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Eddie O Sullivan. Stay or go.

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  • 16-03-2008 5:20pm
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    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭


    I would like to see some poll results on whether the fans would like to see him stay or go.

    So you consider him to be the reason for our nations under performing?

    Should Eddie O Sullivan stay as Manager? 114 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    11% 13 votes
    I dont know? :/
    88% 101 votes


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    Denis Irwin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭Denis Irwin


    The IRFU will carry out a review of Ireland's performance in this year's RBS 6 Nations with speculation mounting about the future of coach Eddie O'Sullivan.....

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/sixnations/2008/0316/osullivane.html

    Looks like he's a goner for sure with the IRFU showing little or no backing for him in the statement that's contained in the link.


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    dc69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭dc69


    who has voted yes?explain your vote please!


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    chicoben
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭chicoben


    dc69 wrote: »
    who has voted yes?explain your vote please!

    +1 WTF?


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    thebiggestjim
    Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭thebiggestjim


    dc69 wrote: »
    who has voted yes?explain your vote please!

    That must have been Neil Francis


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    Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 3,179 ✭✭✭Junior


    Denis Irwin wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/sixnations/2008/0316/osullivane.html

    Looks like he's a goner for sure with the IRFU showing little or no backing for him in the statement that's contained in the link.

    I think they want him gone, but they want to do it officially so it doesn't come back on them as them shafting him, but at the end of the day someone needs to stand up and be counted and do something, be it chopping Eddie, or forcing him to take the genesis report onboard. Rather than sacking by a faceless committee approved report.


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    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Think he's got to go. Not sure who to replace him with, Kidney would probably get the nod, but I'm not convinced.


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    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Pretty conclusive

    Id say the yes voters were just mistaking the question?


    .. or Welsh


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    promethius
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭promethius


    That must have been Neil Francis

    The demise of eddie has left "Frano's" credibility as a sports journlist at a point where i would no longer take him seriously.


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    burnedfaceman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭burnedfaceman


    i think o sullivan has brought the team as far as he can take it, im a fan who appreciates all the good that has happened under eddies tenure as irish manager but after the mess that was the rwc and this seasons six nations, i think the end of the line has come for eddie and he knows it


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I misread the question. I thought it said "Should EOS go?" :/
    oops.



    Pacman makes up for all :pac:


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    Erin Go Brath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Erin Go Brath


    Time is up for EOS. We need a new manager with new ideas to get the best out of this team. Time has been up since the WC tbh. Look at how a new manager envigorated Wales.


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    siochain
    Registered Users Posts: 2,546 ✭✭✭siochain


    snyper wrote: »
    Pretty conclusive

    Id say the yes voters were just mistaking the question?


    .. or Welsh

    Yeah I just misread the question and voted YES, should have been NO.


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    toomevara
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭toomevara


    He's gone, just a question of how they ease him out the door...it'll cost us though, some people reckon up to a Mil...nice work if you can get it...unless they sweeten the pill with the promise of a provincial management gig in the future...(if I was bradley, i'd be looking over me shoulder when ned heads back to Moyross...)


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    #15
    SameDifference
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭SameDifference


    Is this poll really needed? at the moment 88.3 % of people who have voted have said he should kick rocks. The only good thing about the loss against England was to put another nail in his coffin.


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    JJ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭JJ


    Maybe I'm far too forgiving but I was willing to give EOS a chance after the World Cup but after our 6N performance, he has to go. We need a new coach who doesn't have favourites, has new ideas and doesn't pick a team that's more difficult to get out of then onto.


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    He has to go, there's very little he can do now to motivate the players, that alone should see him removed, but also the ineptitude of his selection policy.

    A few triple crowns and some wins against SH teams don't mask the fact that he's pissed away our most talented generation ever.

    Wales have got 2 slams in 4 years with a team no more talented than ours, it's a fcuking shame.


