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Good things:
Bit of spirit to the team
Picking Lee Carsley and sticking with him
Not so good things
Robbie Keane as captain
Team formations and player selection
Failure to pick Lee Carsley initially
Cyprus away
San Marino away
Slovakia away .. and our football in general.
Substitutions throughout his tenure.
Failure to pick Andy Reid for earlier games
Inability to interact with the media.
Stubborness to stick with the job even though he is not good enough at this moment in time.
am i missing something here? what have they ever done in international football? this is foot.ie not curling.ieQuote:
Originally Posted by SUB of the day
id say lots of countries would love our lack of interest. id imagine the 67,000 there was probably 2nd or 3rd biggest attendance at the weekend for a qualifierQuote:
Originally Posted by gspain
At least they still have a chance of Qualifying unlike us with Super Stan in Charge
Andy reid is over weight and has been shocking this season at club levelQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Yea you will get the people that keep coming out with well he plays a right back at left back and a left back at right back :rolleyes: John o shea is a center back/ right back but just because UTd played him out of position a few times people reckon he is a left back, Any way it makes no difference ive played on the left and being right footed it made little or no difference if you have small strikers its a good idea to have your full backs go inside rather than outside . As crossing from the byline to small strikers is pointless . But things like that arent taken into consideration by the boo boys .Quote:
Originally Posted by Ireland4ever
The rest of his teams have been chosen for him by injuries / suspensions etc .
And also its not Stans Fault that John O Shea went to sleep twice and cost us our chances of qualifying but still no boo's for him.
Finland have a very poor team, yet have a chance of qualifying from a much more difficult group than ours. Why? Because they have a manager who has tactical knowledge, and gets the best out of limited players. Roy Hodgson. of course he didnt come out with the bull**** that we 'are in a transition period' that Stauton has been mentioning. Simply put all the young lads that have come through in Stans tenure would have came through even if we had a good quality manager. Doyle, Long, McShane, J. O'Brien are all playing Premiership football. it doesnt take a gfantastic manager to realise they should have been called up
If Stan was sacked tomorrow which other team would have him as their manager? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Exactly!
I would not have booed him before the Slovak and Czeck games but with his pig ignorance in insisting he is right with his dreadful errors and everyone else wrong has I'm afraid lost him the right not to be booed. Supporters pay good money to travel to games home and away, he is being paid €450k p.a. Pay me that money and bo me all you want, but I would expect to be fired if I did not do my job.Quote:
Originally Posted by an_ceannaire
No other country's fans would put up with this.
thats the damn important point here. no other country at all would put up with this, so why in Gods name do we have to. We have been given a guy that is embarressingly out of his depth, and yet it looks like we will have to put up with it for two more years. Delaney probably looked at the example of Klinsmann and Van Basten and got excited. But they were different sort of players to Stan and it was easy to see that both of them would become manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scram
[QUOTE=anto1208;791828]Andy reid is over weight and has been shocking this season at club level
QUOTE]
:confused: Have you even seen him play. He is having a great season as Charlton captain.
...And this weight thing is getting boring now. Are you equating his weight to his fitness levels? He was Irelands fittest player against the Germans, never let up for the full 90 mins.
Thanks all - Keep 'em coming!
[COLOR=black]Has there ever been a point in Irish football where this many fans wanted the manager out. Does anybody have any faith that this man is capable of turning things around and having a good stab at getting us to S.Africa in 2010? I don’t think so. I would be really interested to know is there anymore than 10 fans on this site who want him to remain? Delaney only persists with him because he is his mate. This is what’s most frustrating; if Kerr had done some of the things Stan has done so far he would be gone along time, so why Stan should be treated any different? Delaney ya C***! – Apologies for the last remark but the more I think about it the more p*ssed off I get!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH[/COLOR]
Are you for real, he is having a great season. At the start of the season Alan Pardew gave him the captaincy to try and entice him to stay for the season and help them get back to the premiership. Thats how much he rates him.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto1208
Good Things
Improving the moral, initially.
Playing Carsley again
Bad Things
Inability to pick a team properly.
Inability to get on with the press.
Inability to tell Robbie Keane to f**kin stay up front and stop getting in the way in midfield.
Sticking with Keane as captain.
Douglas, eh not good enough.
Inability to handle the 'stable' Stephen Ireland.
His we always play well in March ****e he came out with.
His subs against Slovakia.
His (still) lack of experience.
He wont resign because of the wedge.
He looks daft.
His speaking is a cure for insomnia, that and listening to Katie Melua although she is far better too look at.
Joe Lapira, think he played him as a bet.
The whole Stan thing, Robson thinks his name is Stan Staunton FFS!
His treatment of Paddy Kenny.
The learning curve nonsense.
His obvious Yes man credentials, just ask his mate Delaney.
Barely beating San Marino.
Thumped by feckin' Cyprus !
His head.
What a stupid comment to make. he has been their player of the season so far(and they are second), if not player of the championship. Matt Holland writes for the Daily Mail, he is a team mate of Reids and he said that on two occasions this year Alan Pardew made the whole Charlton team stand up in the dressing room and applaud Reids performance. Hardly what you would do to someone that was 'shocking'. Plus during fitness tests while at Spurs, he was found to be one of the fitest players there. yes he is still slighlty heavy but he has lost weightQuote:
Andy reid is over weight and has been shocking this season at club level
Ha, forgot about that one!! this would be funny if it wasnt so god damn depressing :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Aldini98
Its an infuriating state of affairs at the moment lads, but sacking Stan will not solve everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by carloz
If Stan was sacked tomorrow we'd be thrown into the tortuous and drawn out process of trawling through the usual suspects of ex players and bargain basement failures who are currently out of work.
This will be the reality of the situation unless there is the highly unlikely event of the FAI having already got someone lined up.
As I've posted before - I wouldn't be surprised if other countries sound their new manager out behind the scenes BEFORE they sack the geezer they want rid of.
The FAI need to be ambitious in who they want to target for the job and do their damndest to get him.
Reid's ball for Keane's first chance is often the type of ball that helps win a tough game. Brilliant piece of vision and perfect weight of pass under pressure from decent opposition. The fact he was overlooked for the Slovakian game due to the "pitch" is just unheard of. The decision of someone who should'nt be the manager of our team.
:mad:When asked by reporters why Given and fullbacks didn't go forward in injury time, despite an apparent willingness on their part to do so,Stan accepted responsibility saying"obviously we wanted to win it, but I didn't want to risk losing either".....AAAAGGGHHHH 2 mins into injury time in a game we had to win.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!:mad:
Not so good things
No evidence of gameplans in any of the matches(san marino)
Doesnt seem to be at any premier league games
Continious failure include and subsequently start Hunt
Switching Finnan and O'shea
One dimensional predictable tactics
Robbie Keane as captain
never subbing or dropping robbie keane despite consistantly being ineffective
Playing keane as lone striker against wales
Failure to pick Lee Carsley initially
Cyprus away
San Marino away
Slovakia away
Daft subs against Slovakia - Jonathan Douglas / Gibson
Lack of target man for Robbie Keane
John O'Shea's numerous costly mistakes
Inability to deal with Stephen Ireland
Failure to pick Andy Reid in the squad for 1st germany game
making a holy show of the country, kicking the bottle in stuttgart, hiding behind houghton making faces in an interview
Bringin in the untried alan o'brien continiously , whilst leaing out experienced premiership players
Hiding behind bobby robson
I have nothing good to say about the ginger tosser..bar Joey O'brien and Paul McShane