Next Republic of Ireland Manager

[farmerinthecity]

He did well enough at Fulham from memory?

Tanked completely at Sunderland post Wales.

[Mac]

Coleman would be an awful choice. He had an exceptional Welsh team carried by Bale. His record with average teams is awful.

He’s also an absolute creep

[Locke]

Coleman’s auld boy is from Dublin. He also likes a drink. Wales are bang average. Chris is good for me

[Arthur]

He came across a bit David brentish in the Sunderland documentary iirc

[Cheasty]

Wales were an extremely average team.

If you’re reaching a Euros semi-final with Wayne Hennessy, James Chester, Ashley Williams, Ben Davies, Chris Gunther, Joe Ledley, Neil Taylor, Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes, you’re probably a genius.

[Cheasty]

As former poster @Sidney described, international football is about a basic game plan and wringing the last drop out of that game plan by playing like a band of brothers. It requires a manager who is emotionally in tune with his players.

Jack Charlton understood that. Chris Coleman - or Christy Coleman as he would called if he gets the job - understands that.

@Sidney

Gareth Bale is better than anybody England have. Overall England have a far better choice of players in pretty much every position and and thoroughly outplayed Wales when they played them.

There are numerous reasons why Wales have got further than them.

There is, in English football, like in English society as a whole, a deep seated anti-intellectualism, which manifests itself in several ways - in their approach to tactics, in their lack of innovation as to how the game should be played and coached, in thinking they’re better than they are and treating opponents lightly, in their approach to physical preparation before the tournament, in the players’ egotism, in their rush to make excuses, in the lack of leadership from both players and management, in the suffocating media goldfish bowl that surrounds the team.

Wales and the other British Isles teams also suffer from some of that, and England should be able to overcome most of that by sheer force of numbers playing the game, but what Wales (and Eire and Ireland) have is an underdog’s work ethic and a tremendous togetherness and organisation that England don’t have.

Allied to a bit of luck, the fact that their one true world class player is a really good egg who shows exemplary leadership, builds team spirit and lifts those around him, and great support from the stands, like with Leicester, it shows what can be done.

[Locke]

It’s Chris lads. Let’s all row in behind him.

https://twitter.com/independent_ie/status/1759291328335122875?s=46&t=p07OIoicsFZzAmuJzZHHNQ

[Massey]

@Mac

He had an exceptional Welsh team

He had 1 good player,was there another Welsh team we haven’t heard about?

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

He made disgraceful comments about seamus Coleman.

He must have been 14 when he managed Fulham in the epl.

[Aertel220]

@Massey

He had 1 good player,was there another Welsh team we haven’t heard about?

Aaron Ramsey was very good at the time too and Joe Allen was a handy player who’d just played in a Europa League Final. Ashley Williams was playing for a reasonable Everton team at the time too.

[Locke]

@Mac

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[gilgamboa]

A jesus desperate

[Mac]

@Locke

@Mac

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@gilgamboa

A jesus desperate

I remembered when a photo of Pat Dolan eating a burger in Burger King shut the site down for a weekend and decided it’d be better to delete it

[Biff_Egan]

Coleman has the CV, the bloodlines and the divilment for the role. I’m excited

[Rocko]

I’d have preferred Lennon over Coleman

[KKUltra]

For the piss ups anyway.
Coleman has sauve.

[Cheasty]

@KKUltra

For the piss ups anyway.
Coleman has sauve.

Coleman has the style. He’s got that shock of dark hair. He’s got penetrating eyes. He’s got that “look”. He comes across as a good man, with an underbelly of seediness to him. Tom Jones meets Alex Higgins. He’s got the element of being a throwback to a bygone age of football which all successful Irish teams require. He’s like a football equivalent of a flamboyant, corrupt left wing French presidential candidate, except with that rich Welsh accent that you’d run through a glass door for.

Neil Lennon might have been a better appointment but I’m board with Coleman if he’s appointed.

[Locke]

Coleman is tall, a man’s man. He breaths confidence. I’d say he smells good too.

[gaillimhmick]

Tis all the one, our lord wouldn’t make a decent team from the rabble thats there at the mo.

[KKUltra]

Thanks for the expansion.
You see things differently to most people and thats fabulous.