Priority: Results or Style?

Give me a Stan Bowles or Tony Currie over a Declan Rice or Jordan Henderson any day..

Kenny has proved to be the wrong man, but he had the right idea.

John Nice wrote: Cabra Hoop wrote: Give me a Stan Bowles or Tony Currie over a Declan Rice or Jordan Henderson any day.. Surely you'd have the Declan Rice with the Tony Currie!

And Peter Withe playing between them....Currie Withe Rice, that old classic combo...

2020 was the end result of 15 years of caring only about results. Pick the same ageing players in every game, play percentage football, and hope it gets you a play off. It leads to one place, a team without identity or emerging talent, setting up increasingly negative and desperate in the hope that they can squeeze out "just one more playoff". A hiding to nowhere, and the last 3 years has shown this is exactly what we deserve, our fans are too thick to allow the team to build towards something more sustainable. Lets just keep sticking with the old guard, lumping the ball up the field, and hope that we can make a play-off once out of every 3 attempts.

Edited by The O'Shea - 15 Sep 2023 at 3:59pm

TooOldForThis wrote: Terzino wrote: Kenny has proved to be the wrong man, but he had the right idea. We didn't lose games under him because we passed the ball too much. Long range strikes and goals directly after half-time cost us. The goals we scored under him were some of the best we have ever produced - from the 40 passes v Qatar to Collins solo effort v the Ukraine. So his style can work, he just never produced it often enough. A better manager with similar ideas should be the priority. 40 passes against a pub team and a one off type goal by a centre back.

Mr. Snrub wrote: TooOldForThis wrote: Terzino wrote: Kenny has proved to be the wrong man, but he had the right idea. We didn't lose games under him because we passed the ball too much. Long range strikes and goals directly after half-time cost us. The goals we scored under him were some of the best we have ever produced - from the 40 passes v Qatar to Collins solo effort v the Ukraine. So his style can work, he just never produced it often enough. A better manager with similar ideas should be the priority. 40 passes against a pub team and a one off type goal by a centre back. What about the 2 goals against Scotland?

Banana_RepublicFC wrote: Shermanator1 wrote: Banana_RepublicFC wrote: Shermanator1 wrote: Banana_RepublicFC wrote: A mixture of the two. I wouldn't want to watch Ireland 1-0 Germany every game. Kenny, currently, has neither. We're easy to play against and we don't score enough goals. Are you for real???  That was a spirited, gritty performance in a critical game against the reigning world cup champions.  The atmosphere was electric, and Shane Long's finish was sublime. I'd watch that match again, and again, and again.  And again. If you want to watch that type of football regularly, I suggest that you seek out a doctor. A sh*thouse win is fine every now and then. It's not sustainable though. If you didn't enjoy what was our greatest victory of the last decade, perhaps you are the one that needs to consult a doctor.   Jack and Mick were both charismatic pragmatists that played a system suited to our team's strengths.  We need to find someone of a similar mindset. I never said I didn't enjoy the win, did I? I said I wouldn't want to watch Ireland play like that every game.  Any football fan who wants to watch their team hang on for dear life for 90+ minutes is not a fan of football.

I asked the same question results or style to SK when he had been appointed on a fan online forum, some may remember.

Stoked Up wrote: Banana_RepublicFC wrote: Shermanator1 wrote: Banana_RepublicFC wrote: Shermanator1 wrote: Banana_RepublicFC wrote: A mixture of the two. I wouldn't want to watch Ireland 1-0 Germany every game. Kenny, currently, has neither. We're easy to play against and we don't score enough goals. Are you for real???  That was a spirited, gritty performance in a critical game against the reigning world cup champions.  The atmosphere was electric, and Shane Long's finish was sublime. I'd watch that match again, and again, and again.  And again. If you want to watch that type of football regularly, I suggest that you seek out a doctor. A sh*thouse win is fine every now and then. It's not sustainable though. If you didn't enjoy what was our greatest victory of the last decade, perhaps you are the one that needs to consult a doctor.   Jack and Mick were both charismatic pragmatists that played a system suited to our team's strengths.  We need to find someone of a similar mindset. I never said I didn't enjoy the win, did I? I said I wouldn't want to watch Ireland play like that every game.  Any football fan who wants to watch their team hang on for dear life for 90+ minutes is not a fan of football. We restricted the world champions to just one goal over two games and took 4 points off them. Give me that every single time over the nonsense we've been fed for the past 4 years.