STEPHEN Kenny would take a Stone Roses reunion over an Oasis one.
But the St Pat’s supremo knows This is the One where his St Pat’s side must turn things around.
Bohemians released the Oasis collaboration jersey on Tuesday and it has split opinions[/caption]
Kenny’s Saints host Bohemians at Richmond Park tonight with their rivals set to play for the first time in their new kit created in conjunction with Oasis.
Kenny smiled: “Am I an Oasis fan? A few of our family are musicians so I think they’re played in our house a lot. And obviously it’s my era growing up.
“But Stones Roses are better. I’m much more influenced by the Stone Roses than Oasis. But Oasis are good, they’re OK, but I prefer the Stone Roses.”
The former Ireland manager, 53, understands his side need to stop producing the Fool’s Gold of good performances with mixed results.
And he hopes tonight can be the springboard for a Resurrection of their league form.
Kenny’s band of brothers went into the summer break fourth and a point off second but they are now sixth, six points off second, and having played two games more. It leaves their season on a Tightrope.
And it is a case of Ste Bangs the Drums on the need to change that.
Kenny reasoned: “We just had a hugely, hugely disappointing two-week period.
“We ended up taking two points from five games, which was inconceivable at that time. So it’s been a bad two weeks for us, the minimum we probably deserved was eight points.
“It’s one of those intense periods in the season — five games in two weeks, I’ve always looked at those as opportunities.
“But it’s had the opposite effect on us. We’ve found ourselves dropping down the table. We definitely know we could do with three points, for sure.”
And crucial to that is their front men getting back among the goals as the Saints have netted just once in five games.
Defender Seán Hoare added: “When you are not scoring goals it only takes one to beat you. I feel like we do play the most exciting football in the league.
“We play attacking football and at times we’re open defensively but so be it, you want to excite people.
“But before the last four games, we were probably top scorers in the league. You feel like that has to flip around again soon.
“I just feel like it will click for us going forward. Somebody is going to get a high-scoring game off us when it does click for us.”
Kenny added: “We’ve actually scored the same number of goals as Bohemians, scored the same as Shelbourne, one less than Derry . . .
“It’s just this little barren period that cost us, over the course of the season we’ve let in more goals than we would have wanted.
“I understand there has been a formula, low blocks, five-man defences . . . stifle our dribblers. That’s something that we’ve had to adjust to and we haven’t adjusted well enough.
“We’re not making excuses, I’m just explaining that other teams have found ways of stifling us and we have to be more adaptable.”
