Thoughts? Strange decision by o'neill usually sticks to a set back room team. It wii be interesting to see how it works
I'm happy enough with O'Neill but I think Keane will be a total disaster and I can't really see him lasting long.
John Robertson did not go to Sunderland with O'Neil . The players at Villa were very upset that O'Neil rarely turned up at training and thought his assistants were not up to the grade . O'Neil having played under Clough for ten years became more and more like his old Maestro as his managing years went on . His adoption of some of Clough's more eccentric ways has had an adverse affect on his performance . Keane is and always will be a big head who thinks the whole world should surround him . I just wonder how the players will react when both O'Neil and Keane keep their distance . I think O'Neil for all his faults , if he had a good assistant could have been a good Manager for the ROI . I just thinking the spectacle of the Manager and Assistant Manager of the ROI appearing on TV this evening from Spain with the Poppies on display illustrates how low the ROI can stoop.
Keane has his coaching badges and I'm not sure O'Neill does. I think Steve Walford and Steve Guppy are going to be part of the set up as well. International football is not always e greatest to watch and a lot of the time, O'Neill was maybe too loyal to players. For what it is worth, I think O'Neill is great at getting folk to believe in him and believe they are the best players in the world. With international football, they only get the players for a few days at a time, so maybe a motivator is more important in that arena. Keane and the rest of them will put into practice whatever plans for the opposition and that may be enough. It has the potential to be a great union. It also has the potential to go spectacularly wrong. Either way, the journey will be a lot more exciting than it was under Trap.
Of course Keane has his coaching badges. Sure why wouldn't he, everyone Involved at the running of Coaching Courses would have been **** scared to not give him his badges . The main thing is what he has done with his badges , destroyed Sunderland and Ipswich . After what he did in Siapan, he should never have been allowed back in Ireland , never mind getting a job with the FAI . Probably that great Rebel born would have been happy with that , he could have paraded around his Britain with his poppy all year. I agree , that O'Neil if he sets his mind to it is a superb man manager and motivator but he will have his hands full keeping the maniac Keane from undoing all his good work . In the old days International Football was a three day break and the manager had little more to do than pick a team and do a couple of set plays and make sure the Players were all tucked up in bed early . Nowadays it is at least a ten day spell, which gives a self egotist more than enough time to destroy player morale etc.
