Irelands Olympic Squad

delad

Who should be in it and who should manage it?

I suggest Roy Keane to manage it. Even though he is a traitor and not able to manage long term relationships, I think he would be a good short term manager who could make an impact.

I would like a complete clearout of the current squad, promote all of our under 21 team to the senior squad instead and give them a chance to shine.

For strategy, copy Spains tactics of pass and move, and aim to win back the ball within 5 seconds when its lost.

Anyone who plays a long ball is immediately substituted and dropped from the team for the rest of the tournament.

Thoughts?

Mr.Crinklewood

**** the football, do we get to sing?

CSF

delad wrote: »

Who should be in it and who should manage it?

I suggest Roy Keane to manage it. Even though he is a traitor and not able to manage long term relationships, I think he would be a good short term manager who could make an impact.

I would like a complete clearout of the current squad, promote all of our under 21 team to the senior squad instead and give them a chance to shine.

For strategy, copy Spains tactics of pass and move, and aim to win back the ball within 5 seconds when its lost.

Anyone who plays a long ball is immediately substituted and dropped from the team for the rest of the tournament.

Thoughts?

dreamers75

Kinda weird noone on boards has wondered why we dont have an Olympic team when we clearly meet the criteria. Semi pros and amateurs playing week in week out in LOI and LSL and other places outside dublin.


Any Shamrock Rovers fan want to clear this one up ? this is ****ing hilarious :pac:

eagle eye

Thats some of the lads who played in our u-21 qualification campaign but didn't qualify for the finals which also acted as Olympic qualification.

Stephen Henderson
Seamus Coleman
Brendan Moloney
Robert Kiernan
Seamus Conneely
Richie Towell
Conor Hourihane
Conor Clifford
Joe Mason
Adam Rooney
James McCarthy
Robbie Brady
Anthony Stokes
Graham Carey Shane McEleney
Shane Redmond
Karl Sheppard
Paddy Madden
Daniel Kearns

G.K.

delad wrote: »

Who should be in it and who should manage it?

I suggest Roy Keane to manage it. Even though he is a traitor and not able to manage long term relationships, I think he would be a good short term manager who could make an impact.

I would like a complete clearout of the current squad, promote all of our under 21 team to the senior squad instead and give them a chance to shine.

For strategy, copy Spains tactics of pass and move, and aim to win back the ball within 5 seconds when its lost.

Anyone who plays a long ball is immediately substituted and dropped from the team for the rest of the tournament.

Thoughts?

Copying Spain's tactics would take a bit more than that.

Also aidy White would be a shoe-in.

kitakyushu

delad wrote: »

I suggest Roy Keane to manage it. Even though he is a traitor and not able to manage long term relationships,

Roy Keane and his faithful dog Triggs had a successful partnership for over 13 years and neither ever once told the other to "stick it up your bollocks" or "the only reason I walk with you is that somehow you are my pet/owner" etc

So basically we just have to find Roy 18 loyal footballers with glossy coats and wet noses who will work for a bowl pedigree chum per day and the gold will be ours.

G.K.

G.K. wrote: »

Copying Spain's tactics would take a bit more than that.

Not with me in the team.

conor360

Do we even have an Olympic football team?

BKC

conor360 wrote: »

Do we even have an Olympic football team?

No, because we didn't qualify for the Olympics.

Father Damo

delad wrote: »

Who should be in it and who should manage it?

I suggest Roy Keane to manage it. Even though he is a traitor and not able to manage long term relationships, I think he would be a good short term manager who could make an impact.

I would like a complete clearout of the current squad, promote all of our under 21 team to the senior squad instead and give them a chance to shine.

For strategy, copy Spains tactics of pass and move, and aim to win back the ball within 5 seconds when its lost.

Anyone who plays a long ball is immediately substituted and dropped from the team for the rest of the tournament.

Thoughts?

First your thread on how the media should change match coverage, now this sh1te.


Alright- who are you, and what are you up to? :pac: Honestly, Sepp Blatter comes out with more sense than your posts.


Out of curiousity have we ever played Olympic football?

Pride Fighter

Father Damo wrote: »

Out of curiousity have we ever played Olympic football?

We made it to the quarter finals of the 1924 olympics in football.

Father Damo

Bloody hell. Suprised not a few more, we have had the odd few succesful underage squads.

Has a British side ever qualified for it before? For example, if England technically qualified on another occasion, were they barred from entry as "England" is not recognised as an Olympic nation?

Ashbourne hoop

I remember going to Olympic qualifying games for 1988 olympics, the side was all LOI players. Vaguely remember them drawing 2-2 v Spain in Tolka. When Charlton came in he wanted the olympic side to be underage pros and the LOI players lost out on representing Ireland. Is this right or am I totally mixing it up?

Father Damo

Ashbourne hoop wrote: »

I remember going to Olympic qualifying games for 1988 olympics, the side was all LOI players. Vaguely remember them drawing 2-2 v Spain in Tolka. When Charlton came in he wanted the olympic side to be underage pros and the LOI players lost out on representing Ireland. Is this right or am I totally mixing it up?

IIRC the criteria is usually how well a team performed in the under 21 championship of their confederation, no?

ArmaniJeanss

Father Damo wrote: »

IIRC the criteria is usually how well a team performed in the under 21 championship of their confederation, no?

Back then ,with a lesser amount of countries in Europe, there was more time for a separate Olympic qualifying tournament.

