Originally Posted by
Bondvillain
I appreciate the differences between ourselves and England's FA. Thats why I pointed out the difference in resources, and the fact that Capello was their man for the job, not necessarily ours.
As an example though, Hodgson did express interest to the FAI, and while not wanting to slight my country, I think he's more our speed than Capello.
And what happened? He was interviewed, presumably to be told "We'll let you know. Thanks for coming" and Fulham came up and said "Want a job? Like, Right now? " and he took it.
Whether he would have been a fly-by-night and jumped ship early for a better offer had we appointed him is now an irrelevant point, as because of the sheer length of this interview process, we'll never know, but we may yet rue not grabbing him with both hands at first time of asking.
My original point was, you cannot expect someone in the field as volatile as football management to be still interested in a vacancy nearly 3 months after it has arisen (For clarification : Im using the actual 'nearly three months' there - 24th Oct to 18th Jan, as opposed to the one that removes days for Christmas, Halloween, Eid and Chanukha ).
I still believe the FAI lacked courage in not headhunting, and that the interview process is a weak alternative. Dragging an interview process out this long frustrates genuine suitable contenders, and if they ARE any good, they'll be snapped up elsewhere, leaving us with a choice between the unemployed and the unemployable.
