Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

The subtext of it all was shocking; 'The Delaney era is over and its totally fine to send us more taxpayers money. Also, here's a 12k payment made to the CEO because of a joke that got out of hand'.

Gus in to evens for the job with Boylesports but hasn't moved with the other bookies since last night. Seemingly no clear indication yet that he's the FAI's man and it's hard to imagine such an exuberant guy keeping such news completely under wraps...

We should appoint an U21 manager simultaneously with the senior manager next month. Tell him he has the job after the senior manager. While at the same time hinting heavily to the senior assistant manager that he'll get a spin in the top job when the U21 Manager flops at it. Ah I know it's too far fetched!

Only got to watch last nights game this morning due to work etc. I am by no means a football aficionado. I go to a LOI game about once a month, have only a passing interest in the premier league and never been to the Aviva. I might be way off the mark but, thought last nights performance was similar or marginally better than most of the performances turned in during the SK reign. And we huffed an puffed for the last 10 mins without really looking dangerous.

And the media asking nearly every player if JOS would be a good manager afterwards. You are not going to say he isn't in case he does end up being the new man or at least part of his backroom team. I thought Knight was very poor last night. Especially in terms of creativity. If Kelleher can get a transfer to a club where he will be No 1 I can see him usurping Bazunu as number one. It looks like it will be Poyet as the new manager if all the reports are to be believed.

It will be good to have a volatile character in there I think to be honest, one that will place both demands on the players and FAI. His greek teams seemed to play with not only agression but, control as well.

I said it as soon as he was sacked by Lincoln but Mark Kennedy is the guy I'd be looking at. He won't be expecting a huge wage, his Lincoln team played some great football by all accounts and things just went a bit sour at the end.

Was at the match close to pitch side for Ireland attacking last night and Idah was 10 times the player Ferguson was in his short time on. For a big lad, Ferguson can't hold the ball up at all. I really hope its just a bad phase.

Can't picture Gus Poyet working for the FAI.

A bit more devilment would be to his benefit. Far too passive. Doesn't seem to appreciate his physical attributes.

I think O neil and keane had better players to work with, so its not right comparing them, glen whealan and David meyler were way ahead of knight and cullen and that is the area of the pitch that losses us the games.

Exactly. Thats one of the reasons O'Shea has been an upgrade over Kenny. Kenny's attempted midfield/possession heavy style just kept highlighting the weakness of midfield and falling apart. We dont have an actual classic DM to keep a midfield in shape.

I would also say countries fortunes do not turn around out of thin air. You have to put in place the proper infrastructure and pathways for that to happen. We are in the mess we are now as a result of having infrastructure and pathways for our top young players to develop being chronically under invested in for decades and once the money started to pour into the epl and we couldn't just depend on them to develop our more promising younger players any more then we gradually fell away to where we are now.

Now obviously with the beginnings of an academy system in the LOI and the national leagues as examples we are making some positive changes that will benefit us in time but we have a long long way to go to put it mildly.

Well you think the FAI haven’t changed… The old FAI was basically ran by Delaney at executive level, he told the board what was happening and they had little option but to agree with him. This included for his own contract and salary level.

if you think Jonathan hill is doing this then you’re wrong.

the old cfo of the FAI was a seventy something year old man who hadn’t a clue how many bank accounts the FAI had. Do you think the present CFO is that uninformed?

there are other examples such as the expense account that Delaney had at his disposal and taking his girlfriend on business trips.

so to say the FAI hasn’t changed is uninformed drivel in my opinion. The FAI’s level of corporate governance is transformed. But its financial model (the men’s senior national team is the breadwinner for the entirety of football in Ireland) is a failed model. Until that changes, the FAI will always be short of financial resources unless they luck out with a brilliant team that’s very marketable.

ebosele played vs Belgium and was incredibly shite. His six minutes or so on the pitch were incredible in that he committed 2 cardinal sins of football within them.

if ebosele wants time on the pitch he has to fill in for Coleman or Ogbene, not be completely pale shadows of their impact on the pitch and not be what he was versus Belgium - a liability

I don’t find it that hard, it’s international football. You have to do better than what Ebosele did. If memory serves, he got ran past on the outside by doku, then doku cut across in front of him on the inside towards the center and he just gave up chasing him. It was incredible.

earlier he committed another cardinal sin of giving away the ball cheaply when we had a corner and there was a load of space behind him with not many Irish defenders in that space.

I hope he’s better than what he’s shown.

He left Kenny’s last camp with an injury that was also a bit strange for reasons not worth going into.

Yea apologies for the spelling.

I just think it showed a lack of awareness and experience on the side of Jo's and his backroom team. It's one thing the Welsh players playing 2 full games this week on the knockout games, but it's another for us with nothing really riding on two meaningless games. An international manager has to work with clubs and club managers, just made no sense. It's not askf we were playing perfect and hasn't room for improvement, as said.