Keegan?

[Kev Gee]

What would peoples thoughts on Keegan getting the job?

Highly unlikely i know.

However he would be the high profile man that HRH would want & surely would get the squad banging the goals in?

Hes also been in the lower divisions before with Fulham & City.

Id love it....Just love it if he got the job!

 

[blade too long]

Curly wig sales alone would fund 2 new players

 

[Rodley]

I told you it was Clough ages ago, it still is Clough!!!

 

[pommpey]

What would peoples thoughts on Keegan getting the job?

Highly unlikely i know.

However he would be the high profile man that HRH would want & surely would get the squad banging the goals in?

Hes also been in the lower divisions before with Fulham & City.

Id love it....Just love it if he got the job!

Is he still alive?

pommpey

 

[Hartley Hare]

I had him on my list from a few weeks ago. One thing for sure you would get exciting attacking football under Keegan.

Not a bad choice at all.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

No way, never rated him.

He's only managed clubs with a big pot to spend and throws his toys out of the pram and leaves as soon as anything goes slightly wrong. Never been a good manager.

 

[judge]

Ridiculous threadn

 

[Jon Bon]

As much of a dinosaur as Bassett and Reid - more of a dinosaur than Sir Neil. Move along now...

 

[Northyorksblade]

At least we wouldn't have to pay compemsation, he'd walk out before we could sack him.

 

[shiregreenblade]

Surely we'd get fed up of every game ending 4-4, 5-4 or 4-5 and our players, playing with such wild self-abandon!!

 

[Woodwaaard]

As much of a dinosaur as Bassett and Reid - more of a dinosaur than Sir Neil. Move along now...

I've watched us since 1968 and I've never seen us play like Keegan's sides: (although Basset's 89/90 side had its brilliant moments). Just because he has had teams with defensive failings doesn't make him a "dinosaur". Newcastle used to have crowds of 12k to 14k and there's one reason that that they now have massive crowds (and delusions of grandeur ); his name is Kevin Keegan.

He certainly has his failings but failure to entertain isn't one of them

After watching the last few years of utter bobbins at BDTBL, I'd LOVEIT if he was given the job

 

[Dkc]

Shame about the age-ism on this board. It seems everyone over 60 is a "has-been" and a dinosaur. This despite the fact that the manager that won the PL title last season and the manager of the current PL leaders are older than Sven, Warnock and Keegan.

It would be a brilliant appointment. He's a S Yorks lad if I'm not mistaken, started his career with Donny?

 

[Blackheath Blade]

Can't we have Michelle Keegan instead ?

 

[Jon Bon]

Can't we have Michelle Keegan instead ?

Is he French by any chance..?

 

[Blackheath Blade]

Is he French by any chance..?

 

[Pinchy]

Shame about the age-ism on this board. It seems everyone over 60 is a "has-been" and a dinosaur. This despite the fact that the manager that won the PL title last season and the manager of the current PL leaders are older than Sven, Warnock and Keegan.

It would be a brilliant appointment. He's a S Yorks lad if I'm not mistaken, started his career with Donny?

It's nothing to do with age. It's about attitudes and the length of time since these people achieved anything. It's not pure chance that they haven't been offered a job for years.

As to your last paragraph, I'm afraid you are mistaken (he was born in Armthorpe but never played for Doncaster) but why would it make the slightest difference? Is South Yorkshire a breeding ground for great managers?

 

[Dkc]

If it's nothing about age, why are terms like "has been", "living in the past" and "dinosaur" bandied about whenever anyone proposes to appoint a manager aged over 60?

Perhaps the reason so many successful older managers are out of work is that there is a fashion for appointing the young, the fresh-faced, and the media-savy. Not only in football, but in many other professions. Politics springs to mind.

Maybe people like Keegan haven't achieved anything for so long because they wanted a break from the game, or they weren't considered for positions simply because of their age. If he were available I'd have taken Keegan over Weir in the summer but I doubt he'd have been a popular choice.

Incidentally, our most successful manager of recent times has also been our oldest. Robson, Adams, Heath, Blackwell, Morgan, Speed and Wilson are all spring chickens compared to Warnock.

 

[Foxy]

Saw Keegan last week, he did a presentation which included a couple of slides on the Blades.



Safe to say he didn't seem particularly interested in the job

 

[davidpinder]

It's Clough end of

 

[Blade58]

Keegan? Good God no!

Bottler who chucks the towel in at the first sign of being under the cosh and it's a cert he'd be under the cosh at the Lane

He's also been out of the game for too long for me

Would probably require a boat load of money which we are supposed to have but probably haven't

No ta