The Unpopular Opinion Thread

Lewis Capaldi is genuinely unpleasant to listen to. I'm not saying this as a headbanger who exclusively listens to Slipknot and Korn either. Take 90s pop artists. Take That crafted good songs. Back for Good has a genuinely good lyrical turn of phrase, melody and craftsmanship; Robbie Williams and especially Gary Barlow were respected as song writers on merit. Same to a lesser, albeit briefer, extent with the Mortimer fella from East 17. Stay Another Day is a work of art and works on several levels; I doubt most would even know it was about the suicide of his older brother. Backstreet Boys. Good, melodic songs. Well performed. Not my thing but you'd catch yourself singing along to it.

I know it's not nice to kick someone when they're down but here goes. 

Edited by irishmufc - 13 Mar 2024 at 9:07pm

irishmufc wrote: I know it's not nice to kick someone when they're down but here goes.  Stephen Kenny is an utterly shameless individual who engaged in non-stop spin (crowd attendence/debutants) to excuse atrocious results over his tenure.  If the FAI were insane enough to extend his contract, he still would have wanted to stay on  (as he shamelessly said after the NZ friendly) when every other previous Irish manager either knew when the writing was on the wall or just accepted it when they got the bullet.  And most of them had a lot better competitive game records than Kenny's inexcusable one.

Baldrick wrote: irishmufc wrote: I know it's not nice to kick someone when they're down but here goes.  Stephen Kenny is an utterly shameless individual who engaged in non-stop spin (crowd attendence/debutants) to excuse atrocious results over his tenure.  If the FAI were insane enough to extend his contract, he still would have wanted to stay on  (as he shamelessly said after the NZ friendly) when every other previous Irish manager either knew when the writing was on the wall or just accepted it when they got the bullet.  And most of them had a lot better competitive game records than Kenny's inexcusable one.  Jesus muff that’s not like you.  You are better than that.  Stephen is a classy guy who was just found out at the higher level.  No shame in that.  Time to move on. Hope he gets the Bohs job.

The Huntacha wrote: Muff bumped into Kerr at Richmond and Kerr took his log-in details.

Edited by horsebox - 14 Mar 2024 at 8:50am

Managers very rarely walk of their own free will. The only time I can really remember is Kevin Keegan with England when he freely admitted he didn't know how to turn things round. I'm sure there are other examples but that's the one that springs to mind.

irishmufc wrote: I know it's not nice to kick someone when they're down but here goes.  Stephen Kenny is an utterly shameless individual who engaged in non-stop spin (crowd attendence/debutants) to excuse atrocious results over his tenure.  If the FAI were insane enough to extend his contract, he still would have wanted to stay on  (as he shamelessly said after the NZ friendly) when every other previous Irish manager either knew when the writing was on the wall or just accepted it when they got the bullet.  And most of them had a lot better competitive game records than Kenny's inexcusable one.

Doesn't every manager do that? Have you ever see a manager say "yeah I should be fired"?

horsebox wrote: Baldrick wrote: Also Kenny doesn’t have f&€k off money so he has to think of his family.   His wife had a bad accident too in the last year so who knows what financial pressures there are.   The guy is a millionaire. His wife's accident is irrelevant - she had a crash and came out of it unscathed (physically). I am sure she was fully insured too.

Edited by Baldrick - 14 Mar 2024 at 10:07am

Baldrick wrote: horsebox wrote: Baldrick wrote: Also Kenny doesn’t have f&€k off money so he has to think of his family.   His wife had a bad accident too in the last year so who knows what financial pressures there are.   The guy is a millionaire. His wife's accident is irrelevant - she had a crash and came out of it unscathed (physically). I am sure she was fully insured too. Why should he resign and give up that money. Also if you are a millionaire and you are not earning for 20 years that money will soon go away.   We also don’t know if his wife experienced any loss of earnings from the crash etc.  the impacts of a serious crash go behind the physical.    Did you defend Robbie staying on doing nothing for the FAI and getting half of what Kenny was getting for actually doing his job.  Robbie is a multi multi millionaire who could never work again and he would be fine Kenny does not have that luxury.   Why should Kenny be forced to resign.   Where is the empathy gone in modern day society.  It’s all very harsh and vitriolic rhetoric.  The man was doing his job and was let go when his contract was up as he didn’t deserve a new contract. Why can’t it just be left as that.