Stephen Kenny

[Stuttgart88]

Anyone see Prime Time? What I am hearing (I didn’t see it) is same as OTB: no players objected. But PT saying one FAI official is the one unhappy with it.

Now, my instinctive reaction is that the new CEO is English.

Maybe he’s already seeking a constructive dismissal exit!

Exit: sorry didn’t see CJ’s post, suggesting it wasn’t an FAI board member.

[Exgrad]

Cromwell would have to get his section ! !

A republican that everyone can get behind!

[Fixer82]

A republican that everyone can get behind!

An anti-monarchist revolutionary. What’s not to like?

[bennocelt]

People saying this is nothing are definitely the same people castigating English born lads opting for England after playing in our system. This nonsense needs to stop. We have a proud history of welcoming dual nationals and have a large Irish dispora in England. We're bigger than this. You can be a proud Englishman and Irishman.

That's silly, its a non story. I have zero problem with what Rice and Grealish did, at the end of the day its their choice and you have to respect them for that. There are bigger things to be worried about than faux outrage over songs.

The bigger issue here is how Kenny thought this would gee up the players. Is this something he has done in the past with Dundalk, a rousing Corrs special before one of the European games?

[seanfhear]

We don’t like Grass’s in Ireland. Was it on the RTE Website where it said that it was a 2 and a half minute video ~ the first two minutes previous Irish Goals against England and then a bit of Motivation Historical Stuff ~ ~ Rte did not explain further but perhaps it was Tiocfaidh Ár Lá ~ that last bit is my own guess ~ just a guess !

[Eminence Grise]

Is this something he has done in the past with Dundalk, a rousing Corrs special before one of the European games?

If it was the video to Runaway he played that would explain a lot.

[seanfhear]

An anti-monarchist revolutionary. What’s not to like?

In fairness he and some more had the balls to kill a King ( who probably deserved it ) when not many would have had the balls to kill a king in those days.

He’ll have to do Cromwell for the next game now !

[BonnieShels]

Anyone see Prime Time? What I am hearing (I didn’t see it) is same as OTB: no players objected. But PT saying one FAI official is the one unhappy with it.

Now, my instinctive reaction is that the new CEO is English.

Maybe he’s already seeking a constructive dismissal exit!

Exit: sorry didn’t see CJ’s post, suggesting it wasn’t an FAI board member.

Being Prime Time, I'll still have to wait for it to be distilled down and remove the Helen Lovejoy, I mean Miriam O'Callaghan stench from it.

We all know it was probably one of our Asthmatic coaches right?

[geysir]

Do you want to try that again?

You mean that missing bit where Mick did a Robert the Bruce impression and finally prevailed after 2 failures to qualify?

Take it easy Bonnie, 5 posts in a row after a hiatus longer than a Trapatoni era hoof ??

[BonnieShels]

If it was the video to Runaway he played that would explain a lot.

The lyrics of that song are really an ode to supporting the Irish team in spite of our better sense:

Say it's true, there's nothing like me and you
Not alone, tell me you feel it too
And I would runaway
I would runaway, yeah
I would runaway
I would runaway with you
'Cause I have fallen in love
With you, no never have
I'm never gonna stop falling in love, with you

[seanfhear]

Sure there are Woke-ers around now that would expect Kenny to play ~ “ God Save the Queen " to the Irish team !

[BonnieShels]

You mean that missing bit where Mick did a Robert the Bruce impression and finally prevailed after 3 failures to qualify?

Take it easy Bonnie, 5 posts in a row after a hiatus longer than a Trapatoni era hoof ??

Not quite. But I guess we could send Weldoninho to Rathlin to make him think about what he's done. It would spare us the anti-Kenny schtick for a bit.

[BonnieShels]

Sure there are Woke-ers around now that would expect Kenny to play ~ “ God Save the Queen " to the Irish team !

The recent and nauseating need to show "how grown up we are" the last few years is well, nauseating.

Much like this post's construction.

[Real ale Madrid]

Stephen Kenny is an innocent maauun.

[Trequartista20]

An appraisal of the Kenny era thus far:

Positives:

We've attempted to keep the ball on the floor and play a bit more football - and, to our credit, our players have shown themselves as being a deal more capable of passing the ball to one another over 5 yards than previous regimes have suggested possible.

Kenny was reluctant to bring him in, but Dara O'Shea has shown himself to be a very useful and capable find, with an ability to play across the backline. A very welcome addition.

Again Kenny's arm had to be forced but, beyond O'Shea, we've brought in a number of very promising looking players such as Knight and Byrne, giving genuine hope for the future.

Negatives:

No wins in 8 matches. No goals in 11 hours. No shots on target in our last match, at home against an extremely poor Bulgaria side.

We look extremely shaky at the back, with our previous defensive solidity now seemingly a thing of the past. Asking players unsuited to playing out from the back such as Randolph and Duffy to do so, even when we're being pressed, seems foolhardy.

Doherty's comments about players 'giving up' are very troubling. Even in our very worst moments under previous managers you'd at least expect our players to give their all.

Kenny's investment in the tried and failed. Players like Horgan, not good enough for the Scottish Premiership let alone the English Championship, is disquieting. He isn't and will never be good enough.

We are too easy to play against. Predictable, passive, ponderous and wholly lacking in aggression and urgency.

We offer no goal threat with seemingly no offensive plan and no attacking conviction whatever. And the statistics obviously bear this out.

Our set-pieces have been poor. No quick throw-in, free-kicks or corners, and no imagination. It seems these haven't been worked on at all - criminal, particularly given our powder-puff attack.

Kenny's apparent personal dislike of certain players like Obafemi and Byrne is hurting us.

The Ill-thought-through 'political' video shown before the pointless England friendly that has seemingly upset and alienated a number of players and members of the coaching staff seems, on the face of it, to be a serious error of judgement.