The Gaffer, revisited...

Darragh29

Call me a cynic, but does anyone else here get a sense of deja vu when listening to Brian Cowen lately???

SoWatchaWant

How you mean?

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Darragh29 wrote: »

Call me a cynic, but does anyone else here get a sense of deja vu when listening to Brian Cowen lately???

They both look to our left in photographs? Yes, I have noticed that, well spotted. :rolleyes:

towel401

Darragh29 wrote: »

Call me a cynic, but does anyone else here get a sense of deja vu when listening to Brian Cowen lately???

I don't listen to brian cowen so i wouldn't know

kelle

towel401 wrote: »

I don't listen to brian cowen so i wouldn't know

You will on Tuesday when he does the Budget.

Darragh29

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

How you mean?

Well remember when the Irish football team were performing like our economy is at the moment, namely one failure after the other??? We had The Gaffer saying the exact same thing back then, that Biffo is saying now!

"We're working to be successful for the next major campaign..." Stan

"We're working to take advantage of the next economic upswing..." Biffo

Collie D

kelle wrote: »

You will on Tuesday when he does the Budget.

Only if Brian Lenihan stages a coup and they swap jobs

SoWatchaWant

Darragh29 wrote: »

Well remember when the Irish football team were performing like our economy is at the moment, namely one failure after the other??? We had The Gaffer saying the exact same thing back then, that Biffo is saying now!

"We're working to be successful for the next major campaign..." Stan

"We're working to take advantage of the next economic upswing..." Biffo

Oh right! Haha, well observed!:D

Darragh29

There are more similarities. The two of them look like they have been cut from the same cloth to me...

JerryHandbag

How about Stan running the country and Biffo managing our soccer team? Pointless exercise though, would get same results :rolleyes:

Darragh29

Another similarity...

Both individuals were "annointed" for their respective positions as distinct from being properly "selected". In both cases, they were "assumed" to be the right man for the job.

Collie D

Darragh29 wrote: »

Another similarity...

Both individuals were "annointed" for their respective positions as distinct from being properly "selected". In both cases, they were "assumed" to be the right man for the job.

Not really.

Stan was selected by a ten-man committee if I remember correctly and Cowen was elected by Dáil.

Bob the Builder

Or, that they're both idiots?

Darragh29

Collie D wrote: »

Not really.

Stan was selected by a ten-man committee if I remember correctly and Cowen was elected by Dáil.

Was Stan not annointed by Delaney and was Biffo not the annointed one by Bertie??? In Stan's case, as far as I know, the ten man committee only had to make a recommendation to Delaney and two others. In any event, we know that the FAI is a political organisation that doesn't make competency based decisions but rather runs on whatever gut feeling the top man might have at a particular point in time, usually lacking any transparency and due process. In the case of Biffo, the decision that Biffo was next at the helm was made long before the dail vote that officially made him so...

Collie D

Darragh29 wrote: »

In the case of Biffo, the decision that Biffo was next at the helm was made long before the dail vote that officially made him so...

That's how things work. Same with Gordon Brown. Nobody else in FF went against him

Fanny Cradock

Did anyone else notice that they are also both male and hatless?

Collie D

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

Did anyone else notice that they are also both male and hatless?

I repeat, hatless