Lennon is not the man for the job and he needs to go now before it’s too late.
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I can’t wait for the all the crap players we are going to sign on loan on deadline day where our fraud of a manager will have alienated them by the middle of the season before being sacked at 10IAR goes up in smoke.
And people will then defend Liewell at the end of the season.
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Tbf you called it at the end of last season. Lennon is a disgrace.
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He’s out of his depth, he knows it. His managerial career was destined for fucking York City or something like that before Rodgers upped and left and he stepped into a cruise control title and cup double.
He was ran out of Hibs and Bolton FFS.
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He is not to be blamed . The men who appointed him need to have an EGM with themselves .
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I’d go for Chris Hughton now I think, give him a contract until the end of the season and see how it goes.
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Sure they’re only delighted, they have even more leverage over him now, he will lick up whatever shit they throw at him because he knows this is the peak of his managerial career.
Same round we exited at last season of course.
I don’t think the team Lennon selected worked. And I think he has to take some blame for that. But there was nothing in his tactics or preparation that compelled Brown and Bain to make fundamental errors to throw the game away.
The goals scored against diddy teams so far this season masked the lack of structure and organisation in the team. I said on Saturday that we were loose and lacking cohesion. We weren’t a tight unit and it was broken play pieces of skill and good play that saw us score, aided by shit defending. Lennon compounded the issue tonight by playing McGregor out of position. Cluj were better than I thought and they were streetwise. They identified him as a weakness at left back and exposed him. We made ourselves weaker by playing him there and nullified ourselves a bit in an attacking sense. That’s on Lennon. But Brown was actually embarrassing for the first 3 (three) goals and Bain was crap for the last one.
There wasn’t but this was lost in the first leg, Cluj were abysmal then. We should have stepped it up and finished the tie off there and then, that message should have been drilled home at HT in the first leg.
The problem is we have sold our best player for a snip at £25m and we have a yes man in charge who is beholden to the board and will accept the inadequate crumbs that come his way.
The whole club is a shambles, absolutely no forward planning to inevitable outcomes, a CEO who would fleece his own family for a few extra pennies to put in his pocket.
Brown is done, finito, gone but get used to him starting 50 odd games this year sure Lennon himself got that treatment when he was a fat, past it liability on the pitch
I agree with that. Not trying to excuse Lennon but @Cicero_Dandi called it earlier - any team that presses Celtic in Europe exposes us pretty quickly and that has been the case for the last 5 or 6 years. That sort of loose defensive play doesn’t get punished enough in Scotland but when teams are prepared to leave men forward and to force Celtic to play through them then we struggle.
And then having said that we responded well enough, albeit slowly, to that and dominated the second half. And we managed to overcome that poor shape and slow start. We could have had more defensive protection, particularly on the third goal, but ultimately they were awful individual errors that cost us.
I seem to be alone in thinking they were decent in the first leg too. They just have a direct style about them that wasn’t as effective when we played deeper but I think we’d have been equally exposed away from home if we’d pushed on more.
They were bobbins in the first leg, Celtic played piss poor in that and still should have won it. If we played like we did in the second half tonight in that game the tie was over. In Europe, you have to sense blood and Celtic did nothing of the sort. Conservative Lennon played for the draw when the win was there.
You’re some man for sticking to your guns. We lost 4-5. I’m going to say conservatism was the least of our problems.
Ok guys, are we all looking forward to Greg Taylor signing along with some youth player from Man City on loan and 32 year old journeyman free agent?
We had no choice, we were chasing out tails all game tonight because we failed the bring the advantage we should have from the first leg.
1-1 away from home in the first leg of a European tie is not a very good result.
Ah come on.
75% of teams who draw the first leg 1-1 away from home go through to the next round.
Not when the home team are absolutely there for the taking, you have to be ruthless and sense blood. Celtic decided they’d take what they had, the huns did it in Denmark last week against a side who are probably every bit as good as Cluj.
In Rodgers, Celtic had a manager with a big reputation and ambition, a manager who had clout against the board. Things turned sour because Rodgers felt he wasn’t being backed, there’s debate over how well he delivered in any case but I think overall the job he did with respect to where he took Celtic over and the resources he did was a very positive on.
People look at the Rodgers case too emotively, you’d need to be very gullible to eat up what he said in the first place, the guy is a born spoofer who only talks in faux platitudes and guff. He was a good manager and he did have the fans backing. When the board reigned back things, it was inevitable that Rodgers was going to go. The manner is which Rodgers departed will never be forgiven by the Celtic fans and rightly so.
However, I will separate Rodgers from the board in terms of how I view them. Rodgers was a snake who talked out both sides of his mouth and wouldn’t even stick it through for a few months when he had a job to finish out. I don’t at all disagree with the reasons he left but the manner in which he did was the issue.
The board and foremost, Peter Lawwell were ultimately responsible for forcing Rodgers away. They didn’t back him, the McGinn saga is one of the most embarrassing bits of club management I’ve seen in years and lost Celtic an absolute star of a footballer. Where’s all the fucking money going? Why have we a fraud who could have been sitting on the St Mirren bench this season in charge of the club? How can a guy keep fucking up transfer market after transfer market and keep his job? Nobody laughed longer and harder when Brendan Rodgers left than Peter Lawwell, it was the perfect smokescreen for him because there is absolutely no doubt about it, Lawwell is the biggest hindrance to Celtic progressing and kicking on as a football team.
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