Gribz 743 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7242896.stm Great appointment for Oorland. I picked this section out though: Trapattoni won six Serie A titles with Juventus and one with Inter Milan. He also led Bayern Munich, Benfica and Salzburg to league titles and managed Italy from 2000 to 2004. His European honours include the European Cup, three UEFA Cups and a Cup Winners' Cup triumph during his time at Juventus and Inter. After seeing his record and seeing England take Capello with an equally impressive, record if not better, it makes the Scotland appointment a little unadventurous amongst other things. Ireland and England come out of rucks with top top class appointments yet when we are on a high we should have been looking for a top class manager to carry the can yet we had Burns, McGhee, Souness, Davies and Burley in the running with the latter getting the job and appointing Terry Butcher as assistant!. I quite like Burley and think he may be ok but seeing those 2 get world class managers tones the Burley appointment down a bit. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Ireland still won't qualify for any major tournaments. Waste of money IMO. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightball 0 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Trapattoni is a great manager, there is no doubt about that. However ROI are an average team at the moment. I'm with Gav on this on. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainstandbear 0 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I dont think it neccessarily follows that they will be successful 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 1,881 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Even Trappatoni cant turn Lee Carsley in to a world class player!!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 Nobody said they will go on and be world champions but they, like England, have shown ambition to go out and get a top drawer manager - something I thought Scotland should have done. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainstandbear 0 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Who would you have went for Gribz? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 1,881 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Scotland's choice of manager will be mainly down to budget. I'm sure I heard somewhere that we pay our managers the least out of all the home nations. Obviously the �£6m England are paying Capello is unrealistic for us but you would think we could compete with Wales, N Ireland and Ireland (if you count them as a home nation). 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 Who would you have went for Gribz? George Graham for me. But I actually dont mind the Burley appointment, I think he is a good manager but Id have liked to have seen a few better names in the shortlist rather than Burns, Davies and McGhee. Obviously Scotlands 'A' list of managers (Sir Awex, Moyes, etc) were out of reach but I never heard George Graham's name mentioned once. I thought we could have looked abroad or England. Terry Venebles would have been another id have been happy with. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 1,881 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 George Graham for me. But I actually dont mind the Burley appointment, I think he is a good manager but Id have liked to have seen a few better names in the shortlist rather than Burns, Davies and McGhee. Obviously Scotlands 'A' list of managers (Sir Awex, Moyes, etc) were out of reach but I never heard George Graham's name mentioned once. I thought we could have looked abroad or England. Terry Venebles would have been another id have been happy with. Have you been over indulging in the herbal remedies again Gribzy? George Graham of boring boring Aresnal fame? No thanks. As for El Tel, wtf has he done in the last 15 years? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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