John Delaney and the FAI, are taking us for a ride also!

Delaney is the one taking us for a ride.

Give us a bite there baby!

Stephen Kelly refusing to get on the flight to the faroes. This is just turning into one big joke. Trappattoni has obviously lost the dressing room. We all know what happens next.

It should have been all over for Trap at the end of the Euro’s but.. alas in their wisdom the FAI had already decided he was the man to take us through the world cup qualifiers, bad mistake! Trappatoni, whilst improving on our last great Delaney, “world class” managerial appointment has shown himself to be too narrow minded and far too cautious when it comes to giving the younger and in form players a chance. Some of his selections are totally mad and there are players who have simply given up on the team. No wonder Given and Duff bailed out, Gibson, McCarthy, Wilson and now Kelly are all or have all been pissed off by him? I don’t normally agree with Dunphy but he has a point this time and many Irish football supporters would agree. Time to say Ciao Giovanni!

I hope that the FAI can work out that it would be profitable in the long term for them to pay off Trap after the Faroe’s match, because if we can fluke a win on tuesday, our qualification for the World Cup is still very much alive.

We would then have 6 months to rebuild with a new guy. The new manager’s debut in november’s friendly would in turn be far better attended, and if things looked positive from that match we’d keep the fans coming for the remainder of the qualifiers.

Stick with Trap and not only will we not qualify, but nobody will come to the games for the next two years, and it will cost the FAI a lot more than 1.8m euro.

Mick McCarthy to take over and get us to a playoff.

I personally believe we have the quality in personnel to do that if you consider what’s available AND the guys who haven’t even made the squad – Hoolahan, Pilkington, O Brien, Noble, Duffy.

Who knows, a change in management could even get Stephen Ireland interested in apologising and returning!

My worry is that Delaney hasn’t got this sense of foresight. Here’s to hoping though!

Trapattoni is a laughing stock. Wouldn’t be tolerated in any other country. Dreadful stuff .

He is not taken us for a ride he has done it already.

the whole fai needs a shake up the highest paid football manager in the world wtf? Delaney out trap out

@dan you just nailed it man. the team can play wit passion pride energy and a bit of f**king temper no matter what abilty they have. we will never be the most technically gifted side but we can want it more. historically these qualities have achieved great things and are a basline requirement for any succesful team eg barca when they lose the ball run like rabid dogs to get it back. trap has obviously lost the ability to motivate this squad and if you cant do that it dont matter one iota if your the most tactically astute coach on the planet. which he is not! we can still have a rattle off austria and sweden if he goes now. if he stays i can only see this embarrasment continuing

I was just thinking watching Fridays match that if I had to show a child what exactly a captain should not be, I would use John O Shea as an example, he is missing every attribute required for the Job.
Another thing that occurred was why the hell does O Shea keep going up for corners, in his whole career I don’t recollect him getting on the end of one.

It’s soooooo easy. If you want Trap out, vote with your feet. Save yourself a few quid and don’t watch. Empty ground and deserting advertisers and trap won’t last jig time

Last 5 competitive matches under Trap – L,L,L,W,L..
16 goals conceded, 4 scored.
You’d be hard pressed to find another country with such an abysmal record.
Trap out.

While the man is probably trying in the back of his mind this is a gravy train job that secures more vinyards and security for the kids.. jesus christ dont we have enough of that caper in Government nevermind our ol sport been messed around with.Bring back Brian Kerr he’s a man the players can relate to him and he’s record with Ireland is excellent.Trap is a confidence killer just look at the way we play.P45.

Giles dunphy and Brady are the best pundits on tv,great entertainment worth every penny

First of all, trap is not a bad manager, check his cv, he just is no good at managing Ireland! Second, we haven’t got the players that we used to have. Third the FAI need to start investing big time in developing the youth coming through and stop paying themselves disgraceful salaries e.g John Delaney (who should also leave as well)

yes Trapattoni must go but things wont change much till Delaney goes

Trap goes on about working with the limited selection of good players to pick from what does he want we have a population off maybe 5 million on the entire island. We have always worked hard and played for each other as a spirited team. We never had a pool off players trap is used to from working in Italy Germany etc. but we always got by on hard work and merit and playing for each other like when Roy keane ran every blade off grass in lansdowne road against holland in2001 the game against France under trap in Paris our players to their players one to one we were a mile behind them but as a team we kicked there ass, with team spirit and hard graft. The same team spirit trap has drained from the team

dunphy speaking some since for once

Yeah, we really showed Kazakhstan a thing or two. I used to stand up for trap but cannot watch this shite any longer. We are close to being San Marino is this isn’t sorted.

Indeed Frank2521, let’s get rid of the best panel in the history of punditry on these islands. I’m sure Kenny, Ronnie and Sadlier would be just as entertaining – in a stick-two-pencils-up-your-nose-and-pound-your-face-off-the-coffee-table kind of way.

I’ve been a defender of Trap for longer than I’d like to admit, but there’s not doubt at all now that he has lost the ability to get the very very best out of a useless crop of players. What we need now is a man that can do just that, and I think the best candidate is Mick McCarthy. In fact, Delaney should drop to his hands and knees and lick the feet of Mick in order for him to come back. Coyle would be my no. 2 choice.

As well as bringing in the Holahan’s, Pilkingtons etc that the whole nation believes will get us out of our mire, the new manager would have to bid adieu to the Romero-era zombie John O Shea and the poisonous reptile Robbie Keane. Only then can we truly look forward into the abyss rather than looking down at our shoes.

Of more interest to me was that Own Coyle played for Ireland… I comoletely missied that, or at least didnt register they were the one and same Owen Coyle.

Should never have given trap an extension before the Euros. The sensible thing would have been to wait.

I love when he and Giles talk about players Trap hasn’t seen play such as Wesley Hoolahan, How often has he seen him play I wonder? Professor Giles failed to recognise Patrice Evra recently ffs….

While Trap is a bad manager, his players are also part of the problem. They are laid back, and don’t seem to care less. His translator is purportedly seeking a job in RTE so obviously they know time is running out.

Does anyone know exactly how much are they paying him?

so get rid of 1 of the most successful managers of all time and bring in a manager who got bolton relegated for the first time in years and dont forget that he got sacked by bolton last week while they were 18th in the championship. do people forget how bad are squad is? people were going mad that james mcarthy should be in the team every match and he has been shocking in the matches hes played .trap knows best.if he thought houlihan was good enough he would be in the squad. absolute miracle we got to the euros with that squad and im very confident trap wil get us to the play offs again. weve only been beaten badly 4 times under traps reign and they were against the best teams in the world. best we can hope for is playoffs in every qualifying campaign and that is stil very possible under trap.sacking him would leave us with no chance

Trap + Delaney = Dumb and Dumber

@colm I bet your enthralled by the 3 wise men,you won’t get this quality on sky

After 2 games we have 3 points. Pretty much as expected. We’d hoped for 4 but it wasnt to be. We need to see an improve
ment in the performances though.

If they send Trap packing – it might help our budget if Giles, Dumphy and Brady were put on the same plane. We subsidise their wages which are also over inflated. Time for a younger gang to get a job. O Herlihy might not be missed either. There are done very good well informed commentators on the TV now.

Reckon he should go….and take that crook Denis O’Brien with him….