this has to be a wind up or someone fishing for a reaction???Quote:
Originally Posted by cartman
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this has to be a wind up or someone fishing for a reaction???Quote:
Originally Posted by cartman
How exactly do you measure that he doesn't show much interest? If that's the case he wouldn't turn up surely? Very droppable. To me John O'Shea is very droppable, but he's not captain, he doesn't play regularly for Man Utd and is inconsistent. Keane is quite the opposite. If he put in 'very little effort' there's no way he would have 34 goals. It's international football remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by cartman
I certainly wouldnt drop him off the back of one of his better Ireland performances in recent years.
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Originally Posted by cartman
Complete and utter nonsense. You obviously don't have a clue about football if you think that
Think he's just trying to wind ye up lads...Quote:
Originally Posted by cartman
the only thing that annoys me about him is the whinging for frees/penalties-he would probably get more of them if he didnt go on like that. He seems to do it more for his country than club.
Being uber-critical he should have scored that chance when he rounded the keeper, I don't think it was a very difficult chance. Anyone who saw the Spanish goal against the Bosnians at the weekend-now THAT was a tight angle!
Drop Robbie-no way
the width of a post - just took it a wee bit to wide. he will make up for it along the qualifiers.Quote:
Originally Posted by as_i_say
spanish goal here. I dunno the more i think about it-i was raging he missed it. Actually think keeper did well to stay on his feet for as long as he did and that probably put him off
http://www.mightyfootball.com/catego...lights/page/2/
I am not the world's greatest fan of Robbie & there was a period when dropping him might have shaken him into reality. But I get the sense that since Trap came along he has pulled up his boots considerably & taken on the role of captain more seriously. So I say give the lad another chance.
are u people on another planet or something ? i cant believe what im reading from some on here. bloody hell.
Robbie is a top player for us and as Duggie said
All time leading scorer for Ireland , end of story .
Hey Galway and Sligo and we agree on something , that can't be too bad ......
well said that man......:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Claret Murph
Any chance we could park this with the Robbie Keane thread:
http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=4394...t=Keane+thread
Well if you seen my betting system you already know that Robbie is an over hyped and over rated player.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishultra
http://foot.ie/showthread.php?p=1016814
Hes bound to score anytime, isn't he :eek:. Hopefully this Wednesday ;) Montenegro have conceded 9 in 3 games so if he doesn't score the next day he may quit. He missed an open goal against Georgia.
it's a newspaper article for fluck sake get over it :eek: .. must add though it's about time robbie pulled the finger out for ireland in the last few games .. he is not performing like a 25 millon euro player for ireland for a while nowQuote:
Originally Posted by irishultra
to be fair, its not Robbies fault that 2 epl clubs valued him at 20odd million.
look, hes not perfect, no player is but people should be able to realise and appreciate how lucky we ar to have a player with his ability. He has done great things for us before and i believe he will again.
I could never understand the anti-Robbie sentiment... what does it really stem from - the arm waving??
Things haven't gone well for us in the past few campaigns, and he hasn't been scoring many in competitive matches, especially against the top teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
People who know the game know that our failures in recent years are more down to the lack of a cohesive midfield, but for the casual fan or the "journalist," Ireland's star player and captain is the easy target when things aren't going well.
I'm still not positive the Keane-Doyle combo will get the best out of Robbie, and I don't think we'll see his best with Ireland unless he's paired with a target man, or at least has a player with Andy Reid's guile on the field to link up with.
Drop Robbie Keane?? :confused:
So who scored against Colombia?? Or Norway?? Or Wales?? Or Denmark?? :rolleyes:
Whoever asks to drop him should be sacked for bringing journalism into disrepute. :D
3 of those matches were meaningless friendlies where teams don't try. The other was against Wales in another meaningless match. Enough said!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Darly Murphy for Ireland.
It doesn't really matter in the Trap system as Ireland will only create 2-3 chances per game average. Ireland wont score much but won't concede much either. Montengro conceded 9 goals in their last 3 matches which makes this a very interesting match indeed.
