Roy Keane Confirmed as new Ipswich Manager

everdead.ie

Glen Hoddle and roy keane are the front runners to get the ipswich town ssn reports with the club reporting they are close to attaining there new manager
:eek::eek:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5223144,00.html

EDIT bookies are stopping to take bets on keane

redout

Great news.

Keano needs time in the lower divisions.

Win all-round

dsmythy

Good stuff. A club in a lower league but with past pedigree in the Prem and an open future. Standard Irish manager club.

JPA

Hardly shocking eh?

invincibleirish

I look forward to seeing Ipswich shirts in Cork round town.

Helix

keane confirmed

ntlbell

wtf?

ntlbell

just bought my ipswich season ticker for 09/10

shake a bloody shamrock

JPA

Link?

Denis Irwin

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5224139,00.html

JPA

Denis Irwin wrote: »

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5224139,00.html

I was hoping for something official though.

bUILDERtHEbOB

Ipswich pre season tour of Ireland in the summer?

ShooterSF

Delighted for Keano. And Uniteds youth system Win-Win indeed!

mike65

Get your bets on first manager to walk next season!

Headshot

where can i buy a Ipswich shirt

Kristopherus

Helix wrote: »

keane confirmed

To be confirmed in next 24 hrs per Sky Sports News.

MIN2511

Congrats to him, promising team...

SunderIreland was good

Ipswichland?

Exit

MIN2511 wrote: »

Congrats to him, promising team...

SunderIreland was good

Ipswichland?

Gypswich?

3 Dollar Bill

Hope this is true, would be delighted to see Keane back in the fold.

kensutz

invincibleirish wrote: »

I look forward to seeing Ipswich shirts in Cork round town.

bUILDERtHEbOB wrote: »

Ipswich pre season tour of Ireland in the summer?

Headshot wrote: »

where can i buy a Ipswich shirt

3 Dollar Bill wrote: »

Hope this is true, would be delighted to see Keane back in the fold.

Bloody hope not! :cool:How many more people will I have to hate and dislike.

grenache

Cue all the Keane fans donning their Tractor Boys jerseys. They'll be everywhere now for the next two years until Keane throws his toys out of the pram and returns to walking his dog.

Lord save us and protect us from these fine weather fans.

OPENROAD

grenache wrote: »

They'll be everywhere now for the next two years

As long as that

ITT-Pat

grenache wrote: »

Lord save us and protect us from these fine weather fans.

I'd actually prefer if Lord saved us from bad posters

grenache

ITT-Pat wrote: »

I'd actually prefer if Lord saved us from bad posters

Could you be a little more precise and coherent?

ciaran76

listening to rte this morning and according to them Ipswich have 15 1st team players out of contract this summer. Expect an influx of Irish players I reckon.

CyberWaste

Its official: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/i/ipswich_town/8013572.stm

Highsider

Roy who?

Xavi6

At least he isn't in the Premiership I suppose.

BaZmO*

grenache wrote: »

Cue all the Keane fans donning their Tractor Boys jerseys. They'll be everywhere now for the next two years until Keane throws his toys out of the pram and returns to walking his dog.

Lord save us and protect us from these fine weather fans.

There's a difference between having an interest in how the team of one of Ireland's greatest players is getting on and becoming a fan of that team especially when that team has a lot of Irish players.

Dave!

Xavi6 wrote: »

At least he isn't in the Premiership I suppose.

Yet

Necronomicon

Listening to Sky last night, apparently Magilton was laid off over the phone while he was on compassionate leave, taking care of his sick mother.

Nice way to repay years of service.

everdead.ie

Confirmed Keane is the new manager on a two year contract!

LuckyLloyd

Necronomicon wrote: »

Listening to Sky last night, apparently Magilton was laid off over the phone while he was on compassionate leave, taking care of his sick mother.

Nice way to repay years of service.

Wow.

Still a good move for Keane, actually ideal infact. With so many players out of contract he should be able to put a stamp on things in the coming window. Garvan is a serious up and coming talent. And we know that he has had previous success with this type of task. Best of luck to him.

m@cc@

everdead.ie wrote: »

Confirmed Keane is the new manager on a two year contract!

