I know McDonnell was talking about the vocal responses he got to his tweet on the story he posted but I don't think it's indicative of the whole fan base. I'd say it's fairly split on Daly at the moment as he's gotten some good results and has us trying to play better football, but the first couple of performances weren't too convincing and he obviously still has the Clancy link to him. Don't think he's doing his chances any harm at the minute though if he keeps getting results while we're offering the job to fellas that don't want it.
I did acknowledge that. Lennon obviously far more experience as a manager, and won titles with Celtic. So yeah, maybe not the fairest comparison. It was more the high profile ex international angle I was referring to. Lennon clearly thinks he’s above the league here ( and maybe he is) so I’d say all round we’re best out of it.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
according to media reports he is in genuine contention for the Olympiacos job. There would still look to be a considerable gulf between any LOI club and the clubs that Neil can still attract interest from. Seems a but over ambitious from St Pat’s although no harm in asking I suppose.
In fairness to Daly it's hard to change things straight away and he got a couple of wins in the first two . I think he's starting to show that he's got his own ideas and is'nt just a Clancy clone . I like that he makes changes quickly when things are'nt working in matches , which is something Clancy never seemed to do.
If we get a good performance and result against Dundalk to back up the result at Tolka i'd be happy to see him get the rest of the season.
https://m.independent.ie/sport/socce...495849668.html
Fleetwood bid for Ryan Graydon and rejected by Derry…
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Daly confirmed as Pats Boss
https://www.the42.ie/jon-daly-st-pat...74222-May2023/
He has done well in his games in charge so can see the logic behind it.
I agree with you, was just saying that was the general outlook of some of the fan base.
For what it's worth I'm content enough that he's gotten the job. I don't think any of the other names going around were particularly strong candidates and he's had an encouraging albeit small sample size of results.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Little off topic, but if there is any National League that is on a downward curve, its the Greek league. Normally they were ranked in around the tenth spot a few years ago in European Country coefficients, but now have fallen to around the 20. They scored less than Ireland this year. Big clubs there, but big problems too.
They did start a round later in each case in fairness; that's a big difference. Olympiakos also got into the Europa League groups, which is a harder group than the Conference League. The rankings are going to be a bit wonky around where we're getting to - when you get so high you start in round 2, you end up missing out on coefficient points and then dropping backwards again
Its a league that normally would have a team or two go that go a few rounds past the group stages, but this year finished with just above half of what Ireland got. Its a league that would normally stradle in the upper middle tier of European football - far above our teams struggling in the qualifiers. I dont know why you would have to make this weird point as surly it would only make sense for a league like ours, not a league with massive teams expecting to reach multiple knockout rounds.
What's a weird point? You said they scored less than Ireland, which is true - but it's very relevant that all their teams skipped a round and didn't get points for that round.
The year before Paok got to the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
Missing out on one qualifying round should not be expected to affect a league of this stature so much.
anyway, the original point was just about how Greek football is struggling at the moment. Nothing more or less.
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