Mick McCarthy

[Eirambler]

Seems to be moving into the Sam Allardyce/Neil Warnock role of the break glass in case of emergency option for relegation threatened Championship clubs.

To be fair to him he'll get them organised and defensively solid and give them a shot at staying up at least.

[JR89]

Seems to be moving into the Sam Allardyce/Neil Warnock role of the break glass in case of emergency option for relegation threatened Championship clubs.

To be fair to him he'll get them organised and defensively solid and give them a shot at staying up at least.

They tried to get Eric Ramsay in whose a first team coach at United. Probably going for a handy pair of hands who might do a job until they can look again for a long term option in the summer.

Wouldn't be shocked if he fancied a third go at the Ireland job if the FAI are looking for a new manager come the summer.

[Eirambler]

I'm sure he would but we'd be mad to go down that road again. I like Mick but he's become far too tactically conservative as he has gotten older. His Cardiff team were just awful towards the end of his time there. I'd take a gamble on Lee Carsley or someone before I'd go back to Mick.

[JR89]

Unless the Ireland job is a dream job for him the U21s gig with England is a better number and he's likely paid more or the same as Kenny already. Be mad to pack that in and think in the past he's talked about preferring to work with younger players than senior football.

[Eirambler]

To be fair if it's younger players he wants to work with the Ireland job should be ideal for him, half our squad is 25 or under!

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it interested him actually. International jobs, including under 21 jobs, have a time limit on them. Especially when it's England where, as ever, expectations will be out of touch with reality. Once he has finished out the current Under 21 campaign with England it might seem a natural progression to move into a senior role, and - unless maybe he wins the Euro Under 21s outright - it's not like he's going to get the England job.

[SkStu]

Mick leaves Blackpool by mutual consent. Didn’t go well for him there at all. Will probably end up his last gig, I’d say.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65219737

[tommy_c12000]

Sad to see. 64 years of age now, hard to believe our Captain Fantastic is that old. Disconcerting on a personal level!

Perhaps a nice low-intensity international job? Agree, his club managing days are likely behind him

[pineapple stu]

Reckon he'd make a good pundit if he wanted to go that route. Always came across a bit of a character in his media bits.

[Eirambler]

Think it's at the stage where he'd need to go beyond Europe if he's going to get another management job. Blackpool backed the wrong ageing horse, should have gone for Warnock it seems.

[seanfhear]

Think it's at the stage where he'd need to go beyond Europe if he's going to get another management job. Blackpool backed the wrong ageing horse, should have gone for Warnock it seems.Like him or not ~ Warnock has had some fine achievements as a manager and kept clubs in divisions that seemed unlikely at times.

[CraftyToePoke]

Reckon he'd make a good pundit if he wanted to go that route. Always came across a bit of a character in his media bits.

Yeah, probably time to talk the talk now, his walk is gone I'd say. He has earned the talking more than most other pundits knocking around too.
Watched his Cardiff side a season back and it was more crouch / bind / set / engage than anything resembling football, everything was about stopping any fluidity and launching it.

Still, this frees Terry Connor up at least, so silver linings eh ?
The man behind the tick tacks all these years.

[Demesne Lad]

"Still, this frees Terry Connor up at least, so silver linings eh ? The man behind the tick tacks all these years." (Craftytoepoke, 8 May)

Spot on! Terry Connor (60) has been named Head Coach of Grenada (a.k.a. 'The Spice Boys'), population about 125,000, Fifa ranking 175. (East Anglian Daily Mail, 16 May).