Dev is right, the League is the most important thing, the cups are a bonus. I dont really care about the cups, its just a good day out for the fans if you get to the final.
On the other hand, now that there is no competition for the league, we should be in a better position to play full strength in the cup games and we should really be winning them. You can accept failure in one of them but failure in both has to be considered not good enough, especially being out of Europe a long time ago.
I didnt see the game but according to the lads on here, it was the players who were not putting it in, Lennon may have played Samaras who people are saying isnt interested anymore but these are supposed to be professional players, the team he put out should be good enough to beat Aberdeen at home after taking the lead.
Talking about sacking Lennon just now is completely absurd, despite not winning the cups, they are not that important in the grand scheme of things.
The thing I see most that is missing is a star player, a player that brings the fans in every week, as long as I can remember we always had at least one or two. That is what makes the big clubs, even when they dont have amazing teams, they always have at least one star player. Ive said it before but the board are taking liberties with that club just now and I blame them for the lack of ambition more than I blame Lennon for anything. The worst part of this season for me was the Champions League, after a good start in Milan the rest was pretty much embarrassing for a club of our size, but Lennon was working with the weakest bunch of players in the tournament and a two-bob budget so again, its hard to blame him.