F#####g hope no!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Results 61 to 90 of 133
Thread: Lennon
-
12-05-2019 11:06 PM #61
-
12-05-2019 11:36 PM #62
- Join Date
- Jan 2008
- Location
- Dunbar
- Posts
- 3,046
We all backed him heavily when he was here - if we are being honest, he brought a lot of baggage with him. Towards the end of his tenure, he completely lost the plot. I’ve heard some horror stories from a couple of first team players and I’m glad we are shot of him. If Celtic take him on full time then they are in deep ****...
-
13-05-2019 06:58 AM #63
He's the Celtic manager and should be treated as such. He showed himself up this season at both hibs and Celtic as being tactically inept and a one dimensional manager in the sense that he can't change his attitude towards players. He also very very rarely took any blame for defeats as he replicated yesterday where he blamed his players rather than actually coming up with a plan to beat rangers high press. A bang average manager made out to be better than he is.
-
13-05-2019 07:03 AM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Heard the same
Well shot of by all accounts
Time to move on
-
13-05-2019 08:35 AM #65
- Join Date
- Mar 2010
- Posts
- 4,092
Watching yesterday's game, he had one tricky winger (Johnston) who you need to play to feet. And he had one pacy forward (Burke) and to get him in the game you need your midfield to play one touch fast passing (to suck the opposition in, lose their shape, and open up the space for the pass in behind and the speedy boy to run onto)...that's if you want to get the best out of them.
Yesterday's Lennon team played the ball to feet to Burke in tight spaces every time (where he lost it - it's not his strength).
And they didn't get the ball to Johnston at all.
The Celtic midfield all wanted 2, 3, 4 touches on the ball - slow as anything.
It was like watching early season Lennon's Hibs - where he couldn't figure out how to play David Gray and Martin Boyle together on one flank, or Lewis & Horgan on the other.
The cup final looks to me like it'll be 1-0 either way and right now I wouldn't be confident Lennon will pick the right team or tactics for it.
-
13-05-2019 09:01 AM #66This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 09:05 AM #67
- Join Date
- Feb 2019
- Posts
- 20,853
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 09:20 AM #68
- Join Date
- May 2011
- Posts
- 359
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It never comes up in any of the will he won't he get the celtic job debates. That are on radio Scotland just how poor he had hibs playing and the mess he left at the end of his tenure or how he has taken Rodgers celtic who were coasting to the title backwards. It is all about how he is getting job done.
-
13-05-2019 09:34 AM #69
- Join Date
- Feb 2019
- Posts
- 20,853
Chris Hughton has just become avaliable. Be a decent shout for the Celtic job.
-
13-05-2019 09:38 AM #70
- Join Date
- Apr 2002
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Age
- 68
- Posts
- 5,841
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 10:05 AM #71This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 11:11 AM #72
- Join Date
- Mar 2016
- Posts
- 5,644
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Folk seem to think Celtic were turning in swashbuckling displays on a weekly basis this season while Rodgers was in charge. That simply wasn't the case, as anyone who saw us turn them over at ER in December will recall. Rodgers also lost the Old Firm game at Ibrox in January.
If he goes on to win the cup final, I find it hard to see how anyone can say Lennon hasn't done a decent job there. And by doing so, he'll enhance an already strong CV. Over the last three years he'll have taken Hibs back to the top flight, steered us to our highest ever league points tally and had us in the running for second place right up until the final week of the season (the way some on here belittle that achievement would have you believe we challenge for second spot on an annual basis!). He's now well on course to ensure Celtic complete the treble treble.
-
13-05-2019 11:23 AM #73This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Some very good points there GBY
Difficult to argue with any of it on paper anyway
In my honest opinion he never recovered from selecting the wrong team and tactics against Hearts and went into total meltdown mode after that despite a creditable performance versus The Rangers in the final game
The acid test will be if he gets offered the Celtic gig which many on here including myself very much doubt
-
13-05-2019 11:29 AM #74
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Posts
- 12,991
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Does that stack up with our European run and very good start in the first quarter of the league ? Doesn’t to me ..
For me it is much more complex than that ..and can’t see the conclusion about the Hearts game stacking up to scrutiny ..
-
13-05-2019 11:40 AM #75This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Perhaps he felt second place was the best he could ever hope to achieve at HIBS and he just fell short
His work here was done
-
13-05-2019 11:44 AM #76
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Posts
- 12,991
Not sure the Tiny thing is real - he clearly felt we couldn’t play our game against them - but lots of managers make that call in such a narrow pitch.
For me the interesting thing about that time was how disappointed and angry he was at not taking the chance to be second. Can’t recall since Turnbull days we had a manager who set that level of goals ...
