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Keane Has Sympathy With Fans
Keane Has Sympathy With Fans
Saturday, 20th Feb 2010 08:52

Boss Roy Keane says he has sympathy with critical supporters given Town’s position in the Championship's bottom three. Keane says fans have shown him a great deal of patience during the Blues' struggles but admits that it's now wearing thin.

The Blues boss said: “I think I’ve been very lucky during my career. I think supporters have always been pretty decent to me at whatever clubs I’ve been at. I think the Ipswich fans have been.

“But I live in the real world, I don’t just go home and put my head under the duvet and not think about it, I think that patience was definitely used up the other night, even from the most tolerant of supporters and I can understand that 100%.

"I'm sure if I was a supporter I'd be saying, 'Listen, you need to do better', and we do need to do better. There's no hidden agenda there.

Keane admits that he may already have been shown the door at other clubs: "I think I have been lucky that Simon and the owner have been quite supportive. But that support runs out just like with supporters.

"Trust me, I'm not daft, I might look it, but I'm not. I appreciate that if you're not winning football matches and you're in charge of a club, your luck will run out."

The former Manchester United skipper says he thrives on life as a football manager: "I don't think I could do a normal job.

"I need something to excite me and to challenge me and the challenge now is to get us up the table and change the mindset of the Ipswich supporters because if I was a supporter I'd be looking at it and be exactly the same."

Keane feels that improvements are being made in some areas of the club but says that matters little if the first team isn’t getting the results: “Nobody outside this club is going to be feeling sorry for us, we’ve got to roll our sleeves up, make sure we get up this table and kick this club on because I think we have been making progress in the background, but ultimately the manager is judged on every Saturday afternoon.

“I can talk all day about training, the training ground, the reserves, the scouting network, the medical staff, all that. But that goes out the window on a Saturday afternoon or a Tuesday evening because the supporters don’t want to hear that, they want to see a team going out there giving it their all, scoring goals, being passionate, being very hard to beat and giving 100%.

“That’s what they ask for and if you can’t provide that, you’re asking for trouble.”


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Big_Foot_Blue added 09:24 - Feb 20
"The supporters don't want to hear that, they want to see a team going out there giving it their all, scoring goals, being passionate, being very hard to beat and giving 100%.

“That's what they ask for and if you can't provide that, you're asking for trouble.”

Yhe your right Keane and last time I checked you and your team weren't doing THAT were you!?!?! I've been a keane fan from the start and part of me still believe if we survive this season then next year some how we might be more competetive and be at least contending a play-off spot but at the moment it's hard to think positive. The entertaining football where we would at least score goals has gone. I used to enjoy watching us play and now I simply don't. I will support town till I die and I do believe the players care I just simply wish I could see "a team going out there giving it their all, scoring goals, being passionate, being very hard to beat and giving 100%" that was Ipswich and not Ipswich's oponents. That way at least you can enjoy watching us and fans can hold their heads up high.
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stiffshorts added 09:25 - Feb 20
and I'm one of your supporters roy but your team selections, your constant changing of teams, your weird substitutions, your failing to alter our negative way of playing and your constant appeals to us that you'll get it right eventually are, indeed, wearing very thin.
I'll personally give you the benefit of the doubt but, I won't be renewing my season ticket in April out of protest.
Sorry.
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SouperJim added 09:47 - Feb 20
If you can work out how to give a half time team talk we might be alright...
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bennyblue added 09:52 - Feb 20
thats just a cry to hang on to his job in the hope that the team might get lucky.standard waffle from a manager on the way out .the important thing now is we start looking for a serious replacement and quick before roy does any more damage a semi decent manager and a team which plays with pride could still stay up this season. i know keane has'nt left them much to work with but it is possible to stay up with a new man at the helm.still reckon we might sneak a win at sheffield friday or maybe i am just as deluded as roy on this one. man he is a miserable looking bloke can the boss pleaseput him out it send him of to sunderland rather than him bringing sunderland here
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byebyesheepshanks added 10:02 - Feb 20
Improving the medical staff, scouting network (where are the players), re painting reception - He thinks he is Sir Alex! Try picking a settled 11 & winning a few games before trying to get the ground named after you!
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brittaniaman added 10:03 - Feb 20
KEANO this afternoon at 3pm get in that technical area and stay their until 4.50pm with a bit more direction than usual, I know you can do it, because that will be as near to playing with them as you can get COYB !!!!!!
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dirtydingusmagee added 10:23 - Feb 20
too right its wearing thin Keano, glad you have at least taken that on board,i cant get to todays match ,but there needs to be some passion ,and determination on display by the team and yourself, its no good expecting fans to be singing and cheering their hearts out each week, when increasingiy we see a once proud club dying, SO COME ON TOWN WAKE UP ,SHAPE UP, AND WE MAY STAY UP. COYB
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Cornwalltractor added 11:07 - Feb 20
I'd like him to be specific with regard to the team he selects, his tactics and the philosophy he instils into his players and I'd like him to compare the squad he has now with the one he inherited and then tell us that progress has been made - because it hasn't. Tweaking this and that is what he should have done when he arrived. Now it's too late for anything but a wholesale change: a change of manager and a new philosophy, someone who can actually motivate players.
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Cornwalltractor added 11:07 - Feb 20
I'd like him to be specific with regard to the team he selects, his tactics and the philosophy he instils into his players and I'd like him to compare the squad he has now with the one he inherited and then tell us that progress has been made - because it hasn't. Tweaking this and that is what he should have done when he arrived. Now it's too late for anything but a wholesale change: a change of manager and a new philosophy, someone who can actually motivate players.
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SurreyITFC added 11:12 - Feb 20
I agree dirtydingusmagee with your comment. Come on Keano & The Boys let start showing the quality we have BUT clearly not showing it for some reason! There is No hiding for the players or management now so let get performing as steer our way clear of the relegation battle. COYB
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Suffolk_n_Good added 11:20 - Feb 20
I don't have any sympathy for you, you've just about knackered our club.
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yorkshire added 11:21 - Feb 20
Jees - what more can the man do ?

