Trapattoni - who would you replace him with?

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Originally Posted by IsMiseSean

Martin O'Neill is available but for a reason

The poor man hasn't even been offered the job yet and the knives are out....

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Yeah, but in fairness, it is George Byrne. And since when has his opinion ever been worth anything. I particularly like him dismissing the Scotish league as "mickey mouse". This coming from an alleged Shamrock Rovers fan.

(Not a Trap fan, or a Celtic one either - just in case anyones asking)

Tbf, never been an Indo' fan (generally a 'blueshirt' rag) but some of the soccer writers surprised me recently with their coherence and analysis of various pieces on the national team...
Dion Fanning et al.

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Originally Posted by Spudulika

The old Indo die/blowhards are continuing their predictable and ordered rant against all things DOB. Don't for a moment think that anything has to do with proper journalism. It is a shameful publication and I'm just glad I've stopped reading since they dreamed up a lie before the Faeroes match and tried to spin it off as journalism. There are writers on the paper who are good, decent people, but the editorial stance has gone too far along the Fleet street line to be rescued.

Cuper......christ.

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The renowned football writer Barry Egan is interviewing John Delaney in an exclusive, Christ on a bike! Must have met him out on the lash.

Delaney is something of a clown, but tbf is a good communicator for all his other faults and is amenable to speaking to all and sundry.
Even if much of it is vacuous nonsense.

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

The renowned football writer Barry Egan is interviewing John Delaney in an exclusive, Christ on a bike! Must have met him out on the lash.

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Bazza truly is something else....!

The Sindo is basically for fellas in their 60's who aren't IT literate to oogle young wans in lingerie old enough to be their granddaughters while their wives are cooking Sunday dinner:rolleyes:

I see certain bookies have O'Neill at 1/32 now to be the next manager. Surely they can't be that wrong?

1/32 eh?

How appropriate.

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Tbf, never been an Indo' fan (generally a 'blueshirt' rag) but some of the soccer writers surprised me recently with their coherence and analysis of various pieces on the national team...
Dion Fanning et al.

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Sounds suspicious. They have decent writers, but unless there has been a complete sea change and they are writing about actual events instead of inventing them, as they did with egg on face circumstances before the Thorshavn game, I think you're being extremely kind. If what Georgio Byrneo has written is indicative of this, then I think you're being kind beyond bias.

As a mainstream public we get the mainstream media we deserve. Clowns given prime Friday and Saturday night tv gigs, paid for hate-o-mercials by the Indo and politicians destroying the country generation after generation.

Bring back Jack!

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Originally Posted by Spudulika

Bring back Jack!

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Lynch??
;)

The Indo regularly jump the shark, but with the Barry Egan interview I think they may have jumped an entire school. Everybody in entertainment knows that if you want a softball interview and a shoulder massage, you call Barry Egan, but this is something else entirely. Three hours?!

The O'Neill attack-piece is almost as baffling. The Indo are so eager to bash the next Denis O'Brien-sponsored appointment they haven't even bothered to wait to find out who it is. Expect 2-4 years of articles from the likes of David Kelly and Dion Fanning decrying the fact we could have had the tiki-taka of Hector Cuper but instead FAI politics led them to plump for Martin O'Neill, a manager so unadventurous and old-school he doesn't even trust our players to play football, etc.

O'Neill is at 1/6
Tricky will probably make his move before the evening curfew on bets.

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

The Indo regularly jump the shark, but with the Barry Egan interview I think they may have jumped an entire school. Everybody in entertainment knows that if you want a softball interview and a shoulder massage, you call Barry Egan, but this is something else entirely. Three hours?!

The O'Neill attack-piece is almost as baffling. The Indo are so eager to bash the next Denis O'Brien-sponsored appointment they haven't even bothered to wait to find out who it is. Expect 2-4 years of articles from the likes of David Kelly and Dion Fanning decrying the fact we could have had the tiki-taka of Hector Cuper but instead FAI politics led them to plump for Martin O'Neill, a manager so unadventurous and old-school he doesn't even trust our players to play football, etc.

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A cold thought just hit me. If O'Neill does get the job and hang on until 2018, we will have endured a full decade of the same 5 journalists writing the same article every week. What was it Vincent Browne said about a gun and a bottle of whiskey?

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Delaney is something of a clown, but tbf is a good communicator for all his other faults and is amenable to speaking to all and sundry.
Even if much of it is vacuous nonsense.

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except bout the FAI finances?!:p

Well, did say much of it is nonsense. Anyway, blame the rest of the FAI for allowing JD to continue regardless...

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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Well, did say much of it is nonsense. Anyway, blame the rest of the FAI for allowing JD to continue regardless...

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Some fans were chanting his name from the stands as well, ha

Think much of that was largely sarcastic...

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

The Indo regularly jump the shark, but with the Barry Egan interview I think they may have jumped an entire school. Everybody in entertainment knows that if you want a softball interview and a shoulder massage, you call Barry Egan, but this is something else entirely. Three hours?!

The O'Neill attack-piece is almost as baffling. The Indo are so eager to bash the next Denis O'Brien-sponsored appointment they haven't even bothered to wait to find out who it is. Expect 2-4 years of articles from the likes of David Kelly and Dion Fanning decrying the fact we could have had the tiki-taka of Hector Cuper but instead FAI politics led them to plump for Martin O'Neill, a manager so unadventurous and old-school he doesn't even trust our players to play football, etc.

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Here's my theory as to why Barry Egan did interview...

Wasn't Delaney out of country post Vienna, probably at some overseas Irish celeb wedding that Egan was at....???

Anyways whatever the reason, Bazza's football reporting continues next week when he interviews "Irish Singing Sensation" Carol Anthony about nabbing married former Welsh footballing beefcake heartthrob Ian Rush.... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Grafter

Here's my theory as to why Barry Egan did interview...

Wasn't Delaney out of country post Vienna, probably at some overseas Irish celeb wedding that Egan was at....???

Anyways whatever the reason, Bazza's football reporting continues next week when he interviews "Irish Singing Sensation" Carol Anthony about nabbing married former Welsh footballing beefcake heartthrob Ian Rush.... :rolleyes:

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Unless it was your one who slaughtered the national anthem before the Sweden match, I don't think Barry and John quite run in the same circles, but you never know.

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Originally Posted by TonyD

Yeah, but in fairness, it is George Byrne. And since when has his opinion ever been worth anything. I particularly like him dismissing the Scotish league as "mickey mouse".

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Even if it were such a league, O'Neill's successes at Celtic weren't limited to domestic Scottish football. Celtic did very well in Europe under him.

Reasonably so.

WGS & even NL have done as well in CL terms.