Keogh out for the season

[Geoff Parkstone]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019...drink-driving/

We normally manage to get a season ending injury in during the first few weeks of the season, but not quite like this.

Not sure what to do - in the old days the players driving would have been transfer listed, but there's not much point in that as they couldn't be flogged until January. I'm tempted to say release them both and formally relieve Keogh of club captaincy for his less serious involvement.

[Rich2462]

An absolute outrage..... no idea if player insurance would cover something like this either? Who now has to pick up the cost in wages?

I’d love to say release both players but ultimately this costs the club money....

Not really sure what to say or think really.... guess we will have to wait for the court case to find out what really happened!

That being said Keogh is our club captain and should have said something and taken matters into his own hands when seeing these two idiots wanting to drink drive.....

Really really pissed off about this

[ramAnag]

An absolute outrage..... no idea if player insurance would cover something like this either? Who now has to pick up the cost in wages?

I’d love to say release both players but ultimately this costs the club money....

Not really sure what to say or think really.... guess we will have to wait for the court case to find out what really happened!

That being said Keogh is our club captain and should have said something and taken matters into his own hands when seeing these two idiots wanting to drink drive.....

Really really pissed off about this

Me too...really, really disappointed, but tbf to Keogh...

...he is, I believe, that rarest of things these days...a male who doesn’t drive.

Now at the moment we don’t know whether these two were ‘pissed’ or marginally over the limit.
Neither do we know at what point and at which player’s instigation a race was begun...or indeed if there was a race.

Won’t begin to try and defend the drivers but how many of us have been driven home by someone who may have been technically over the limit but a long way from being ‘drunk’?

If Keogh got into a car being driven by someone clearly unfit to drive then he’s an idiot and an unfit captain of DCFC.

If on the other hand he got into a car being driven by someone who appeared quite sober and circumstances changed during the journey then maybe we are being a bit harsh on a player who has always given his all for Derby County and has now suffered career threatening injuries through, arguably, no fault of his own.

Before anyone accuses me of going soft on drink driving...I’m not, I’ve got no time for them at all, but it is possible to feel sorry for Keogh. We just don’t know enough yet.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Me too...really, really disappointed, but tbf to Keogh...

...he is, I believe, that rarest of things these days...a male who doesn’t drive.

Now at the moment we don’t know whether these two were ‘pissed’ or marginally over the limit.
Neither do we know at what point and at which player’s instigation a race was begun...or indeed if there was a race.

Won’t begin to try and defend the drivers but how many of us have been driven home by someone who may have been technically over the limit but a long way from being ‘drunk’?

If Keogh got into a car being driven by someone clearly unfit to drive then he’s an idiot and an unfit captain of DCFC.

If on the other hand he got into a car being driven by someone who appeared quite sober and circumstances changed during the journey then maybe we are being a bit harsh on a player who has always given his all for Derby County and has now suffered career threatening injuries through, arguably, no fault of his own.

Before anyone accuses me of going soft on drink driving...I’m not, I’ve got no time for them at all, but it is possible to feel sorry for Keogh. We just don’t know enough yet.

Speaking as one of those rarities, I think I can still tell if someone has had too much despite not driving - basically 2 pints or equivalent, with a meal and its getting risky. He will have known if they had been on the Orange Juice or Brew Dog Nanny State if he was one of only a handful that stayed on after the others left; in reality he should have tried to make them to use the chauffered ramcars provided. He is club captain, FFS, and so should have exercised his authority

[DCFCArmy]

Pi ssed as farts, crash a car doing x mph, could have killed someone

But can't be sacked without massive payoffs ffs,, sack them and threaten the little cu nts ffs, do em facking in if they kick up a stink

[ramAnag]

Speaking as one of those rarities, I think I can still tell if someone has had too much despite not driving - basically 2 pints or equivalent, with a meal and its getting risky. He will have known if they had been on the Orange Juice or Brew Dog Nanny State if he was one of only a handful that stayed on after the others left; in reality he should have tried to make them to use the chauffered ramcars provided. He is club captain, FFS, and so should have exercised his authority

My point was that he is reliant on others for a lift, GP. Not that he wouldn’t have known if someone was ‘pissed’ or not.
I believe that last season Mason Mount ‘chauffeured’ him around a lot.

Of course you’re right...he should, as captain, have tried to make them use the transport provided.
The fact that he didn’t doesn’t - yet - make him guilty of anything and the fact that you only ‘think’ you could tell if someone had had too much which you then vaguely describe as being basically more than ‘two pints or equivalent with a meal’ kind of illustrates my point.

If Lawrence and Bennett were well over the limit and racing then they may well go to prison.

If they were technically and marginally over the limit and something else happened then they’ll probably just lose their licences.

Either way they’ve acted badly and - as sportsmen and representatives of DCFC - very unprofessionally, but let’s just reserve judgement on Keogh and any of the others who are equally involved by getting in either of the cars. So far, as far as we know, Keogh is just the unlucky one.

[Manofpride]

[Rev72]

[Andy_Faber]

surprisingly lol, you clearly aren't a real Leeds fan with a sense of humour like that

[DCFCArmy]

Actually quite funny

I had no issues with the spying stuff either, thought it was quite funny