Trap's 70th Birthday

[Stuttgart88]

Happy birthday, now get us those 6 points!

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1037774.html#trapattoni+still+hungry

[soccerc]

http://photos3.pix.ie/33/8E/338E9C7D4FDD4AEF908EE785DF9B525C-500.jpg (http://pix.ie/soccerc/869434)


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[John83]

Trap's birthday is St Patrick's Day? Neat.

[The Fly]

Ahhhhhhh!

[stiffler]

Happy birthday el trappo!

[Denis The Red]

Trap's birthday is St Patrick's Day? Neat.

Of course, why else would we have an Italian as manager:D

[John83]

Of course, why else would we have an Italian as manager:D
I know this one. I know this one... but there's some sort of mental block on the entire footballing period August 2002 - February 2008. It's like I saw something so awful it injured my brain.

[Crosby87]

70? Wow thats old.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Has he been using the free travel to get about??

[the doc]

Happy Birthday Trapp, now pick St Ledger you old fool!

[Pauro 76]

Happy Birthday Il Trappa!

[Metrostars]

70? Wow thats old.

Aragonés is 70. Didn't stop him from winning the Euros last year.

[the doc]

Aragonés is 70. Didn't stop him from winning the Euros last year.

But he picked players in form with ability and playing regular 1st team football!

[amaccann]

This is not the thread.

Happy Birthday Trap!

[irishfan86]

In Trap we trust, have a good one gaffer.

[elroy]

Maybe im a bit slow but never noticed this site before, seems decent...

http://soccerrepublic.eircom.net/

[Denis The Red]

Maybe im a bit slow but never noticed this site before, seems decent...

http://soccerrepublic.eircom.net/

I don't want to sound paranoid, but I registered with the site and my emails from them were thrown in the spam bin and came with a warning.
I linked via here, what's up with that?:confused:

[irishfan86]

I don't want to sound paranoid, but I registered with the site and my emails from them were thrown in the spam bin and came with a warning.
I linked via here, what's up with that?:confused:

Pretty much any mass-mailing stuff will initially end up classified as junk, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Just mark it as safe and/or add it to your safe/contact list if you want it to go to your inbox.

[NeilMcD]

"I am happy for the birthday present but I don’t want to speak about this," Trapattoni quipped. "In my mind I am 20 years old – especially when I look at the beautiful girls."

[kingdomkerry]

"I am happy for the birthday present but I don’t want to speak about this," Trapattoni quipped. "In my mind I am 20 years old – especially when I look at the beautiful girls."

I heard that on the news. Classic quote!

Lá breithe shóna duit.

Now, 6 points please!

[NeilMcD]

I wonder does Trap still hope to pull a foreign bird on the away trips and hope to get her waking up the next morning in an Ireland jersey.

[kingdomkerry]

Id say he's happy with Manuela for now :D

[elroy]

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1037774.html#trapattoni+still+hungry

Interview with Trap on fifa site. See comment from Bulgarian guy, he hopes Italy and Montenegro "blast" us!!

[ifk101]

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1037774.html#trapattoni+still+hungry

Interview with Trap on fifa site. See comment from Bulgarian guy, he hopes Italy and Montenegro "blast" us!!

Aye, and the choking comment is very apt in the week that it is. A Welshman disguised as a Bulgarian, perhaps.

[the doc]

I wonder does Trap still hope to pull a foreign bird on the away trips and hope to get her waking up the next morning in an Ireland jersey.

No, Trapp doesn't go for the classy ball playing types in an Ireland shirt, much prefers big hoofers in the green shirt instead! :D

[ifk101]

No, Trapp doesn't go for the classy ball playing types in an Ireland shirt, much prefers big hoofers in the green shirt instead! :D

Hi Sean! Back again are we?

[NeilMcD]

No, Trapp doesn't go for the classy ball playing types in an Ireland shirt, much prefers big hoofers in the green shirt instead! :D

You should really give it a rest.

[Pauro 76]

"I am happy for the birthday present but I don’t want to speak about this," Trapattoni quipped. "In my mind I am 20 years old – especially when I look at the beautiful girls."

You've got to love the Trap, the guy is an absolute legend.

[the doc]

You should really give it a rest.

Why? This is a fans forum, where we give our opinions!

So you are putting your faith in a 70 year old man, with his best years behind him, who listens too much to our wonderful U21 manager!

When my Grandaddie was 70 we wouldn't trust him with a box of matches!

Trapp has no plan "B" and we have got away with it in games so far, but what happens should we get an injury to Dunne or OShea?

He will bring in a Sunderland reserve player, a bit part player for Celtic or even worse an Ipswich CB, who regularly gets caught out of position and done for pace by Championship forwards.

Well if thats what you want, second best then don't come on here moaning when it all goes pear shaped.

Trapp has no plans for the future, so I pity the next manager who has to pick up the pieces.

I firmly believe we are going backwards with Trapp, but you like lots on here have become blinkered by the prospect of qualifying for the World Cup.

[kingdomkerry]

You cant argue with results doc.

[John83]

Why? This is a fans forum, where we give our opinions!
It's a threaded forum. This is a thread for birthday wishes.


So you are putting your faith in a 70 year old man, with his best years behind him, who listens too much to our wonderful U21 manager!Who on earth are you to judge he's past it?


