I think alot of Keanes performances are due to the fact that he badly needs a forward of a decent stature beside him ie Quinn, Berbatov, Mido etc. Any time he plays alongside a similar player to him eg defoe, doyle, long etc he def doesnt perform nowhere near as good as he can.
big forward my swiss, he is not producing the goods, bellamy and kuyt, rooney and saha, larsson, henry and anyone, i think that to say he cannot play without a big forward beside him is indicative of how poor a player keane is, if he was any good he should be able to adapt, after all he has been playing football for around 20 years now
The fact that you could write that shows how much you know about the game...Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
well according to stan he thought “Robbie Keane played a captain’s part and ran his legs off. He showed flashes of brilliance and could have scored twice in the first half."
Jaysus... now to be a good captain you have to do loads of running around like an ejit. Could of scored twice?? The ****in 20 stone striker on my sunday league team could have scored five times against the load of dem bus drivers yesterday.
I agree.
Will people ever leave it out on Duff.I can understand wanting Keane dropped but Duff does his best for us. He has lost his spark but he's still one of our best players. If he was playing better at club level I'd be worried but he's actually playing better for us than he is for his club.
I'd drop duff before Keane myself. Agree that neither have played well for us in a long time.Will people ever leave it out on Duff.
I'm not sure who you're agreeing with but it's not me .
Easy. Of course Cpt Robbie should be dropped - he shows no interest in breaking sweat for his country so why does he deserve to wear the green?
Together with all our hearts.
Duff is still our best outfield player. By a distance. Keane's attitude is spreading like a cancer throughout the team.
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I have always felt a goalkeeper (and to a lesser extent a forward) has always got to look after himself more so than the rest of the team. He can't be worrying about anyone else on the pitch, and at any rate he can't exactly jog up to someone for a word in their ear. Centre backs have the whole game in front of them and in my opinion get a better perspective of how the game is going.
That coupled with performances, experience of doing it with City, and personality is why i would pick Dunne.
on what s*ite keane said after the game,it was something like if you asked fans what would they want from this match theyd say theyd be delighted with the 3 points-or something like that.pure bulls*it.so now we are just satisfied with getting a win away to san marino is it?????????does it not matter how the team performs against part-timers and if the win they got was lucky????????as i said complete sh*te.KEANE TO GO AS CAPTAIN.maybe somebody will come in with ambition and drive like another keane use to have.
Always liked Robbie Keane up until the moment that came out of his mouth... to me thats unforgiveable, who does he think we are?
"A silent mouth is sweet to hear"
back page of the Herald.am and also in the Metro regarding keane talking crap about how we should be happy with 3 points and poeple who know football know its all about the 3 points. Tosser
I am happy with 3 points. I was there and while the performance was abysmal, I am still happy with 3 points. I would have thought that goes without saying.
Keane is not a tosser either. Typical Irish attitude. He was way ahead of the other striker, Shane Long, on the night. Irish fans don't take very long to turn on their own. A number of fans around me were giving Keane a hard time. He certainly wasn't the worst player on the pitch. Sure he moans a lot at the ref but wouldn't influence my opinion of him. He put the effort in to no great effect I would admit but he still worked hard.
His form at club level has taken a dive so I don't expect him to play any better for us but I will stick by him and any other player who wears the green so long as they put in the effort and to hell with the begrudgers and tossers.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
So the fact he was captain and neither lead by example or vocally doesn't annoy you? IMO Keane is one of the biggest spoofers in football. An undoubted talent, he very rarely performs to a decent standard for club or country.
Your comparison to Long is off the mark too as Keane is a seasoned international (captain, no less) while Long was making his international debut wiht less than ten starts in grown up football behind him. I didn't think keane put in the effort you and the one chance I remember him having he shot tamely wide.
As for his interview he could've acknowledged his and the team's perfomance being awful (as Kilbane did) and apologised to the people who spent fortunes going over to watch him and his mates have a kickabout. But he chose to have a go at people who dared criticise them. If you think I'm a begrudger, fine but I think the description of tosser is being very kind to Keane. Very kind.
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you'd think he'd be grateful he gets a start for us because you'd think it sure beats warming up the bench at Spurs.
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You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
He said this after the match. Something like "we didn't play well, etc. etc. but at the end of the day, if you ask anyone it's the 3 points that count".
Thats not the radio interview I heard eirehoy
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Might aswell have been.
'I can understand their frustration because they pay a lot of good money to see good football and us do well, and they didn't see that,' said the Tottenham striker.
'But if you ask any fan, while they might be disappointed with the performance, they will be delighted with the win.'
- By win he means the 3 points obviously.
Actually this is where I got the "3 points" from:
"We're not happy with the performance ourselves, none of the lads are.
"It's not as we would have liked, and not what people expected, but sometimes in football these things happen. That was proven last night.
"The most important thing is the three points. That's what we came for, and we would have taken it before the game. We're thankful we got them.
"If you ask anybody in football, it's about winning, and that's what we did."
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