Terry Venables

[Stuttgart88]

I actually know Joe Hackett senior, very nice man. Top class tennis player in his day.

"Rapid response to meet crucial deadlines" - maybe Hackett's should choose the manager!

[Schumi]

Fair play to that photocopier.

[shakermaker1982]

if El Tel is in Dublin then we are ******. Any sightings?

[Bondvillain]

if louis van gaal becomes ireland manager i will stop attending matches and quite possibly watching them, he is odious, arrogant and completely and utterly in the grip of a napoleonic complex,

I cannot stand him , file under W with rednapp , jamie and shearer ,Alan.

Im actually not on the selection commit-tee, but when Delaney runs out of Pro-venables people to join his task force and rings me, your objections will be duly noted.

However, should we draw the Crimea in the next Euro qualifiers, his complex may prove invaluable.

[geysir]

I propose that 2 votes for Venables be removed.

Noely's vote - drunk at the time and pressed the wrong button.
Cymro's vote - I object to the validity of his voting rights.

[Dr. Ogba]

I propose that 2 votes for Venables be removed.

Noely's vote - drunk at the time and pressed the wrong button.
Cymro's vote - I object to the validity of his voting rights.

indeed...and the rest should be removed because, well, if they're voting for Venebles then their opinions shouldn't really count should they?

[Cymro]

Well, my vote may be invalid, but I do think you could do worse than Venables. Maybe not the ideal candidate but the ideal candidates all seem to be ruling themselves out! Or at least being linked with other roles.

[lionelhutz]

I honestly believe that Venables would do a very good job if appointed.

I believe as an international manager the first thing you need is the respect of the players - Venables would have this. Secondly, it would help if you had experience, knowledge and success in international football - which he has (although i know some people argue he wasn't that successful). Finally, you need to be able to select and organise your best team in the space of a few days so that every player knows their role and performs it to the maximum. My opinion is that he would be able to achieve this also

[Drumcondra 69er]

I honestly believe that Venables would do a very good job if appointed.

I believe as an international manager the first thing you need is the respect of the players - Venables would have this. Secondly, it would help if you had experience, knowledge and success in international football - which he has (although i know some people argue he wasn't that successful). Finally, you need to be able to select and organise your best team in the space of a few days so that every player knows their role and performs it to the maximum. My opinion is that he would be able to achieve this also

What makes you believe this? He certainly didn't have it at Leeds, (even Lawrenson who's in favour of the appointment admits that he was told that by Trevor Birch).

I think a lot of todays' footabllers view him as someone whose time has been and gone. England certainly didn't look organised when they played his favoured Xmas tree formation at any stage during the last campaign (away to Croatia for example) and her can't pass all the blame onto McClown for that.

[geysir]

and he can't pass all the blame onto McClown for that.

He did

[Drumcondra 69er]

He did

I know but who really believes that other then his buddies in the meida who ran the stories designed to distance him from McClaren.

[btid1]

I honestly believe that Venables would do a very good job if appointed.

I believe as an international manager the first thing you need is the respect of the players - Venables would have this. Secondly, it would help if you had experience, knowledge and success in international football - which he has (although i know some people argue he wasn't that successful). Finally, you need to be able to select and organise your best team in the space of a few days so that every player knows their role and performs it to the maximum. My opinion is that he would be able to achieve this also

Ok that may be two positives but what about the 20 negative points you have chosen to ignore?

[tetsujin1979]

if El Tel is in Dublin then we are ******. Any sightings?

He's supposed to be in Spain at the moment, supervising the development of a La Manga-esque resort. He'll be back in England this weekend, he's managing a team of England legends against a Rest of the World XI on sunday in Manchester.

[Armando]

He's supposed to be in Spain at the moment, supervising the development of a La Manga-esque resort. He'll be back in England this weekend, he's managing a team of England legends against a Rest of the World XI on sunday in Manchester.

That's about the level he should be at this stage of his career.

Dunphy made a salient point the other night that was lost amongst everything - Nobody else is interested in Venables, that tells you everything. So why are we? It stinks to the high hills

[geysir]

From Wikipedia
'in 1984 he took the role of manager at Barcelona, earning the sobriquet "El Tel". Venables was recommended by Bobby Robson, a good friend of the Barcelona President and who himself, years later, would take over the team. Terry used a very English system, a classic 4-4-2, which took advantage of outstanding defenders like Gerado, Migueli and Julio Alberto and a hard-working midfield led by German Bernd Schuster'

I remember years ago there was a 4 part ITV type soap drama set around EL Tels years in Barcelona. He was cast as some north England football muck savage trying to communicate his idea of what 442 was to the sophisticated multilingual Barca team,
why is the grass longer in the corners boss?

[Bondvillain]

I do think you could do worse than Venables.

I honestly believe that Venables would do a very good job if appointed.

Aaaaaah, but THEY weren't voting options...what y'all voted for was "Yes he's just what we need"..... That's VERY different to 'doing worse than' , or settling for..

[geysir]

Well, my vote may be invalid, but I do think you could do worse than Venables.

The minimum requirement is that you have to live with the decision.
When you becomes a we, then you can vote

[cavan_fan]

indeed...and the rest should be removed because, well, if they're voting for Venebles then their opinions shouldn't really count should they?

And yet people who last week couldnt pick Arie Haan out of a lineup are telling us he's the real deal!

[Superhoops]

And yet people who last week couldnt pick Arie Haan out of a lineup are telling us he's the real deal!

There were even those who thought that Arie Haan was a European rocket

[Ireland4ever]

Where was the meeting held - Statoil !

its not inconceivable!