Betting suspended on new Ireland manager - the winner is...

retired_evelynj.ryan · 11-16-2007, 07:28 PM

I'd say he cringes everytime Dunphy speaks about him.

My man for the job is Roy Hogson

"Roy Hodgson (born August 9, 1947) is an English football manager. He is currently the head coach of the Finnish national team.
Hodgson is probably best known for guiding the Swiss national team to the 1994 World Cup and Euro 1996; before that Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. He has also coached many notable club sides, including Malmö FF, Internazionale, Blackburn Rovers, Grasshoppers, F.C. Copenhagen and Udinese.
Hodgson has served several times as a member of UEFA's technical study group at the European Championships, and he is also a member of the FIFA Technical Study Group (TSG) at the 2006 World Cup. Hodgson has worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached as well."

If he could pull it off for Switzerland he can do it for us.

retired_Fit · 11-16-2007, 07:32 PM

Hodgson used to manage the UAE National team. I remember years back going to watch them in an Asian Cup Qualifier get held 1-1 by Uzbekistan or someone like that and he just looked distinctly uninterested.

A friend of mine here used to have a Sports Magazine and interviewed him at the time and said he was really quite bitter about not being given a chance with the England job when we appointed Sven - his name was bandied about.

retired_prettygirl9156 · 11-16-2007, 08:20 PM

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Originally posted by finneys13:
Would love it if the secret three man panel looking for a manager was the Three Amigos, would be like a good slapstick :cool:

Last reports I saw stated that the committee to select the new manager hadn't been formed yet.

And as for Jewell? Jesus Christ - trundling ever so slowly towards the World Class Manager that Oscar Wilde hair-a-like promised twelvety million years ago.

It's gonna be a long cold winter at this rate...

Willow85 · 11-17-2007, 12:48 AM

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Originally posted by Muller:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Albie:
Still think McCarthy could go back and do the Ireland job - he was fantastic for them last time.

If not McCarthy, then how about O'Leary?

Noone would want McCarthy, he was fairly awful for 4 years until Roy Keane dragged his team to a World Cup. O'Leary would be alright, I'd much prefer him to Jewell, though the he'd have the press on his back a lot sooner than Jewell so maybe it's not for the best. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Said in jest tbh

Seriously though - I'm not Irish (well about an 1/8th) but always take an interst for some reason and being a Sunderland fan there's often a few of our lot in the squad. I don't think O'Leary is half as bad as his press over here and what he did seem to be at Leeds was a decent coach.

As for others - god help you lot if it's Souness. Hodgson has always seemed a good coach and a decent bloke, but after intially impressing at Blackburn with nothing to spend, when he had money he was useless - again though does that point to being a good coach? And Troussier I don't know much about apart from the obvious in a few of the teams he's managed - I just hope you actually go for someone with a bit of experience at a decent level this time.

retired_jabda · 11-17-2007, 11:35 AM

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Former Irish international Johnny Giles tonight claimed he had a duty to approach Paul Jewell about the national team's vacant managerial position.

Giles revealed that in the absence of the appointment of a selection panel by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) he felt was up to him to put the Irish case to the former Wigan boss.

But he stressed he has not been enlisted by the FAI in their search for Steve Staunton's successor, following the former defender's recent departure.

'I'm like all the soccer lovers in Ireland,' said Giles.

'I want the Irish team to do well and one of the reasons you do well is have the best manager available.

'The FAI decided to get a selection panel, and that selection panel hasn't been formed yet.

'Last week it was in the paper that Paul Jewell, who I consider to be an excellent candidate for the job, turned down an offer from Wigan.

'I was thinking if we're going to get the best candidates Paul Jewell would be one of them, and what happens if another club approaches and he signs up for them without anybody from Ireland putting the case to him that the Irish job would be beneficial to him in a big way.

'You'd lose the candidate before you even had the chance to talk to him.'

Giles claimed he could not have done nothing but instead called FAI chief executive John Delaney and offered his services.

'I've always advocated over the years that football people should be involved in the selection of a new manager,' Giles told Irish radio show Off The Ball on Newstalk.

'So there was no good me talking those words and not being able to act in a way that I felt I should have acted.

'When I was talking to Paul Jewell the first thing I had to say to him was that I'm not in a position to offer you the job, I don't have any mandate to do that, and I don't have any mandate to talk terms.

'The only mandate I had was to talk to him about the possibilities of the Irish team as far as he was concerned.

'I was delighted to see this morning that he was interested so he hasn't dismissed it.'

Jewell, 43, has been linked with the post along with several other managers including Graeme Souness, Terry Venables and Gerard Houllier.

Giles has always stressed he would not join the selection panel as it would compromise his position as a football pundit, but tonight revealed that if similar circumstances happened again he would offer his services in an unofficial capacity.

'To be quite honest, if we're trying to get the right man for the job and things are not in place, I feel I have a duty to do it,' he added.

Was nothing really official then, thank God.

You think the FAI would create this 3 man panel pretty soon, Giles isn't doing much around TV punditry, so make him one the panel. Maybe have Bill O'Herlihy as another, he has been around long enough to know as much as anybody.

2/3 done in about 20 seconds there, it isn't that hard ffs

retired_musiclova31 · 11-17-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally posted by Flabarama:
jewell is a great manager

christ almighty, the standards for being labeled a great really are falling if the term is being bandied about in relation to paul ****ing jewell.

you deserve and can get better. much, much better.

retired_slapshot731 · 11-17-2007, 01:23 PM

Since when did the Irish rise above league 1 standard managers and start turning down top flight ones?

retired_jean2 · 11-17-2007, 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by Scatter:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Flabarama:
jewell is a great manager

christ almighty, the standards for being labeled a great really are falling if the term is being bandied about in relation to paul ****ing jewell.

you deserve and can get better. much, much better. </BLOCKQUOTE>

guess staunton had something to do with that then. jewell is qg though.

plynomo · 11-17-2007, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by gggg:
Since when did the Irish rise above league 1 standard managers and start turning down top flight ones?

Since we put together a team of all Premiership players which includes Given, Robbie Keane, Finnan, Duff, Doyle and Dunne. Why the fukk do you think we would take a League One manager?

Today's performance was enough to show that if we had a real manager we could play some very nice football, and be quite a good team.

retired_Fit · 11-17-2007, 06:33 PM

Any idea what seeding you're at for World Cup Qualifying Groups ?

Betting suspended on new Ireland manager - the winner is...

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