Bruce Arena

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Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

I would hate to have someone like Lippi bringing his native terminology over here. I was on a yacht in the Seychelles recently and I heard a couple of Eye-Ties babbling on about "Calcio". I was disgusted beyond vomit. :mad:

It's been bad enough having Staunton drawling on in his Louth dialect for the last few years. Mr. Delaney, kindly find a candidate who will strictly adhere to the Queen's English.

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That rules out Irish speakers then... BIGOT!:D Didn't Stan bamboozle you?
There aren't very many decent English speaking candidates available to be honest.
The list touted here consists largely of has beens and never wases.

the guy had one good world cup
why was he sacked though?

• 1 point in the group stages in 2006

• a world cup qualifying campaign where they drew with panama, guatemala, jamaica twice and lost to costa rica

oh and

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Its not about bulking them up, its about getting them to put themselves about more

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thats coaching gold! like something shearer would say on bbc

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Originally Posted by eekers

the guy had one good world cup
why was he sacked though?

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• a world cup qualifying campaign where they drew with panama, guatemala, jamaica twice and lost to costa rica

oh and
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TBH, it is not so easy to win IN central america. Home field advantage IS a big factor in countries like Honduras, Panama, Guatemala etc. Plus Costa Rica away was after the USA qualified and cr HAD to win to get in. Also, US finished top in CONCACAF qualifying so I would hardly call that a failure.

flying headed volleys.......yes please :)

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Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

There aren't very many decent English speaking candidates available to be honest.

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Yes there are.
They're all Dutch though.;)

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Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Like the previous Irishman in the job was soooo much better?:rolleyes: Bruce Arena's track record is excellent and our inability to keep '' shut-outs'' against Cyprus home and Away, Slovakia away, and Wales away did for our qualification hopes last time out.
But if you're so insistent on banning North American's from the gig out in Abbotstown here's a genuinely better alternative.
Fabio Capello is getting the English job,let's appoint Lippi NOW! I believe he is at least 10% a better coach than Capello and I have total respect for the latter's record in case people don't understand where I am coming from with this.

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Theres not a chance Lippi would come to us! Need to be realistic about this.

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Originally Posted by Ireland4ever

Theres not a chance Lippi would come to us! Need to be realistic about this.

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Can at least approach him so that you know for sure if he wants it or not

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Originally Posted by gustavo

Can at least approach him so that you know for sure if he wants it or not

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I think it would be absolutely pointless and a waste of time approaching him. The current world cup winning manager is not gonna be interested in Ireland, unless we had a ridiculous amount of money to offer him(£4/5 million/year) even then i doubt he'd have any interest. We need to focus on more realistic targets and try and source out the one that'd suit us best.

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Originally Posted by eekers

the guy had one good world cup
why was he sacked though?

• 1 point in the group stages in 2006

• a world cup qualifying campaign where they drew with panama, guatemala, jamaica twice and lost to costa rica

oh and



thats coaching gold! like something shearer would say on bbc

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you may want to step off the oul high horse here. point taken about the 1 point in the group stages, but it was earned against the eventual winners - and they fucckkiing rattled Italy in that game. They were in the toughest group by far. as far as drawing with guatemala, jamaica, and losing to costa rica. Keep in mind they qualified, so you could see it as taking at least 3 points off those teams on the home and away schedule. I sometimes forget how brilliant we were against san marino, wales, cyprus........ I'm not saying he's the be-all / end all. but he should not be discounted on the feeling of anti-american sentiment.... he's a good coach.