Trappatoni is a curmudgeon and doesn't rate or want creativity. He craves sub-par players and lauds his favourites into the team all the time, ahead of more gifted and deserving players, despite saying the opposite all the time in the media.
That Coleman never even made the squad for the Euros and his refusal to play McClean in them are the ultimate examplse (along with picking Paul McShane ahead of Coleman defensively too!) I understand him not wanting to bow to public pressure at a whim but it got to a stage where it just got ridiculously obvious something needed to be done but he wouldn't budge.
In his response to Gibson's comments, Trappatoni said roughly that Ireland could easily cope if Gibson continued his self-imposed exile, and that we (am Irish) had Meyler, Whelan and Andrews, amongst others, to step in.
Anyone who considers David Meyler even as an adequate back up to Gibson is an absolute git. As for Keith Andrews, the fact that even his own fans, when he was at Blackburn, wanted him out speaks wonders. I won't even comment on Glen Whelan, suffice to say that the words 'pass forward' don't compute with his abilities. Andrews and Whelan are possibly the most negative thinking central midfield partnership we have ever had.
A word of advice I would offer Darron is, although I do agree with his principles, he needs to play this correctly. The media are fickle and the Irish footballing public are often easily led. There is the chance that they will begin to portray him all Stephen Irelandy (although thats a completely different situation, its often easier for the media to be lazy as you know). If that is going to happen then it maybe better to gracefully re-enter the fray rather than becoming seen as behaving overly self-important.
There are people questioning his correctness in refusing to play because he wasn't picked. Normally I would say thats sour grapes on behalf of a selfish player, except for one major difference here, the glaring and proven failure of our midfield in the Euros, as a creative force amongst other things, backed up and agreed on by everyone else, except the Irish management team.
We never thought we were going to win the tournament but the lack of ideas and the negativity was obvious. Something needed to change, and in typical Irish style, be it sport, politics or business, it seems nothing has and we will keep going round in circles.
