Coaching team to take Ireland on tour

dc69

http://www.irishrugby.ie/283_11930.php

Former Ireland international and current Connacht Director of Rugby Michael Bradley will lead the tour as Head Coach and will also take responsibility for the backs.

Niall O’Donovan is named as Forwards Coach and is joined by Defense Coach Graham Steadman. Joey Miles will be tour manager, a role he has also filled for the Ireland A side and also the senior side during the tour of Japan in 2005.

The previous Team Manager, Gerard Carmody has moved to the position of IRFU Team Services Manager but will remain with the squad for this tour to manage all team logistics.

The squads for the Barbarians game, the summer tour and Churchill Cup will be announced tomorrow at 2.00pm.

Ireland Management
Michael Bradley – Head Coach
Niall O’Donovan – Forwards Coach
Joey Miles – Manager
Graham Steadman – Defense Coach
Paul Darbyshire – Fitness & Conditioning Coach
Mervyn Murphy – Video Analyst
Gerard Carmody – Team Services Manager
Gary O’Driscoll – Doctor
Cameron Steele – Physiotherapist
Brian Greene – Physiotherapist
David Revins – Masseur
Paddy ‘Rala’ O’Reilly – Baggage Master

toomevara

My coaching team for the upcoming tour to hell... oops,sorry NZ/Oz;


Ireland Management

Jesus Christ – Head Coach, to resurrect the national team and fashion the miracle of a win...loaves and fishes how are ya...our only hope

Detective Vic Mackey – Forwards Coach, just the man to put some grit in the forwards and teach 'em how to operate in the dark confines of the scrum

A. Spartan – Defense Coach, a Thermopylae like approach to defence is the only hope for our lot.

Dwayne Chambers – Fitness & Conditioning Coach, lets face it they're going to need all the 'assistance' they can get....

Lester Bangs – Video Analyst, knows all the angles and positions.

Phlox out of Trek:Enterprise - Doctor, they'll need his xeno-biological skills to reconstruct what's left of them after they've been through the maori mincer

Madonna – Physiotherapist...knows how keep saggy, ageing semi-corpses animated.

Jordan – Masseuse, well they might as well get some enjoyment out of the tour...

Bertie Aherne – Baggage Master, the master of managing baggage, and hiding packages.

zAbbo

Ireland Management
Michael Bradley – Head Coach
Niall O’Donovan – Forwards Coach
Joey Miles – Manager
Graham Steadman – Defense Coach
Paul Darbyshire – Fitness & Conditioning Coach
Mervyn Murphy – Video Analyst
Gerard Carmody – Team Services Manager
Gary O’Driscoll – Doctor
Cameron Steele – Physiotherapist
Brian Greene – Physiotherapist
David Revins – Masseur
Paddy ‘Rala’ O’Reilly – Baggage Master

Only Bradley, Miles & Darbyshire are new to the setup, what happened to the genesis report, surely at least 2 of Niall O'Donavan, Merv Murphy, Gerard Carmody and Steadman have to go, hopefully Kidney can bring in the coaches he wants for those positions.

We're going to get mullered down under

marco_polo

If Bradley masterminds a victory against NZ I might consider him more favourably for the Munster Job. :pac:

zAbbo

Who else would get the Munster job? Mark McCall?

They're hardly going to re-emply Steady Eddie? and I don't see another foreign coach coming in.

dc69

zAbbo wrote: »

Who else would get the Munster job? Mark McCall?

They're hardly going to re-emply Steady Eddie? and I don't see another foreign coach coming in.

steady eddie?

I still regard him as a very good coach,he just was in the job too long etc.I wouldnt feel too agrieved if he was the next Leinster coach,I dont know if Munster fans feel the same?

Its not to far fetched tbh,his next likely destination was the GP,so why not the ML

marco_polo

zAbbo wrote: »

Who else would get the Munster job? Mark McCall?

They're hardly going to re-emply Steady Eddie? and I don't see another foreign coach coming in.

So he should just get the job by default then? Just because he has hung around at Connaught long enough.

dc69

marco_polo wrote: »

So he should just get the job by default then?

Not by default but surely he has to be a contender for it.

zAbbo

We're talking about the IRFU, they really shouldn't re-employ Eddie after paying 500k to sack him, then give him the best provincial team, meanwhile the coach he shafted gets the national team job.

Bradley shouldn't get the Munster job, just like he shouldn't have got this summer coaching role, Ideally Cheika would have been a good choice, but all that is irrelevant now.

dc69

zAbbo wrote: »

We're talking about the IRFU, they really shouldn't re-employ Eddie after paying 500k to sack him, then give him the best provincial team, meanwhile the coach he shafted gets the national team job.

Bradley shouldn't get the Munster job, just like he shouldn't have got this summer coaching role, Ideally Cheika would have been a good choice, but all that is irrelevant now.

yeah but he was with Ireland for many years and it just became stale.I wouldnt be surprised tbh.I think he would do a good job.

Compare his CV to some of the managers in the GP with the top teams,it is far superior.

Its 2 different teams,its like saying if alex ferguson was fired by utd and then the scottish FA appointed him as national team manager it would be an odd decision

Its the same employer but a different job

zAbbo

dc69 wrote: »

Its the same employer but a different job

The same employer that he's been sacked by!

There's way to much water under the bridge for this to happen, Eddie got Kidney booted when Eddie took over the national team, he also got 500k + the sack from that job, which has now been given to Kidney, and you're proposing that the IRFU now re-hire Eddie and have him demoted as the Munster coach?

marco_polo

dc69 wrote: »

Not by default but surely he has to be a contender for it.

Of course he should be entitled to be considered for it, but there should be proper due process. The impression I am getting from some is that because he is an Irish coach, he is next in line for the job so he should get it by default.

One thing that bothers me is why was he not mentioned once when the Ulster job was available?

The Welsh regions who have a policy of appointing Welsh coaches where possible, Look at what happened to the entire Grand Slam team within a couple of months under Lyn Jones?

dc69

marco_polo wrote: »

One thing that bothers me is why was he not mentioned once when the Ulster job was available?

Because it was too soon after and the fact he would be coaching his home provence.It was only a suggestion as a possibility.

If I was in charge of hiring the next Munster coach I wouldnt just brush Eddie off because he was fired from the Ireland job,they were in certain circumstances.

If we go on a managers CV,he is up top of the list.Realistically he probably wont get the job, but he should and I presume will be considered if he applies for it.