He's less than a year into his tenure here and he has made some marked changes. The players he's bought in, as a whole, have been of a better calibre than we have seen for a long time. Admittedly they haven't performed but I didnt see anyone saying that the signings of Martin, Priskin or Edwards were bad when they were announced.

I am glad he is trying to change things about. He has gotten a lot stricter with the players, many of whom had it easy under their mate Magilton. I'm glad that he's imporved the scouting network and the medical staff - all of this bodes well for our long term future.

I am glad that he is our manager because of the coverage he brings to my football club and I am glad that we managed to get a "big name" manager and not appoint our former goalie and sherrif of Ipswich.

I am not happy, as are most fans, with the way this season has taken shape. We have drawn too many games, we have looked poor in some of the games we have won and we have not been consistant. Our players, have in the most part, let the manager down. The new signings, possibly with the exception of Leadbitter and Rosenior have not performed, even though most of them have done at this level in the past. The senior players that Keane has inherited, Pablo, Walters, Garvan(at the start of the season) and Richard Wright (when he was playing) have not been at their best all season. Some may argue that it is Keane's job to get the best out of these players - and in a way - Garvan being the example - he has tried. I like his honesty about players - look at Upson, he was given a slating last week and had a much better game in the ressies this week.

Players like Murphy, Healy, Colback, Edwards and Leadbitter have all followed Keane here - giving little credit to the suggestions that Keane does not get on well with his players. You only have to read the article about Chopra to understand that Keane is not the baddie that people like to believe he is.

I wasn't around at the start of Robson's era and certainly not at the start of Ramseys but I am told that their first seasons where not exactly special. You only need to look at the Alec Ferguson early years to realise how fickle this game can be - lose to Oldham that day and he was gone.

In my book, being an Ipswich Fan is about getting behind my team and supporting whichever manager is in charge, together with whichever players are putting on that shirt.

Lets hope we can get this season out of the way and start again in Septemeber in the Championship with a chance to put the wrongs of this season right.
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bennyblue added 11:25 - Feb 20
pleased ta meet you hope you guessed my name? buts whats bothering us is the nature of your game !
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thechangingman added 11:44 - Feb 20
Hmm, a multi-millionaire journeyman manager with no real affiliation or passion for the Town asking for our sympathy for a painful, grinding, no-hope-on-the-horizon season...?

Let's see...

No, no I don't feel ANY sympathy whatsoever. I just want you to move on. You are exhausted for ideas and I see no sign of any innovation or creativity.

