i think kenny should be given time- at least this campaign to build his own team
we have utterly shit footballers, jack byrne aside and he is trying to get us to play ball
nowā¦this may be a fools errand but he should be allowed to try to get a team playing - if it dosent work wellā¦ weāre not going to qualify via hoofball either
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Utter tosh - international football is about results . There is a cadre of trendy Irish soccer journalists who are obsessed with āplaying the right way ā
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Tom Humperies and Eamon Sweeney are the only Irish sport journalists worth reading or in the past at least.
The rest of them are fellas who should be reporting for the dublin gazette
Well one of your own was the greatest Irish player since Paul McGrath, which drives a few lads here demented
Is the Humphries the gga guy ?
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Last game, home to Bulgaria, and they playing shit and not creating anything and Kenny didnāt make a sub until the last 10-15 minutes or so. Gave Byrne three or four minutes at the end then, even though he was fresh having not been used in England or Wales earlier in that meet up. Kenny seems like a right weirdo.
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He is a cunt
Rumour is that he was.locked out of the rovers dreasing room by the players during one game
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āHis own manā , " a thinking man"
Tom?
he wrote on all manner of things , now obviously had a, ahem questionable personal life to say the least . was a fantastic writer
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The Stephen Ireland foundation doing great work i see to the tune of half a million euro 
Tom the horrible cunt was a great writer and did alot of stuff with Keane esp the saipan shite. still its awful shit what he was and did
oh jesus - the bastard should have been strung up
as a journo tho he was superb- after he got banged up you had the " when we were covering the olympics he never came to the bar - was up writing pages on Seoul" - now he may have been up to something else but like sweeney he didnt hang around with the cunts ā¦
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there is much more of that shit in that the brits have covered up, Eg maggie thatcher/jimmy saville
I dunno lads is there much Kenny can do.
When he took over I thought there was the bones of a decent team there. Stevens, Egan, Duffy, Coleman, Doherty, McCarthy, Hendrick, Hourihane, Connolly, Parrott, Obafemi, Robinson
Then a few more like Browne, Brady, Molumphy, OāShea, Idah
But since then Duffys form has fallen off a cliff and he was the rock the team was built on
Stevens and Egan are playing in the worst back 3/5 in the EPL
Coleman was doing okay this season to be fair until he got injured but heās pushing on now and the yard of pace is gone
Doherty is in and out with Spurs and doesnāt seem capable of playing in a back four anyway.
Our best hope here is OāShea I think and going with a 3-5-2 but Duffy looks like heād struggle if there was six at the back at the moment.
Then McCarthy canāt get a game at palace. Hendrick is Hendrick and looks like heāll never kick on at this stage.
Hourihane canāt get a game at Villa and I donāt know where youād put him really because he offers fuck all apart from set pieces, and at that his set pieces for us have been atrocious.
It mystifies me Browne isnāt the first name on the team sheet in midfield. Heās looked the most competent by far.
Worryingly molumby seems to have stalled.
Burnley seem to have kicked all the football out of Brady sadly.
Connolly looks a nice player and heās young so hopefully heāll kick on. But he doesnāt look like heās going to solve our goals problem.
Obafemi is gone off the radar altogether at Southampton.
Parrott looks like heās going the Anthony Stokes career route.
Robinson looks okay at times but he wonāt score you goals either.
Idah canāt get a game in the championship.
In summary shocking at the back, nothing in midfield and no striker.
Kenny has maybe two days with these lads before games. Iām not sure what he could feasibly do.
He could play Browne and a 3-5-2 for a start I guess
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nothing at the moment. at least in 2002 we had a couple of savage players (duff, robbie keane Finnan) and some decant players playing at a decant level in Englandā¦ and dont talk If Roy keane was thereā¦That was the greatest chance of getting to a world cup final with the way the draw was we will never have that chance again. and weve had better teams
Apparently Browne is in very poor club form at the moment 
Bring back big mick
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What the fuck has 2002 to do with anything?
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tom humphries I think