Cult of Stephen Kenny

Never said ‘Happy” , “Performance “. “Unlucky”. Or any of your other inane cliches.

Oh you know your football all right.

Win, draw or mainly lose, Stephen Kenny is incapable of giving a post match interview adequately.....

Kenny Cunningham has an incredible ability at talking nonstop utter bollèx....

Worse then I thought, but he’s probably on his way to a new contract… being a good football man, good understanding of the grass roots of the game, hangs his own washing out.. etc… and to think people on here and elsewhere defend this.

I want to give Kenny time but that interview was an absolute car crash. Rabbit in the headlights on the last question, faffed about and then answered a different question.

Someone above is right. We probably don’t have the players for what he’s trying to do. How we coach football in this country is a disgrace from what I’ve seen. Lots of kids being coached to win games first and foremost which means getting back to front quickly, which means having defenders who are not coached to play football - just to win the ball and get rid of it.

Personally, I think we end up coaching soccer like GAA a lot and it stops players developing proper skills. And that’s not a dig at GAA. Their games are modelled on getting it up the pitch quickly. Football is not like that.

You can’t undo years of terrible coaching or reverse a mindset from Kennys position. The horse has long since bolted at that stage. He’s making a bit of a pigs ear of it but I admire him for his principles and for trying. But as someone else said, Trap and O’Neill are experienced football men and knew we couldn’t play proper football and win. And they’re in the results business. So is Kenny. And on that basis, he’s edging closer to the exit door.

Did you not see Ireland V Sweden in Euro 2016? He is good but he has no one around him that can play. We are dirt so im not sure why people blame Kenny for that by the way.

Well definitely in trappatonis case it was **** brutal.....

He deserved to be hounded out, it was like he showed the players a map of the pitch with the opposition half under water and **** dragons and unknown behemoths lurking just under the surface and a label "here be monsters"

With somewhat better players he managed to completely remove their ability to pass in any forward direction whatsoever and instil anxiety in them if they retained possession for any longer than 30 seconds as a collective such was his utter distrust of our players

Did anyone else see that too or am I delusional....we put 10 men behind the ball from minute 1 to 90 and then conceded at some stage in the second half etc

I mean Kenny may be poor and perhaps he should go but don't tell me what trappatoni served up was much better..its admitting defeat from the get go imo....at least with Kenny although defeat may be inevitable at least we are putting a brave face on it.

As bad as it is I'd have Kenny over Trappatoni.

Yeah. He looked like he was turning it around just before the last two games.

I'm just kidding 😏 I'm honestly not very knowledgeable on Soccer.

Dreadful again but we miss Anthony Barry badly I think it’s no coincidence our uptick in form coincided with him replacing duff and now he’s gone we’re back to Keith Andrews directing planes in to land on the sideline while kenny is begging lads to keep it on the deck.

Neither are most of the rest of us, we just like to think otherwise. At least you’re honest about it…

I'd get caught out if I started talking strategy, player abilities etc 😁

Why is there not enough "time"?

Are people so desperate to go back to Trappatoni ball and scrape a few **** draws here and there? Park the bus and still fail anyway because the squad is far poorer than it ever was under Trappatoni?

Ireland has all the time in the world, it is rock **** bottom in terms of quality and only a **** idiot thinks there is any sticking plaster that will cover up that fact.

Bollocks to results, especially in glorified friendlies like the nations league. This time now should be all about integrating new players and sticking with a style that might have success years down the line.