i reckon the FAI should sack John Delaney too to be honest

The FAI need to build a Centre of Excellence complex. All our young prospects get poached to lower league English clubs. If they had a complex where the best young players could get proper training with quality coaches we’d have a much better team in years to come. They could then invite scouts from all the leagues in Europe to come and see them.

Think of having young Irish players dotted around Europe in Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga etc. They don’t have to be with the top teams, but it’d still be better than them learning their trade in the lower English leagues.

Unfortunately the FAI are too cheap and it’ll never happen.

He clearly knows soccer, but you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear though.

lets get real here, we dont have the players so our priority should be to identifying new talent we can bring through and start from there. i think we will struggle there because we dont have alot at present. We should also give trap credit for bringing a limited team to the euros which was no mean feat. If we want to blood new players then we need to move on without him.

With a tiny population based on former garrison towns we clearly show that we cannot compete but we give great value for money. On the other side the Management of Irish soccer are overpaid and opinionated. We need a small Executive of talented people both in Sports and Marketing terms and get rid of the rest.

Simple as, we are a small country trying to play and compete at the highest level possible. Once in a while we get a bit of luck mixed with no small amount of talent. Personally I would like to see the squad kept a bit fresher but trap has done well. We were in a group that was just too good.

Trap gets us to a competition and nearly got us qualified to a world cup. I think we have little to complain about and if he goes I have no faith in the fai getting a better manager.

Tactics were a bit off, I thought the Team looked sluggish except for Andrews, possible over trained prior to tournament but even that withstanding. We were never going to get out of the group.

infairness it was a group of death no matter what we weren’t getting through, I think traps done good to date

Terrible tactics, a style of play as attractive as skid marks on an underpants, inability to make changes, reluctance to bring the best players available while instead bringing sub standard players and some so poor they haven’t even got clubs. The man should quit but he won’t cos hes stubborn and the fools in the FAI are paying him way over the odds .

Trap out, Given, Keane, O’Shea, Dunne, Andrews, Duff, Hunt as well. no more McShane, Green and Keogh start fresh with Brady, Hendrick, Mc Carthy, Wilson, Egan, Murray, Clifford, Henderson, Long, Mc Clean, Cunningham, White, Mason, Scannell, Carruthers, George, Clark, Burke, Grealish……ect.

His style is defensive, lacking player permissions to be creative & this will not change unless Giovanni steps aside. Do we really want more of this with at least some flare growing from younger players? Thank you good sir for everything, but time for an absolute Republic of Ireland Footall Team direction overhaul. From grass routes to top level.

Never understand fai giving managers new contracts before tournaments Delaney was on today fm talking shite as many have said watch them get poor attendance at the Aviva during the next campaign, look at Hodgson and England that’s how you bring young players in and win.

Can’t understand why people want this stubborn old man to stay? Obviously lot of journal readers know nothing about soccer! Interesting to see if O’Brien cut his salery down would he hang around? The guy only flys in for games rarely watches players playing for their clubs and you could tell even some of the players are frustrated with his tactics!

No point in reaching the finals of competitions if your not going to compete. Delaney said had trapp was doing a super job and was happy with the way he was progressing…… We were given our worst beating in over 40 years. We had 1 shot on goal. If this is progress, maybe we should get Trapp to talk to the ECB and the IMF, this place could be the land of milk and honey by say 2099.

Little chance he’ll leave, the FAI won’t pay his contract up (O’Brien might). And then theres the question who will replace him? Roy Keane? Beg Staunton back?

Whether you like his tactics or not he got us to the first European championship since 1988, that is no mean feat. Plus we were a handball away from the world cup.

What more can a small nation exporting its players to the bottom half of the prem/ championship expect really?

Its time to go ,serious limitations with his stubborn tactics ,He had 2 years to prepare his squad for Spain and it went wrong in a big way. Some older players need to move on also ,no talk of retirements which to be fair is not a good sign .Give youth a chance next week ,nothing to lose .

