It's the Stephen Kenny Thread

or poor and low level( the newer ones). If, and it’s a long shot, a continuous and consistent style develops from underage right thru to u21 and senior then we might develop past caveman level in 5 years or so.This has been coming down the road from waaay back, develop the league here at home, put resources into youth academies at all clubs ,in partnership with schoolboy clubs, and get lads playing adult pro football here then moving up a level abroad instead of exporting kids to play u23 friendly sh*te with English clubs at 16 or 17.

He literally used a clip of Man City v Real Madrid in the fans Q&A a while back to demonstrate the kind of football he was trying to get the team to play. 

I do not think we have any strengths. Taking an hour to take a throw in..waiting for Coleman to come up and take it every time for no apparent reason. Is that a strength?? 

I think we've generally been pretty strong defensively under Kenny so I think people are oversimplifying it.

He's mixed up our attacking patterns as his regime progresses and we don't look as one-note as we did early on. We've put more crosses in and stopped trying to pass it aimlessly through the middle when it isn't working, forwards look less isolated and drop deep more to better effect.

It's still the lack of an all-rounder in midfield or a #10 along with the lack of experience up front that's inhibiting us.

I think the Slovakia and Serbia performances have given food for thought. We need to play down to weaker opponents levels more, though.

I maintain we could've gotten at least a point against Serbia with Randolph or Kelleher in goal.

Travers and Bazunu are not ready yet and selecting Travers was something I knew was going to backfire when the teams were announced.

There's a lot alright that needs to go for us but I think it's what Kenny needs in terms of his own position. 

If we finish 4th in this group, I think he'll have lost the players confidence and would need to go.