Fair to say it has been best for both parties to move on
I think he is a decent outside bet for The Scotland Jin btw
-
13-05-2019 11:51 AM #77This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Remember the anger and rightly so!
As soon as I saw the team.....
-
13-05-2019 11:57 AM #78
- Join Date
- Oct 2017
- Posts
- 2,115
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
After the first four games, against Motherwell, St Johnstone, a slow-starting Aberdeen and Livingston, we picked up a pathetic five points.
Our fixtures were then extremely generous after Maclaren dived to win a penalty against Kilmarnock, which we edged out 3-2.
We then had Dundee away, St Mirren away and Accies at home. All three of these teams have been abysmal, and anything less than nine points would've been a disgrace.
After that Accies game, we had played eight games - not a quarter of the league, but we'll disregard that. We had 17 points, so just over two points a game. Which is usually a barometer of good league form.
But when you consider how outrageously fortunate we'd been with the fixture list (not playing any of Celtic, Hearts or Rangers until late October), we had an amazing chance to launch a serious bid for the title that could've at least lasted until January before Celtic bucked their ideas up.
They had an awful start to the season by their standards, winning three, losing two and drawing one of their opening six league games, as well as troubles in Europe.
Hibs, quite honestly, should've been looking to get at least 20 points from the opening 24 that were on offer, and 24 wouldn't have been unrealistic either. Losing at a Livingston who only just had a new manager in the door after the Kenny Miller turmoil, drawing at home to a gutless Aberdeen side and Lennon again proving himself incapable of winning a game in Perth cost us that.
-
13-05-2019 12:06 PM #79
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Location
- kirkcaldy
- Posts
- 11,491
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 12:10 PM #80This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think he knew the team was going to be broken up in a way that was going to be almost impossible to rebuild without a decent bit of time and some finance the like of which we've never seen before at Hibs.
We'd blown the type of chance we weren't going to get again in a hurry.
As for those who claim he didn't care about our club - the man was devastated at that point. Whether it was for purely selfish career reasons or otherwise, he wanted to be a big success at Hibs (and in my opinion he certainly was) and at that moment he knew he'd missed out a massive level of success by only a whisker.
-
13-05-2019 12:24 PM #81This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Heckingbottom won there by doing what we are good at, Lennon tried to go there and do what Hearts are good at.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
https://longbangers.hubwave.net
-
13-05-2019 12:27 PM #82
(Allegedly) Lennon was told before Sunday he wasn't getting the job
(Disclaimer - apols if already posted above. Too lazy to check)
-
13-05-2019 12:33 PM #83
- Join Date
- Mar 2016
- Posts
- 5,644
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
In my view the loss of some really top players and the failure to adequately replace them started to catch up with us, coupled with a shift in Lennon's approach to the job. What lay behind the latter factor we'll probably never fully know, but my point is that Lennon seems to cop a great deal more flak than other far less successful Hibs managers for what was, in the grand scheme of things, a relatively short period of decline. In hindsight he left at the right time, but overall his contribution to Hibs was a very positive one.
-
13-05-2019 12:38 PM #84
When we went to the pub park and Darkheid under Lennon we faced them up fought for every ball /tackle and although we didn't always wi I never once came away not proud of my team.
Unlike what's happened with the new management where we seem to respect the ugly sisters that much we cm are beat before a ball is kic
-
13-05-2019 12:46 PM #85This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 12:48 PM #86
- Join Date
- Mar 2016
- Posts
- 5,644
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I agree Lennon was great for us against the Old Firm and initially against Hearts too where we really battered them on three occasions at ER (the 3-1, 1-0 and 2-0 scorelines didn't reflect our dominance). At Tynie I thought he started off OK too by having us 'man up' to their physical tactics but I felt he stuck too rigidly to that tactic towards the end.
-
13-05-2019 12:53 PM #87This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Our performances under Lennon at tynecastle were *****. We rarely took the game to them.
-
13-05-2019 12:55 PM #88
Disliked Lennon as a player, disliked him more when he was a Celtic player then manager. Tolerated him when he came to us. Back to disliking him now hes Celtic manager again.
-
13-05-2019 01:02 PM #89
- Join Date
- Sep 2018
- Posts
- 17,807
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
13-05-2019 01:09 PM #90
Did we not lose five goals to some team of Butchers Bakers and Candlestick Makers from Iceland or the Faroes in the Europa League and some dafties on here wanted to sign half their players followed by a two month run between the two Hamilton games between October and December where we did not win a game?
Log in to remove the advert |
Bookmarks