Stephen Kenny in interviews...

I think he's just a man with either no media training or didn't listen when he got that training.

Very angry men have poor judgement.

He tries to spend the maximum time and effort being evasive and just isn’t much good at it..people know as much from the first syllable he utters to the last, ie. nothing .. ‘speak as many words as you can while saying as little as possible’ seems to be his motto

He’s always relentlessly optimistic, when we drew 1-1 with Qatar it was as if we’d beaten France and a shot at winning the World Cup was just around the corner. An excellent LOI manager but he’s been found out at international level and been seen as far too much of a waffle merchant when he’s been called on to comment on performances..

He had the same interview style when he was with Dundalk, and other clubs. That did not stop him being successfull. I don't think there is any medical condition causing it, just his own way of speaking.

I agree Stephen doesn't come across very well in interviews. Possibly one of, if not the worst, sports managers i've ever heard giving interviews. He can look confused or vacant with even the most mundane question. Long moments of silence while he gathers his thoughts and stares blankly at the tv camera are frequent. His post match interview v Luxemburg was car crash tv.

Ya, he comes across as being a simpleton....he is brutal, absolutely painful to listen to after a loss/draw...and he is even worse after a win!

Tony O'Donoghues worst nightmare.....

Most Irish people who have a good knowledge of Football are big fans of Kenny, the rest haven't a clue in fairness, they just like the chime in with their worthless opinions, especially the ones who are anti LOI. The kind of people who just like to put the boot in to anyone. Now if I was an England supporter I wouldn't be happy at all, there you have a guy in charge who is destroying their chances of winning anything with his negative tactics and persistence with maguire. Kenny would win the world cup with that England team.

who cares how he acts in interviews, he has a very limited team playing nice football.

The team playing for trap and o Neil were afraid of the ball, this team love to be on the ball.

Yeah. You wanna talk car crash interviews ? Give me SK any day.

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He’s just not very articulate, doesn’t signify any significant lack of intelligence he just seems always in a vast excitable hurry to reply to the question before his brain is engaging with processing and replying to what has been asked.

He’s been around football for years so the media element of his job is not a new element of his profession… so you might envision he’d be a little more composed and insightful and less like a belligerent 14 year old when he hears a question he doesn’t necessarily like…and taking a second to compose his thinking.

I hope this was a wind up, because it’s too pathetic to be sincere. From start to finish it’s total rubbish.

I’m not a fan of LOI football, I go to the odd game if it suits me but I find most LOI fans to be totally insufferable arseholes with massive chips on their shoulder. This “greatest league in the world” nonsense is just that - nonsense. I’d much rather go and watch my neighbours and friends of my sons playing premier division football in the district league. I find the standard of football to be much more bearable than the LOI crap I unfortunately witness a few times a year. And that brings me to Stephen Kenny.

He had a good group of players in a bad league and got lucky they were all around in the same team. He was found out at Dunfermline and has been found out since day 1 in the Irish job. The man is a total spoofer. This storyline of him having the team playing good football is a total myth. The football is no more entertaining than it was 10 years ago under Trap or in the more recent years O’Neill and McCarthy. Both of whom had better squads than this current Irish team but knew they were light years behind everyone else. Those managers knew their limitations and had the balls to front up when things went pear shaped. They didn’t hide away behind a smug grin and evade any questions which could potentially uncover how Kenny knows he’s out of his depth. Kenny is a dead man walking in that job and the only reason he was given it is because the FAI are skint. The only reason he will remain to oversee an already doomed Euro qualification campaign is because the FAI are still skint.

you are obviously having a laugh yourself if you think district league soccer is better than LOI, get real will you. Is that why so many players from that league get signed by the big english clubs? Also why do you go to LOI matches if its so unbearable?

How do you explain how well Kenny did in Europe with Dundalk? You cant blame that on a bad league can you?

The trap and o neil teams had about 30% possession in matches, were afraid of the ball and just belted the ball up the field anytime the got it, usually losing the ball in the process. What trap and o neil played wasnt even what you could call soccer.

LOI fans are the real fans of soccer in this country, not the ole ole ejits who go to the odd euros and make a show of us with their cringy antics.

