Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

I'd say there's no danger of O'Shea saying no. He wants to get into management and don't see anyone given him a management job between now and June.

The FAI probably have less of a clue then we have as to who will be appointed

The arrogance or nonchalance of some on here mirrors that of the idiotic and negligent FAI who are their to pick up a wage but don't seem to really care anymore. Hill has literally given up. The players need to move on, they need a management team that they know are going to be running things for the next campaign. Those who say wait until someone better appears are just kicking the can down the road hoping something will turn up.

I'd say there is a chance that O'Shea might tell them to shove it if they come to him again to say will you continue to caretake, while we sit around waiting for someone better than you to come along. Don't know where they would be then if he did tell them to shove it, maybe they think it doesn't matter. That's the problem.

What happens if they wait to lock in the bad choice late in the summer and his first game is England. Unless they can sort out a deal with Willy Sagnol then they shouldn't wait that late to make a decision. If Sagnol is main choice then I don't see much difference between him and Janne Andersson whose currently available.

Just scrap this head coach thing of wanting the senior manager involved with other teams and let the senior manager focus on the senior team. Our last squad I believe had an average age of under 25. Any manager coming in will be working with a squad that's already had a group of young players integrated into the squad. Get them an experienced pragmatic manager that's gonna toughen the group up because this must be the softest group of Irish players ever.

If they keep persisting with this head coach who'll do some work out of Abbotstown with the other FAI coaches then they might as well hire Chris Hughton now. Because you'll only get pound shop managers interested and out of the pound shop managers he's likely the closet you'll get to the head coach criteria you want.

I'm sure it was made clear before March's games that they'd rather have nothing than O'Shea but he still took the job. I'd love for him to turn around and tell them get stuffed because it would mean never having to see him in charge again until he's built up some experience of his own.

Awwww, you still upset that they told Neil Lennon get lost.

Himself and Joey Barton can double as co managers.

or they had someone lined up and they changed their mind. It happen. In the last few days Juventus had everything agreed with Felipe Anderson, until he had a last second change of heart and decided he wanted to go home to Brazil

And the only reason they gave April as a date was because of the whinging and moaning of fans and media who ‘had to know’ what was going on.

It really should have been as simple as them coming out with some non-commital "there'll be no comment while the recruitment process is underway".

The FAI really made a rod for their own back with the April appointment talk. Unless it was agreed, there's no logic to it. Trying to blame it on the fans and the media is quite obnoxious as well. They are well-paid grown-ups, surely they can handle a few questions without panicking?

Of course, we can afford to snub our nose at Lennon. While you and a couple of others on here say the FAI should do nothing and appoint no one until after the Euros, that will mean we’ll be throwing someone in the deepend for the England game.

If they go to O’Shea and ask him to continue as caretaker he should tell them if you want me to continue give me a contract. I’d prefer John O’Shea to someone like Keith Andrews, that’s who’ll be caretaking then.

This 'managerial search' seems to lurch from one misstep to another. Looking at it I think they had an agreement with Poyet but, wouldn't fork out for his son on the backroom team and Poyet called a halt. Then they went back around the houses once more but, there were no takers.

Fair enough if they want to wait to get the right man in; if they have an idea of who the right man is. Each month they don’t appoint someone they are also saving a salary. I can’t see JOS being caretaker once more unless he has been promised the gig or a role in the backroom staff of the next manager.

Unless they have decided they will wait out the Euros and see what becomes available afterwards. Even though I think any manger that got to the Euros wouldn’t like to take the Ireland gig. Or are they hoping Anthony Barry will be at a loose end by then? I cant think of any UK based manager that is seeing out their contract and be available in the summer. By ‘seeing out’ I mean still being paid as part of his settlement which will cease once he takes a new role. Make more sense to sit at home doing nothing for 2/3 million a year than take over Ireland for a fraction of that.

Exactly, and it’s not just the Euros in June that’ll cause more managers to be available. The end of season managerial merry-go-round will also start next month.

So you think the manager’s first game should be a competitive fixture v England in September, that he shouldn’t get these upcoming friendlies to have a look at the squad and have those games to give him time to select his best team. You think that has “piss all bearing”?

There’s no guarantee that we’ll get “a better manager” at the end of the summer after the Euros. That’s a hell of a gamble to take.

Nope, they should appoint someone for these fixtures in June.

It's not really a gamble though. O'Shea would take the job now, and will most likely take it in June if he was offered it.

You're not gambling anything.