WalterLoyal
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Daily Record Rangers blogger wants Neil Lennon to ''bring the thunder back'' to Hampden.
Lennon was gifted three titles at Celtic. The points deduction and the admin process ended the title race and you could have put Efe Ambrose in charge for the other two and they would still have won them. He had one good European campaign and three awful campaigns.
After whoring himself for every job going down South he finally got his opportunity with Bolton where he failed miserably. He then took over a fairly decent side built by Alan Stubbs. They should have strolled that league in what was a one horse race but they laboured throughout and took just one point more than the previous season despite Rangers not being in the league.
You are correct when you describe him as a devisive figure. This is a man who has a history of threatening and abusing women, match officials, opposition players and coaching staff, both his own supporters and supporters of other clubs. This is a man who caused a refereeing strike in the country due to intimidation of referees and various claims of refereeing corruption. This is a man who just last week refused to wear a poppy in honor of the brave men and women who gave their lives for our freedom.
This is who Jonny McFarlane wants representing our nation?
If one of your main arguments is he's better than Craig Levein then you have no argument whatsoever. Craig Levein is the worst manager in the history of the national team and should never have been appointed.
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Is Hibs boss Neil Lennon the man to bring the thunder back to Hampden as Scotland manager?
As Malky Mackay’s tenure as Scotland interim manager failed to ignite against a lame Netherlands side at Pittodrie the match itself quickly took a back seat in the subsequent debate to the more pertinent issue facing our national side: who’s next?
After the testy, chippy reign of Gordon Strachan , many names have been put forward to fill the managerial void but few have captured the imagination and fewer still tick many of the obvious boxes in the perfect Scotland manager skillset.
We need a boss who can motivate, who has top level experience and proven tactical nous.
Someone who understands our culture and how our players think, how to get into their heads and make them fight, scratch and scrap for every ball. Ideally someone with international experience as a player or a manager and probably a guy who is proven in Scottish football and adept at dealing with the press. The kind of figure that the players not only respect but will turn up for when the chips are down.
Not many candidates can claim to fit such criteria yet there is one man who ticks all these boxes but inexplicably his name is yet to be mentioned.
Neil Lennon . 40 times capped, Lennon knows what it takes at that level as a player. And despite a lack of international managerial experience, he has already proven himself in the club football elite of the Champions League which is arguably an even more testing environment.
He pulled off the incredible in defeating what was perhaps the greatest club side of all time by beating Barcelona on that memorable night at Celtic Park. In subsequently qualifying for the last 16 he achieved the holy grail of Scottish club management and in doing so displayed his incontestable qualities as both a motivator and a tactical thinker.
A winner of five domestic trophies as manager of Celtic, Lennon had a difficult spell with Bolton, a perennial crisis-club, but in returning to Scotland with Hibs he immediately imbued them with a tougher mentality and took them straight back to the game’s top flight as champions.
This season, the progress has continued and his team are looking a serious proposition for Europe with their performance against an unbeaten Celtic at Parkhead giving the hoops their toughest domestic challenge of their 63 game invincible run.
As a comparison, his record is far more credible than say Craig Levein’s when he was appointed to near universal praise. Another factor is Lennon’s already established relationships within Scottish football, he knows the game and personalities so would require no time to settle into the idiosyncrasies of our culture.
Of course, some will be react to this notion with horror as Lennon can be a divisive character who will forever be associated with Celtic. Surely in 2017 such tribalism has no relevance in the bigger picture of our prominence as a national footballing force and that in making such an appointment in spite of such protestations a statement would be made in of itself.
One thing’s for sure, it wouldn’t be boring.
Perhaps Neil Lennon is the man to reawaken the lion rampart and bring the thunder back to Hampden.
Lennon was gifted three titles at Celtic. The points deduction and the admin process ended the title race and you could have put Efe Ambrose in charge for the other two and they would still have won them. He had one good European campaign and three awful campaigns.
After whoring himself for every job going down South he finally got his opportunity with Bolton where he failed miserably. He then took over a fairly decent side built by Alan Stubbs. They should have strolled that league in what was a one horse race but they laboured throughout and took just one point more than the previous season despite Rangers not being in the league.
You are correct when you describe him as a devisive figure. This is a man who has a history of threatening and abusing women, match officials, opposition players and coaching staff, both his own supporters and supporters of other clubs. This is a man who caused a refereeing strike in the country due to intimidation of referees and various claims of refereeing corruption. This is a man who just last week refused to wear a poppy in honor of the brave men and women who gave their lives for our freedom.
This is who Jonny McFarlane wants representing our nation?
If one of your main arguments is he's better than Craig Levein then you have no argument whatsoever. Craig Levein is the worst manager in the history of the national team and should never have been appointed.
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Is Hibs boss Neil Lennon the man to bring the thunder back to Hampden as Scotland manager?
As Malky Mackay’s tenure as Scotland interim manager failed to ignite against a lame Netherlands side at Pittodrie the match itself quickly took a back seat in the subsequent debate to the more pertinent issue facing our national side: who’s next?
After the testy, chippy reign of Gordon Strachan , many names have been put forward to fill the managerial void but few have captured the imagination and fewer still tick many of the obvious boxes in the perfect Scotland manager skillset.
We need a boss who can motivate, who has top level experience and proven tactical nous.
Someone who understands our culture and how our players think, how to get into their heads and make them fight, scratch and scrap for every ball. Ideally someone with international experience as a player or a manager and probably a guy who is proven in Scottish football and adept at dealing with the press. The kind of figure that the players not only respect but will turn up for when the chips are down.
Not many candidates can claim to fit such criteria yet there is one man who ticks all these boxes but inexplicably his name is yet to be mentioned.
Neil Lennon . 40 times capped, Lennon knows what it takes at that level as a player. And despite a lack of international managerial experience, he has already proven himself in the club football elite of the Champions League which is arguably an even more testing environment.
He pulled off the incredible in defeating what was perhaps the greatest club side of all time by beating Barcelona on that memorable night at Celtic Park. In subsequently qualifying for the last 16 he achieved the holy grail of Scottish club management and in doing so displayed his incontestable qualities as both a motivator and a tactical thinker.
A winner of five domestic trophies as manager of Celtic, Lennon had a difficult spell with Bolton, a perennial crisis-club, but in returning to Scotland with Hibs he immediately imbued them with a tougher mentality and took them straight back to the game’s top flight as champions.
This season, the progress has continued and his team are looking a serious proposition for Europe with their performance against an unbeaten Celtic at Parkhead giving the hoops their toughest domestic challenge of their 63 game invincible run.
As a comparison, his record is far more credible than say Craig Levein’s when he was appointed to near universal praise. Another factor is Lennon’s already established relationships within Scottish football, he knows the game and personalities so would require no time to settle into the idiosyncrasies of our culture.
Of course, some will be react to this notion with horror as Lennon can be a divisive character who will forever be associated with Celtic. Surely in 2017 such tribalism has no relevance in the bigger picture of our prominence as a national footballing force and that in making such an appointment in spite of such protestations a statement would be made in of itself.
One thing’s for sure, it wouldn’t be boring.
Perhaps Neil Lennon is the man to reawaken the lion rampart and bring the thunder back to Hampden.