David O'Leary

**passinginterest** · 17/01/2008, 11:38 AM

That's genius. If I can figure out how to do it I'll nominate for POTM.

**Drumcondra 69er** · 17/01/2008, 11:50 AM

Post of the Month??? That's Post of the Year!! Brilliant, round of applause for that man!

**Ireland4ever** · 17/01/2008, 11:56 AM

Excellent Post Jerry! Im still laughing.

**Wolfie** · 17/01/2008, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

It all makes sense now - the whole thing is being run like the US Presedential elections.

Venables is the front-runner because he won a couple of early primaries but I don't think he'll have enough support to win in the General Election.

Johnny Giles is John McCain (experienced, fought heroically for our nation in his youth, pretty freakin' old)

Hoddle is Huckabee due to his quirky religious views.

Deschamps represents the youthful, Barack Obama-type, candidate for change. Would be wildly popular but lacks the experience of other candidates. Also, are we sure we can really trust him...?

Finally, I would say that Mick is Hillary - they've both been there before, know their way around the place. Main problem is that they would split the country with many people still bearing a grudge. Against that, they may benefit from the sympathy vote, with lots of people believing they were cruelly ****ed over by the most important man in their life...

..........................and the FAI represent the approx 150 million idiots that voted for the likes of Bush as their leader last time.

**galwayhoop** · 17/01/2008, 12:01 PM

Quality Jerry!! POTM

**L37Ultra** · 17/01/2008, 12:03 PM

Delighted

**Metrostars** · 17/01/2008, 12:06 PM

Who is the Dick Cheney character? Delaney?

**passinginterest** · 17/01/2008, 12:11 PM

And Stan makes a perfect George W,

"Have no doubt, San Marino have weapons of mass destruction, they'll be a force in this group"

"I'm the gaffer and I'll lead the war on terror to avenge the atrocities inflicted on our nation by Cyprus"

**the doc** · 17/01/2008, 12:15 PM

This does not surprise me at all, I spoke to a couple of the Irish players the other week and they said that no one any good wants the job! and that most think the selection panel are a joke!

**amaccann** · 17/01/2008, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by carloz

He has always stated his love to manage Ireland some day. At a guess id say he has rejected the request on similar grounds to Souness i.e. he is not a complete gob****e and he knows this is all window dressing to make El Tel manager

I'm sure he would love to manage Ireland, but like Souness, didn't want to be interviewed for the job cos he's far too important for that kind of common behaviour. Never underestimate the power of the ego

**Denis The Red** · 17/01/2008, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by amaccann

I'm sure he would love to manage Ireland, but like Souness, didn't want to be interviewed for the job cos he's far too important for that kind of common behaviour. Never underestimate the power of the ego

Or maybe he and Souness both know that Terry Vegetables is going to get the job anyway. God preserve us.

**amaccann** · 17/01/2008, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Denis The Red

Or maybe he and Souness both know that Terry Vegetables is going to get the job anyway. God preserve us.

Remains to be seen at this stage.

**Paddy Garcia** · 17/01/2008, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

That's genius. If I can figure out how to do it I'll nominate for POTM.

Agreed, very very good.

**Morbo** · 17/01/2008, 1:11 PM

I agree with the agreers, quality post

**lionelhutz** · 17/01/2008, 2:15 PM

Originally Posted by carloz

He has always stated his love to manage Ireland some day. At a guess id say he has rejected the request on similar grounds to Souness i.e. he is not a complete gob****e and he knows this is all window dressing to make El Tel manager

Both Souness and O'Leary would be awful choices. Venables is streets ahead of these two imho

**tetsujin1979** · 17/01/2008, 2:23 PM

According to some reports, it looks like the dream team approached O'Leary to see if he was interested. I had thought it was supposed to be the other way around, i.e. if a manager was interested in the job, he had to approach the 3 wise men?

**irishfan86** · 17/01/2008, 2:28 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

According to some reports, it looks like the dream team approached O'Leary to see if he was interested. I had thought it was supposed to be the other way around, i.e. if a manager was interested in the job, he had to approach the 3 wise men?

I think they are approaching people- Hodgson stated a month or two ago that he had never approached a job, they had always come to him, and he didn't intend to change that, and yet he was talked to about the Ireland job.

So that tells me they are approaching candidates.

**Stuttgart88** · 17/01/2008, 2:28 PM

I'd have been furious if the Dons didn't actually approach people. I thought it was to work both ways.

**Drumcondra 69er** · 17/01/2008, 3:10 PM

Originally Posted by lionelhutz

Both Souness and O'Leary would be awful choices. Venables is streets ahead of these two imho

What are you basinhg that on? Venables took the same squad O'Leary had never been out of the top 5 with and would have had them relegated had he not been sacked that March. Seems clear cut to me.