12 May 2014 08:42:57
Neil Lennon to be announced as the new Norwich manager by the end of the week according to Twitter. Fingers crossed it's true!

1.) 12 May 2014
You need your head checked mate, Lenny has been fantastic for us and is a great asset. Keeps rebuilding after top players leave and seems to be making real progress in what was always going to be a transitional season.

2.) 12 May 2014
You need your head checked if winning a one-horse title race with no domestic cup finals + a humiliating European campaign is a successful season.

3.) 12 May 2014
@junglebhoy NL achieved 99 points in the league which is acceptable even though we had pathetic performances over winter months. Next year I expect a comparable points tally wether it be NL or someone else and we must see a major improvement in all cups cl included. Ps any word on 1st team coach ed or are they waiting on NL situation to be sorted?

4.) 12 May 2014
I do believe it hasn't been a good season for us as we were always winning the title and yeah I would agree this years cl campaign has been embarrassing.
But you look at 4 years ago and where we are now lennon has done an unbelievable job and brought celtic back up again in which we are building for europe again to be a success like 2012/13.
Lennon has publicy stated he is far from finished here so he, s never leaving us anytime soon and certainly not to a club of norwichs stature, why take a step back going down there when he can take 2 steps forward up here?

5.) 12 May 2014
Be careful what you wish for remember the people who wanted Strachan out and we got Mowbray

6.) 12 May 2014
Neil Lennon has been a great servant to this Club and doew not derserve some of the $hit he gets on here. As Sammy says a lot of the decisions about player aqusitions are out of his hands. Lennon has always done his best for Celtic and if and when he goes it will be a sad day. Personally I hope he stays for a wee while at least and I feel it will be a very good season for us next. CL remains the 1st priority and I mean to qualify for the league sections not to win it and before people start saying I have no ambition, I do but I know the environment the Club works in. Hail Hail

7.) 12 May 2014
Because you might not rate Lennon the manager doesn't mean you don't respect him/like him and appreciate what he has done. He has done his best, and ultimately can only coach the ideas etc that he knows/was brought up with. That's were I have the problem - I don't fancy the football we play, I don't think we train enough/do enough training with the ball. He gives the players more days off than any other top coach that I can think of. We are not good enough as it is, when will he get that. You have academies like Southampton bringing through Walcott/Oxlade-Chamberlain/Bale/Lallana/ and now Shaw in the last few years - that's £150 million worth of talent, we are bringing through guys who are worth a couple of hundred grand that end up at a Hamilton. Celtic are a million miles away from where I want them to be. The first thing I would do is bring in more forward thinking/technical coaches from the youth up.

8.) 12 May 2014
I think it speaks volumes about how good a job Lenny has done that CL qualification is now deemed as unsuccessful to our fan base as well as an amazingly consistent league performance. Agreed we were very poor on the cups but in regards to the CL campaign people need to lend some perspective to the situation. We were completing against three teams with significantly better resources than ourselves, not to mention the fact we were in a period of transition having lost three of our best players.

9.) 12 May 2014
We played the worst Milan team in decades who are on the verge of not even qualifiying for Europe next season (currently 8th in Serie A with one game to go) who lost their best player Kevin-Prince Boateng to Schalke at the end of the summer transfer window and a pretty average Ajax side who also lost two of their better players - Christian Eriksen + Toby Alderweireld. In case anyone forgot we were beaten in FIVE out of SIX group stage games, including our worst ever CL group stage defeat at home (3-0 to Milan) + a 6-1 skelping at Camp Nou, which equaled our worst ever European defeat. Is that deemed an acceptable season nowadays?! That's before we even mention home defeats in the LC + SC to Morton + Aberdeen!

10.) 12 May 2014
@HamiltonBhoy, for some people that is a successful campaign. CL qualification is the golden ticket. the last sixteen means more money for the board to pay out dividends to shareholders. some would argue that without these 'investors' the club would deteriorate even further but I say its the fans who are the real investors. shareholders take out whereas fans put in and it is these fans who deserve better service from the board. yes its a business and should be run within its means but its not a profit-making machine for a rich few. its time for a change at the very top.

11.) 13 May 2014
Guys there is no point arguing with hamiltonbhoy as he is always right. He is THE most negative fan in history bar none. Obviously wasn't born in the 90s and is spoiled with success. Neil lennon has done a fantastic job in my opinion and his loss will be bad for celtic in my opinion.