Doomed euros? id say you are definitely what we call a glass half empty person.

When they play well and lose, it’s all about results to the Kenny critics. When they play badly and win, it’s all about how they played from the Kenny critics. He can’t win.

I, personally, thought his interview after was grand. We pushed for a third and got sloppy. Nearly cost us the game but we won.

It’s been great watching an Irish side pushing forward and playing the ball about. Yes, it hasn’t worked every time but really don’t want to see us going back to the days of “hoofball” and scraping a win, or a last minute draw, against Cyprus, or Georgia.

Some people just don’t like Stephen Kenny and that seems to be on a personal level, as well as taking issue with the Irish side playing positive football.

I love Kenny. Not great at the PR side of things but who cares. What matters most is that the players seem to have a good bond with him and respect him.

Your drinking the koolaid,

Kenny does a wonderful trick of making people think possession matter & mean's his team are good ,

The possession is usually passing between the CK, 3 CB's & 2 wing backs & rinse and repeat, It's never progression once it hits midfield so basically its just a time waiting policy ,

Also how many times under his stewardship do we score when we get desperate & his tactic's are thrown out the window and we revert back to direct football ,

How many goals have been scored by defenders under him,

It's the Dublin thing of meandering on without getting to the point for a fair bit. It's a lack of being present. It's getting lost in one's own head and spouting every thought leading up to a point without giving thought to whether am I talking a bunch of s***e right now without saying much and is the other person I am talking to receiving the message.

I am sure he has some footballing ideas. But I do think you can tell the measure of a manager from how they are in front of the camera. The good ones can articulate and divulge their point in a cogent, clear manner. That says to me that they are well formed in communicating, thinking and presenting ideas.

I admire your optimism and I hope you are right I really do but I don’t see a manager with a win percentage of just 24%… all of a sudden swinging that stat up to 55-60% which is where he and the team need to be if they are to qualify for tournaments which will be the barometer of success he’s judged on …the media stuff , maybe not the biggest deal but when people are paying good money and time and effort to support the team and he’s coming out with any auld shîte and expecting people to be pacified by pure spoofing basically… he’s making a rod for his own back big time… he’s been given time all be it during a very challenging period in life.. Covid… but the reality is the wins haven’t been there, we’ve been routinely humiliated by far lesser opposition, the tactics are archaic, never a plan B when planning A isn’t working…

was it Einstein or whoever said.. the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results ? That’s what watching this Ireland team is like under Kenny….

You keep repeating the same stuff over and over? That would be the definiton of boring repitition.

Two of the best performances I’ve ever seen Irish teams put in came under Trapattoni and Martin O’Neill. France away in 2009, the night of the Henry handball, and Ireland against France in Euro 2016. Two games where Ireland were totally up against it and took the game to them. Funnily enough, we didn’t win either game but for the football that was played they’re two standout games. Germany win at home in 2015, draw with Italy in Bari in 2009 are two other examples of very good footballing performances.

Junior league football is exceptional standard in certain counties in Ireland. My local team has 3 ex league of Ireland players in it, and 5 more who have been on trial with English clubs at various stages. We lost 2 more players to scholarships in US universities this year also. Work situations, family commitments mean there was less players leaving Junior league teams nowadays. Some don’t like to get signed up to 6 month contracts and then go and draw the dole when the season finishes.

France in 2009, the players ignored traps tactics and decided to go at France rather than play the usual crap football trap wanted.

They didnt play well against france in 2016, we gave away 2 awful needless goals.

The Germans should have beaten us well in 2015, they just didnt have their shooting boots on that night, I think we had 1 shot on target which was the goal.

We have had good performances under Kenny, Portugal twice, ukraine away and scotland at home.

Time? Couple of years in Mountjoy for impersonating an International football manager is what time he deserves

It also included Armenia, Qatar, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan, Andorra and Bulgaria

The only notable win was against an exhausted Scotland team, with other wins coming against Luxembourg, Qatar, Lithuania, Andorra and Azerbaijan

We also failed to win or lost in games against, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Luxembourg

When you actually assess where we are in world football I don't think anyone can honestly say we've made any progress, unless you like passing the ball sideways