Wonder did you say that about Brian Kerr in 2002 or Stan in 2006, as you said FAI is short for a strange bunchOriginally Posted by livehead1
Blame Geysir if you don't like the list.
Old Poll Results:
Code:David O'Leary 15 4.81% John Aldridge 7 2.24% Liam Brady 24 7.69% Roy Hodgson 50 16.03% Leo Beenhakker 31 9.94% Paul Jewell 29 9.29% Greame Souness 16 5.13% Steve Coppell 41 13.14% Otto Rehhagel 18 5.77% Other 81 25.96%
I agree.
I'd love to see Jol get it. The guy is available and I think he'd jump at it.
However, he certainly hasn't featured too heavily in the betting and I haven't seen anything that implies he's been interviewed. So, it looks like another top class performance from the FAI then.
If not him, then Coppell. If he doesn't want to leave Reading, then fair enough but I wonder if the FAI even approached him.
If we have to have someone from the list above, I'd take Houllier 1st and Hoddle 2nd.
However, I await with trepidation the announcement of Del Boy as our new manager.
I'll always support the team but I must admit (like many others I think) that I'll be very sceptical of Del Boy and wondering when he's going to try to take his payout and leave is in the lurch.
I voted for Deschamps; he's had success in league and cup play, and would bring a totally fresh approach.
That said, I like McCarthy and wouldn't mind having him back.
I voted for Deschamps as well.
Purely for the regular opportunity to hear Colm Murray say his name.
Houllier for me.
Vastly experienced French coach with a knowledge of interntaional management and hands on knowledge of the Premiership (where our players play for the most part) or a relatively inexperienced French coach?
Houllier fits the profile far better too in my opinion. Deschamps is of an age where I expect there's real risk of him leaving for a top club job.
i'll agree to differ with you on any tactical/selection debate but I just can't let that comment lie. As said on SEVERAL occasions my opinion of McCarthy as a manager has absolutely nothing to do with Saipan and was formed more around the time of the Euro 2000 qualifiers due to several baffling tactical and selection decisions which effectively cost us the chance to qualify for those championships.
Not every opinion on McCarthy boils down to Roy Keane and Saipan....
"Well I think they'll be a little disappointed with that" - Matt Holland on TV3 after 5-2 drubbing by Cyprus
Mick McCarthy for me. Got us to a WC finals. Has managed a lot of the current squad. And I believe Houllier and Deschamps are bookies inventions and have no interest in managing the Ireland team.
He might be a good option for us - not too many left now - but only if he changes his preference for a long ball game, we just don't have the players to make it work.
Which decisions were these that cost us the chance to qualify? The away game in Croatia turned out to be irrelevant, had we drawn it wouldn't have made any difference to the final standings. Bringing a midfielder on to protect a one nil lead in the final game isn't how I'd have played it but it's hardly rare and if Keith O'Neill had picked his man up from that corner it would have been seen as the correct thing to do and been forgotten about straight away. Away to Yugoslavia we played well and had a stone wall penalty against MCAteer not given, that cost us more then anything. So, I ask again, what were these several baffling tactical and selection decisions which effectively cost us the chance to qualify for those championships?
I thought an interesting team would be Trappatoni and Brady.
Then I thought Trappatoni is in the retiring phase of his career with Salzburg (being older than Giles). But I see he is one of the favourite for the Bayern Munich job.
I thought McCarthy did great for us too but in hindsight he should have left after the world cup and he lost the plot in the end.
I think we need to look forward. Houllier would be great.
At least now a few names are being bandied around who have actually managed in the past few years.
Houllier turned down the job before Christmas but Brady/Giles is still very much up and in the running. Nobody seems to know what Delaney's dealings with Venables are. True betting odds at the moment
Venables 6/4
McCarthy 7/4
Brady/Giles 7/2
Hoddle 4/1
Does anyone get World Soccer magazine? They have a one page article on manager salaries of the international game, and it would lead me to believe some of the figures bandied about here would be correct. The most expensive ones were obviously the England, German and Russian jobs but apart from England the other two were still only €2m p.a., not madly inflated from what will be on offer for our own job.
There were also some ridiculous ones. 80k was one salary, for Slavan Bilic!!!, some crazy ones too, Lars lagerback was on 100k.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Dont disagree JM, all it takes is a phonecall to ascertain any interest.
Fai - Giovanni, FAI here, would you be interested in the Ireland job competative salary 5 games a year , your own staff etc
Giovanni - no thanks
fine who's next on our list or
Giovanni - yeah maybe
FAI - right i will be over on the next plane for an informal chat (not a bloody interview), we are keen to tie this up
I've been saying this all along. At €400,000 p.a. (Stans wedge) the Irish job is more attractive than many. At €1,000,000 it is not only more attractive than most, I fear it could become a sticking point every and any time a result doesn't come up to expectations. "FFS he's on a million quid! sack him and get someone else in (on at least a million quid)" and the thing spirals out of control to the point where you're changing manager every campaign. The only winners there are the tabs.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
I'm not saying that this is new news, more that its proof to what we've been saying here all along, that the money Staunton package got (because remember OBR was part of that package @ 250k p.a.) was quite respectable and was better than many managers were getting in the international game.
Does it all come down to accountability? I believe it does. This process has been a joke from start to finish.
Delaney probably had no other choice but not to renew Kerr's contract, but to take that action and appoint the managerial package he did (regardless of OBR's) health was a bad mistake. It was such a bad mistake and on such good financial terms, that he was forced into leaving the appointment of the next manager, on even better terms, to 1 biased insider and to two men who have no standing in football.
The money thats available, the fact that it solely a senior international job, no underage and part time for most of the year, with a massive fan base, and a limited but relatively skilled work force (squad) to pick from, should have yielded better candidates than what have transpired.
I've been away for a while and have a lot of posts to read, but I'm getting the jist that Roy Hodgson was invited to interview the day he was offered the Fulham job. IF that is the case, then its the biggest indictment of the process so far. He was finished with Finland in November. November for the sake of Jebus.
I don't like the way this whole thing has been dragged out but it seems to me that a certain cockney wide boy was asked was he interested a few months ago, to which the response was positive, and the job was his to take over in early 2008. The interview lark was set up people applied, their applications were thrown out immediately and complete non-entity's were interviewed, while the process took so long that any aspiring successful candidates took up positions in club football leaving a choice of a cockney wide boy and nobodys. We all lose.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
I'd love to see the criteria which these two meet!
"I've a great idea lets get someone who has been out of the game for 20 years and get him to work with someone who could not hack it as a manager. Jaysus no-one will expect that."
Don't entirely agree with the Wiki piece below, but interesting nonetheless.
"Giles is widely acknowledged to have been responsible for not qualifing for the '78 world cup and the arrival of Jack Charlton a few years later showed what a good manager could do for the Republic of Ireland's future international success."
I was at Giles's last home game in charge and he was loudly booed. Everyone was happy when he eventually resigned. It is beyond bizarre that he would be appointed manager or co-manager. But this is the FAI.
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