Noel King

complete meltdown

Dunphy and Giles are grade 1 p*icks though

thought he was auditioning for a part in love/hate!

what happened?

why did'nt he punch that spastic o'donoghue?

thats the same troll who roared at Trap "why wont you quit" after they were beat by Germany. A reporter who acts tough but is spineless and a bully

he got a raw deal.his team won 3/1.a bit of positivity would have been the way to go.the interviewer obviously was not gonna give him an easy time.he didnt show him respect like he would trap. on both the players he played"out of position" he pointed out rightly that they played there for their clubs.that should have been the end of it.then he badgered him about mcgeady.is it not the managers perogative to play or not play who he wants?(trap was good at this!!).he might not fancy mcgeady who can be flaky at the best of times.hes a good impact sub in my opinion.he persisted in badgering him.king walked away.h was dead right.theres obviously history with dunphy giles and king.dunphy allowed this to colour his views.he wasnt half as critical of trap playing paul green and jon waters on the left wing?

the FAI hate the media and vice versa

a bit sensitive! but i like him overall

No one whether in studio or panel came out of that great, but it was amusing how easily King took O'Donoghue apart. For a broadcast journalist he is very pedestrian. He is not so clever when he is taking on a guy with English as his first language. I accept the core of Dunphy's point re levels but a lot of what he said was contradictory.

Dunphy slagged of the way King manages football teams calling him 'tactically illiterate'........King slagged off the way Dunphy operates as a pundit calling it a 'comedy act'. This crap about making things personal was a red herring. Both sets of insults were one-in-the same. Moloney knew this, but couldn't articulate it well enough on the spot and checked himself....pity.

Would be interested to hear Workriders views on this gentleman,he surely knows him.

as they say you started it first.im sure king wouldnt have said anything derogatory about the panel if it wasnt said first about his selection and the critism of it by the panel.and rememeber king was short his centre halves and 2 down in dying mins against one of the best teams in the world with nothing at stake  which was a decent result.theres a certain amount of snobbiness from dunphy giles combo.

O'Donoghue is a grade A you know what, i seen him in action before and i saved his bacon in Cyprus. He's an arrogant fool and he showed King an easy target a total lack of respect cheered on by another fool in Dunphy who seemed to forget that he was paid by the tax payer to analysis football not use his position to launch personal attacks on King who may or may not be what he was described as.

Walter Mitty " saved his bacon in Cyprus " can you not make any post without fantasy or some ridiculous bit of self promotion.

You obviously don't understand what language they speak in Cyprus.

i seen king play for rovers a few times.a hard basterd.he has all the badges etc(which i doubt dunphy has).he was there for 2 games.won one lost one.if stokes had his shooing boots on he might have scored twice against the germans.and theres no one here thinks anything oter than dunphy being a comedy show hes there for the sound bite and controvecial comment.like spillane at the gaa and george hook at the rugby.

when you watch Ireland play their current dismal blend of football you feel that we are likely to regress even further into the future. I cannot understand how we can't produce players comfortable on the ball and the only time we look like we can hold and pass the ball is against inferior opposition like last night. Incidentally, as only two played last night from the first meeting did the Kazakhs field an "experimental" side making some of King's after-match comments irrelevant?

The pleasure has gone out of the "national" game entirely for me and I have probably watched my last live international-its just too depressing. the only way to resurrect a passion for football is to wager on the result and thats not for the faint-hearted (Ozy, take note). (Some might argue its the result that counts but I can't have this reared on Brady, Heighway, Houghton, Moran etc etc)

the spat between the panellists and King (FAI) is based on a pent-up frustration within the FAI. I would take fairly reasonable observations over Delaney any day.

I think you have to approach this from the premise that Dunphy is a pric' and tries to be controversial. He was a very mediocre (at best) footballer and has lived under the protection of Giles for years. I was surprised to see him on the panel last night having been pi$$ed as a f@rt on Friday last slurring his words and looking for back up from Giles at every comment. He has no history of management or experience in the field, as a matter of fact his time spent on the playing field, particularly as an International was very short, in 1969 as a Milwall player he was kept of the Irish side by a League of Ireland player.  O'Donoghue is at best a mediocre journalist in the tradition of RTE sports journalists. He came at King and his and the media's fear is that King will get the job---which will never happen-- but in case he had a chance bury him deep and attack from the outset. He's an arch b0lleaux and I needed to be taken down a peg or ten. I disagree with the OP, under the circumstances King had done as well as could be expected from the two games he managed with the average lot at his disposal and to have that pr1c7 stick in his oar after the final whistle is the last thing you need. I was surprised to hear Giles criticise King also, he was after all an interim manager and for the most part did a good job.
On an unrelated issue where has Ray Houghton disappeared to? Jeez it's hard to listen to Ronnie Whelan another guy who never has anything positive to say. I am sorry Bertie stuck his oar in a few years ago when the FAI were going to deal with SKY. If the games were covered by SKY we wouldn't have to suffer these ass"oles. RTE is truly a rank outfit and as for sport they know f'all and if you want proof just wait till the cricket internationals come around or ask one of their racing experts about a five furlong seller in Carlisle or when did they give anything but lip service to any of the minor interest sports? Bastars

Cant comment on last nights sprat as i saw none of it , I spoke to John Cody a former Rovers 4 in a row player who knows Noel well , and he said it was a little embarrassing overall .He also said Noel was more than capable of holding his own...

