Talk:Football Association of Ireland

Protection

This page is still editable by all, despite being semi-protected, and then protected by LittleOldMe. Help!Me mi mo 17:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bias: Brendan Menton

My recent additions are largely based on Brendan Menton's book, which is very POV. Anyone who can redress the balance, please do. jnestorius^(talk) 01:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Email vandals

So there is an email campaign currently going around to deface this article in light of Ireland's performace against San Marino last night. To those of you who plan on editing this page anonymously from work, please be aware that your IP address, which is unique to your workplace, is logged in the history section. Your boss may not appreciate that. Me mi mo 15:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are still going to be plenty of vandals. I'd suggest just locking the article entirely for a bit. --Jhealy 15:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unfair revert

A paragraph I changed was reverted as part of a major revert, could it please be re-included in the article:

Following the respectable performance of the national team in the 2002 World Cup, the team's fortunes have subsequently declined, under the management of Mick McCarthy and his successors, first Brian Kerr, and then Steve Staunton. The FAI has been ascribed some of the blame by some commentators, in relation to any or all of these managers, for appointing him too hastily, or refusing to support him when criticised in the media, or for parting with him too quickly. Also neither Kerr nor Staunton had ever managed a senior football team before being brought into manage a (previously) successful international team, a practice unheard of in similar countries. Others have placed the blame elsewhere, with the managers themselves, or bad luck with injuries, or a simple decline in the quality of the players available.

I object. Your change was to wiki Mick McCarthy, already linked earlier in the article, and to add the sentence:

Also neither Kerr nor Staunton had ever managed a senior football team before being brought into manage a (previously) successful international team, a practice unheard of in similar countries

which, to my mind, reads as "the FAI should have known they wouldn't be good enough", which is POV on 4 counts (anti-FAI, anti-Kerr, anti-Staunton, definition of "successful"). It's also misleading to call it "unheard of": Michel Platini's first manager's job was France, Jürgen Klinsmann's was Germany. You could argue they're not "similar countries", but the point is still feeble. jnestorius^(talk) 17:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Give the job to Roddy Collins. Couldnt do a whole lot worse than the present incumbant!