Would I be alone in the 40+ category booing that bearded cheating cnut for the free kick he dived to win in Brussels in '81? They hit the bar and then Ceulemans bundled McDonagh into the net for a last minute winner. I was devastated that night. I hate Eric Gerets and always will!
Have to laugh at people suggesting McLeish. As much as I dislike Trap, give me him over McLeish anyday, the man doesn't have a clue, twice relegated, almost 3 times, played Emile Heskey in midfield 3 games in a row last year, the list is endless. He doesn't have a clue.
Don't know if he's been mentioned, but Alan Curbishley? Been out of management for a while.
Spudulika will love this! Mick and Redknapp waiting in the wings supposedly.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...s-3259614.html
Never claimed he was a genius Manblue. I said he was "reasonably competent". Is playing Heskey in midfield any worse than Cox on the wing and leaving wingers on the bench to do so?
I also said part of my criteria is no one else'll want him unless he does really, really well.
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He's got a good record. He won the Dutch and Turkish leagues, and did well with Marseille, and has experience of working in divisions where your midfields first job is to hold onto ball. He speaks English which has been a problem under Trap and he might take the job, having previously taken over the Moroccan national team.
I don't think it's like for like at all. The time has come for a change but we have been successful under Trap and we should resist the temptation the throw out the baby with the bath water by giving it to some 'give it a lash' merchant
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I'm sorry I cant agree that he is even that to be honest, the Heskey comment was only the tip of the iceberg, but I actually do see it far worse to play Heskey who was past it up front, braindead, immobile, has no football and a poor tackler ahead of some of his midfield options but thats neither here or there.
I agree they're wont be a line of managers queueing up for the role but do feel the pool of available talent far exceeds his. Given Hughes will probably be available soon, has international experience, is likely to receive a large payoff and will have something to prove, i'd take him before Mcleish and a number of others. Pure speculation of course.
Realistically if/when trap goes (hopefully soon) there is no way in hell any manager currently in a job will leave unless they are on the brink but they too would be looking for a payoff. The FAI will not have the finances to pay compensation to a club.
Out of them all if the FAI were to decide to get rid and then hold court they could very well get sparky (out of them all he would be my preference)....
No we're not. No matter how important we all think ourselves to be.
And 95% won't do that every weekend, though many will.
If there was ever any evidence needed about how big a role the meeja are playing in this farce, this morning's interview with Brian "I'm not bitter" Kerr on Pat Kenny would clear up that misguided vision. He slated Trap for holding a meeja conference while Sligo and Pats played a league decider - he said that Trap "is out of touch with the Irish game". Now there will be enough listening to that, the Liveline types, who won't think deeper than the skin on their scalps as to who organises such gigs, and why the meeja didn't refuse to attend so that they could focus their time and energy on the LOI? This is allowed out on air by the same company (RTE) who didn't have a camera at Limerick's long awaited triumph in the First Division and who treat LOI football the same way you would an errant child. ifk101, if you honestly believe the meeja circus isn't a major part in all of this then you're a better person than most.
I don't see how that's even the slightest bit relevant.
He didn't give (more) caps to LOI players because they weren't good enough, as Trap doesn't because they still aren't good enough. Nobody wants undeserved caps for LOI players - it's the exact opposite of respect.
I don't recall him participating in any press conferences at the same time as there was a league deciding game on though, do you? If the FAI had tried to set one up in similar circumstances, I'm confident he'd have insisted they change it. Can you imagine the England manager doing it during the last game of the previous EPL season?
Surely its the press offficer/communications man/pr whoever within the FAI that co-ordinates all this, to suggest otherwise or to naively ignore, either sounds like there is an agenda going on or some other reason to believe that he would purposely do this.
Don't take the defensive approach here, its all in the FAI and trappatoni in this instance, or someone within their who had an agenda.
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my point was that Kerr wasn't exactly leading the charge for selecting League of Ireland players when he was in charge, so criticising Trapattoni for showing disrespect to the league doesn't carry much weight with me.
Did Kerr have any games coming up soon after any league decider was on? Who decides the time of press conferences anyway?
If he had selected LOI players even though they weren't good enough, would you have considered that showing respect for the league?
I'm pretty sure Trapattoni didn't decide the time of the press conference. A lack of communication/brain cells within the press office is mostly to blame in my opinion. But either Trap knew there was a LOI decider on and wasn't bothered enough to get it changed, or didn't know at all. That's Kerr's point. I don't see how his selection policies as manager are relevant at all.
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