Part of the article states
We were battered against Colombia, and had to absorb heavy pressure against Norway, while the Wales game cemented 3rd place. In each of them, Rob dug us out of a hole. He's not Ronaldo, but he's our record goalscorer, and is as important to the team as Shay Given.Quote:
one half of the irish strikeforce played like a spoilt child
34 goals for Ireland... says it all, when you consider that Niall is the next highest with 21 - and legends like Stapleton and Aldridge not far below, despite playing with more gifted Irish sides than that of today (though Aldridge was, admittedly, 26 when he declared for us). How Charlton would have loved a striker with Keane's all-round ability. He was double-marked on Saturday, and struggled against Kaladze's physicality (and cynicism), so didn't have the best of games, but the likes of Murphy, Keogh and Long will have to improve beyond belief to really challenge Keane's position. Given the inexperience of Montenegro's back-line, (as opposed to Kaladze and Khizinashvili), I'd back Keane to score on Wednesday. I was right with my Georgia prediction, after all! :)
slightly off topic... but still involves gutter journalism... Cahal Dervan in todays Star.Said some thing along the lines that if he was Andy Reid he would be on the first plane home from Frankfurt after not getting a game. Now setting aside whether Andy should be in there team or not(enough Threads on that already) but this is the same Cahal Dervan who as Mick McCarthys best mate in the media has slaughtered Roy Keane at every possible occasion since Saipan(doesnt matter if Keane was right or wrong)... my point is that could Dervan be anymore of a hypocrite.I was disgusted with myself for even finishing the article
Oh....and as for Pat Dolan telling Trap to stop picking on Brian Kerr and pick on someone his own size in the same paper... how this man gets paid to talk about football is beyond my comprehension
You could not make it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by finnpark
Hes been looking for reactions to that one for a long time now... best ignored I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia
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Originally Posted by Ciaran
He made space for McGeady's assist and hit the post. What more do you want?[/
hit the post .. put it in the net thats what we want :ball:
hear hear!Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
I have heard it all now. Robbie Keane is one of the best players we have. Give him the ball and he will score, just like any good forward does. Don’t give it to him and he will go looking for it leaving him with a much less chance of scoring. This is why Andy Reid should be playing. He is the one who will feed Keane.
I often wonder why people who quite obviously no nothing about football post on a football forum. I wouldn’t post on a tennis forum for e.g. for that very reason.
Surely if someone comes along and starts a thread about an article they should at the very least say who wrote it???
Next to Shay Given, Robbie is our most important player. Several people on this forum have slated him for not trying hard enough but the truth is that during the last 6 years Robbie has been guilty of trying too hard. The service he gets has been patchy at best during that period and Robbie has always gone looking for the ball (chasing back to midfield and beyond at times).
Anyone who watches him playing for Tottenham over the last few years knows how good a player he can be when he gets decent service. His goal record for Ireland proves his quality as well (even if he does get more goals against so-called weaker teams - what striker doesn't?). His goals against Iran (in the playoff game) and against Germany in Ibaraki are amongst the most important goals we've ever scored. As for the nerve when he took the last-minute penalty against Spain - I wouldn't have trusted any other Irish player to score in that situation.
Someone told me that Philip Quinn wrote the article but its just another in a long list of anti-Robbie articles in the rag press.
More bad news for Robbie, He has some property stolen including jewellery, (I think maybe some money aswell).
Source; FM104 Radio News.
Also on the front page of the SunQuote:
Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce
Yep:
"Robbie Keane has become the seventh Liverpool player to have his house burgled in the last two years.
His penthouse flat was broken into while he was away on international duty with the Republic of Ireland and an expensive watch and jewellery are believed to have been stolen.
Keane, 28, had been using the city centre apartment while house-hunting following his £20million summer move from Tottenham.
Over the past two years six Anfield players have been burgled while playing."
Hope it doesn't put him off his game!!
Did they steal his shooting boots cause I think he left them at home :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce
I really can't understand how people attack the quality of the opposition when refferring to Keanes goals. It is widely accepted that there are no more pushovers in international football, so I don't think that thats a fair dig to have at anyone. If your going to attack the persons attitude then fair enough . I met him once and found him to be a bit of a plank, but I wouldnt question his attitude on the pitch or the circumstances in which he has scored. Also of Johnny Aldridges international goal record, all barring 2 maybe ( Mexico and Northern Ireland , assuming Turkey back then were a weak side) would have been against what could have been considered inferior oposition and nobody had a problem there, because rightly so 19 international goals is a record to be proud of no matter who you're playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by finnpark
please go awayQuote:
Originally Posted by finnpark
Turkey were a poor side, they lost all their games in the group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seano
just ignore himQuote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
Yeah reading the Daily Mail, the worst, most vicious anti-Irish rag ever to come out of the UK, how Irish people read that paper is beyond me....Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
and they're wrong, Keane did alright and if we improve the final ball from midfield into the strikers he'll score goals, he is a moaner but many footballers are.... anyone remember Hristro Stoichkov? it was like an night at the Opera watching him play...
Im right in saying that Robbie Keane is a glorified over rated player. Failed to make the grade at a number of club sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
Actualy you are incorrect.Quote:
Originally Posted by finnpark