Neil Lennon

‘jozo was faultless’ He almost cost two goals from coming way out of position and rashly over committing. It’s worrying if he really believes that.

 

Huge couple of weeks coming up. Has to bring in the right players.

 

NL: “James Forrest won’t be available for tomorrow but we are hoping for the weekend. Kristoffer Ajer and
@mikeyjohnston10
trained today so they’re back in the squad."

NL on Ryan Christie: "Injury wise he’s fine. He’s got a suspension but he’s back training. Hopefully once his suspension lifts he’ll be available to play."


NL on
@KilmarnockFC
: “They are a tough nut to crack. I think Alex will go back to the way they played previously. They had a good win at the weekend and the artificial surface doesn’t allow us to play the football we like, we are aware of that but looking forward to it."

NL: “We’ve got a good strong core group of players that are winners and they won’t want to give anything up, so the second half of the season should be exciting.”


NL on Ismaila Soro: “The paperwork on Sorro is still ongoing. He’s doing his medical at the minute, takes a day or two. Hopefully we can get him over here and get him cracking.”


NL on Hatem Abd Elhamed: “The injury’s not as a bad as we first thought. We don’t know the length of time but not as severe as we first thought.

NL on Brian Rice: “It’s sad but we know he’s strong enough to get through it and all of us here wish him the very best.



NL on Nir Bitton: “He had a scan yesterday so should hopefully be a couple of weeks."

 

Wouldn't even risk puttinj MJ on the bench on that surface. Even taking into account our horrible lack of width atm.

 

Jonny Hayes can play on the wing, Arzani the opposite. We have youngsters in our develepment team who could and SHOULD be used in this time of injuries to wingers (specifically Dembele and Okoflex).

 

People said similar in Lennon's first stint as manager.

He gave rare starts to young players Rogic, Biton & McGeouch in a home cup tie to Morton, only to fall to 1-0 loss and it be used latterly as a stick to beat him with.

If he played Dembele and Okoflex tomorrow night and we dropped points, it would be met with complete hysteria.

Ideally aye we could play them. Unfortunately the league's too tight for any experimental teams. Tried and trusted from here on in.

 

I'm not saying that he should automatically be playing these players, i'm saying that he could stick to the tried and trusted formation with two wider players instead of changing it all up mid season under the guise lf being "short out wide" - add Shved into that equation too.

 

Ideally aye but there's far too much at stake to do that.

If he did and we dropped points because a Dembele or Okoflex fluffed a golden chance to win a game late on then there would be no shortage of fans out with the knives for Lennon.

 

In that case then he'd be a shitebag.

It would also work that way if - say - he plays with this diamond formation two up top and we still get beat, he'd be crucified for not playing with any wingers when we DO have ones available.

 

Aye, obviously if he switched formation and it backfired then he will come under fire; as has already happened this season but the league's far too tight to be nonchalantly throwing in players that haven't even had sub appearances for us.

I think Lennon's pretty fair with youth players, if they're showing him enough in training then they'll get their chance eg. Frimpong.

The next 6 months has huge implications for us not only in the short-term but the medium & long-term. There's no way we should be chucking in youth players unless they are playing to Frimpong levels. We just can't afford to.

 

Think if I see Johnny Hayes srarting I will cry. He is rotten imo. No composure whatsoever.

 

One of the things that * me off in his last tenure and it's starting to happen again. His lack of squad usage at times, when several players like Forrest, Calmac, Eddy and Christie are playing every minute possible is infuriating. Only compounded when you he tells everyone Shved is buzzing in training but doesn't make the squad, not enough time to Griff or Rogic to get them (pre Partick) up to speed quicker.

I feel he would benefit from a more experienced coach in along side him also to help with the tactical side of the game

 

He needs to get a kick up the *, and give his players a kick up the *.

Everybody needs to be on their game. No dropping points at all, those horrible * need put in their place.

 

His use, or lack of use of substitutes is a joke. 2 goals ahead and we lose an extremely important player to injury with minutes left and then 5 minutes into injury time Edouard comes off with a bit of a hobble. So Bayo can get 30 secs of game time.

 

He has zero, absolutely ZERO confidence in most of the bench players. Sure, Frimpong couldn't have been avoided as even though he is one of our best players, he is a young, athletic RB so he does not need to be rotated much but what's up with the first change on 78 minutes???? Don't even get me started with that Bayo change. He doesn't seem to understand that our best players need to be rotated for protection. If a game is done then automatically Edouard and McGregor should come off.

 

His baws are ginger, not crystal. Can't expect him to foresee Frimpong being injured by thuggery.

If he was subbing anyone off then it would be players that have played more games, not a 19 year old with bundles of energy.

Eddie does that hobble thing off all the time when he's not injured. I'm beginning to think it's a pimp walk.

Even at 3-1 the game wasn't sealed. The defence was shaky as * so he's tried to take the pressure off them by keeping Eddie on, that can take the ball in.

 

Please Neil use subs more often and earlier from now on.

 

Quite liked the line-up beforehand and thought we played pretty well under pressure on a terrible pitch that was like an ice rink..

Created a lot of chances and had a good tempo..

Would stick with the 3 at the back for now and keep letting the 2 up top get an understanding as we deffo look more threatening..

Deffo the way forward at Killie, Accies and Livi..

 

It was decent. Maybe heard him wrong before the game but thought Lennon said Simunovic only came in because Rogic didn’t make it. If so, it was a complete formation shift because Rogic was injured.