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Reply | M.M returns
at 14:22 23 Nov 2018
Since leaving ITFC he's apparently turned down 2 or 3 different management offers. I suspect he could see that the writing was on the wall for MON and wanted to be available.
Ideal replacement at this time too. Rebuilding needed and he's done that before when Big Jack stepped down (a lot of senior pros retiring at that time).
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Reply | MM Radio news
at 16:51 22 Nov 2018
Delighted with this.
Thanks to those with the disparaging remarks about Irish football above too.
When Big Jack retired, so too did several senior pros and MM was brought in to do a rebuilding job. He was largely responsible for bringing Robbie Keane, Damien Duff, Ian Harte and plenty of others through from underage (didn't get credit for that in the comments above where people say he had better players back then - maybe true, but they were his players).
I do agree that MM has the temperament for international football though, and with years of, yes, over achieving with clubs like Ipswich with limited resources and limited talent, I am a very happy Irishman looking forward to him putting shape on our team if this is true.
The difference between our two countries, as in most cases, is the expectation of success and what success actually means. We would be very happy to see some of our up and coming underage players (poss 2 years away from being ready if I'm honest) being developed through to the senior squad. After that, we want to be competitive again and at the very least hungry to win. We don't expect to win every major competition (sporting or otherwise) we ever enter only to be depressed about it when it goes t1ts up in the end. |
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Reply | McCarthy
at 22:26 12 Apr 2017
I think you can't just ignore the combination of lack of funds + injuries at key times to some of our most creative players (at the same time as each other). If we had our limited squad fit for the full season I'd say we'd be knocking on the playoff door at this point. |
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