New Ireland Manager, GioTrap

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He's said it himself.

He's the new manager.

Confirmed.

Mr Alan

I wanted Venables

Nalz

Link? Brady role confirmed? Custard?

Rockee

Mr Alan wrote: »

I wanted Venables

Oh well...

Dave!

holy crap i just did a sex wee

happy days

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Mr Alan wrote: »

I wanted Venables

:eek:

Srsly?

Pal

they should never have sacked Stan. Its a disgrace. :mad:

darkman2

lol @ Sky Sports News reading the emails.


'looks like the English have picked the wrong Italian' and 'Forget qaulifying we are going to win the world cup' - no negative comments at all apparently.

Rockee

Pal wrote: »

they should never have sacked Stan. Its a disgrace. :mad:

Well, press call is for 4:30 today at FAI HQ. The power of the picket!

estebancambias

Good piece in the Mail yesterday. They were saying that Ireland should go and get O' Hara from Spurs.

I am honestly delighted. It does not mean we will qualify for sure, but at least we will have some stability. Could Trappa be the man to turn us into Poland or dare I say Greece?

Mr Alan

DesF wrote: »

:eek:

Srsly?

Couldnt really have given a ****e tbh. Glad we got someone decent. But i think Venables "could" have done a job. Dont really reckon international management is rocket science.

Kingp35

Finally a decent Ireland manager who may be able to whip this decent set of players into shape. I just hope the expectancy levels don't go through the roof after this appointment.

spockety

FAI press conference live on www.rte.ie/live later today

Not on tv

Xavi6

Yay for El Trap!!!!

yom 1

They may have stumbled upon him, they may not, but it is the first time in as long as I can remember that we can say the FAI have done something right for Irish Football.

Delighted with the appointment.

Its time for the team to stand up and be counted. No more excuses.

Hopefully his first job involves handing Dunne the armband.

armour87

Hes approaching 70 and doesnt even speak English

Although his record is 1000000% better than the rest of the pretenders and will hopefully be one of the best things to ever happen in Irish football.

Saw his big rant as manager of Bayern last nite

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bqp64q7kHmw

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armour87 wrote: »

Hes approaching 70 and doesnt even speak English

Untrue.

He spoke English to an irish journo at a press conference in Salzburg today.

I could understand him perfectly well.

armour87

DesF wrote: »

Untrue.

He spoke English to an irish journo at a press conference in Salzburg today.

I could understand him perfectly well.

My mistake. My dad said he didnt!
What would he know, he plays golf.

Tusky

Excellent stuff.

Dave!

yom 1 wrote: »

Hopefully his first job involves handing Dunne the armband.

step 2, get finnan and ireland back!
step 3, ...
step 4, win the world cup

estebancambias

Better than Capello Des?

whiskeyman

Over 100 days since our last manager, and Trap hasn't won a single game for us...

TRAP OUT!!!

shoutman

He's been watching triumph of the will too often

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estebancambias wrote: »

Better than Capello Des?

Let's wait and see.

Capello has better players at his disposal.

Trapattoni is respected by Capello.

Who knows.

We'll see.

If Capello finsihes first in the group, but Trapattoni gets Ireland to at least a play off, then I'd say Trapattoni is better, yeah.

PHB

Could we get O'Hara? He's a fantastic player imo, he's got real potential. He's played U16, U17, U18 for England though.

He was called up for the English U21's a while back, but he didn't play. If we could get him that'd be amazing.

estebancambias

DesF wrote: »

Let's wait and see.

Capello has better players at his disposal.

Trapattoni is respected by Capello.

Who knows.

We'll see.

If Capello finsihes first in the group, but Trapattoni gets Ireland to at least a play off, then I'd say Trapattoni is better, yeah.

I meant his English, but meh.;)

tonc76

estebancambias wrote: »

Good piece in the Mail yesterday.

Is that possible:rolleyes:

Of all the names bandied about I think they got the right man

Dare I say well done FAI

estebancambias

eirebhoy in the other thread said that he watched the tapes of the Brazil and Wales games...what a ****ing hero.

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estebancambias wrote: »

I meant his English, but meh.

lol

I've never heard Capello speaking English afaik.

I just heard Gio speaking it, so in my experience, yeah, Gio is better at English.

