QuoteCork seem to be turning that to their advantage in a way by signing decent Corkonians back from England like Healy, McSweeney, O'Flynn, Kearney and Gamble.
Think youse have the same problem Steve described re Derry - location i.e. not that many players want to go to Cork. In the long term, that could be good in a perverse kinda way though, cos it'd put more emphasis on development of young players coming through the ranks.Originally Posted by micls
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Cork seem to be turning that to their advantage in a way by signing decent Corkonians back from England like Healy, McSweeney, O'Flynn, Kearney and Gamble.
Couldn't be happier with Cook personally. Most honest manager ever. Just hope he gets the funding he needs to stay on for next season.
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It's wrong to only judge Pete Mahon on the basis of the first team's performance. He's rebuilt the club's youth structures since he-who-cannot-be-named left and that's a lot more important to us in the long run than where the first team finishes.
Rico certainly has his failures but City are great entertainment and the Connor/Doolin style of play would really test my patience.
Contrary to most I think he's done great when given a free hand in the transfer market ie this year.
Long term thinking sometimes infuriates me.
The attitude to our pre-season and initial few games this year was disgraceful.
Of the eL usuals, I'd only swap him for Scully.
City definetly have the best bands playing at half-time.
O'Bama - "Eerah yeah, I'd say we can alright!"
G.O'Mahoney Trapattoni'll sort ém out!!
Cousins seems to have the respect of the players which is unusual for a Galway United manager. Most of the players he brought in this season are damn good and only make a lot of the players that he inherited look inadequate. Hopefully, Cousins has learned a lot from his first full season in charge and will up the ante in 2008.
His job spec for 2007 was to implement a full-time set up, avoid relegation, and have a good run in the cups.
Two out of three 'aint bad.
On the downside, Cousins loses points (literally) for the following two reasons:
1, he commutes from Dublin on a daily basis whereas all of the players reside in Galway
2, the quality of the football is sometimes just muck
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nothing to do with the quality of football (or extreme lack of it) or the fact he sh1ts himself if we take a lead and pulls everyone back into the area and plays to the corners even if there is a half an hour left!!!!!
I think promotion next season for us or Keely's doubters will regroup and get at him again. Can;t fault him on much this season. Needs to give a few players a kick up the arse (Chambers, Leech, Flood et al) but whether we'll actually have any of those players at our disposal next year, who knows? The 1st division is so fluid in terms of transfers that i'd be suprised if ten players from this year's squad remain for 2008
Pete Mahon is invaluable to UCD but I'm not sure if it suits the club to have him as first team manager. As Bald Student pointed out, his contribution to the club in terms of restructuring (or is that rebuilding?) the club's developmental and scouting setup is immense. I feel he's not getting the best out of those players he's so good at bringing into the club though. I think the way forward for the club is to have him as a director of football overseeing the whole operation with someone younger to coach the players and select the team. Some of the descriptions of what's going on with the club suggest something like that but I don't know if that still includes Pete as manager. I'm not desperate for him to be kicked out the door or anything but I feel we're not doing as well as we can.
Rico has done a good job at a difficult time for us but I get the feeling, he'll bow out after the Cup Final, hopefully on a high.
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Good topic !
I`m very happy with john gill, 2nd place and 3rd place in two seasons, won a play off the first (well he did), ok this season wasn`t good as we led by 6 pts in june, but certain players didnt perform and our defence was ravaged by injuries all summer. In saying that the state we were in before he arrived (9th, 8th, 5th) not to mention the off field situation, we are in much better shape now. Its just taking a year longer than we expected.
He`ll do a good job for us long term.
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I was going to say I was pretty happy with Rico, but having read the story about the new crest on http://www.corkcityfc.ie/index2.htm I think the club should be immediately disbanded and all associated with it locked up.
A man can have no greater love than give 90 minutes for his friends.
I meant to say for winning us the league!
Nonsense. Fenlon delivered the title to Shels, Doolin likewise to Drogs. What more do you want ? OK as you point out (yet again) they had big budgets, but haven't you noticed ? That's what happens in football. Man U, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Milan, Barcelona. Do you think they are successful because a) They have genius coaches, or b) They have more money than most of the competition and can afford the best players.? I'm not saying that you don't have to have a good coach, but sackfuls of cash sure helps. Do you think for instance, that if Arsene Wenger took over UCD next year you'd win the league ?
As for Johnny Mac, he had bugger all money to spend in his first season, and steadied the ship. He had a bit more second season and improved the league position and got to a cup final. This year, with an increased budget again he got to second in the table. That seems like good progress to me.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Cook has been great since he came in ,he says it as it is .hope he stays
Say what you like. He gets results. His targets were top 4 finish in the League ... Bohs ended up 3rd. He wanted to do well in the Cups , 1 Final and 1 Semi-final is better than almost all the other teams in the League managed.
I am happy with Pete Mahon as a manager , the back up team of coaches too. I'd sack some of the team though. They completely failed to perform in League matches for about 8 weeks.
Two 0-0 draws in a row when we're fighting for our lives? Don't think we created more than 3 clear chances in the Galway and Rovers games. Have the play-off Gareth, we'll see what happens after that.
Allez les Bleus
he doesnt get the important ones, like winning cups to qualify for Setanta and UEFA, not mickey mouse sh1te like the InterToto. Furthermore, tactically he leaves a lot to be desired, his team plays sh1te football and he spends money very poorly. 20 odd signings and only a handful that have added to our team in any significant way.
Am i happy with Sean Connor? No.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
I think having to manage a team like UCD with it's resources would be a superb test for someone like Mourinho or Wenger. And yes given his (i.e. Wenger's)track record of finding young players from anywhere and developing them, he'd add some amazing foreign talent to the squad ( e.g. 2 strikers who can hit a cow's arse with a banjo week in and week out) and we wouldn't be in the relegation danger we were in during the last third of the season for sure.Win the League? Maybe not, qualify for Europe... probably!
Mahon's got the best network of Irish talent around, but as we all know Irish players don't score goals in large numbers in this League and stay there very long. Wenger has the best network of young talent in the world. And without dough that's the way he would have to go.
Absolutely. But I still think they're poor managers. They could (should) have won the league by more with the resources at their disposal, or done better in Europe. A better manager would have done this.
Fenlon was shown up at Derry. Did he suddenly become a poor manager overnight? I don't think so. Ditto Doolin when he went from UCD to Drogheda. I don't think you can call someone a good manager because they have a big budget. You have to take their budget into account when rating them.
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