Kerr open to eircom League return

[Roo69]

Republic of Ireland international manager Brian Kerr admits he would be open to returning to a management role in the eircom League should his three-year stint as Irish boss come to an end in the coming days or weeks. More (http://www.eleven-a-side.com/worldcup2006/irish_soccer_detail.asp?newsid=19565)

New Drogs Manager when they don't win anything again this season..... :p

[joeSoap]

Fair play to him for sticking to his guns...I'd say Pats would have him back in a flash....bye bye Macker..

[Lim till i die]

We've his tactical twin below here in Limerick if anyones interested :confused:

Gather round people the same $hite at at least half the price :p

[EnDai]

To be honest, he says he'd be open to it in the "short-term", sounds like he now thinks he's above it.

[bigmac]

To be honest, he says he'd be open to it in the "short-term", sounds like he now thinks he's above it.

Well it'd have to be a massive pay-cut for him really. To be honest I think he'd probably prefer to go back into some sort of youth set up - seems to be where he's really gifted.

[Cosmo]

New Drogs Manager when they don't win anything again this season..... :p

Ye mean new drogs manager when we win the cup this season surely :D

[thejollyrodger]

maybe its all he is fit for ?

[Roverstillidie]

till the end of the season at rovers?
depending on who you talk to rods days are numbered

[Mayo Red]

Looking a lot closer to reality now!;)

[eirebhoy]

He looked like one of the lads last night in Belfield with his hoodie on. :)


To be honest, he says he'd be open to it in the "short-term", sounds like he now thinks he's above it.
Well he'd be on about a 10th of the wage.

[Schumi]

He looked like one of the lads last night in Belfield with his hoodie on. :)
Didn't stop him being pestered for autographs all night though!

[mchurl]

sorry lads but don't think it will happen i can picture him taking over the youth teams again from sean mccaffrey and imagine the wage cut he would be taking!!!:p

[eirebhoy]

sorry lads but don't think it will happen i can picture him taking over the youth teams again from sean mccaffrey and imagine the wage cut he would be taking!!!:p
McCaffrey is doing well so it would have to be the U21s in place of Givens. Can't see him working for the FAI again though. He's highly rated by UEFA so will probably get a job off them.

[Buller]

Maybe he'd be interested in rovers after shoddy roddys reign of terror comes to an end!:rolleyes:

[sullanefc]

Maybe he'd be interested in rovers after shoddy roddys reign of terror comes to an end!:rolleyes:

I think I read in a newspaper a few days agoe that Roddy has another full season on his contract after this season. Is this true? I thought he was finished this season? I pity Rovers if they are stuck with that l@nger for another season.

[Buller]

I think I read in a newspaper a few days agoe that Roddy has another full season on his contract after this season. Is this true? I thought he was finished this season? I pity Rovers if they are stuck with that l@nger for another season.
Yes unfortunatly....:mad:
It might even be until 2007 i think, hopefully not!

[gustavo]

maybe money might not come into it and he might actually you know .. want to manage in the eL

[TonyD]

Well it'd have to be a massive pay-cut for him really. To be honest I think he'd probably prefer to go back into some sort of youth set up - seems to be where he's really gifted.

Um, yeah, cos his two league winning teams at Pats, I mean, not one of them over 18 was there ? :rolleyes:

I'd love to see him back at Pats, though I think the board are unlikely just to push Johnny Mac aside, certainly not before the end of the season. I think to be honest the main drawback in his mind(aside from the financial considerations obviously, though I don't think that's ever been his main motivation) is that it would be kind of an admission of failure on his part. It would give Dunphy and all those other idiots(Hyland, Dervan) the chance to say, "ah, there you go, that's his level, he was way out of his depth in "Real Football"

[Risteard]

Ya, he deserves to at some stage get a job with a rich club or body to make him just a little rich. If he doesn't get a Premiership job, the fifa post would be a good idea.
Having said that, he'd be a bigger success if he could drive City, Derry or Shels to the group stages of Champions League.

[bigmac]

Um, yeah, cos his two league winning teams at Pats, I mean, not one of them over 18 was there ? :rolleyes:


IMO what he did with the Irish underage teams was far more impressive than two titles in LOI. He got those teams to perform at a level that was light years above where they should have been at. Or are you telling me that the Pat's sides were only average sides that he got to overachieve?

