It's the Stephen Kenny Thread

Four-Four-Two wrote: much of kenny's supposed difficulty with speaking to media seems to boil down to his dublin accent and vernacular for many people, im not sure this is a relevant criticism. would a spanish or italian manager for example get this criticism for being from a working class background? they wouldn't, because none of us would even realise that they are, the same way as most non irish would not know the difference between working and middle class irish accents and colloquial speech

He seems to be fine when is in the driver seat talking about the football side of things, how he wants to play, the opposition, etc. 

Apart from the odd “um” and “ah” I really don’t understand the communications concern if it’s based on his interviews. He is much much better at communicating his perspective and thoughts than O’Neill, although O’Neill was perhaps just at the stage in his career where he resented the press. 

DeclanDaly wrote: Apart from the odd “um” and “ah” I really don’t understand the communications concern if it’s based on his interviews. He is much much better at communicating his perspective and thoughts than O’Neill, although O’Neill was perhaps just at the stage in his career where he resented the press.  If there is something absent in his internal communications, that’s a different matter. We don’t have a view on that. I’ve only heard positive noises from the players though

SeanyL wrote: Lets be honest, this is only an issue because of our results in the last eight games. If that form continues I imagine it will become more of an issue in some peoples eyes. Five points from our first three games and it will all be forgotten about.

There are some really odd fish out there

Mr Brick wrote: Anyone with a clue as to Kenny's current thinking? Will he do anything new, different? Seven absolute shockers from eight games (ok against Slovakia) and one goal. We go into the WC qualifiers soon with zero reasons for confidence, even against Luxembourg and Azerbaijan. Yes, our talent pool is shallow and 2020 was a traumatic year, but the Irish team's performances under Kenny have been a national embarrassment.

Mr Brick wrote: Anyone with a clue as to Kenny's current thinking? Will he do anything new, different? Seven absolute shockers from eight games (ok against Slovakia) and one goal. We go into the WC qualifiers soon with zero reasons for confidence, even against Luxembourg and Azerbaijan. Yes, our talent pool is shallow and 2020 was a traumatic year, but the Irish team's performances under Kenny have been a national embarrassment.

I bumped into SK earlier in the local Mace, had a brief chat about the football as we lined up at the deli counter getting our breakfast rolls, took him a little bit of time to make his mind up but in the end he settled with 1 egg 3 rashers 4 sausages and 3 puddings and got 5 hash browns in a bag just in case, surprisingly no red sauce, he did say he monitors the site for new ideas but did point out he thought that the brick had made a spelling error in the first letter of his second name (brick), he did say he will contact the site for further pointers nearer the next game in March though.