Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Definitely didn't get that impression at all anyway. Much more got the impression that she's pissed off these are the questions she's being hit with - on the eve of a game against France - instead of talking about the biggest occasion in the history of Irish women's football. She says that as team captain she does clash with Vera every now and again on opinions - as all players do, especially in leadership roles since thats part of the job - but they push each other to get the best out of each other, and when asked about her and the team being all in with Vera, it was a very definitive Yes.

Seems fairly obvious that Vera is a very forthright, no-nonsense, quite dictatorial manager, that will at times rub people up the wrong way - but those are fairly universal traits amongst top managers.

I think I’d still be surprised if he got better than a lower half championship offer, or perhaps more likely league 1, tbh though. Historically, underage wins just don’t lead to big jobs, and I’d say it really doesn’t help that he’s got basically no club experience despite not being a young up-and-comer anymore.

Paul Simpson won the U20 World Cup for England, and his next job was as an assistant at Bristol. Then got a shot at a managers job for Carlisle in League 2.

Winning underage is undoubtedly impressive, but there is still a chasm between underage and senior level success (our own manager being a clear sign of that - excellent as u21 manager, but hasn’t translated to senior level), so I’m not sure any bigger clubs will be calling on Carsley just yet.

FFS a perfectly good goal wrongly ruled out for offside - wasn't even particularly close, really bad call from the lino. Would've been a good assist for Farrelly, and good run and finish from Carusa.

We're looking good though, Farrelly is a bit of a game changer it seems.

You could see the quality Farrelly had when we played the US. It's a shame her career went the way it did as she should have a lot more caps.

Fingers crossed McCabe going off is just precaution. Play again next Friday against Colombia and don't play Australia for another two weeks.

Disappointing end to the half conceding the two goals. We dominated the first 30 minutes or so but created very little and once France started to threaten they looked much more of a threat.

3 down now. France have been in complete control so far in the second half.

Very useful exercise, no point in playing some weak opposition

Couldn't see it to be honest. Southgate made that step, but I think only because of his profile as a player. And short as his management career had been before the national job, he still had 3 years of PL management experience.

Having no senior experience at all will hurt Carsley's chances of anything high profile I think. He'll get a league 1 job - maybe a lower championship job at a push - or else our job i'd say.

Oh apologies if it's not meant to be talked about - i saw someone being threadbanned, but didn't realise that was why (the ban post doesn't specify the reason beyond being off topic), just figured it was for something that got deleted before i saw it.

Seemed relevant enough to mention in the sense of a former irish player winning something as a manager, but i can understand if it's considered a bit too tangential from the actual Irish team.

Elsewhere, sounds like it's between Stoke and Bristol to sign Knight. Derby want 2 million for him... which feels quite low to me, even with just a year left on his deal. Seems especially odd that a price as low as that is being challenged. Feels like a bit of a steal at 2m - and of course I'm biased, but he's a talented and very versatile player.

£1.75m mentioned somewhere else and Kane Wilson likely to join Derby as part of the deal.

More Twitter rumours that Stoke, Blackburn, and Swansea are keeping an eye on Andrew Moran with Stoke likely favourites to possibly take him on loan.

He's also just become a father, I wouldn't begrudge him any amount of time off for that.

They are somehow in a fairly big FFP hole apparently.

Thats why they had let Adama and Moutinho walk and cash in on Neves & Collins.

Also hasn't helped them that both loans for Matheus Cunha and Boubacar Traore had to be made permanent this summer. Other than that the only signing they've made this summer was a back up goalie from League Two.

Given their situation then Doherty will be a decent experienced squad player that can provide cover for RB or LB that they've picked up on a free.

Assumed he'd go there all along as that's where his previous manager went.

Manning completes transfer to Southampton. Good move for him.

Very hard to know, or even to base his position on anything from last year, since they're onto yet another new manager - Bazunu's 4th at Southampton since he joined 12 months ago!

I'd say he'll get the preseason to impress anyway, which hopefully he'll do. A year starting in the Championship would be no harm for him anyway, last year was a major slog just getting beaten out the gate week in week out.

i hope he starts but that’s not a guarantee