i have a feeling that sir bobby wil be asked to help recruit the new manager
"Assistant Kevin MacDonald and goalkeeping coach Alan Kelly have also been axed but Sir Bobby Robson will stay on as International Football Consultant."
How will this affect the search for a new manager?
"You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers."
i have a feeling that sir bobby wil be asked to help recruit the new manager
Was he crazy!! Yeah , in a very special way , an Irishman.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
"The Board will select people, with considerable football experience in the professional game, to appoint the new manager".
I'm sure an International Football Consultant has to be involved here otherwise what are we paying him for. But this is the FAI we are talking about ....
exactly , also he is up for review after the campaign so he can be let go then if needs be
Was he crazy!! Yeah , in a very special way , an Irishman.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
well .. it rules out the Bora guy who is 63 or something ..
Can you imagine two pensioners managing Ireland? Gift Grub would have a field day with the "odd couple" or "grumpy old men"
This suggests that outside help will be used to select the new boss:
An FAI statement released earlier in the morning read: "The FAI board will now seek to appoint an outside adviser from within the football industry to assist them in the recruitment of a successor.
"The board will select people with considerable football experience in the professional game to appoint the new manager."
Under-21 boss Don Givens will manage the Ireland team in their final Euro 2008 qualifier against Wales next month, while Delaney confirmed
there should be news on the appointment of the FAI's advisers in the next seven to 10 days.
"The board are meeting in a week or a week and a half's time to look at individual names in terms of appointing a couple of advisers to make the next appointment," he said.
"You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers."
As long as it's not Bryan Hamilton again !!
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
Yes. Unfortunately for the FAI they forgot in their misspelt press release what Robson's title suggests he is paid for. Or do they know what they are paying Robson for? Or was this a hurried press release with a lot of waffle to end the matter regarding Stan. A lot of questions left unanswered - but what do you expect from the FAI?
Actually, I think it's bordering on disgraceful that Robson is being kept on but it all comes back to the FAI's incompetence.
€250k per annum I believe but he's been off sick through most of it. Considering they were originally paired as a double act, should Bobby not go himself and stop taking money for nothing?
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well would you want him near the decision making? Just read the David Kelly piece in the indo this morning .. if you can get past the "he's a decent man to have a pint with and good fun to boot" malarkey .. he makes the point that
"It's a difficult leap for someone of Delaney's substantial ego to countenance but being brave enough to make such a gamble could preserve the well-being of Irish football and, perhaps more pointedly, his job."
So its probably more a move to save his neck ..
What a Joke Bobby must have more Doctor bills he wants us to pay for him.
The FAI absolutely fears the press. Yesterday's farce highlighted this again. You have to ask yourself why? Is there something else they're trying to cover up? Time for a tribunal methinks![]()
[QUOTE=frankbrett;799226]"Assistant Kevin MacDonald and goalkeeping coach Alan Kelly have also been axed but Sir Bobby Robson will stay on as International Football Consultant."
He won't be there after the Wales game. It's only until the end of the campaign! Makes no difference does it.
'And Crouch must score'
Honest! I am not a secret Tim nor a closet Sham - I really am a Seagull.
John Delaney wants to make decisions but doesn't want to take responsibility for them. Only in the FAI ...
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