O'D and any other journalist has the right to question selections surely?

The problem is King hasn't the confidence/experience to handle these types of questions.

Why did he have to attack O'D? He should have just said the lads have played there for their clubs, next question, but no he made a p**k of himself getting all high and mighty, belittling the interviewee, and turning his back on the interviewer.

King looks like Brendan O'Carroll, he talks like him, and I'd be confident Brendan O'Carroll could have sent a team out to beat Kazakhstan as well last night.

interviewer.

NOEL Kings interview last night is best like ireland campaign in group C ...closed quickly.

roger were the questions fair?badgering him about playing guys out of positon, which he explained very well.then asking why he didnt start mcgeady(no messi?).its is choice who to start surely?would any interviewer badger sir alex or jose about team selection and why they didnt start x y or z?i doubt it.they would be laughed at.and prob banned from next press conference.

badgering? he asked him a couple of player selection decisions.

Asking SAF and asking NK is an unfair comparison.

SAF manages one of the most successful clubs in recent times, totally different to the Irish international side, which has been in bits since the Henry handball game.

Stokes and Doyle as wingers ? Dunphy was right he made Trap look like Pep. Don't think I have ever seen Stokes play on the left for Celtic  ,just complete bluff from an arrogant little man.

where did stokes play against barcelona recently?

He played in the centre behind the striker

Commons played on the left and Samaras up front

spent a lot of time out left from what i could see?hasnt he played a lot on the left?..maybe not out and out winger but  ?

Eamon Dunphy started his media career with The Sunday Tribune back in the 80s. I well remember his regular, bordering-on-obsessional,well-written attacks on the FAI executive of the time. I was in full agreement with his criticisms and admired him for his persistence. I can't recall any other football journalist who was willing to take on the FAI for their ineptitude and self-serving administration back then. I even quizzed Vincent Browne in Toners one night in the mid 80s, asking him why Dunphy had left the Tribune.   

Who appointed Noel King interim manager ? Who appointed Steve Staunton ? Who appointed Trappatoni ? Which one man dominates the FAI executive ? I can't hear you, Eamon.......

Either way his best position is a striker  .We had 5 years of rubbish with Trap playing people out of position , now King does the same.  Walters .Cox , Stokes, Doyle and Long used as wingers  . Rubbish.

id rather have stokes out there than co or walters..

So would I but id play a natural winger before a striker.

so would i..but stokes is a very good player.id play him any day ahead of mcgeady in any position.

I think I would be on Kings side here.  I had the distinct impression that the journalist in question was having a go at him, because he was a relative nobody.  No way he would behave like that toward a heavyweight manager.

Granted King could have dealt with it better, but that yahoos back in the studio were milking it for all it was worth, mainly because King had called them a 'comedy act' a few days before.

you booked rio yet oz?

You know, I haven't Rich.  But very tempted.  To see Brazil lift the trophy in Rio would be hard to match in terms of lifetime sporting occasions.

I know Rio like the back of my hand, there really is nowhere like it.  It was my hang out back in the day the Real was 5++ to the US$, around 2 these day.  Very very expensive now.  Was there for 2 previous World Cups funnily enough.

There are some really boring host cities though; imagine your team got stuck somewhere like Manaus, middle of nowhere, mosquito ridden jungle. Cuiaba, Curitaba. Belo Horizonte or Brasilia are not hopping places, you wouldn't want to be there either.

Dunphy should realise we have a sh!t team really poor but the way he goes on steven Ireland is the next Zico

dunphy is a figure of fun.no one takes him seriously.the thing i found surprising was giles rowing in behind him.must be history there from maybe the rovers days..

Tha's what i reckon Kavvie there is history there for sure.

aye rocket. agree with the clever boys when ye've nothing worth adding

freddie what did that contribution add to the conversation?

The players are out of their depth at international level.

i dont think it really matters what happened or who he played where, john delaney gave the job to an fai man once before and gave him the road after one qualifying campaign, despite him not doing that badly. he nearly laughed at some reporter who suggested noel king was in the running for the job if results went his way. probably the only reason he sacked kerr was cos dunphy et co. kept on knocking him saying he wasnt qualified to deal with big ego`s?? really?? if any other manager had done what kerr did he would have defo got another shot. so basically its all delaneys fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agree, Kerr did a great job. When they did sack Kerr they should have kept him in a role dealing with the underage teams. Delaney is a politician not a Chief Executive and we all know what our politicians did to this country, well Delaney is doing something similar in the FAI. He is the Bertie Ahearne of the FAI.