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Derek McInnes gave Neil Lennon anticlimactic end to first tenure

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If Neil Lennon carries the scars of defeats around with him, Saturday’s game against Aberdeen will have some significance.  The last trophy Neil lost as Celtic manager was at the hands of Aberdeen.

Then Derek McInnes was in the Aberdeen job a year and that season saw his team with the League Cup, their first trophy in 19 years, and qualify for Europe for the first time in five years.  Anthony Stokes put Celtic ahead in the fifth round tie at Celtic Park, but Aberdeen came back to win 1-2.

That game took place on 8 February with Celtic out of sight in the league.  They won the title in March, at the earliest date in over 80 years, but elimination from the Scottish Cup so prematurely meant the last two months of Neil’s tenure were anticlimactic.  The stadium was flat on match days, giving everyone unwelcome time to ponder, What next?

If we got the better of Aberdeen and extended competitive pressures until the end of the season, different decisions might have been made.

Much has happened since but Derek McInnes still knows what he is doing.  He won at Celtic Park, Ibrox and Hampden (against Newco) last year, killing that old question about Aberdeen: Can they win in Glasgow?

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  1. !!Bada Bing!! on

    L7- Turnbull Hutton and Paul McBride, 2 men who could have made big changes in Scottish football, taken too soon,though i think Paul might have ended up too outspoken for our Board.

  2. Greenpinata on

    Bada Bing,

     

     

    Paul McBride was a QC at 35. Wow.

     

    There is no doubt he was outspoken, mega intelligent and decisive.

     

    Although he called out the SFA, calling them ” biased ” , he would always have faced opposition from a section of Celtic fans if he was on our board.

     

    He would be continually castigated for his former Tory party association and i would wager some would even denigrate him for representing Alan McGregor.

     

     

    Sad but true.

     

     

    HH.

  3. Greenpinata on

    Very pertinent to Celtic and her army of female followers.

     

    Happy international woman’s day. To all females fighting discrimination worldwide , I salute you.

     

     

    HH.

  4. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    huns to sign jake hastie. someone was on here recently saying he was a celtic supporter.where is all this money coming from.??????

  5. !!Bada Bing!! on

    GP- i agree,in the short time he was involved he ran rings round the cheats at Hampden in his sleep.

  8. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Fav Uncle – 40% down using season ticket money then 60% on the never never.

     

    (For most people the never never is a cliche, for the few selling anything to Sevco it is sad reality).

     

     

    BTW – who is Hasty Jaikie?

  10. beatbhoy on

    Greenpinata on 8TH MARCH 2019 9:57 AM

     

     

    “Very pertinent to Celtic and her army of female followers.

     

     

    Happy international woman’s day. To all females fighting discrimination worldwide , I salute you.”

     

     

    *****

     

     

    Yes, so maybe KING LUBO could do us all a favour and request that his post last night at 8:26pm be removed.

  13. mike in toronto on

    FU

     

     

    The timing of the Hastie announcement makes me question it … normally, Sevco only sign players the week before they are due to play them in an important game ….?

  14. prestonpans bhoys on

    FAVOURITE UNCLE on 8th March 2019 10:01 am

     

     

    I noticed that too and apparently they beat us to him. Why would we go for a 19 year old boy who has had a handful of games for Motherwell and the rest of his career with Airdrie or Alloa

     

     

    He’s in a position well covered by around 5-6 players, complete crap from the SMSM to make the goons think they are on the uppy against us and relevant.

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