Robbie Keane

[newbie]

he's a poor player..doesn't show much interest and puts in very little effort for the team.. he is very droppable for the republic of ireland..

this has to be a wind up or someone fishing for a reaction???

[DeNiro]

he's a poor player..doesn't show much interest and puts in very little effort for the team.. he is very droppable for the republic of ireland..

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.

[Billsthoughts]

I certainly wouldnt drop him off the back of one of his better Ireland performances in recent years.

[Hibs4Ever]

he's a poor player...

Complete and utter nonsense. You obviously don't have a clue about football if you think that

[lionelhutz]

he's a poor player..doesn't show much interest and puts in very little effort for the team.. he is very droppable for the republic of ireland..

Think he's just trying to wind ye up lads...

[as_i_say]

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

[Duggie]

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.

[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/

[amaccann]

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.

[Duggie]

are u people on another planet or something ? i cant believe what im reading from some on here. bloody hell.

[Claret Murph]

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 ......

[Duggie]

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......

[OwlsFan]

Any chance we could park this with the Robbie Keane thread:

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=4394...t=Keane+thread

[finnpark]

Just reading the Daily Mail there and I came across an article titled 'IS IT TIME TO DROP ROBBIE?'

It leads ' one half of the irish strikeforce was a 25 million striker who played like a spoilt child, the other cost 150,000.......(says Doyle played well'

How the hell can you accuse Keane of not giving it his all?

That is real boring journalism taken from the leaf of huge nations like Spain(Raul), Italy(Del Piero) and England(Owen) who have an array of options to pick from in the first place.

Ireland can't and never should drop Keane, unless he's doing absolutely nothing, but....it was his running that helped indirectly get our second goal and his pass to McGeady for the first goal.

That really got to me.

Well if you seen my betting system you already know that Robbie is an over hyped and over rated player.

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?p=1016814

Hes bound to score anytime, isn't he . 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.

[old git]

Just reading the Daily Mail there and I came across an article titled 'IS IT TIME TO DROP ROBBIE?'

It leads ' one half of the irish strikeforce was a 25 million striker who played like a spoilt child, the other cost 150,000.......(says Doyle played well'

How the hell can you accuse Keane of not giving it his all?

That is real boring journalism taken from the leaf of huge nations like Spain(Raul), Italy(Del Piero) and England(Owen) who have an array of options to pick from in the first place.

Ireland can't and never should drop Keane, unless he's doing absolutely nothing, but....it was his running that helped indirectly get our second goal and his pass to McGeady for the first goal.

That really got to me.

it's a newspaper article for fluck sake get over it .. 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 now

[SkStu]

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??

[irishfan86]

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.

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.

[mypost]

Drop Robbie Keane??

So who scored against Colombia?? Or Norway?? Or Wales?? Or Denmark??

Whoever asks to drop him should be sacked for bringing journalism into disrepute.

[finnpark]

Drop Robbie Keane??

So who scored against Colombia?? Or Norway?? Or Wales?? Or Denmark??

Whoever asks to drop him should be sacked for bringing journalism into disrepute.

3 of those matches were meaningless friendlies where teams don't try. The other was against Wales in another meaningless match. Enough said!!

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.

[mypost]

Part of the article states

one half of the irish strikeforce played like a spoilt child

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.