John bloody O’Shea
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Been very poor since McConville left. Murphy has been a poor addition, they must have thought it would work better as him and Flynn are friends but just doesn't work
Ken reckoning with, in utterly slow motion, what an absolute eejit his poster boy teen idol of an Ireland manager was sure is an experience. The rest of us saw the car crash coming before he even took over.
OMG the GAA Football coverage really needs to improve.
Flynn is the biggest spoofer ever (when i was in dublin blah blah...) and Michael Murphy has the charisma of a banana!!!
It's so dour - 50 mins that could be done in 15 mins.. I get the feeling Eoin isn't bothered about any of it - just has a few questions written down to drag the whole thing out to fill time.
Ken's pro-Liverpool slant is grating these days.
No. Didn’t find out much about him from the interview with second captains. Didn’t think they done a great job on that one.
edit- it was obviously a removed interview so mick foley should take half the blame
Anyone know why Daniel Wiffen has an English accent? Sounds a bit scouser?
"Can rout teams" I picked up
removed
Playing foreign language commentary is the most incredibly hipster thing Second Captains do.
Enlighten me
..you’ve not been paying attention to the news.
Illegally used? But no fallout yet?
If the GAA chose to build their stadium in the wrong place that's real tough isn't it. It's not a problem the taxpayer should be troubled with.
This week really shows how much of the whole thing Ken is. Well organised and produced show, but not nearly as interesting without Ken’s humour there.
I also enjoyed Paul Flynn putting in a question to Murph about how we would have dealt with a certain situation as a forward, but very quickly clarifying he was talking to Michael Murph lol.
It is a ludicrous argument, thankfully no one actually made it.
Edit: Just listening to this week’s episode where Branno is throwing his toys out of the pram because of the Casement funding and he, with a straight face, said Pearse Stadium is a great ground. I’m sorry but him and Murph haven’t a clue what they’re talking about with regards infrastructure, I’m from Connacht so I’m very well acquainted with Salthill and Pearse is a sight of a stadium built in literally the least accessible location in the city. It’s so close to the Atlantic coast that I genuinely have been to all of two games at Pearse that haven’t been ruined by wind alone. It was a physical power play to move the historic home of Galway GAA from Tuam, which even in its still shambling state is a much more enjoyable venue to watch football. Trying to get to and get out of Mannix Road is genuinely a mind-bending experience and I can’t get over that they think it is fit for any sort of dual purpose.
What a ludicrous argument. Don't fund soccer cause the kids are playing GAA too sure, and they have facilities.
To be fair there's been no suggestion that the manager should live in Ireland -- part of the remit was that they would HAVE A BASE in Ireland, not BE BASED in Ireland. Very different things. The expectation is just that they would come over more often, as part of the role as it is now seen involves working more with developing the academy structures, rather than only dealing with the management of the first team (hence why Carsley is the top candidate). They would still likely live in England, and be in England for the vast majority of their time, but would come and work on the ground with the football development folks occasionally too.
And we're back to resources again.
And likely playing gaelic football or hurling at a higher level than whatever they’re doing in soccer anyways. By the time you’re 15 and if you’re showing any athleticism you’re making your county team’s underage panel. It’s that early that’s things really get serious with preparation.
LoI heads like Branno like to pretend that soccer players aren’t well served but except for a few rare examples they are all multi-sport at those ages regardless. Any development plan needs to account for the fact 16 year old Jimmy isn’t spending noon and night at his local soccer club even if they have space age facilities everywhere.
The GAA and rugby need to show value for money too but when it comes to Irish soccer it seems to usually devolve into pointing at the other crowd and whining about how much money they get without also acknowledging the development work those sports are doing for the exact same demographics that are playing underage soccer.
Going forward though, most younger players will be playing here until 18 anyway.
If anything you could make a strong argument for the opposite, seen as how most players play in England so makes sense for the manager to be there.
And the manager should live in Ireland according to the FAI. Not the CEO though, he can fly in as needed.
I thought one of the worst parts was he still lives in England. Can't we find someone living in Ireland to do the job?
I agree and my only guess is that the junior staff member was pressured to work through holidays at his request or someone close to him that was also mentioned on the redacted emails.
That's clutching at straws though. He needs to provide the evidence.
Unless I'm missing something, why was the CEO of the organisation getting personally involved in something as trivial and low level as annual leave for a junior staff member?
Surely someone in his position would have a team of people under him to deal with hr and annual leave related queries, leaving him free to actually run the FAI as per his position. I find it bizarre that he was involved in such an exchange. The email about him jokingly trying to get paid unused holidays himself really stuck out because I wouldn't expect a man in his position to have anything at all to do with that.
I've never even met the CEO of my company as they are too busy running the place!
Just under a million Euro illegally used from the Covid bailout to pay off FAI debt. Hill claiming he was only joking about getting holiday pay. I don’t think my timing could have been better.
I think there's some truth in some of what Tucker Tim had to say, even if I wouldn't have put it so bluntly myself.
Beyond the national team and the PL a lot of people don't care really deeply about the state of underage football, or the LOI, or the facilities, or whatever. That's not to say there aren't plenty of people who do. But you could also say the same about people's attitude to any sport in the country. Plenty of people don't care about GAA beyond the county team, or rugby beyond big Ireland matches.
But I dunno if anyone is really out there claiming we're a nation of "soccer purists" either. Haven't heard that from anyone in a long long while.
Personally, I don't really care that it's taking a bit longer than expected to find a new manager - at the end of the day, in the grand scheme of things how important is that really - but because the media needs to talk about something it's getting pored over and discussed at length.
Let's keep spunking that betting tax on horse racing and fecking greyhounds, eh? 🙄
The candidates that are floating about aren't too appealing.
The job isn't too appealing.
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