STEPHEN KENNY was last night mulling over the offer to manage Shamrock Rovers, though the club remain confident of getting their man.

SITTING in the Maldron Hotel, scene of the launch of the 2009 League of Ireland season and just the length of a kick-out from Shamrock Rovers’ new ground in Tallaght, Derry City supremo Stephen Kenny felt simultaneously at home and something of a stranger in a strange land.