QuoteIf it is a bob/stan combination its a p!ss poor choice. I think Delaney is he trying to convince us he knows very little about football. That combination is so weak and so obviously gonna fall apart under any pressure.
No, fortunately he retired at the end of the last campaignOriginally Posted by Stuttgart88
"...and it's Charlie Chaplin on the wing..."
If it is a bob/stan combination its a p!ss poor choice. I think Delaney is he trying to convince us he knows very little about football. That combination is so weak and so obviously gonna fall apart under any pressure.
We'll be the laughing stock of international football with this appointment.[/QUOTE]
I dont thin its that rare for a Former player with no experience to take over the national team of a country. Esp the most capped player of all time. I dont agree with it but we would not be the laughing stock as it has happend throughout Europe.
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Lets also remember that Mick Mc Carthy had very little experience too as a managher. However I dont agree with this appointment of Staunton on his own but I will await what actually happens rather than comment on speculation.
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No, fortunately he retired at the end of the last campaign
Thats a bit harsh on Kenny Cunningham
So are you talking about Stephen Carr or Roy Keane
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All of the above were all legends for their various countries and held with great prestige by the fans and press. Staunton? A very average footballer who blagged a load of caps.I dont thin its that rare for a Former player with no experience to take over the national team of a country. Esp the most capped player of all time. I dont agree with it but we would not be the laughing stock as it has happend throughout Europe.
Mark Hughes
Marco Van Basten
Jurgen Klinsman
Stoichkov
What a load of rubbish you dont blag over a hundred caps. Staunton is our most capped player. He played in 3 world Cups in 3 different positions. I would put him up there as an Irish legend.
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Born and bred in Drogheda
On Robson's coaching experience statistics alone there is no debate, he makes all the rest look like kids in a playground. He is the most successful manager in the frame for the job since Bob Paisley. As a motivator I value him.
His age? he showed no (serious) signs of dementia with Newcastle. His record there leaves Souness in the dust. His coaching skills are with setting up attacking formations.
As he is a tracksuit coach for the training pitch you would wonder how much coherent football life there is left in him. Surely he is good for at least one campaign. And in combination with one of our finest footballers who has serious ambitions to learn the trade, I think if this is the FAI's thinking in the absence of O'Neill then it's smart enough.
Was thinking more of the Clyde Cannon-fodder but now that you mention Carr...
"...and it's Charlie Chaplin on the wing..."
If you can put Steve Staunton up there as an Irish legend, you obviously have a serious low opinion of some of our 'forefathers'.
Ps Peter Shilton - most capped English player - legend for the English? Don't think so.
He shouldn't be learning it with us.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Nope, international football won't even notice.
agreed. people have very short memories when it comes to staunton. he had the potential to be one of our top players but went seriously wayward for a few years.I thought he was one of our best players at WC2002 tho.Altho that only went to show what we had been missing out on for years. Dont think Robson was as highly regarded in some of the places he was at then it is made out. altho he is obviously no fool in football terms. think this appointment would be a total stab in the dark. it might work out and it might not. doesnt seem to smack of any real planning behind it. my guess is we will be going thru the same oul ****e in two years time....
I would think that peter Shilton is an English Legend also. I am not saying that Staunton is our greatest player ever but than again Northern Irelands greatest player ever was George Best and we would not have been a great manager for Northern Ireland. If you were picking one of Irelands greatest servants you would have to put Staunton up there.
The very fact that he played under Daglish, Charlton, Mc Carthy Atkinson Souness and played over a hundred times means that he knows good managers bad managers, what it means to be an ireland international. The set up within the FAI, what it takes to go to 3 world cups.
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glass already half empty????????
No, just commenting on our current status in the game. This won't make the news anywhere in the world except for a 10 minute slot on Sky Sports News which'd spend 10 minutes reporting anything anyway.
When Kerr was sacked it was the leading story in the sport section of Dutch teletext.
Not that impressed if Staunton gets it.
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Well done, your hunch looks like being spot on. Why not read it again
27/10/2005, 4:39 PM
silentbob
I know it isnt anything to go by but I just have a hunch that Stan would be the right man for the job, said it since the day Kerr was sacked as my post history will prove!! In as close to 10/1 now on PP aswell, which must show people are putting a few bob on him, think he was around 40/1 initially.
He was born in drogheda, just like half of dundalk and grew up in dundalk. No, he's a proud craptonianBorn and bred in Drogheda
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This stinks of minnowism.
Steve Staunton? What's the point in sacking Kerr if you are going to appoint Steve Staunton? Madness. Not letting him pick his backroom staff is another ridiculous decision. Bobby Robson as mentor? Have the FAI not learned from forcing Chris Hughton on Kerr? They should appoint a football man to MANAGE the affairs of the senior team, whether that be Staunton or anyone else, and let them MANAGE. let them appoint their own staff. Farcical.
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