| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna 09:27 - Dec 16 with 3611 views | SitfcB |
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| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna on 07:15 - Dec 18 with 288 views | mrfixit426 |
| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna on 22:30 - Dec 17 by bazza |
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Jack Taylor was a League One player, but not our League One player. I'd agree that he should also be included. |  | | |
| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna on 11:51 - Dec 18 with 214 views | AVJones |
| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna on 20:52 - Dec 17 by jasondozzell |
Alternatively in 2025:
KM led a team through the remainder of a PL season, the club having been losing to sides like Northampton less 4 years before. Did it with many of the original L1 side.
Drew away at Villa (with 10 men), Chelsea and Everton with good performances to add to excellent showings against Liverpool, United, Fulham, Villa and Chelsea at home and a win at Spurs in late 2024.
Coached and developed Delap and Hutch into players that became transfer targets across Europe and sold for large fees.
Kept a squad facing relegation fighting until the very end and dealt with all with dignity.
Had to deal with a difficult summer with significantly more turnover than expected. Integrated a large number of new players into his style and kept a talented squad happy with rotation.
Beat the scum in style for the first time in 16 years.
Saw his input into new training ground beginning to take shape.
Didn't panic and has us in a solid position going into 2026. [Post edited 17 Dec 2025 20:56]
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I enjoy your posts, and always smile at your positivity. It’s a good approach to have!
However, this post stretches things a bit …!
We were all there, and the performances from January onwards were tough to watch. The balloon was slowly deflating, the poor results became inevitable. KM didn’t seem to have any answers . And just because we were no longer watching Northampton away doesn’t change that.
And, as manager, KM bears some responsibility for the summer turnover. Whatever the vision he was selling, some of the players that left didn’t buy into it.
And therefore the turnover should’ve been expected, and managed better.
And your view that he has kept a talented squad happy with rotation. Well, we just don’t know that do we! There might be some very frustrated squad members - who knows?
And as for not panicking, well a number of the players we recruited at the end of the window could easily be put in the “panic buy” category. I guess that’s a matter of opinion.
So I can’t really take your alternative view on 2025. Whilst ‘22, ‘23, ‘24 were all pretty much amazing, this year just hasn’t been.
Which doesn’t mean there haven’t been some positive things, or that he might not have set things up really well for a fantastic promotion push over the next five months. I’m hopeful that 2026 is another great year. |  | | |
| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna on 14:03 - Dec 18 with 175 views | jasondozzell |
| Happy four years of Kieran McKenna on 11:51 - Dec 18 by AVJones |
I enjoy your posts, and always smile at your positivity. It’s a good approach to have!
However, this post stretches things a bit …!
We were all there, and the performances from January onwards were tough to watch. The balloon was slowly deflating, the poor results became inevitable. KM didn’t seem to have any answers . And just because we were no longer watching Northampton away doesn’t change that.
And, as manager, KM bears some responsibility for the summer turnover. Whatever the vision he was selling, some of the players that left didn’t buy into it.
And therefore the turnover should’ve been expected, and managed better.
And your view that he has kept a talented squad happy with rotation. Well, we just don’t know that do we! There might be some very frustrated squad members - who knows?
And as for not panicking, well a number of the players we recruited at the end of the window could easily be put in the “panic buy” category. I guess that’s a matter of opinion.
So I can’t really take your alternative view on 2025. Whilst ‘22, ‘23, ‘24 were all pretty much amazing, this year just hasn’t been.
Which doesn’t mean there haven’t been some positive things, or that he might not have set things up really well for a fantastic promotion push over the next five months. I’m hopeful that 2026 is another great year. |
Thank you for kind comments!
I agree that 2025 was disappointing - of course. We would have loved to have stayed up. As it was, it was 'Be Here Now' after 'Definitely Maybe' and 'What's the Story'. But that album still has some great tunes... Anyway I digress...
If you had told me in 2019 that we would be playing in the Premier league in 2024 I would have thought you were on drugs. There was a tree growing out of Churchman's roof, Marcus Evans business genius had run out of hot chocolate on the concourse and Milts was asking for fivers for the academy leccy bill.
It was hardly a total surprise that a team promoted from Lg1 to The PL in 2 years struggled and that we ran out of gas. No shame in it at all. And we still didn't finish bottom! I thought we did well to have a good go. If Clarke's shot hadn't hit that post at Fulham....
KM did have the answers - Everton away was a great example of us still playing and competing when we could have easily thrown in the towel. I don't think Pep could have kept us up.
Turnover isn't down to KM. He's explained. Those players had good opportunities elsewhere and in the end money and contracts talk. KM isn't in charge of the money contracts side.
He's explained that he wanted to keep players who went understandably because the needed to play or wanted longer secure contracts. He expected to be working with Morsy!
Players like Philogene and Clarke coming off the bench and impacting games doesn't happen if they are sulking or not up for it.
It's been interesting to watch KM build this side. It took him 21/22 to get things going before.
Maybe I'm too positive but I mean this is hardly Simon Clegg painting the turnstiles territory. We've just fought off interest from Benfica for a young European talent!
2025 was another step and I'm sure KM will say he has learned a lot. |  | | |
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