Fair play to Richard and Damien for being so consistent throughout kennys term in charge they faced alot of criticism from Irish media for being anti Kenny which I always tought was laughable 👍 side note great to see the dad from American pie for doing this interview 😂

Richard has operated at the top level. He knows what's required. Was always crazy to appoint a league of Ireland manager to manage the national team. It would be like goin from Drogheda to Arsenal

@michaelvdunne

7 ай бұрын

It’s the second time a league of Ireland manager Brian Kerr was the 1st Kenny was the 2nd. What next??????

@peterhillick9223

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelvdunne there was also John Giles (although he had managed in England beforehand) and Eoin Hand.

@Dermo-Dermo

7 ай бұрын

“Do we need to look past League of Ireland managers?“ That’s where we’re at.

@patricksmith9656

7 ай бұрын

As a 65 year son of Irish parents born in Islington London I naturally followed The Arsenal the days of Ireland producing the likes of O’Leary Brady Stapleton have long gone it’s a sign of the times I’m afraid Irish rugby was no where when I watched the 5 nations yrs ago now look at it is it about role models or talented young Irish footballers being overlooked by English clubs in favour of foreign imports

@phlhoran12396

7 ай бұрын

That doesn't mean everything he pointed out was true.

Richard Dunne is a great man and tells the truth he was found out Kenny these two lads know the sport and told the truth Kenny never should have got the job

We could have saved ourselves about 2 years of this by not renewing his contract the last time. He was just way out of his depth. Yeah the players are a poor crop but he couldn’t have done any worse than he did. I wouldn’t have a league of Ireland manager anywhere near the international job unless they had gone on to a much higher level first. I’ve never seen a manager given so much latitude. The football was poor and the results abysmal. There are probably people out there who would sign up to another campaign of this which shows the delusion that had set in.

@1477wales4

7 ай бұрын

He got some decent results beating Scotland 3-0 for one

@jmo8934

7 ай бұрын

@@1477wales4That was literally his only decent result. The rest was disastrous.

@liamwilson2817

7 ай бұрын

@@1477wales4 name another

@gridone769

7 ай бұрын

​@jmo8934 There have been some good performances like against Portugal x2 , France and Netherlands but what let him down was losing to inferior teams that we should have beaten. The players have not have been good enough either. Also players that shouldn't have been playing were playing.

@JohnWick-pm5yq

6 ай бұрын

Kenny took 3 years off my life, a, waste, its the fai suits that should go also

The last bit from Damien is spot on in fairness

As a 65 year old son of Irish parents born in Islington London I support Arsenal and I’m afraid to say the days of finding the likes of O’Leary Brady and Stapleton have long gone it’s a sign of the times I’m afraid. Irish rugby was nowhere in the 5 nations now look at it. The pathway for young Irish lads has disappeared in favour of the next best thing from Brazil Spain Germany even bloody Japan and Korea who are shirt sellers

@ononewheellad

7 ай бұрын

That actually means you’re an English lad since you were born in London.

@davidpryle3935

6 ай бұрын

@@ononewheelladLondon Irish, used to be the term used, I believe. It’s probably best left up to the person themselves, whatever they are comfortable with.

@Micfri300

6 ай бұрын

​@fishermansfriend81 the country you are is what your parents bring you up to be. Muhammad born in Ireland is less Irish than David o leary born in London to Irish parents.

@highbury1972

5 ай бұрын

Arsenal back then had a team of Irish players both North & Republic. The best English PL club for young Irish Players is Brighton. Evan Ferguson, Mark O‘Mahoney and Andrew Moran all in the current squad.

just get this done with. new manager should already have been here and gotten a chance to work with the squad. kenny era has been a failure

Michael O'Neill can beat Denmark two nil with a way weaker team. Because he knows what he's doing.. Kenny has been spoofing for 3 years. While we plummeted to fifty eight in the world😢

We don’t have the players to compete at this point in time, we need a overhaul of the whole setup, grass roots up, need something to rival the GAA

You cannot just put anyone in charge and that’s what Delaney did,he didn’t even learn to manage interviews,they got worse if anything,pure madness.

@allnotone

7 ай бұрын

Ya, but let's not forget it was a sustained campaign by the Irish media who had put Kenny up on a pedestal as the messiah who was going to change everything about how Ireland played football.

