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I also saw the latvia one and thought the same ! thats what im on about its so lazy, how could the person writing it with any knowledge of football and an uneven year put down that we played a EuroQualifier and World cup qualifer in the same year.....granted they did have to do out 50 odd flags but still.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
from their transfer news today...Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
"Big news for Ireland fans, Jeff Hendrick has joined Burnley for a club record fee. Hendrick joins the Premier League side from Norwich and has signed a three-year contract with his new club."
Super goal for him.
It was a poignant moment to see Robbie walk off into the sunset, this part is finally over, one of the elite of Ireland's finest footballers has ended his intl career, it's akin to a death in the family. And true to form he leaves us with a memory of a brilliantly taken goal.
From his first emergence in the european final winning u18 team he's been at the fulcrum of the intl team and even when his football career comes an end soon, his life afterwards will still see a vibrant Robbie at the helm at whatever he'll be involved with. Robbie is the epitome of a success deservedly earned and borne with a natural grace.
Good article about his ill-fated spell at Inter.
http://www.the42.ie/robbie-keane-int...57064-Aug2016/
The juxtaposition of geysir's post and whatever negativity that TOWK put up is a fine reflection on what the man ended up doing to the nation.
But I'm not going to idly try and justify anything.
Robbie, you were the greatest. Sure we had Johnny and Liam and Roy and Damien but the rest of us were lucky to have you.
You were there to score the crucial goal. You stood up to comfort us when it all went to ****e. Be it Saipan or Paris.
You were there in Paris, you were there in Ibaraki; you were there during the tears and the joy...
And yet you were there for every ****ing second of the last 18 years and it was a pleasure. An unmitigated pleasure. We'll never see your like.
And I'm glad of that. No one will ever be fit to lace those boots... and I'm okay with that. To be sad once is all that we ask as a fan.
To be blessed 68 times is beyond what we deserve.
Enjoy LA. Enjoy Fettercairn. Enjoy it all because you deserve it.
And when you're manager... See you then.
Another couple of Keane goals I'd not seen before - his brace on his senior debut for Wolves.
The second goal is stunning for a 17-year-old on his debut. And the first isn't bad either.
It was all downhill from there.
Did the commentator say he was like a bar of soap?
His shirt was about 5 sizes too big for him.
That drag back. Mercy. Forgot about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Cheers Robbie. A proper footballer. A more professional player has never worn an Irish soccer jersey.
Go n-éirí an bóthar leat
No mater who we played if Robbie was in the team you always felt we had a chance. Paris 09 was case in point... nobody gave us a chance after the home leg defeat but Robbie backed up his stated belief that we could overturn France in the away leg by scoring one of his finest goals in an Irish shirt. we will badly miss him
Don't think that was one of his finest goals in fairness - Duff's drag-back put it on a plate for him.
One of his biggest, for sure - only during the week I read again that it had us on course for the World Cup until cheating Henry cheated, even though it didn't - but he scored many better. Even last night's was arguably better. And the one in Amsterdam in the 2004 friendly was much better. Then there was the goal v Yugoslavia - lovely first-time finish - and the volley v Iran, which was a more technical finish.
Other reminiscences welcome!
As a move and a goal it was one of the best I've ever seen us score. Wonderful move.
I still think Germany 2002 for technique was out of this world. Getting his leg around that was astounding.
We beat Oman easily last night, but no one really had any clear cut chances. Robbie created that goal completely by himself, even if the build up play was good. I know the through ball for walters he had to turn the keeper but against better opposition that was easily defended, robbies less so, it was just pure robbie creating a chance out of nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
I really feel he could still offer something with the right approach, and we will miss him dearly this campaign, and I put the blame at MONs feet for that.
I got slack on here for interpreting robbies comments a few years ago about walking away when he wasn't wanted, i am not suggesting he is sulking in any way, but I do feel he has done what he said.
I think you're doing the France goal a bit of a disservice PS. It was actually Keane's movement (or lack of in this case) that made it a straightforward drag back for Duff, rather than the other way around I think. He made it look easy but there was an awful lot to admire in the way he hung back to buy himself a couple of yards as the defenders were rushing towards their own goal. He had the composure to open his body up and slot it instead of snatching at it like many others would have also.
It was fairly congested in front of him but he really directed it perfectly to only place it could go in. I always though it was a really classy finish and obviously the significance of the game and standard of the opposition is always going to add some weight to a goal. He's definitely scored more spectacular goals but in terms of pure quality it would be high on my list. As Bonnie says, it was very well worked from a team perspective as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Akd7YlDLpo
It's a good finish, but I don't think it's his finest goal for us.
Funny, was trying to think of some more spectacular goals he scored for us - even along the lines of the two on his Wolves debut there - and couldn't really. Has he always been a pure poacher for us?
It was always going to end that way really once his impact reduced, and it has reduced significantly over the past few years. Being dropped for the game in Glasgow really was the start of the end but that was in 2014, walking away nearly two years later does not make you right I'm afraid! It's idle speculation anyway, O'Neill might have asked him to stay on for all we know, I doubt it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Worth noting last night's goal was his first of 2016 - which means he scored in every one of his 19 years as an international.
I was going by the guidelines of 'one of his finest', rather than 'finest'. I do think it's one of his finest all things considered.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yeah, good point about the goal poaching, because he's got some real crackers at club level for Tottenham as well, remember this?
This has to be his best goal overall though in terms of technical difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSm5oubwP1g