Lennon is just what Bolton needed

[Alan Gowling]

http://www.cfclatest.com/2013/06/28/3363/

[danardif1]

'England star' Gavin McCann... one cap, in a friendly.

Good to see him working at the club though, wasn't that bad a player and was a shame to see injury cut his career short.

[Whookam]

http://www.cfclatest.com/2013/06/28/3363/

And we post an article from 2013 because....?

[KeyserSoze]

I assume the date thingy is just wrong, otherwise it would be quite foretelling.

[Whookam]

I assume the date thingy is just wrong, otherwise it would be quite foretelling.

Most likely. It's hot and dates are no-ones strong point when it's hot.

[Gary the Enfield]

I assume the date thingy is just wrong, otherwise it would be quite foretelling.

Most likely. It's hot and dates are no-ones strong point when it's hot.

Really? I thought they came from North Africa and the Middle East?

[freeindeed]

I assume the date thingy is just wrong, otherwise it would be quite foretelling.

Most likely. It's hot and dates are no-ones strong point when it's hot.

Really? I thought they came from North Africa and the Middle East?

Think you'll find they are from the Mayans then the Romans

[Gary the Enfield]

I assume the date thingy is just wrong, otherwise it would be quite foretelling.

Most likely. It's hot and dates are no-ones strong point when it's hot.

Really? I thought they came from North Africa and the Middle East?

Think you'll find they are from the Mayans then the Romans

How did the Mayans get them to the Romans?

Phoenix dactylifera (date[2] or date palm[2]) is a flowering plant species in the palm family Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit. Although its place of origin is unknown because of long cultivation, it probably originated from lands around Iraq.[3] The species is widely cultivated and is reportedly naturalized in Australia, Spain, Italy, North Africa, the Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde, the Sahel region of Africa, Mauritius, Réunion, Afghanistan, Pakistan (Khairpur), Bangladesh, India, Israel, Iran, China, (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan), Fiji, New Caledonia, the United States (California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Puerto Rico), northern Mexico, El Salvador, the Leeward Islands, the Cayman Islands, Haiti, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the Dominican Republic.[4][5][6]

So Middle East and out from there it seems. Although this is Wikipedia so they could have originated on the Moon.

[freeindeed]

http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTe ... =bvt#c2311

[Gary the Enfield]

http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTe ... =bvt#c2311

I don't think either of us could make this less funny so I'll stop now.

[freeindeed]

You started it

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Lennon might be just what Leicester need. "Front runner" now, apparently. Thanks Sam.
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[TANGODANCER]

Assuming the rumours are true, all this seems surreal. The man is hired, comes here to do a job which he hasn't even started yet and now he's interested in another (and more lucrative, no doubt) job already. If he doesn't get the Leicester job but tries for it, that surely won't make him Mr Popular with the Whites fans. Not very confidence inspiring.

[danardif1]

There doesn't seem anything concrete to it, just the papers making fairly obvious guesses (ex-player turned manager may be interested in managing old club)...

As far as we've heard from Lennon in his time here, he's very grateful to Bolton for being the one to give him a chance in England, and he wanted to prove himself in this country by then reviving the club's fortunes on a budget. Achieving that would enhance his reputation no end, and I don't see how jumping ship to a club that whilst it has secured another season in the Premier League is hardly established and may only offer short-term prospects anyway (given the nature of the Premier League) would offer anything truly better.

I do hope that Neil can see just how the club and the fans have taken him in to be one of their own and that he feels he needs to finish what he's just starting with us. I made the shout that we should hire him back when we fired Freedman and I'm glad we did... he kept us up but not only that he seems to have his head screwed on and understands the situation and seems to have a plan for it. It might take a bit longer to get to the top division but it might ultimately show the rest of the football world what he can do. Moving to Leicester and more than likely ending up sacked after 18 months before then having to move down to the Championship again for another job isn't going to help him in the short or long term...

[officer_dibble]

As I've said elsewhere I think he'll go. Bigger fanbase, better league, bigger transfer budget, he has ties to the club. He wont stay here for the 'project' with all that on offer. Cant say I would blame him. Main thing is do Leicesters mad owners want him?

[bobo the clown]

As I've said elsewhere I think he'll go. Bigger fanbase, better league, bigger transfer budget, he has ties to the club. He wont stay here for the 'project' with all that on offer. Cant say I would blame him. Main thing is do Leicesters mad owners want him?

All of this.

I can't believe they waited till now to sack that mad tw@t without already having a replacement planned. ... & though Lenin has links with the club he has no links to the Thai's there.

[LeverEnd]

Depends whether he's been told porkies about resources for his rebuilding job. If so then he's every right to walk. If he just goes anyway I'd be disappointed but would understand it. It's hardly doing a Steve Bruce. Sadly they have a lot more to offer than us.
Also I wouldn't be that gutted. I like him and would prefer to keep him but don't think he's the saviour he's made out to be.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I'm with LE on this. I like the fella, he's done alright so far and with him on board I think the future is a lot brighter than it has been for years. But, he has a lot to prove. If he goes I'd love Sam back, but his strategy rests on minimising errors and how the feckity feck he can do that with our squad isn't known even to rocket scientists.

[bobo the clown]

I'm with LE on this. I like the fella, he's done alright so far and with him on board I think the future is a lot brighter than it has been for years. But, he has a lot to prove. If he goes I'd love Sam back, but his strategy rests on minimising errors and how the feckity feck he can do that with our squad isn't known even to rocket scientists.

.... & Sam has got very used to spending big. On wages &/or fees. We'd be nowhere near his cuppa now.

Unless he headed some consortium looking to buy in ... especially as he & PG have clearly not kissed & made up.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I wouldn't blame him for going back to a club he holds very dear, especially as the future hardly looks rosy for us. If he's got any ambition he wouldn't be thinking "Leicester might go down", he'd be looking to build. As for still having a project here: he kept us up, cleared the decks and brought in a new mentality; it's not finished but football projects rarely are.

I'm somewhat ambivalent about Lennon - some of our displays in that three-month period we played 4-2-3-1 were among the most promising we've seen in years, but the last four months were a bucket of jizz. If he stays I'll give him time and the benefit of the doubt, but if he goes it won't necessarily feel like we've lost a guaranteed genius. In some ways he's just as stubborn as his three predecessors.

That said, when the news broke I felt a certain lurch in my stomach, which tells me I don't want him to go. Perhaps that's fear of the future.

In some ways, it might be better for him to go now – with squad pruned and money saved – than for him to spend what little we have then go in a month, leaving someone else working with his players and an empty wallet.