No New Contract For Vera Pauw

She had a falling out with McCabe in the final match in the WC. The FAI pulled her contract before they’d even left for Australia. Your statement makes zero sense.

Is Katie McCabe psychic? Did she foresee the falling out in her crystal ball?

The power players like Katie mccabe hold over the younger and amateur players is crucial to all of this.

Who in the Irish squad will back pauw knowing she is a goner either way and they than have to deal with mccabe and her likes going forward

The women's game is very clique.

It's that type of shíthousing from senior players that get coaches sacked or contracts not renewed.

Pauw being Dutch and an elite coach she has absolutely no time for it. You can see it with ten Hag as well. On a personal level she probably far better off out of Irish football, because much like United over the past decade when you have non footballing people making the football decisions the results are inevitable.

Strange how that “got her sacked” when by toxic Vera’s own words, the FAI pulled her contract BEFORE the World Cup.

The FAI should be using their psychic abilities in a better way, I am first to admit that, but once they looked into their crystal ball back in April/May and seen the fallout in July, they were right to pull the contract.

The only thing is, that was amusing.

+1

Ireland was always about getting average players to play above their level.

Look at the mens team now......

So far the “toxic” you keep referring to amounts to telling overweight professional athletes to lose weight so they can perform, dropping a 16 yr old and having field complaints from an overzealous dad (which is absolutely ridiculous considering we are talking about a senior international team, not the U17 parish team) and falling out with a player who thinks the team (possibly the world ala Roy Keane) revolves around her.

Again, I’m beginning to sense some misogyny from you, none of the above would be a factor for the men’s manager, but you seem to have an issue with a woman manager.

It’s a huge let down and disappointment for most Irish fans that Vera Pauw - a proven successful manager - has been let go in such a shoddy, amateur hour way by the FAI.

This craic of the players “whispering” rumours back to the FAI is absolutely disgusting and unacceptable.

Vera proved her worth bringing a very average team to the WC for the first time ever - I don’t know what is going on behind the scenes but all I can say is people are disgusted by the way the FAI has treated her.

Where is common decency in all of this??

I thought the same thing when Carlo Ancelotti took the Everton job. Pretty decent manager that buck.

Then I thought to myself, after long consideration, maybe managers take jobs that are available at the time. Crazy, I know.

Very few opportunities for women in international management in Europe. They are more or less exclusively tied to the womens game also they have share this spectrum with male coaches. Something male coaches don't have to worry about in the mens game.

A lot of bigger international teams rarely if ever hire foreign coaches.

This is more acute in Womens international soccer, where they rarely hire foreign coaches at all.

Out of the 50+ classed European international sides, less than a half dozen managers are foreign to the country they are managing.

But instead of throwing up a rather loaded question, why don't you give your opinion on her coaching ability and why you think she isn't an "elite head coach"?

Didnt the whole team come out and support VP after that?

I cant keep up with the mind flipping of this shower.

I think they were just looking for someone else to blame for the terrible performance.

I never said she isn't an elite head coach. I know very little about her coaching ability. The take is this thread is that we've an elite head coach and a bunch of average players who will never achieve anything. It's just so rare in the sports world to see an elite head coach so happy and eager to put themselves in that position, unless they are getting a massive amount of money.

Maybe it's a form of philanthropy with Vera? Who knows. Also, it's interesting that during all the contract saga I didn't hear any rumours of another team coming in to try and entice her away from Ireland, even when the talks stalled. Im sure there were plenty interested though, but she just rebuffed them.

I'm sure she will be flooded with offers now though.

The bottom line here was that Vera Pauw became a distraction.

Before the World Cup there was a rehash of all the allegations from her time in the US in the Athletic. She was interviewed for the article. That pissed the players off.

During a press conference at the world cup she referred to the lack of progress in her contract negotiations. Another distraction.

Katie McCabe is seen as the villain here by people who know nothing about football. There's nothing unusual about a captain suggesting changes to the manager during the game. What was unusual was that Pauw talked about it at length at the post match press conference. And misquoted McCabe.

When players like Denise O'Sullivan and Amber Barrett say there were a lot of distractions around the team people should take heed.

Vera made it all about herself.

I don't know who orchestrated it but Kelly of the Indo and Cummiskey of the Times revelled in it. Mind you the same pair were also always looking for negative stories about the rugby team in the past.