You could say the game is about scoring more than your opponent, while not letting in as many goals.

It's as simple as that Uttlesford and always has been.

Very perceptive Roy. Now you mention it, if I think back, we do tend to do a better each season when we score more and concede less. It's profound insight like that that we need just now.
Up the Blues

err I think my 2 year old granduaghter could work that one out roy. Still she has not spent the money to create it.

It should be concede 'fewer' goals, not 'less'.

No wonder we're second from bottom.

Oh... Of course, why didn't anyone think of that ! .. Pointless article, pointless statement.

some snide remarks on here aimed at RK are pathetic - at least he's identifying the "obvious" - unlike Jim Magilton !!!

No shit Sherlock !!!
Im not to worried about goals i would just like to see us play the ball as it should be,on the ground not 90% up in the air!!!!!
Perhaps if we did this goals would then come!!!
PASS IT ON THE GROUND!!!

Well said Gilesy. Unless, of course, he is using a verbal shorthand for "concede less frequently," in which case he is not slipping into the kind of grammatical slovenliness which will surely lead to relegation.

superblues1978....get some decent defenders in at maybe they wont always be hoooofing it over the MF.

Bruce(a younger version of Bam Bam ) - capt? laughable ...McAuley a CB? , even more laughable !

Um, we know he's stating the bleedin' obvious, which is why most people on here understand such comments and can then reply to them with knowledge in abundnce.
However, when your'e still hamstrung because of the JM leftovers who never performed except once a month when they got their pay cheques and the sun was shinning and were never going to get us promotion, (see Mr S.Supple's comments) then the bleedin' obvious has to be applied again, in the form of either inspiring those that are there already and finding out if thery're up for the real fight, and/or change the personnel who will carry out that fight for you.
Mr Keane states the bleedin' obvious cos footy is bleeding obvious, it's not rocket science as some would have us believe with pre and post match analysis and stupid daily press conferences to keeps the hacks happy so they don't have to go out and find a real story.
Footy is a simlpe game, score more, conceed fewer/less(?). Somtimes the foundations to keep that a simple game are spoilt by certain players of a kind who aren't mentally up for it which Town have had in abundance just lately.
No real grafters since Mowbray, Hr-ride-him-son, and dare I say DeVos!
I would suggest that once Town have a team of real grafters, not just 3 or 4, then we may look like a team to compete with the best. Meanwhile I'm going to enjoy the ride, cos like Sir Bob and Sir Alex, you need time. Sharpen your caustic wit and knives by all means but now is NOT the time to start undermining the very foundations that the future is being built on.
There, that's me said. Wish I was going to Donkey Rovers now. Can I make it in time..............?

Yes Hunters, football is a simple game and you have just summed it all up very well.

Ssssh RK keep such revolution thoughts to yourself otherwise all the other managers might try to profit from this pearl of wisdom.

Ssssh. Don't tell anybody, but he nicked it from Sir Bob and Sir Alex.

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On the horizon 4 Kean0 !!

wow i never realised that how football games were fun. What a brilliant manager

Neither does Garvan. Let's hope he wakes up!!!!!!!

he's now only 'fairly confident' we will be in the Prem at the end of his 2 years (should he stay that long) - that's a bit different to what he said when he first took over.

I'm still on board with Keane, I just think it has dawned on him that the task is much bigger than the three wins on the bounce at the end of last season had lead him to believe. IMO for the pretty much the whole of last season we were pretty poor and mid table was all we could aspire too. hence I'm for the radical surgery now being carried out on the playing staff. Jim failed to build a team when given money and little real quality was purchased.In fact Jim achieved most in his first season when with nothing to spend the team made creditable efforts. His disaster was not making the play off's last season having been given the means to achieve this- Jim didn't leave a team brimming with quality a fact he has subsequently admitted.
With the transfers I do feel Keane has a tendency to over pay and we also seem to over pay the players too. hence we often can't get rid of players who are surplus to requirements. I wish we would look at players from clubs in lower divisions as there's better value to be had here. It just takes a bit more effort in terms of scouting. Forget promotion this year the radical overhaul needed is too big to achieve in 1 season.
The team hasn't had many lucky breaks this year and clearly lacks confidence. We will win soon provided we start defending as a team. Today may be the day.

Thought he said, in his own eyes he will have failed if Town don't gain promotion in 2 years. Yeah, that's different.
Seeing the lilly livered lot he's been left with, I would say once again he's re-adjusting his sights as he goes along. Seems sense to me. Burley couldn't re-do it, Royle gave it a good go, and JM was just the wrong appt in the first place. Not an easy job although it appears so from the stands.

Boss Roy Keane says he knows what his Town side have to do in order to turn their form around — score more goals and concede fewer. WHAT A GENIUS!

Yep, he knows, try telling JM's cast off's that! Hence the much needed changes.
As for Genius? I think being Irish he probably likes a pint of the black stuff. Better than being called a prawn.

Of course his confidence will drop Uefa81, who's wouldn't be it's our job as supporters to get behind the team and bring back confidence.

Anyone moaning are either unfairly against RK or still in Magilton mode, either way you need to change!