Roy Keane

Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

Mr Brick wrote:

A bit tough, HH. Why is Robbie delusional? One of our own

Got an assistant manager role at Middlesbrough basically he's mates with Jonathan Woodgate, despite being uniformly unqualified for a role at that level. Mick McCarthy literally stated that he was foisted into his managerial setup and is still? getting paid handsomely to do nothing under the Kenny regime. The point of contention for me isn't that Keane is still being paid the terms of his contract - I understand if the FAI was stupid enough to give him a role he wasn't qualified, or wanted, for - it's that he essentially inserted himself into the role through entitlement and is now holding a financially bereft organisation random after the natural order of events takes course. I don't expect him to do the honourable thing and walk away, accept a cut in pay, or give a large % of it to charity. That's fine. I'm a frugal guy and like money as well. But he sure has lost a large amount of respect and, frankly, deserves to become a laughing stock because of his avarice, entitlement, laziness and boorishness.

He should ring Mark Kennedy, Jim Goodwin and Brian Barry-Murphy and get tips on what to do to make himself an attractive proposition for owners at League Two level looking for an ambitious and hungry manager who wants to work his way up the football pyramid through merit.

But he thinks he can still coast on 68 goals at senior Intl level when it has absolutely no relevance to the world of coaching, ideas, management or tactics.

He signed a contract, was dumped, and is being paid out. Normal procedure. You're more or less extrapolating the rest - avarice, entitlement, laziness, boorishness, coasting on past achievements etc. He has the highest possible UEFA coaching badge and has picked up some experience along the way. So why would you deny him his shot at management when he seems to have earned, at the very least, a shot at it?

John Nice wrote:

Roberto Baggio wrote:

Never got the hate for the best goalscorer we've ever produced

I have no hate for him at all, great goalscorer, LFC fan (where he was harshly treated), but I do have some regard for HH's view in this particular instance. His 500k annual salary for doing nothing (whether or not that is the FAI's fault) leaves a little bit of a sour taste!

What about Roy Keanes salary when he was assistant manager (€600k) and the massive pay off he and O'Neill took when they were sacked(€2m)?

Had the FAI not been broke, they'd have paid Robbie off in a lump sum like any of the others and that would have been the end of that and nobody would have been any wiser.

He's on the Tommy Tiernan show at the moment.

Let Christy Take It.

How many stories will Joe.ie get from this interview

Thought he was terrible. Not very interesting at all or maybe he's a very reserved person.

From Roy to some woman talking about her orgasms

Wonder what he’s thinking in the green room

Roberto Baggio wrote:

Have watched this a few times but just checking

Is the idea of this show that Tommy doesn’t know what guests are coming on?

If so are there many come on who he doesn’t know

If you believe that as they say

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Roberto Baggio wrote:

Have watched this a few times but just checking

Is the idea of this show that Tommy doesn’t know what guests are coming on?

If so are there many come on who he doesn’t know

Yeah sometimes there are people he doesn’t have a clue who they are and it’s likely the viewers don’t also. It’s like two people who just get chatting in a pub. It usually works really well but Keane for some reason went on with the idea of not to saying like the Irish Republican on Mastermind

AKA pedantic kunt

I haven't seen the interview yet but what were people expecting him to say? We know Roy and anyway we know most of his stories. He was hardly likely to start talking about what he got up to on his honeymoon.

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