Oh super Taylor part 2. A man that has managed such fine players as Mick Leahy.
Is your new king.
Allow me to be the first to say smashing appointment.
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Oh super Taylor part 2. A man that has managed such fine players as Mick Leahy.
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Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Is this confirmed? How long of a contract?
To be fair to him, he did a solid but unspectacular job at UCD. Should keep us up.
Was Fenlon just a pipe dream? Could we not match his wage/ player demands? or was he even interested?
Stop saying he had no budget, did well with limited resources at ucd etc. Its a state sponsored football club with the safest coaching job in ireland.
Club's not state sponsored.
And he did do well with limited resources and bugger all of a budget. Winning the First Division first time out was an amazing achievement given Shels and Fingal were in it too. Setanta Cup qualification first year back in the Premier. Then a big budget cut and never really hit those heights again. And then sued the club, which was a stupid way to end his time.
There's probably someone better that ye could have gotten, but Russell will do a job.
A job being safe isn't really relevant to anything.
Thing is we didn't/don't really need a manager that "will do a job". I always felt Taylor would have kept us safe. It's someone to drive us on is what we needed. There will be a lot more pressure on him to do well and bring us forward.
There is a few things I really don't want to hear from the manager or club:
1. Four Year Plan
2. Limited Budget
3. Stick with the young lads
4. Walk before we run
Yeah, that's fair enough. Russell had his ups and downs with us. Ups - first two seasons. Downs - last season in particular, and our horrific defensive record. He was putting himself out to a fair few clubs in the league towards the end of last season, but got no bites, which I found a bit surprising, but...
The phrase "A big club" is usually partisan pompous nonsense, but Limerick have to have the potential to drive on from where they are now and become a bigger club, maybe even a big club. I don't know is Russell the one for that. I think he'd be better than Taylor though. From my fairly limited exposure to Limerick, Taylor always struck me as a bit of a whinebag, too often looking to blame referees for his own team's shortcomings. I think Russell will be an improvement. How much by, I don't know.
We needed a manager who knows the league. Say what you will about Russell, he has that at least.
True, but I would think that's where the comparisons stop with any of those three, no?
True. Limerick can sign players too though.
Corry only played the last third of the season or so.
Still a hell of an achievement to pip Fingal and Shels to the title given I think one player (Brian Shortall) started the season with more senior appearances than the rest of the squad put together.
We can but we couldn't get people of Finns standard.
Shels made a thing of throwing away promotion back then though. A good achievement to get ye up yes but not that much of a surprise really didnt ye still have McMillan too.
You would know more about Russell than most im guessing and your description of him is really just meh.
Maybe Finn was an exception, but there's no particular reason ye couldn't find someone of his standard (especially with Sullivan's money, which we don't have). Ye signed our captain last season for example. Our main problem is that our players are talented but inexperienced. Your experience is a big advantage compared to us. It's hard to directly compare the two.
That was McMillan's first season (well, he played about five minutes the previous year). We had a good team, but they needed to be coached well. We played ye in the first game of the season and to be honest we didn't look any great shakes. We improved over the course of the season, and that was down to Russell's coaching. But against that, while we tried to play passing football under Russell, our defence was porous, shall we say. If he can improve on that at Limerick and still coach well, he'll do ok with ye. If ye start defending like ye did, ye could be in trouble.
I think he's an improvement over Taylor. If that comes across as meh, then I guess it's still an improvement.
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