12.) 13 May 2014
You're a tool of a guy Marty. I'm negative because I expect and demand better? That makes me such a bad fan, eh? Such a negative person for never settling for less, eh? And not that I need to justify myself to you, but I had my first season ticket in 1997, at the age of 8. But go ahead, keep making a fool of yourself by assuming I'm 14 or younger!

13.) 13 May 2014
So marty is kind of right Hamiltonbhoy. Not having a dig but your first season ticket at 8 years old meant you just caught the back end of deadco's successful period when we struggled to win anything. I think his point is that you never grew up with the pain of watching on as our biggest rivals took everything whilst we didn't know when our next trophy was coming. Those were indeed hard days. My dad is the same though
He demands better because he grew up watching the lions and expects celtic to play like that now, even in Europe

14.) 13 May 2014
Well I'm 37, and I had to endure the dark days of Gillespie/Slater/Hayes etc etc, and that was just Brady's rein, which was short to say the least. That mob from Govan took great delight, to the point of being sadistic, in our shortcomings, and let's get it right we didn't help ourselves, we gave them too many excuses/chances to laugh at us. That is why I will never settle for doing ok, or even pretty good. We get all the platitudes about being one of the biggest clubs in the world, we get all the sycophantic praise, but at the same time are completely taken for granted/treated like prize fools. So I've got to back yer man from Hamilton on this - I am far from happy with my lot, and it has nothing to do with anything other than I want my club to be the very best they can be! I have been a shareholder since the Fergus/Brian Dempsey days, and lost money, but I couldn't care less, I couldn't care less about better dividends either - I wan't a team who are respected/feared and with a far better infrastructure. It is better than it was, but not as good as it should be! Cheers

15.) 13 May 2014
So because I didn't have a season ticket until 1997 you've made the assumption that I never attended any games at a younger age of 8, or grew up with the SFL matches on Sky n BBC in the 90s? Cheers Paul, it's nice to see other fans still dream of the club one day acting like a big club again, as well as putting a point across without mentioning Deadco. Why does everything always have to be about them?!

16.) 13 May 2014
Totally disagree with Hamiltonbhoy, i'm in the same boat as evrybody else, to actually come on this n want lennon out is an absolutely joke, bet you weren't wanting him out when we beat barcelona? or when he took us to the last 16? but all of a sudden when we get knocked out of 2 cups, sell our arguably 3 best players in the summer and don't replace them of course your going to struggle.
how is it lennons fault if we got put out of the cups? is lennon the one on the pitch? its the players who get results so get it into your mind that the entire squad needs to be freshened up and the deadwood has to be shifted ie boerrigter pukki balde forrest kayal and to extent even ambrose and mulgrew.
Lennon will do his best for celtic no matter what but when he, s got the right players to work with that's when he, s at his best same with most managers.
who would you want to realistacally come in and replace lennon? come on give us a laugh

{Ed007's Note - Hahahahaha!!!! So you think it was unfair that Mowbray got sacked, it wasn't him that was out on the pitch either. Four years down the line, it's the players NL has signed and his tactics yet it isn't his fault, are you for real? Tell me, what colour's the sky in your world?}

17.) 13 May 2014
People continually go on about losing our 3 best players but Virgil is better than wilson, stokes has scored a similar amount of goals as hooper did therefor wanyama is the only downside yet NL signed numerous players who haven't stepped up to replace victor and push us on.

18.) 14 May 2014
I completely agree with Marty, HamiltonBhoy you have no idea what you are talking about, Neil has been nothing short of awesome as our manager having a successful team on the park and working to a tight budget, what do you hope to achieve n a 2M net spend last 16 of Europe, beating Barca, Ajax and Spartak, teams with hugely superior budgets on the way. Morton was a freak result apart from that we have lost 2 games domestically all season, grow up

19.) 14 May 2014
GreenBhoy67, NL can't live off the Barcelona win or CL Last 16. That was a season ago, this season has been nothing short of abysmal. I've noticed you've deflected the blame from Lennon. Is there any players in the side Lennon hasn't bought, picked to play or given tactical instructions too? Is it not his job to manage those XI men on the pitch? David, if you're going to insult me and tell me I don't have a clue? At least get your own facts right. Two domestic losses all season? I count Morton in the THIRD ROUND of the League Cup, Aberdeen in the FIFTH ROUND of the Scottish Cup + Aberdeen in the league in February as three. Arguably three of the biggest games of the season, considering it was two of our three cup games + a game away from the UK clean sheet record and one and a half away from the the European record.