Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Would have hoped he chose somewhere more stable than Watford. You gotta go back to Javi Garcia who was appointed Jan '18 to find a manager who lasted more than 50 games as manager.

First of July now so hopefully things start to pick up on the transfer front for our lads. There's even been a distinct lack of rumours up until now.

John Egan has left Sheffield United. Would be surprised to see him in the EPL again, so hopefully a decent championship club

Tough on Alan Browne and Egan but hopefully they will find clubs

JOS or the new manager might need to 'thank the lads for there services in the green jersey' and go with the younger players

Theyre 29 and 31 respectively. If theyre the best in their positions, no reason not to pick them.

Assuming they end up getting regular football at a level above Wrexham.

Remains to be seen where they will end up, but good enough still for the Championship, if fit (Egan)

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Three year driving ban and £27K fine for this waster. Also not his first time being found guilty for drink driving offences.

Absolute joke that O'Shea felt he deserved a call up last month. Should never pull the green jersey on again.

https://x.com/blogirish/status/1808449646513041717?s=46&t=oJEBWzdtp7tPw9gBG2Q_oQ

Sadlier hitting the nail on the head here. Lots of Irish football fans who were so happy to see the back of Delaney that they’ve failed to realise how utterly incompetent the successors have been. Heads should **** roll.

The new association has the required level of corporate governance but is even more crippled financially which is not the fault of the current FAI.

The new regime had the CEO claim €11,500 in lieu of holidays because of a supposed joke in an email. An email nobody can see because it was redacted at the committee meeting up to and including the social media tags were redacted. Under his guidance, they didn't draw down €500k of funding awarded to it in 2022 because of an administrative error. Under his guidance, they put €4.35 million in jeopardy over failure to meet the governments gender criteria after they didn't get the proposal over the line at an EGM but, thank god, did get a different one through in time. Of course, all from a CEO who didn't even live here to run the operation.

Yes, the current FAI lacks money and yes, Hill took over an organization that was crumbling. Hill did a better job than Delaney. That does not excuse the main failings they have made including not being able to appoint a manager. The situation hasn't changed, they still have no money and still have to appoint someone. Hill did not do a good job. The current FAI are not doing a good job.

No doubt they've made progress but there's a long way to go.

Sadliers point isn't one you can point to the Delaney era and blame. It isn't long term investment like academies or crumbling infrastructure, its the failure to be able to appoint a manager. Kenny lost to Greece over a year ago, at that point everyone knew it was over, 12 months later, we're no closer to hiring a manager (officially into the 9th month without doing it). That's not good enough.

Unless I am reading this incorrectly, the good work Hill did in 4 years is a survey and failed government proposal? Thats not a particularly fruitful reign. That's not a good job. The proposal is only a feather in the cap if they get the €500+ million which there is zero indication they will.

The first thing Hill needed to do was turn around the image of the FAI and keep negative headlines away. His failure to move here, the holiday pay "scandal", the gender quota headlines etc. all failed to do that. I dont think anyone could say his time as CEO was a success. I'm not actually sure you are trying to say it was either tho.

IF they get someone of a higher caliber then he might save face.

If he pulls a rabbit out of a hat and gets a good manager, no doubt the last 9-12 months can, and likely will, be overlooked.

Doubt anyone thought they were waiting for the end of the club season specifically, but more so after the Euros.

For better or worse, I reeeaallyy wouldn’t have expected any movement for at least a couple weeks after sides go out. No manager is going to shït all over their return home by jumping ship publicly right on the heels of a homecoming.

Maybe they’ll get someone, maybe they won’t, but it happening before the tournament’s dust settles was an unrealistic expectation for anyone to hold.

Was getting nowhere with Norwich so hopefully this move can get his career back on track. A couple of seasons playing in a team that's gonna win trophies, some European experience, and scoring goals will hopefully see better moves down the line.

Similar it would be good if we get some news about Parrott soon. Back at Spurs training atm and Alkmaar have sold Pavlidis to Benfica for €18M. Hopefully they're interest in signing Parrott as his replacement is genuine. Would be a good move for his career.

It's amazing really. You go to any regional GAA club in any given county, even junior clubs, and they'll have state of the art facilities, a bar, astro turf pitch etc. Yet the top football clubs in the country, broke.

It is the most participated sport in the country, but the GAA gets bums on seats via the league and championship, people follow their counties in the thousands. Yet from a spectator point of view, the money football should be getting goes accross the Irish sea most weekends. How many potential millions do we lose every weekend to Premier League clubs?

If that money was in the game here, it would be booming. On top of that, FAI holding back money from the clubs and game for years.

GAA also tends to get a lot of benefactors putting money into county teams and clubs.

But Ireland as a national team are finished, and will be a lower tier country for the forseeable future, unless people follow the game here. England aren't developing our players anymore, too many players from other nationalities there now.

The League of Ireland clubs need money to invest in proper acadamies or we're done. Scotland even have the Olf Firm and a stronger domestic league, Wales even have Cardiff and Swansea with acadamies to develop players. We don't have that.

The amount of underage players in my area playing for Shels is incredible. But alot of it is volunteer based. The clubs need funding, and people to go and watch the league here. Until that happen's, we're not coming back to where we were

Anyone watch the documentary about the abuse of the Irish ladies team in the 90s? Fairly shocking stuff

Yes. Watched it. Pretty grim altogether.

Just want to add what a wonderful job the FAI are doing at keeping the manager hunt under wraps. Not a peep out of them. A true sign of professionalism.

The FAI are playing chess while the rest of us are still playing checkers.

Stepping away from the Man City U21s job you'd assume he's doing so to get back into senior management. We need more Irish coaches getting into management.

Between the top four divisions in England and Scotland there's a grand total of four Irish managers employed. Mark Kennedy is employed again but at L2 level with Swindon. In Scotland Jim Goodwin is back in the SPL but the other two are at L1 and L2 level.

The Welsh FA have managed to carry out the process of replacing a manager, in an efficient manner.

Maybe , interestingly, Willy Sagnol was on the short list. Perhaps he really still is the target. Would the FAI have the funds for such an appointment 🤔