QuoteGood luck to McCaffrey - he did well relatively speaking. However with no Robbie Keane, Damien Duff or Shay Given on the horizon (maybe there are and we don't know about it) the time may indeed be right for a shake up.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2010/...freys_fai.html
Koevermans seems intent on shaking things up in the underage ranks. Candidates?
Good luck to McCaffrey - he did well relatively speaking. However with no Robbie Keane, Damien Duff or Shay Given on the horizon (maybe there are and we don't know about it) the time may indeed be right for a shake up.
Don Givens deserves a shot I reckon.
Making a mess of things more likelyKoevermans seems intent on shaking things up in the underage ranks
What sort of statement is that - It has been well known that Mc Caffrey was being dumped 12 months ago just look at the preparation that the Under 16 squad had under Guess Who John Morling - they never had as many games.After almost seven years in charge and with his contract expiring at the end of this year, the time is now right for a change of hands.
It is obvious that Morling was being set up as Manager as long ago as 12 months
Koevermans is untouchable at present.
Looks like Morling will take over the u17s as well as run the u16s.
And the post for the u18s/19s manager will be advertised, but not a job for life
A pity. I had though McCafferey had done a good job within the circumstances. I cannot see that this was the best move for the underage setup.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Originally Posted by Dodge
In the debate over Don Givens' suitability for the U21 job, I remember his record being compared to McCaffrey's. At that time I was highly critical of McCaffrey's record (the U19s were poor in qualifying for the European Championships, losing heavily to Switzerland) and felt that he hadn't done enough in his time in charge of the 17s and 19s to be considered as superior to Givens as some were suggesting. I seem to recall that one poster ranked McCaffrey as good as Brian Kerr. Something I thought to be odd.
It'll certainly be interesting to see who replaces him and indeed where he goes afterwards.
Appointing Noel King was shaking up things?
No motivation given in that press-release other than "it's time to try something new". That's all fair and good but the announcement seems planned to coincide with the forthcoming senior internationals - ie so that it would only get a brief mention in the press? It'll be interesting to see who comes in as his replacement but I'm not convinced that McCaffrey needed to be replaced.
The removal of Givens was certainly shaking up things.
There also appears to be a shake up of the structure and responsibilities of the underage managers.
No it more an insight into how the FAI works
A manager who ****ed players off - ie Treacy, Stokes, Mc Cann, Foran and numerous others they have been well documented - and who hardly won a game of note is rewarded with a 175k job scouting in England.
The manager who has been dealing with youth players over a 7 year period and knows every youth players in particular players who are born outside the State is thrown on the scrapheap.
Surely it would have been more intelligent - I find it hard to use that word when I am talking about the FAI- to keep Sean Mc Caffrey in a role say with the Emerging Talent Programme or in identifying talent.
Once again the FAI shoot themselves in the foot
I don't know why McCaffrey was not offered another job within the FAI, but 7 years in this job was a reasonable amount of time to be in charge of the underage teams.
I have no reason to believe that Koevermans is incompetent, quite the contrary actually.
Is Givens actually making 175K? If so, that's surely criminal....especially when you consider that Bilic was on a third of that to manage Croatia!
He didn't even get clsoe to that while manager of the u21s, never mind as a scout
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What has he done in the 18 months to give you that impression?I have no reason to believe that Koevermans is incompetent, quite the contrary actually.
Well, he's Dutch, for one.
What has he done? he has not given me a reason to believe that he is incompetent.
Positive impressions are from a couple of interviews I read about him.
Effect of his direction of restructuring in the FAI remains to be seen over the course of time.
How have the U-15/U-16's got on under Morling ? also the under 18/19 job might be one for an ambitious young manager or any good young coaches around the LOI who might be in the reckoning for it ?
Yeah, out of a cannon.
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Great to see the criteria now for competence is to have a good journalistic friendPositive impressions are from a couple of interviews I read about him
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