New Irish manager

[Colbert Report]

John Sheridan will be the next Irish manager, but not for a few years yet.

[Bondvillain]

Kevin Keegan(we' might win most games 5-4)

So you reckon Keegan's settled on recalling Kenny and Pairing McShane & O Shea in defence then?


Ah thats cruel. I'm joking. I've no venomous hatred for Kenny or McShane.....

I'd go for Souness, purely to see the bulging neck-vein brigade go absolutely apoplectic at his appointment, or Claudio Ranieri , who I was thinking about just after the final whilstle last wednesday.... simply to see how he'd get on tinkering with our set up :

• No interfering "hands on" chairman insisting on picking the team, with wodges and wodges of money

• No wodges and wodges of money

• a half dozen lads who are a bit 'good at football'

• a half dozen who'd be more at home in the conference,

• and a dozen or so who have at least one world beating 90 minutes in them before they hang up their boots and go run a Pub in Marbella.

Realistically, I'd have no problems with either Aldridge (Personable, historically strong in 'cup tie' type fixtures, shouty, a bit mad) or Sheridan ( A gent, clever, knows how to motivate cloggers to beat pros) but by the time the job comes round, Delaney's donkeys will most probably have decided that it's Dave O Leary's turn.

[macdermesser]

Steve Coppell

not sure he has ambitions to manage a big club (after his experience with Man City) He would certainly warrant a big job after working wonders with Reading.
Gives the impression that he prefers to work with more of a challenge .. and the Irish job at the moment would certainly represent that.

Stiofan O' Capail for Ireland!

[NeilMcD]

We are not going to get anybody that is in a job already as they will pay out on Staunton and probably should pay out on Delaney so does not leave much to get the new management team in place.

[Bluebeard]

Not that I'd have a problem with him, or his various crazinesses per se, but has anyone else noticed the fact that we are seriously looking at appointing a former Rangers player and manager as boss of the national team.

My God, but Stan has seriously managed to build bridges in a way Miss Mary Mac never did! We should appoint him to head the negotiations between Sinn Fein and the DUP!

[carloz]

but has anyone else noticed the fact that we are seriously looking at appointing a former Rangers player and manager as boss of the national team

really doesnt bother me anyhow. Id imagine he would at least ut a bit of passion in the team. He has at least got a personality unlike Stan. Just for example watch a Stan interview and a Keane interview. Keane talks sense and often throws in a joke or two when talking to th media, i personally would prefer to headbutt the wall than sit through a Staunton interview. I think Ranieri has taken the Parma job so he is out

[DmanDmythDledge]

Stephen Kenny or Roy Keane.

[EalingGreen]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Peter Reid.
I'm not saying he's a good manager or a bad one, but he's experienced, available, probably not too hard to pay, not likely now to get a job with a "big" club in England and I think I remember reading once where he said his favourite holiday destination was Ireland (so he'll get on OK with the locals).
Maybe Delaney could sell him as "Big Jack Mk.II"?

[cavan_fan]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Peter Reid.
I'm not saying he's a good manager or a bad one, but he's experienced, available, probably not too hard to pay, not likely now to get a job with a "big" club in England and I think I remember reading once where he said his favourite holiday destination was Ireland (so he'll get on OK with the locals).
Maybe Delaney could sell him as "Big Jack Mk.II"?

I know you have it in for us but good god, I wouldnt wish that on England

[EalingGreen]

I know you have it in for us but good god, I wouldnt wish that on England

I'm not saying he'd do a good job, merely pointing out that he's always in the list of "usual suspects" for this sort of thing.

Because, let's face it, you're not going to attract a big name like e.g. Marcelo Lippi or Jose Mourinho;
Roy Keane would cost far too much even if asked (which he won't be), or even if he were interested (which he's not, I'm sure)
The likes of John Sheridan may be promising, but is too inexperienced (imo), especially after a complete novice like Stan.
Mid-career managers like O'Neill, Allardyce, Curbishley, Strachan etc are not going to be enticed by what is essentially a part-time job, at this stage in their career.
You're not going to appoint an Eircom manager.

So once you get beyond the obvious Irish candidates who've managed before, like Aldridge or O'Leary, it's liable to be another English/Scottish appointee, with a lot of experience, who's nearing the end of his career.
And if Dalglish is a possible, then someone like Reid may not be too far behind?

[eirebhoy]

Roy Keane would cost far too much even if asked (which he won't be), or even if he were interested (which he's not, I'm sure)

Keane will almost certainly be future Ireland manager. Doubt it'll be any time soon though.

