Stephen Kenny

Just the lack of 4G pitches is...

in a proper ground which you would want so if we are you can understand every club finds it difficult throughout the country so that's only normal it makes sense that you want to

skillful players to get a chance to express themselves on good pitches, on pitches that are dry and right throughout the year you get a chance to do that and for players to improve and train in a good environment where the weather is okay and the pitches aren't marshes you know and I think that's certainly

that's ideally what you would want.

Yeah, I think, you know, from my point of view, I come in, I'm a year and a half, come in a year and a half into the job,

When I came in first, we were in a couple of weeks, we were 12th and bottom and we went on that run where we got to the play-off stage of the Europa League and we got through to the fourth round and we won nine games in a row and nearly qualified for Europe.

So since I've been in a year and a half, we've played 12 European games.

Because of that, last year people said we're title favourites now and I think that flattered us.

I don't know.

Obviously, I was coming back into the league and I'd won four doubles in a row or in five years going into the...

Ireland job and then coming out and it had gone well so maybe people felt the team and someone with experience of it it's a good blend but I think it flattered us really because we weren't technically we were a high standard but physically and athletically I think it's fair to say that we weren't at the level required and you know that was proven I think it's

it's been it's a great club obviously when I was appointed I was the fifth manager in five years you know at the club so it needs a bit of stability and it needs a return to

Honesty really is important, quality and integrative effort, determination, all of these values need to be synonymous with the team which was seen as more of a technical team who would struggle to cope physically with the demands of either more difficult away venues or teams that would physically impose a style on us.

Yeah, we did.

I think while the previous year was really an overachievement qualifying for Europe, in that last year it was the expectation that we should qualify for Europe.

So when we didn't qualify, we only had ourselves to blame and we were disappointed with that.

Yeah, Mason's breath of fresh air.

I think, obviously, he did put him in.

He's a 16-year-old leading the line against Istanbul, Baskershire in the play-off and really doing brilliantly against them home and away.

I've not come across that before, a 16-year-old doing that.