Whippersnapper, what the SOP's will tell you, is that the SOP's cannot govern every situation and that in some situation captains discetion will be needed as may a departure from prescibed operating procedures in order to continue safely.
Before, this may get out of hand, lets not forget this chain of events is all presumtuous at this stage, there is no eveidence this was the chain of events, even more so, of what time delay may have been between engines 1 and 2 suffering power losses, to back up the "lets just wait a seond and see what happens" after loss of thrust on eng 1 indications. I can tell you first hand, that in Ryanair, airmanship is not prohibited or sidelined.
The training is excellent. and very safety orientated.
You cannot however legislate every senario and todays may have been one such.
Now merely for arguments sake if you had just one engine full of birds, and shove the nose down, stick it on the ground and go off the runway, then questions will be asked as to why? it would be by far the least safest course of action
at few hundred'ish feet AGL you don't have time to discuss all the stages of your descision making model.
engine failure engine 1, big yaw'ing moment, speed decreasing.... thats as much time as its taken you to read that statement, that you would have to control the aircraft and make a descision based on split second info(which you will review again later) go-around, suddenly fire bell engine 2, new underpants, new info, new descision, disconnect.
Its so easy sitting here, there but for the grace of God go I.