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    Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 3,179 ✭✭✭Junior


    zAbbo wrote: »
    He has to go, there's very little he can do now to motivate the players, that alone should see him removed, but also the ineptitude of his selection policy.

    A few triple crowns and some wins against SH teams don't mask the fact that he's pissed away our most talented generation ever.

    Wales have got 2 slams in 4 years with a team no more talented than ours, it's a fcuking shame.

    +1

    Look at it this way, England are blooding new players that are 21,22 ish, same with France, we are blooding Buckley, aged 28, Heaslip aged 24 (?) Fitzgerald only got a look in from a clutter of injuries.

    We've not got the best out of this team, and now we've got f*ck all to replace them with.

    As I've said elsewhere, it's fairly obvious the talent that BOD has, and EOS has pissed that away using him as a crash ball merchant, BOD has had a dip in form since the WC, but it seems as if nothing was changed to help the player, he's aged, he's changed I don't think EOS has changed his image of how BOD should play or train.

    Do I think we are a better team than the current Welsh team, yes, do I think we should have won the Grand Slam this year, yes, did we manage it, obviously not. Is that talent, time and effort wasted, yes. Is this the managers fault partly and he has to go to try change the other part, the team.


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    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    well, just to answer, i posted a poll just to see how conclusive the feeling out there was among the fans.

    I was a strong belever in EOS. But i think results dont lie, and out resuls in the WC, particularly against that bleeding African county with the team full of Farmers and Miners, was embarresing.

    Sadly i dont know who will ake the change.. Warren Gatland failed with us. We have no hope of getting Jake White.


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    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Im just worried now that if'/when he goes that our Summer Tours will have a caretaker manager and i could see that going really really bad, storm isnt over yet.


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    toomevara
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭toomevara


    Stev_o wrote: »
    Im just worried now that if'/when he goes that our Summer Tours will have a caretaker manager and i could see that going really really bad, storm isnt over yet.

    Whatever way the summer tours go, its going to be bad...the tour to NZ is going to be a massacre unless wine into water style miracles are worked...it'll be a classic catch 22...send out the old fogeys for one last hurrah and take the sting out of the inevitable slaughter or risk destroying the young bloods confidence by having them minced by the AB's...its lose, lose and we'll just have to take the hit I'm afraid.....


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    Erin Go Brath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Erin Go Brath


    I think we need a new manager and soon, and we'll then officially we'll be in a 'transition phase'. This should negate any hefty defeats we will surely receive in the summer tour. Nobody will judge the new guy too harshly if his reign begins with these games.


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    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Look at Wales. Instant action was taken after the World Cup, and now ... Grand slammers


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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    dc69 wrote: »
    who has voted yes?explain your vote please!

    I voted yes because I didn't read the question properly!:o
    O'Sullivan must go because he has squeezed every ounce of creativity and confidence out of a brilliant squad of players and the sooner he goes, the sooner the squad can get back to playing the sort of rugby that we know they are all capable of.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    chris85
    Registered Users Posts: 4,502 ✭✭✭chris85


    he needs to go soon, i think Jack White should be approached about it and pay the money to get him.

    I think Ireland has a lot of potentially good players to attract the best out there for the job


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    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,637 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Well, it seems likely that White is getting the England job.

    Are all the people who voted yes close to Eddie? :p


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    dc69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭dc69


    toomevara wrote: »
    Whatever way the summer tours go, its going to be bad...the tour to NZ is going to be a massacre unless wine into water style miracles are worked...it'll be a classic catch 22...send out the old fogeys for one last hurrah and take the sting out of the inevitable slaughter or risk destroying the young bloods confidence by having them minced by the AB's...its lose, lose and we'll just have to take the hit I'm afraid.....

    great post,wine into water lol


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    Boots09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Boots09


    I personally thought after the world cup they hould let him have a chance with the six nations, after some of the good work he had done in the past, But now I think his time is up. Not sure who they should get to replace him though White would be good but I think he'd prefer England.


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