How would Roy Hodgson be a nightmare. I think he is looking to be the best appointment to be honest.
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How would Roy Hodgson be a nightmare. I think he is looking to be the best appointment to be honest.
is Roy Ray's dad? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bluebeard
Expand on your reasoning please.Quote:
Originally Posted by greendeiseboy
These were never good managers to start with.Quote:
Souness, Dalglish, Atkinson, Venables
They are also from the days of pints-for-the-boys, something which needs to be stamped out of the Irish setup.
Yes to the first part, no to the second. Hodgson has this this thing that most other anglophone managers do not have - an idea of what football is played like in Europe. And let us face it, we are playing European teams to get anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by greendeiseboy
Did this really happen. What would you think of Brady.
Apparently he has put his nbame in the frame for the job. It's not something i would have expected. Another yesterdays man i suppose.
See the article below
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...=1771&ito=1490
Quite a few of the people touted are notmanaging/coaching at a top level at present and some have not been at level for some time. Any ideas why that is so?
Jose Mourinho ... a special job for the special one!!
Further endorsed if none of the British nations qualify for the European Championships...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebeard
Finland are in a tougher group than ours and yet Hodgson has them within a whisker of qualifying.
I would take Brady in a shot. Reckon he'd be very good.
I reckon that I'd be pretty good at the job, unfortunately I don't have anything to back up that statement either. While Brady might have learned from his time at Celtic, he is currently only an Arsenal youth team coach, hardly the qualifications required to succeed..Quote:
Originally Posted by DeNiro
not a chance of finland qualifying they will end up finishing 4th or 5th..
I wouldnt like Brady to get the job. As he said himself last night, he's not driven to get results, he's driven to produce players, which he's doing nicely at Arsenal. Brady as the u-21's manager, now that would be ideal. I just dont think he has the experience to do this job.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeNiro
I'd have doubts about his motivation of players, but I think he'd be well organised. If, as he said, his strength is in producing players, then why isn't he in our underage set-up?
I have a new favourite, having gone away and thought about it.
Otto Rehhagel, the Greece manager. He led them to Euro 2004, working with a limited bunch of players and getting the best out of them. Masterminded the downfall of Portugal (twice), France and the Czech Republic and produced possibly the biggest upset in international football history.
After Euro 2008, which Greece look like they will qualify for, I would say he has achieved everything he can there. Especially given that he was the first foreign 'Greek of the Year' in 2004. So our chances of luring him to our sticken footballing nation would be much improved.
He also has experience of club management, in Germany mostly, yet could provide a useful outside perspective.
I don't expect him to get the job, still, he's my choice nevertheless.
Ade
Good choice......at least he could knock up some healthy kebabs for Andy Reid, and ween him off the pies!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrianovic
Can he speak EnglishQuote:
Originally Posted by Adrianovic
I dont care if Andy Reid is eating Kebabs and to be honest if he is, well then the rest of the team should be given Kebabs as he was top class against the Germans and the Czechs twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet
is renhegal still greece manager, humphries said he was retired now...like nay good german id say he would have a good grasp of English!!
Would you expect him to walk out on Greece before or after they defend their European championship title for us who haven't come within an asses roar of qualifying for same?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrianovic
I can't provide you with concrete proof after a quick search, but Football Manager 2008 says he can (for what its worth) and I'm sure he got interviewed at Euro 2004 on the beeb.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
I'll have a look around.
can we get a poll going? I don't seem to be able to set one up. I'd be very surprised if the two bookies favourites even feature in the top 5. It has to be realistic i.e. no Mourinho within the choices, but I think it would be an interesting exercise.
Neither did Stan :pQuote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
In any case I cant see how he will leave Greece after qualifying for the Euros again. I'm sure he would want another crack at qualifying for the WC with them.
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Originally Posted by NeilMcD
I'm not knocking Andy's ability ( I concur he's our most/only creative midfielder ) just suggesting a healthy kebab may be helpful to him in creating a more streamlined athlete......much like your goodself;)
Rehhagel is also a deft and ruthless club politician. He is notorious for restructuring clubs so that he wields absolute power, making friends with powerful people and using them to eliminate the opposition. He prefers the system of a benign dictatorship. His way of handling a club - in a competent and innovative, but also highly patronizing and condescending way - has been immortalized as ottocracy, a pun on his name and also a mix of the words democracy and autocracy.
He should get on with Delaney.
From wikipedia.
Why thank you. Its a pity The Green Hornet does not like the skills of Andy Reid rather than young Shane Long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet
I think if we presented it as the challenge it is. A half decent squad of players, with some young lads coming through, a public prepared to love football and a different test in a part of Europe he hasn't managed in before -he could be tempted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Metrostars
I would say he is a realistic candidate, I'm not guaranteeing he'd take it if asked, but I'd say there's more chance of him than Louis van Gaal.
Not that I dispute the truthiness (see Stephen Colbert) of this particular piece of information. However, as we know from the comments added to John Delaney and Steve Staunton's wikipedia entries after particularly disastrous results, it is not necessarily the most reliable source of information. Possibly added by a disgruntled fan/chairman/opponent/wife/etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Give my 9 realistic choices and I'll put them in a poll.Quote:
Originally Posted by shakermaker1982
Roy Hodgson
Leo Beenhakker
Paul Jewell
Greame Souness
David O Leary
Liam Brady
Steve Coppell
Ron Atkinson
Terry Venables
John Aldridge
are all realistic
CoppellQuote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
1 Aldo
2 o leary
3 brady
4 jewell
5 reid
6 graham
7 souness
8 givens
9 venables
Don't think that Atkinson is realistic, I'd imagine that the FAI might think that he has too much baggage with him.
I did meet himself and Andy Gray in Yokohama at the world cup, sound guys, directed us to where there was free beer been given away. Got absolutely soused on free Japanese beer. Ah, the good old days.
As a starter
O'Leary
Aldridge
Jewell
Troussier
Souness
Coppell
Rehagel
De Haan
Ah man, if Peter Reid's name is mentioned two more times he might just appear from the ether and become our manager. Begone Reid.Quote:
Originally Posted by see's it
As laughable as Reid its nothing to the hiliarity that would ensue if John Aldridge got the job.
houllier
Coppell
Troussier
O'leary
Jewell
Van Gaal
Souness
Venables
added...
cheers for putting it up eirebhoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy