Robbie Keane

Cabra Hoop wrote: Citizen wrote: horsebox wrote: The stats are 6 goals in 9 games. He missed both Germany's games, Austria at home. He scored in the Sweden home game. No other striker came near to that. Long went through the whole campain without scoring a single goal. That is a concern.   hattrick v faroes, peno v kazakstan, goal in a dead rubber v kazakstan, goal v sweden. did well for goal v Sweden (after longs flick on) but averaging 20 touches per game is not good enough. Keanes performances throughout the campaign were very poor. Harsh, but its objective and true. As i said above, play him v the small teams, great record v them. Anyway this is a thread re Coleman.  When we win games Robbie invariably is on the scoresheet. And in case you havent noticed, we dont beat the top teams, QED Robbie dosent score. He scores against his own level regularly tho. Why would you expect him to score against superior teams ? Any why should that be the benchmark to rate him.   He almost has more international goals than Alan Shearer and Michael Owen combined.

Robbie Keane wants Chicago Fire striker Mike Magee to join Martin O'Neill revolution
Mon, 02 Dec 2013
Republic of Ireland captain Robbie Keane is keen for Chicago Fire striker Mike Magee to join him in Martin O’Neill’s national squad.

The former LA Galaxy striker has linked with a call-up to Jurgen Klinsmann’s USA squad ahead of next year's World Cup finals having played for his country at under-17 and under-20 level, but Keane is keen for the 29-year-old MLS star to wear the green shirt instead.

Chicago missed out on the MLS play-offs on goal difference, but Magee was prolific throughout the regular season with 21 goals and 4 assists.

Keane, who is recuperating from recent Achilles surgery in Dublin over Christmas, said, “His whole family is Irish. His grandfather or father.

"I’d say he would play for us. He definitely would like to but he’s probably waiting for that American call-up. He’s not an international. How he hasn’t got it I don’t know.

“If Martin O’Neill asked me about him, I certainly would tell him about him but I’m sure Roy Keane and people like that would be fully aware of all the players available to them.”

“Every f***** day I get asked. They all think they’re Irish over there but I don’t go around asking ‘Are you Irish, do you want a game?’”

Magee, like Keane, is a finalist for the 2014 MLS Most Valuable Player award, which will be announced on Dec 5th.

Colorado Rapids midfielder Shane O’Neill and New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Ryan Meara are also qualified for Ireland.

Keane was in Dublin today to launch the Xbox One.

I loved that line.

Still, it's great seeing the love for both the chung fella and Robbie in general over the last few days. Even the comments on the journal aren't full of Robbie begrudgers. Maybe the people do appreciate him after all.

Anyone hear Keane say 'when asked about whether David Beckham would also be on the show and he said and pointed s crutch to the audience ''all the awl wans would love that wha?!' before realizing what he said

Edited by Trap junior - 02 Dec 2013 at 8:08am

irishmufc wrote: t_rAndy wrote: I give the kid 9 out of 10 for acting. I'm taking a point off cause I was pissed You're still a miserable cxxt

I'm a gent and a ride and I have a fat one in me jocks waiting to meet u for the first time. Back doors be getting kicked in that night

I give the kid 9 out of 10 for acting. I'm taking a point off cause I was pissed

Edited by t_rAndy - 01 Dec 2013 at 7:11pm

irishmufc wrote: Fintan wrote: irishmufc wrote: Fintan wrote: irishmufc wrote: ya quoted me Fintan but ya didn't post anything its in there somewhere. Was agreeing with you about the annoying levels of keane begrudgers and saying the brits appreciate him more than many of our fans. I love the fella. One thing I'd say for the English you would'nt see them knocking their record scorer Bobby Charlton who 49 goals (fantastic record for a midfielder) to the extent we do in this country.What really impressed me about Keane was no matter who was manager he backed them even under Stan because it kept the team together.See my signature quote below on what an excellent player like Ledanowski thinks of Robbie Keane. the begrudging is off the hook in Ireland, mainly from auld biddies, rugby people and the specific breed of contrarian that we produce in Ireland. people are also too demanding and too slow to give praise imo. On the Coleman thread people are talking about him being shaky in defence. This is at a time when most of england are saying he's one of the best defenders in the epl. BT sport rated him as the second best defender in the whole country last week for this season to date....Not in Ireland though, we know the truth, he's shaky. Lads also congratulating him on scoring a goal but then saying he scuffed it. Begrudging is the most horrible trait. Very infantile. Coleman was very raw when he first came to Everton and he was shaky in defence,very lucky not to have conceded penalties with the amount of pulling and dragging he was doing but like Ciaran Clark learned from his experience and he's now pretty solid defence wise.

I'm only talking about this season when he is being talked about as THE BEST in his position by football people in England but getting called shaky by a fair few ireland fans.

Fair play on his goal though.....even thiugh it was a shinner fluke according to some of the ybig knowalls.

irishmufc wrote: Fintan wrote: irishmufc wrote: ya quoted me Fintan but ya didn't post anything its in there somewhere. Was agreeing with you about the annoying levels of keane begrudgers and saying the brits appreciate him more than many of our fans. I love the fella. One thing I'd say for the English you would'nt see them knocking their record scorer Bobby Charlton who 49 goals (fantastic record for a midfielder) to the extent we do in this country.What really impressed me about Keane was no matter who was manager he backed them even under Stan because it kept the team together.See my signature quote below on what an excellent player like Ledanowski thinks of Robbie Keane.

the begrudging is off the hook in Ireland, mainly from auld biddies, rugby people and the specific breed of contrarian that we produce in Ireland.

people are also too demanding and too slow to give praise imo. On the Coleman thread people are talking about him being shaky in defence. This is at a time when most of england are saying he's one of the best defenders in the epl. BT sport rated him as the second best defender in the whole country last week for this season to date....Not in Ireland though, we know the truth, he's shaky. Lads also congratulating him on scoring a goal but then saying he scuffed it. Begrudging is the most horrible trait. Very infantile.

Edited by Fintan - 01 Dec 2013 at 11:52am

Fintan wrote: irishmufc wrote: ya quoted me Fintan but ya didn't post anything its in there somewhere. Was agreeing with you about the annoying levels of keane begrudgers and saying the brits appreciate him more than many of our fans. I love the fella.

One thing I'd say for the English you would'nt see them knocking their record scorer Bobby Charlton who 49 goals (fantastic record for a midfielder) to the extent we do in this country.What really impressed me about Keane was no matter who was manager he backed them even under Stan because it kept the team together.See my signature quote below on what an excellent player like Ledanowski thinks of Robbie Keane.



Edited by irishmufc - 01 Dec 2013 at 10:36am