Heimir Hallgrímsson

[ontheotherhand]

Whatever about the value of a training camp and the timing of it, not briefing the league or managers about the idea is another clumsy move by HH. Comes across well but he really needs to pay more attention to what he says. Bradleys response was a bit OTT for me but he's right to say something. Be interesting to see what O'Brien has to say. He'll have time to think about his response and be a bit more diplomatic.

A friendly would've probably made more sense, but even then you'd want to be talking to the clubs involved. Preseason has come a long way from a few friendlies and wind sprints. For Rovers and Shels every day will be carefully planned given the short turnaround time. We saw how badly the wrong workload can affect things when Shels took the title last season.

Good craic having a league manager challenge the national team manager all the same. It's good for the overall picture in the long run.

[Nesta99]

Yeah cause thats a regular headache for LoI clubs playing in to December. Wait til its happened 4 or 5 years and maybe not just champions practically parachuting in when they have a half decent seeding. It was more a question to HH rather than a formal we're telling everyone now publically. I doubt there would be no contact with clubs considering clubs need to be notified. Which would people rather Trap saying there is no league in Ireland or Halgrimmson saying he wants a domestic based international camp to assess possibilities?

Last year after Rovers Conference group performance you could argue that players merited serious consideration for a full camp call up and Bradley saying so is backed by performance. This season its a different picture, underwhelming against similar/lower seeded sides. Pick your battles, how and when also. Kind of fits the profile of a manager deflecting attention away from results/performance, if Bradley is calculated in his response for this reason then he really is maturing as a manager. I just dont think that is his reasoning but..

[ontheotherhand]

Yeah cause thats a regular headache for LoI clubs playing in to December. Wait til its happened 4 or 5 years and maybe not just champions practically parachuting in when they have a half decent seeding. It was more a question to HH rather than a formal we're telling everyone now publically. I doubt there would be no contact with clubs considering clubs need to be notified. Which would people rather Trap saying there is no league in Ireland or Halgrimmson saying he wants a domestic based international camp to assess possibilities?

Last year after Rovers Conference group performance you could argue that players merited serious consideration for a full camp call up and Bradley saying so is backed by performance. This season its a different picture, underwhelming against similar/lower seeded sides. Pick your battles, how and when also. Kind of fits the profile of a manager deflecting attention away from results/performance, if Bradley is calculated in his response for this reason then he really is maturing as a manager. I just dont think that is his reasoning but..

Not sure what you're getting at. It doesn't matter if it's a regular occurrence. It's the reality this season.

It doesn't matter if clubs would have been notified, they should have been consulted before it was brought to the media. It's very basic stuff Nesta. Even if it was a good idea, you don't just casually bring it up in the media without doing the background work.

Rovers didn't parachute in. We got there the hard way, beating a Portuguese team on the way. Not sure why it would matter either way tho. We want our teams playing into December.

[Eirambler]

Heimir in until Euro 2028. Very happy with that news - had the fear that he'd stand aside for O'Shea if we came up short in the playoff. Let's face it, we landed on him by pure chance, but he has been a significant improvement on what went before.

[Razors left peg]

Heimir in until Euro 2028. Very happy with that news - had the fear that he'd stand aside for O'Shea if we came up short in the playoff. Let's face it, we landed on him by pure chance, but he has been a significant improvement on what went before.

Right decision, he earned the contract by getting us to playoffs. Might have different thoughts on it if we get a hammering next week but overall Id rather keep him than spending the summer searching for new manager again

[tetsujin1979]

The independent went to Heimir Hallgrímsson's home town

[geysir]

One strange bit in the beginning of that story is the masochistic aspect of journeying to Heimar's Westman Island, if the weather is good then it's a 3 hour road journey followed by a short 40m ferry, but if the weather is bad then it's a 45 min road trip to Thorlak's harbor and endure a 3 hour ferry across a very choppy sea (puke bag not optional).

[Crosby87]

Yeah when his wife gets mad he is home late he says Heimer is not to blame-er

[Kingdom]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026...-close-we-are/

"We have talked about our identity," Hallgrimsson said.

"We want to be the best organised, the best defensive team, and that's what we work on every time we come and meet. Again, we want to be the best in set-plays, we want to improve on set-plays every camp that we come together as a team.

"And then focus on discipline is so important at this level. John talked about the margins that happen in games, in setpieces. We want to improve this. Focus on discipline is not only yellow cards etc, but we have conceded too many yellow cards in this campaign that led to, for example, (Liam) Scales couldn’t play against the Czechs. So we need to improve in that area.

"We have talked about duels and that is something that we have been improving a lot. We like to win our one-v-ones.

"And then we would like to be a forward-thinking and fast-attacking team. Again, we are repeating the same things and I hope you see progress in possession for us.

"Just to put it into context, one bad day in Czechia, doesn't mean a bad life. It’s a setback, yes, but we are looking at this as a journey. Limit the setbacks and learn from the setbacks, so if it happens again, we can know what to do and improve."

I don't like these comments.

[John83]

I do. There's life in this team, and fight. They keep playing like this, the stars will align sooner or later.