LuckyLloyd

Please, please, please let this be true. Tell me it's not a dream!! Is it true? Trap for Ireland?? YUUUUEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Mikeyt086

as Dunphy said this is the right appointment. not so much well done to the FAI but thanks for finally doing the right thing.

We need Dunne as captain, Ireland in the team, Finnan back, Duff performing and if we could get O'Hara that would be fantastic.

estebancambias

James McCarthy perhaps making the step up? He will be 18 just after the qualification starts. He said he would leave Hamilton once they get promoted, they are running away with the league.

Pal

Spare a thought for Stan.
If it wasn't for him who knows .........

redspider

So, Ireland's first "foreign" manager appointed. Trapattoni has a better CV than any others we have had in the past, thats for sure, but whether that will translate into Ireland doing better than they would have donw with someone else only time will tell. I'll reserve my judgement on him until I see some of the performances and the results.

One thing I did notice about his CV, and that is that he changes clubs/jobs every couple of years. I'd be surprised he stayed here for more than the "2 years", but we'll see. If we do manage to qualify and do well, maybe the Irish hospitatlity and 'adolation' will rub off on him and make him stay. If we dont qualify, I expect him to be off.

Lets see what happens ....

Redspider

Jazzy

we have given an old manager a nice cushy retirement job. still tho, good to have him aboard as hes probably the best we could have gotten

Capello is the better manager tho... unless u turn on your patriot blinkers

darkman2

lol @ BBC

The Republic's World Cup qualifying draw means that Trapattoni will have the task of plotting his own country's downfall.

Italy will be at home to the Republic on April Fool's Day in 2009

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redspider wrote: »

So, Ireland's first "foreign" manager appointed.

Jack Charlton was a foreign manager, iirc.

Nalz

We need to get the likes of Whelan, Garvan and O Dea more involved in the senior squads. Also what happened to Paddy McCarthy?

jameshayes

He's the best we could have got - by far.

But hopfully people wont have an opinion of him after the first game.

eirebhoy

PHB wrote: »

Could we get O'Hara? He's a fantastic player imo, he's got real potential. He's played U16, U17, U18 for England though.

He was called up for the English U21's a while back, but he didn't play. If we could get him that'd be amazing.

Too old now to change countries.

eirebhoy

Trilla wrote: »

We need to get the likes of Whelan, Garvan and O Dea more involved in the senior squads. Also what happened to Paddy McCarthy?

Playing regularly for Charlton. Probably not gonna be international standard though.

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eirebhoy wrote: »

Too old now to change countries.

Plus the fact that he's English, and has played for England.

No more mercenaries please.

ffs.

LuckyLloyd

Trilla wrote: »

Also what happened to Paddy McCarthy?

He turned out to be a solid championship / league one centre half but miles off international standard.

So happy!

estebancambias

Dave: He once brought Holy water on the pitch!!!!! Be afraid, be very afraid.

Rockee

estebancambias wrote: »

Dave: He once brought Holy water on the pitch!!!!! Be afraid, be very afraid.

Trapas legend grows and grows

darkman2

estebancambias wrote: »

Dave: He once brought Holy water on the pitch!!!!! Be afraid, be very afraid.

I heard he has always done that. Also an uncomfirmed rumour he can turn water into wine......not sure about that one though....

Dave!

darkman2 wrote: »

I heard he has always done that. Also an uncomfirmed rumour he can turn water into wine......not sure about that one though....

At least we don't have to worry about the age thing then; sure if he drops, he'll be back 3 days later!

Sherifu

RTE wrote:

Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg have confirmed that Giovanni Trapattoni will leave them at the end of the season to become Republic of Ireland manager.
The Italian is set to be announced at a conference at the FAI Headquarters in Abbotstown this evening. You can watch that press conference live on www.rte.ie/live from 5pm.

Link

Bounty Hunter

He was born on St Patricks Day. He takes on the Italiens on, on April fools day! He takes holy water with him everywhere. DesF likes the FAI's appointment. o yes the legend of Trapattoni grows andd grows

BaZmO*

Just heard him there on the radio saying that he has no problem asking his old friend Arsene Wenger to release Liam Brady to be part of his management team.

I'm really optimistic about the appointment of Trapattoni.