@Fionnbarra

7 ай бұрын

@@allnotone I have never understood why they went out on a limb for a guy that had very little experience managing at a professional level,was it all the access he was going to give them?

@bighands69

7 ай бұрын

@@allnotone Kenny is an irish manager from within domestic football. The 40 year approach of foreign based managers and neglect of league football has ireland in its current state. Fans need to stop being delusional with the idea that an elite manager can come in and some how work magic. A different approach is needed and Kenny is that approach.

@phlhoran12396

7 ай бұрын

​@@bighands69Thank you. Per my previous comment. Irish football will never succeed, national or club wise if those things never change.

The National Press rans a campaign to get Kenny in as manager. He was their preferred one; just goes to show how little the journalists know

He could never think outside the box he found it hard to adapt to different situations in games to adapt to playing different teams. The new manager has to have a bit of that unpredictability. Stephen seemed like a good honest man and would never take that away from him but the next one will have to have a mean streak with a personality to keep the players interested.

Kenny was just good guy type of manager. We need someone, who’s worked with elite level management/playing career in the job.

@bighands69

7 ай бұрын

You think the republic of Ireland can attract an elite manager that make them play good football?

Let's also not forget, he's had 3 years. It's not like he was given 12 months and booted out.

@josephkane2312

6 ай бұрын

3 years is not a long time, it can take a hell of a long time to build a team, look how long it took Alex Ferguson before he won anything.

Ireland National Football team shouldn´t be in that situation. I wanted it in the Euro 2024. Better times will come, I´m sure about that. Greetings from Peru

What I'll say in his defense is he took over a total rebuild job. The cupboard was pretty bare talentwise after/during McCarthy's tenure. He did what needed to be done blooding young talent Bazuno, Ogbene, Obefemi, Knight, Collins etc. Hopefully his succesor will reap the rewards. Plus Ferguson's arrival. Yes ultimately results were not good but when people compare him to Trapp or O'Neill remember they had some world class players available, Keane, Duff, Given, Dunne... what Kenny would have given to have had Wes! Ultimately I don't think we had the midfield to control or create. Hopefully Moran, Smallbone grow into players capable of this.

First an foremost as Richard Dunne should of said is we have lack luster players .we are never goin anywhere with what Ireland are producing.not the managers fault.the players need to have a good long look at their performances

It's absolutely fair, he has to go and the teams performances & results are far from being good enough!.....😮 What annoyed me about Richard Dunne's comments about his LOI level management etc, that's very harsh IMO. Like the reasoning for Irish Clubs not being good enough on the European stage runs far deeper than a single manager being out of his depth! It's the systematic failings of the mismanagement of Irish football, corruption and serious lack of funding that has pretty much put paid to that, pun intended.😮 Also of course being Irish makes it mean more by default! Come on Richard.

We’re 20 years of good administration decisions from producing good coaches and players. Can’t leave coach and player development un-nurtured for this long and then blame the coaches and players coming through for not being good enough

@davidpryle3935

7 ай бұрын

Good players are not produced by “administration decisions”. They are produced by nature. Otherwise you are saying that Evan Ferguson had a uniquely good coach, who didn’t coach anybody else, but him. A small country like Ireland, in which football is a minority sport, will always struggle to produce top class international players.

@carrauntoohil86

7 ай бұрын

​@@davidpryle3935all good points apart from it being a minority sport. Sure, it has to compete with rugby and GAA but it is not a minority sport

@davidpryle3935

7 ай бұрын

@@carrauntoohil86 The late (and legendary) Jack Charlton, always maintained that football was the 5th most popular sport in Ireland, behind Gaelic football, Hurling, Rugby, and horse racing. I never disagreed with Jack on anything, accept not having Liam Brady in the squad for Italia 90. The fact of the matter is, if wasn’t for the Herculean efforts of the officials and supporters of clubs like Sligo rovers etc. who against all the odds have kept a professional football club alive in the north west, there wouldn’t be a national football league in Ireland at all. Football is most definitely a minority sport in Ireland. To say otherwise, is to deny reality.

