Next Ireland manager?

[Stuttgart88]

A People's Vote.

[zero]

not sure what happened there ... anyway some other names : Pekerman, Phillipe Cocu, Holloway, Paulo Sousa, Carvahal...

[TrapAPony]

So, who do you want TAP?

I think someone like Chris Hughton would be good for us long term but is obviously not going to leave his premier league job.

However, I think the FAI will end up going for Mick McCarthy with someone like Robbie Keane as assistant.

[nigel-harps1954]

Lot of names being thrown out, but would certainly prefer to see someone who already knows the Irish system, the players involved, willing to base themselves within Ireland or the UK and willing to keep an eye on the LOI.

[DeLorean]

I think someone like Chris Hughton would be good for us but is obviously not going to leave his premier league job.

However, I think the FAI will end up going for Mick McCarthy with someone like Robbie Keane as assistant.

So would McCarthy be your preference of the options you think we could get? I agree Hughton is probably a non-runner right now.

[TrapAPony]

So would McCarthy be your preference of the options you think we could get?

Age aside...from the free agent list it would have to be Arsene Wenger

[peadar1987]

I'd be very happy with Kenny or Wenger (Wenger!!), but could definitely live with Mick Mac and Robbie Keane as #2. Does Robbie still live in LA though? Would that be a sticking point?

[Stuttgart88]

Age aside...from the free agent list it would have to be Arsene Wenger

We'd go from not being able to string two passes together, 25% possession and no shots on goal to endless passes, 75% possession and no shots in goal

[brine3]

What has Robbie done to merit a coaching position? Let him get experience at club level first. We're not a charity.

[liamoo11]

Agree no high profile assistant please. I'd love Brian mcdermot with carsley coming in as coach/assistant. I'm sure the entire bill would be less than half a million a year

[backstothewall]

So, who do you want TAP?

Actually, a poll might be intersting, Tets? People's preferred choice. Maybe use Walsall's list and whoever else has been mentioned by now?

Updated list, with those employed, critically ill, or finally laughed out of football removed, and new suggestions added.

Also, who is this Walsall? I know you're far to polite to be calling me by my deadname

Allardyce, Sam
Arena, Bruce
Blanc, Laurent
Bosz, Peter
Bradley, Bob
Bruce, Steve
Carsley, Lee
Carvahal, Carlos
Cocu, Phillipe
Coleman, Chris
Cook, Paul
Goran-Eriksson, Sven
Hasenhüttl, Ralph
Holloway, Ian
Jardim, Leonardo
Jokanovic, Slavisla
Jol, Martin
Keane, Robbie
Kenny, Stephen
Klinsmann, Jurgen
Lennon, Neil
Lopetegui, Julen
McCarthy, Mick
McDermott, Brian
Mihajlović, Siniša
Monk, Gary
O'Leary, David
O'Neill, Michael
Pékerman, José
Queiroz, Carlos
Schaaf, Thomas
Schuster, Bernd
Sheridan, John
Sousa, Paulo
Stöger, Peter
Van Gaal, Louis
Van Marwijk, Bert
Wenger, Arsene

[DeLorean]

Alphabetical order n all, Tets will be so proud.

[Eminence Grise]

McDermott and Carsley is not a bad call, Liamoo11. I've always had a hunch McDermott would give it everything given how thwarted he felt as a player tied to England. I agree with avoiding high profile assistants just because they're big names. A bit of work experience with the u21s wouldn't harm them at all! But also, I wouldn't want them shoe-horned into an arrangement where the new manager needs one to legitimise his appointment or because he doesn't know Irish players.

[geysir]

I think Big Sam and his entourage would be out of the FAI's price range (thankfully).

If it's going to be Mick, Delaney will already have had a chat with him and I'd say he will be announced soon with no pretense of a trawl for a candidate.
My enduring memories of Mick's time are of the growing up of Robbie in front of our eyes, Duff v Holland and v Spain - unbridled world class brilliance. Perhaps all that puts a gloss on Mick's actual managerial prowess, like those years where his Ipswich team was reckoned to be coma inducing.

[backstothewall]

I think Big Sam and his entourage would be out of the FAI's price range (thankfully).

If it's going to be Mick, Delaney will already have had a chat with him and I'd say he will be announced soon with no pretense of a trawl for a candidate.
My enduring memories of Mick's time are of the growing up of Robbie in front of our eyes, Duff v Holland and v Spain - unbridled world class brilliance. Perhaps all that puts a gloss on Mick's actual managerial prowess, like those years where his Ipswich team was reckoned to be coma inducing.

Look at where that Ipswich team are now though. There is a strong argument looking back to say the Heath-Robinson job Mick was doing there was the only thing holding it together.

[backstothewall]

Ohh. We have a bite. And he's even on my list : )

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a8645201.html

[brine3]

Mick Mac is a 4-4-2 dinosaur

[Razors left peg]

Why has Dave O'Leary never gotten another job in football?

[Olé Olé]

Niall Quinn on Off the Ball and appears to be advocating for Stephen Kenny.

When I say we appears to be advocating Kenny, he had done it in a diplomatic way only he could as he cites that he knows a lot it interested parties and would lose a lot of friends. But he spells out a list of criteria for the next manager and concedes Kenny fulfills a lot of them.

[backstothewall]

What has Robbie done to merit a coaching position? Let him get experience at club level first. We're not a charity.

I have to disagree with this. I think it would be great to have him about the place given our current dearth of striker options.

He's one of the best natural goalscorers I've ever seen. I'd happily find a role where he could learn from the more senior coaches, and the likes of Obafemi, Idah & Connolly could learn from him. I don't ever see him as a manager, but who better to lay out cones and maybe pass on a few tricks of the trade to the youngsters coming down the pipeline.