2018/19 Michael Keane

[RFUS]

Utterly clueless about football and utterly deluded about your status.

Poisonous fan base. No wonder people take the kick out of you for your booing and your fume. I don’t think you know the meaning of the word “support”.

I don't agree with a lot of what you've said but I'm glad someone from the outside is calling our fanbase out for what it is. For what it's become. It is indeed poisonous. So many blues are determined to absolutely hate our players. I really don't understand it and it's really disappointing as it's clearly affected a lot of players. I personally think Barkley would still be here if he'd had less stick.

Now people might say they're millionaires and they should toughen up etc but that's football now. They're all lucky and minted and that's not going to change. Perhaps we've just reached a tipping point where the fans cannot relate to the players anymore. But as a fanbase we need to start getting behind players a bit more or just accepting that we're part of the problem.

 

[brigadier]

For me he played well yesterday, not blaming him for the second goal.

 

[Dharma]

Whenever he plays he will cost us goals/points. Simple as.

 

[Verbal Kint]

Played really well yesterday, anybody that says differently Hasn't a clue about football....

Attack me all you want

 

[Nyhus]

Absolute nonsense.

If he’d stayed touch tight :-

1. Jimenez would have tried to peel off and gone down, risking a penalty.

Or

2. Neves would have dropped it on the other guys head.


And he didn’t misjudge the flight. A top quality international under no pressure at all was given time and space to deliver an inch perfect cross. Which he did.

I agree, we cant blame Keane for that one, he did well yesterday. Before that goal, I was watching our midfield and thinking they would score if we didnt close them down more, Neves had way too much space to run into and get his cross perfect.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Regardless of yesterday he still needs dropping ASAP and rightfully will be. Mina obviously first choice and Zouma wouldn't have joined us to sit on the bench.

 

[Brizzletoffee]

Played really well yesterday. Some people seem to be stubborn with their opinion of him from last seasons preformances. Therefore can't admit when he's had a good game. Massive improvement.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

He played well yesterday looked more assured although switched off for the second goal.

Promising signs and hopefully this lad has a better season.

Exactly this. On the whole, we all seem encouraged by a team performance that was much better than we’ve seen in recent years but not perfect; why can’t we say the same for Keane?

Best I’ve seen him play for us, yet I think he could have done better for their second. If he carries on his improvement there is no reason he couldn’t be getting in ahead of one of the new boys. If he reverts to type, he’s out - We don’t have to arrive at a conclusion after one game!

 

[TrixyStevens]

He did well yesterday but there’s a mistake in him.

 

[Stutheblue]

Played really well yesterday. Some people seem to be stubborn with their opinion of him from last seasons preformances. Therefore can't admit when he's had a good game. Massive improvement.

He had a decent game, yes. Its a start after last seasons woes. Lets see him do this over a period of games now.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Surely the big question for their second goal is why was he left with 2 players??

 

[davids]

Keane came into our team at Burnley and wasn’t great at first. But we stuck with him, he got used to the system and we sold him for 15 times what we paid for him after he’d played for England

Tarkowski came into the team ..... and guess what ..... he wasn’t great at first. But we stuck with him, he’s played for England and we’ll probably sell him for 15 times what we paid for him.

Structure, repetition, drilling ...... the cornerstone of any successful defence.

At Everton he’s :-

1. Had 4 managers.
2. An ever changing set of partners.
3. A bad injury.
4. A set of fans who smash him verbally for everything.

What do you expect? He’s a human being, not a robot.

Now I know your response ...... that’s all well and good for Burnley, but we’re Everton. Well i’m sorry to dispel you of a few notions, but right now you’ve got a hell of a lot more in common with Burnley than you do the top 4.

So what if you spend six months drilling a defensive unit to get it right and him up to speed? So you finish 8-10th again? That’s your history over the last quarter decade. If you want to change the recent history you’re going to have to do things differently, because chopping and changing and smashing your own players for every perceived mistake has got you here.

I see people on here calling him a coward? Unbelievable. Whoppers hiding behind a keyboard calling a guy that, who is doing stuff you couldn’t dream of in front of a TV audience of millions.

Madness.

Problem is he plays like a robot...with lead feet.

 

[hktoffee]

Surely the big question for their second goal is why was he left with 2 players??

Holgate put him in that position.

 

[davids]

Played really well yesterday. Some people seem to be stubborn with their opinion of him from last seasons preformances. Therefore can't admit when he's had a good game. Massive improvement.

If your a CB and your not within 3 mtrs of the player your supposedly marking from a cross , that's having a good game? It cost us 2 points.

 

[sageyefc]

He did well yesterday but there’s a mistake in him.

Not to mention we have to drop several yards deeper to compensate for him in the side