Next Ireland manager?

[tetsujin1979]

FAI have got to be joking about appointing McCarthy! #AmatuerHour

you've amassed an impressive amount of misspellings in the last few days #smart

[tetsujin1979]

manager poll

[tetsujin1979]

Updated list, with those employed, critically ill, or finally laughed out of football removed, and new suggestions added.

Also, who is this Walsall? I know you're far to polite to be calling me by my deadname

Allardyce, Sam
Arena, Bruce
Blanc, Laurent
Bosz, Peter
Bradley, Bob
Bruce, Steve
Carsley, Lee
Carvahal, Carlos
Cocu, Phillipe
Coleman, Chris
Cook, Paul
Goran-Eriksson, Sven
Hasenhüttl, Ralph
Holloway, Ian
Jardim, Leonardo
Jokanovic, Slavisla
Jol, Martin
Keane, Robbie
Kenny, Stephen
Klinsmann, Jurgen
Lennon, Neil
Lopetegui, Julen
McCarthy, Mick
McDermott, Brian
Mihajlović, Siniša
Monk, Gary
O'Leary, David
O'Neill, Michael
Pékerman, José
Queiroz, Carlos
Schaaf, Thomas
Schuster, Bernd
Sheridan, John
Sousa, Paulo
Stöger, Peter
Van Gaal, Louis
Van Marwijk, Bert
Wenger, Arsene

A poll is limited to 20, knock 18 out of that list and I'll add a poll to the thread

[tetsujin1979]

Kenny breaks silence on Ireland job links: https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/...job-links.html

[jbyrne]

Kenny breaks silence on Ireland job links: https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/...job-links.html

its fair to say he wants it so...

[Cathalsmart]

you've amassed an impressive amount of misspellings in the last few days #smart

#Youraknob

[DeLorean]

Allardyce, Sam
Arena, Bruce
Blanc, Laurent
Bosz, Peter
Bradley, Bob
Bruce, Steve
Carsley, Lee
Carvahal, Carlos
Cocu, Phillipe
Coleman, Chris
Cook, Paul
Goran-Eriksson, Sven
Hasenhüttl, Ralph
Holloway, Ian
Jardim, Leonardo
Jokanovic, Slavisla
Jol, Martin
Keane, Robbie
Kenny, Stephen
Klinsmann, Jurgen
Lennon, Neil
Lopetegui, Julen
McCarthy, Mick
McDermott, Brian
Mihajlović, Siniša
Monk, Gary
O'Leary, David
O'Neill, Michael
Pékerman, José
Queiroz, Carlos
Schaaf, Thomas
Schuster, Bernd
Sheridan, John
Sousa, Paulo
Stöger, Peter
Van Gaal, Louis
Van Marwijk, Bert
Wenger, Arsene

I've bolded 12 that are currently in the top 20 favourites in one of the bookmakers. They also include:

Clement, Paul
Hughton, Chris
Keane, Roy
Redknapp, Harry
Kerr, Brian
Moyes, David
Bilic, Slaven
Grayson, Simon

Maybe just go with those unless somebody realistic has been omitted. Maybe McDermott instead of Roy Keane?

(They had Noel King at No. 21 - Phew!).

[backstothewall]

A poll is limited to 20, knock 18 out of that list and I'll add a poll to the thread

There's 18. I'm sure there will be one or two that I've culled that somebody else wants back on

Allardyce, Sam
Bosz, Peter
Bradley, Bob
Carsley, Lee
Coleman, Chris
Cook, Paul
Hasenhüttl, Ralph
Jardim, Leonardo
Jokanovic, Slavisla
Kenny, Stephen
Lennon, Neil
McCarthy, Mick
O'Neill, Michael
Queiroz, Carlos
Schaaf, Thomas
Sousa, Paulo
Van Gaal, Louis
Van Marwijk, Bert
Wenger, Arsene

Edit: 19 now. Kingdom had expressed support for Bradley, so I reinstated him.

[shakermaker1982]

Amazing what being nice over an extended period of time with the football journalists gets you. They love a man who will give em a story and happy to be pals with em for off the record chats. Old boys network strikes once again.

Let’s keep doing what we always have done. Give it to the old timer with experience who is also a bit of a man motivator.

[nigel-harps1954]

#Youraknob

Brain is in overdrive here. Resisting urge...

On a serious note, Mick is not an upgrade on MO'N. Going around in circles, and an element of getting back with your ex about it.

[backstothewall]

you say this about McCarthy "might rouse the lads initially but it will tail off" and then go on to suggest Rednapp who has done nothing of note in many years???

