Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

Really saying that when a National Team loses a certain amount of games, their fans call for the managers head or he has the decency to resign, In ireland, there seems to be people who will defend kenny regardless of being winless in one of the easiest qualifying groups.

Enough is enough, we've to wait until 2024 qualifiers for him to go, nothing will change and he still probably won't have won a competitive game by then either.

He's a lame duck manager

Easily the best football analyst on Rte

He certainly has his fingerprint on this disaster.

He should indeed be happy. Just not jumping up and down like we've scored the winner in a World Cup final.

We have no finishers and a midfield featuring a premier league bench warmer, a lad playing in Premier League 2, an over-the-hill league one winger and Cullen who is the pick of a very bad bunch.

I'm gobsmacked that people still have not come to terms with how bad a place Irish football is in at the minute talent-wise and continue to put all the blame at Kenny's door.

Robinson has to start vs Serbia. We carried much more of a threat with him in and around the box.

Connolly and Parrott are very ordinary

the manager is in hiding

pathetic

Sam would definitely do it for the right price

People can argue the talent isn't there all they like but the way we approach the games against teams of similar level and below is awful. Any time Azerbaijan where put under even a slight bit a pressure they gave us the ball but we pressed them maybe five times as a group. It's all too slow and passive against poorer and similar matched teams. That's on the manager, he doesn't set us up to be aggressive or press at all. It's 60-70 minutes of sideways slow football in possession (that doesn't work at any level) followed by 20-30 minutes of panicked crosses and punts into the box. He's been marketed well as a progressive coach but I've seen very little to show that he is one, he's a passive coach.

I have been defending him but not because I'm madly pro Kenny it's just the only other options I see are big Sam types who will apparently "make us solid" but honestly what players out there do we have to form that kind of team.

I just really don't want someone who will pick a load of 30+ year olds and still probably not qualify

But sure we've been told for years including from Kenny that we have the players to play good attacking football and compete with the best in Europe so that excuse just doesn't wash I'm afraid.

We either have the players or they don't, they all criticised Trap when he said the players weren't technically good enough. The proof is in the pudding as they say.

Not going to pretend for one second that drawing to Azerbaijan or losing to Luxembourg are good enough, but to me there's no point in going back to Mick, or bringing in a budget Pulis or Allardyce (seeing as we likely can't afford the real thing). If we do that, all the **** results we've had to suffer for the Kenny reign will be for nothing cos we'll just revert to type, stick Collins up front on his own, sit back in our own box, pack the midfield with tried and trusted grafters who are getting a few minutes in the Championship and we'll go through another campaign without developing the team and watching 27 year olds pick up their first cap whilst younger lads who can play a bit of football are ignored.

If there's someone with some bit of ambition about they have their teams play, who we can get, then changing out Kenny mid-campaign is an option. I wouldn't object to Hughton if he became available. In any case I suspect he'll be sacked at the end of the current campaign, at the latest, unless results pick up from here. And with no source of goals, I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

You think it came across well? Okay; you're perfectly entitled to your opinion.

Exactly.

answer to both is no one.

therefore Kenny stays.

Steve coppell be around the level we could afford.

we’ll just have to see how we do in the rest of the campaign but the new contract talk is far fetched and media driven from Kennyists

66 and hasn't managed a team outside India since 2010. That's depressing, but probably accurate unless the FAI get a cash injection.

Replacing someone who was only experienced with managing at a much lower level with someone who is only experienced with managing at a much lower level is unlikely to warrant different results

Would be considered insanity I imagine

Have you seen Nottingham Forest this season? Rock bottom of the Championship with 1 point in their first 5 games.

northern Ireland seem to be be doing ok with their average manager. It is right to see who is out there before sacking Kenny but I just don't think he will ever get the best out of this group of players and to let our seedings sink further in another campaign with him would be the definition of insanity.

Would i be right in saying even though all we hear is about the mangers style and possessions football and he's trying something different the fact is all our offical qualifying goals under him have been headers by CB's.... You couldn't write it could ye