Cult of Stephen Kenny

What we're doing now isn't cutting it either, but a solid structure may be the difference in getting a result or not.

There’s realism and pessimism. And you’re overly pessimistic.

Ferguson is up for sale now and his price is 115 million. Why only focus on the negative. That’s why I call you a pessimist.

Serie A isnt what is used to be. championship means nothing.

we will see but I wouldnt count my chickens with a lot of them, the exact same things were said about gavin kilkenny a few years ago.

You seem to have interpreted "makings of a good team starting to come through" as "going to be brilliant"

Look at Croatia, who are operating a level and playing a brand of football we could only dream of. Most of their players are in the lower reaches of Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga and a handful of smaller leagues and their own domestic league, with a couple of stars.

How is it not? One of the top sides in Europe has most of its players playing at a level equivalent to lower half of the Premier league and top of the the Championship. Ireland is starting to get more of our players playing at similar levels. Nowhere near enough to get to Croatia's level but more than a few years ago. A poster however tells us that this means those players aren't good enough and they definitely should not think about trying to play positive football

I’m not saying that there is a host of great players ready to come through or that you are wrong about Cullen etc but comments like “potential means nothing” or the “championship is meaningless” are wide of the mark

On the next World Cup, with the expansion of the tournament, UEFA has 16 slots available.

UEFA are planning smaller groups for this qualifying, with 12 groups of 4/5 teams, top side straight into the World Cup. The 12 runners up, and the 4 highest ranked Nations League sides will be split into 4 knockout groups of 4 based on seedings, with each group consisting of two SF's and a final, with the winners of each group going to the World Cup.

So there's a solid chance we can at least make the playoffs if we get a decent draw. And with a smaller group, there's every chance a couple of decent results could see us directly.

So at the very least going forwarded, whoever the manager is you'd be hoping that with the smaller group they'd have some sort of a plan in place, because at the moment I can't see Kenny's style of play getting us anywhere.

He will be gone now after this round of games as results this evening ended all hopes of Ireland still having an outside chance.

If that was the case he would have gone a long time ago the FAI just couldn’t afford to pay him off if they sacked him

He has of tonight has officially failed to qualify so that is the end of his contract and they don’t have to pay him off now.

maybe we can have a cult of Pat Dolan thread next, or the cult of Liam Buckley….

seeing as the FAI are determined to listen to the wants, whims and obsessions of their LOI fan mob who have no doubt masturbated themselves into a state of dehydration since Kerr & now Kenny have taken over the Ireland team…

Stephen Kenny and his cohorts failed at every opportunity to qualify for a tournament.

Brian Kerr and his cohorts failed at every opportunity to qualify for a tournament.

they were both afforded great time, support, resources and opportunity, and more then one campaign….

so, they’ve nobody to blame but themselves….

the greatest leaders / managers all have one thing in common… when their back is against the wall, when their resources are stretched or limited, when they are behind the 8 ball, when they are written off…. They find a way….

our teams are now never near being in a position to even find that sort of ‘pull it out of the fire’ recovery…

no goals in the team, little composure, bad decisions on the sideline…..a mess… the qualifying table reflects this..

with a bit of luck we might have a gem in Ferguson….. we probably need another three… but what will help is a manager with guile, top level experience, the ability to motivate and tactically facilitate a limited team to get results greater than which the sum of their talent might suggest possible…

Kenny has failed…. The FAI has failed….but do the FAI learn from their mistakes ? Highly fücking doubtful…the culture of decision making in that organisation is so very shït.

what a post at 3am. are the LOI mob in the room with you now ?

This cannot be true. The FAI are a disaster, but not this much of a disaster.

Daryl Horgan on 2nd captains is a good listen on the Irish camp