Damien Delaney thinks Stephen Kenny is running out of excuses after Ireland's 2-1 loss to Scotland on Saturday.
After taking the lead at Hampden Park through John Egan, Ireland conceded two second-half goals to leave empty-handed.
It means the Boys in Green must get a result against Armenia on Tuesday to avoid relegation to League C of the UEFA Nations League.
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And Delaney has accused Kenny of cherry-picking statistics to mask a failing operation.
Delaney said on Virgin Media after the defeat to Scotland: "We lost. Dress it up how you want - great performance, wonderful - we lost.
"We're in a wooden spoon match with Armenia at the Aviva on Tuesday in a group of Scotland, Ukraine and Armenia.
"Four points from five games. Five goals scored, five goals lost.
"Stephen can cherry-pick any statistic he wants - three defeats in sixteen, blooded sixteen players, whatever he likes - it's four points from five games.
He added: "At some point we have to draw a line - progress however slow or big - we need to see more."
Former Ireland manager Martin O'Neill stressed the positives from Ireland's recent performances after the defeat to Scotland.
He said: "Overall it's a big improvement. I think they played exceptionally well in Dublin. It was their best performance under Stephen. Absolutely right.
"They followed it up with a really good performance against Ukraine. And tonight, for really good periods of the game, primarily in the first half, I thought they were excellent."
But Delaney thinks results haven't been good enough under Kenny since he took over from Mick McCarthy.
“He’s two years in the job,” he stressed. “When you look at his track record, what is it, lost the play-off; finished second bottom in his first Nations League, only Bulgaria on two points we’d three.
“Out of the [World Cup qualifiers] very, very early – finished third in that group, very nearly fourth but managed to get away with it.
“When you put that all out in front and you look at it, that is not a good record. But then you have the COVID issue. Fair enough, then you give them the rebuild, the blooding new players.
“But how long does this go on for? How long do you keep saying we’re going somewhere, we’re going somewhere. At some point we’re like in quicksand, we’re sinking. We’re going to be in League C, possibly, in the next Nations League campaign.”
Delaney added: “He will be judged on the next Euro campaign. And if we’re out of the Euro campaign, whatever draw it is after two games, and we’re still talking about this, then I think a line needs to be drawn.”
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