Next Ireland manager

[Yer Ma]

Father Ted, with Father McGuire as his assistant.

Surely Ted's financial misappropriation "that money was just resting in my account" - would go against him.

[parttimeexile]

Dont really have much interest in soccer but I wouldn't rate Souness. Did he not manage to take a good liverpool team and make a complete hash of them. Being succesful in scotland is not the hardest thing in the world. I think souness is clueless and lives purely of his name and not results.

[Main Street]

It's load off nonsense about Souness being anti Irish. He got rid off Stan from Liverpool. UEFA's 3 foreigner rule had something to say about that, later Souness publically stated that it was one of his mistakes as manager.

Being a good pundit doesn't neccessarily make a good international team manager.

Personally my preference would go to someone who has decent experience with International set ups like Hodgson. Someone like that  would reduce the griping about knowledge. The manager doesn't have to think about the coaching of the player or gamble on the transfer market, he just has to have the most educated idea what is our best team, get the players doing their best for the team and have an educated idea on what they have to do to beat better teams. As regards to coaching, some ball retention and how to defend a lead would be nice.