Neil Lennon

From Alison Conroy’s twitter:

“Strong stuff from Neil Lennon today on criticism of him, Shane Duffy, the team at a whole.

“There’s no justification at the moment for me to be sacked, none whatsoever”. “

 

Not surprised by Lennon's comments at all. Digging his heels in.

CL exit, his outburst after CL exit, pish poor performances all season, comfortably beat from the Huns, dropped points in two of toughest games outwith the derby (Sheep and Killie away).

 

Anyone listen to Sportsound yesterday? Tom English brushing off the situation by referring to Celtic fans calling for Lenny’s dismissal as “drunk on success”. Spot on Thomas, and we this inebriating success to continue this season of all seasons, which is why Lenny must go.

 

It was tongue-in-cheek ya walloper! The point I was alluding to was that this is not the season to be chasing up-and-coming managers. We need a proven steady-hand to get us over the line.

We can look for the next hot young (managerial) thing some other time!

 

We could lose Thurs and Sun and he still won't be sacked.

 

See above...

 

Hopefully this brings the fire back in Lenny.

 

I agree there will be managers like that around but there's always a risk taking a young manager who's never worked outside his own country as we found with Deila. There's no guarantee they'll be any better than a Jack Ross type who could turn out to be a great manager (or not). Why is a young promising foreign manager any more likely to be a success than a promising young Scottish one.

 

“One bad week”.

He’s utterly delusional, at this point.

 

He's made excuses and tried to hide from the fans for months now as well. He's deluded to think this is all from the Hun game.
He came out raging after the champions League exit, he knows down well it's been building since then.

He can't talk about disrespect to him and his team, but his team and him are disrespecting the fans at this point.

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After initially saying I think he should go after Sunday, I know have a gut feeling that he will turn it around and go on to lift the ten.

I have little to back that up since we all know the start to the season hasn't been as good enough but he will turn this around.

:lenny1:

 

He talks absolute nonsense 'one bad week' who is he trying to convince ?

 

It it were genuinely one bad week I would be in agreement, but unfortunately that's horseshit.

 

Why does someone’s nationality matter? Why is it only Scottish or Irish coaches that get constant excuses made for them but for foreign managers everything is a risk?

If Jack Ross was highly rated and chased by clubs of a similar level to us with similar ambitions then of course it’d be a smart appointment.

Appointing someone simply because they’re Scottish or their experience is idiotic in 2020. It’s archaic.

We should have a team in the background looking for the next Nagelsmann, Rose etc.

I’d far rather take a risk on someone who has the potential to be world class and hasn’t ever been a head coach than someone we know isn’t good enough and never will be.

That’s not even taking into account the dozens and dozens of managers out there who have experience and are better managers than Lennon.

 

Might be for a lot of fans but probably not for the board.

 

That's what I'm saying. I think there are some who seem to think being foreign automatically makes them better. I'm saying it doesn't but doesn't automatically make them worse either. How can you tell if someone has the potential to be a world class coach if they've never been a coach - by that way of thinking just give it to Kennedy - maybe he'll be a world class coach if let off the leash.

 

It’s not. It’s because coaching in Scotland is prehistoric.

There will always be an outlier, like Shaun Maloney, who done wonders with our youth team and was then poached by the best national team in the world.

If Kennedy had potential to be a world class coach he wouldn’t be hanging around here waiting for Lawwell to hand him the top job.

 

Aye, just been one bad week. * sake Neil.