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This is an interesting one. Head to Head, Trap and terry.
Trap obviously has a few years on the bold Terry who is much heavier and has a longer reach. But Trap seems more vicious and could turn this into a brawl. Its a tough one to call but for sheer power alone I'd go for the cockney wide boy.
Without doubt I would say the TRAP door will be open for him .
HE'S THE MAN ........
Poll added.
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The players might want an arm around the shoulder/cuddly/jokey type manager but they had one of them last time out and look what happened. Trappatoni by all accounts doesn't take any sh** and I'd love Stephen Ireland to pull some of those kind of tricks on this fella. We need discipline, order and direction and this fella will bring that to the table. We won't be squandering leads in the last minute, we won't concede loads of goals from set pieces and he definitely won't tolerate players crying to the press/tv studios about how hard it is to play for Ireland nowadays. QUOTE]
Agreed. We've tried the arm around the shoulder type of coach that all the players like and it's gotten us nowhere. Once the players and management are dedicated to the common goal of qualifying us for the World Cup then I'm happy enough with that. They don't have to all get on to be completely focused on the task in hand.
Can I have an option for
"I dont believe Trapattoni is a serious candidate, more a smokescreen fanned by an increasingly desperate FAI, similar to the previous Houllier and Tigana debacles which were embraced with varying degrees of enthusiasm by an equally desperate media, so taking that into consideration, even in a field of 1 candidate, Im not sure I'd want to vote for Venables, and anyway, the board are no doubt currently frantically searching for an acceptable "plan B" candidate that we dont know about yet."
in the poll please?
Very good post and if the comparison above does not convince people nothing will. 19 management victories against 2. And who cares if he knows no one. Let in learn in the next 6 months and pick a team based on his knowledge not hype.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesB
He couldnt do it with some of the best players in the world with Italy, what hope in hell does he have with our bunch of wasters?Quote:
Originally Posted by mr.untitled
El Tel for me and spend the money we would waste on Trap on the EL. Best way to improve the national team
Jeez, after reading that list of honours is anyone else thinking 'why the hell would he want to touch us'??Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesB
i don't understand this, england qualified for france '98? ahh as australia. d'ohQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesB
AustraliaQuote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
Australia Ken!
They were 2-0 up in the second leg of the play off with 20 mins to go and some clown parachuted into the goalposts. The game was delayed and after the restart Iran scored twice to go through.
argh yea sorry i realized it and edited the post - but wanted to leave the original brain-fart in there for all to see. getting old :o
Is it not true to say that his club record is excellent but that his international management record isn't anything to write home about? I also think at his age he's a bit old for the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
he's qualified for two more tournaments than venables has.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
His international record is that he qualified to for two major championships, which is 2 more than Venables did.
When there he failed to get out of the group but once that was with 5 points which has never happened before or since.
I think we are deluded as people if somehow we think that Trap is not good enough for the job. Wake up, we were offered Bryan Robson before and we then had Steve Staunton.
This would be like going from my two year old newphew as an artist to Picasso.
I certainly think he'd be good enough, I just dont believe he's really interested in it.
I agree I dont believe hes intersted, I can't see why he'd take a massive pay cut to manage us, among other thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Bondvillain
I think your mistaking the tactically intelligent defensive Italian football with the 100% pure guts and effort of British defensive football. :) Keane, McGeady and another wouldn't be required to track back much at all. He plays counter attacking football so you can't have all the players back defending. Doyle probably wouldn't make Trap's team, he likes the 4-2-3-1 system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carrigaline
I am sure Doyle could be the 1 and Doyle could be part of the 3 there Eirebhoy
to use a Rico parlance, traps team were ridden rock solid in koreaQuote:
Originally Posted by mrtndvn
have no idea why hed want the irish job tho