The FAI did indeed enter an LOI representative team in the qualifiers for 88.

Edit : And it wasn't an age restricted competition back then either so it was a real LOI representative team.
I think the restrictions back then were based on an upper limit on how many senior caps you had.

LuckyLloyd

dreamers75 wrote: »

Kinda weird noone on boards has wondered why we dont have an Olympic team when we clearly meet the criteria. Semi pros and amateurs playing week in week out in LOI and LSL and other places outside dublin.


Any Shamrock Rovers fan want to clear this one up ? this is ****ing hilarious :pac:

The Irish U21's compete in every Olympic qualification cycle, which is the European U21 Championship closest to the next Olympic games.

We just never get near qualifying because only 8 go to the finals (and then only the top three from there).

Father Damo

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

We just never get near qualifying because only 8 go to the finals (and then only the top three from there).

So what happens if either England, Scotland or Wales (or N. Ireland.... :pac: ) finish in the top 3, seeing as, AFAIK, none of these are regarded as a compeiting state by the Olympics? Do they still just get to field a GB team with restrictions on using players from outside the part of Britain they are from?

LuckyLloyd

Father Damo wrote: »

So what happens if either England, Scotland or Wales (or N. Ireland.... :pac: ) finish in the top 3, seeing as, AFAIK, none of these are regarded as a compeiting state by the Olympics? Do they still just get to field a GB team with restrictions on using players from outside the part of Britain they are from?

My understanding is that fourth place would receive the Olympic berth in that scenario...

Father Damo

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

My understanding is that fourth place would receive the Olympic berth in that scenario...

Bit unfair in truth. You would think they would have a clause stating that if, say, England won a place, it would be entered as a GB team, but only England national team eligible players could play for said GB team.

ArmaniJeanss

Father Damo wrote: »

So what happens if either England, Scotland or Wales (or N. Ireland.... :pac: ) finish in the top 3, seeing as, AFAIK, none of these are regarded as a compeiting state by the Olympics? Do they still just get to field a GB team with restrictions on using players from outside the part of Britain they are from?

Nope, if England qualify via the Euro U21 championships, then they have not taken the available place in the Olympics.
For Beijing 2008 England won a place by qualifying for the Semis of the EuroU21s, and the outcome was that the 3rd place finishers in each group played a one-off playoff for the Olympic spot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_UEFA_European_Under-21_Football_Championship#Olympic_Qualifying_Play-Off

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Edit : Just noticed Moutinho scored the first penalty in the shootout for Portugal, another pointer to how it made sense for him to go first in the semi-final last month!!

Father Damo

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Nope, if England qualify via the Euro U21 championships, then they have not taken the available place in the Olympics.
For Beijing 2008 England won a place by qualifying for the Semis of the EuroU21s, and the outcome was that the 3rd place finishers in each group played a one-off playoff for the Olympic spot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_UEFA_European_Under-21_Football_Championship#Olympic_Qualifying_Play-Off[/QUOTE]

Hmm. Sounds so that if the UK really wanted to it could split three ways for this, of course this meaning they have to split for everything, and it cuts out a talent pool of Scots/ Welsh for what are traditionally more prestigious Olympic sports like swimming and track.

Not to forget that barnstorming Scottish squad who bored the world to death curling their way to gold a few years ago :pac: (or maybe that is winter olympics....either way, shocking sport. Its like watching the world greatest janitor competition)

Ashbourne hoop

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Back then ,with a lesser amount of countries in Europe, there was more time for a separate Olympic qualifying tournament.

The FAI did indeed enter an LOI representative team in the qualifiers for 88.

Edit : And it wasn't an age restricted competition back then either so it was a real LOI representative team.
I think the restrictions back then were based on an upper limit on how many senior caps you had.

It was pretty much the Rovers team of that era iirc.

ArmaniJeanss

Father Damo wrote: »

Hmm. Sounds so that if the UK really wanted to it could split three ways for this,

Thats the thing, they don't really want it.

Theres enough people in world football who look at the UK situation and wonder how they have 8 Champions League places, 12 Europa League places, + multiple representation on rule boards, executives and committees. All this despite actually just being one country governed from London (obviously we know UK politics is a bit more complex than that)

The less attention that is drawn to these inconsistencies the better, as far as the 4 separate boards are concerned, who want to maintain the status quo. And a UK team at every Olympics would be the sort of thing that people would point at and look at and say 'oh, now isnt that an interesting idea, tell me again why they compete seperately in uefa/fifa competitions'.

TheBunk1

delad wrote: »

Who should be in it and who should manage it?

I suggest Roy Keane to manage it. Even though he is a traitor and not able to manage long term relationships, I think he would be a good short term manager who could make an impact.

I would like a complete clearout of the current squad, promote all of our under 21 team to the senior squad instead and give them a chance to shine.

For strategy, copy Spains tactics of pass and move, and aim to win back the ball within 5 seconds when its lost.

Anyone who plays a long ball is immediately substituted and dropped from the team for the rest of the tournament.

Thoughts?

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Father Damo

TheBunk1 wrote: »

Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

I ****ing dont :pac:

ThunbergsAreGo

Could we even play in the Olympics given we compete as a united south/north both of which have seperate football associations?

BKC

naughtb4 wrote: »

Could we even play in the Olympics given we compete as a united south/north both of which have seperate football associations?

I think the IFA are part of the Great Britain team. As far as I know, Northern Irish players were available to be picked for Team GB but none were?