Cult of Stephen Kenny

But that's part of the problem....mc clean who spent most of his career taking a ball into trouble and getting dispossessed and/or hitting brutal crosses isn't out of the picture

He's actually still a viable sub due to workrate (and in fairness he knocked a couple of decent balls into the box from set pieces tonight) .... should tell you what we've got to work with too

Which one Robbie I hope , he’s a lucky type of guy, probably come in show them how to score a goal , get a Gary McKay moment ala Bulgaria and nobody will fault Claudine cheering on

either way The kenny experience isn’t working

Dreadful rubbish

ah yes, why didn’t I know that?

It’s a hangover from the Saipan “incident” when Keane called McCarthy a crap manager and a crap man.

FIFA took note that the player who plays the best on the pitch may not be the best man on the pitch. They decided it was a more accurate “description” of what was really going on out there.

Has Kenny said Slava Ukraini yet 🤔😁

Worse then I thought, but he’s probably on his way to a new contract… being a good football man, good understanding of the grass roots of the game, hangs his own washing out.. etc… and to think people on here and elsewhere defend this.

I want to give Kenny time but that interview was an absolute car crash. Rabbit in the headlights on the last question, faffed about and then answered a different question.

Someone above is right. We probably don’t have the players for what he’s trying to do. How we coach football in this country is a disgrace from what I’ve seen. Lots of kids being coached to win games first and foremost which means getting back to front quickly, which means having defenders who are not coached to play football - just to win the ball and get rid of it.

Personally, I think we end up coaching soccer like GAA a lot and it stops players developing proper skills. And that’s not a dig at GAA. Their games are modelled on getting it up the pitch quickly. Football is not like that.

You can’t undo years of terrible coaching or reverse a mindset from Kennys position. The horse has long since bolted at that stage. He’s making a bit of a pigs ear of it but I admire him for his principles and for trying. But as someone else said, Trap and O’Neill are experienced football men and knew we couldn’t play proper football and win. And they’re in the results business. So is Kenny. And on that basis, he’s edging closer to the exit door.

Did you not see Ireland V Sweden in Euro 2016? He is good but he has no one around him that can play. We are dirt so im not sure why people blame Kenny for that by the way.

Well definitely in trappatonis case it was **** brutal.....

He deserved to be hounded out, it was like he showed the players a map of the pitch with the opposition half under water and **** dragons and unknown behemoths lurking just under the surface and a label "here be monsters"

With somewhat better players he managed to completely remove their ability to pass in any forward direction whatsoever and instil anxiety in them if they retained possession for any longer than 30 seconds as a collective such was his utter distrust of our players

Did anyone else see that too or am I delusional....we put 10 men behind the ball from minute 1 to 90 and then conceded at some stage in the second half etc

I mean Kenny may be poor and perhaps he should go but don't tell me what trappatoni served up was much better..its admitting defeat from the get go imo....at least with Kenny although defeat may be inevitable at least we are putting a brave face on it.

As bad as it is I'd have Kenny over Trappatoni.

Yeah. He looked like he was turning it around just before the last two games.