I believe in you Roy, a few more performances like that and we'll have a lot more points on the board. Today I feel very proud of my team.

We all still believe. COYB

We're gonna be just fine. I felt sick last night after the game. But we'll be ok. Definitely.

(little bit extra fitness wouldn't go amiss, we need to be lively for 100minutes minimum)

And I thank the players and RK for showing us they can do it. We will get out of this mess. Lady Luck has got to have pity on us surely. Up the Town!

I was proud to be a Town Fan last night. We are as good a bunch of fans as you will come accross and recognise the players gave everything depsite not getting the result we all hoped for.

Will take that performance week in week out. Unlucky not to win. Bad luck really. Roy couldn't have done anymore.

I want to thank the Supports, who continue to sing Keanes name, showing their support to him directly, so many papers are ready to give him the chop and its not needed.
Well done Roy we can see what you've done with the team and we know having you as manager will bring success.
In case Roy ever reads these (you never know).
Your supporters, the town supporters, will never believe what we read in the papers - now make yourself a legend.

You could see that the players were as disapointed as the fans (Rosenior in particular).

McAuley, Leadbitter, Edwards and Rosenior were all excellent last night - They did nothing wrong...

Am I the only one that thinks the new keeper is giving the defence more confidence?

We WILL win on Saturday, I am sure - If we don't, and we play with the desire that we showed last night, I, for one, will still be applauding the team off of the pitch.

firestorm, i have thought all the way through this season that maybe our defensive problems came via Wright - just lack of confidence in your keep can control how you defend and it has proven the case so far.

superbluefude:

"Well done Roy we can see what you've done with the team and we know having you as manager will bring success. "

Are you mad? I thought we were good last night, and completely deserved to win but your statement is mind-boggling. What has he done with the team? Bought a large number of expensive failures, dropped players like Garvan and D. Wright (now back in) with no obvious replacement (Trotter is a total failure so far this year) and got us bottom of the table!

This kind of blind-optimism is ridiculous.

Not saying we should sack him at the moment while performances are OK, and possibly on the up, but come on - get real please.

And to blame Wright for all our failures is farcical. Wright was MOTM repeatedly earlier in the season. Yes, he started making mistakes, but that was more down to the shaky defence giving him no confidence than the other way round.

If you've actually watched the last two games you'd see that Begovic has added nothing to the defence (in his defence it's because he hasn't had to). And he's only on loan anyway, so what happens come January? Wright is a perfectly good (very good in fact) keeper at this level. His skaky start last year was transformed to player of the season.

So, you're willing to fogive Roy for 13 winless games, and some truly appaling performances, but you're not willing to forgive Wright for a few mistakes (only a couple of which were in any way important).

Bizarre.

Interesting read! Think we played brilliantly last night and it is truely gutting that we only come away with a point. The thing fans need to realise is that players respond to the atmosphere around them - if you get on the players backs etc it puts them on edge, heads drop and they are more likely to have a crap game! Keep positive and support the team after good performances! Any other season last nights result would have been 'one of those things' but because of our recent form everybody gets upset and starts on the Keane out bandwagon! Yawn!

It amuses me that some fans can't see what Keano is doing - rebuilding a club and stripping the deadwood (Magilton tried to rebuild a side that was successful 4-5yrs ago - living in the past)! Some of our players need a rocket up their @~>/! Keano is showing them that they have to make the effort and work for the club. Just because you cost £2m doesn't mean you instantly go into the starting 11. Players need to realise there is competion for their place and they only get picked when they put the effort in/ when they are playing well - if not you have to sit out and WORK HARDER. Effectively getting the best out of the players! Look at how David Wright has come back! And my bet is you might see Mr Garvan soon too! As Supple previously said, some players don't care etc and competition for places and the realisation that you might not play might be what is needed to get players working harder - if not you sit in the reserves or go somewhere else! Look at how McAuley's come back - last night was the best I've seen him play this season - and I'm not even a massive GMc fan!

Knuckle down, work hard and it will come. There is a big culture change RK is trying to make. Too many players have been in their comfort zone knowing that they still play regardless of performance.

Still think we will be towards the top come the end of the season but the big difference is we will have a stronger, better squad for it!

Brillant, this is what a true fan base should be about, we love you too roy!
I think last night was actually a real blessing in disguise and will hopefully mark the transformation is roy keanes barmy army.
Looking at the championship, there's only 10 points between 20th and 1st. Play-offs DEFINATELY not off the cards yet, i'd even go as far as saying auto promo is still a slim shot.

firestorm_westy, your attitude is bang on.

