Neil Lennon

He didn't do either with a makeshift defence and no fit strikers.

 

Definitely will have an impact, it will affect all the sports that rely on huge viewing audiences. People with less spare cash for Sky : kids and Gen XYZ more interested in FIFA 2020 than actually going to games. The smaller leagues ( and lower divisions in FA and SFA ) will be the first to go.

Without crowds EPL, SPL etc and NBA, NFL loses most of its excitement and appeal. For sports lovers, our new normal could be a pretty soul-less one.

 

Definitely capable of setting up a team when underdogs - which his team were in those scenarios.

Based on what we’ve seen since he’s come back he’s very little tactical nous when looking to break down packed defences or making in-game changes to affect a game.

Getting it wide and whipping balls in to the box or passing it to Frimpong and letting him run is the only tactics I’m seeing.

 

The tv money bubble isn’t bursting anytime soon.

If anything it’s only going to keep getting bigger.

 

Spot on , mate.

 

Those managers are in those jobs with world class talent at their disposal because they’ve had a belief in a way of playing, an identity throughout their whole managerial career. Did Klopp have world class talent at Mainz? Or even in his early days at a debt stricken Dortmund? Did Simeone have world beaters at Racing Club or Catania? Or Conte at Bari? No. Those guys built teams and by extension superstars through an ideology, a system. Lennon’s approach has always been, get the quality on the park and let them do their thing, which is fine when it works, but when it starts to unravel, * hits the fan big time. As we are bearing witness to now.

 

Forgive me for not expounding the complete works of Peter Kropotkin in my response to Paul's assertion that 'the modern hipster fan loves a tactic'.

 

Is Mick McCarthy out of work?
One thing he would do is sort out our defense.

 

Lenny should not be taking all of the blame , the defensive coach is mostly to blame and Lenny should sack him ...

well, that would be my solution if we actually had a defensive coach.

 

Aye but he did do it with Miku, Bolingoli and Ambrose.

 

What about our attacking coach ?

 

No having that man. He's played midfielders upfront when there's been multiple strikers available and got us * out up Europe with defenders on the bench. * mend him.

 

cant argue with that point.HH

 

yepHH

 

great shout HH

 

Some of his other most recent European results are absolutely unacceptable. After being embarrassed this season in the champions league qualifying rounds.

 

What has Strachan said that contradicts what I’ve posted?

 

Aye, in terms of TV money, media in UK harp on about hiw obscene it is that UK networks spend on EPL, but i remember reading an article from years ago now that showed there countries out there that pay, not just a little more, but bucke loads more than UK networks do for TV rights so I can only imagine that in theory that's gone up even further since then.

In terms of Brexit, I'd agree it won't impact football at all, at least not your big clubs because money talks and they would be mad to refuse any applicable residency status to a player who going to be kn yhe books of an EPL club earning minimum £40k a week