Staunton sacked by Ireland

[Los Rojos]

My point was really that if you set an inexperienced manager up in a situation like that then you have to give him time to learn and to grow with the players.

Fair enough mate

I guess the FAI brought in Robson to help with his experience of the international game but his illness inevitably made developing this relationship a bit stop-start.

With regards to Staunton as an individual, I never understood the decision to appoint him anyway. He wasn't seen as an inspirational ex. player (Keegan, Beckenbauer etc) and didn't have any real coaching credentials. I heard it was a bit of a 'jobs for the boys' appointment which has badly backfired.

[Ritchi3]

I don't see anything awful lot wrong with his selection against Cypus the last day. Maybe Miller for O'Brien, but nothing much besides. He has learned. And if he had actually had Robson beside him, then he might have learned quicker. His team selections haven't been that bad(the full backs on the wrong side excepted). It's his motivational skills that I think he really needs to work on(as well as his media skills).

[thesilverfoxlfc]

I have never seen Staunton so happy, how could someone who has just been sacked from their job be so happy. He had a grin lick a Cheshire cat walking into the meeting. nice little pay off he got there.

He's got 800,000 from the FAI plus he's already a multi millionaire with property so i dont feel sorry for him.

He had to go wasnt good enough and has wasted players like Given and Dunne a chance to play in a major tourney in their prime.

The FAI should not do a cheapy on this they earn something like 10 million from the Germany game so money isnt a shortage.

A top class manager who knows the game and can motivate and bring back the good days.

[Ritchi3]

He's got 800,000 from the FAI plus he's already a multi millionaire with property so i dont feel sorry for him.

He had to go wasnt good enough and has wasted players like Given and Dunne a chance to play in a major tourney in their prime.

The FAI should not do a cheapy on this they earn something like 10 million from the Germany game so money isnt a shortage.

A top class manager who knows the game and can motivate and bring back the good days.

The FAi have spent loads on the Eircom league and youth set ups. And hopefully the majority of the Croke Park money will go there.

I can't see us getting a top class manager. We'll get a failed manager like O'Leary or Aldridge. And we'll be no better off in 2 years time.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

The FAi have spent loads on the Eircom league and youth set ups. And hopefully the majority of the Croke Park money will go there.

I can't see us getting a top class manager. We'll get a failed manager like O'Leary or Aldridge. And we'll be no better off in 2 years time.

Surely this cant happen again, the fans wont let it and the people in charge surely cant make a big mistake like they have the last two managers.

I dont know what top managers will be interested in taking over thats the problem.

I must say it was a shame Mick Mac was sacked. He was sacked for all the wrong reasons

[Ritchi3]

Surely this cant happen again, the fans wont let it and the people in charge surely cant make a big mistake like they have the last two managers.

I dont know what top managers will be interested in taking over thats the problem.

I must say it was a shame Mick Mac was sacked. He was sacked for all the wrong reasons

Sacking Brian Kerr was a mistake too, in my opinion. He should have gotten two more years to finish what he had started. Sacking Staunton two years into a rebuild, is a joke in my opinion. It's the public telling the FAI how to do their job, which should never happen. Granted a mistake was made initially, but sacking him, and wasting a few million, and getting in someone who is not an awful lot better is madness.

We have to start realising that we're a nation with only a few top class players and a load of average players. The way the media and a lot of the crowd(****s) treated Staunton is not going to help us get a new manager either. I'm not optimistic about the future(despite a decent crop of youngsters).

[johnp]

Sacking Brian Kerr was a mistake too, in my opinion. He should have gotten two more years to finish what he had started. Sacking Staunton two years into a rebuild, is a joke in my opinion. It's the public telling the FAI how to do their job, which should never happen. Granted a mistake was made initially, but sacking him, and wasting a few million, and getting in someone who is not an awful lot better is madness.

We have to start realising that we're a nation with only a few top class players and a load of average players. The way the media and a lot of the crowd(****s) treated Staunton is not going to help us get a new manager either. I'm not optimistic about the future(despite a decent crop of youngsters).

Technically he wasn't sacked, he was given a 2 year contract and they just didn't renew. But yeah, he should have been given another chance.

[Dan]

Kerr is SSN now saying he'd love the job back.

Anyone for it? I am

[johnp]

Kerr is SSN now saying he'd love the job back.

Anyone for it? I am

Bizarre! I thought he was very pissed off at the end of his last term. I think he only found out in the papers or radio that they weren't renewing his contract.

[Nic83]

I didn't want Kerr sacked. I thought he was UNBELIEVABLY unlucky. 2 las minute goals conceded against the Israeli's(that he couldnt be held responsible for). we were also very unlucky against France. We could have won over there and but for a piece of brilliance for the mercurial Henry, we'd have drawn here.

Who else apart from France finished ahead? I can't remember

[Dan]

I'd have one of two choices.

Kerr back or Ged in. Getting Ged in would be a special feeling

[Guest]

Well, Phillipe Troussier is interested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7060450.stm

[fitzy77]

Well, Phillipe Troussier is interested.

Hasn't he changed his name to Omar Troussier??

[Frank Leroux]

I didn't want Kerr sacked. I thought he was UNBELIEVABLY unlucky. 2 las minute goals conceded against the Israeli's(that he couldnt be held responsible for). we were also very unlucky against France. We could have won over there and but for a piece of brilliance for the mercurial Henry, we'd have drawn here.

Who else apart from France finished ahead? I can't remember

Wasn't it Switzerland?

Staunton was never the right choice for this post - assistant to a foreign one maybe but not as the actual manager. Like Kerr before him, it was the FAI doing things on the cheap. And there is word of Staunton's friendship with Delaney being a large part of the appointment, no more than Delaney's antipathy towards Kerr being a large part of his removal.

It would take a huge change in the FAI's view of the world to actually put the cash up to tempt a 'proper' manager in.

Paul Jewell is being talked-up by Dunphy (and Giles!). I'vce always wondered waht George Graham would be like at international level....

[johnp]

Wasn't it Switzerland?

Staunton was never the right choice for this post - assistant to a foreign one maybe but not as the actual manager. Like Kerr before him, it was the FAI doing things on the cheap. And there is word of Staunton's friendship with Delaney being a large part of the appointment, no more than Delaney's antipathy towards Kerr being a large part of his removal.

It would take a huge change in the FAI's view of the world to actually put the cash up to tempt a 'proper' manager in.

Paul Jewell is being talked-up by Dunphy (and Giles!). I'vce always wondered waht George Graham would be like at international level....

I don't think that's true. I read in the paper that we pay more than most European countries ie, take out the big hitters and we offer better pay.