RabSpackman
Well-Known Member
The whole thing is a bit odd... teams need to be confirmed with the referee/officials about an hour before kickoff. The club media teams get the team sheets at the same time to share online and with football reporters.
So the team the the manager is picking should be known to the manager, assistant and maybe a couple of other coaching staff until then - certainly the evening before the match there’s no need to tell anyone. Anything can happen overnight - player falls sick, at this time someone needs a COVID test, or as Rangers had recently a player can get injured in the warm-up.
Just looking at who will be privy to the information.... it can’t be that bloody difficult to work out who leaked it from such a small group?
Alternatives would include telling the team the day before, which brings an inherent risk of being leaked so seems unlikely, or that the team was put on a board or a sheet of paper and left around the training centre... which is just bloody sloppy and you need to point the finger at the manager.
Now, Neil Lennon isn’t exactly famous for taking responsibility for his own mistakes but surely to God even he can join that dots between him picking a team and it being leaked?
So the team the the manager is picking should be known to the manager, assistant and maybe a couple of other coaching staff until then - certainly the evening before the match there’s no need to tell anyone. Anything can happen overnight - player falls sick, at this time someone needs a COVID test, or as Rangers had recently a player can get injured in the warm-up.
Just looking at who will be privy to the information.... it can’t be that bloody difficult to work out who leaked it from such a small group?
Alternatives would include telling the team the day before, which brings an inherent risk of being leaked so seems unlikely, or that the team was put on a board or a sheet of paper and left around the training centre... which is just bloody sloppy and you need to point the finger at the manager.
Now, Neil Lennon isn’t exactly famous for taking responsibility for his own mistakes but surely to God even he can join that dots between him picking a team and it being leaked?