yes
welcome back keano
yes
welcome back keano
Whats RMK?????
Oh, and NO by the way (well, not really)
I cant believe all this negativity.
Our best player, the man who carried us to the 2002 WC and is still without a doubt one of the best midfield players in the world will be playing for us again.
I am overjoyed, this will make our weak midfield infinatly stronger and will be great news for young players like Miller and Andy Reid.
Have you ever even watched an Ireland match in which Keane has played? In competitive matches when it really counts, no player has EVER given more for his country than Roy Keane, questioning the mans commitment is a joke and if you would rather have eleven Kevin Kilbanes you neither know anything about football, nor do you actually care if the team wins, and in football all that matters is winning, Kevin Kilbane might try hard but at the end of the day he is a looser, Keane is a winner!Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
It's not negativity, it's anger at the way we're constantly subjugated by what RMK wants. Don't you feel even slightly aggrieved about the way that, in spite of his efforts in the shirt, he's treated the management and the fans? Tehran? Saipan? Scotland? Remember them?Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
I don't take issue with the footballing points you make, but how you expect people not to react with anger, well, that's another story altogether...
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He was itching to get home two days prior. To the dog I believe but that's enough about FergusonQuote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Oh yes the greatest medical comeback since that c*nt from Guinness got cured of Alzheimers. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
His hip (flask) and the cojones he gave Kerr were post McCarthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
It was abusive because you started threatening to punch people who might boo Judas. I'm not going to boo him, but what do you expect. All of us to give him a hero's welcome. He's a washed up pr*ck of a player, not Adolf f*cking Hitler.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
F*ck me, this bloke knows a lot about me. Is he in MI5? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Well some people would consider what he did in Saipan to be right, I'm not exactly sure what you are getting at with scotland though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
And screwing up our World Cup into the bargain? I'm assuming these people you refer to would be from Germany. Or Cork. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
Despite an earlier agreement to release the statement confirming his "retirement" until after Kerr had named the side for his first fixture in charge (against Scotland, hence my comment), RMK wisely decided to trump Kerr and the Ireland team and tell the world, thereby casting a long shadow over Irish team affairs. Again.Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
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1. "Loser" has but one "o".Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
2. I've been watching Ireland since 1980-odd. So yes, I have. And I'd say Paul McGrath, for one, has given more for the cause.
3. I have a FA preliminary coaching badge, gained in 1989. So I'm actually qualified to talk football. Unlike your good self, I'm guessing.
4. As I've said elsewhere, "principles" appears before "prostitution" in the dictionary. And I've learned enough over the years in playing and coaching to know that the manner in which one takes part is always, always more important than whether the victory is won. As in life. Maybe when you're older, you'll find this out for yourself.
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If you mean that by bringing to a head a form of industrial action in order to get proper training facilities, hotels, etc., etc., then yes. But as Conor74 says this was not the case. It was a cop out.Quote:
Originally Posted by carnstien
With respect DH, this subject makes a lot of people who normally post sense lose the plot, be it me or someone like tricky. I'd personally hate to see someone booted off this site over this subject. Unlike Celtic, it DOES have to do with the Ireland national team. As I posted on another thread about the same thing, all this sh*t has done is set people at each others' throats on here. :mad: :(Quote:
Originally Posted by dahamsta
prehaps it was roy's turn at being ventriloquist today, wonder what alex will say when he finds roy had his hand up his @rse pulling the strings :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nd/3623867.stm
'I would say it is a very good decision for Roy - and I support it 100%."
well done roy his lips moved in time with what he was saying :D
dean kileys veiw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nd/3623649.stm
and to quote a classic lopez line
ITV News (22:30) tonight. STOP. R** K**** wants to be back in the team. STOP. Kerr must call him first though. STOP My two cents? STOP F*ck Off yer Judas l*nger! STOP.:mad:
amen :D
No. There's 2 and three quarter million other men more deserving of a place on the Irish team than him.
Who saw primetime? Funniest one ever!
There was Dunphy, some scruff from the "Irish Supporters Association" and Peter Byrne (washed up journalist) who looked like he was attending a funeral.
The scruffy guy said that we should have a referendum on the issue and that it was dangerous situation and that civil war was ready to break out (said this at least three times)
Byrne just waffled on about playing for the shirt or something.
Eventually after listening to the rubbish Dunphy snapped and asked the question that as on everyones lips "Where did you get these two guys from?"
Then the scruffy guy started clenching his fist and punching his hand at which point they cut it.
I'm still laughing!
Can you quote a source on that piece of information.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
If the players are happy about it and it doesn't upset team spirit then he should enhance the team then yeah, I'm happy about it.
