Rep of Irl WNT

She's also creating huge pressure for the team going forward with her claim that Pauw had zero input into the squad's success over the last two years.

Is she? I dont have much time for her!

Or they make Vera look like an old school throwback with zero social skills and the tactical acumen of a grapefruit!

You can tell the women haven't had the same media training that professional men's players in the top divisions in England pretty much all get. They know full well not to say anything bad about Kenny, even if they privately think he's not up to the job. The reason media trained players say nothing of note in these situations is that they know there is nothing to gain from it.

Absolutely mental stuff from Caldwell, it would be controversial if she was still in post, but at least there would be some kind of purpose to it, if they were maybe worried the FAI were thinking of keeping her on.

But to come out and say it after she's gone anyway is just stupid beyond belief. Makes a martyr of Pauw among her supporters, makes Caldwell and the women's players in general come across as nasty and spiteful and sets a very clear target that now has to be met to back up her stated position that Pauw was holding them back.

But she's said it now so the target has been publicly set. If they don't qualify for the Euros and the next World Cup at an absolute minimum they're going to look even worse than they already do now. 

I suppose given her age Caldwell won't be around to prove the point either way. But I doubt too many of her teammates will be thanking her for that outburst. It's one of the headlines on the BBC sport homepage now, so you can't put a much clearer target on your own team's back than this.

Exactly everyone is wrong but Vera and the lads on ybig who took and interest in women’s football when we qualified so as a result think Vera is the best thing since slice bread.  The cult of we don’t have the players but we only qualified because of the manager was also peddled by many.  The players are backing themselves and are used to working in more professional setups.  

There was always this ''held us back'' stuff about all our successful managers.

Jack Charlton- Didnt play Brady.  Played hoofball.  We would have gone further had he trusted the players...

Mick McCarthy:  Shambolic preparation.  Substandard.  Thats why Roy walked out as it didnt match Man Utd.  Mick was tactically inept. Played Keane sweeper, didn;t realise Spain were down to 10 men....

Trap:  Didn't trust the players.  Played old fashioned 4-4-2.  Didnt have 3 in the middle.  We were overrun. He watched DVDs instead of going to matches.  He didn;t play wes Hoolahan or Andy Reid.  We only played well when the players did their own thing.  The training was too hard beofre the Euros....should have got better results if he trusted the players....

MON:  Didnt do training properly. Didnt pick Hoolahan away from home.  Played pre historic hoofball.  Hadn;t a clue tactically.  Used outdated Brian Clough approach and remedies that had long stopped working.

Mick 2.0 :  Showed a lack of ambition.  Didnt play to win in Georgia. Conceded defeat against the Swiss before kick off.  Was useless. Failed everywhere he went.  Sacked at Blackpool. Found out.

Funny as the cure for these bluffers above were Brian Kerr and Stephen Kenny who failed badly and brought us miles backwards.

Amazing these women players suddenly think they are world beaters who Pauw held back.  They were absolutely useless until a few years ago.  We'll see how they do when the new manager comes in and I bet they fail badly.

And she has been around for years and has had tonnes of caps.  

In that case, where were all the Euro and WC qualifications during her long career pre-Pauw? Or is she  claiming that this is a talented squad but admitting that she herself is a useless player?