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If someone else built the team for him and he just had to coach them and motivated him, sure. If he was in charge of transfers as well, definitely not. Made an absolute arse of replacing Stubbs team, a team that was built entirely in the championship on 9k season ticket holders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barman Stanton
:top marksThis place is full of it these days. Practically anyone involved in Scottish football that isn’t at Hibs gets absolutely slated for anything and everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barman Stanton
Definitely not 'woeful' in the first season back. We'd hit a bit of a plateau by the new year but the transfer window signings set us off on a brilliant run.Quote:
Originally Posted by calumhibee1
We also started the second season back up well and were top of the league by October, not forgetting a good (by Scottish club standards) European run.
Remember it well and there were no calls from anyone to have him sacked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since452
There never were. The day he left everyone was in complete shock, no one said they saw it coming.
The general feeling amongst the fans was that the board hadn’t supported him enough in the summer. Even through that run of 14 the fans were generally right behind Lennon and saying it was down to the players.
Horrible period. Lennon calling out Kamberi on a weekly basis almost. Mind boggling team selections week after week. I remember saying at the time we'd end up relegated if something didn't give. It was a sad end to what was a pretty good few years!Quote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
That's quite interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vault Boy
I remember someone at Hibs calling Lennon a 'flip chart manager in a digital era'. Tbf the same person went on to list several qualities Lennon had as well so it wasn't a wholly negative assessment.
I would agree with all that but having said all that Celtc were off their heid to give him the job full time, should have thanked him for the job he came in and did and moved for someone else in the summerQuote:
Originally Posted by Pagan Hibernia
It was never that bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since452
When you say 'I remember saying at the time'......is that like when you remember thinking at the time McNulty had got himself sent off deliberately in the Derby?
mmmm who does he manage now, who pays his wages.
No interest now he has gone from my team.
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So which players are wanting to leave Celtic
That's not my recollection. The feeling I had was that Lennon had lost it bigtime, not just with the horrible run of form but with his body language and general demeanour. His tactics and team selections were getting pelters and I for one was hugely relieved when he went because we were in relegation form.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
It really was that bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by stantonhibby
Ntcham, Ajer, Christie, Griffiths and Edouard were 5 guesses in I think the Record.....so prob none of them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
All about opinions I suppose......I certainly don't recall mind boggling team selections every week.Quote:
Originally Posted by mal
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Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
This isnt true at all. There were many wanting him gone around that time.
https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?...ghlight=Lennon
Theres a thread from full time in his final game we lost away to Motherwell. Plenty people thinking it was time for him to go.
I think your recollecting that period through rose tinted glasses a little. It came as a shock that Lennon was no longer the manager in the way it happened, but my recollection is that with each week more and more people were coming round to the view that it wasn’t just a blip we were on and it was more a case of when, not if, he was going to be sacked. “Selection bingo” was a popular phrase at the time as Lennons lineups and formations became more erratic. 6 or 7 defenders playing away to Killie, the lineup posted a few pages back at home to Livi etc. That’s not to say that the players got off scot free during that period either as they badly underperformed and Lennon was right to call them out. However he wasn’t quite as good at calling out what he was getting wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..
I also don’t remember the support questioning the boards backing, we spent money on Horgan, Mallan, making Kamberi permanent and signed Milligan in the summer window. There was lots of criticism that we had recruited poorly, and worries about the midfield, but that’s not the same as saying the board didn’t back him. Our recruitment was poor for a number of years, particularly the summer windows, so it wasn’t an issue unique to Lennon. However I’d say that he had one exceptional January window and 3 poor windows overall.
I was responding to your recollection of his last season so not just an opportunity to have a dig at Lennon. It’s not really relevant to my reply above but before the wheels fell off he deserves credit for promotion, getting 4th and the fantastic ride there in the second half of the season. As well as improving an already very good midfield unit and players like Boyle etc.
Slivka at right wing back more than once (I think), that Killie game where we got skelped 3-0 and he played about 7 defenders. Lewis Allan getting a run in the side despite being woefully out of his depth. I’m sure there’s more.
I’m not sure Griffiths wants away, but not surprised about the rest of themQuote:
Originally Posted by stantonhibby
Heard Christie’s refusing to sign a contract extension, and fancies a move to the Premier league
All in all, doesn’t sound a happy camp
I detested Lennon as a player, wasn't that keen when he was appointed, accepted him when we had a decent run of results but wasn't that fussed when he departed.
:greengrin
This one was a belter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46325989. An ultra-defensive formation, "we came not to lose", and we got pumped 3-0.Quote:
Originally Posted by stantonhibby
Indeed....sad day when your best hope is another floodlight failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by mal
To be fair that could be after any defeat on this site. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by we are hibs
Was Sparky on bench last night ?
Lennons an ******** and doesn’t give a **** about Hibs. **** him.
Lewis Allen, there’s a name I’d completely forgottenQuote:
Originally Posted by Heisenberg
No.His usual calf injury.Quote:
Originally Posted by eastmainsmsh
Stokes (talking as a Celtic supporter) just on Reporting Scotland, seeming to just shrug off their defeat last night and saying 10IAR is all that matters. Pretty blinkered, parochial viewpoint as surely ECL participation is more financially rewarding than 9.75 IAR.
Is quoting 9.75 not a bit parochial? Only Rangers fans surely believe Celtic didn’t win the league last year?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
An absolute cowardly welt of a man.Quote:
Originally Posted by neil7908
Glad he’s gone.
And who’s fault will it be this time? I hear he is ‘carrying the can’ in a sort of ‘its all the players fault’ way.
Fair point but, that apart you might want to address the more obvious point I’m making.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74