communication breakdowns like this seem to be a recurring theme of Trap’s time in charge.

utterly baffling.

This is one of the biggest waste of money ever. The league of ireland is going down the pan and this joker is getting 1.5 million a year to watch videos in his villa and turn up for a couple of matches a year. He picks his squad based on his scouts opinions without even going to the matches himself. The only thing you can applaud him for is getting away with it.

‘idiot” Trap is paid 29,000 euro a week ( 1.5m a year)…dats idiotic and insane..he cant even speak the language…

muppets

Shite manager, shite team, fai will suffer with gates this campaign!

I don’t normally chip in on this stories, but this one is driving me nuts. In Trap’s time this is now the 14th occasion where a miscommunication of some sort between a player and the manager has left a player be hung out to dry. Anyone questioning Shane Long’s desire to play for Ireland obviously doesn’t know the player or the kind of man he is or has followed his career in any way and are just slagging him off and taking Trap’s stance on this as gospel. to be honest how Trap is still in the job after the shambles that was the Euro’s still beggars belief. I agree with a number of commentators here that this money being spent on Trap is a waste and his obviously lack of a proper command of the English language is causing on-going issues within the camp. Just last week, he finally called up Wes Hoolahan of Norwich without even finding out if he was fit. He carries on like some omnipotent overlord where the team are concerned but still doesn’t have the actual language capacity to communicate with them or to address things in-house when a story showing him or a player up breaks. It’s becoming farcical at this stage. We should cut our loses and scrap this qualification campaign as we won’t get out of the group anyway and give the job to someone who can speak the language, has a vision of how modern football is played and not an outdated 60yr old Italian system and give the younger players time and experience through this campaign in preparation for the next Euro’s in 2016. Trap may still be a legend in Italy, but his light is fading fast around the rest of Europe. That is all.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Football, who gives a ramblers?

Who cares he is muck anyways

It’s not Traps fault. It’s Long’s. He was obviously more interested in being fit to play Liverpool rather than play for his country. That is way Trap was so angry. Shame on Long.