Cult of Stephen Kenny

We don’t have the players, which makes it even more crucial that we have a capable manager.

Kenny as manager was never going to work… he lacks top level experience. His experience managing professional footballers has been fleeting only…he has never managed a collection players of international class. He has never managed in a situation where stakes are so high and where every game is absolutely important and every point as vital..

He has shown an unwillingness to be tactically flexible… and he’s not tactically reactive enough when a plan B is required… both in terms of substitutions which he almost always leaves until it’s too late… and changing formation and style too…

the success he did enjoy with Bohemians for example… I was regularly enough going to see that Bohs team… one of the best LOI teams ever assembled… every position had 2 very good players. They were especially adept at attacking and scoring goals…..and if behind the 8 ball he had a good bench and a plan B.

We have won 6 points from a possible 21 in this campaign. 6 points in 7 matches ….those 6 points we got were courtesy of 2 wins against Gibraltar who are about as able as an LOI side… we didn’t pick up a single point in any other game. That is nutsville. Pure rubbish…

why are people defending Kenny when those facts are out there, online for anyone to reference…? He’s not good enough. His ability and know how is enough for the LOI levels and levels below where he is employed now. At Bohs / Rovers etc if he doesn’t like the two centre backs, he can make a phone call and probably sell those two and buy two better ones..

he has to work with what is in front of him here, no cheque book gets him out of trouble…. Greatest managers achieve results when they don’t have resources and when they are up against it…. Kenny has fallen way short, 6 points out of 21… time won’t fix the problem, a new manager will help.

Tony O'Donoghue needs to salavage any credit as a journalist tonight and grill him on his record and claims he makes. He wont obviously. Id imagine Tony will ask him about a new contract or some mad ****.

A disaster of a pre match interview. Terrible communicater. He doesnt instill confidence in anyone. He's barely able to string a sentence together still.

Plenty of hoof ball here too. I wonder what the Kenny LOI fanmen call it though.

Thats as bad as anything we have seen for a long time. A clear sign that Kennys time has gone. Why the hell is callum robinson playing.

Collins was clearly fouled in the lead up to the Dutch goal, replay confirmed, thought so at the time.. VAR ? 🤬 didn’t check even. Jersey absolutely reefed off him.

We managed though one shot on target all first half, one shot actually total. Typical of this ultra naive team and Kennyball.

What's the point?

SK basically lost every match.

Joanne mentioned that jersey pull for the goal, but the panel didn't agree. It's a foul.

If it wasn’t for the pull, he’d have been further away from Weighorst than he was when he got turned. It’s was shocking positioning.

Then he goes and takes Ferguson off, the fella hasn’t had a flicker of service….so what’s the sub going to achieve ?

Dutch have had at this point 60% of possession.

Mcgrath and Mikey johnson. Two piss poor SPL players.

The game is more like an end of season friendly than an International, under Stanton things were depressing at the end, but now things are worse. The team has nothing like the spirit and drive of the team I watched in Japan in 2002, 20 years of decline since then.

And all the FAI seem to want is a row with the government paymaster about women on the board!