Kerr open to eircom League return

[Roverstillidie]

I think I read in a newspaper a few days agoe that Roddy has another full season on his contract after this season. Is this true? I thought he was finished this season? I pity Rovers if they are stuck with that l@nger for another season.

he is contracted until the end of next season.

but notice how he has been very quiet the last fortnight, a cynic might thing he got a formal warning of ssome description

its all coming together!!!

[TonyD]

IMO what he did with the Irish underage teams was far more impressive than two titles in LOI. He got those teams to perform at a level that was light years above where they should have been at. Or are you telling me that the Pat's sides were only average sides that he got to overachieve?

No BigMac, my point was that this image of him as just a kids manager is off the mark. He actually spent longer managing "grown up" footballers than youths. Since you mention it though, neither of those Pats teams had a lot of star names, or big earners on them, so that is further credit to Kerr in my book. You're right about over acheiving with the Youth teams though. One of the many stupid statements from Cathal Dervan in his recent bilefests against Kerr that really got my goat was his assertion that these teams were the best bunch of young players that Ireland had ever had. The facts don't bear this out. If it was true the majority of them would have made the breakthrough to the senior team, in fact very few of them did. Of the under 18 winners I think only Robbie Keane and Damien Duff have come through(And both had already played at a higher level for Ireland), of the under 16 team I think only John O'Shea and Andy Reid have come through. So what those teams in fact had in common was a bloody good coach.

[Jerry The Saint]

Since you mention it though, neither of those Pats teams had a lot of star names, or big earners on them, so that is further credit to Kerr in my book.

And, with the exception of Pat Fenlon, the careers of Kerr's players took a backwards step after they left Pats (I believe Fenlon and Oso are the only players to win a league medal elsewhere). So on Kerr's title-winning teams he had one or two exceptional talents (Fleming, Gormley) and a bunch of limited but hard-working players.

Pats lost the title on the last day of the season in 87/88 - If John Delaney had been chairman at the time he probably would have sacked Kerr...

[bigmac]

No BigMac, my point was that this image of him as just a kids manager is off the mark. He actually spent longer managing "grown up" footballers than youths.

Fair enough, I'm in total agreement with you really. Didn't mean to suggest that he was only a kids coach, but I do think that that's where he had his best achievements.

[Éanna]

Isn't that very good of him. What was it you said Brian? That "you get what you deserve in life." Well you got what you deserved Brian, the only pity is you were sacked for the wrong reasons, moron.

[Jerry The Saint]

Isn't that very good of him. What was it you said Brian? That "you get what you deserve in life." Well you got what you deserved Brian, the only pity is you were sacked for the wrong reasons, moron.

So what were the right reasons to sack him then, if not "performance and results, oh and the FIFA world rankings" as stated by John Delaney?

[ColinR]

So what were the right reasons to sack him then, if not "performance and results, oh and the FIFA world rankings" as stated by John Delaney?

obviously not playing the entire cork team for the qualifiers, sure they won a few games in the intertoto and the uefa cup

[Dodge]

Brian Kerr is god. I challenge anyway to prove otherwise!

[ColinR]

Brian Kerr is god. I challenge anyway to prove otherwise!

brian is not god, he's just a very naugthy boy

[Roverstillidie]

here is one,

which dublin clubs chairman is meeting him for lunch today?!?

answers on a postcard....

[Éanna]

So what were the right reasons to sack him then, if not "performance and results, oh and the FIFA world rankings" as stated by John Delaney?

His ignorant and disrespectful comments about CCFC and the league in general about the Doyle transfer would be a good starting point. As would his interference in CCFC's business as regards the sacking of ****** Dolan.

[Jerry The Saint]

disrespectful comments about CCFC

There's a whole lot more people who deserve the sack if you call that a good reason. If you can supply evidence of these disrespectful comments then we might be able to get Kerr re-instated as Ireland Manager!

(Blah, blah, he couldn't be arsed finding out where that loser club you knocked out came from, blah, blah, he started building the Ireland team around Kevin Doyle the second he signed the contract with Reading )