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Published 11:28 9 Jun 2022 BST
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Kerr went on to say that every Ireland manager has had ambitions of playing progressive football, but putting such principles into practice is more complicated.
"Every manager who has managed Ireland would have wanted to play an open, expansive game," he said.
"They would want Ireland to be on top, playing on the front foot, dominating possession, playing free-flowing football.
"But most of them have realised that the opposition will want to stop you from playing that way and impose their game on you, and you have to adapt to that.
"You've got to adapt to the quality that they have, or in some cases, if you don't think they have too much quality, you adapt your game to take them on, and try and beat them."
The former Ireland manager believes that Ireland's three central defenders are not comfortable enough in possession to justify playing one at the expense of a third midfielder.
"Our three centre-backs on the ball aren't the most comfortable on the ball, some of them play that way at their clubs, some of them don't," Kerr said.
"But through the middle, we're getting outplayed through the middle of the pitch - there's not enough protection for those three centre backs.
"We need three players in the middle of the pitch in the modern game, we used to get it when we played 4-4-2 where one of the front men dropped back into midfield.
"As the game evolved, we went with three players in the middle, one and two either side or a two and a one just ahead, dropping in. We need to go back to that."
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