Irish_Praha
29/11/2007, 3:57 PM
There has been a posting frenzy on here in the last few weeks so I haven't had a chance to read everything, so sorry if this topic has already been covered.
Now that we know the WC qualification group I'm interested to know what the expectations are among us the average Irish fans. Assuming Delaney won't make the silly mistake of giving the the new man more than a 2 year contract what would you consider to be enough for him to get his contract extended at the end of the campaign. Obviously if we qualify as first in the group he sould be given an extention.
What if we make the playoffs or if we end up coming second in a very tight group and end up not making it to the playoffs because of a low points total.
Would you accept third again as long as we were seriously still in contention until the last game?
Maybe you would accept third place even if we were out of with 3 games to go again but we were constantly improving under the new manager even beat Italy away in one of out last games (a game that Italy needed at least a point from to qualify as first.)
Or must come second?
Must we win the group, must we qualify or must we just get to the play-offs, so that you would be happy for him to get another two years?
I myself would be very happy with second place and would want to keep the manager on if we didn't qualify or didn't even get the play-offs. I might accept 3rd place if there was steady improvement throughout the campaign and we didn't see lots of points lost due to some crazy tatical decisions, like with Stan. Anything less and I think it would be time to move on.
Now that we know the WC qualification group I'm interested to know what the expectations are among us the average Irish fans. Assuming Delaney won't make the silly mistake of giving the the new man more than a 2 year contract what would you consider to be enough for him to get his contract extended at the end of the campaign. Obviously if we qualify as first in the group he sould be given an extention.
What if we make the playoffs or if we end up coming second in a very tight group and end up not making it to the playoffs because of a low points total.
Would you accept third again as long as we were seriously still in contention until the last game?
Maybe you would accept third place even if we were out of with 3 games to go again but we were constantly improving under the new manager even beat Italy away in one of out last games (a game that Italy needed at least a point from to qualify as first.)
Or must come second?
Must we win the group, must we qualify or must we just get to the play-offs, so that you would be happy for him to get another two years?
I myself would be very happy with second place and would want to keep the manager on if we didn't qualify or didn't even get the play-offs. I might accept 3rd place if there was steady improvement throughout the campaign and we didn't see lots of points lost due to some crazy tatical decisions, like with Stan. Anything less and I think it would be time to move on.