Here's a random one , comes with a health warning as my source is normally good but also has been spectacularly wrong before
Paul Ozam !
Yay!
Random early 00s nostalgia!
He is managing the Ireland under 17s so it's not completely random. Also pretty sure he did some coaching senior as well just can't remember where
Tony Cousins, get a bet on him gents
Someone's bound to give Ollie Horgan a ring soon,give that man a bit of money and its curtains for everyone!!!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
True and also while finding the neative about having too much money to spend!
Ger O'Brien would be a good choice, and popular with the fans but it might take a while for him to get up to speed. as I said in earlier post it depends where Pats see themselves next season, if they want to challenge then a more experienced manager may be the pick but if they are willing to build and give him some time GOB ticks the boxes. Ozo doing well at coaching underage but too big a step up at this point.
O'Brien doesn't have the pro badge yet but depending how far along with his badges he is there's a pro course coming up that if he's enrolled on it he could take the job.
Another route they could go is promote the u19 staff who seem to be doing a decent job
When he was with Longford there was a strong suggestion that if Buckley lost his next game that Cousins was primed to replace him, he was even spotted at a succession of matches at the time. I’ll personally laugh if a free flowing St.Pat’s appoint a hoofball dinosaur who hasn’t been in work since he dunked Longford but anyway.
Delighted with Lee Desmond signing a two year deal today, good timing as well with the reports coming out this morning that Rovers were after him.
Makes you wonder what the plan is though, it's a no-brainer on our end to make him an offer but presumably he could and would have gotten better offers elsewhere, and he spoke on the plans the club has in place as being a part of his decision. Added to that Ger alluded to how they're apparently trying to get other business done before the end of the season, all of this without actually having a manager in place. Seems a strange one unless the plan is to appoint from within.
Yeah as I said it's a no-brainer on the club's end, I'm more so thinking about it from Desmond's perspective. Even when taking my Pats hat off I think it's fair to say he's one of the best defenders in the league, and wouldn't be short on offers, likely better ones than Pats could offer at that (though maybe now that Fagan is essentially off Desmond will just take over the kind of wage he commanded). Just makes me wonder if maybe there's some set plans in place for next season already for him to be willing to stick with us this early.
I expect the club owner(s) would have a plan in mind for next season irrespective of who the manger is. likely that a manager who is a good 'fit' with whatever way they want to go will be appointed.Nowadays you cant expect good players to hang around (to be fair to them they want things sorted ASAP) so its not like the club can ask players to hang around until we sort out the manager gig (which is likely not going to be until the season ends).
It is always a risk you end up with a player the manger doesn't like/rate but that's the risk you have to take. player must have some positive feedback on how the club is going to make them want to resign
Last edited by marinobohs; 28/09/2018 at 10:26 AM.
Someone mentioned Fenlon. He doesn't seem to have any interest in full-time management anymore. The Reynolds link was complete fish and chip paper talk just because he had been coach under Buckley. He wouldn't be going to Dublin.
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