Otago's new player manager

**pineapple stu** · 25/10/2005, 8:50 PM

Otago in New Zealand (Dunedin, I think) have unveiled a new player-manager. Their website described him as the highest-profile signing ever in New Zealand club football. He is...

**The Legend** · 25/10/2005, 9:10 PM

very strange, how did u get wind of that?

**pineapple stu** · 25/10/2005, 9:12 PM

I actually can't remember now. I think it was in the Sunday Times or the Irish Times or somewhere. Surprised he's only 38 though, considering he's been with Charleston Battery for the last three-ish years.

**sligoman** · 26/10/2005, 12:13 AM

He's gonna manage us sometime. Said he wants to in the future, his mother was from Sligo ya see

**finlma** · 26/10/2005, 7:46 AM

That came out a good while ago and was already mentioned here. I lived in NZ for a while and the standard of football is woeful. I played while I was there in what was supposed to be a high standard league and I wasn't very impressed.

**Plastic Paddy** · 29/10/2005, 7:52 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

He's gonna manage us sometime. Said he wants to in the future, his mother was from Sligo ya see

Tubbercurry actually. She was at school with my mother.

PP

**sligoman** · 29/10/2005, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy

Tubbercurry actually.

I know it was Tubbercurry, I just didn't feel the need to say that here cos I doubt too many people know where that is

**pineapple stu** · 29/10/2005, 10:33 PM

Bonus point for his mother's maiden name...

**sligoman** · 30/10/2005, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Bonus point for his mother's maiden name...

**livehead1** · 30/10/2005, 3:36 PM

its all about gurteen, the home of irish music and culture....tubercurry's full of knackers

**dr_peepee** · 30/10/2005, 5:58 PM

Ah Terry!! Remember he got in trouble for sticking his thumb in some dudes eye one night during a fight. Who says hot head don't make good managers?

Hope he does well!!

**sligoman** · 30/10/2005, 6:00 PM

Originally Posted by dr_peepee

Who says hot head don't make good managers?

Jack Charlton on the late late last week

**pineapple stu** · 30/10/2005, 6:18 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

What?

I think the mother's maiden name was Phelan. Wasn't he christened Terry Skeffington, but his parents divorced when he was young? Correct me if I'm wrong...

**TerryPhelan** · 30/10/2005, 8:22 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

What?

I think the mother's maiden name was Phelan. Wasn't he christened Terry Skeffington, but his parents divorced when he was young? Correct me if I'm wrong...

Gentlemen, please excuse my lengthy absence from the forums of late. Apart from taking time out to weigh up my options for the next step in my glorious autumn career of possibly (a) running for the vacant post of Irish manager (with Liam Daish and Brian Carey as my right-hand men), and (b) returning, Keano-like, to international football to shore up our creaky defence and add a bit of bite to our left side, I have also, as you so well noted, uprooted and shipped over to New Zealand. Obviously being the highest profile signing in the history of the NZFA brings a lot of celebrity with it, some unwanted. However, being no stranger to the limelight, I am prepared to overlook some of the more scurrilous comments made about my hometown of Tubbercurry and the reputation of my mother (spot on, Pineapple Stu - Tezza, much like Ryan Giggs, took his mother's maiden name after the da walked out on them).

I hope you will all will me well as I accustom myself to cantering down (both sides of) southern hemisphere touchlines, and put in a good word for me with the next manager - I can still do a job at left back.