FAI...June 2024 Friendlies v Hungary and Portugal

[BennyCake]

Don't really follow LOI, so don't know a big pile about Kenny or his achievements. But I have a horrible feeling his appointment will be another nightmare similar to Steve Staunton.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Except that Kenny has 1000x more managerial experience than Staunton ever did.

[seafoid]

Don't really follow LOI, so don't know a big pile about Kenny or his achievements. But I have a horrible feeling his appointment will be another nightmare similar to Steve Staunton.

There are good young players coming through so fingers crossed

[laoislad]

MCCarthy is gone.

Stephen Kenny takes over.

https://twitter.com/FAIreland/status/1246461746371538944

The correct decision?

I think it is very unfair on McCarthy.

[An Watcher]

Stephen Kenny's teams punched above their weight everywhere he went. Hopefully he can continue this trend with Ireland. Looking forward to seeing how many young bucks he'll introduce.
Fair play to mick, did a decent job but in the circumstances, God knows when the play offs will be played. I think it is the right decision

[Aaron Boone]

Took Dunfermline to a Scottish Cup final. Remembered fondly in East End Park.

[An Watcher]

Nothing but good words about him both on and off the pitch with derry city. Dundalk had some unbelievable European results with him. Just hope it works out better than Brian Kerr, the last real LoI manager.

[Itchy]

Nothing but good words about him both on and off the pitch with derry city. Dundalk had some unbelievable European results with him. Just hope it works out better than Brian Kerr, the last real LoI manager.

Thing is Kerr did ok with what he had.

[laoislad]

Stephen Kenny's teams punched above their weight everywhere he went. Hopefully he can continue this trend with Ireland. Looking forward to seeing how many young bucks he'll introduce.
Fair play to mick, did a decent job but in the circumstances, God knows when the play offs will be played. I think it is the right decision

Should have been let finish what he started imo.
Saying that I'm looking forward to Kenny taking over, has some good younglads coming through.

[Main Street]

Nothing but good words about him both on and off the pitch with derry city. Dundalk had some unbelievable European results with him. Just hope it works out better than Brian Kerr, the last real LoI manager.

Thing is Kerr did ok with what he had.

If Henry hadn't scored that fluke effort at Lansdowne rd there could easily have been 4 teams level on points in that 2006 WC qual group and the top 4 teams would have drawn all 8 games played against each other. Kerr came very close but it did feel deflated after failing to beat the Swiss at home in the last game.
I'd regard Kenny as a better coach and communicator than Kerr, he'll have no problem stepping up to this level, just the format of the competition and expectations, mean each game is do or die. Hopefully he'll have a few games before the play offs. I'm glad he's in, he's young (in relative terms), he's extremely ambitious to succeed and will put in the hours.

Mick got paid 440,000 for each of the 8 qualifier game he was in charge of, a total of Eur 3.6m  paid so far, no wonder he was grinning  madly as he exited with a large suitcase full of dosh. Yes I feel for his pain    oh how we treated him cruelly for those 2 wins against Gibraltar and the home win v Georgia.

[Baile Brigín 2]

MCCarthy is gone.

Stephen Kenny takes over.

https://twitter.com/FAIreland/status/1246461746371538944

The correct decision?

I think it is very unfair on McCarthy.

Not really. There wont even be a training session dor the duration of his contract and nation league and WCQ games will be before the playoffs. That and it was a fairly meh campaign.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Stephen Kenny's teams punched above their weight everywhere he went.

I think thats green tinted glasses. For every successful job he did like Dundalk and Dery there are terrible ones like Shamrock Rovers and Bohs.

I think he is an underdog manager. Can step into a smaller or struggling club and bounce it. But when he has gone into jobs with expectations there have been problems, especially with established players. He is a great manager, but are his skills transferable to international soccer,

[Ed Ricketts]

Stephen Kenny's teams punched above their weight everywhere he went.

I think thats green tinted glasses. For every successful job he did like Dundalk and Dery there are terrible ones like Shamrock Rovers and Bohs.

I think he is an underdog manager. Can step into a smaller or struggling club and bounce it. But when he has gone into jobs with expectations there have been problems, especially with established players. He is a great manager, but are his skills transferable to international soccer,

I think that is a bit unfair. The Bohs gig was 20 years ago ffs. When he was a 30 year old novice.

The comment about struggling with expectations is a bit wide of the mark too. He won the double with Dundalk in 2014. Then, on the back of the increased expectations that such a success brings, continued to win things flat out right through to a second double four years later in 2018.

His short spell with the U21s was also very good, coming away with a better record than pretty much any of his predecessors. That augurs very well for his shot with the senior team.

I'm excited to see what he can do. His teams usually play an attractive style of football, with will hopefully be something of an antidote to the growing apathy around the national team. And he'll hopefully be in a position to benefit from the emergence of a handful of very promising young players.

[macdanger2]

Stephen Kenny's teams punched above their weight everywhere he went. Hopefully he can continue this trend with Ireland. Looking forward to seeing how many young bucks he'll introduce.
Fair play to mick, did a decent job but in the circumstances, God knows when the play offs will be played. I think it is the right decision

Should have been let finish what he started imo.
Saying that I'm looking forward to Kenny taking over, has some good younglads coming through.

I héard someone making the point that the playoff position was via the nations league so Mick didn't actually get us there

[macdanger2]

Personally I think Kenny will do a very good job