Parallels with current model, not quite,we expect to get at least two years of service before they fly,or promotion and keep in-house !Remember it well. Scored on his debut and it was obvious he’d go on to huge things. Tried to replace him with Bellamy which was pretty much the beginning of the decline in the prem years.
Bellamy was only 19 and coming back from a serious injury. If we’d signed Hartson earlier and got rid of GS, we’d have been ok.Remember it well. Scored on his debut and it was obvious he’d go on to huge things. Tried to replace him with Bellamy which was pretty much the beginning of the decline in the prem years.
Were close to it now I think?His debut was awesome. Not sure we've ever had a better player.
Yeah GS should have gone around Sept/Oct in the relegation season, at the latest. Keeping him on for the Div.1 campaign was an even bigger mistake as he’d completely lost the plot at that point.It’s difficult to compare players from different eras and how good ones were then and now. Vik for me is prob the one that’s come closest and will go on the same career trajectory as Keane.
The one thing you’d say about Keane was how good he was a such a young age. Plus he hit the ground running didn’t have to adapt to prem football. When you think of the attacking talent in the prem that season Shearer, Henry, Cole, Yorke, Bergkamp, Owen etc i always felt he was the closest we would get to getting anyone near that level. That season it felt like we had a world class striker backed up by the likes of hadji, mcallister, chippo etc and we’d give any team a game.
It really was a failure of GS how we finished so low that season and not winning a game away all season. Utterly criminal.
Wright, O'Hare in his purple patch here, settled well at SU hasn't he, bugger!Vik is nowhere near Keane!
We even managed to lose our last game of the season away at Watford who had already been relegated.Yeah GS should have gone around Sept/Oct in the relegation season, at the latest. Keeping him on for the Div.1 campaign was an even bigger mistake as he’d completely lost the plot at that point.
Was a good day out though!!!We even managed to lose our last game of the season away at Watford who had already been relegated.
Was a good day out though!!!
Also a sublime bit of skill from Hadji where he nearly scored from the corner flag with a volley (never been able to find this anywhere online so may have actually over exaggerated it in my head
Apart from the result yes it was a good day & a lot of beer consumed.Was a good day out though!!!
Also a sublime bit of skill from Hadji where he nearly scored from the corner flag with a volley (never been able to find this anywhere online so may have actually over exaggerated it in my head).
That was the season where we had top 4 home form but failed to win a single away game....We even managed to lose our last game of the season away at Watford who had already been relegated.
Amazing we won 12 home league games and none away.That was the season where we had top 4 home form but failed to win a single away game....
Even with the talent we had.
Think it was 14, but anyway, our home form was indeed outstanding that season.Amazing we won 12 home league games and none away.
Barnsley one I remember as Dublin scored a last min pen.Didn't we win a record 7 home games in a row?
It did include a couple of pretty poor last-minute wins against Barnsley and Sheff Weds if i remember correctly....
My favourite Keane goal was the one against Arsenal at HR, the 3-2 win. The way he flicked/directed it past Seaman from such an angle (with his right foot) was just incredible.Most talented player to ever play for us, brilliant awareness, positioning, touch and then finish.
it was only brief but was amazing to watch
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