Talking to the press!! Keano will not like that. I expect we may not see Stead again

i hope stead stays keane hasnt really given him a run in team , he was our main striker last season cum on keane give him a chance!!!!!! but keane knows best

Bye stead!! Thanks for your services!!

Two things may happen. Stead starts scoring, if given the chance and Town climb out of the bottom three - Stead stays. Stead continues not to score, no more wins and Keane is long gone by then anyway. His comments will be irrelevant by the start of January.

I'll be really.. upset and annoyed if we sell him. He's my favourite player. I love him - he's fantastic. He's absolutely got goals in him. He's a goddamn machine.

Big fan of stead's, but when he came on against sheff utd a couple of weeks ago when we were winning all he needed to do was put that work rate in and hold up the ball and he done neither (btw not blaming him for the poor defences errors). My time with him is starting to run out, but on the other hand like most of the players, he might need long run in the team. Might just be the thing for him

Plus he was are top scorer last year, so he has been doing some thing right since he has been here. Reading away last season, absoulte class

Come on Steady!!

Come town. Season starts on 17/10/09

UP THE TOWN

like marcus bent who played for us, goals for the first few games and then long barron spells of nothing.

THanks, but Bye. Stead was never a prolific goal Scorer and until he buy someone in the Mold of Marcus Stewart or Reuser, then i think we will struggle. I think Pablo and Wickham need to be given a chance to bond and gel. Walters is a winger, not a target man.

paper talk thats all. we will see what happens in jan.

Poor in the air, lightweight, not a goal threat

to the above copamundial you need to be more specific, thats describes all are strikers.

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I was just talking about Stead but yes all are strikers are like that

Pitty he cannot score goals like he did away at reading last season all the time..I think he needs a run in the team because he is a good player and could do the business for us..But still in keane we must trust..?

Wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Bye Bye stead!

Like many of you said before - I like Stead but only based on what we have. I 100% prefer him compared to Counago and Priskin. But he is not good enough to be the scorer we need. So bottom line is - my preferred choice would be to sell both Counago and Stead but only if we are able to replace them with 2 to 3 top (for Championship level) scorers. If we cannot do that I'd like Stead to stay because he is our best striker right now....

13 goals in 26 starts last year at championship level and has scored in the premiership also , hasnt played that well so far in limited starts but like all strikers and players they need a run in team and confidence ,start him upfront with Pablo and have Priskin and Connor coming off the bench . As loanees dont seem to be coming we need to have a settled side and stop panicing when things go wrong and change the whole team each week .

only my opinion,but i reckon Stead,could still be ok, just needs to be played with right partner long enough to get to know each other.I'll probably be crucified for saying it but hey ho,.

stead sould play hes a great stricker hes a wikid sub and we all know it

Top scorer last season, really didnt rate him before he came to Town (been at so many clubs) but thought he settled in really well.

Good Luck to him I say, whether he's a town player or not!

still at least 1 if not 2 places upfront up for grabs at moment. i think all 4 of our established strikers(not including Wickham)are much of a muchness so its up to them individually as to who wants to grab the places. At moment i would plump for Pablo & Walters for saturday

I hope all our lads start raising their games and we start moving up the table... He can't go out on loan anywhere because we don't have the numbers and nobody else has a nailed on place up front. But if Keane does show him the door - I hope it's not a barn door because............ I think you get the idea with that.

Stead was my favourite player last season and still is this season. He really needs a decent run in the side. Playing him as a lone striker pre season did nothing for he's confidence.

I would rather see Keane go than Stead. The man is doing the club no favours.

You can tell it's quiet when things like this are reported and there's no real point to what John Stead is saying. Except that it may annoy the manager. I think Keano will want players who can put an arm around their own shoulder to pep themselves up, coming in for extra training, or kicking a ball against a garage wall to improve control and passing (that last one was a joke - or maybe not), say Garvan had gone awol this summer he would still be there and no-one would go and fetch him back. Stead - saw him away at Charlton last season where he did OK, also didn't see Reading away but didn't he score with an overhead bicycle kick or was it just lucky, and that was a 'win' - can't remember that feeling. Players don't just go bad over a summer holiday. The players Keano has brought in can look after themselves, he inherited a lot of players who need the arm around the shoulder encouraging, building up, not knocking down, I was watching the Newcastle game on BBC IPlayer and Leadbitter could have taken somebody's leg off with his lunge at the player oops missed took out the corner flag under the Geordie supporters noses, now he IS a Keano player. Also I can't stand the 'freezing out' of players just because Keano can't bring himself to speak to them, that actually weakens the squad so much, because it is important to maintain the optimism in players' minds. I thought of Ian Holloway when I wrote that, he would be geeing players up all the time. Keano's like a guy I work with, nightmare to work with, but he has good knowledge of the things we do, you have to approach him 'on eggshells' just in case you upset or offend him and if you do offend him, you just get the 'cold shoulder'. I can sympathise a bit with Keano because he thinks players should be able to look after themselves, just like that guy I work with. The players who would have fitted the Keano mould, I would speculate they were the kind of players I used to like watching (although they did frustrate me also on occasions) - Alan Lee, Danny Haynes, and Gavin Williams. Poor man management perhaps contributed to their departure from ITFC. Take Danny, I know he was a terrible footballer, but even if he'd just miscontrolled yet another easy pass, he still had the mental self confidence to go and take on the defender and just forget that he'd just made an error. Alan Lee, scoring the penalty to get us through the very tight cup tie with Swansea at PR. Danny, goals in big games. Gavin, winning goal late in game v Birmingham City, ran the midfield against Portsmouth when down to 10 men after Joe Jordan word in ear of 4th official to send off Liam Trotter.

jon stead like most of our squad is simply not good enough, and our management team up to date not good enough

Stead is not good enough.. Same goes for all of last seasons average squad. Keane has got a very very tough job on his hands rebuilding us into a team with relalistic promotion ambitions. Can all the keane out idiots remember how bad we really were last season.. 9 th really flatter us & was all down to the gio effect.