Neil Lennon

Mate, a few week's tonight Michael Stewart said we'd been working on that formation..

It was almost laughably bad. Probably the worst set-up this season..

Then he also mentioned our pressing which both of us have spoken about before and it's bad as I've evrr seen from any Celtic side. We drop off and then one goes, leaving big gaps to play through...which happens time and time again..

There's no real fluid penetrative football. It's all slow and really predictable..

We look ghe opposite of a team on the ball, how we're set-up and in the battle..

This isn't something that's gonna be fixable by the weekend. It's clearly deeper than that..

I genuinely would love to see what we're doing at Lennoxtown for a week. I suspect it isn't top level stuff just now..

 

We were good. That's insulting my intelligence. Another game, more regression with same old tactics, team and lack of game plan. A big month ahead for him. Lose in the next round, against the hun scum and he's done for. We are woefully inept tactically, positionally and it's showing in some of the players now who seem so uninterested. THIS is no blip. This is a prolonged period now, a rut if u will. He will have to show great strength of character to change the mistakes that he alone is making. I hope he can see past his stubbornness.

I take no pleasure in writing this at all. But Celtic is bigger than Lennon. And he is fast becoming yesterday man with his approach.

 

Yeah. That's fair.

I guess I am talking more with my heart than with my head tonight. I mean, even if he did leave tomorrow morning, who would replace him? The season has just started and the transfer window is nearly shut so not many managers would want to come in at that point in the football calendar.

I just get SO frustrated watching Greg Taylor and watching Scott Brown. And watching the constant chopping and changing of the team/formation. And I've never been a person who derived satisfaction just out of winning. I like to see the team play exciting football at the same time. We've totally lost that at the moment and it worries me.

I honestly think there are a lot of fans who are feeling these things too but are biting their tongue as long as we are winning. If we lose in three weeks time it will all spill out. And if Brown plays 90mins and the team plays anything like tonight, we will lose against Sevco.

Some sign of progress in the next couple of weeks would be reassuring.

 

Aye, agree with pretty much all of what you've said.

I'd love to know what Kennedy and Strachan are bringing to the table tactically, are they pushing back on the manager's ideas? Or are they 2 stookies that are nodding at anything Lennon says.

We are a team that is largely going through the motions just now. Completely reminiscent to 2018/19 but the breakthrough of Christie that season and latterly the loan signings in January, seemed to refocus the players and improve our performances.

We need to go with guys that want to play for us, even if they're inferior.quality.

Paddy still has a lot to learn but give me him bursting a gut for the team and looking desperate to make an impression over a disinterested Eddie any day of the week.

It's been covered in detail by everyone and I say this as one of Brown's most ardent defenders of the last few years but it's simply not possible to think he's bringing more positives than negatives to the table just now. We have Turnbull who was controlling games for Motherwell that can't get a look in, while our midfield looks wide open.

Lennon needs to understand the strength of feeling at the moment from our Champions League exit and largely poor performances. If he doesn't make the difficult decisions that seem patently obvious to laymen to make then he's going to come under a pile of pressure if and when things go wrong.

 

Yep.

They have a system that works for them and know how to get the best out of their squad.

We are the opposite right now. Players underperforming. The team looking disjointed, slow. The lineup changing every single game.

 

Hopefully this is our part of the season where we are having a bit of a blip..

The extra long transfer window isn’t helping.

The positives are we are still unbeaten in the league, only dropping 2pts and one game away from European Group stage football.

 

Your on the edge of your seat watching us against everyone and anyone at the moment..

Riga have a wide-open cut back in the 86th to put them in the lead. Livingston having chances when it goes 3-2. Ross County in the first half. St. Mirren.

Just not good enough.

The question is, when and where is the denouement of this rut we’ve found ourselves in?

 

At some point? It's already cost us CL qualification.

 

I'm getting a bit sick of the camera zooming in to Lenny late on in game's looking for Kennedy to give him answer's on what to do..

This is only a guess but Strachan looks a yes man. Duff was instrumental in the dressing room and for giving tips/working on attacking moves on the training ground. Numerous player's confirmed this.
We've probably/likely downgraded in that department and it's a contributing factor in our garbage attacking play..

Aye we just don't look a team and unit. Our individual quality is getting us out of jail by the game at the minute but unless we drastically improve, that'll only take us so far..

