Cult of Stephen Kenny

Lets, because you made a clown statement and proceeded to prove that you are a clown.

Football is a results business, that is why the scoreboard is shown in the corner of the screen, and not the possession statistic. Thats why the winner is judged on goals rather than passes.

So whether or not something was more pleasing on the eye makes no difference if the results didn't follow. Which they didn't, until year 3, when Potter had 3 years of working with Ashworth to bring in bargains from all over the world - the same Ashworth that has been headhunted by Newcastle who will be spending hundreds of millions over the next few years and trust him to do it.

Try badminton, the following is probably low enough that you can talk sh*te to yourself and nobody will call you out on it.

why are you so angry and abusing everyone? chill the f**k out

Embarrassed the country? Go bang your head. We were in a group with the 2 finalists.

as I said a deluded fan base.

He did but getting hammered by the finalists in your Euro group and been hammered by a German side that went on to win that World Cup is hardly surprising results and certainly not "embarassing"

See you need to be realistic.

There is not a reasonable standard of player there which is enough to make play offs and qualify for the odd tournament. What universe are you living in? We have a forward line of league 1 players and a championship player who cant score for his club and hardly gets a game. But yeah its the managers fault all the time......

These lads still think some journeyman coach can come in and "set the team up" to win these games.

I hope it happens, I hope Chris Houghton or whoever comes in, it will be hilarious watching as "keeping it tight and playing to our strengths" falls flat on its face. Hard to scrape 1-0 wins when you can't score that one goal lads and trust me, those players set up to play defensively won't be able to score sweet FA.

Before Armenia, Irelands recent results included very credible draws with Portugal and Belgium and 3 wins against the sort of teams people in here keep saying Ireland should be beating. Thats all been forgotten very quickly by the sort of people who can't really see the woods for the trees.

Tonight should be fun as well. Ukraine are clearly a better side, so a lot of lads here will be desperately hoping we don't see a repeat of the Portugal performance, that would really foul up the narrative wouldn't it.

Any 'top manager' would come into the Ireland setup and make pretty much the same assessment - it's a middling bunch of players, so in order to compete for places at finals, the team will have to play a cautious disciplined game, emphasise defence and see what can be nicked on the counter. And they will be fairly heavily criticised for this, as Trap was and as MoN was, especially if they refuse to play some midfielder who's getting regular games in the Championship.

I remember back in 2014, I think, when Scotland beat Ireland at Hampden, playing some attacking football and getting a goal off a nicely worked set piece move. You can guess what the chatter was on Boards football discussions - Scotland are actually trying to play football. They're kicking on while Ireland's same old game is obsolete and exposed. Fast forward two years later when Scotland's game plan ran out of steam and Ireland grinded out results, including one very impressive win over a fancied German side using the mighty goal kick long ball. Scottish fans on Tartan Army message board going, yeah Ireland might use the long ball, but look how effective it is. Round and round we go.

It's not that the manager should be absolved from blame, but that there is a bigger problem in Irish football and one that mangers have been patsies for. Change managers as often as you like, but the highs will still become less pronounced and the lows more humiliating until the team hits bottom and Irish football must face its demons being that there is no longer the money nor the prestige in the job to attract anything like a big name.

No I’d say Kenny isn’t aware that winning is preferable

Well he might start acting lime it then.

Any predictions on Kennys excuses after tonight's Match 🤔

We thought it was a Friendly 🤔

Its only first 10 mins but they've started brightly enough in fairness.....lacking in quality in final ball once or twice and Robinson butchered a shooting opportunity with a donkeys first touch

A lot better than Armenia game....they seemed to stand off Armenia for some reason.