Player Watch Mark Keane (Retired 2022, Crows SSP 2023)

[pablo disco bar]

It was a fluke. If he was any good he would still be on a list somewhere.

Face it, your call on him was flat out wrong. He was a spud. Keane has more hope of making it than Schade did.

Keane likes schache or schafer as you call him


Any spud will do he says

Mashed potato
Scallop potato
Fried potato
Boiled potato
Tinned potato
Potato cakes.
Potato fritters
Raw potato
Keane just says give me a potato

(Insert old Italian voice for effect)

 

[Ugene41]

Consistently improving every game. Surprising amount of composure with ball in hand and has the ability to take intercept marks. Can definitely see him locking down one of our KPD positions long term. Already showing a lot more than what Madgen, Schade, Jack Frost showed in terms of KPD we've tried to bring in the past.

Against the Suns, leaving a 3rd gamer one out on the last line of defense is more an indictment on our coaches than Keane's ability. As a key defender, experience is arguably more important than ability. Should've been Roughead/Maynard on that last line.

 

[jackcass]

Consistently improving every game. Surprising amount of composure with ball in hand and has the ability to take intercept marks. Can definitely see him locking down one of our KPD positions long term. Already showing a lot more than what Madgen, Schade, Jack Frost showed in terms of KPD we've tried to bring in the past.

Against the Suns, leaving a 3rd gamer one out on the last line of defense is more an indictment on our coaches than Keane's ability. As a key defender, experience is arguably more important than ability. Should've been Roughead/Maynard on that last line.

Hardly. GC would have just rotated whoever Keane was opposed to back that deepest forward role. The issue was not holding the footy in our F50 when we were structured up to do that. That's the entire on-field teams responsibility.

 

[rand corp]

Moves well, reads the ball coming in well, some good intercept marks, good running out of tight spots, and good disposal. He just needs more experience with body contact, working an opponent out of a contest, and other one-on-one stuff.

A big improvement on last week but, also against a much softer opposition, definitely something to work with there.

 

[Markfs]

Moves well, reads the ball coming in well, some good intercept marks, good running out of tight spots, and good disposal. He just needs more experience with body contact, working an opponent out of a contest, and other one-on-one stuff.

A big improvement on last week but, also against a much softer opposition, definitely something to work with there.

i kind of wonder what he has actually learnt since he got off the ship from ireland... has his time been used up teaching him how to cook for himself and clean up his mess after a night of drinking? On a positive side, he does seem to be able to kick. I cant say that I appreciate his attitude - he seems to be competing with trey ruscoe with who can blame the rest of the world for their mistakes.

 

[Horaceg]

Keane likes schache or schafer as you call him


Any spud will do he says

Mashed potato
Scallop potato
Fried potato
Boiled potato
Tinned potato
Potato cakes.
Potato fritters
Raw potato
Keane just says give me a potato

(Insert old Italian voice for effect)

Potato salad, add some Keen mustard

 

[pablo disco bar]

Potato salad, add some Keen mustard

Wholegrain mustard makes mash!!

 

[Markfs]

He'll make it. Moves really well for his size, reads the ball well in the air (the intercept marking a real feature) and his kicking is better than most playing the position.

It'll take him between 50-100 games to be able to have the body, confidence, experience to play on the more dangerous/bigger key forwards. Some of those games will be stinkers, some will be good... but I like what I see so far.

Read this and I think he'll be a 50-50 chance of being there in 100 games even if he does learn how to play AFL. If he wants a tip to improve his footy in the short-term, maybe sleeping through the night rather than waking up to watch his home team, might help his improvement.

'I had to lock that space where Tommy Walsh wanted to go': Mark Keane on THAT goal against Kerry

A last second goal to knock Kerry out of the Munster Championship, an AFL debut, and a new two-year contract with Collingwood - its fair to say that 2020 is a year that Mark Keane will never forget. But there have been some bumps along the road as well

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[whiskeytown]

Tracking fine.

If 2 play 100 or 3 of Keane, Kelly, Wilson and Tohill play 50 games... we will have done very well out of that quartet.

On form Wilson should be the one to play next

 

[Lockyer24]

He will be a bit like Cox, will be frustrating a lot, but I think the upside is bigger and he could have a longer career.

 

[Markfs]

evidently, the gaelic footy is still under restrictions. it would probably be a good idea for the players to get out of the country and do some training with other sports in countries like australia where they can play professionally... oh sorry, thats already been thought of...

 

[Kappa]

He will be a bit like Cox, will be frustrating a lot, but I think the upside is bigger and he could have a longer career.

He plays a much much easier position than Cox and he's coming over younger.

 

[Markfs]

A thought came to mind this morning....a rare event. I wondered who was ireland's greatest sportsperson. I did a search. A couple of golfers who have had less success than Greg Norman. A few rugby union players. A few soccer players. A few who played the irish games. Connor McGregor, of course. Katie Taylor...yeh I'm scraping. And finally, that famous womaniser and drunk George Best.

So who knows, we might have the greatest irish athlete of all time on our hands.

 

[jimmy35]

A thought came to mind this morning....a rare event. I wondered who was ireland's greatest sportsperson. I did a search. A couple of golfers who have had less success than Greg Norman. A few rugby union players. A few soccer players. A few who played the irish games. Connor McGregor, of course. Katie Taylor...yeh I'm scraping. And finally, that famous womaniser and drunk George Best.

So who knows, we might have the greatest irish athlete of all time on our hands.

Galileo. Stud on and of the track.

 

[ClaytonM]

Think he is showing some signs of belonging, but like all newbies will make mistakes. Unfortunately when you play in the back half those mistakes are amplified.

 

[Shade]

Think he is showing some signs of belonging, but like all newbies will make mistakes. Unfortunately when you play in the back half those mistakes are amplified.

Agree held his own think we have something to mould with him.

 

[legendstatus]

The prob with Keane is that when he drops the mark or gets positioned out, he just stands there and looks around like a stunned mullet- needs to work on awareness & second effort


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[sr36]

Needs to hold more marks, but looked like he belonged.

 

[jackcass]

Needs to hold more marks, but looked like he belonged.

Only WHE held more for us.

 

[domus]

Only WHE held more for us.

He dropped three that he should have swallowed but he did move well today and looked more comfortable.

 

[THATSGOLD]

He’s a dumb footballer. Slow and makes poor decisions. When he got caught with the ball even Buckley was shaking his head

 

[sr36]

Only WHE held more for us.

It was the number where he'd done all the hard work, done his man but then spilt it. I thought it was a really impressive game tbh, would have been a ripping game if he held his marks.

 

[stormskye]

Can actually see development in this bloke. He is still raw, def needs more awareness but that comes with exposure. He has tools. Unlike some on the list.

 

[jackcass]

Can actually see development in this bloke. He is still raw, def needs more awareness but that comes with exposure. He has tools. Unlike some on the list.

Improves week on week. Can’t ask for more than that.

 

[ClaytonM]

He’s a dumb footballer. Slow and makes poor decisions. When he got caught with the ball even Buckley was shaking his head

Yet still has more chance of making it than schade