I've been hanging on to the notion that we will click and i still believe we will...but so many turgid, nervy, half arsed performances already....is troubling..

We've seen how the schedule can be taxing in December and we're already looking like a side whove played 60 odd game's..

Bang on about going with (arguably inferior) player's over the big guns if they're no wanting to be here. I think you'd clock the difference in energy and tempo from the off

Barkas

Elhamed
Duffy
Jullien

Frimpong
Turnbull
McGregor
Christie
Connell

Ajeti
Paddy/Mo

Or Mo in the 10 behind and drop a centre mid..

We've seen it when a Welsh, Henderson, Mikey, Connell, Robertson have came in. Even as youth player's just giving everything they have, shows up some senior boy's..

I've only left out the reported want aways and no one can convince me otherwise that Turnbull, Connell etc don't add a freshness, quality and energy to our first team right this second..

Aye i love Broony and always will. I'm just saying what most of us feel and are saying. He'll know his self..

Lenny still striking me as being stubborn rather than no knowing we shouldn't be * about like this it's just a case of, I'm the boss and I'm right..

 

He needs to go, he won't though.

Wise up Lenny. Because our scraping wins against abysmal teams aren't cutting it for me.

 

Guys here's the thing , the burning issue wae broony is ,he is the captain ,the leader ,the player the team look up to its such an important decision to make to take him out the team could be the thing that also derails us ,he is the player the huns would want in their team , we need to get behind him and stop slating him , none of the players are at it atm , this season is so defining for many reasons and also so unnatural ,fans not being at games has to sap energy , we need to stick with them and no let the pressure get to us .

 

Watched his interview and it’s like he has been watching Trump!

Don’t know what game he was watching but his comments are way off.

We look terrible, utter * and stumbling to wins. I feel that some of these wins like tonight have kept him in a job.

I love Lennon, I do but we don’t look like a team that’s been playing together and his formations, starting 11 and subs are absolutely woeful!

Brown is done, and should only be used in certain games! I’m
Sick of reading that players who Lennon always picks must be doing more in training nonsense, they clearly not doing it on the pitch! Play the new lads cause some of his blue eyed boys are not at the races.

 

He needs to be dropped a few games or at least rested.

He has been *, I know others have but his drop in form and legs have been alarming to see.

 

you know whats gonna happen dont you broonies gonna get left out and were gonna lose

and lenny will be vindicated and broony will be giving it see my legs arent gone

theres not room for sickening sentimentality in football

how * bad must that lad connell be who played half a season in the championship at left back which on the strength of got him his move to us if he cant get a sniff when our left backs hve been pish this season or is it a case of not wanting to write off taylor ?

or maybe neil thinks with our possession of the ball we really are playing well

just aint in anyway enjoyable watching celtic at the moment and it looks to be fair that the players arent enjoying it either

lawell you * your not off the hook either if the manager and players need help thats your fricken job, get it sorted

 

Can we stop acting like this is a team of novices that needs Brown to hold their hands through games as an excuse for him still getting played because he’s the managers favourite?

 

He’s the player they’ll be targeting in a few weeks time.

This stuff about the players looking to him is birthday caird pish. I’m sure they all respect him. But they are adults, playing at a fairly high level. They can look after themselves.

He is holding us back right now. And I’d be stunned if the rest of the team aren’t thinking the same thing.

 

He's not proving himself to be the leader or the guy that drives us forward on the park anymore though that's the problem, it might have been true in the past but that's a narrative that we can't keep clinging to when he's just not performing. And as far as the huns go, I don't think they'd fear playing against this Brown at all, when other 'lesser' teams we've come up against so far have breezed past him at times like he's not even there, him being an automatic starter based on previous times he's taken the game to them seems like a disaster waiting to happen on current form.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but the more games we play and him not showing signs of improvement, it's getting to the wishful thinking stage.

 

Hi,

I'm Neil Lennon and I am higher than a giraffes *.

 

If we look at that team last night and they all played in there natural positions we wouldve had 6 Cmids Brown Calmac Christie Ntcham Ajer Bitton thats fkn madness we have a squad that have good players in every position possible but we shoehorn players in every week now . Use our squad Lenny and play them in there positions its not fkn hard

 

I take your point but Ajer and Bitton aren’t centre mids. One hasn’t played there consistently for years, and the other....I’m not sure he ever has for us.