FAI...New Manager Hunt continues

[deiseach]

Sorry maybe this link is better in here

Found this wee website

Naturally it's a bit biased but still an interesting read though I've only started it

http://www.soccer-ireland.com/saipan/index.htm

That's insane. Erm, excuse me for the afternoon...

[rodney trotter]

Talk of a All Ireland team playing England every 2 years for Charity. A lot of the best Northern players are playing for ROI so not many guesses who would make the team , bar Johnny Evans

[anglocelt39]

Talk of a All Ireland team playing England every 2 years for Charity. A lot of the best Northern players are playing for ROI so not many guesses who would make the team , bar Johnny Evans

feck if you think the GAA all star awards are a rigged political compromise wait till they sit down to pick this one, in fact wait till they sit down to pick who picks this one, this sentence could go on forever.

[CitySlicker11]

Anyone care to take a stab at an All Ireland selection?

1. Forde
2. Coleman
4. Evans
5. O'Shea
3. Wilson
6. Gibson
7. McGeady
8. McCarthy
11. Hoolahan
9. Long
10. Keane

[Applesisapples]

Anyone care to take a stab at an All Ireland selection?

1. Forde
2. Coleman
4. Evans
5. O'Shea
3. Wilson
6. Gibson
7. McGeady
8. McCarthy
11. Hoolahan
9. Long
10. Keane

There's no point the IFA have kicked it into touch, to borrow a phrase from another code.

[muppet]

Anyone care to take a stab at an All Ireland selection?

1. Forde
2. Coleman
4. Evans
5. O'Shea
3. Wilson
6. Gibson
7. McGeady
8. McCarthy
11. Hoolahan
9. Long
10. Keane

There's no point the IFA have kicked it into touch, to borrow a phrase from another code.

The IFA has just released a statement saying that the IFA kicking anything to touch is not on their radar.

[deiseach]

There's no point the IFA have kicked it into touch, to borrow a phrase from another code.

I can't say I blame the IFA, Enda Kenny really should know better. However, I wonder will the do a lorra work for charidee (but they don't like to talk about it) crowd be denouncing the IFA in the same terms that the GAA were when they wouldn't allow Healy Park be used for fundraising soccer matches for the victims of the Omagh bomb, matches which Omagh Town used to pay off their own debts.

[magpie seanie]

There's no point the IFA have kicked it into touch, to borrow a phrase from another code.

I can't say I blame the IFA, Enda Kenny really should know better. However, I wonder will the do a lorra work for charidee (but they don't like to talk about it) crowd be denouncing the IFA in the same terms that the GAA were when they wouldn't allow Healy Park be used for fundraising soccer matches for the victims of the Omagh bomb, matches which Omagh Town used to pay off their own debts.

How would he? You see the mess he presides over. Guy is a total clown, nothing he comes out with should surprise anyone.

[deiseach]

How would he? You see the mess he presides over. Guy is a total clown, nothing he comes out with should surprise anyone.

Okay, anyone with a jot of sense should know better, which excludes Enda.

[Applesisapples]

But surely if we are going to break down sectarian barriers that are so evident in soccer it is a place to start. From the outside it appears to me that the IFA kicked it into touch because they are part and parcel of the OWC brigade.

[EC Unique]

Does the IFA have to be on board for it to happen? Just invite the players from the 32 counties and work away? Can the IFA prevent them?

[Applesisapples]

Does the IFA have to be on board for it to happen? Just invite the players from the 32 counties and work away? Can the IFA prevent them?

It would be better if they were. I read in the IN that Derek Doogan's international career ended with his involvement with the organising committee for the "Shamrock Rovers 11". So I guess there wouldn't be a queue of NI players to join up. I'd love to see Kyle Laverty in the team though...outta badness!

[deiseach]

But surely if we are going to break down sectarian barriers that are so evident in soccer it is a place to start. From the outside it appears to me that the IFA kicked it into touch because they are part and parcel of the OWC brigade.

We get all kinds of suggestions to the GAA on how they can 'break down sectarian barriers'. Even a reasonable person (ahem) would find them irritating in how they make assumptions about the organisation they hold dear, and I can see how a reasonable OWCer would feel the same.

And yes, reasonable OWCers do exist.

[ballinaman]

[CitySlicker11]

Has Roy got a private deal with Puma?  Thought with Ireland being Umbro that they would have to wear all their gear.