Cult of Stephen Kenny

‘Not having the players’ … is even more reason why you get in an experienced, professional manager who has a tactical know how coupled with man management skills to get the best at a high level with limited resources….

instead some brain dead tossers in the FAI said… “ I know, Stephen Kenny ! “

not from a possible 9, it’s from a possible 6 for Finland and Bulgaria.

Nah, you just need to find somebody who can pack the midfield, play to our "strengths" and put'em under pressure, sure anybody can do that. Check the list of managers relegated from the PL and we'll easily find somebody who'll do it for under 100k. All he has to do is make sure we hoof the ball up to Robbie Keane and we'll be swimming in 1-0 wins, and when the Euros are expanded to 48 teams we'll have the drunkards roadtrip sorted no problem.

Out of our price range and a very basic bitch manager for the millions it would cost.

Well they beat Japan(Ranked 23) 3-1 in the final...

Qatar beat Saudi Arabia, South Korea en route to the final...both nations regular's at world cups...and I'd have Japan and South Korea ahead of Ireland...

The current crop of Irish players are championship/league 1...we have maybe 2 premiership quality players...at most

Listen the loss to Armenia is terrible, we are creating opportunities, but not enough clear cut chances...

I think Kenny needs to only pick players who are playing regularly, Jeff against Ukraine looked like a man who hadn't played a game for 6 months

We need to think outside the box, how about an octopus picks the team?

"His keepers at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, mainly tasked him with predicting the outcomes of international matches in which the German team was playing. Paul correctly chose the winning team in four of Germany's six Euro 2008 matches, and all seven of their matches in the 2010 World Cup—including Germany's third place play-off win over Uruguay on 10 July. He also correctly chose Spain as the winner of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final.[2] In all, Paul amassed an overall record of 12 correct predictions out of 14: a success rate of approximately 85.7%."

People have really short memories

I think the main problems are at the back. Kelleher gets hyped beyond his ability and was largely to blame for the goals conceded against Armenia and Ukraine. It's telling that no other clubs seem interested in signing right now unlike Bazunu, who appears a superior keeper to me. In front of him things look no better. Duffy's main attribute is his threat at set plays while Egan is just ordinary Championship level. Both can be rash and prone to glaring errors. I think Kenny has to accept that we are not capable of building attacks by playing out from the back. So, the defence needs to defend foremost, by pushing up the field and man marking.You don't need great abilty to do that, just discipline and organisation. If you can't defend properly you won't win games.Klopp and Pep will tell you that. Bad defensive play is what is undermining this Irish team at present and it's a pity because we do have good midfielders who can move and pass it about effectively and strikers who are capable, let's say, of scoring. I think we can beat Scotland, despite our inadequacies.

The sad cases that jump up and down with glee when Ireland are losing because of whatever pathetic bias they have.