Neil Lennon

Personally we need to calm a bit. Rangers are now a comparable team apparently yet had 2 shots on goal. 2 went in and that's when we played * yet had identical chances. Just missed the target.

Milan, well rodgers would have us loose 7-1 and we played like us. * defence as usual. No manager is walking after that. Potentially 1 point behind? Were normally more than that until christmas. Even aberdeen was above us before sevco came in and people where saying the same. Aberdeen ffs.

 

Sometimes when top teams are going through a bad spell, results or performance wise, a few changes and 1 good performance (albeit only 2nd half) is all it takes for everything to fall into place and the team to click again. The way we passed and moved and pressed last night when we went 4-3-3 is something i havent seen from our team basically all season. Lenny needs to stick with this formation on Sunday. A good performance and a win vs the sheep and I fully believe our season could finally be up and running. Especially with big players still to come back into the squad.

 

yep 442 or 433 are a good formation for us.HH

 

I’m hoping the 2nd half last night is the start of the road to recovery.

 

I said I wouldnt care if we lossed as long as we showed something. We showed something..sometimes teams are just better. I'm happy enough with that second half.

 

I cant believe people are actually looking at a 20 minutes spell where Milan had their slippers on and cigars out as a good sign for the future.. a period in which they scored when they were bothered...

This wasnt some masterstroke by Lennon.. it was basically chuck some attackers on that ran around frantically for 20 minutes..it wasnt some tactical game plan or plan B. * we dont seem to have a plan A...

The fact he persisted with 3-5-2 after Saturday with the personal we have is unforgivable..

Same with the interview afterwards, it offered me absolutely nothing that he has learned a single * thing... blaming injuries, fitness....etc

Broony is done at this level... Calmac is lost.. Duffy hasnt a clue what hes doing..Welsh feed to the lions, keepers suspect but who can blame him with whats in front of him. Ntcham plays when he feels like it... even Frimpong is backtracking...

I said yesterday I'd give it one more chance with Lennon but I'm done with him...

And * laptops.. give your head a shake lennon

 

Is it Lennons lack of coaching thats letting him down?

Or is it his stubbornness?

The team last night looked a different team when Broonie went off. Now if he insists we need a Broonie type of player, then fine, why isnt he getting replaced like for like with Sorro, who in the little game time we`ve seen of him does the same breaking up the play, but has far more dynanism.

Personally, its time to stop being sentimental (In other words the stubborness) and have 3 dynamic forward thinking midfielders on the pitch at the same time. It could be argued against Milan wasnt the time to start like that. But it needed the change.

Is Lennon the tactical genuis in seeing that and hooked Brown. Im not so sure.

But one things for certain 100%. Ntcham is a completely different player when Broonie isnt on the pitch.

Why? Only the player himself can answer that.

The proof will be his starting lineup for Sunday. If Christie, Rogic, aint starting and Broonie is anywhere to be seen, then Im afraid for me its time up for Lenny.

Its his stubborness thats holding us back.

 

I hoped we had turned a corner after Hibs.

 

Good post mate, and hard to disagree with any of it.

The point about the likes of Soro not getting a chance when those in front of him aren’t delivering the goods is one I’ve been saying for a while and I doubt I’m alone in it. How demoralising must it be for these guys when they can’t get any sort of a sniff despite their positional counterparts continuing to underperform? How will we know if he’s good enough if he doesn’t get a chance? Lennon’s stubbornness is baffling at times.

These kind of situations remind of what Walter Smith said about the Huns’ team when we stopped the ten and how he regrets sticking with the guys who got them there when he knew they should be replaced. I hope we aren’t faced with the same come May.

 

I don’t get why people point to the league table etc.

The level of performance has been abysmal. Absolutely abysmal all season with very few positives. People are now happy with 20 minutes against a team that was already on the flight home - and they still scored when they needed to.

It’s as if some people don’t watch Celtic and just see the full time scores.

We’ve relied on last minute goals and individual brilliance just to scrape European qualification and stay near the top of the league.

