Neil Lennon

Been quite a critic of Lennon on here and think we should have parted company quite a while ago. Genuinely don't think he will be sacked or leave any time soon, so I've been opting to be as positive as possible regarding the 10IAR. However, whatever the outcome of this season, I'm convinced that this should be his final season with us.

On paper, the manky mobs fixtures after Xmas look much worse than ours. If we can get by the next 3 domestic games unscathed and then get a settled team with Ajer&Jullien at the back and Edouard&Griffiths up top, then our league run-in until we next play them in January doesn't look that bad on paper. Granted, we have been rank rotten in most games so nothing is guaranteed here. He'll need to pull a rabbit out the hat against that mob in January - need to probably set up the same way as the last game at Ibrox.

It might be a blessing in disguise having those rearranged games played after Christmas when we will hopefully be in better form, have a settled team and have fans in the building too.

Might be all birthday caird pish but it makes a change from me being quite critical in this thread...maybe making me delirious

 

Completely and wholeheartedly agree with every word here.

 

I hate this argument, if you can call it that.

There's plenty of managers out there who are both attainable, and would be an improvement on Lennon. They don't have to be Scottish or have a previous link to the club.

 

The fact is the story of both Lazio games was that we were being hammered and Forster somehow did miracles.

If he had Bain or Barkas in the goal then we would finish last in that group easily.

 

I won't completely dismiss the Lazio games as a fluke although we did ride our luck at times. People do put too much weight into those results though.

We were playing decent football between September and November last year. We've been nowhere near that standard since. Our play just now is 'gouge your eyes out' kind of stuff.

 

Wont judge him against teams like Ac or Lille pretty much thought we had no chance against them when the draw came out as long as we gave it a go and dont get hammered . Its the way we are playing in the league that has to be judged and that game against them is still * me off .
These players have to take a lot of * aswell dont care what fkd up formation he puts out they have to give us 100% everytime they put that jersey on and no one in that dressing room has done that since the season began .
We have to turn up against Lille and beat Aberdeen and Motherwell for him to stay if not he has to go but these fkn players need to get there fkn fingers out aswell

 

* up

 

OK, so it was a negative result against sheep.
And we have not been playing well this season.
We go to sheep, a tough away fixture, missing several first team regulars, and we score 3 goals, 2 of which were excellent goals.
However, we shoot ourselves in the foot 3 times with clueless defending and at 2-3 up we are unable to game manage.
But its the same old failings-not testing keeper in first half, clueless defending, too many players just taking safe option and playing safe passes, cant take a set piece etc. And Lenny has to ship the blame for most of that.
So, is it Lennys fault that 3 different players take a brain fart with absolutely clueless defending? 100% individual errors, nothing to do with tactics. He had limited options available to him and I was really happy with the team he put out when I saw the team sheet before the game.

 

By all means, fire away. Martinez/Maloney as a side-job to managing Belgium? I wouldn't be 100% against that. Pochettino?

Haven't even heard of many suggestions.

 

Big Mick McCarthy??

 

I'd give it to Jackie Charlton at the minute.

 

More paper for widening cracks.

 

When does it stop being the players’ fault though?

 

it’s not, we got embarrassed and we all know it. Our budget and squad are far superior than their leagues and you know it.

you can try and dress it up but it’s shocking we lost.

 

It’s the manner of these defeats as well particularly Ferencvaros we dominated most of the game but the lack of a striker and the finishing/final ball from those trusted was terrible. Then a defensive error sees us knocked out in a game where from the moment we got to 1-1 we really should have went on to win easy. Similar with Cluj and Copenhagen getting ourselves in to good position, dominating the game and managing to unravel through stupid mistakes. It even happened at the weekend there against Aberdeen.

 

Out of interest who are the plenty of managers you have in mind. For me, all the names mentioned so far are cloud cuckoo land stuff. Martinez, Pochettino and even Howe aren't going to come to Scotland for even the most we could offer them. I think they will see Scottish football as a backwater and would take a lower half EPL or even top half championship team before us. We got MON and BR because they were fans and there was the Irish connection with DD. I'm not saying there isn't anyone just interested to know who you think they are.

 

Maybe Lenny should swap places with Hoopy Hound..

At least Hoopy is animated and, who knows, he might even come up with a gameplan

 

Ding ding ding.

 

pochettino wouldnt touch us , for me he will be next man utd manager , think martinez wants to win sonething or get belhium to a final

Two managers we could get i believe and would be big improvemnt on lennon would be howe and rangnick , both known for attacking football and good man managers