As usual with these things, it is presented as some sort of binary solution. Either stick with Steven Kenny, the only man to ever get the Irish playing football, even though he’s managing a team of semi-pro cloggers, or go back to your caveman, Packie-kicking-it-into-the-clouds stuff.
And in terms of people saying that the quality of the players is so low that it’s impossible for him to do anything, I suspect not that many other third seeds will have a keeper who was a PL first choice until last month, two centre halves who’ll be in the PL next season, an experienced PL right back, a midfielder promoted to the PL as one of the best players in the championship and a young striker who’ll probably go for £80m if he has another big season. Every team around our level is fundamentally flawed. Framing our flaws as so fatal as to absolve Kenny of any responsibility for results is far too generous. IF there’s been progress - which I think there has been, for whatever it’s worth - the direction of travel doesn’t exactly make success look inevitable if only we just persever with him.