Yep. Also "Footballer really wants to play for his country". I like that in an era of players retiring from international football in their 20s.Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Irish Times headline runs "Keogh questions Trapattoni over selection procedures". By tomorrow this will have turned into a full scale player strike among my rugby friends!
Twitter provides a forum for the publication of opinions and information of dubious newsworthiness that otherwise would not have been made publicly known and, therefore, not afforded further media exposure or public recognition. As you highlight, it confers upon such expressions an air of significance that would not have been enjoyed prior to the existence of social media. We live in an information age, however.
It's actually true, whenever I want to feel superior I read RTE comments section
On twitter, think Keogh tweeted that comment at half ten and in sports chat on Radio 1 at 11am it was the lead soccer story... bit ironic how Gibson chirped into the conversation with his two cents as well.
If anyone actually wants to read anything meaningful about the Sweden game The Examiner has actually decided to report on the match, Trap's thoughts on Dunne, Brady and Coleman and generally interesting stuff. Shame on them for breaking ranks like that!
http://examiner.ie/sport/soccer/trap...ng-241023.html
Trap needs to get on Twitter; might be the quickest way to get a response to his communication attempts from Gibson!
As an international football manager, you're looking at a pool of maybe 30 - 35 players who are likely to be selected at any one time. There's always going to be a core group of players who are always going to make the squad, but I'd say each one of those players reckons they have a decent shot of making the squad, and each one is going to be disappointed if they don't. You pick 23 players, the question is, what's the etiquette around notifying some or all of the 12 or so players who don't make the squad? The basic ground rules need to be:
1. Not every player needs to be told every time that they're not in a squad.
2. If you picked a player in the previous squad and have decided to not pick them this time, you need to call them and tell them.
3. When you call them, give them a reason as to why they're not in your squad. "You're not being picked for your club". "I've gone for a more physical side this time around". Whatever.
4. You don't need to keep ringing that player for every squad after that.
5. Texting is not appropriate. It's too open to misinterpretation and it's asynchronous. A 5 minute call will inform the player and give them a chance to ask questions and save the inevitable back and forth that texting causes.
If you follow those rules, players know where they stand. They know they'll get a call one way or another having been involved in the previous squad. They're not going to take to Twitter and spout shîte. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask a manager to spend 20 minutes making calls to previously involved players.
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An Andy Keogh tweet makes it to headline news?
You're kidding, right??
sadly, no
I think a phone call is more awkward than anything for the player tbh. I would rather just find out and not have to do any heavy breathing. I mean what do you try to do, lobby some FAI employee? So well um...did Trap say why? Ask if you can talk to Paola? And what if the guy doesnt pick up, like Gibson, and you leave a message? Do you call again to make sure he got it? Bit like a Seinfeld episode.
Keogh should count his blessings.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
At this stage who cares, it's all a mess and we're just waiting for Trap to jump ship.
Trap has more than a few old communist strains in his Opus Dei blood, considering his praise of the noble proleterian art of workmanlike football having such great value, over and above genius.
“Some players sing, while others carry the cross,” he said. “You must go and work. Creative players don’t usually have this habit as they only play violin.
“Brady is creative but Sweden have a right-back [Martin] Lustig who is like Coleman. If you don’t run back, he will go and make a cross.”
Lustig's form is hot or luke warm, depends on his fitness/injuries, lately he's just putting in a string of average shifts. But even at his best, he'll not offer a special threat, at least not anything any Irish midfield player hasn't seen before or cannot cope with.
Lustig isn't great but surely if he has an inch he can put in a good cross, and Zlatan is about eight feet tall. Still, I doubt Walters' defensive capabilities are above Brady's.
The dangerous cross threat is great in theory but a good cross from open play is a rare sight.
Our central defenders are more likely to be able to deal with that sort of thing than a crafty Zlatan and his one man show, picking up the ball around the D, passing to himself, then picking up the return from himself, before nonchalantly flicking the ball into the top corner with his little toe, from 20 metres.
As long as this kid is in front we will be fine.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Swedish squad announced: http://svenskfotboll.se/arkiv/landsl...upp-september/
translated: http://translate.google.com/translat...rupp-september
"But to Norway Collection was a bit different conditions. Then, with Rasmus. Now is not available Rasmus and then I think Kim will be here."
That sounds like Trap speaking.
Rasmus will no doubt be tweeting his displeasure about this perceived slight.
I believe that Trap passed away a number of years ago and what we've been seeing is the first prototype Google-translate using, "Foreign Manager With Many Honours-bot", which has been utilized in this case by the hitherto useless Marco Tardelli. This bot values workrate stats and loyalty stats above any other football-related assets and will continue, hell-bent, and not for turning until his software is terminated by the organization which currently own the copyright. In this case, Denis O'Brien, the billionaire tyrant.
Or we're all just fictional computer sprites in a game of Football Manager, in which the player controlling Trap has chosen to 'go on holiday' for several years.
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