Yes, dear god almighty yes
It's the population of Ireland, halved. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Footie_Fan
If ye want me to be pedantic about it:
1,946,164 in the south (2002) + 821,449 in the north (2001) = 2,767,613 men more deserving of a place on the Irish team than Roy Keane.
http://www.cso.ie/principalstats/pristat2.html
http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census/start.html
Well by your logic shouldn't it be 2,767,612.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Someone tried that excuse on Boards.ie earlier today and they were laughed at by the admins. I didn't think someone'd try and use it twice in the one day.Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez
Football is a game. If anyone makes more of it and starts in with the personal attacks again, like I said, they'll be banned.
No appeals. No comebacks. Banned. Permanantly.
adam
No, the traitor is in England now, don't ye know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Footie_Fan
:rolleyes: your edited post makes less sense then your first one about him being a Brit?Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
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Originally Posted by Éanna
He’s the greatest player ever to turn out in the green and to call him “scum” is sacrilege… he’s been central to the teams greatest performances since right back to the ’94 WC… go boil your head you sh*tehawk
If my memory serves me correct RK was out injured for the early part of 2002, coming back in April to lead the mighty reds to the title and european glory....................opps they won F*"K all
The rest of the squad had competed a full season in the Premier league and div1 and the idea of Saipan was to recharge............RK's season started again in April and cause the Mancs won nothing he was carrying that into the world cup as long as all the other baggage (Andy Cole ???)
Just cause the skips were late RK got the hump about the whole set up but did he complain over the previous years...........
Saw Fran the man on sky earlier "the FAI moved onto a new level" does he not realise if Mick hadn't taken the job back in 96 we would be competing with the likes of Scotland now.........................................
Looking forward to the fun and games ahead...........happy days
:D Slip of the tongue (..or hand?). Should have left it as it was come to think of it. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Footie_Fan
He might as well be a Brit. Lives in England, plays for an English team, gets paid by English people, panders to the wishes of a Scot, etc, etc.
Yes.
Think he was wrong over Saipan, but him playing improves our chances of qualifying for WC 2006 and that's good enough for me.
We shouldn't sell ourselves short just because Roy Keane is a decent player. He might be one of the best 'Irish' players around at present, but that doesn't mean he has a god-given right to walk all over us.Quote:
Originally Posted by NigeSausagepump
(PS
...there's only 1 Ciarán Martyn! :D)
On balance No
He let the country down in 2002. Should have played in the World Cup. And then on his return should have bitched about the preparation when he got back in a 6 piece expose in the News Of The World, or Irish Times they are both equally valid rags...
A bit of a Judas I'm afraid to say, cause in many other ways he is admirable.
P.S. Ciaran Martyn... now from where I am standing he is another Judas ******* :D
fcuk off back to england you!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
are you tellin me if you were as good a player as he is you'd be playin for Derry or anyone else in the league???
wat if he was playin for real madrid??? i suppose you'd be callin him spanish then!!!
your some ****** boy!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Brendy... out of order, son. Whatever your thoughts on Keane, there's plenty on here that live in England, work in England, etc., etc. And we're still of solid stock. Don't dilute your argument with nonsense. And rise above the personal insults.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
:) PP
Ah sure he was only at UCD to get his accountancy degree. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
I would hope so, aye. We need to stop the flow of our best players to England, and retain them in the eL.Quote:
Originally Posted by cookie
I'm well aware of that, PP. Plenty of my family living in England. Difference is they haven't turned their back on their country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
neither did roy... he was forced out!!Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
mccarty said if you cant respect me you can't play for me... how can you play for a ******** lik that and his schoolboy set-up!!!!!
he had no support from the 3 experieced players in the team!
Source? Quotes?Quote:
Originally Posted by cookie
Whatever the semantics, he not only walked out on McCarthy and his teammates, he walked out on every Ireland supporter. And that's something i) many people here are falling over themselves to forget, and ii) I for one will never forgive him for.
He doesn't deserve to wear the green shirt again. Ever. It's that simple.
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didn't walk d1ckhead was forced!!
Thats rubbish. Plently of Irish people reside and work in England but they are Irish to the core.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
This sounds like that bloke, Alan Hunter, that people on here go on about occasionally. He claimed to be in charge of an Irish supporters club with a membership of 10K. :eek: I only heard him once ringing in on Sky after the tans hit Lansdowne, claiming that England should forfeit the following years European Championships and that the finals should go to Ireland instead. :rolleyes: He got a good reception from the Sky interviewer all the same even though he sounded like some t'ik paddy from a 70's British comedian show. Your description sounds like him. Fair play to Dunph for asking whether he had just stumbled into teach mor. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Footie_Fan
Alan Hunter that was his name. He was wearing an ancient wool top with an orange shirt and his tie was half way down his chest, the man was a mess!Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez
Sine you've not punctuated your sentence, I'll presume you're calling Keane the ********.Quote:
Originally Posted by cookie
Now, back to my earlier question. Source? Quotes?
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Wonder why? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by cookie
RTE is a f*cking joke. They wheel this eejit on like some circus act. It's like Borak and Kazahk TV with the dancing dog on a hot plate that looks like Princess Margaret. Big up for his chancer qualities, though. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Footie_Fan