[Kingdom]

I can't get the head around this mentality of us needing a British or Irish manager.
Can't say I'd be too impressed if Aldridge was offered the job , as its been fcukin yonks since he managed a team. I would like to see someone appointed who has a certain amount of ability as well as being confident enough to hoof the wasters and chancers out to buck up their ideas. If someone was to offer a setup akin to Kerr's with the backbone to stand up to the useless cnuts we have representing us now, then I'd be happy. Obviously results would be a bonus.
As for the old foogies on here, I'm not old enough to remember the bad old days where we were humiliated repeatedly. And I don't fancy starting now. There are kots of fans like me too I'd imagine, hence the viciousness of the abuse aimed at Stan et al.

[Nailer77]

I can't get the head around this mentality of us needing a British or Irish manager.
Can't say I'd be too impressed if Aldridge was offered the job , as its been fcukin yonks since he managed a team. I would like to see someone appointed who has a certain amount of ability as well as being confident enough to hoof the wasters and chancers out to buck up their ideas. If someone was to offer a setup akin to Kerr's with the backbone to stand up to the useless cnuts we have representing us now, then I'd be happy. Obviously results would be a bonus.
As for the old foogies on here, I'm not old enough to remember the bad old days where we were humiliated repeatedly. And I don't fancy starting now. There are kots of fans like me too I'd imagine, hence the viciousness of the abuse aimed at Stan et al.

Good post! Why follow the English mentality? Why insist on an Irishman getting the job when he's not the best candidate? Its a **** poor arguement for hiring a coach. I want the best man for the job not neccessarily the best Irish man

[zenokelly]

Don't be counting your ckickens before the 2 games in March.

2 half decent performances and Delaney will be laughing. - with an excuse!

[eirebhoy]

I have a feeling we'll do well in both games. As long as Stan picks the right team I'm happy.

[DmanDmythDledge]

As long as Stan picks the right team I'm happy.

That's a big if...

[SuperDave]

well if bobby robson was picking it, we'd have carl cort up front with gary linekar and shay wondering why bobby was still calling him peter

[danonion]

I can't get the head around this mentality of us needing a British or Irish manager.
Can't say I'd be too impressed if Aldridge was offered the job , as its been fcukin yonks since he managed a team. I would like to see someone appointed who has a certain amount of ability as well as being confident enough to hoof the wasters and chancers out to buck up their ideas. If someone was to offer a setup akin to Kerr's with the backbone to stand up to the useless cnuts we have representing us now, then I'd be happy. Obviously results would be a bonus.
As for the old foogies on here, I'm not old enough to remember the bad old days where we were humiliated repeatedly. And I don't fancy starting now. There are kots of fans like me too I'd imagine, hence the viciousness of the abuse aimed at Stan et al.

Aldridge has loads of ability didn't you see dancing with the stars?

[The Bit O'Red]

Right, well it looks like the inevitable will happen soon enough. I personally didn't shout for Staunton out this evening. It's harsh on Stan, if the FAI had offered me the job I would have taken it too, he's just not up to it, doesn't have the qualities or the experience and the national job isn't the place to learn either. The man/men who appointed him and promised us a 'world class manager' should be held accountable. I also don't see the point in getting rid of Stan until somebody else is lined up or else as happened after Kerr was sacked we'll end up with somebody who's not up to the job cause the position was filled in a hurry. We now have months, prob until June/July 2008 to sort out a new manager.

So who do you think it should be? Be realistic. As far as I can see there's no available Irishman up to the task.

May is suggest.......Leo Beenhakker.

He's coached at Ajax, Feyenoord, Real Madrid & Real Zaragoza.
He's led Trinidad & Tobago to the World Cup where they gave a decent account of themselves.
It now looks like he'll get Poland to the Euro's at the first time of asking.
He speaks English.
If the Poles and Trinidad can afford him surely the FAI could too???

Just putting it out there, could do worse me thinks, any views?

[SuperDave]

Right, well it looks like the inevitable will happen soon enough. I personally didn't shout for Staunton out this evening. It's harsh on Stan, if the FAI had offered me the job I would have taken it too, he's just not up to it, doesn't have the qualities or the experience and the national job isn't the place to learn either. The man/men who appointed him and promised us a 'world class manager' should be held accountable. I also don't see the point in getting rid of Stan until somebody else is lined up or else as happened after Kerr was sacked we'll end up with somebody who's not up to the job cause the position was filled in a hurry. We now have months, prob until June/July 2008 to sort out a new manager.

So who do you think it should be? Be realistic. As far as I can see there's no available Irishman up to the task.

May is suggest.......Leo Beenhakker.

He's coached at Ajax, Feyenoord, Real Madrid & Real Zaragoza.
He's led Trinidad & Tobago to the World Cup where they gave a decent account of themselves.
It now looks like he'll get Poland to the Euro's at the first time of asking.
He speaks English.
If the Poles and Trinidad can afford him surely the FAI could too???

Just putting it out there, could do worse me thinks, any views?

just the problem of him being at poland and possibly qualifying there. i here there's some portuguese guy available.