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Interesting to see Lennon resigning. Would like to think McInnes sees that he needs company. Lennon wins 5 trophies in two years but fails this year so walks. what he’s done isn’t acceptable or good enough for Celtic. Anything worst than 3rd for us isn’t acceptable or good enough. Don’t see us 3rd for another year. Any cup loss to a team other than the old firm isn’t good enough. Plus the amount of wins we have over the old firm isn’t good enough (and I’m realistic, I’m not asking for many!) progress and improvement is required in Europe and we aren’t doing that. While we’ve been knocked out by some better teams, it’s been a few years since we’ve beaten a better team on paper like rejika or Groningen. And quite often the manner in which we lose isn’t good enough. with the money we throw at the team, and at the manager, we are failing. Does DM see that? Being really shit before DM came here and not being really shit now isn’t success. Being a top six team isn’t our goal. The last 3 years has been regression, results and standings prove that. Isn’t it time DM owned up and did the right thing, like Lennon?

Lennon isn’t walking away from £1m pay off though, or is he? Not sure of his contractual situation. If I was DM, no chance I’d walk unless I was paid up.

There's a tendency when things are going badly to throw blanket criticism at everything, but the real problem with McInnes is his ability to judge a player and it's basically the main explanation for why we've regressed. When we had Shinnie, McLean, peak McGinn/Hayes, etc. we were a legitimately good team. Any weaknesses McInnes has on the tactical side, with keeping players fit, motivating them and so on didn't stop us from having some level of success. What's happened is that despite having more resources to work with than most of the league, he's made countless bad signings and the quality of the squad has dropped. It's been an ill-conceived scattergun approach of throwing money at anyone with a reputation in Scotland rather than a considered building of the team. The impression I get of him is that he completely lacks the capacity to judge players as they are and is always relying on third-hand rationales to make decisions (player X used to be good, player Y is about to be signed by Hibs, player Z scored against us once). It's not just about scouting - there's an abundance of information about players around now, what you need isn't extensive scouting networks of old guys in trilby hats covering the globe, it's good judgement about a player's potential. I watched just about every game Stevie May played for us, for instance, and to me he never genuinely looked up to it yet he got 60+ appearances because of who he was on paper. That tells me the problem is on McInnes judging players, not a lack of information about targets. That's the problem and if we fixed it I don't think we'd be talking about passion or anything else.