies and I believe is quoted as saying "I don't do friendlies". Personally I think this attitude sucks (to use an Americanism) and always has done. Football is a team game and all players should be treated equally. Why should one player be absolved from playing a game and the rest oblidged to turn up. You are saying to the other players, you are inferior and are being treated differently.

You just have to look at the stats to see how often he has missed games:

65 Roy Keane (1991-2005)
62 Gary Breen (1996-2004),
62 Kevin Kilbane (1997-2005)
60 Robbie Keane (1998-2005)

Robbie Keane now almost has as many Irish games played as him!!

That said we have to grin and bear it because he's crucial to our cause just as if Duffer or Robbie said screw most of the friendlies and didn't play.

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Who would you rather have in your side, Roy Keane or Gary Breen, Roy Keane or Kevin Kilbane?????

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Originally Posted by BrAyCMilan

Who would you rather have in your side, Roy Keane or Gary Breen, Roy Keane or Kevin Kilbane?????

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Unless Roy ups his game considerably to what he produced so far, I would rather have KK. In this campaign so far Kilbane has been more effective than Keane. There is still time for Roy to produce a big game and that has to be against France. If we lose against France, IMHO, third place beckons.