Rubbish

[youngirish]

youngirish, you should post that assessment from after the Belgium game

Your wish is my command:

https://foot.ie/threads/272664-Republic-of-Ireland-V-Belgium-Saturday-26th-March-2022-Friendly?p=2106354&highlight=#post2106354

That is actually one of his most recent posts on Kenny. I'm not feeling the definitive I want him out tone in it I have to say. At best I say he's a sit on the fence, changes his mind with the wind, shoots down the middle for the penalty, sort of a flapper type.

Anyway let's leave this as is I can't be bothered shooting fish in the barrel anymore. When its too easy I can't get off on it.

[youngirish]

I'm getting pretty tired of the stuipid false binary arguments you see on social media. Arguments by people who either know their argument is bullsh!t, or are too thick to see that it's bullsh!t.

"Oh so you want to go back to the days of Trap hoofing it up the pitch?"

"Oh so you think there's a manager who's going to turn us into world-beaters?"


No, I dont want the first, or think the second.

I want somebody who can do a better job at what Kenny' trying to do.

I think the current options available to Kenny are pretty poor, but I also think he's doing a pretty poor job of getting the most out of those resources. No, we're not world beaters, but neither should we be failing to beat Luxembourg, Azerbaijan and Qatar.

From reading the discussion on this forum, which I would say is, on balance, one of the more patient with/loyal to Kenny, it seems like that patience has finally run out for most, if not almost all.

I agree, silly arguments that I initially believed were designed to obfuscate the one thing we can actually do something about, Stephen Kenny. Though I must admit reading some of the posters alternative opinions elsewhere on these forums I'm starting to doubt they are that calculated.

Anyway we cannot whip out a 1-11 of world class players anytime soon but even taking into account what we have, Kenny has greatly underachieved. He has been a terrible appointment and has 2 wins against minnows in 10 qualification games (the ones that matter). He has lost 5 of those games. He seems oblivious to his own limitations to a point where I would question his faculties. He shows up in press conferences before every Nations League and Qualification campaign kicks off with so much enthusiasm and belief that he can compete with the other teams in the group that he seems to totally discount everything that occurred before in his tenure. He then looks shocked and lost for words when we inevitably fail to turn up and get comfortably beaten, again something that happens almost every time.

At some point you would hope he might learn from what's happened in the past and shape his expectations around that, but it hasn't occurred yet. A sign of a lesser mind or a mental disorder in my experience, take your pick.