Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[hilts_coolerking]

I too am warming to us having him in the dugout. At least there will be a part of the pitch within evil eye range where the opposition will not get away with rolling us over with impunity. A distinct improvement on Lambert stands up, walks to the touchline, claps his hands and sits down again.

Quite.  Who knows how this will pan out but, at the very least, I expect there will be a lot less bullshit spoken about the team

ETA - By the club I mean; it'll be business as usual on here, happily.

[Legion]

[gritted teeth]Welcome to Villa Park.[/gritted teeth]

[supertom]

Nutty Conspiracy theory alert...

What if Martin O Neill becomes like an unofficial director of football for us?
What if Keane asks O Neill for advice, and in turn passes on that wisdom to Lambert who gets a pants shittening stare directed at him and is too scared to refuse Keane.

Keep your eyes peeled people. If we suddenly switched to a four, four, fakking two, with Gabby partnering a big man and two pacy wingers, our two tallest centerhalves playing, Clark at left back, Vlaar at right back, and nowt but direct football, then we'll know it's true. Martin O Neill will be running the Villa again.

January 2015, 31st...11.59pm...Emile Heskey resigns.

I read that as 'Emile Heskey resigns from his job,' and I thought, "wonder why he'd do that?"

To be fair Heskey probably resigned as a centerforward about 15 years ago.

[Ger Regan]

I don't get the comparisons between Culverhouse/Karsa & Keane.

Bullying and a will to win are very different things - if they did bully people that is personal & nothing to do with performance, holding players to account for losing is very different and should be expected.

Kinda, except Keane has been accused of bullying.  I think Fergie even wrote about it in his book.

I wouldn't accept anything that ferguson has to say at face value. He's self-serving and will do or say anything to advance his goals.

[Toronto Villa]

I don't get the comparisons between Culverhouse/Karsa & Keane.

Bullying and a will to win are very different things - if they did bully people that is personal & nothing to do with performance, holding players to account for losing is very different and should be expected.

Kinda, except Keane has been accused of bullying.  I think Fergie even wrote about it in his book.

I wouldn't accept anything that ferguson has to say at face value. He's self-serving and will do or say anything to advance his goals.

also bullying is very different to intimidation which is what Ferguson alluded to with Keane and some of the younger players at the club.

[kippaxvilla2]

Coming from Ferguson.

[kippaxvilla2]

Shudder.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-13-memorable-roy-7352786

[Drummond]

We know he is obnoxious. We need to be obnoxious winners not nice losers.

Quite.

Though I'd rather be Nice Winners.

Being obnoxious losers would obviously be the worst option.....

[brian green]

If I were a young player I would be quite proud of being bullied by Keane. He us famous for it. C and K are just nobodies.

[Toronto Villa]

If I were a young player I would be quite proud of being bullied by Keane. He us famous for it. C and K are just nobodies.

"Just because you are paid £120,000-a-week and play well for 20 minutes against Tottenham, you think you are a superstar."

[SamTheMouse]

It's weird, in a 'Villa through the Looking Glass' kind of way. Personally I think the guy's acted in a pretty thuggish way in the past, and I doubt this is going to lead to a harmonious dressing room. The guy is nailed on to piss someone off seriously badly at some point. But he's one of us now, so I wish him all the best. Hopefully he will be able to tread the fine line between tough love and just being nasty.

[Villafirst]

Shudder.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-13-memorable-roy-7352786

Some great quotes there......hopefully our players will toughen up now! The beast will be even more scary for defences!

[supertom]

However this transpires it's certainly going to be memorable I'd imagine.

[dave shelley]

My admittedly limited experience of Roy Keane was sometime in the mid to late nineties when myself and a mate brought our u14's on a football trip to Manchester and Leeds.  The kids were 99% united fans so we took them to the Cliff training ground.  As with most training grounds, the public are kept well away from the players.

Keane was out with a long term injury at the time.  When training was over, many of the players got into their cars and went home, some stopping and signing a couple of autographs.  Not Keane, he limped down from the building and gave autographs to all our kids that wanted one and also anyone else.  Now, I don't pretend to know what his dealings with footballers is like but, what I witnessed was far from the behaviour of an obnoxious individual.  As for David May, tosser!

[Breezeblock]

Nope. I don't care what he can potentially bring to the table I do not want this cocksocket affiliated with Aston Villa in any way. I feel more angry about this appointment than I did about TSM.