Joe Royle or Kevin Keegan

[Citizen Green]

Keegan. No doubt.

Not at all.

 

[peoffrey]

Keegan left City the way he leaves many jobs. i.e. Broken, defeated and with a mess for someone else to resolve. The man's a media darling who, by all accounts, is an incredibly weak person. He quits, quits and quits. Royle earning two promotions in two seasons was a solid achievement and he arguably earned his chance to keep us up in the Premiership regardless of his actual ability to do it.

I find it difficult to choose. Royle signed too many centre-halves and George Weah whilst Keegan just walked instead of dealing with the problems he's caused.

 

[davymcfc]

Royle. Took over in total turmoil and brought us back the premiership. Had minimal funds to play with compared to kk. That season in division 1 was splendid.

 

[Seosa]

Kk was good but I felt his heart wasn't in it once we left Maine road.

Blowing £5m on Fowler in January '03 then having to resort to Seaman, McManaman and Tarnat on frees didn't help his own cause. Reyna had a poor injury record too. The following summer's mind blowing signings of Danny Mills (on a five year deal, :@) and Ben Thatcher on frees epitomised how he'd gone too far with the money from January 2002 to January 2003.

 

[peoffrey]

Does anyone truly know exactly how and why Keegan left City? There was talk of mutual consent but I never really understood what triggered the conversation / meeting(s) that ended his tenure. My understanding is that he said he'd had enough and City admitted they wouldn't stand in his way if he wanted to go.

His second spell as Newcastle Manager was hilarious. We considered running a sweepstake at work to see how long he'd last.

 

[Doncaster Blues]

Keegan nudges it....

That season we came up back to the prem was awesome, went into every game thinking we'd win no probs and score for fun. Playing three centre forwards some weeks probably helped!

Never forget the game at hillsboro' that season, massive away support and bag full of goals.

As for royle, always seemed to make it by the skin of his teeth; wembley and blackburn (how many chances did blackburn have in that first half!). Liked the man though and it was a shame how it ended, court case and all.

As for keegan spending too much, he only spent what he was given, the board should have grown a pair if we were that skint.

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

Keegan left City the way he leaves many jobs. i.e. Broken, defeated and with a mess for someone else to resolve. The man's a media darling who, by all accounts, is an incredibly weak person. He quits, quits and quits. Royle earning two promotions in two seasons was a solid achievement and he arguably earned his chance to keep us up in the Premiership regardless of his actual ability to do it.

I find it difficult to choose. Royle signed too many centre-halves and George Weah whilst Keegan just walked instead of dealing with the problems he's caused.

Well thats the horrible stuff taken care of.

Joe brought us from the third tier of Football to the Premiership and under Keegan we witnessed some magical stuff from stunning players and we had some magnificent moments.

I look at them both now with much fondness and I am not going to choose.

 

[jimharri]

Keegan left City the way he leaves many jobs. i.e. Broken, defeated and with a mess for someone else to resolve. The man's a media darling who, by all accounts, is an incredibly weak person. He quits, quits and quits. Royle earning two promotions in two seasons was a solid achievement and he arguably earned his chance to keep us up in the Premiership regardless of his actual ability to do it.

I find it difficult to choose. Royle signed too many centre-halves and George Weah whilst Keegan just walked instead of dealing with the problems he's caused.

Well thats the horrible stuff taken care of.

Joe brought us from the third tier of Football to the Premiership and under Keegan we witnessed some magical stuff from stunning players and we had some magnificent moments.

I look at them both now with much fondness and I am not going to choose.

Seconded.

 

[Seosa]

Does anyone truly know exactly how and why Keegan left City? There was talk of mutual consent but I never really understood what triggered the conversation / meeting(s) that ended his tenure. My understanding is that he said he'd had enough and City admitted they wouldn't stand in his way if he wanted to go.

His second spell as Newcastle Manager was hilarious. We considered running a sweepstake at work to see how long he'd last.

I don't know what triggered it, but I remember as a 12 year old going on 13 begging for him to go and being overjoyed waking up one morning finding out he'd done so. Then I was praying Pearce would replace him and not Deadly Derek Faz. How wise I was....

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

Pikachu.