I've often thought I should do that, so only I could see the crap I'd written. Have to agree with you about Trapattoni. As an Ireland fan, I've moaned about him in the past, but he hardly has riches at his disposal just now.
He may not have too much talent at his disposal, but there have been rumblings of him not properly applying what he does have! http://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/sport...ger-kenny-shows-trap-how-it-is-done-1-5469969
Looks like he's after the job! Of course, I totally agree about Wes over a rather poor McClean, even allowing for bias.
There will always be people saying that -- as we know full well. Does anybody really believe that e.g. playing a single striker with Wes behind him would have improved their chances of qualifying? There are 13 WC places up for grabs between the participating European countries. Of the home nations, only England rank in the top 15 and might therefore be expected to qualify. The others are all very much outsiders, and the job made even more difficult by the seeding system. You have two choices, appoint managers with vast international experience and trust them to make as good a fist of qualification as their experience and the lack of quality allows, or settle for entertaining failure and to hell with the co-efficients. If you want to make it a little easier for yourselves in the future, the former is the way to go. Even some Wales fans recognise that -- Trapattoni was being mentioned by some yesterday as a better bet than renewing Chris Coleman's contract. Not going to happen, but that's a different matter.
You say it is failure, but it is only failure to qualify for Brazil 2014. People have short memories. Do you remember the RoI under Steve Staunton? Trapattoni did an excellent job when he first took over; the performances at Euro 2012 were disappointing though, and it has gone downhill since then largely because of ageing players and the lack of talent to replace them. There's no question of a "pay off", just a matter of contractual entitlement and the exact terms on which he leaves are unknown.
Here we go, fingers crossed from my perspective. I think Hughton will stay, but then again I thought Lambert would when Villa came calling. We will know soon enough.
i don't think anyone thought lambert was happy here! it was more a case that people couldn't see the attraction to villa at the time.
by the way, hughton's contract is the same as the players. he's on a three year deal (from 2012-2015) but it has the option of an extra year should the club wish to apply it, meaning he always has a year left on his deal a bit like having a rolling contract added to his normal deal
Get the principalities to join England and put in a UK squad , might stand a chance of qualifying and doing something and if ROI where to join in to would really might stand a chance Having said that I don't give a damn about international football it's usually slow and boring and never really bother with it
Don't see the array of Welsh, Scottish and Irish talent that would make much difference. They play the same technically deficient football that the English do. Yes, we'd have Bale and Ramsey now, and previously would have had Giggs, but that's about it.
I'd wager that the Scottish contingent: Rhodes, Snodgrass, Whittaker/Martin and McCarthy would offer a bit more than their current incumbents, messers Carroll/Welbeck, Young, Walker and Cleverley!