@hc8299

7 ай бұрын

@@davidpryle3935 na that’s not what I was saying. Feurguson has benefitted from being in an English academy. A good player pathway is essentially having good coach development, frame works, athletic development ect that results in players skillset, IQ, physical ability developing from a young age up to senior. The best of that in football is in England. Tons of pro clubs that have sub academy’s and academy’s that communicate with amateur coaches, and bring in young players showing early ability then training them to an almost professional level from a young age. In Ireland the Irish provinces decided 15 years ago to put almost all of their resources in developing their player pathways and coach development. Now Ireland are famous for having arguably the best academy in the world and producing some of the best coaches in the game. Despite being far athletically inferior to teams like New Zealand and South Africa we atleast their equals in our quality of rugby. I played premier football in Ireland in till I quit when I was 16 and I didn’t learn a rap about shapes, attacking patterns, defensive systems ect. Our development stopped at a certain level where other nations it continues

Good riddance. Last 3 years have been embarrassing.

Personally myself I would have appointed Chris Hughton 3 years ago as he done a great job at Brighton gaining promotion also doing the same at Newcastle. Kenny lacked elite level experience and it showed.

Brian kerr and Chris Houghton couldn't do it Stan couldn't do it don't repeat the same mistake again bring in the right man and pay him a percentage of the qualification money then he will do the utmost to qualify

keep him on, let him go, sooner, later, the results would be the exact same.

Yes SK time in charge of Ireland was a failure results wise and as regards making this team a more compact unit by making the total greater than the sum of the parts it was simply a challenge beyond his capability. On the other hand I wouldnt reagard his tenure as a waste of time or a bad experiment for the simple reason that when he came on board the squad was in dire need of an injection of young blood and by God did he provide it, over 20 debuts in a couple of years. Maybe, just maybe from that there could be the neucleus of something an incoming manager could develop on and progress the set up. In fairness to SK he put his neck on the line regarding this as he cared for the long term health of Irish football the way mercenary manager simply wouldn't.

The figures are clear- Kenny failed in Nations League, Euro & World Cup groups, and the team dropped more than 20 places in the FIFA rankings. For all the talk of progressive football the best nights were backs to the wall scraps, with the attacking threat from headers & set pieces. Time for the media fans to have a reality check.

@davidpryle3935

7 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. It’s been a harsh, but very valuable lesson, for those people in Ireland who thought they knew more about football, than Giovanni Trapattoni and Martin O’Neill. A lot of the blame for these delusions, is down to the old RTE panel, particularly Eamon Dunphy. Do you remember their attack on Martin O’Neill and the Irish style of play, after Ireland had just drawn away to world champions, Germany. Madness, they were in situ far too long, and had far too much influence.

Who would put a leader of a ceilidh band to conduct an orchestra? These players are accustomed to the best of what the championship can offer and may see a difference especially from someone who has not a career at a high club level.

Bring David O’Leary in

Any other business and he would have been sacked in his first year

Richard Dunne: as bitter as they come

Who can do it ?

Mabye we need new players as well , we need to go back to encourage young kids to play street football at a young age like years ago and develop there skills .

Look, Ireland just aren't very good at football. End of.

He was way out of his depth, hadn't a clue.

Pathetic manager, I was shocked when this fool was appointed. I wanted us to lose every match, and he obliged most of the time. Well out of his depth.

Honestly, we should just stop trying to compete in soccer. Pack it in. No proper league here. Exported players no longer find a spot in top teams. Coaching here copies the mistakes the English make at youth level. Saddest example of colonisation. We shoukd just di hurling in the summer, and rugby in the winter... the best two sports.

@shane6115

7 ай бұрын

I agree with you totally dude, I was like a bit of gaa football also, up the dubs 😊😊

Without a shadow of doubt Stephen Kenny is the worst managerial appointment in the history of the FAI. Look at some of the teams who made the playoffs? I'm not sure who can fix this. It's very difficult to compete with the GAA and the IRU for the hearts and minds of young Irish talent. However one thing that can be done is for fans of the RoI football team to ditch their blind loyalty to the English premier league or other British teams and get out and support you local LoI team. That is a act that will pay dividends long term.

'Every manager of Ireland has given everything' yeah Trapapaycheque etc 🙄🥱

@user-pd1lt2js6l

7 ай бұрын

Got results end of the day

@jakestone954

7 ай бұрын

He did alright 2 euros

@stuarthanna-ih9lt

7 ай бұрын

Trapatoni did far better, results don't lie.