New Irish manager

[Flawless]

http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=c...=2787&Itemid=9

The Board of Management of the Football Association of Ireland tonight met with Don Givens, chairman of the selection panel set up to recruit the next manager of the Republic of Ireland senior team.

Speaking on behalf of his colleagues, Don Howe and Ray Houghton, Don Givens gave the 10 Board members an outline of the process to date. This was the first report to the Board since the selection panel was appointed and mandated.

The Board is satisfied that significant progress has been made but understands that more time is required before the panel return with a recommendation. The Board accepted that there had been positive engagement with a significant number of candidates.

The Board is confident that the search for a new manager for the Republic of Ireland senior team will be concluded in the near future.

I apologise in advance, for my outburst. But they are a bunch of ******* who dont know a football from a Testicle!!
When are people gona realise Delaney is nothing but a fcuking bluffer and get rid of him and the shower of FAI **** artists!

[billybunter]

we are officially the laughing stock of europe. Fulham and Newcastle appoint a manager within a week or two of firing one - but our '3 wise men" need 4 fookin months?

[boovidge]

to be fair Fulham and Newcastle play games week in week out. And in the case of Newcastle their choice was hardly awe inspiring.

..But i agree that it's ridiculous. The 'big announcement' announced nothing

[irishfan86]

we are officially the laughing stock of europe. Fulham and Newcastle appoint a manager within a week or two of firing one - but our '3 wise men" need 4 fookin months?

We don't play competitively for months.

Last time we were hasty in appointing a manager, and look how that turned out.

This 3 wise men route is measured, perhaps too measured, but I'd rather a thorough approach rather than a rush job to quickly appease the masses.

It is important that the new manager has time to prepare for the qualifiers, I understand that; however, it is important that we find the right man, and if that means delaying the appointment for half a year so be it.

[eekers]

Brian Kerr appointment - 12 weeks
Steve Staunton appointment - 12 weeks 3 days
Time since Stan was sacked - 13 weeks

So we're pretty much right on schedule, considering this is a more complicated and thorough process than we gone through before. Stop whinging that Newcastle took a week to appoint a manager and the "will they just appoint venables and get it over with" bull****.

[irishfan86]

Well said.

[osarusan]

I can see your argument, but it's got nothing to do with time frames or schedules.

England acted quickly and got Capello, and nobody accused them of "rushing it" (and I know they have more money, and it is a valid point). If Ireland take 6 months to hire a manager, and it is Venables, then all the care and the measured approach will have meant nothing.

The important thing is to get the best person available.

There is a difference between being careful and procrastinating. I think the FAI, as a result of the Staunton shambles, have over-reacted and created a system that appears to be painstaking in its detail, a system which will leave no stone unturned.

But at some point a decision needs to be made. And if the extra-careful approach means that some managers who might otherwise have been interested are no longer interested, then the approach has hindered, rather than helped, the search for the manager.

[gufcfan]

I can see your argument, but it's got nothing to do with time frames or schedules.

England acted quickly and got Capello, and nobody accused them of "rushing it" (and I know they have more money, and it is a valid point). If Ireland take 6 months to hire a manager, and it is Venables, then all the care and the measured approach will have meant nothing.

The important thing is to get the best person available.

There is a difference between being careful and procrastinating. I think the FAI, as a result of the Staunton shambles, have over-reacted and created a system that appears to be painstaking in its detail, a system which will leave no stone unturned.

But at some point a decision needs to be made. And if the extra-careful approach means that some managers who might otherwise have been interested are no longer interested, then the approach has hindered, rather than helped, the search for the manager.

I agree 100% with that comment. They are feigning intelligence. They feel the longer the amount of time they take for the appointment, the better they will look, whatever happens in the end. This 3 man commitee is also a joke. Passing the buck of responsibilty. Theve made a shyte of it all allong, now they just want to deflect the blame elsewhere...

