Funnily enough, it's decisions like playing two young but promising centre halves ahead of a 29-year-old journeyman who had an absolute shocker in his last game (at Norwich) that suggest to me there's still something worthwhile in Keane's management. The omission of the team's best two attacking players from the previous game, less so.

There are plenty of things about Keane's tenure that I'm not happy with - an over-reliance on average loan players, a not particularly riveting playing style, all the defeats, that kind of thing - but his willingness to use young players is a good thing.

I hadn't heard the Glenn Roeder rumour. Chilling.

Oddly enough, no-one else appeared to have heard the Glenn Roeder rumour before this piece. In fact, no-one's been circulating the Glenn Roeder rumour after this piece either.

As Hot Orange says, playing two young centre-halves isn't an issue amongst the vast majority of the Town faithful, and one of the biggest positives of Keane's tenure is the number of opportunities he's given to our Academy graduates (especially in comparison to his predecessor). Delaney is lost at centre-half without the organisational skills of the currently injured Gareth McAuley next to him, and if McAuley isn't in the team, then you're better off leaving Delaney out of the squad.

As for "Marcus Evans seems loathe to dispense with the services of a man he appointed 18 months ago" - considering that Evans doesn't speak to the press, or indeed anyone (or even let anyone know what he looks like), it's odd that anyone can claim to know what he's thinking.

Still, one good thing about Keane leaving will be people who know sod-all about our club will stop writing crap like this. If you listen to most of the media, Keane's been under pressure for his entire tenure at the club, but even now, with six league games on the trot lost (all ignoring the Carling Cup quarter final win in amongst them), there hasn't been any sort of protest against Keane whatsoever. Is there dissention amongst a vocal minority? Yes - but then Joe Royle had the same when we were top of the Championship in the spring of 2005, despite only spending money on one player in two and a half years.