[Roverstillidie]

I think I read in a newspaper a few days agoe that Roddy has another full season on his contract after this season. Is this true? I thought he was finished this season? I pity Rovers if they are stuck with that l@nger for another season.

he is contracted until the end of next season.

but notice how he has been very quiet the last fortnight, a cynic might thing he got a formal warning of ssome description :D

its all coming together!!!

[TonyD]

IMO what he did with the Irish underage teams was far more impressive than two titles in LOI. He got those teams to perform at a level that was light years above where they should have been at. Or are you telling me that the Pat's sides were only average sides that he got to overachieve?

No BigMac, my point was that this image of him as just a kids manager is off the mark. He actually spent longer managing "grown up" footballers than youths. Since you mention it though, neither of those Pats teams had a lot of star names, or big earners on them, so that is further credit to Kerr in my book. You're right about over acheiving with the Youth teams though. One of the many stupid statements from Cathal Dervan in his recent bilefests against Kerr that really got my goat was his assertion that these teams were the best bunch of young players that Ireland had ever had. The facts don't bear this out. If it was true the majority of them would have made the breakthrough to the senior team, in fact very few of them did. Of the under 18 winners I think only Robbie Keane and Damien Duff have come through(And both had already played at a higher level for Ireland), of the under 16 team I think only John O'Shea and Andy Reid have come through. So what those teams in fact had in common was a bloody good coach.

[Jerry The Saint]

Since you mention it though, neither of those Pats teams had a lot of star names, or big earners on them, so that is further credit to Kerr in my book.

And, with the exception of Pat Fenlon, the careers of Kerr's players took a backwards step after they left Pats (I believe Fenlon and Oso are the only players to win a league medal elsewhere). So on Kerr's title-winning teams he had one or two exceptional talents (Fleming, Gormley) and a bunch of limited but hard-working players.

Pats lost the title on the last day of the season in 87/88 - If John Delaney had been chairman at the time he probably would have sacked Kerr...

[bigmac]

No BigMac, my point was that this image of him as just a kids manager is off the mark. He actually spent longer managing "grown up" footballers than youths.

Fair enough, I'm in total agreement with you really. Didn't mean to suggest that he was only a kids coach, but I do think that that's where he had his best achievements.

[Éanna]

Isn't that very good of him. What was it you said Brian? That "you get what you deserve in life." Well you got what you deserved Brian, the only pity is you were sacked for the wrong reasons, moron.

[Jerry The Saint]

Isn't that very good of him. What was it you said Brian? That "you get what you deserve in life." Well you got what you deserved Brian, the only pity is you were sacked for the wrong reasons, moron.

So what were the right reasons to sack him then, if not "performance and results, oh and the FIFA world rankings" as stated by John Delaney?

[ColinR]

So what were the right reasons to sack him then, if not "performance and results, oh and the FIFA world rankings" as stated by John Delaney?

obviously not playing the entire cork team for the qualifiers, sure they won a few games in the intertoto and the uefa cup ;) :D

[Dodge]

Brian Kerr is god. I challenge anyway to prove otherwise!

[ColinR]

Brian Kerr is god. I challenge anyway to prove otherwise!

brian is not god, he's just a very naugthy boy :D

[Roverstillidie]

here is one,

which dublin clubs chairman is meeting him for lunch today?!?

answers on a postcard....

[Éanna]

So what were the right reasons to sack him then, if not "performance and results, oh and the FIFA world rankings" as stated by John Delaney?
His ignorant and disrespectful comments about CCFC and the league in general about the Doyle transfer would be a good starting point. As would his interference in CCFC's business as regards the sacking of ****** Dolan.

[Jerry The Saint]

disrespectful comments about CCFC

:D

There's a whole lot more people who deserve the sack if you call that a good reason.:cool: If you can supply evidence of these disrespectful comments then we might be able to get Kerr re-instated as Ireland Manager!

(Blah, blah, he couldn't be arsed finding out where that loser club you knocked out came from:rolleyes:, blah, blah, he started building the Ireland team around Kevin Doyle the second he signed the contract with Reading :rolleyes: :rolleyes: )