It's the Stephen Kenny Thread

Our poor ranking in the Nations League means that, if we are lucky enough to scrape into the playoffs, it will be because most of the stronger teams have qualified automatically. If we end up with one of those group phases that contains a few surprises and leaves a few of the better teams missing the automatic spots, it will result in us being bumped out of the playoffs. So, for that reason, we are unlikely to see too many Serbia type teams in the playoffs if we get there. Iceland, Slovenia, Estonia and Austria would be more likely to be the kind of teams we would face, or maybe one slightly better side from League A, like the Czechs or Wales.

You Tell Me wrote: Correct.

Goals scored and conceded by Stephen Kenny's team in competitive games

planning wrote: Fruice wrote: But Kenny’s style of play isn’t working the goals we conceded against Armenia is because of the way Kenny asks the team to play. This was against an Armenian side that hadn’t scored away from home all campaign. Yes it looks nice but we are not good enough at it!! We also scored the most goals against them at home than anyone else in the group. Did you overlook that fact or what? If he had a more reliable keeper in goal, then the chances are we wouldn't have conceded 4 goals last week. He conceded another 2 for his club at the weekend. His lack of ability to keep the ball out of the net is killing Kenny, because if he can't keep clean sheets, we drop points and lose games. Then it's Kenny who bears all the responsibility.

Well I doubt the Ukrainian press and pundits were calling for the Manager's head for only scoring 3 goals against them, as ours were.   Claret Murph wrote: Look we will hammer this lot tonight by at least 3 goals . I do understand playing modern football is now the norm but the name of the game is winning , very simple .  And the name of this game is another win, after scoring 3 goals, that simple. Still wasn't good enough for you.   B6 6HE wrote: Michael O'Neill gets a tune out of this group And decent coach would have us very solid at a minimum.  That goes along way. He got as far as 1 win in 2 years. His other highlights are losing to Luxembourg and 6-0 in Holland. No thanks.   Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote: Been saying this from the start and maintain it; it's embarrassing. And he's building a rod for his own back when we blow a two goal lead in those circumstances. So what, we won. And it still wasn't good enough to satisfy the "it's a results game" crowd. What's embarrassing is that people are embarrassed about celebrating a last minute winner at home. What are we supposed to do? Ring Joe Duffy?  Trap junior wrote: It portays a message that its a miracle we have scored rather than an expected event.  Against Armenia or Some other piss poor team.  Looks amateurish.  Celebrate with a smile and a clap or self controlled foat pump agaimst these poor sides. Dont be running into and hugging everyone on your managemwnt team.  The fans were embarrassing. Singing his name and going crazy when we scored the pen. Small time. I'm sure most neutrals don't care how he celebrates. We shouldn't care either. If you want us to be slumped in our seats when we've scored a last minute winner, then expect to be disappointed.

Good recruiter, poor retainer.

TooOldForThis wrote: Good recruiter, poor retainer.