Shut the door on your way out please Stephen September 10, 2012
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After the drubbing in Dalymount, we now lose our unbeaten home record against Bohs in another woeful performance from Stephen Kennys team.
He should have been shown the door in June and he has to be shown it now! (along with some of his signings). Its a costly mistake by the board but if he stays any longer we’ll be relegation fodder next season.
To think of the squad he inherited, one that had won the league twice in a row, had qualified for the Europa League group stages, a club that looked as if they would be the dominant force in domestic soccer for the foreseeable future.
With hopes of the league long gone, tonight we sit 5 points behind Pats and 7 behind Drogheda in the battle for second place.
Next Friday night in the FAI cup,we take on Shelbourne in our old hunting ground of Tolka in what is our probable last route to European Competition for next year.
Its staggering how Kenny has managed to do what he’s done in such a short space of time.
Meanwhile Ian Baraclough at Sligo Rovers has done the reverse. He took over a team shorn of some of its best players a week before the start of the season. Initially we didn’t have enough senior players to fill out the bench, we had Mark Quigley suspended for six games on top of that. Since then he’s lost Danny North, our top scorer and perhaps the best striker in the league through injury and Romuald Boco got transferred when he was having his best season ever.
Yet we’re probably going to win the league and win it playing some very attractive football. Which is a tribute both to the players and to Baraclough who on top of everything else seems a very nice and self-effacing bloke. Almost every player has done a bit better than we had a right to expect.
Its great for Sligo, and indeed the rest of the League that we’ve imploded. You’ve played some lovely ball and as you said losing Danny North was a huge blow . Fair play and enjoy the trophy and the CL next year.
It is though incredible the amount of damage the wrong choice of manager has done to Rovers. Hopefully he’ll be gone before the cup match on Friday.
I actually thought Kenny would be a good choice for you but when it didn’t work out I was amazed he didn’t plunge for several new quality players during the transfer window. When I saw at the start of the season that Sullivan, Stevens and Shepherd hadn’t been replaced by anyone of the same standard I felt a glimmer of hope. Who do you fancy as a replacement? I suppose what the feats of O’Neill, Cook and Baraclough in recent seasons show is that the best bet will probably be someone with experience in the professional game across channel who’s hungry to make a name for themselves.
Before this season I’d have argued that it would be bad for the game if one team were to dominate the league. On mature reflection I can see that what it really needs is for us to win ten titles on the trot.
I’d take anyone other than Kenny at the moment, hopefully they get someone in to steady the ship for the remaining games.
Who? Magilton would be ideal but I suspect he may have been approached and turned us down. Kerr until the end of the season?
We’ll see, nothing on the wires so far today anyhow.
Richie Sadlier’s been vindicated by the way. As he will be about Trap as well unfortunately.
Sad news for you Eamonn
“Shamrock Rovers can confirm that the club has parted company with manager, Stephen Kenny.
Assistant manager, Stephen Glass will take temporary charge of team affairs ahead of Friday night’s FAI Ford Cup quarter-final against Shelbourne.
Shamrock Rovers chairman, Jonathan Roche said: “We have not taken this decision lightly and we are extremely disappointed with the turn of events. However, the club feels that this is the right decision at this time, and attention now turns to Friday night’s FAI Ford Cup game against Shelbourne and identifying the next manager of Shamrock Rovers. We would like to wish take this opportunity to wish Stephen the best for the future.”
Come on lads, reconsider this drastic move. All he needs is a bit more time. One more season at least.
Eamonn, relax – they’ve replaced Kenny, an experienced though underperforming manager with his assistant who, on the basis of Rovers’ season so far, seems to have got his coaching badges from a box of cornflakes. It’s still Sligo’s league to throw away, an unlikely prospect at this stage.
BTW, anyone know where SonOfStan is these days, after a Bohs win in Tallaght, you’d expect him to be making some noise about it?
Since SoS seems to have gone awol, I am now announcing officially that I am a Bohs fan.
For the Rovers Board it appears that it was a case of “We will take anything from anyone but we won’t take that (a home defeat by Bohs)”
Joe, but what about Dynamo Poznan or whoever your team from the summer was, have you forsaken them so soon??
LATC, I’m like a drunken sailor. I’ve a team in every country. In Poland, it’s Lechia Gdansk (and I told you before – we hate those Lech Poznan huns). In Iceland it’s Valur, thanks to the generous chairman who sent my lad a kit. In France, it’s Nantes (I think) after stumbling on a Nantes-Cork City UEFA cup game about 10 years ago there. 3-1 to Nantes though the Cork fans well outsang them. Nantes because of my mild fix on minority languages and the Breton banner at the game which read something like Naonaides Da Viken (Nantes go brách?). In England, Leeds United cos I was 9 in 69 when the best team ever to play football won the League. And in Dublin, Bohs, cos of the year I spent in the Shed in the mid 70s. I spent another year on the terraces at Tolka but Home Farm don’t play senior no more.
He was given time to turn things around and couldn’t. It was almost the mirror image of when a loss to Rovers got Farrelly the chop at Bohs.
Apparently tonight’s Ireland game was just like being in Tallaght this season, everyone kept saying, “what terrible defending from Oman.”
Was thinking that myself watching it, although we wouldn’t put it as politely as that!