Here it is Paul. As usual you rush to thank it, and thank the counter to my response and accuse me of ignoring facts. I may have daft opinions sometimes but I don't take kindly to being told I ignore facts. I'd love to know by what objective measure you can accuse me of ignoring facts.
Last edited by Stuttgart88; 19/11/2020 at 4:28 PM.
Theres more people calling for Kennys head than I would have expected on here. I touched on it in a previous post but I think its worth asking the question.
If Mick McCarthy had been left in charge would the results in the last 8 games been much different?
Right, i didnt realise i was being ambiguous.
On the other bit here -> https://foot.ie/threads/261875-Repub...=1#post2058222
Do we really need to take up the posts with this though, its kinda digressing from the topic at hand, and I am sure others dont want to read it or care for it.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Law of averages, I doubt they'd have been any worse. He might have squeaked through the playoffs. He might have had the gravitas to keep ahold of McGoldrick for these games at least. It wouldn't have taken much more - just a goal here or there. It'd have been worse football, but in the end he'd have been as constrained as Kenny by injuries and covid.
I'm not among those calling for Kenny's head, but I certainly have sympathy with those who do. It's bloody hard to watch a team go 10 hours without scoring and remain even faintly optimistic, whatever the mitigating factors.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I think the results would largely have been the same, we might have beaten Slovakia on penalties instead of losing, we might have lost at home to Wales instead of drawing, but I think we'd have scored at least once.
There's a discussion on the Kenny thread about how the U21s would have done with Kenny still in charge which ties into the same question.
Can we take this off to rubbish and discuss there, and tell me what I have to answer? Where did I say Stutts ignored the facts, did i quote him and say that? And what question did I not answer, that Bulgaria had solely bad luck but we didnt?
I think its a bit silly clogging up this but I am more than happy to answer when I know what I'm being asked to answer.
On another note the search function is terrible on foot, i cant find others posts or mine when trying to recall or reprint what someone or ive written in the past. WOuld be good.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
It has been exceptionally hard to watch but I think it would have been worse under McCarthy. I believe we would have gone away to Slovakia with 11 behind the ball and invited Slovakia onto us for 90 minutes, who knows if we would have even made it to penalties. Then with the other games I firmly believe it would have been similar situation with minimal possession and setting up just to defend in all the games.
Thats why Im willing to give Kenny the benefit of the doubt until he has a full hand to play with. Hes made mistakes for sure but I think he gets credit for continuing to try install a new style of playing even with the majority of his best players missing. I also still think that we cant under estimate the fact that there are no fans to give the players that big push they sometimes need, no matter who has been the Irish manager.
There's also a real possibility that, before fans can return to stadiums, the results will mean the manager has already lost their support. As it is, he's already lost the support that comes with the benefit of the doubt a new manager gets
I don't like Kenny much but I wouldn't be calling for his head. The run of luck makes it very hard to judge. It wasn't a 2nd string he had against Bulgaria, it was the 2nds and 3rds. We didn't even have our main striker who is now a 19 year old warming the bench for Norwich.
I still think he might do what he did at Dundalk and start earning the loyalty and maximizing the potential of these younger lads who he is blooding. We need to get the most of of what we have and he can do that. He may also do what he did at Rovers and buckle under the pressure, especially when the more senior players are around. Either way, it's too early to make that call I think. He got hired based on his achievements with Dundalk but the scenario was very different there to what he stepped into at Rovers. Dundalk were garbage and he managed to earn their loyalty, boost their confidence, find a good system and get the most out of lads like Shields. He took them from being below average LOI players to competing and getting results in the Europa League. I'd still probably prefer if he had stayed with the 21s until that crop was all ready to step up to senior but here we are.
Mick wouldn't have done any better for me though. I think people are quick to forget just how bad we were under him. It was depressing to watch and you were looking at our best 11 more often than not. Talk of fans turning their backs is a bit rich - most of the fairweathers I know had already had their heads turned by the rugby or gaa due to how bad we've been for a long time under multiple managers. Crowds were already ****e. As bad as last night was, at least we showed some positives with Cullen, Knight (2nd half), Byrne, O'Shea and even Curtis all looking useful. And as weak as Kenny can be in the media, at least we haven't had to listen to Mick or Martin or Trap's negativity. Imagine the excuses and moaning if they'd had the squad turnover Kenny's had to deal with. Sure they were prone to knocking our best players and saying we couldn't compete, what would they have said about the rest? Would Trap have even known who to call up? Couple that with the fact we were wasting so much money on these big names while the debts were astounding.
Talk of scouring the world for some young up and comer is a little odd as well - what would you look for? Someone who took a small club to unprecedented heights and ideally knew our young players well?
I have concerns, notably in his formation and fear of using Byrne which go hand in hand. We are built for wing backs. We have 2 of the best from one of the best leagues in the world in the side and Byrne would thrive in that set up as he does at Rovers. Maybe not to start, I'm not saying he would've lit it up against England or will change us completely, but in that system we can at least use him against Bulgaria and switch to someone else if we need to keep it tighter against the better teams. Who that is I don't know as Brady is too lazy to rely on and Hourihane is too cumbersome. Maybe Ronan/Cullen/Knight can play in there.
Putting it to bed now until March. The FAI cup beckons thankfully.
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