Trappatoni Appointed Manager Of Ireland

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madwhitegiant

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Giovanni Trapattoni is to be the next Republic of Ireland manager and he wants Liam Brady to be his assistant.

Former Italy boss Trapattoni has agreed a two-year contract, his current club Red Bull Salzburg have said.
Trapattoni, who will begin his duties when the Austrian season ends in late April, is keen to enlist Brady's help.
"I am hopeful Arsene Wenger will let Liam do the job as well as his Arsenal commitment," said Trapattoni who managed Brady at Juventus.
Trapattoni, 68, vowed to lead the Republic to the 2010 World Cup finals.
"Ireland are not a second-rate team, they are supposed to be a first-rate team," insisted Trapattoni, who managed Italy from 2000 to 2004.
"Qualifying for the World Cup in 2010 will be hard, and playing against the Italian team will make me proud, but it should be possible for Ireland to come first."
Claudio Gentile is expected to be part of Trapattoni's backroom staff. Gentile, who won 71 caps and was one of the roughest and toughest defenders to play for Italy, has worked with Trapattoni in the past and is being tipped to do so again.
 
IMHO the Irish team has suffered as a result of the influx offoreign players into the premiership.

OK, you could argue that being Irish is foreign anyway so it's tough do do, but think back in the 70's 80's and 90's how many young Irish lads stayed in digs in the UK whilst serving as apprentices with the likes of Liverpool and Man U.

Not any more, although Sunderland and Reading are doing their collective best!

Any tournament is poorer without Ireland (again IMHO) so I hope Trappatoni succeeds.....
 
Jam Man said:
IMHO the Irish team has suffered as a result of the influx offoreign players into the premiership.

OK, you could argue that being Irish is foreign anyway so it's tough do do, but think back in the 70's 80's and 90's how many young Irish lads stayed in digs in the UK whilst serving as apprentices with the likes of Liverpool and Man U.

Not any more, although Sunderland and Reading are doing their collective best!

Any tournament is poorer without Ireland (again IMHO) so I hope Trappatoni succeeds.....
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OK, you could argue that being Irish is foreign anyway so it's tough do do
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I'm not exactly sure i know what you mean here JM?
 
Jam Man said:
IMHO the Irish team has suffered as a result of the influx offoreign players into the premiership.

OK, you could argue that being Irish is foreign anyway so it's tough do do, but think back in the 70's 80's and 90's how many young Irish lads stayed in digs in the UK whilst serving as apprentices with the likes of Liverpool and Man U.

Not any more, although Sunderland and Reading are doing their collective best!

Any tournament is poorer without Ireland (again IMHO) so I hope Trappatoni succeeds.....
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i don't buy into this argument at all. same goes for english players.

if english players were good enough, they'd play. the bottom line is that they are not, thus better quality foreign players are used.

the whole, "well they aren't been given a chance" argument is the same. why should they be given the chance if they don't show the talent enough to make the grade.

in circumstances when english players are actually overlooked, if they are any good they rise up again - e.g. bentley

the problem is sytematic in Britain, the methods of coaching, developing and training young players are light years behind continental europe.

for the record, there are far more irish youth players at liverpool than there ever was during the 80s for example.
 
Jonny68 said:
I'm not exactly sure i know what you mean here JM?
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No hidden agenda, just that some might say it's the English Premiership and Irish lads aren't English (Granny rule excepted), simple as that.


I hear you Grego, and you are right to a point but in the 80's 90's there wasn't the draw of the English league as there is now so foreign youngsters didn't aspire to play in England as they do now and the target market for teams to draw talent from was narrower.

Yes, better players are coming in but less English and Irish lads are getting the chance at a young age any more...
 
Jam Man said:
No hidden agenda, just that some might say it's the English Premiership and Irish lads aren't English (Granny rule excepted), simple as that.


I hear you Grego, and you are right to a point but in the 80's 90's there wasn't the draw of the English league as there is now so foreign youngsters didn't aspire to play in England as they do now and the target market for teams to draw talent from was narrower.

Yes, better players are coming in but less English and Irish lads are getting the chance at a young age any more...
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i agree but i think it is a smokescreen to use that to point the finger at the state of the english game. i mean as a national team we were still crap in the 80s and 90s. a couple of runs in major tournies but qualification failures as well.

the flip side to your POV is that in the 70s/80s, we didn't need foreign players cos we did alright with just British Isles players. e.g. all those euro cups 77-84.

if we gave more british players a chance at club level, then it might improve the national team a bit but the clubs would suffer greatly. in fact, the clubs would be sh!t. and then those same sh!t players would be representing us at national level.

the truth is that all the england team play regularly for their clubs, a few notable exceptions - crouch, defoe, etc but then they aren't england first XI either. the players who aren't getting a chance are the ones who have no chance of improving the national team anyway.

i can think of loads of youngsters who you could argue don't/didn't get a chance but would still never get near the england team cos of the ENGLISH players ahead of them. e.g. wayne routledge, jerome thomas, scott sinclair......they will never be better players than bentley, SWP, aaron lennon.
 
Trappatoni as national coach, Eriksson as club coach can only cement Dunnies position as one of the best central defenders in the premiership!!!
 
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