This would also be the very same Harry Redknapp who stripped Robbie Keane of the captaincy and gave him the heave-ho from Spurs after he took the lads to Dublin for a secret Christmas party? Just a hunch, but i can't see that one working out somehow.

Perhaps a combination of Michael O'Neill and Robbie Keane would be better. I'm not sure how they would work together but it would save printing new initials on their tracksuits.

[backstothewall]

A poll is limited to 20, knock 18 out of that list and I'll add a poll to the thread

Would it be nuts to suggest 2 polls. There are obviously 2 frontrunners for the job, but speaking for myself the 2 things i would find most interesting is would be in who has more support between Kenny v McCarthy, and then who people would go for outside of those 2.

Or is there a means of giving people more than 1 vote <insert nordie joke here>?

[seanfhear]

This would also be the very same Harry Redknapp who stripped Robbie Keane of the captaincy and gave him the heave-ho from Spurs after he took the lads to Dublin for a secret Christmas party? Just a hunch, but i can't see that one working out somehow.

Perhaps a combination of Michael O'Neill and Robbie Keane would be better. I'm not sure how they would work together but it would save printing new initials on their tracksuits.

Thats about the only qualification Robbie has as a coach . Is their any evidence that Robbie Keane has any talent as a coach . He has the whinging at Referees ( meow ) in hand alright .

[DeLorean]

Is their any evidence that Robbie Keane has any talent as a coach.

No, there's not. I really hope he's not on the ticket, even for his own sake.

[seanfhear]

This would also be the very same Harry Redknapp who stripped Robbie Keane of the captaincy and gave him the heave-ho from Spurs after he took the lads to Dublin for a secret Christmas party? Just a hunch, but i can't see that one working out somehow.

Perhaps a combination of Michael O'Neill and Robbie Keane would be better. I'm not sure how they would work together but it would save printing new initials on their tracksuits.

Harry is too old now in any case . His success was based a lot on signing players coming to the end of their contracts and giving them huge wages . There was no big transfer fee so if it didn’t work out it didn’t look too bad but it was costing the clubs fortunes in big wages / signing on fees . These were very good players who were making fortunes out of this . Ok , he often did get them to play well for him .

The idea that Redknap would get average players to do well for him is pretty fanciful thinking .

[TrapAPony]

There are obviously 2 frontrunners for the job, but speaking for myself the 2 things i would find most interesting is would be in who has more support between Kenny v McCarthy, and then who people would go for outside of those 2.

I would go for McCarthy and I'd agree exactly with what Kevin Kilbane said yesterday on Off the Ball. McCarthy or Allardyce would get instant respect from everyone if they walk in whereas most of the English born lads in the squad would be saying, 'Who is Stephen Kenny?' and he'd have to prove himself...He also said that he has the utmost respect for Brian Kerr but said that Kerr didn't get that much respect from the squad in general when he was in charge.

[Dunners]

you say this about McCarthy "might rouse the lads initially but it will tail off" and then go on to suggest Rednapp who has done nothing of note in many years???



This would also be the very same Harry Redknapp who stripped Robbie Keane of the captaincy and gave him the heave-ho from Spurs after he took the lads to Dublin for a secret Christmas party? Just a hunch, but i can't see that one working out somehow.

Perhaps a combination of Michael O'Neill and Robbie Keane would be better. I'm not sure how they would work together but it would save printing new initials on their tracksuits.

Was suggesting partnerships to consider , wouldn't fancy Redknapp in the role myself - should have made that clear

[DeLorean]

I would go for McCarthy and I'd agree exactly with what Kevin Kilbane said yesterday on Off the Ball. McCarthy or Allardyce would get instant respect from everyone if they walk in whereas most of the English born lads in the squad would be saying, 'Who is Stephen Kenny?'...He even more or less said that he has the utmost respect for Brian Kerr but Kerr didn't get that much respect from the squad in general when he was in charge.

Kilbane was very interesting in light of some of the comments on here, with some thinking the possibility of the players not respecting Kenny straight away was ludicrous. Nathan Murphy seemed perplexed by the notion also but I thought Kilbane made a lot of sense.

[jbyrne]

Kilbane was very interesting in light of some of the comments on here, with some thinking the possibility of the players not respecting Kenny straight away was ludicrous. Nathan Murphy seemed perplexed by the notion also but I thought Kilbane made a lot of sense.

and kilbane is in a much much better place to comment as an ex Ireland player. he completely out argued Murphys point last night on OTB

[brine3]

Yes, I believe people said the same as Kilbane is saying now when Arsenal appointed some unknown Frenchman with very limited playing experience back in 1996.

Killer is good friends with Mick. That is no secret.