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Kiely to join Palace

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  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,050
    Definitely the best keeper i have seen with us since I can remember (early 70s). Saw him make his Ireland debut as well, with @guinnessaddick, when he came on at half-time for Given and kept a clean sheet against Turkey. Beaming with pride when a few old fellas in front were trying to work out who he was and I was able to say "Charlton's keeper" :smiley:
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Please God, don't let this be true.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,620
    edited January 2018
    TelMc32 said:

    Definitely the best keeper i have seen with us since I can remember (early 70s). Saw him make his Ireland debut as well, with @guinnessaddick, when he came on at half-time for Given and kept a clean sheet against Turkey. Beaming with pride when a few old fellas in front were trying to work out who he was and I was able to say "Charlton's keeper" :smiley:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq4ZuSsT0Ps


    @TelMc32 think you had too many, the only thing Deano did was pick the ball out of the net. Kept a clean sheet in the 2nd leg.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,050

    TelMc32 said:

    Definitely the best keeper i have seen with us since I can remember (early 70s). Saw him make his Ireland debut as well, with @guinnessaddick, when he came on at half-time for Given and kept a clean sheet against Turkey. Beaming with pride when a few old fellas in front were trying to work out who he was and I was able to say "Charlton's keeper" :smiley:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq4ZuSsT0Ps


    @TelMc32 think you had too many, the only thing Deano did was pick the ball out of the net. Kept a clean sheet in the 2nd leg.
    Too much to drink you say? At an Ireland game you say??


    Yeah, could be right there @guinnessaddick!!! :wink:
  • I remember a 1-0 at home v Spurs when it would have been about 5-1 to Spurs but for Deano being in unbelievable form that day.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Interesting read. Love the way he ends the interview with a line out of the Lee Bowyer Interviewing Handbook. 
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Love Deano.
    He doesn't say a lot about how Harry treated him at Pompey - signed him as first choice keeper, then bought another first choice keeper shortly afterwards.
  • "Charlton pipped Manchester City for top spot by two points"

    Don't think that'll be happening again any time soon.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,000
    good article
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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    sounds like a bitter ex employee
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Love his emotion and desire. Top man. respect.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,228
    Agree, doesn't sound bitter, like his honesty.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169
    edited March 2019
    The way Deano left always felt wrong. He's left out that he had been going through a period of pretty poor form when Curbs dropped him and that Myhre did very well when called upon, but it wasn't befitting of a man who had done so much to establish us as a Premier League team.

    It's interesting what he said about us trying to move onto the next level being what did for us. I'm not sure I buy it to be honest. We had to try and improve, and we couldn't continue to exist on the underdog status that got us to where we were because that status is a narrative that others create around you more than something you can control. I think the real cock-up was us thinking that Francis Jeffers could take us up a level. Rommedahl should have, he was just an absolute tulip, and Murphy did help us progress for as long as his head fitted through the door. The real killer for us was Curbs knew that the team needed a full shake-up that he didn't think he could do at the same club anymore, and we brought in the wrong manager who spent too much on the wrong signings, then compounded the manager error again and then once more for good measure. To think that we brought in Traore, Faye, what was left of Hasselbaink (a lot, and yet so little), Reid and Diawara as our whole summer window for just shy of £11m plus wages (when that was a lot, and twice what we paid the previous summer) and in that lot only brought in one player who was any good is slightly soul-destroying. 
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,143
    Great keeper and a legend for us. Cant look at him in palace garb though.
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,782
    Great article, and just another one that highlights how big Peter Varney was to charlton! Don’t think I’ve ever read a bad comment about him and his efforts for charlton- would amazing if he managed to come back!
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,050
    Not the first time that Curbs limitations in man-management have been highlighted.  He was excellent with his team, but God forbid you fell out of favour and the first 11/team.  You were pretty much left adrift and completely ignored.  

    No surprise with the high praise for PV...can’t imagine many would be able to say the same about Meire.

    I hadn’t realised Deano’s clean sheet record was so good. 1 in 3 is a bloody amazing stat & shows what a great keeper he was.  
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    I’d forgotten about Diawara...good grief
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    Nobody ever comments on how bloody excellent Kiely was; just on his errant kicking
    Yeah should comment on his errant hair too!!
    Okay to me that looks like Thomas Driesen....Sorry Deano.