has Rico actually applied? Or is he just being linked with it like hes linked with every job?
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has Rico actually applied? Or is he just being linked with it like hes linked with every job?
paper have said hes applied but who knows? a lot of these names could be pure pie in the sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
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Originally Posted by Duggie
Cook had sweet f all experience when he arrived so i would not rule it out on that basis.
Sligo have a history of appointing managers from outside Ireland. Don O Riordan is the last manager i can remember them having that had Loi experience and before that Keeley
If it was up to me I'd go for Kilbane with someone as a mentor. Has still a couple of years good football in him too. If you could get him with someone like Rico that would be a sure winning team.
I presume the likes of Kilbane, little, Newell etc would want a min wage of €1,000 a week plus free accommodation.Could Sligo afford this?
Rico would be the best person for the job if Sligo don't want to employ someone outside the league. Would Sligo fan be happy if Gerry Carr got the Job?
From what I read Kilbane doesn't have the necessary badges, I think similar to Darius Kierans a couple of years ago except Kierans was actually in the process of getting his whereas I think Kilbane only has a B license.
He had already managed Southport hadn't he?Quote:
Originally Posted by gordongekko
For about 6 months before being sacked, so yes 'sweet f all experience'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
Kilbane doesn't have the coaching badges to manage team in Europe but I'm pretty sure once you're registered for the course he could manage us? Or is there another badge needed before that?
Put Rico in as Director of Football, in the proper sense, not in the makey uppy British way that is a recipe for disaster. Like they do in Europe. Then let Kilbane or whoever coach and get on with it. Let Rico build up a proper youth structure with scouting and development, and within 3 years Sligo will be in the EL groups.
In between all the marquee names like Kilbane, Little etc. Johnny McDonnell is easily the best name I've heard so far . . .
2 runners-up finishes in the league so wouldn't lack the personal motivation / appetite to win a title
Led Pats through 2 rounds in Europe
Was able to get the most out of the "mercurial" Quigley
Unlike many, McDonnell hasn't been out of the game since leaving the LOI (has been adding to his experience with Kerr, the Faroes etc.)
Miles ahead of the other names imo.
Won 0 trophies with us on a huge budget. Wouldn't be too happy if I was a Sligo fan and he was one of the lead runnersQuote:
Originally Posted by freewheel30
Fair enough, no silverware, but how much of that was down to the likes of Drogs and Bohs at the time having even bigger budgets?
Someone like Rico wouldn't have the drive / desire to win a league title now, and none of the other names I've heard would have enough experience of the LOI.
True about Bohs and Drogs but we never even game them a good challenge, Although that Bohs team was probably the best LOI team in maybe the last 20 years (maybe level with the Shels team from the early/mid 00's) but still not even a poxy league cup with. Nothing
Joke no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
What part? Maybe the Kilbane bit, but the rest is possible. Especially with a decent youth set up.
Pats budget the year they finished second to Bohs was higher than Bohs or Drogs (and possibly highest ever LOI budget) at close to 3 million (FAI published budgets). They finished 19 points behind Bohs (4th highest budget listed).Quote:
Originally Posted by freewheel30
To be fair, that was an awesome Bohs team that lost once (Fahey rocket home V Pats) before clinching the League title so no real reflection on Johnny Mac, good football man and (on what I heard from players) decent coach.
Oh and John McDonnell is a very poor manager
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Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
So Sligo are on the verge of imploding.....???
I hope rovers appoint soneone with serious ambition - if rumours are to be believed then someone like Little would be a disaster for the club and would jump ship at the first opportunity to go back to England , someone like brian Kerr would be ideal on that basis - at the same time it's great to see this job has attracted so much interest
Jesus, when are the FAI going to give our clubs proper media training. This is one of the reasons the LOI is in the mess it's in. The content of this should never be made public. Let alone on the club website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Sligo are comedy gold, havent laughed as much in a very long time.
At the very least they shouldn't have allowed an 11 year old child pen the statement!Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Only a generation of laughing to go before youre record is beat so.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoops1
How do you work that one out? I assume the "whole generation of laughing" you are referring to is the period between 1987 and 2009, which is comical, as even during Rovers' darkest years we still won more league titles than Sligo!Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
P Stu, over to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17149243
Former Preston caretaker manager David Unsworth has turned down the chance to manage League of Ireland side Sligo Rovers, BBC Sport understands.
Rovers are without a manager following the departure of Paul Cook to League Two side Accrington Stanley. The 38-year-old was recentlyNorth End's joint caretaker boss alongside veteran midfielder Graham Alexander. Unsworth was also believed to be among the front-runners for the Accrington job prior to Cook's appointment. The former defender had a successful playing career, mainly at Everton where he made over 300 league appearances in two spells, winning his one and only full England cap in a 2-1 win against Japan in 1995. He spent the 1997-98 season at West Ham, then famously signed for Aston Villa before re-signing for Everton in the same month in 1998, remaining there until 2004. Spells at Portsmouth, Ipswich, Sheffield United, Wigan, Burnley and Huddersfield followed before he retired from playing to concentrate on coaching.
Unsworth's last game in joint charge of Preston, following the appointment of former Stevenage boss Graham Westley, ended in victory with a 3-2 win at home against Wycombe, and he has since left the club.
Class.
He might have been worth a punt, plenty of experience at the top level. surely has plenty of contacts in England. wonder why he turned you down?!Quote:
Originally Posted by dong
I heard he's highly thought of in Sweden from my Swedish girlfriend's Dad. Heading there apparently.
Or maybe he read Paul Cooks open letter to Sligo fans, or better still he probably had a look at Sligos twitter page the other night. Did your chairman pay him while he was being considered for the job btw? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dong
I think he would have been worth a shot for sure. Played at the highest level for so many years in England. Has a world of experience in dressing rooms with top managers. Was always a leader on the pitch, surely would have been decent as a manager.
I hear Staunton has his name in.
May God have mercy on us allQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Brian Little to be announced next few days supposedly
http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/soccer_irish/87194/
Little's recent managerial record is less than impressive.
This is one crazy roll of a dice for Sligo IMO,good luck to them.
'don’t do our fighting in public there is no winner in this'
Is this for real?
i think everything thats happened in the last few weeks highlights what a joke of a club sligo really areQuote:
Originally Posted by micls
Get your house in order Sligo, know your limits...
No. The Swedish girlfriend thing is better. I loved that story when you first told it.Quote:
Originally Posted by askmehoop