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Ha ha ha ha. Best laugh in a while.
The extension of that logic is that we also ask Richard Dunne, John O'Shea, Kevin Doyle, Aiden McGeady to retire after Friday night. And presummably you want Whelan and Andrews to hand over their passports along with their resignation letters.
Or quite simply, Robbie has a technical shortcoming which rears its ugly head now and again.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
So our captain decided that he didn't want to get a knock and wimped out, to go with his peno miss, and probably cost us a place in Polkraine. Well done Robbie, but don't worry, we've Andorra soon, you'll probably get a hat-trick there, for all the good it'll do us, and you can do your celebration!!Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
I actually watched the replay last night. There was plenty of daylight between the keepr and Robbie. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was an absolutely dreadful miss, but I don't think Robbie was wimping out. I think he may have - unforgiveably - taken his eye off the ball distracted by the keeper's proximity, but that's not the same as turning his back.
It's what we get with Keane. We know he leaves chances out there. He should have had two in Paris, not one. He had a 'mare in Armenia. He should have scored in Slovakia (although at no stage was the keeper ever on his line - even during Robbie's run up). He should have scored on Friday. 4 points against Slovakia and we'd be virtually guaranteed second.
Really frustrating.
The flipside is that it's his goals that secured 6 points against Macedonia. His goal got us the win in Cyprus. There'd be no play-offs without his goals.
We're better off for having him. We're better off for having Doyle too, but I don't think he's in any way clinical for Ireland either.
BS. Strikers are entitled to not have a 100% strike rate, had he missed 3,4,5 of those kind of chances you'd raise your eyebrow. The fact that only one of those clearcut chances were created for him in the entire match therein lies the problem and that it was an aerial chance for a striker who likes it on the ground to boot doesn't help. The problem lies with our midfield and ball retention. Robbie could have bailed us out but make no mistake it would have been an undeserved victory if he did and papering over the cracks. I'd much rather look at the cracks in our performance than blame the paper for not sticking.Quote:
Originally Posted by weldoninhio
I thought he was really swinging his head to get power into the header, when from that distance he probably just needed to find the target and avoid the keeper, who looked too close to get to anything that wasn't directed at him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
it was one chance, strikers miss chances all the time. yes he prob should have scored it but robbie didnt make his name for scoring headers. id be more worried about our non existant midfield than robbie missing a chance. robbie has carried us for over 10 years, hes earned any miss he may have IMO.
Yep, only needed to let the ball bounce off his head.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
It missed his head and hit his shoulder though, didn't it?
...because he swung his head at it instead of just letting his head get in the way. He mistimed his "swing" is what osarusan was saying.
Done nothing tonight, he should have been taken off instead of Doyle. Hasn't put in any effort over the last two games but not sure whether the travel time has got to him or what.
To say Keane put no effort in over the last two games has to be the most ridiculous comment I've ever read on this forumQuote:
Originally Posted by Docboy
Did a fair bit of tracking back, in fairness. But was clearly knackered out there and just as how it made sense to take Duff off for fresh legs, Keane should have come off too. We only made two subs, didn't we? Maybe Trap was holding one in reserve for injuries.
In any case, it's clear that the number 5 is this team's captain. No disrespect to Robbie meant with that at all.
If he was any sort of man, he would take Trap aside and tell him that Dunne should be captain from now on. But his ego is never going to let that happen!!
Thought Keane did ok tonight. Tactics didn't suit a striker tonight as we were once again over-run in midfield and Trap wouldn't dream of changing his system
Looks as if the whole of the Russian frontline, Rob Earnshaw, many of the Scottish forwards, a number Slovakians etc etc will have to retire after those misses.
You obviously haven't read the transport debates on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by JGKyne
After his long journey from Moscow back to LA Robbie played the last 30 minutes against the Colorado Rapids last night. A 1-0 win for the Galaxy means they have secured a place in the playoffs (Landon Donovan got the goal).
Caleb Folan and Danny Earls played the full 90 minutes for Colorado - probably the first time three Irish players have played in an MLS game (apologies to Steve Morrow, Colin Clarke et al if this is not true)
ESPN UK are showing the game in full at 3pm but you can see the edited highlights here
The MLS Players Union releases the salaries of all players every year. Just came out this week:
LA Keane Robbie F
2011 Base Salary: $2,917,241.40
2011 Guaranteed Compensation: $3,417,243.15
http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/Sept...0By%20Club.pdf
Robbie just scored his second goal for the LA Galaxy to give them a 1-0 lead over Morelia in the CONCACAF Champions League - I'm guessing the first goal he's ever scored in Mexico?