With hindsight was sacking Kenny a mistake?

We've seen over the past few months how the job is far less desirable to the market than many thought.

Kenny was a beaten docket and has shown nothing across his career that would make you think that he would be capable of turning things around.

Nah. His time was up.

Edited by Godzilla - 19 Apr 2024 at 2:28pm

Inkennywetrust wrote: We've seen over the past few months how the job is far less desirable to the market than many thought. Between the state of the squad, the expected ~700k budget, a demanding fanbase expecting results and the instability within the FAI the position has been difficult to fill with prospect after prospect ruling themselves out.  We now face into the Nations League with uncertainty over whether we'll even have a manager in place and in a best case scenario we'll have a manager with very limited preparation time.  Knowing all that, would another campaign with Stephen Kenny have been the worst thing? He still had the respect of the players and we were competitive in every game. Can we realistically improve on him with a limited budget given how undesirable the position is these days?

Was it not that they didn't renew his contract rather than sack him.......

Inkennywetrust wrote: Maccatacca wrote: Kenny was a beaten docket and has shown nothing across his career that would make you think that he would be capable of turning things around. I am saying this as someone who was pro-Kenny. But seemingly nobody of any great regard believes they can turn things around or the position would be filled by now.  It's a reputational hit job that's only desirable by those with zero experience and therefore nothing to lose or mercenaries who'll be the fall guy for the right price.  Maybe avoiding relegation in the Nations League and being competitive through Euro qualifying while avoiding hammerings against some of the best teams in the world is the ceiling for Ireland at the moment.  We could definitely go lower than the level Kenny had us at.

Claret Murph wrote: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO   The problem was JD giving it to Kenny on the cheap , like it has been said a thousand times he was so much out of his depth , and has taken us to where we are now .

Yet was well over paid too. Should have been offered only half what he got. The €205K he got a year as U21s manager was more than double his Dundalk wage which was less than €100K a year but did a percentage of prize money.

ButtySugrue wrote:

Losing 6 games in the one qualification tournament is the end for any manager. Kerr lost two over 1/2 tournaments, while Staunton lost 3 over one. We had become easy to beat and were still scoring from dead balls and headers. After we lost to Armenia this was only going one way.