The FAI created this hold mess when they renewed his contract before the Euros. They have absolutely no-one but themselves to blame for the predicament they now find themselves in where they can’t afford to pay him off. I don’t blame Trap for not leaving, he has a contract.

Might help his cause if he actually went to the odd game and at least pretend to have a look at the players every now and then . He is a stubborn man who does not like to be told anything by anyone .

Well that’s that then…Nothing more to be said really so see you all in March..

Hate to say it ,but Itold you so. Wily old Fox.

I ask the question, have the FAI made any good decisions recen

I honestly doubt the FAI could afford to sack him even if they really wanted to.

novel idea.
lets get rid of the FAI and keep trap.they have messed up more than anybody with a string of bad decisions.

He’s been in charge for 2 campaigns, we qualified from 1 of those, made it to a play off in the other only to be beaten by a fluke goal that should never have stood. We are not a power house in world football. We are a small footballing nation and are doing very well for what we have. Now lets get out there and do our bit in the friendly against Greece and cheer our team on.

Just shows that the Fai dont have the money to get rid of him. He won’t walk away, so we may just get used to it till 2014.

Unsurprising really.

What he needs to do is to hold a clear the air meeting with all players available for selection – including the likes of Andy Reid, and try and iron out all the off the pitch issues that have arisen.

He needs to instill some unity and pride back into the team. Maybe even get an Irish football man onside and work with him alongside his own backroom team. Give him a bit of an Irish perspective on things.

Hate to say this but think the FAI have done the right thing, he nearly got us to the world cup, got us to poland & has 6 points from 9 so far…..why throw away 1.7 million to sack him now when no manager is going to manage qualification!?!

Trap can’t help wanting to stay his job he loves so much……it’s the players that we haven’t got the best!

If you were to manage a foreign country and get given the choice of walking away or wait til you were sacked and fully paid out for the rest of your contact, what would you do? He is there to stay like it or not

The Faroe result was not a good result. The Faroes are a mostly amateur team and have a population base of 43,000 people, or about 22,000 males of which probably 20% are of possible football playing age or about 4,500 males. A smaller overall population than Waterford. We scored three goals against them (1 OG) and one of these attempts was going wide but for a deflection by a defender making it a second OG. So, on real terms, we scored two direct goals. Some result over a team ranked 158th in the world.

From the comments here it would appear that soccer and illiteracy go hand in hand.

I was disappointed with the display against Germany but 4-1 against the faroes was a very good result. Interesting to see how we do against Austria and Sweden. Would like to see him be a bit more dynamic with the squad but agree with Liam Brady last night. he has only lost two qualifying games on two years.

b lucky finish 3rd in the group let him take prob the poorest Irish bunch players in ten yrs with the recent retirements and plod on and finish his contract wouldn’t qualify with any manager in the world in charge fai will have put up with empty stadiums as payback

First ‘fans’ wanted a manager that could help us win, but then they wanted him to have us win by playing pretty football, and now they want him to have us beat the second ranked team in the world…idiots. These champagne fans should go back to watching the showbiz Premiership teams and leave the down and dirty reality of Irish football to real supporters.

Draw with Austria twice draw with Sweden at home lose away and then lose to Germany is normally the results go

I wont be going to watch,while he’s there,

Support trap or go away back to rugby he’s the best man for the job since Brian Kerr was shafted

Everyone knows that he is / was away with The Faroes, but at least we got a result.

Now if the old dog can come up with new tricks between now and March, who knows what will happen? He surely knows that he is lucky to be in situ, and if we get Doyle and Dunne back, and Simple Simon gets tied up in Notts (Forest), we might yet be in with a shout…

So if Denis o brien came on board why the f*** didn’t someone say ” alright Denis, if it goes t*** up you can pay him off”
Not Delaney thought, the clown.