Whataboutery at its finest, and "loads" is a huge overstatement compared to Lennon. Stubbs came into a club with not enough players for a full first team so had to sign quite a few players at short notice and as such there was much more pressure for him to sign a lot of players. Lennon inherited an excellent team and through a number of transfer windows unbalanced it and filled it with overpaid dross.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The recruitment for the two were night and day. The fact we still have a few signings at the club who were first signed by Stubbs says a lot, and that we have two of his signings playing at decent levels in Italy and the English Premiership says a lot too.
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01-02-2021 11:55 AM #1981
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01-02-2021 11:57 AM #1982This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There was good, Marciano, Ambrose, the 17/18 season and the second half to the season being as exciting as any I’ve seen, and taking Stevenson, Boyle, the midfield, and a few others up a level further.
The bad, the spats (Duffy & the 4th official), Tynecastle meltdown where he questioned Hibs’ ambition and threatened to quit after, the 33 signings of which we only still have Marciano, Mallan & Allan with very few of the others generating a fee. Constantly calling out the players (which was probably merited) yet zero acknowledgement of any responsibility he had for what was going on and then going AWOL from press conferences.
He was a mixed bag.
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01-02-2021 11:58 AM #1983This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 12:04 PM #1984This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Lennon signed 33 players. Only 3 of which are still here with one apparently about to leave, Mallan, and one which is also a Stubbs signing, Allan. With fees only received for Horgan (who we also paid a fee to sign) & Kamberi.
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01-02-2021 12:14 PM #1985This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 12:19 PM #1987This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Way too many on here try to underplay the brilliant job Stubbs did to defend a bang average manager.
I'm guessing you'll now be telling me about Lennon's brilliant promotion season where without Hearts and Rangers in the league he got a whole one point more than Stubbs, or how he "Phil Aireyed" the signing of Scott Allan. Maybe even the fourth place where if he didn't create a boy band it should have been second.
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01-02-2021 12:28 PM #1988This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 12:38 PM #1991This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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01-02-2021 12:42 PM #1992This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 12:50 PM #1993
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For me Cup winning Stubbs changed the club around from playing butcher hoofball to nice attacking all possession football .
Granted we didn't win all the time but it was joyful to watch as a supporter i was confident, a thing i never had been for a long time maybe as far back when Mowbray was at Hibs . Lennon carried the torch right up till we had best midfield in Scotland Allan, Mcgeouch and Mcginn ripping teams apart. Then it started to go downhill. Today i hate to say it but there is hardly any of that flair its like going back in time to Fenlon days and not good to watch.
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01-02-2021 01:03 PM #1994This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 01:13 PM #1996
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01-02-2021 01:17 PM #1997This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 01:19 PM #1998This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Lots of the football we played was great, I was always confident we could get a result, and his signings weren’t half as terrible as some would make out.
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01-02-2021 01:21 PM #1999This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 01:21 PM #2000This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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01-02-2021 01:56 PM #2001This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Kamberi said nothing in public about wanting to play for Rangers until after he was loaned to them. If he hadn't gone to them he would probably never have said anything about it and would be remembered with a bit less vitriol than he is now. I said in my op that he was foolish and disrespectful to make the comment anyway.
Lennon and Parker called him out by name at least twice in post-match interviews when a wiser manager might have been more circumspect. Lennon did similar with Leigh Griffiths on Saturday.
There was plenty talk of bullying at the time of the fall out but nothing official, which is why I said 'allegedly'.
Kamberi seems to be a complex character and Lennon made a complete mess of dealing with him. Lennon is a decent manager as long as things are going well but a disaster when they go wrong. Both have disrespected Hibs so I have little time for either of them now.
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23-02-2021 10:04 PM #2006
Should have been emptied a while ago. Things must be bad off the pitch as well as on it for them to not let him carry on for the final games of the season. Will be interesting to see who they replace him with in the summer.
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23-02-2021 10:06 PM #2007
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23-02-2021 10:11 PM #2009
Wouldn't shock me if Lennon ended up at Dundee once McPake is emptied. He's not going to get a better job in management and after going for the inexperienced choice in McPake, they may want to go for a more experienced manager.
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23-02-2021 10:14 PM #2010This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteLess talk, more gifs. 21.05.16
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