[Bluebeard]

Irishfan is right. In fact, possibly better wait to get the right man. While I'd prefer someone there to get to know the players during the friendlies, who knows who might be available if we wait until the Summer, or even after the Europeans! Better to wait and get the right man than to go now and take Roddy Collins.

[Ash]

TodayFM this morning had a report that Liam Brady was offered a position
in the FAI and turned it down so that has thrown a spanner in the works.
Whether ir was the managers job or Tech Director etc., they couldn't say.

[onceahoop]

Irishfan is right. In fact, possibly better wait to get the right man. While I'd prefer someone there to get to know the players during the friendlies, who knows who might be available if we wait until the Summer, or even after the Europeans! Better to wait and get the right man than to go now and take Roddy Collins.

We can't wait until after the Europeans. We kick off our world cup campaign on September 6th. We've a friendly in Oslo in August, not to mention other friendlies before that which are there to help a manager formulate his plans.

They've complicated the thing so much that they've tied themselves up in knots.

[Noelys Guitar]

The first thing that will be thrown at the new manager and the FAI if things go wrong in any of our first four games will be this farce of a process. We only have a few games before the real stuff starts in September for the new manager to get his ideas across to the squad. Instead the new manager at best will be watching the Brazil game from the stands. His new team will be playing on fixture dates set by somebody else (and as Bernard O'Byrne has already stated a ready made excuse if things go wrong). And we have 2 real minefields for our first 2 games. Toppmoller the type of manager we should have been looking for must be rubbing his hands at our dithering. He will have Georgia primed for that first game.

[Block G Raptor]

I'm not so sure that the selection committee is stalling or procrastinating. there is a very real possibility that nobody wants the bleedin' Job

[Stuttgart88]

It's frustrating and the process has holes in it but the difference between having a manager in place 4 weeks ago and appointing him next week is marginal.

[Kingdom]

Toppmoller the type of manager we should have been looking for must be rubbing his hands at our dithering. He will have Georgia primed for that first game.

Another example of a poor footballing nation, with little heritage of their own, with a poor economy, acquiring the services of a decent continental manager. Why we can't look beyond the Premiership is a joke to me.

[Noelys Guitar]

I'm not so sure that the selection committee is stalling or procrastinating. there is a very real possibility that nobody wants the bleedin' Job

You might not be far wrong. Something has happened between Monday when Delaney made his comment of a significant announcement and last night when a bland statement was released by the FAI. The reports of Brady turning down the managers job are complete ****** as he himself has said he wants the job. The reports that say hs turned down a role other than manager might be correct but why would that prevent the naming of a new manager unless Houllier and Venables have turned us down.

[Block G Raptor]

Houllier and Venables have turned us down.

Thats my gut feeling at the moment

[Wolfie]

From the Indo -

"Gerard Houllier is still favourite to be handed the role with speculation last Sunday in the UK that he was ruling himself out proving to be premature.

But the Frenchman will not be making his intended engagement in Dundalk this weekend at the joint coaching conference being staged by the FAI and the IFA. Due to personal reasons not connected to the managerial situation, the ex-Liverpool supremo will be unable to make the journey.

There has been persistent speculation that Houllier might form a managerial team with Liam Brady as his back-up as the solution to the FAI's problems.

Brady was punted heavily yesterday and a number of seperate sources intimated that he had been offered some sort of the role within the new set-up although not, perhaps, the number one role".

[biscuit]

the rumour mill is churning big time this morning...alot of people down here backing brady big time this morning due to some tip off!its a joke!

[ainsie]

Honestly. If you were looking for a job and saw how badly your new bosses were running the company you were applying for ,would you want to work there knowing that you will be the scapegoat eventually for their inability to run their business.

Its the same here. How long can say 10 interviews take? Bad management.

Conspiracy theory: Total amount per year for manager and all backroom staff. € 2m. = 166,666 a month x 4 months 666,666.00 saved by end of Feb.

I know its a load of Sh1t but would not put it past them.

I see my conspiracy theory is already in the selection team thread.Oh well.