Roy Keane

**tetsujin1979** · 15/09/2009, 2:34 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

No surprise there he went onto RTE trying to get back over to Japan. He desperately wanted to play. My memory is foggy but wasn't the entire 6.1 news taken up by that Keane interview?

it's on youtube in 4 parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvZ12AhXkZw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyRQw1tile0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cODcy8i7s4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj12CVWQjWE

I think he did want to play, but wasn't prepared to compromise his values on the setup. When he replied with "take me back, take me back??" to the interviewer, I knew it wasn't going to happen.
Don't think the entire 6-1 news was taken up with it, but it did end early and the interview was from 6:30 - 7:00.

incidentally, here's the Apr�s Match p!ss take after Dunphy was kicked off the RTE panel for being "tired and emotional": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOzKrpJVXw

**OwlsFan** · 15/09/2009, 2:57 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

No surprise there he went onto RTE trying to get back over to Japan. He desperately wanted to play. My memory is foggy but wasn't the entire 6.1 news taken up by that Keane interview?

Nothing to do with "desperately wanting to play". Pure PR stunt with the interview by a Man U fan, Tommy Gormless.

Slaps wrist! Don't get back in to this stuff.

**geysir** · 15/09/2009, 4:42 PM

More like wrap yourself around a 20m chain and get it padlocked.

**Drumcondra 69er** · 15/09/2009, 5:57 PM

Originally Posted by macdermesser

Saw this quote from Keane .. seems to me that he is still hurting that he never played in the 2002 World Cup

"Keane expects things to be different in South Africa next summer if manager Trapattoni can steer the Republic to a runners-up spot in their group with wins over Italy or Montenegro and then reach South Africa via the play-offs in November.

Keane said: 'Fingers crossed, they will get there, but once they qualify it will depend on their mentality.

'If they go there with the same lacklustre attitude the last time they were in the World Cup - cutting corners on hotels and travel - then obviously they won't do that well.

'But if they have the right mentality - like you would hope their experienced manager's got - and they say, "We're going over there to do as well as we can", then why not? You would expect them to have a training pitch that's at least been watered and without any potholes and I wouldn't have thought they would be getting four connection flights.

'I don't think he will be accusing his players of faking injury a week before the World Cup, either - but that's just my guess.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz0RALyUMU4

Oh give it a rest Roy and stop trying to deflect attention from your managerial faults. He never even made it to the traning pitch anyway, I spent more time on that facility then he fukkin did.

**geysir** · 15/09/2009, 6:16 PM

You were in Saipan?

**Drumcondra 69er** · 15/09/2009, 6:28 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

You were in Saipan?

Saipan was R & R, the actual training facility in Japan was first class.

**seanfhear** · 15/09/2009, 6:29 PM

Originally Posted by Drumcondra 69er

Oh give it a rest Roy and stop trying to deflect attention from your managerial faults. He never even made it to the traning pitch anyway, I spent more time on that facility then he fukkin did.

If things don't start improving results wise and quickly then Roy Keane's managerial creer may becoming to an end.

**MeathDrog** · 15/09/2009, 6:34 PM

Originally Posted by seanfhear

If things don't start improving results wise and quickly then Roy Keane's managerial creer may becoming to an end.

Hopefully not.

It's quite entertaining.

**Irish_Praha** · 15/09/2009, 6:36 PM

Originally Posted by Drumcondra 69er

Saipan was R & R, the actual training facility in Japan was first class.

I often thought that the Irish team looked as fit as any at that WC and actually finished the game against Spain looking the fitter team after 120 mins of football. Although that may have had to do with them being down to 10 men for the extra time.

Anyway they looked liked they acclimatised to the hot weather and humidity very well, which would indicate that McCarthy and his team's preparation wasn't so bad.

**bennocelt** · 15/09/2009, 6:45 PM

Originally Posted by Irish_Praha

I often thought that the Irish team looked as fit as any at that WC and actually finished the game against Spain looking the fitter team after 120 mins of football. Although that may have had to do with them being down to 10 men for the extra time.

Anyway they looked liked they acclimatised to the hot weather and humidity very well, which would indicate that McCarthy and his team's preparation wasn't so bad.

i didnt think that, i thought they were ran ragged for long times in that game

**Drumcondra 69er** · 15/09/2009, 9:59 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

i didnt think that, i thought they were ran ragged for long times in that game

Must've been watching a different game then I was at so, we dominated the second half and all of extra time even when they had 11.

**youngirish** · 16/09/2009, 9:45 AM

Still no sign of Garvan at Ipswich. He wasn't even on the bench last night. Keane is probably trying to destroy the career of one of our current most exciting prospects just to get back at the FAI for Saipan. Hopefully he'll be sacked soon and fade into obscurity.

Unfortunately even if he gets sacked I see him resurfacing on the RTE panel for the World Cup with Dunphy, Souness and Giles.

**Ozymandias** · 16/09/2009, 9:57 AM

Originally Posted by youngirish

Still no sign of Garvan at Ipswich. He wasn't even on the bench last night. Keane is probably trying to destroy the career of one of our current most exciting prospects just to get back at the FAI for Saipan. Hopefully he'll be sacked soon and fade into obscurity.

Unfortunately even if he gets sacked I see him resurfacing on the RTE panel for the World Cup with Dunphy, Souness and Giles.

Garvan has come out and said he has to work harder...He was poor for ipswich anytime I saw them on the box this year.

**youngirish** · 16/09/2009, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Ozymandias

Garvan has come out and said he has to work harder...He was poor for ipswich anytime I saw them on the box this year.

He only started one league game and was taken off at half time so to single him out and relegate him to the reserves is ludicrous considering Ipswich had been just as sh*t in their previous games and have continued in that vein.

Keane definitely has it in for him. All the other players many of whom have been more responsible for those poor performances are still floating about the first team.

**smasher** · 16/09/2009, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by SunderlandBohs

Found thid on the net. Funniest thing you'll read

backofthenet.wikia.com/wiki/...

Absolutely brilliant! Says it all.

**bennocelt** · 16/09/2009, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Drumcondra 69er

Must've been watching a different game then I was at so, we dominated the second half and all of extra time even when they had 11.

well been at the game and all, but spain could easily have scored much more than what they did

**Stuttgart88** · 16/09/2009, 11:39 AM

Yes, because they were a better team. But the argument was about our fitness. We finished the game full of energy and purpose. We were stronger in ET too, but did have an extra man for part of it.

D69er is spot on when he points out that the facilities in Japan were top-class. That's the tragic irony of the whole thing.

**geysir** · 16/09/2009, 12:19 PM

Don't WC squads have a serious enough pre-training camp?
By pre-training camp standards, Saipan was poor preparation.

**NeilMcD** · 16/09/2009, 12:43 PM

So basically the foreplay was crap but the penetration was great. So basically Roy Keane is just a mid 30s female cosmo reader, giving out about the foreplay.

**Stuttgart88** · 16/09/2009, 1:12 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

Don't WC squads have a serious enough pre-training camp?
By pre-training camp standards, Saipan was poor preparation.

There was probably no need for a separate R&R trip, especially one so far away, no matter how nice it was. A few days of easing themselves into the full on WC preparations all at the same place would make more sense to me.