I have said a couple of times that I have reached my Strachan point with him. the football on offer quite often is terrible. however, who would replace him? if he can get rid of the deadwood that he (or john park) has brought in and give some of the younger guys a chance I will happily give him my full support. if he sticks to the same rubbish that this season has brought us then I would happily see the back of him
Yeah lets get somebody like Mowbray back. I'm sick of winning trophies and playing in the champions league.
my sarcasm detector just flickered, I am going to go out on a limb and say that you don't really mean this
I think we should have won more, a lot more (including a treble), but I also have no idea who we would get in charge if he left. I also think that he does deserve another crack at the CL, the league and the cups. He's a legend and regardless of the turgid football which has been on show all too often this season, he's put up with so much whilst he's been the Celtic manager (and player) when he could have easily walked away. I'm not saying he should remain out of sympathy because it was always his choice to stay through all the threats, but it should at least play a part in whether folk jump on his back for what is, by all means, a rather lackluster season, even with still being undefeated in the league. We actually played some brilliant football a couple of seasons ago...when we first signed Kayal etc, we were awesome I'd like us to play like that again.
Its a tough one. On one side I feel a little sorry for him. Is he getting the backing his past performances deserve? The money his teams have helped build up in terms of CL income and player sales mean he deserves more money to spend on better players IMO. However when you dont have a lot and spend £7m on Pukki, Balde and Boerigter then maybe you dont deserve any more! Regardless he must take the blame for playing 4-5-1, which is what is has been even if Commons is playing as a "forward". We should never play 4-5-1 in Scotland, ever. Even if we have no fit strikers we should play VVD and ****ing Ambrose up front before playing 4-5-1. And he must take the blame for not changing it up. The run is all well and good, but we threw on Balde in a time of need and he wasnt ready. Last few games when winning easily we give the guy 7 minutes. Its not good enough
Get him to ****. I could win the league if I was in charge of Celtic. With the exception of the huns and their 56 player squad we have more resources than the rest of the four divisions put together. We should be humping teams in the same way that we did under MON . It would appear we got lucky with the McGeady and Boruc money and picked up a few cracking players at bargain prices. With the exception of Hooper and Wanyama and one or two others we've bought mostly ****e since. The only players we have now who could sell for more than £3m are VVD and Forster. In the space of a couple of years we've gone from having a team boasting the likes of Hooper, Ki, Wanyama, K Wilson, Ledley etc. to one consisting of donkeys like Pukki, Balde and Griffiths. That's not all Lennon's fault, of course. Listening to that **** Lawwell lying about possibly signing an £8m player is laughable.
I don't see a manager out there who we could afford that would be an improvement. Maybe in a couple of years Jackie Mac or Paul Hartley but right now we are better off with lenny.
We have gone backwards this season but that's the lack of ambition in the board rather than Lennon. Players like Ledley and Hooper could have been retained and if not we could have done more to find a replacement for Hooper. With the board currently so risk adverse we will always be a bit up and down and without Lennon we could be more down than up. The Board aren't going to change anything and I don't think a change of manager is going to help anyone, unless he's some sort of super manager and a super manager isn't going to be happy getting Wolves reserves as their main tools to have a go at the Champions League.
The title's in the bag before the season starts. That's pretty much guaranteed. All we have is the CL and the cups. We had one run in the CL last year where we played very well but rode a **** load of luck. We got very little in the way of luck this year and were badly exposed at times. That left the cups. Getting beat by Aberdeen is far from shameful but the performances of both the players and the manager was. And let's not forget we were papped out the League Cup by Morton. that's right - Greenock ****ing Morton! We should have won at least one treble under Lennon. MON achieved it against the most expensively assembled Rangers squad in history. We've failed to do it with a team where one of our players (let's say Boerrigter) cost more than the rest of the teams in Scotland (including Rangers) have spent on players PUT TOGETHER. And I'm also getting fed up of Lennon playing the victim card with the press. Much as I think McCoist is a sleekit, wee **** I bet he gets plenty of abuse in the street from Celtic fans but you don't hear him bleating on about it to the press every other week.
I think if the job was advertised we would get some more than decent applicants ... and - my fear of " celtic family " sentimentality notwithstanding - at this moment in time jackie mac and hartley have more managerial experience than lennon when he was given the job
