Next Manager - press conference Saturday

Hoosay wrote: Baldrick wrote: It has not been named but its thought to be  MON RK Walford Steve Guppy Seamus McDonagh Mike McGunn FItness  Is that the former Ireland keeper?

Is it true that Jimmy Magee advised him to call himself Seamus rather than Jim to make himself sound more Irish -played for us through the parentage rule.

Heard Magee saying this a couple of times on Irish football documentaries.

Gashley Grimes wrote: Hoosay wrote: Baldrick wrote: It has not been named but its thought to be  MON RK Walford Steve Guppy Seamus McDonagh Mike McGunn FItness  Is that the former Ireland keeper? Is it true that Jimmy Magee advised him to call himself Seamus rather than Jim to make himself sound more Irish -played for us through the parentage rule. Heard Magee saying this a couple of times on Irish football documentaries.

Jimmy claims this, yes.

He won't walk. But it would be great to give a new man 4 games before the next tournament.

Just saying like wrote: Cop on lads.

cop on what ?

no one expects MON to walk or be sacked but the reservations were there there that plenty had    

Yeah he won't walk, he's possibly the most stubborn Manager I've ever seen.

coyne wrote: Yeah he won't walk, he's possibly the most stubborn Manager I've ever seen. He's still defiant that he would of kept Sunderland up despite the fact he'd gone 11 games without a win, he'll hang about until he's given a P45.

Isn't his contact up at the end of this campaign?
Pay him his remaining 4 months salary and let him walk. Then give Roy the job and he will walk himself for free out of loyalty to MON every one wins.

DUBLIN DOC wrote: Capello will be free shortly

No thanks.

I would love to see a left field appointment from the continent. Some hidden gem or someone who wants a semi retirement job. If this is not possible Mick McCarthy is the best candidate from Britain, or possibly Neil Lennon. I think both would do a decent job. However we need to move away from the british style. But that would be a major long term project which I doubt will ever happen here for a variety of reasons.

1. The FAI and schoolboy leagues are short sighted and have an Irish 'cut corners' approach that will take generations to rid ourselves of if it indeed ever happens at all.

2. We may have to endure a decade or maybe 15 years of potentially being absolutely rubbish in Senior football implementing a new philosophy and new way of playing. But again I dont think the IRish are willing to pay that price so we will continue as we are.

3. Irish kids are too well off. No one kicks a ball on the streets for hours anymore. They are too busy getting Playstations and laptops. Too much distractions. Even kids who do play dont have the hunger to make it and practice all day.

4. The game is mismanaged and underfunded here. We need to make the LOI a better standard league where it becomes a feeder system for talent. The LOI teams also needs to implement a totally new way of playing. This will never happen.


To sum up:  Irish people want quick fixes, scapegoats, would rather cut corners than do it right.  We refuse to think long term and its a me me me culture.

A small silly example is this. My neighbour was learning to be a wrought iron worker many years ago at FAS. He had a German instructor.  One day my neighbour was making some gate or something and he cut a corner. It didnt really make much of a difference to the integrity of the gate and no one would notice. Then the German instructor came over to inspect the work and noticed that a small corner had been cut. He noticed that he had not followed the procedure to the letter and was giving out. My neighbour said ''ah sure nobody would notice that.''.  The German replied ''you are cheating the honour of workmanship.''

My neighbour told me in retrospect the german was dead right.   The German worker wont pull a fast one while the Irish look for every opportunity to do it. 

This mindset is why we will never fix football here.

Rainpaulo/Locke making a gobsh*te of himself yet again