Neil Lennon **The Official Thread**

so i did lol

and yes the older players he has brought in have been *

brown is a dafty = no intelligence so that disqualifies him from the experienced role

sammy is just infuriating! brilliant 1 time out of 10 good 4 times out of 10 and * 5 times out of 10 lol

we need kayal and ledley in the team because although they are both young they have maturity beyond their years and are really important in the team

realisticly we have a brilliant centre midfield 3 of kayal, wanyama and ledly if only we could get them on the field together

 

I genuinely have no idea what any of this means.

 

dont worry about it mate you are not alone if you cant see too banks of 5 hit us all the time, neither can Neil

 

The one thing Lennon hasn't learned is that the 424 doesn't work. Fed up saying it. Away from home in particular but homes games away, playing two wide players and two strikers just won't work. Teams will do what St Johnstone did today. Play a strong, powerful runner like Tade to push the defense about and crowd the midfield so we're unable to pass the ball.

Now, I know Ledley and Kayal are missing which is unfortunate but we should either have a young CM in there or even Paddy McCourt instead of a striker so we can compete in the engine room.

 

Yawn....every post from you is the same boring negative * pal. You're by far the most pessimistic person in this forum. By all means everyone is entitled to their opinion but your opinion makes me want to poke myself in the * eyes!

Im beginning to think you might be a hun in disguise!

BTW im a celtic fan, win lose or draw i'll always get behind my team

 

he may be pessimistic and negative but he is correct, we play into the oppositions hands every time ,without runners like sammy kayal and mccourt that commit players by running at them and breaking this 2 banks of 5 structure ,we become slow and predictable going forward.
i know we have shooders but he has not been playing well,and plays better against teams who want to have a go ,the other option is for us to drop back a bit deeper to give more space for us to attack instead of running up against a brick wall losing possession and being over committed ,leaving them with acres of space to attack.

 

In Lennon's first season some of the play was great, we played at a high tempo and were exciting to watch, seems weve lost a bit of this we definitely struggle to break teams down and we don't seem to have a plan b, ofcourse the injurys dont help, I'm confident though with a settled 11 we'll come good, we've actually played alot better in europe when we have been on the back foot and looking to counter attack.

 

Think some people are forgetting the unbeaten run we went on last season so to say these players don't have consistency is complete bullshit we have gotten off to a bad start in the league but there has only been 2 games we didn't perform well in and that was yesterdays and the Ross county game. I say Ross county because we didn't match the effort they put in but we created loads of chances right now we only have 2 fully fit cm wanyama and twardzik and are missing a 20+ goals a season striker

 

It's actually so annoying, because it very rarely works. We drop most of our points playing this way. Every time I see us line up that way I feel we're going to struggle, and most of the time we do.

 

i think its unfair to say that we havent got consistent performances because of the injury problems that we have atm, particularly considering most of them are more senior players. how many different players have been used in the league this season? guarantee that when we get brown, kayal and ledley back and the team has a chance to settle that the 3 points will be rolling in week on week.

 

when you haven't got anyone in the middle that can release the ball to the attacking players, you are flogging a dead horse. you need skill in there not brawn.

 

You need a bit of both, i'd say the best pairing is ledley and kayal and in tougher games and when were playing away has to be wanyama kayal n ledley- with ledley the furthest forward.

 

This.

Playing a 4-2-4 type setup with Wanyama and Brown as the two, you have zero creativity in midfield.

That's why we can't break down average SPL teams, we need at least one creative player in the centre - and we have sold our best one, Ki. Twardzik could do the job, McCourt could do the job, Kayal at a pinch could do it. Wanyama and Brown, no.

 

Lenny's personal popularity makes him much more criticism immune than is normal for a Celtic manager. My opinion on him is he has a good eye for a player but he is not good tactically and his inexperience shows a lot. He is certainly nowhere near deserving to be mentioned in the same breath as MON or WGS whose first three years were a lot more impressive in a tougher league and in Europe over the piece with wall to wall titles, CL last 16 rubs, a European final etc. He is nowhere near that level yet. He has in the last few months finally done the important things like win the title and got us into the CL but he hasnt clocked up anything great yet and if it is to come, his period of greatness is ahead of him and he will have to do very well over the next 2 or 3 seasons to be in a Celtic great manager category. He has been dealt a * of a hand though with Rangers punted out the league and it should be impossible for him not to win the title for the next 2 or 3 years.

 

The tactical side will come with experience and when you hear Lenny talk about Europe he always says it will help him to develop as a manager so he knows he has work to do to become better and that's all you can ask of him

 

Lennon will move on, and we get all the experiments, what is beating us is when you have no skill in the middle of the park, there isn't a hope in * of you getting in there in the mix, you play 3 numptys that can only barge in but cant set up any attack, all you end up with 3 players that are of no help at all. there is more to football than just being in there to break up play but when you have 3 players doing nothing more than that
you ain't going to get very far up the park there is 4 players meant to go in attack but what we end up with is 2 wide wing players that lob the ball into 2 strikers most times on attack, why cant we have that play from the midfield. There should be nothing stopping them the likes of Wanyama BROWN from coming in from the wing sides, and getting the ball into the box where there should be 4 attackers in there we have also have wingers not in the mix, it is of no use if they are wide, and there is no * from the middle up with the play, why play izzy when on the far side of the park the wingers stay wide and don't get into the box no other team will you see this sort of play wingers staying wide and midfield holding back doing nothing attack mean you attack with great numbers not 2 verses 5 and some times 6 defenders get in there man for man they cant hurt you any more than you them.

 

Butch do you even realize how many first team starters or bench players we have out especially in the middle of the park. People need to stop with these knee * reactions after a couple of bad games and actually try and remember somethings that happened longer than a week ago

 

this is wot happens when the manager is not confident in his defense ,we are reaping wot was sewn with all the changes in defense last season,and now we have destroyers in mid because lenny does not trust the defense,also you are asking for trouble using attacking fullbacks with wingers in the team this is another reason why we load mid with protective players.

 

see as far as i can remember playing the ones with little skill the results have always been the same, its time we put in a whole new midfield in there, ones that have the ability to take even one player on, and move forward, ankle snapper are only ankle snappers. 3 players in the spl ffs breaking up play:smiley-laughing002:, what the *. they don't go forward and they don't go back, nothing.

 

Short memory there butch do you not remember our unbeaten run last season or our performances in Europe