I'm guessing this is part of a short-term plan by Ipswich. Prepare for plenty of drama and journeymen over the next two years.

everdead.ie

Disgraceful way to sack a manager it'd be nice to see how Keane does tho I think his idea is to build up experience to take over the national team one day so he can do things his way.

Draupnir

everdead.ie wrote: »

Disgraceful way to sack a manager it'd be nice to see how Keane does tho I think his idea is to build up experience to take over the national team one day so he can do things his way.

I doubt that is his idea, National management isn't really viable career in itself, from my knowledge of Keane, I would say his goals are success and trophies.

Delighted to see him back managing anyway as he adds something to the game that is missing with some of the robot managers around. It will also be good for the Championship in terms of coverage.

everdead.ie

To be honest he really reminds me of brian clough waiting for the Damned United 2 due out summer 2029

_blank_

I hate Ipswich.

gucci

Necronomicon wrote: »

Listening to Sky last night, apparently Magilton was laid off over the phone while he was on compassionate leave, taking care of his sick mother.

Nice way to repay years of service.

Thats shocking if its true, i heard about the over the phone bit alright.

Will be interesting to see how Ipswich go from one angry irish man to another!!:D The players still probably wont know what the manager is saying!

Wonder hav Ryanair set up the Dublin to Ipswich flights yet.....suppose Blackpool would be closest place?

elshambo

Headshot wrote: »

where can i buy a Ipswich shirt

Where can i buy a Norwich shirt?:rolleyes:

m@cc@

I'm surprised at that his reputation is still intact after his spell at Sunderland. He got them promotion but after that, it was spend at bust. The amount of turkeys he bought far outweighed any actual talent. I think he'd do much better under the wing of someone for a few years.

monkey9

Honestly, the first person to walk around town in an Ipswich jersey or to wave a tricolour at Portman Rd deserves a slap and the constitution should be amended to have this premise made legal!!

Xavi6

elshambo wrote: »

Where can i buy a Norwich shirt?:rolleyes:

'Hoolahan 14' on the back

Kev_ps3

Good luck to him. Hope he does well.

At least he isn't in the Premiership I suppose.

Why?

joe123

Great move for Keane. Glad to see he hasnt got to big for his boots (thinking he would walk into another premiership job). Wonder will Ipswich become Ip-ireland-swich. Doesnt quite have the same ring to it does it?

Xavi6

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Why?

Because I don't like him and he doesn't deserve to be.

BaZmO*

gucci wrote: »

Wonder hav Ryanair set up the Dublin to Ipswich flights yet.....suppose Blackpool would be closest place?

I know Ryanair are bad for leaving you "close" to the city you're going to but Blackpool if you're going to Ipswich? That might be a bit far.

monkey9 wrote: »

Honestly, the first person to walk around town in an Ipswich jersey or to wave a tricolour at Portman Rd deserves a slap and the constitution should be amended to have this premise made legal!!

How many Irish people have you actually seen wearing Sunderland jerseys?

LuckyLloyd

Xavi6 wrote: »

Because I don't like him and he doesn't deserve to be.

lol, you should really avoid posting on the subject of Roy Keane.

Xavi6

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

lol, you should really avoid posting on the subject of Roy Keane.

It's true though. I wouldn't have been at all surprised to have seen him get the Portsmouth job or something similar come the summer, despite the hash he made of Sunderland.

In fairness to him though he obviously knows his level and has gone back to it.

everdead.ie

In fairness Hoddle wouldn't of been much better in my opinion he always makes some outlandish decisions as a manager and then that comment on disabled people?????? Crazy! But they wheren't going to get Curbishley so I can't think of very many other possible candidates and Keane brings a lot of exposure and is sure to increase the amount of players who will come to ipswich.

That said Ipswich like Sunderland is not manchester or London so It'll be hard enough to get really good players to come in.

gucci

BaZmO* wrote: »

I know Ryanair are bad for leaving you "close" to the city you're going to but Blackpool if you're going to Ipswich? That might be a bit far.

Oops, i kinda made a bit of a balls up with my geography there, u thought Ipswich was somwhere on North West...my bad! But at least you got a joke out of it!

BaZmO* wrote: »

How many Irish people have you actually seen wearing Sunderland jerseys?

Iv actually seen about 4, although most of those have been playing 5 a side or other things where you can write off some of them as being from the bargain section of sports world or just simply eejits!