Stephen Kenny post Nations League poll

Depends on where you look. Here and Off the Ball for instance are in favour of him yet if you look at somewhere like The42 most comments are definitely anti Kenny. Personally, I think the next campaign is going to be another one wasted with Kenny in charge.

Comments are not a good gauge of sentiment - angry people looking to vent comment, people with moderate views tend not to bother. Polling is a far better measure, and every poll I've seen shows considerable support for Kenny.

Right so this is my take on Ireland under Kenny more pleasing on the eye but still our main source of goals is a set piece.

Take last night kenny says we played very well in the main bar 5 minutes of madness and mistakes.

The mistakes happened within the context of Kenny’s style of play goal 1 Hourihane and Collins were way out of position but are encouraged to do so and we get punished.

Also goal two Hourihane plays a square pass to no one but they again are encouraged to play out.

We then are dam lucky not to concede a 3rd.

All this happens in 10 minutes against the 92nd ranked team in the world.

What could a top team potentially do to us in this system?

To be fair we got a winner again with its source being a set piece.

Teams must love coming to play us they know we will try and play ball we might hurt them a small bit but ultimately we aren’t good enough to really kill them and we will always make a few mistakes to get a a few decent chances off us.

And when the pressure comes on we invariably crack.

The cynic says We cant afford anyone else at the moment and as We are already committed to him for this long We may aswell see it out for essentailly 12 more months. Another new manager would want to rebuild again. the last time We tried results only contract it was mccarthy and look like how that eneded up.

The non cynic sees the structure between the youths and the seniors and sees an easier game on the eye to watch and sees what maybe has been signs of progress and there fore hopes the results will follow

Either way its a results based game. He has 12 more months.  He has no more off road for escuses at this stage

Claret Murph wrote: So the most important thing is that we won last night , it could have been different but it wasn't .

B6 6HE wrote: Michael O'Neill is available  Surely a better option

Great. Took him 2 years to win a game at international level. That should go down well with the masses here. 

Het-field wrote: Stick, but I acknowledge that the Nations League leaves him with little credit in the bank to leverage if the early games in the Euro qualifiers go south. And sadly, tonight just raises another question about the ability to handle leads, and not drop points to teams that you’d hope to beat, and tonight we’re in pole position to beat fairly handily.  I’m not sure how many positives I’d pick if we were to replicate this tournament in the Euros. It’s nice and all to believe we’re building, but at a certain point that build needs to yield something.

It seems unless Kenny gets the result and performances at the same time the likes of yourself won’t be happy, even though very few previous managers have ever had good results and performances at the same time. 

Scotland away was a good performance and a game that could have went either way.  We lost and for the likes of you that’s all that matters, so why is the same criteria not used for the Armenia game. We won so that’s all that matters? 

Every other manager thought about only the next game.  That was not Kenny’s remit.  Many on here and elsewhere seem to have missed that point.  He was brought in with the remit to change the profile of the squad and bring players through as there was no homegrown players from 22 to 29. Also his remit was to change the style of play to suit the younger coming through.  All of this was with a view that the euros would be when he is judged like all previous managers on results and if we qualify or are close to qualifying.   It’s only now in 2023 will Kenny be judged by the same parameters as previous managers having put in 2 years work for the long term health if the game in Ireland.  He has done that rebuild while we didn’t get relegated from Nations league and finished 3rd in World Cup qualifying.  Results have been inconsistent, performances less so but still patchy.