Neil Lennon has been manager for 324 games in Scotland and England. His win rate has been 54%. His draw rate 19% His loss rate 27%. Are these the kind of numbers that make a manager atrocious? My maths is uncertain, but those numbers would give us around 91 points if replicated in a league one season. Is there evidence that Lennon’s mojo is shot?
His win rate at Celtic tops 70%. He had a good year or two with Hibs until that fell apart.
He’s one that would be either awful and sacked before Christmas, or does quite well but ends up leaving after 18 months due to a training ground bust up.
There's this mentality that annoys me in the pundits, players and coaches who have commented saying that when Jackson came in he was expected to be in a relegation fight. He wasn't. He certainly started off in one, and it's never easy to push out of that but this was a team that was expected to be pushing for promotion. Granted the recruitment wasn't good enough to be challenging right at the top, but are our players really that much worse than, say, Plymouth's? I don't think so. Jackson didn't come in to a relegation squad in the relegation places, he came in to find an ok squad playing much worse than it should have been, briefly had them performing well and then saw them return to being pretty rancid again. It's not like he turned a bunch of cheap no-hopers into a mid-table team and then got sacked harshly, he failed to get this team properly firing and then gave Sandgaard a decision to makeover whether he would back him heavily next season. You can have your own opinion on whether that should have happened, but I think it's a weirdly complacent attitude people like Curbs have praising Jackson for not getting relegated when that was so far below expectations.
I'm half Greek Cypriot and you can call Cypriot football frankly whatever you want
Lol, I didn’t mean it as bad as it may have sounded, I’ve got family moved over to Cyprus and seen some football whilst there, it’s not great, but a nice place to go manage if your career is more on the decline I’d suggest, which makes me wonder if the appetite for league one would be there.
Give that man a Knighthood...arise Sir Richard Cawley..now c'mon Rich, all this guff about "I don't know who is going to be manager" stuff...spill the beans mate...
I don't wish to go against many peoples opinions on here, but could it be, I know this maybe a little whimsical, that we have selected our next manager already and they in turn have handed a player shopping list to TS, but we haven't made an announcement yet due to them being at a club that's still playing? Just a thought.
I don't wish to go against many peoples opinions on here, but could it be, I know this maybe a little whimsical, that we have selected our next manager already and they in turn have handed a player shopping list to TS, but we haven't made an announcement yet due to them being at a club that's still playing? Just a thought.
Lennon, Beal, Taylor and JFH are all working. The only unemployed manager there has even been a wif of was/is Warburton and he was working when Jackson got the tin tac.
I don't wish to go against many peoples opinions on here, but could it be, I know this maybe a little whimsical, that we have selected our next manager already and they in turn have handed a player shopping list to TS, but we haven't made an announcement yet due to them being at a club that's still playing? Just a thought.
It's possible but I am sure if that was the case it would have leaked by now. Too many people would know.
I know it’s getting frustrating for people who are thinking it’s taking a while, but I’m quite enjoying the fact that no one outside of the process, seemingly has a clue who it’s going to be. Cawley has said that Taylor and Beale are both under consideration I believe, but that’s all that has been suggested.
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He’s like the ginger Bowyer…
Has Nixon confirmed the position on Lennon yet?
Just a thought.