QuoteMost Celtic fans don't...Originally Posted by DeLorean
JD is probably peddling him for peanuts to Desmond and throwing in the plane ticket for free.
Most Celtic fans don't...
Even better!
Why??
A bit of entertainment is always nice.
Hardly entertaining unless RMK as a pundit...what happens one day when some moron offers him the full Ireland job...that won't be pleasant.
Would any LOI club want him near their club, bar Cork or Cobh? Long-term, I doubt it.
Tbf, Stutts, I meant geysir's glass, not my own...which is often perpetually empty!
If any LOI could afford Keane I'm sure there'd be plenty who'd take him on. He wasn't as bad a manager as people made him out to be.
Hmm, Sunderland and Ipswich fans would generally disagree...
I could not give less of a **** about whether Sunderland and Ipswich fans agree or disagree. I'll take Niall Quinn's word for how good a job he did for them. He did a great job at Sunderland but struggled at Ipswich, it happens.
Not what my Mackem pals tell me...if you leave out the swearwords, 'bottle merchant' is as good as it gets.
Thanks, but no thanks. Not that he'll last two years anywhere...
If your Mackem pals are anything like Paul O'Shea's posse at YBIG I think I'll stick with the chairman of the club where he was such a success who, having been the coach before him, knew exactly how challenging a job it was to take on.
Celtic chief exec peter lawell saying this afternoon that they have spoken to roy but he is one of 5-10 outstanding candidates they have in mind for the job.
Yes, which is why he walked out on them...almost six years ago, btw. He got them promoted, but 'success', that's just silly...they only just avoided releagtion and then even his own players celebrated when he left!
Go figure...
Sunderland were relegated with a lowest points total the season before Keane took over. They were bottom off the Championship after five games when he arrived. I think to almost anybody, promotion would have appeared a big ask at that point. He didn't only get them promoted, he won the division. He then kept them up in 15th place in the PL (just two seasons after the PL's worst ever performance by any club). The way he left them was poor, no doubt, but he obviously did an excellent job while managing at that particular football club. If it wasn't for Keane's job there, Sunderland may not be the established PL side they are now. He might have spent poorly at times and fallen out with players but I think everybody agrees it's a results game, and he definitely got the results there. From where Sunderland were at the time, getting them back to the PL and keeping them there was very much a 'success'.
I think I read that Brendan Rodgers is already the third longest serving manager in the EPL. It seems like he only arrived at Liverpool yesterday.
According to this the average tenure is 54 weeks.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...clarke-2929492
So, does Keane's spell really single him out as some kind of under performer?
Last edited by Stuttgart88; 30/05/2014 at 5:49 PM.
I disagree. He's a walking disaster area in football management, in his case, literally...
Though acknowledge Stutts point about managers now only getting a year to turn things round generally, which is plain silly...
Would that change to metaphorically if he was in a wheelchair, or took coaching sessions on a pogo stick?
But he's not, that we know of. Talking of his walking away from jobs when the going gets 'tough', a surprising trait given his personal attitude as a player...
I'm a bit undecided on all of this. On one hand Keane creates an unnecessary sideshow and on the other, if he were to leave, it'd further undermine the status of the BIG in the Irish public's eyes.
Either way. I suppose our media never needs a second chance to elevate the personal situation of Cork footballers over thoughtful coverage of our national team.
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