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Supremo, sidekick, centurion, trashed out (sic)..what tabloid language.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
I remember about 30 years ago some rag like the Irish Sun referred to Limerick manager Billy Kinane as 'the Lims Supremo'. Our family jokingly used that term for years afterwards.
John O'Shea officially announced as assistant head coach with Paddy McCarthy and Gudmundur Hreidarsson
joining as assistant coaches.
A ridiculous move to keep O'Shea on in my opinion.
Agreed and I don't know who i am more disappointed in. HH for keeping him on (when a) he's not a great assistant and b) I wouldn't trust him if i was in HH's position) or O'Shea for not wanting to prove himself somewhere, anywhere and make a real case to be the heir apparent. Right now he is behind Duff and Robbie Keane on experience and i don't see how this gets him any further ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
Yep it makes no sense on any level. We were told that O'Shea turned down Tony Pulis to stay on as an assistant because he wants to go off and be his his own man, now hes acting like a 40 year old living in his Mammys spare room waiting for the day he gets the house.
From Hallgrimsons point of view it weakens him, he seems to be a strong character but this comes across like hes just stepping in line with everything the FAI want and happy to pick up the paycheck for doing it. Few bad results and O'Sheas media friends who were pushing him for the job with start acting up and say things might have been better with John.
We just have to hope that Hallgrimson does so well that we keep him on for years to come.
I'd give the job to Paddy McCarthy before any of the three of them
Yup, and honestly O'Shea's chances of succeeding Hallgrimsson are slim at best anyway. In two years time either Hallgrimsson flops and leaves, does an alright job and gets a new contract, or does a good job and is poached by a better team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jolly Red Giant
If he flops the whole management team will be moved on. If he does a good job and is poached then that means he's left us in a better position than he found us.
Makes the job more attractive than it was recently and should lead to better options than we were shopping amongst the last few months.
Wouldn't be surprised if O'Shea is gone within 12 months. Leaves for another job and that's why they kept Paddy McCarthy around rather than Glen Whelan who already works for the FAI.
I can see O'Shea leaving before next summer and Paddy McCarthy becomes the no 2 with someone like Whelan or McShane stepping up as no.3
Whatever happens with Heimir we at least just about dodged the bullet that was Neil Lennon - signed 12 players, managed 6 games, didn't win any of them, may or may not have taken a leak on the training pitch and has now been sacked by Rapid Bucharest. And had it not been for the PR difficulties associated with his private life he would probably have gotten the Ireland job.
So there was a Q&A etc tonight with HH which STs were eligible to enter a competition to attend. Did anyone here go & what did they hear from him ?
Or, y'know, we could just keep repeating the same arguments re Kelleher / Liverpool we've been doing back & forth at each other for way too much of our adult lives.
Anyone ?
O Shea will take over after him.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Whelan with the u21.
FAI will appoint an employee to sorely recruit young dispora and bring them through the underage set up rather than when they are in their twenties.
He said Iceland had a strong group of young players who stayed with the 21s and qualified for the euros rather than get promoted to the senior squad, which was a partial reason for their success in 2018 World Cup.
This was posted on YBIG by one poster, but then others who were there are asking when did he say O'Shea will be taking over after him. They said some journalist were at it so should see articles soonish or tomorrow morning.
Hiring someone whose job it is to work with the young diaspora is a good idea.
Those comments about the Iceland U21s I'd figure we aren't likely to see any young lads promoted this year. That HH will work with the lads that are usually in the senior squad.
He's looking for a nasty b*stard apparently.
Jason Molumby is probably the man for the job.
He's also got one in Sammie Szmodics. There's Jamie Vardy vibes off Szmodics that he'll be taking **** towards opposition players trying to rile them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
He does, I agree, I watched him at Peterborough a fair bit & he does have that side to him. Particularly remember one game he turned on the bench from out on the field near halfway and abused Ferguson solidly for thirty seconds and another night he was on the bench, last sub went on, it wasn't him and you could hear him wrecking the dugout. Delightful young man. Maybe we do need that, but its got to be channeled.Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
More & more disputing the O'Shea thing was said at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
Bit misleading you led with it in your post there maybe & didn't make clear it was a quote from one poster elsewhere until much further down ?
Because I copy and pasted it from YBIG and then wrote my message underneath. My deepest and heartfelt apologies for not putting [quote] brackets around it so everyone knew ASAP that it was a quote from someone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
[QUOTE=JR89;2198405]Because I copy and pasted it from YBIG and then wrote my message underneath. My deepest and heartfelt apologies for not puttingAccepted.Quote:
brackets around it so everyone knew ASAP that it was a quote from someone else.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/...-41460577.html
More from earlier.
Does want his own fitness guy. For starters.
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Backroom
The vast majority are sticking around, including Crystal Palace coach Paddy McCarthy, but his efforts so far to entice an unnamed Spanish fitness coach have come up short.
“I’m happy with the staff but like to see how things go and how we grow,” he explained about his main priority since taking charge.
“We can add in, especially having a bridge between the medical team and fitness coaches.
“I was trying to get a Spanish guy. He worked with me previously in Qatar and came into the Jamaica camp in the six weeks leading up to Copa America.”
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His first squad announcement on Thursday week will be predominantly selected by the interim staff for the four friendlies contested between March and June as the FAI’s search descended into a saga.
He flanked O’Shea in attending the recent opening Championship match between Luton Town and Burnley, a game featuring four Irish players.
“I’m not going to lie by saying I’m an expert on the Irish players,” he confessed.
“This selection will be, more or less, based on their opinion. After three league games of the season, I can’t jump in and say you’re in the squad because you played well once. I will know more as I go on.”
I like a lot of what he says, he seems to get international football - that it's not a straight transition across from the club game, and that with the short windows that the coaches have with the players you need to keep things simpler. Defensive structure, set pieces, uncomplicated football. Kenny never got his head around that, Hallgrimsson gets it.
Molumby isn't nasty - he just does stupid sh*t on the pitchQuote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler