Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

There's nothing in it that statement that points to the FAI having an agreement with a manager in place now.

Surely they knew all along they would be giving the new manager a 4 year deal.

They're simply hoping another month will give them time to have a manager in place and it looks like they're masters of planning.

O'Shea's auditioning for the main gig. The FAI are hoping the likes of Carsley and Barry take it but if not they'll give it to O'Shea and that's what's going on.

Nope, but they will announce this on the 1st !!

This is one for the people who think the FAI have Carsley in the bag.

If you go along with that theory then Carsley has stalled on taking up the Ireland senior mens job to manage England U21s against the Azerbaijan and Luxembourg U21s. The optics of that is horrendous.

He`s essentially held on to a youth coaching job and missed two international friendlies in his new job where he could have begun getting his ideas across.

There are two more friendlies in June against Hungary and Portugal and then its into competitive games in the Nations League. He`s halved the amount of time he`ll have with the players before competitive games for no good reason. If it is Carsley and things get rocky for him, he will rightly be cruicified for that one decision.

But either Poyet wins the playoff and then presumably is incentivised (both professionally and income-wise) to stay on for the actual Euros taking him up to July. Or else he loses the play-offs against one of Georgia, Luxembourg or Kazakhstan and our appointment of him doesn't look so great.

So not sure it's really that much of a runner.

Depends, he's been more or less begging Greece for a contract for months but they still haven't given him one to even cover the euro time frame.

He could go for a 4 year deal with Ireland rather than a 4/5 month deal with Greece where he may feel that just qualifying is as good as it gets.

Yeah exactly, the interesting aspect of his position is that he’s free on March 31st irrespective of if they qualify or not.

They won a tournament without conceding a goal. Any team that can do that is something special.

England may be a team that are there or thereabouts but they still hadn't won that tournament for a while.

I don't see what bearing wages have on international football. He certainly is lucky that a lot of young players are coming through in England at the moment and he seems to be getting it right with them. He always has a record of working with young players.

He would be an appointment for the future. He'd help bring players through. He has little experience with senior players but he's played PL, international and European football and was captain at one point in his career so he certainly experience dealing with senior personalities which seems to be the most common complaint against him.

It all seems a bit elaborate for two friendlies that O'Shea is brining in a technical advisor in Brian Kerr, assistants and coaches including Glenn Whelan. I know people are needed to fill such roles but it seems strange that all these lads are happy to sign up for a week of work.

Either it's another big pay day for the lads or there's more than two games for them.

What are they going to do for the good of Irish football in a few days? Come back to reality this isn't voluntary work.

They are all fairly likable blokes, who I'm sure would have the best interests of the Irish team at heart. That's not what I'm questioning.

Unless they're thick (which I doubt they are) then I think it must be one of the two scenarios I mentioned above.

But sure as you say, they’re roles that need to be filled, even for just 2 games and probably 3 or 4 weeks work between prep and matches. The lads are available, so where’s the issue?

This is O’Sheas first opportunity to manage a team, so it’s no surprise he’s calling in a few favours and taking it seriously, trying to put his best foot forward. Getting something decent out of these high profile difficult-opposition games might put him in the shop window a bit with clubs in England - and the same for his assembled team, if he gets a job somewhere then perhaps he can bring them with him.

A nice goal from Mikey last night

I'd be very happy with that of all names mentioned outside of Carsley

The42 reporting that Bilic hasn't received any contact from FAI. You wonder wonder what the Irish media are up to at times.

That or else one of the international managers currently in a job contracted through to the playoff games at the end of March (Poyet et al).

Yeah, like not necessarily him, but one of the guys in his same position, with an international contract about to end after the qualifiers.

By all accounts not the case.

Hope he does a decent job and gets a foot in the door elsewhere off the back of it though. A good potential option for the future.

I wonder if some of this selected backroom staff have been intentionally chosen with a view to staying on and supporting whoever this new chap is that's currently under contract elsewhere until April.

Poyet would make sense if the plan is to have O'Shea/Kerr et al step one rung down upon Poyets arrival.

I doubt Poyet would be overly familiar with a lot of our players.

Jesus it’s pretty simple. They’ve identified carsley as their preferred candidate. You may think he shouldn’t be that which, with respect, doesn’t matter as you are not an important figure in the appointment process. There is absolutely no indication that the FAI have any interest in Poyet. for now he is like Steve Bruce, Roy keane and Big Sam in that he is another figure who talked about the job but it’s a one way conversation.