Roy Keane's Rant

[samcooke91]

Do people agree with him or not?

Ireland had very little chance at the start lets face it, they did extremely well to qualify and were placed in a very tough group.

The reigning champs Spain beat them 4-0, not that surprising considering the best of the Irish players are getting on a bit now ... Keane had this to say

"I think a lot of them think they're top players, and it goes to show that they're so far behind a lot of these players."
"I think the players and even the supporters, they all have to change their mentality, it’s just nonsense from players speaking after the games about how great the supporters are."

Fair play maybe it was a bit of a heat of the moment comment but seems a bit harsh does it not? Their concentration in the earlier stages of matches could have been improved but against the Croatians they suffered a fair bit of bad luck with two of the goals.

 

[RebelBhoy]

Toy Keane may have a point about the players. The supporters....no.

 

[FulhamIreland]

Toy Keane may have a point about the players. The supporters....no.

This.

 

[Aviva My Arse!]

Yes a lot of those players are fairly rubbish... but the manager picks them, he should be criticised for that. But how can you criticise the players for prasing the fans... thats crazy!

 

[Rubadub]

Keane is a horrible pikey twat, he can slate the players all he wants as most of them deserve it but the fans are amazing no matter what that miserable **** thinks.

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

The team did well to get there and being drawn against the 1st, 4th and 7th teams in Europe, going by the ranking, was always going to be tough.
A lot of the players either didn't play that much or had poor seasons and there's not a lot of alternatives available.

 

[JCC87]

Irelands best 4 midfielders - McCarthy, Gibson, Ireland and McClean - McGeady has been awful and McCarthys absence is understandable, i know Ireland was an ass but forgiving is a way of life

Shane Long not playing was also shocking and the back 5 were awful with only St Ledger getting anything(goal) out of this tournament

Think its time for Given, Dunne, Duff, Keane to retire and let the new gen in

Team for next match


Westwood

Coleman - St Ledger - O'Shea (c) - Wilson

McCarthy - Whelan - Gibson

McGeady - Long - McClean


McCarthy is a doubt with Ireland coming in, then with Stephen Kelly, Stephen Ward, Shane Duffy we have back up for defense

Ireland and Hoolahan for midfield

Walters and the guy who should have been called up, Joe Mason as back up to the strikers with Cox and Doyle also floating around

 

[antidistinctlyminty (ADM)]

Irelands best 4 midfielders - McCarthy, Gibson, Ireland and McClean - McGeady has been awful and McCarthys absence is understandable, i know Ireland was an ass but forgiving is a way of life

Shane Long not playing was also shocking and the back 5 were awful with only St Ledger getting anything(goal) out of this tournament

Think its time for Given, Dunne, Duff, Keane to retire and let the new gen in

Team for next match


Westwood

Coleman - St Ledger - O'Shea (c) - Wilson

McCarthy - Whelan - Gibson

McGeady - Long - McClean


McCarthy is a doubt with Ireland coming in, then with Stephen Kelly, Stephen Ward, Shane Duffy we have back up for defense

Ireland and Hoolahan for midfield

Walters and the guy who should have been called up, Joe Mason as back up to the strikers with Cox and Doyle also floating around

seem to remember keane having a go at the prawn sandwich brigade - now he's complaining about fans singing

get a life roy


ps. what is his problem with shay given

 

[antidistinctlyminty (ADM)]

Yes a lot of those players are fairly rubbish... but the manager picks them, he should be criticised for that. But how can you criticise the players for prasing the fans... thats crazy!

cos he's lost the plot

when asked before the tournament about irelands chances he said at least the players wont be falsely accused of things by the manager referring to his claim that mc mcarthy accused him of faking injury in saipan.

he's miserable and wants everyone else to join him

 

[Aviva My Arse!]

Irelands best 4 midfielders - McCarthy, Gibson, Ireland and McClean - McGeady has been awful and McCarthys absence is understandable, i know Ireland was an ass but forgiving is a way of life

Shane Long not playing was also shocking and the back 5 were awful with only St Ledger getting anything(goal) out of this tournament

Think its time for Given, Dunne, Duff, Keane to retire and let the new gen in

Team for next match


Westwood

Coleman - St Ledger - O'Shea (c) - Wilson

McCarthy - Whelan - Gibson

McGeady - Long - McClean


McCarthy is a doubt with Ireland coming in, then with Stephen Kelly, Stephen Ward, Shane Duffy we have back up for defense

Ireland and Hoolahan for midfield

Walters and the guy who should have been called up, Joe Mason as back up to the strikers with Cox and Doyle also floating around

O'Shea has been awfull in this comp and has been for a while... he's not a good fullback, play him at centre half or on the bench.

Did anyone else think Mcgeady was our best player against Italy before he was taken off? Just contributes to Traps crazy thinking.

Stephen Ireland should be asked to some back. I absolutely hate they guy but all will be forgiven when he's scoring goals and becomes a key member of our squad.

I'd like to see this team for the start of the next campaign:

..............Westwood

Coleman...O'Shea...Dunne...Ward

................Andrews
.........Ireland.......McCarthy

McGeady.................McClean
.................Long