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Really can't see Jim McGuinness taking the job. He has spent the last couple of years getting his soccer coaching badges and after his Asst Mgr gig in China I'm sure he is back in Glasgow now where he is based and eyeing up getting back into the game over in the UK at some capacity. TrueBlue35 (Dublin) - Posts: 206 - 28/08/2018 09:20:23 2136972 Link
swap ye mcstay for rochford?? Tarismelting22 (Roscommon) - Posts: 760 - 28/08/2018 09:28:31 2136976 Link
Replying To HeadButter: "Can anyone translate this?...EDH obviously tired an emotional tonight!!!" Not emotional at all, do you want a history on Monaghan, it's not long, would only take me a few moments. I bet you are still emotional with the excitement of getting to Croke Park three times in a year. EDH (Galway) - Posts: 367 - 28/08/2018 09:36:56 2136978 Link
Beats me how so many posters seem to think the Mayo managers position is an "attractive" job. It is anything but. A team with a profile that is on the stale side of maturity, they will have to find 6 or 7 high quality new young players if they are to challenge for Sam over the coming years. I don't see Mayo being serious contenders for about another 5 years...there's a rebuilding job to be done. OK if the new man comes in and just tweaks a few things they might with a bit of luck make All Ireland semi finals in the short term but if they want to be serious contenders some major personnel changes will be required. Don't envy the new manager at all given the high expectations that appear to come with the job. They will not be successful unless they find some new talent and I am sure if that new talent was there Rochford would have made use of it this year at least. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1904 - 28/08/2018 10:14:04 2136988 Link
Replying To Tarismelting22: "swap ye mcstay for rochford??" I would take Maughan(If he hadnt gone to Offaly) back before Rochford. Cuckoosinging (Roscommon) - Posts: 992 - 28/08/2018 10:35:40 2137001 Link
Replying To jimbodub: "You didn't get the joke I see. How surprising." You're the only joke I see. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 28/08/2018 11:25:26 2137037 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "Horan had his chance. Had this team at it's peak. I can't see him improving them. McGuinness can improve them tactically but more importantly, if they ever get there again, have them all mentally right on them big day. With all of them believing they will win and doing what it takes to win." I agree possibly Jim would but don't see it happening for reasons already explained. As for Horan and having his chance maybe but my point was that I would see him as more a potential replacement rather than Jim. panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2782 - 28/08/2018 11:56:17 2137051 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "You're the only joke I see." Meow Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 28/08/2018 11:56:46 2137052 Link
Replying To sfgael: "Mayo, Mayo, Mayo.......This was your first chance in a few years to have a quiet winter and spring, keep the heads down and come into the summer under the radar with a refreshed team. Now, the new manager and the players are going to be scrutinized every time they step out the front door." Compare this to what's happened in Kerry, a change of management on the way and hardly a word about it, managing Mayo will be a tough job for whoever takes it on because it looks like the player power thing is still a big issue there, one thing I will say we get great entertainment from Mayo regardless of whether they are in or out. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2756 - 28/08/2018 12:24:38 2137061 Link
What would Mayo's fans opinion be of Kevin McStay being a potential replacement? On a personal level I disliked McStay on the Sunday Game because of a few hatchet jobs he did on some Kerry players, but I think he is a good manager and has done well (overall) with Roscommon. Division 1 status and a Connacht title and very close to getting to a Semi-final last year. Not bad at all considering where Roscommon were coming from. Would Horan want to come back, I always got a sense he was a bit bruised and battered from his time as Mayo manager and would probably not want to come back, a bit like our own Pat O'Shea? TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 28/08/2018 12:46:09 2137073 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "You're the only joke I see." lol At least I don't reference posts in quotation marks as if the poster said it... It was a Donald Trump quote based on what YewTree said... "Fake news" So you having a go at me is sort of kingdumb. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 28/08/2018 12:50:55 2137075 Link
County board are and always have been a joke, they think differently to everyone else. If a story which is a fact came out about chairman he would have to step down. The time they gave him to find a nee backroom was suspect. Cant see this being play power or whatever, he had spoken to the players and was looking for new selectors after that. County board werent happy with backroom selection, either from baggage with them or maybe werent big enuf names. Id say this american investor might have caused a bit of it, offering all sorts of money for any manager or what ever the county board want to do tommy132 (Mayo) - Posts: 602 - 28/08/2018 12:56:51 2137080 Link
Eamon Fitzmaurice? TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 28/08/2018 13:05:06 2137085 Link
Replying To jimbodub: "lol At least I don't reference posts in quotation marks as if the poster said it... It was a Donald Trump quote based on what YewTree said... "Fake news" So you having a go at me is sort of kingdumb." Hilarious, I suppose it's one of those jokes where you have to be there to appreciate it, then again if you have to explain a joke then maybe it's just not funny . KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 28/08/2018 13:05:29 2137086 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "Hilarious, I suppose it's one of those jokes where you have to be there to appreciate it, then again if you have to explain a joke then maybe it's just not funny ." Some people need to have jokes explained to them unfortunately Fact remains chief.. You jumped the gun and got it arse ways. Fact. All in a rush to have a dig. Chill a bit fella.. far to eager altogether aren't we! Not to worry Kingdumboy No need to accept you got it wrong. We'll just move on and put it down to your overzealous nature. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 28/08/2018 13:32:57 2137104 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "You're the only joke I see." You obviously didn't shave this morning jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 28/08/2018 13:34:22 2137105 Link
Replying To realdub: "Pat Gilroy" I'd say he is happy where he is. All he has to do is beat Wexford at home and beat Carlow too and 2019 will be seen as progress. Then come 2020 he can see if he can get Dublin back to a Leinster hurling final. Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 28/08/2018 14:06:54 2137120 Link
Replying To Fionn: "McGuinness is a 1 trick pony.. he loves the limelight too much and would be a bad move in my humble opinion... Mayo is disarray yet again - the ladies team and now this.... Rochford deserved better as did those before him.." Have to disagree with you there. I think he is much more than a one trick pony. What he achieved with Donegal in a short space of time is astonishing and Donegal seem to play with way more believe now four years after he is gone than any time in the 10 years before he took over the team. Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 28/08/2018 14:09:54 2137121 Link
You would think it be a good week this happened and that All-Ireland build up would over shadow it but no...wouldnt know All-Ireland final is this weekend tommy132 (Mayo) - Posts: 602 - 28/08/2018 14:35:40 2137130 Link
Replying To Killarney.87: "Have to disagree with you there. I think he is much more than a one trick pony. What he achieved with Donegal in a short space of time is astonishing and Donegal seem to play with way more believe now four years after he is gone than any time in the 10 years before he took over the team." I'd echo that. I think what McGuinness did in Donegal was astonishing in many ways. I remember seeing Donegal play Cork in Croker in 2009/2010 and they were awful. Now it was good Cork side but Donegal were a ragged outfit at the time. You would have been laughed out of the place had you suggested that most of those players would win an All-Ireland and 3 Ulster titles over the next 5 years. The turnaround was remarkable. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 28/08/2018 14:47:22 2137133 Link