The warning signs are there. We’re clearly in decline with no plan to resolve it.

 

Criticism is obviously due, but not for looking at a laptop ffs

You can’t have it both ways really. If you’re saying that Lennon is a managerial dinosaur etc then you can’t have a go at him for presumably using in-game statistics to aid decision making.

Maybe controversial, but I actually don’t think you need to be a good coach to be a good manager, at least not at this level. We should have specialised coached for different positions and it would be a perfectly valid option (even clever) for a manager to recognise where his own weaknesses lie and bring someone in to support them. I’m not really concerned by Lennon’s supposed lack of coaching ability, but the possibility that he’s too stubborn to recognise that and address it does concern me.

 

I’d really like to see Soro get a run in the team, he has looked very good although it’s very limited.
Everyone had better understand Brown is starting on Sunday unless an injury keeps him out. Gordon Strachan said last night, paraphrasing here, you have to get as many people on the park with the correct mental attitude and fight against Aberdeen, as possible at kick off. By this he means players who can fight and battle therefore Brown will play. I think NL will think the same.

 

Second time I've seen a post like this since last night.

Who are these people?

 

I trust Lennon to go on and win the League. Always have. The 2nd half wasn't about Scott Brown leaving the pitch. It was changing the system. We were good when he was on as well.

 

NL: We don't want to drop anymore points or lose any more momentum so we're looking for a positive result and performance."

NL: "We made a good start to the league campaign and we've lost a game. We lost against Livingston last year and our response was great. So we're looking to get on a good winning run again and there's no reason why we can't.


NL: "I need a performance and a win. We're making too much of one result, one performance. We will come back stronger than ever and we're looking forward to the challenge. We're not panicking. We're staying calm and I've got great belief in the players



NL: "The players have won eleven trophies in a row. That's not bad! I think the criticism at times is overbalanced against them. I think people take them for granted. It's my job to protect them."

NL: "Aberdeen are in good form. They've won a lot of games already this season so I'm expecting a really tough game


NL: "There's a long long way to go in the season. A lot to look forward to and we've just had a bit of a downturn in performances, but I understand why

NL (on COVID-19): "It's been a major concern for me with the three players we've had pick it up. You just don't know how people will react to it. It doesn't matter how fit they are it can affect a lot of people in a lot of ways. So far, however, they seem to be OK."

 

I actually can't believe I agreed with a DR piece on Lennon's Milan tactics.

if some Hun * with a typewriter and a rudimentary understanding of tactics can pinpoint how AC duffed the Inter back 3 then why the * did Lennon think it was a good idea? especially after the weekend.

I LOVE Lenny.

but there's something really really wri g with our set up at the minute.

any other season 9 years ago... aye mate, take yer time, let it click.

but for a history making season that could FINISH our "rivals" off once and for all, provide unbridled bragging rights in Scotland, and provide our fans with a decade if glory that will live on forever?


he better wind his * neck in asap.

right * now.

 

Personally 352 isn’t working certainly not against greater teams regardless of that in the two formations he keeps playing two sitting mids effectively wasting McGregor we get attacked and it causes the the defensive line to be at odds with itself players end up not knowing their * from elbow seen it last night between Duffy and McGregor tweak it to a 442 or 4141


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I'm struggling to see what he's seeing regarding this quote : NL: "I need a performance and a win. We're making too much of one result, one performance.

Just the one performance? He's been living on a prayer for a while now. He's got lucky going back to that cup game against that mob and then that mob imploding on several occasions. - I don't see that happening to them this year, they've got their tails up and have confidence knowing they have the beating of us (as * hard as that is to type)

I'm trying to stay positive in this team but looking back to then, and to what I see on the pitch and hear what comes out his mouth now - well, I'm just not.

This is all compounded with the bizarre fact we have clear and obvious talent on the park, we have players that are worth serious money and have performed superbly before, for other clubs and for ours yet all of a sudden we're looking like an under16's team playing friendlies. I'm lost with it all I tell ye!