"We WILL win on Saturday, I am sure - If we don't, and we play with the desire that we showed last night, I, for one, will still be applauding the team off of the pitch" - Wise words

Couldnt agree more randomblue.
But i warn you now to be prepared for a backlash of criticism and derision and lots of words with "*!*!*" in them from certain members on here.
True fans lets stick together

randomblue:

good points in theory except:

-McAuley started poorly last year but soon became a solid defender. Magilton stuck with him rather than drop him and tell his agent could find him another club.
-David Wright has always been a solid player. He's no better now than he was at the start of the season or last season
-Keane's rebuilding on the team, as you put it, on Saturday constituted only two new out-field players - and several expensive signings on the bench or not even in the (very large) squad.
-if he really is rebuilding, why isn't he buying players good enough to get in the team? All very well saying that it's good that £2M doesn't guarantee you a place in the team, but surely these players are good enough aren't they? I'm impressed that you can turn a bunch of very expensive failures into a positive!

well put random blue couldnt put it better myself and we still have 4mill worth of players injured

randomblue:

although to be fair, I have no problem with dropping players if they aren't good enough - Magilton certainly stuck with his favourite too much.

My only worry is that he puts effort in too high regard. That can be the only explanation for Trotter's continued appearance on the pitch. He adds nothing. I don't care about Garvan's workrate, his passing ability puts him way over Trotter's effort any day of the week.

If you actually have monitored Wrights attributes, his shot stopping is second to none -this is why he won so many MOTM'S but his distribution - awful, cumminication, awful and his cammand of his area is terrible. - stop liking wright because of his connection with town - he isn't that good and the defence has improved tremendously since he's been dropped.
And please stop moaning about dropping Garvan and Wright - its proven that it has worked with Wright, its making them work hard and commit themsel ves

Naa - Im sorry who scored our goal last night? i though you said to Random that keane dropped Mcauley?

Oh come on.

Sorry, but D Wright's being dropped has proven to have helped? Proven by who? Surely it's a subjective measure and in my subjective opinion Wright has barely ever had a bad game, and he's no better now than ever before.

Agree about some of Wright's failings, but to a large extent his area command started slipping when the pressure of the rubbish defence started to tell and he tried (incorrectly at times) to command his area at times he shouldn't have.

We weren't poor defensively last season when Wright was player of the season. So no, I'm not being generous to him for his previous Town connection but because only last year he was one of our best (if not the best) player.

There's a saying about form and class I believe. I think that's the case here.

Inly time will tell, of course. We have looked more solid defensively in the last two games, but I'm willing to put that down to a whole host of other factors for now (after all Wright was in goal for our only clean sheet of the season, so taking games in isolation doesn't tend to prove much in general)

And don't be so childish superfudeblue. McAuley has been dropped this season.

I didn't explicitly mention last night. I was there you know.

Agree with you on some points, but - no offense meant with this. Do you not think that has a manager Keane would have seen problems with D Wrights play that us fans dont? same as do you not think he knows what problems Garvin creates to the team,again things the fans dont.
All im saying is you wouldn't tell a manager of a shop how to sell more stock, beause its up to them and they know what they are doing.
But i've seen a big improvement in D Wrights game, just little things like posistioning sense which at certain times does go lacking. fair he's always been strong, but there are still areas for improvement and if keanes thoughts were always to play wright at left back then sorting things out like posistioning is key - sorry i cant spell.
And I know you will talk about the delaney transfer - already pre-agreed with QPR before he took over, everyone knows that.And if not then delaney will be a good cover.

and i wasnt being childish - far from it just pointing out that he played last night and to be fair, being dropped does help, maybe thats where Jim went wrong?
anyway im not wishing to start any arguments all im saying is that things are lookign up the performance is better and the moves that keane has made seem to be working. So why not get behind the team rather than continuously finding negatvies to talk about - Rhodes, R Wright, dropping D Wright etc.

Hmm, you're inferring that everything Keane does is right and we shouldn't question it. I find that brave (and rather foolish).

Agree though that fans aren't the best judges - you only have to look at these comments sections to see that - but I still think D Wright was wrong to be dropped. Regardless of the Delaney transfer he didn't have to play him did he? D Wright should have been in from the start if he didn't rate Delaney.

Admit I hadn't heard that about the Delaney transfer. Is that a fact or a classic fan 'fact'? Sounds dubious to me on a number of levels. Not least of which is that it means that Magilton wanted him and Keane didn't. Therefore, when Magilton had the final say after he took over QPR why didn't he block it?

I'm sure both parties would have been happy with that.

Delaney affair - im talking about press statements i did say they be have been wrong but they would explain alot.

and im not saying that fans can't question things Keane does, but their asking for others opinions and providing your opioning which you can say without the actuall pointing of finger -eg I dont think dropping D Wright was such a good idea, rather than the usual i cant belive Keane dropped D Wright he has no idea. if you understand my meaning.

Great to read so many positive comments on here at last the fans are showing their true blue colours. Im as gutted about the result as anyone but the win must come soon. I will be at Plymouth cheering the boys on saturday.

Hey, I posted a positive comment in the match reports section having a go at the negative comments after the game. We played well last night and no-one should criticise over that performance.

My comments are more about the systemic problems this season - usually ti reply to someone who appears to be showing blind faith to Keane.

And if I'm discussing those then obivously I have to raise issues I think Keane has made mistakes on - as long as they are still relevant.

But hey, if the last two games really are a sign of long-term improvement great!

But that doesn't mean we should hold Keane up as some kind of managerial God. He's hasn't done enough in his managerial career to deserve that (and I'm including his Sunderland promotion in that, as it could a) have been lucky and b)cost the board of the club a lot of money).