You'll leave our club in a lamentable state - the laughing stock of the league and yet you'll probably walk straight into another job, laughing all the way to the bank and writing Ipswich off as merely another stepping stone towards the Big Cash Cow role that will inevitably come...

Sympathy?

You don't really need it do you? It's us long-suffering Town fans who need the sympathy.

Please Roy - put us out of our misery and do your first honourable thing in regard to our Grand Old Club - Please, please go away...
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RRanger added 11:58 - Feb 20
Well said Yorkshire. I agree absolutely with everything you say.Bobby Robson was certainly NOT an instant success when he came to Ipswich including a fist fight with a couple of the senior pros (where incidentally, his position was backed by the Chairman).If we had had the internet in those days and message boards etc would we have had the success that followed? Hm, I wonder.
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Lightningboy added 12:15 - Feb 20
If he keeps us up and keeps his job (I say if)..what makes anyone think it won't be more of the same next season ?..because let's face it ,he'll probably be shipping in/out another dozen or so players during the summer again and we'll be back to square one.

Go! - sooner rather than later Roy & let our club get back to some sort of normality rather than us having to put up with the "Roy Keane show" every single week,which is quite frankly very boring.
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froudy added 12:25 - Feb 20
'Admittedly they haven't performed but I didnt see anyone saying that the signings of Martin, Priskin or Edwards were bad when they were announced.

Yorkshire, me and just about everyone I knew despaired at the signings of Martin and Priskin. £2.7m on a load of rubbish.
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SouperJim added 12:25 - Feb 20
Lightningboy, what if we had got the 3 points our performance deserved on the opening day of the season at coventry? We were rampant and the result was daylight robbery. The whole season might well have been very different. Football is about fine margins and Roy's 18 are far superior to Jim's. I'm sure you'll quote 9th place at me and insist I'm talking out of my rear, but compare them, player for player.

IF we stay up, next season could be very very different.
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itfccymru added 13:09 - Feb 20
First of all, Yorkshire- Best comment ive read on hear. Keano hasen't done the best of jobs but every manager needs time, alex ferguson when he took over at man utd they dident win for 13 games and look at them now? Some fans think we can just get promoted over night, it dosen't work like that; it takes time to get your team into the right shape, the man has brung many positives to Ipswich, players like David Healy, Daryl Murphy, wouldn't have signed if Keano wasen't here. I admit we are now in a relagation battle, but i am confident we can have a mid-table finish this season, so maybe lets get behind our team and stop critisising 24,7? Up the town!!
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yorkshire added 14:16 - Feb 20
"Yorkshire, me and just about everyone I knew despaired at the signings of Martin and Priskin. £2.7m on a load of rubbish. "

Im sorry but that is utter rubbish. We fought off Bristol City for Martin and if I could find a way to got back to that day and copy some of the posts I think you'll find that most were in support of his signing. As for Priskin, I am pretty certain that I did not see a single post on this site questioning this signing. We were getting a young player, with a decent reputation, and who was proven at this level.

Its so easy to be wise after the event as these two players have certainly under performed this year - but to say that people knew they were going to be rubbish before they signed is utter tosh
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petersongoal added 14:25 - Feb 20
to be fair lads. we took a gamble on a unstable manager to take over from Jim, all he'd done before is get sunderland promoted with a team that was pretty much already set up for him all he needed to do was go in and yell at them to fire them up. The squad he has here should be well up there in the championship but he just doesnt know how to manage them if we'd have got a proper and proven manager when we had the chance, and god knows why marcus evans didnt do it when he had the chance, then we might be in the top three now instead of the bottom three. all those wonderful managers we could have had why keano?
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Lightningboy added 14:46 - Feb 20
Souper Jim..Arsene Wenger wasn't much of a player,not sure that he actually played the game at all but does that make him a worse manager than Keane?

Come on,stop talking cobblers.

I hope next season is very different - different manager,different results,different half of the table...
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DrJeckyll added 17:21 - Feb 20
yorkshire, nice one
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nthstd added 18:37 - Feb 20
Don't care what he says not interested in his view from the fans chair he's the sodding manager. All I want is three points every game....but I realise we won't win them all.

Get us clear of the relegation zone and sort out the mess you call a team.

He created it he HAS to fix it.
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SouperJim added 19:44 - Feb 20
Lightningboy are you really that dull? Re-read my post and try again.
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