It's the Stephen Kenny Thread

Mr Brick wrote: Trap junior wrote: All Kenny needs to do is play something that resembles football while mainitaining the standard we are used to i.e battling it out for 2nd, Which would you you prefer: Playing conservative football the manager deems will get a result against superior opposition and gets us to the finals or playing football that resembles your idea of football and finish third?

Kenny deserves his chance. Look at the managers of places like Sweden, Norway and Iceland for example, their coaches would not have had much of a playing career either, it's not that unusual anymore. He has had a phenomenal record in the LoI and has always had his teams over achieving and playing nice football, he has a track record of making players better and has already proven this with the u21s team over the past 12 months. The arrangement with Mick taking the job and then Kenny taking over after was unusual and risky, but it looks like it will be a good idea at the moment as Kenny has won people over with the u21s and has now built a relationship with the very promising group coming through.

Mr Brick wrote: Mr. Snrub wrote: Mr Brick wrote: Trap junior wrote: All Kenny needs to do is play something that resembles football while mainitaining the standard we are used to i.e battling it out for 2nd, Which would you you prefer: Playing conservative football the manager deems will get a result against superior opposition and gets us to the finals or playing football that resembles your idea of football and finish third? Why do we always accept 2nd best, it's such a crippling small country Irish mentality! Roy Keane had the right attitude in 2002. He was there to win the tournament, not just to make up the numbers and we can all admit Ireland should have gone a lot further in that competition. Kenny will implement a new system which, demands us to play football. International football is nowhere near the standard of recent decades and smaller nations have proved they can compete with a competent system or style regardless of the standard of players eg. Iceland, Northern Ireland and more recently Finland punching above their respective weights. Can we for once abolish the myth that "we don't have the players". We have a lot of decent Premier League standard footballers who are more than capable of stringing some passes together with fluidity. I will be the first to admit we have always punched slightly above our weight by remaining competitive since the 1980's but with the current crop of exciting youngsters emerging, it is the right time for Kenny to put his stamp on Irish football. Is that the last time Roy Keane was right about anything? Four years later we would have at least reached the semi-finals, possibly the final, if we had a world-class midfielder giving his all for the green jersey. But, of course, that world-class midfielder was behaving like Roy Keane. Lest we forget.

I honestly don’t think we can conjecture what SK will do. We simply don’t know. His first efforts may be to use the bulk of the current squad, and promote lads like McCarthy, Long and Arter to more prominent positions in the team. He may see that through to the Euros before looking to evolve with the new lads. Alternatively, he may instantly promote youth and try and build from there.

I think what PM said is mainly right about Mick and whom he picked was what was available to him.

Legs have gone 

Plenty of the fans of the Tan League Live and hope he f**ks up and the league of Ireland Loyalists feel he will be our Johan Cruyff. 

I wish him the best. He needs time though it not going to all gel over night

Really hope he's a success...his first game of any description might not be until 2021.