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Trappatoni has won every club competition in European Football plus a poxy Intercontinental Cup, so pretty much you could say he's won it all. In my opinion that stands to the man more than Brian Kerrs LOI or Randomanuel Mexicano.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
The World Cup match v Korea was a farce of a game, and if you'd been watching Traps career you'd know this.
Greece won a European Championship being ugly but I can't think of many Greeks complaining about that.
Today's take from the Guardian:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/Fiver/0,,2252845,00.html
May fav bit :
"There wasn't a bad word said about him," toora-looed Shay Given, proving that nobody in the Irish dressing room is familiar with the work of the tikka-tinged spiv who has never got a team through the qualifying stages of an international tournament and last achieved anything noteworthy in management back in 1991.
Whats most annoying is that the U21's are playing a UEFA qualifier against England tonight and where is Givens? - in Malahide preparing the senior side for a money-spinner for the FAI against Brazil. I sincerely hope he travels to England tonight. Priorities:confused:
According to RTE Sport the new mans appointment will be confirmed after the match on Wednesday.They claim Trapattoni remains favourite, but that Billy Davies has entered the frame.IMO, the leaking of the Davies story has kicked the 10 days time line to touch.King Billys inauguration is Imminent:mad:....KING BILLY TO LEAD GREEN ARMY! UGH
Be honest very few people care about U-21 footbal in this country because any half decent U-21 player should be in our first team squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Which is entirely the wong attitude. We should care about underage results and underage players should only be in the senior squad on merit, not based on promise. Morrison vs Long for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by mackannovic
So what if we have to delve into the Championship to make up the cover places? It didn't do NI or Scotland too much harm playing non-EPL players last time out.
With Father Jack Hackett, Larry Mullen Jr and the alcoholic Leprechaun from the prohibition episode of The Simpsons all unavailable, the FAI gave the job of finding a new gaffer to Don Givens (an FAI employee), Don Howe (a mate of Terry Venables) and Ray Houghton (a wee Scotsman) more than three months ago. However, since then they've conducted more interviews than Michael Parkinson on speed. Among those to have taken the crossbar challenge using a Lucozade Sport bottle instead of a ball are Venables, Ged Houllier, Venables Graeme Souness, Venables, Didier Deschamps, Venables, Theme Pub O'Fiver, Venables, Roy Race, Venables, Samuel Beckett, Venables, attention-seeking Dublin "supermodel" Andrea Roche, Venables and a series of random passers-by on Dublin's O'Connell Street.Quote:
Originally Posted by fergalr
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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
If its going to happen straight after the Brazil game then it will be Venables. The FAI know it will be a PR disaster if he was announced before or during the Brazil game, they know by now the fans feelings on the man.
My gut feeling that any chance that it was Trap is gone by now. Im sure they would have tried to parade him at the brazil game if possible as he would get a great reception. As i said on another thread, if they were going to give it to El Tel, they were always going to do it after the Brazil game to avoid the inevitable PR disaster if he were at Croker
Oh you are the smart one, Stuttgart is one of the people on this board who puts across an intelligent and well balanced view of the Irish set up etc. From his posts etc it also shows he cares about the team and the future of the team. I am sure he will be down in Southampton tonight if he can make it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mackannovic
You sir add nothing to the forum with rubbish comments like that that only reveal an ingnorance on your part.
Yep thats what I heard tooQuote:
Originally Posted by SUB of the day
Classic answer. Comments like that just goes to show the lack of interest, or even awareness of the underage setup at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by mackannovic
Ever consider that success at underage level would lead to success at senior level? Duff, Keane, Dunne all experienced success under Kerr, got fasttracked into the senior team, and were all part of the last time we qualified for a tournament. You think that's a coincidence?
Or it's another coincidence when the youth team of a club gets to the FA Youth Cup final, and 2-3 years later they suddenly have a team of young, hungry, intelligent players?
You can't really argue that Long is better off watching Brazil from the bench than playing against a team made up almost entirely of Premiership players?
Ever wonder why there hasn't been another glut of young players making the breakthrough to the senior team since the days when Mick McCarthy gave debuts to Dunne, Keane, Duff, McPhail, Quinn?
Here Neil.... Is it dark up there????:DQuote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
In fairness I admit that I do sound a bit like a broken record on the issue of younger players playing senior football when they're not ready :)
Even a broken record is right twice a day! Or something
Nah, it just means that you have to give Stutts a gentle whack and then he moves on.
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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
def agree with this
One of the terrible things about the present FAI is the neglect of the under 21's and the underage set-up. I think it goes without saying that if you can mould good players and give them good match type pressures, etc at a young setting then it can only benefit the senior team. Givens has totally destroyed the under 21's which i think is a detriment to the senior team
Korea deserved to win that game. Now Spain on the otherhand...........Quote:
Originally Posted by mackannovic
Greece were the best and most organised team at that Euros. They didnt fluke it, they deserved their success. The Czechs played good football but just couldnt pull it all together.
Again why is he a good manager? What is his coaching ability? Is he good with players? Are his teams solid and compact? etc, etc
These kind of questions are more in line with what im talking about?
Funny how many just use wikipedia to get their answers!
Success in almost every job he has had. Won silverware in Italy, Portugal, Germany and Austria.Quote:
Again why is he a good manager?
He won the Austrian Bundesliga last season by 19 points. This is with a middle of the road Austrian team to make it better. Even at the ripe old age of 68 he is obviously still a successful coach.Quote:
What is his coaching ability?
He gets the best out of them, thats all that matters.Quote:
Is he good with players?]
Always have been nd its a trait of his that all his teams are very solidQuote:
Are his teams solid and compact?
This is a man that is in the top 5 managers in the world today IMO. What right have we to question him so vigourously. We are Ireland for gods sake, if we can attract a manager of that calibre would be immense. To compare him to Billy Davis and El Tel is just bloody degrading and a complete insult