Foot.ie Talks To... Bob Breen. [Archive]

Bald Student

25/07/2005, 2:47 PM

Any progress on this?
Has Bob Breen pulled out or what's the delay?

A face

25/07/2005, 2:57 PM

No ... he is adamant that he wants to continue, thing is he is out of the country a lot lately, I don’t want to start needling the guy. He is busy …. He’ll get to it when he can … we’ll have to hang tight until he can get to it.

I was thinking of driving on with another candidate !!

Any suggestions ??

Poor Student

25/07/2005, 2:58 PM

Pat Dolan? Loves to shoot his mouth, plenty of interesting questions could be posed to him from wide issues about Irish soccer to the O'Callaghan situation.

Cosmo

25/07/2005, 2:58 PM

what about ollie :D

A face

25/07/2005, 3:02 PM

Dunno ... Dolan ... Ollie .... wide open for some abuse there me thinks, might be better going with someone who would be informative.

Poor Student

25/07/2005, 3:04 PM

Pat Scully? Find out what he is feeding his team this last month. :eek:

Schumi

25/07/2005, 3:05 PM

Dolan ... might be better going with someone who would be informative.
:D

How about someone like Foley or Farrelly, a recent addition to the league from England. Might have some interesting points.

sligoman

25/07/2005, 3:07 PM

Who's Bob Breen anyway? :confused:

Cosmo

25/07/2005, 3:12 PM

I was obviously only messing about ollie but it would be funny :) .

Couldnt take Dolan seriously

Would agree with above - Farrelly might be a good one

Macy

25/07/2005, 3:36 PM

WeAreRovers

25/07/2005, 3:49 PM

He's running scared I'd imagine. First question - "Hi Bob, how in the name of the little baby Jesus have you still got a job? Especially considering the 400 Club pointed out the discrepencies in Rovers licence application. You were told it was dodgy yet still gave them a licence. It was only when it was pointed out again (by the examiner) that you finally acted and even then in a cack-handed arbitrary manner. Bob? hello? Bob? Are you there?.........."

KOH

tiktok

26/07/2005, 8:51 AM

How about someone who's involved in the media wrt to the EL, Mark McCadden or Gerry McDermott, or maybe Niall(?) Cogley from Setanta?

There are definitely a few questions I'd like to ask of the media.

Xlex

26/07/2005, 10:13 AM

Niall Cogley is a good start.

Would like to hear from Farrelly or Foley too, perhaps a joint effort there.

Nick Leeson? Ask more specific questions on marketing ideas?

superfrank

26/07/2005, 11:26 AM

What with the news and all, could you get Felix Healy in?

harpskid

26/07/2005, 11:28 AM

What with the news and all, could you get Felix Healy in?

If yous want to question Felix, I'd be more than happy to have a chat with the 'tached one!

sligoman

26/07/2005, 1:18 PM

Who's Bob Breen anyway? :confused:

Like I said above. Is it that none of ye know either? :confused: :D

tiktok

26/07/2005, 1:26 PM

Like I said above. Is it that none of ye know either? :confused: :D

He was the FAI's lead man with responsibility for EL and UEFA licencing requirements. He basically advised on/supervised the process.

sligoman

26/07/2005, 1:29 PM

He was the FAI's lead man with responsibility for EL and UEFA licencing requirements. He basically advised on/supervised the process.

ah ok,cheers! ;)

LFC in Exile

26/07/2005, 2:48 PM

Is Andy Needham too obvious?

Or manager of the year - Stephen Kenny.

Brian Kerr?

Student Mullet

03/10/2005, 12:08 AM

Any progress on this? It looked like it would be interesting. If he's not given his answers yet can we re-open the topic for more questions?

A face

03/10/2005, 12:11 AM

Yeah ... i left it go since May .... didn't look like anything was happening !!

Put down a few names of who would be a good candidate and i'll get going again.

tiktok

03/10/2005, 9:54 AM

Yeah ... i left it go since May .... didn't look like anything was happening !!

Put down a few names of who would be a good candidate and i'll get going again.

Andy Needham
Niall Cogley (from Setanta Sports)

Macy

03/10/2005, 9:59 AM

Pretty obvious Breen was going to bottle it - too many hard questions....

Anyway be interesting to hear Cogley's turn around from rabid anti-eL while at RTE to his current role at Setanta.

Gerry McDermott could be good, especially some of the views he's expressed in support of franchise football - strange from someone who seems like a fan...