When my Grandaddie was 70 we wouldn't trust him with a box of matches!When mine was 70, I saw him survive an encounter with an angry bull which had gotten loose, stay up all night for a calving and discuss politics intelligently with my father.

I find your ageism offensive, and tactical discussions are better left to other threads.

[tetsujin1979]

I firmly believe we are going backwards with Trapp, but you like lots on here have become blinkered by the prospect of qualifying for the World Cup.
erm, how is the prospect of qualifying for the World Cup going backwards?

[Wolfie]

Trapp has no plans for the future, so I pity the next manager who has to pick up the pieces.

I firmly believe we are going backwards with Trapp, but you like lots on here have become blinkered by the prospect of qualifying for the World Cup.

Firstly, Trapp was hired with the specific purpose of qualifying us for the World Cup. From day one - all of his dealings with the team have been to achieve that end.

We're going backwards? Have you any recollection of Staunon's tenure? The team was rudderless, demoralised and in danger of free falling into terminal decline.

Trapp, to his eternal credit, made an immediate impact on at least steadying the ship. We've an identifiable game plan. He has re-instilled some much needed organisation and a unity of purpose.

He has made some pragmatic decisions - not to everyones liking - but he is consistent in his approach and the players know what is required of them.

The jury is still out in relation to how we fare against the likes of Bulgaria and Italy but to suggest we've gone backwards under his tenure is laughable.

[amaccann]

Why? This is a fans forum, where we give our opinions!
And you'll find plenty of threads to express your opinions. This, however, is a thread specifically for the expressing of birthday wishes to the man. Nothing more.

[geysir]

Buon compleanno a Trapattoni


and long live the catenaccio.

[Jicked]

So you are putting your faith in a 70 year old man, with his best years behind him, who listens too much to our wonderful U21 manager!
Best years behind him? He's doing a pretty good job thus far. And even if his best days were behind him he's twice the man than anyone else we could get to do the job.


When my Grandaddie was 70 we wouldn't trust him with a box of matches!
That says a lot about you/your family than it does the highly intelligent Trapattoni.



Trapp has no plan "B" and we have got away with it in games so far, but what happens should we get an injury to Dunne or OShea?

He will bring in a Sunderland reserve player, a bit part player for Celtic or even worse an Ipswich CB, who regularly gets caught out of position and done for pace by Championship forwards.

You talk as if a Preston f**king North End player is in a different league to a bloke highly rated by Celtic, an ex-Man Utd youth team captain and current Premier League squad player and an Ipswich Town player.


Trapp has no plans for the future, so I pity the next manager who has to pick up the pieces.

I firmly believe we are going backwards with Trapp, but you like lots on here have become blinkered by the prospect of qualifying for the World Cup.

Why would Trap have plans for the future? All he should be doing is looking to Summer 2010, after thats out of the way all he should look at is 2012. He's not here to nurture talent like a club manager or U-21 manager might, he only has about 10 games a year to work with, the focus should be on getting results.

And you believe Trap is taking us backwards :D Yeah what a terrible position we're currently in considering the pathetic spineless performances from the last campaign, when we had a joke of a manager who'd call up all and sundry, such as your beloved Sean.

As an aside, are you allowed tell people to f**k off on this forum or does that constitute personal abuse?

[Denis The Red]

No, Trapp doesn't go for the classy ball playing types in an Ireland shirt, much prefers big hoofers in the green shirt instead! :D

"Hoofers"? I thought he said "Big Hooters", more Trapp's style.:D

[the doc]

You talk as if a Preston f**king North End player is in a different league to a bloke highly rated by Celtic, an ex-Man Utd youth team captain and current Premier League squad player and an Ipswich Town player.

Well technically he is in another league to 2 of them, and ability wise far superior to all 3 of them.

Highly rated! ODea has spent most of the time on the bench, O'Dea, would stuggle to get regular games in an English championship team,the SPL is lower English Championship level at best.

Bruce struggles to cope with playing in the Championship and McShane will be playing in the Championship next season.

Whereas St Ledger is on his way to becoming a Premiership player, one capable of playing at the highest level.

This was further endorsed by Alan McInally recently on Sky TV, who descibed St Ledger as a "Premier League Quality player performing in the Championship"

Trapps selections of CB are "Jobs for the Boys" done off the back of DG's advise even Stevie Wonder can see that.

In my opinion St Ledger should be in the squad with a view to him taking O'Shea's place alaonside Dunne.

[tetsujin1979]

In my opinion St Ledger should be in the squad with a view to him taking O'Shea's place alaonside Dunne.
Would you see him taking O'Shea's place in the United team?

[the doc]

Would you see him taking O'Shea's place in the United team?

Thats a fair point! But i do see him playing for a top Premiership team in the future.

Thats mine and alot of other peoples opinion of him, who have seen him play regularly.

No doubt I will get put down on here for saying it, but I thought thats the idea of a forum, to give opinions and debate things.

Would be pretty boring if we all agreed on everything.

[geysir]

It's boring enough to have one poster persistently flog his one trick pony opinion over multiple threads.
It would be excruciating if more posters did the same.

[amaccann]

So... Trap's birthday then.