I suppose there's some Argentinian Drog who complains 'if only Messi could be as important for Argentina as Robbie has been for Ireland'.
I just had a vision of us employing a whacky wavy arm inflatable tubeman up front against Austria.
Well played Messrs Stu and Charlie.
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Half-time and he hasn't scored yet. Magee has managed to get himself a goal despite doing all of Keane's donkey work, so good for him.
Could he really have been in that bad of shape? I know people that watch MLS and have season tickets and stuff and they thought he was the best player in the league.Originally Posted by MeathDrog
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With the upcoming games, I would love to see Long and Walters start and Robbie be used as an impact sub, possibly coming on with about 30 minutes to go. Quite a contrast in styles which would upset most defences and might help Robbie in terms of longevity.
It's an interesting question of whether Robbie could be used as an impact sub. His movement would certainly pose a problem for tired defenders, but it's debatable whether Ireland do enough to tire out opposition defenders and he wasn't suited to the role at Spurs.
assist on the second goal, Keane received the ball just inside the D, but waited too long to shoot, allowing two defenders to get between him and the goal, so instead he chipped it through to McGee to get his second of the game.
Keane's been playing in the attacking centre mid position, and some of passing in the final third has been sublime. Despite the two goals, McGee has been very wasteful and could easily be on four goals instead of just the two. Hard to judge on the opening day, but this game is about Championship level
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McGee scored the third after some build up play from Keane on the byline, and Keane scored the fourth, finishing from close in after a knock down
Hat trick Magee's donkey work has paid off with Robbie grabbing a fourth.
Break up the Galaxy! Looking to take over LA with the Lakers struggling and Dodgers doomed to failure. Clips will be RKs competition. And they lost today.
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No Beckham or Donovan in the Galaxy squad. Obviously Beckham won't be returning and Donovan is on sabbatical. Do they normally get three designated players? Is Robbie their only one right now?
Donovan is coming back next month. I think they missed the window to replace Beckham, at least until June.
Terrible defending, didn't connect cleanly with the ball, brutal and poorly executed cartwheel, not to mention the yellow boots. Call him up Trap!
The 'massive' deflection had the final and telling effect on that goal. Robbie has no shame, celebrating like that.
No I wouldn't have any strikers in all time Irish top ten. I don't believe we have produced any great / world class forwards. I think Keane and Stapleton were the best that I have seen and I would favour Stapleton because I think he has more to his all around game then robbie.
Robbies is a good / very good player and had had a fantastic career. If you asked objective non irish fans to name their top 50 forwards of the last 20 years I wonder where and if robbie would feature?
On that mls clip, firstly decent finish by robbie (not sure about stunning as the title clip states!) but the defending from the short corner is comical - you'd get slaughtered in a junior league for that. I didn't want Keane to go or mls because I though the standard is poor and I have seen nothing to change that.
If we talk about what Robbie has done in a green shirt, then he is easily one of our greatest ever players. He has been a vital player to our team for close on 15 years and he has scored a huge amount of goals, often in crucial games against big teams. His decision to continue playing for the BIG is admirable and shows his commitment to playing for his country. It is Trap's decision not to pick Robbie and while I would not start him in our next two games, I do respect him for not retiring.
If you talk about Robbie in the global grand scheme of things, then he has probably been in the 2nd tier of strikers for most of his career (very good but not world class), but has occasionally showed glimpses of being a world class player, such as at WC 02 and the season before he went to Liverpool, when if he was English, he may have won the PFA player of the year - think he scored 30 odd goals in a calendar year from January to December around that time.
A comparison could be made with someone like say Ronnie Whelan. Ronnie was a truly world class player in one of the greatest club sides of all time. However, his form for Ireland was at times poor if I remember.
Cormac Byrne happy to report from LA for the Indo.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-29107106.html
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Why would that matter?
We're talking about best Irish players of all time , How they measure in an overall context is irrelevant.
Christ on a bike, I've seen some head in the sand stupidity in my time but some of the posts on Robbie Keane are beyond ridiculous on this thread.
The "Aldridge, Stapleton and Givens would have scored more than him against the same level of opponents" really takes the biscuit.
Robbie Keane is in the top 10 Irish players of all time. In fact, he's probably in the top 5 for most reasonable people. To say he is nowhere near just stinks of someone having an awful, petty bias against him.
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