I suppose you're right.
What made me laugh though is the Rovers fans who were talking about euromillions and decade long LoI dominance are now content with league mediocrity and reachieving stability a couple of seasons later...not as funny as the Bohs situation to some, obviously, but funny nonetheless...!
So.......Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
The Rovers board should be patient with a manager and not have a knee jerk reaction if the style of football is better then before and/or shows potential - results don't really matter as long as Europe is a realistic possibility?
Is that a fair summary of what you are saying?
BTW, do you realise that last season under Stephen Kenny Shamrock Rovers had more points after 15 league games then this Croly led bunch have?
To be fair, a lot of that talk was coming from fans of rival teams. I had to selflessly pull a few out of their beer-soaked myopia myself. The Kenny experiment was an expensive and badly-handled mistake but luckily it hasn't damaged the fundamentals of the club too much. If Croly does manage to get it right, Rovers will be hard to catch and there have been a couple of false starts this season that suggest he's a lot closer than it seems.
Yes, if you ignore all the differences they are exactly the same.So.......
The Rovers board should be patient with a manager and not have a knee jerk reaction if the style of football is better then before and/or shows potential - results don't really matter as long as Europe is a realistic possibility?
Is that a fair summary of what you are saying?
BTW, do you realise that last season under Stephen Kenny Shamrock Rovers had more points after 15 league games then this Croly led bunch have?
Look, I appreciate Kenny is a good manager and a good for Dundalk. I always said he'd do well there. He seems to thrive when allowed to assemble a squad of promising young players with little expectation for success. With all due respect, the Rovers job is a completely different box of umbrellas.
It wasn't working under Kenny - the football was a dire regression on the previous manager and he seemed clueless on what type of football he wanted to play. Kenny is a reactive manager who makes his selection based on nullifying the opposition's strengths, which is completely fine and has worked for a great many managers, but at Rovers the expectation is that the team will go out and play its own game regardless of who is put in front of them. Michael O'Neill completely bought into that but Stephen Kenny didn't.
Last edited by Charlie Darwin; 29/05/2013 at 6:18 PM.
Rovers is a big job. No one doubts that.
The Kenny you describe is not the one we have seen this season. Players have a lot of freedom to play and express themselves.
Given the quality of the players he had at Rovers, it is strange that he adopted such a conservative approach.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge as all I've seen of Dundalk this season is at Tallaght, but I'm going very much on what I saw at Derry too. I hear Dundalk dominated at the Showgrounds last night so perhaps he has turned over a new leaf.
I can hear Martin Russell's team talk now. "We're never going to lose 5-0 again"
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