As soon as McCarthy, if he gets the job, puts out his first unusual selection, the RTE panel will tear him to shreds and it will go downhill from there. In other words, the RTE panel want to pick the team and want to pick the formation and want their favorite players in, and if the manager doesn't go along with it, they start the usual Giles-Dunphy tag-team antics.
The truth is whatever an Irish manager does, Giles-Dunphy will make sure to take the opposing view, usually for the sake of it, particularly Dunphy, a man who never managed anywhere.
You could bring in Pep Guardiola as manager and Dunphy would be saying he knows nothing, not a great manager, etc.
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