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Originally Posted by weldoninhio
Emm Yeah, Think you may have read my post wrong Bigman. Doyle's been fantastic for us since he came in and I would therefore prefer him to Morrisson. All I said was, I'd have Morrison in the squad before Folan. I Think we might be singing off the same page here chief.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigmanCas
Never scores against the big teams, though he may have scored twice: that's robbie.
May have found his most useful position tonight.
i dunno world champions maybe just maybe they might be a big teamQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
What's Robbie's goalscoring record under Trap like now? He must be one of Europe's most in form strikers?
ok, world champions away.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wexford Delboy
But that's Robbie, he always leaves you with a "if only" taste in the mouth. We were THAT close to beating Italy away! Very good performance. If anyone is in any doubt how lucky we are to have him watch tonight again.
kinda ironic it was lippi who brought keane to inter.:)
Please God that is the end of the "Keane never scores against big teams" tripe that we have had to put up with. Magic Robbie but if only you scored that second....
I'll need to watch again because I thought he was hardly in the game until he scored the goal, but then I was probably expecting too much, I thought he might run at the defence more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
It's been obvious for years that he does his best work when facing defenders outside of the box and not sitting in their with his back to goal.
Just an hypothesis but imagine he hadn't scored the first goal and that second chance that he missed was the only chance he had, the judgment here would be vastly diifferent over him "missing a sitter" !
ya it makes me laugh that muck about who he scored against, hes scored 38 goals but some people still question him..WTF. God forbid he gets injured EVER. hes a legend fullstop.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Totally agree Keane = Legend!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
Congratulations, the 2,500th post on Robbie, summing it up!Quote:
Originally Posted by antrimgreen
yeah you gotta love his attitude-he's been one of the ones clearly positively affected by what the likes of the rugby team have done and has spoken of it a few times recently and wears his heart on his sleeve for us. finished extremely well-always shows his delight when he scores-fans want to see this, we want to see that the players give a crap and that they are not like their overpaid moronic premiership team mates.
Don't know if you ever got your answer to this question, but it's:Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
He started 4 of those games, and came on as a sub in the 79th minute against Roma and the 76th minute against Fiorentina.Code:01/10/2000 Reggina 2 - 1 Inter
14/10/2000 Inter 3 - 1 SSC Napoli
22/10/2000 Udinese 3 - 0 Inter
01/11/2000 Inter 2 - 0 Roma
12/11/2000 Inter 0 - 1 Lecce
10/12/2000 Fiorentina 2 - 0 Inter
He's got six goals under Trapattoni now. Quite a remarkable goalscoring record.
ah yeah, but how many were against the current world champions away? Only one.
keano : 88-38
sheva:86-40
Why are you comparing one of Europe's top strikers who makes a mockery of world champions with a has-been who chokes on one of the biggest stages in football?Quote:
Originally Posted by irishultra
it shows keanes rate is extremely good as both teams play similar football and similar talent level
I was taking the p*ss. I was referring to his miss in the European Cup final though (he did, though, score the winning penalty in his previous one). He also didn't play well in the World Cup, but again that was probably due to him not recovering from a pre-tournament injury. Actually, after that tournament he's never looked quite the same on a consistent basis. He was a great striker, but I doubt very much that he'll be back. He's 32 now and barely gets a game for Milan. I can only see him doing well again if he moves back to Ukraine to play for Kyiv, but that would be mainly down to the lower standards of the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciaran
Why compare? Cos its fun to do. To demonstate lets do a fuller comparision using the wonderful wikipedia.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmurphyc
Sheva:
Dynamo Kyiv
* Ukrainian Premier League: 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99
* Ukrainian Cup: 1996, 1998, 1999
* Commonwealth of Independent States Cup: 1996, 1997, 1998
Milan
* UEFA Champions League: 2003
* Coppa Italia: 2002-03
* UEFA Super Cup: 2003
* Serie A: 2003-04
* Supercoppa Italiana: 2004
Chelsea
* FA Cup: 2007
* Football League Cup: 2007
Individual
* Commonwealth of Independent States Cup Top Scorer: 1997
* Ukrainian Premier League Top Scorer: 1998-99
* UEFA Champions League Best Forward: 1998-99
* Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 2000
* Serie A Top Scorer: 1999-00, 2003-04
* FIFA 100
* Ballon D'or: 2004
* FIFPro World XI: 2004-05
* Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005
* UEFA Champions League Top Scorer: 1998-99, 2000-01, 2005-06
* Ukraine national team top all-time scorer
* A.C. Milan second all-time scorer
Robbie
Coventry City
* FA Youth Cup: (Runner-Up): 2000
Inter Milan
* Supercoppa Italiana: (Runner-Up): 2001
Tottenham Hotspur
* Football League Cup: 2008
Republic of Ireland
* UEFA U-19 Championship: 1998
I love Robbie Keane!
