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Post by QPR Report on Aug 25, 2009 6:22:07 GMT
 - Of course the thing about contracts is...  Daily Mail
Roy Keane wields the axe at Ipswich Town and tells ousted players: You'll never play for me again!By Mel Henderson Last updated at 1:44 AM on 25th August 2009 Roy Keane has axed several members of his Ipswich squad and told them: 'You'll never play for me again.' Keane's patience snapped after the club's nightmare start to the season. Ipswich have taken just one point from four Championship games and, on the eve of tonight's Carling Cup trip to Peterborough, the manager admitted he had seen enough. Keane, who took charge in April, lost his rag after the 2-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. He refused to name names but admitted: 'There are one or two who played at the weekend who will never play for me again. Eventually you have to make a decision and I don't like what I have been seeing. This is not just based on Saturday but on the end of last season and pre-season as well. You can't keep waiting and you have to say enough is enough. And it's not personal - it is just time to move on. You can't keep doing the same things every week and not get a result.' Robert Koren It's over: West Brom's Robert Koren condemns Ipswich Town to another defeat But Keane rubbished claims that he and skipper Gareth McAuley, who was dropped at the weekend, have had a bust-up. Keane, who has spent £4million on new players, added: 'I like Gareth and he was probably a bit unlucky to be on the bench on Saturday.' Now Keane has only six days left in the transfer window to ship out the players he no longer wants and also bring in the replacements Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1208675/Keane-wields-axe-Ipswich-tells-ousted-players-Youll-play-again.html#ixzz0PAnQ1zN3
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Post by QPR Report on Aug 25, 2009 6:25:40 GMT
The Guardian/Louis Taylor
Roy Keane's rule of fear fails to inspire Ipswich
The Ipswich Town manager has endured a torrid start to the season, and other thoughts in Louise Taylor's all-new Football League blog.... Thought for the week Ipswich Town's slow start to the season – they have a just one point and are second bottom of the Championship – has already got the "surely it's about time Roy Keane walked out" jokes going. Maybe we shouldn't write Sunderland's former manager off just yet, though. After all, back in 2006 he inherited a Wearside side who'd lost their opening four league games of the season under Niall Quinn's stewardship and still steered Sunderland into the Premier League at the first attempt. Yet whereas at the Stadium of Light, Keane proved very much a cheque-book manager, he's been strangely slow to spend at Portman Road. Judging by his latest outburst that might change. "There are one or two players who played for me against West Brom on Saturday (Ipswich lost) who will never play for me again," the former Manchester United captain told journalists on Monday. "I don't like what I'm seeing. We will not win automatic promotion." Oh dear. As a reporter who covers Sunderland regularly I was previously a fascinated Keane watcher and – although, as I've said it's ridiculously early in the season and bad starts can be overcome – what worries me with Ipswich is that his policy of ruling by fear brought instant results on Wearside before ultimately going horribly wrong. If such intimidatory tactics aren't working from the off in Suffolk does he have a Plan B? And has he learnt that running away at the first sign of trouble – see Saipan and Sunderland – isn't exactly courageous? I do hope so. At least one Ipswich player has already proved capable of wrong-footing him. "Roy Keane was shocked when I told him I was retiring," said ex-Portman Road goalkeeper Shane Supple, 22. "But there are other things in life. Football's not what I thought it was." Wouldn't you just love to have been a fly on that wall? www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/aug/25/louise-taylor-football-league-blog
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