Cult of Stephen Kenny

I have listened to him talk.

Frustration. People are frustrated with him and loosing respect for him. I think comments here mostly are proportionate to the results his teams have gotten under him, their performances, his performances, In addition his basically muttering and stuttering bûllshit to the media after bad results…. Tony O’Donohue is just short of fûcking a microphone at his head, Kenny has the poor guy driven demented in post match interviews….the average viewer can’t be far off.

with a record like he has with Ireland the decent and responsible thing would be for him now to go to the FAI and resign. We are not qualifying and it would be perfect to bring in a new manager and new team…now… be ready, practised and prepared to face the new campaign… without pressure…

Kenny has had backing, opportunity and time… 3+ years, 2 campaigns…..if he was sacked tonight he or any supporters of his would have no reason to complain… the results and stats show his reign as a failure. The team is not trending upwards in terms of either performances or results…. It’s status quo, still crap a watch, still crap results, still failure, still going nowhere, fast.

Who replaces him ? Why do his critics need to answer that ? Kenny has lost more games then he’s won as manager…there are no shortages of suitable and qualified candidates….

Name him in the next squad depending on paperwork. That will show is his intentions.

Asking supporters for their ideas as some sort of defence for the manager of the Irish national team is absolutely comical. Go back to bed for yourself.

Or Tony Cascarino. But that worked out for us.

In some alternative universe where only domestic players can get picked for the national side, I'd love to see how Kenny could've gotten on with a LOI squad.

I suppose you could say his son Alex was one of the few to play for both jurisdictions on NI and the ROI.

Steve was even going to play under Big Jack in USA 94.

But Alex Ferguson put a stop to Steve declaring for Ireland as in those days it would have meant that Steve Bruce would then be classed as a foreign player for European club football matches.

The players.....and I have addressed that before.

The players are comfortable at the moment and don't want to upset the apple cart. They don't want anyone else coming in who will set higher standards and ask more of them. Apathy, indifference and excuse making is contagious in a sporting setup.

There are serious question marks over the players mentality if they are happy to keep going like this for this manager with zero sign of results improving. That's a major issue.

SK has presided over a spell that has resulted in serious damage to our chances of even making playoffs for years to come. We need a man to rebuild our ranking and to take the Nations League seriously.

You mean that he was not eligible to play for Ireland and it turned out to be a myth. Which Cascarino used to flog his autobiography. Under Irish law he was still entitled to an Irish passport even though he was adopted.

The way I look at it with Ireland beggars can't be choosers. Ireland do not have much of a pool if any half decent players are available and want to declare for Ireland get them in. A country of Ireland's size cannot be turning up their nose at players. Hopefully a high profile manager after Stephen Kenny would help in such recruitment.

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Anyway back to Kenny's tenure, if anyone has a glance at the amount of teams that is STILL in with some chance of qualifying for the Euros it is silly. It really shows up what a mess Stephen Kenny has made of things IMO.

Jayus. Just to think now at the time of writing Ireland has beaten Gibraltar twice in the group. The only two wins. Shite in the Nations League, and STILL there is hope?

And we had lads in the RTE studio wanting Doherty to celebrate like mad when he scored against Gibraltar making it 3-0 . It is like a flipping black comedy at this stage. I was half hoping they were taking the mick. But Shay Given and Stephen Kelly were dead serious!

Staunton had a better squad and hadn't a clue what he was doing.

Kenny has an idea and a plan but his execution is lacking and he's been too stubborn. I don't think he's out of his depth. He came into the job with bags more experience than Staunton did.

I've talked about Staunton above but when it comes to players: How do you reckon those players from the Staunton era would stack up against the players Kenny is working with?

Their level was mostly lower PL/upper Champ at the time. Kenny's latest squad is mostly Championship, some lower PL. Staunton still had Robbie Keane, Damien Duff, Shay Given, to name a few.