Aehso’s Output

The FAI.

The FAI (not the national team or their manager) are a disaster, in denial and accountable to nobody it seems. They have turned me off Irish international football games to the extent that I now have no interest in paying anything (tickets or tv) to watch the national team play anymore.  It really is impossible to support a national institution like the Irish football team when they are governed by an organization that crows about earning 10million in TV rights for a single game but refuse to admit that their whole approach to managing the national team is wrong.

Screw this ‘rebuilding for future tournaments’ guff.  Reality check: professional footballers are payed by and contracted to clubs, not their countries.  Therefore international football associations should hire managers that have a proven ability to

1. manage resources that are only available on an short term basis.
2. choose systems and tactics that utilizes the available players on a game by game basis.

Neither of these are skills that one will learn ‘on-the-job’ in what is in effect a part time position.  The future of our national game looks bleak while the existing policy remains in effect.

P.S. Software geeks out there could relate this to the waterfall vs agile development models - I think that’s pretty appropriate.  Speaking of the waterfall model, here’s another good read from Alex…

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