I admire Robbies desire to win for his country, and I could see his frustration when he resorted to doing the midfield job himself, although Gibson took care of that duty when he came on - it took Robbie a while to notice that - which set him free to make intelligent space and runs forward for his goal and his effort before the final whistle!
Quality player, that just needs the right players to play off
None, according to Noel HuntQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Well thankfully there is no doubt about the goal now. RTE's pictures prove that it is definitely Robbie's goal (and a well deserved one based on his performance on Wednesday). Once he was moved behind the front two on Wednesday night he constantly made himself to receive the ball from the front two and so much of our play went through him.
I hope some of the critics on this forum will now have the good grace to acknowledge Keane's importance and contribution to the team. Before the end of this campaign he will have scored twice as many goals as any other Irish international ever so I can't see how anyone can argue about his contribution.
Lovely pen from him there. Right in the corner.
I heard some replay of an idiotic commentary snippet last night on Talk Radio (or whatever it's called) when Keane scored,
paraphrased quote from the intrepid :rolleyes: TR commentator,
'Keane who has had an awful game until he scored'
Jermaine Defoe on a potential strike partnership for Spurs with Keane: http://www.skysports.com/video/clips...169994,00.html
Remind me how that went the last time?
Dreadful "performance" from Robbie today. Just not at the races, 1st half or
2nd half. Maybe he doesn't want to help Liverpool out!
If Robbie keeps the head down and trains hard he could easily surpass this. Sheva's only won Ukrainian footballer of the year 6 times....I reckon Robbie could have another 7 seasons left in him?Quote:
Originally Posted by fergalr
Rednapp is trying to turn him in to a midfielder. He was fairly anonymous yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scram
Everyone in the Spurs front 6 was anonymous in the second half yesterday, apart from Palacios. That said, Keane had a great turn and shot that hit an approaching Van Der Sar, if he had lifted the ball at all, it would have rolled into an empty net.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
The cynical side of me would think that Robbie wasnt too interested in stopping United from winning the title... although Im sure he is too much of a professional to think things like that:D:D
Robbie played very deep, but to blame goals conceded on a forward player is a bit much.
And you have to give credit to United...that was perhaps the best team performance of a half this season in the Premier League.
Pretty easy to play that well with 12 men (or 14 if you want to count the linesmen). ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by irishfan86
congratulations to Robbie and his wife on the birth of their son, according to 2fm the new arrival's name is Robert Ronan Keane
Explains his rubbish performance on Saturday. He was good for the first 15 mins linking well with Modric but I do not think himself and Defoe can play together at all. Modric was first class by the way for the first 45 mins. Keane got involved in a lot of moaning to the ref and the Everton fans were certainly on his back calling him a Pike B*stard and go back to your caravan and that sort of thing. Anyway after this flurry of activity involving the ref and fans and opposition seeme to knock him off his stride and he was out of the game after that.
Keane Beats Shay on a penalty today, looks like one Irish beat three. Or two and a half anyway.
I was half hoping he would score the goal that would lose liverpool the title next week. He might still damn them to 3rd place but they'd be still in the group stages of the champions league.
The other half wanted United to wrap it up today. "Everyone's a winner baby, that's no lie".
On Sky sports they showed the team line up as 4-4-2 with Robbie as one of the 2 center midfielders...cant make up my mind if I like the idea of that or not!!!