The man is a complete fool .his comments after the spain game are proof.’they played well in training’ the first team played the second team in training,a under 12 team would play well against the likes of green and mcshane

Well said daragh

Get Harry in

Trap should go. He never seems to want to experiment tactics at all in friendly games. He has allways used the basic 4-4-2 formation and most of the time he was used the same starting 11. I think it is time for change of manager and also change of players and we should have a fresh start. People like Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Shay Given have been great servants to the team but it is time for them to move on. We should call up young players to the squad such as Anthony Pilkington, Seamus Coleman, Ciaran Clark, even Wes Hoolahon even though he isn’t young. Also Greg Cunnigham and Shane Duffy etc.. People like Long, Walters and Mcclean should defo be starting.
If Trap does not want to do this then out he should go

You can’t make chicken soup out of chicken shit!

First qualification for the Euros in 24 years, of course he deserves another campaign. Also, enough with the ‘Roy Keane to take over’ suggestions please!

A bit of player power maybe refuse to play for the old codger if called up, why go to make up the numbers when your never going to get a game?

Disband the entire team and wind down the FAI. Like the Eurovision, it’s clear we just don’t have what it takes to either create a good team here or even import talent on the back of their long dead Irish grandmothers.

Forget about soccer. Lets move on as a country and focus on elephant polo or something, at least we’ve done reasonably in that previously.

It would cost the FAI a fortune to sack Trap so not going to happen. Let’s stick with him for one more campaign. He is no clown, 23 trophies in his cabinet prove enough for me. I believe he will change things up for our next campaign and introduce new players. Retirements of some of our senior players will also remove the shackles of loyalty Trap showed to those who helped us qualify. He will be as disappointed as any fan with our performance in the competition and will do all he can to improve the team for Brazil. If we pull of a result v Italy we all might feel a bit more positive about ourselves.

He had to go. Appalling tactics won’t play form players. Give Roy Keane the job.

Give him another chance – on condition that he learns to speak English first.

Greece, Croatia all dispelling this small nation crap. Both teams organised by managers that pick a system to suit his players, not as Trap does. His system is the only system and the players have to fall into that system. Trap played 5 in midfield against Spain put Cox in as the 5th midfielder but he is a striker. He brought Cox on against Croatia and played him on the left even though he had two wingers on the bench. He is too stuborn and to old to change and I think the team will sufer because of him.

he has done his bit in getting us to a tournament.fair play to him,but…
he seems to fall out with players at times…darron gibson is a better player than andrews or whelan!..coleman is a premier league star..hoolahan can upset a defence ..yet they were not given a chance.
we need to move in a different direction,trap has said he wanted to make us hard to beat…well he has been found out im afraid.
Brian mcdermott at reading has spoken of his desire to one day manage Ireland,,,he has some family connection..he wud get us passing the ball.

All this complaining about Trap… What a load of crap, as if ye would do a better job… Get real, truth is he’s the best we’ve had for a long time, ye know that so quit talking shit and get on with it…

One more thing, who cares if he’s not fluent in English, that’s not his job… He’s a football manager

Roy K as next Ireland manager and God help the blazers in FAI!

Trapattoni has also put in a solid base (recent defeats notwithstanding). He should be allowed to build on it.

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You know what annoy’s me..before the euro’12…they were all going..”trap is brilliant”..now after the 2 games and,the players were crap!…..we are throwing him to the wolfs!.make your minds up!…MY RANT IS OVER!!…

looked like he was going to die of a stroke. let him go ppl he’s old

No c’mon lads…Spain and Italy may have Xavi and Pirlo, but Ireland still have Long Cox.

Fai should pull him in and tell him in no uncertain terms that he needs to start with some of the fringe players on Monday and if he doesn’t like it get out, I get the impression that he thinks he can just blame the small player pool for the poor results and it’s not his fault as for the poster ranting about us all complaining about turning on him before the tournament not through a lot of fans could see this was going to be a disaster he had been a lucky manager up until now but found out this tournament time to go

he shud stay nd the world cup they shud hav got in henry cheated nd they got into the euros nd u cant say hes bad