Cult of Stephen Kenny

a media spoofer

tactically inept

won 5 out of 23 matches

him and his cult can take a long running jump….

More might be expected of forwards, but for most forwards the main expectation is that they score goals.

england fail and can ask themselves how?, they have a great league, great facilities, great players, great history.

Ireland fail and we can’t ask ourselves any of those questions. We get the appropriate return to our level of investment

irish football is small time, Kenny is a manager who, apart from the Europa league group stages, has only managed at small time levels of the game.

It's the failure against Armenia, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan and Qatar I think is the issue. We're not taking about failing to win world cups or even qualifying for tournaments. If beating teams of a much less rank and quality of us isn't a key factor for determining managing success then we really are lost.

As I've said failure to win tonight and we could be out of the group at this early stage. The Nations League is a backdoor into the Euros and something we shouldn't ignore. We need a win tonight.

You are correct

The playoffs will consist of the best teams from the Nations league that do not qualify directly, I believe ?

Stop trying to make Chris Hughton happen. He is a dinosaur and he has been found out everywhere he's gone. We have no good players, there's some potential but no one really is a top player. Scotland and Wales have a few each and that's why they're doing better than us now.

We can try and play football or try and grind out draws as we had been doing since the class of 2002 got too old. I'd rather we just gave up playing football than to go back to the MON and Trap and Mick 2 days.

lets be honest, it was a whole lot better for him to get a run going at club level with the injuries hes had especially sinces hes a player built on his agility and quick turns of pace. better for swansea to look after him and manage him game by game to see can he manage the load of a sat-tues/weds-sat in championship than put more pressure on him to play a few more games with us. he seems to have held up well thank god because we all know we need him desperately at this point. being a bit cautious aboit the situation wasnt wrong imo.

Chris Hughton was not "found out everywhere he's gone".

That is such complete bollux. Every club he has left were greatly improved from when he took them over, barring Forest.

He has one failure on his CV - the Forest job.

Kenny got Dunfermline relegated, never hear anything about that. He took LOI champions Shamrock Rovers to 4th and got booted for it.

Don't know why I'm arguing with some utter armchair idiot who would rather not play football - than have to suffer through competing in international tournaments and play-offs. Some going when we have no good players.

What the f*ck do you even mean by saying we can try to play football or try and grind out draws - it isn't one or the other. And certainly anything that Kenny is doing isn't working. I'm also interested in what your definition of football is - passing it around the back for extended portions of the game? Riveting stuff.

We should beat Armenia because we have better players than Armenia. Glad I could clear that up for you.

The Championship is a better league than many European top flight leagues. Even if we were to use this as a guide - Championship rated as the 11th best league in the world. https://www.globalfootballrankings.com/ Can't quite find the Armenian league on there where a bunch of their players play - wierd.

Why would it not matter if Kenny or Klopp was in charge? You think managers have 0 impact on their teams? Why even have them at all? You expect identical results with a League of Ireland veteran vs a Premier League, Bundesliga, Champions League winning manager? Christ what an embarrassing comment.

hughton is a shocking manager.

We'll see after tonight's game. Hopefully we win. If not there could be a lot of LOI Kenny fans quiet here tonight and tomorrow. Out of another group in the early stages.

I really feel Kenny needs 4 points at the very least over the next 2 games or as Ive said it's a long road to 2024. That's what losing to Armenia does to you.

You need pragmatism and flexibility to be an international manager and definitely when you are dealt a poor level of standard. You can go out and buy players at club level to suit how you want to play, you can't at international level. He is hopelessly out of his depth

The Irish national team have the most deluded bunch of supporters you'll come across though. Trapattoni was hounded out for his style of play yet he was the most successful manager in decades. You have clowns like Dunphy then thinking we should be playing like Pep's Barcelona.