It was (honestly) a complete coincidence that at the start of last week I wrote that football clubs need “people who can say to the manager, “A club in Romania is doing something really clever, we should try it”, without being frog-marched off the premises”, a few days before Celtic employed a GAA coach as a performance consultant.
Organisations who succeed actively look for development ideas from unusual sources. If you are fishing in the same pond as everyone else, you’ll not find a strategy that will allow you to over-perform. Jim McGuinness, coach at Donegal GAA, will work with Neil Lennon’s technical team two days per week.
McGuinness had transformed Gaelic football, since taking control of unfancied Donegal they have been described as “virtually unbeatable”, provoking astonishment and some hostility from those close to the game as a result of his tactical revolution, known as ‘The System’. For his sport, he has found the ‘Moneyball code’ and the metaphorical answer to ‘Why England lose’, which we have discussed here for a number of years.
In short, Jim McGuinness sees things that others don’t and Celtic know the value of new ideas. I’m pleased at both.
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Craigellachie10
I wouldn’t have a clue, but going by the look on some of their faces, they enjoyed evey min of it.
Sad, sad, sad.
Pay your taxes.
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
Nothing like crunching the seeds, unless you have falsers :>)
Rangers reserves when the parent club is in the bottom league …an interesting game if they have to play each other
Listening to the radio ..all the journos selling their allegiance ..Rangers always mentioned first ..
Proof positive …again …of the establishment , media et al…intention to get Sevco back ASAP
kilbowie kelt
19:47 on 12 November, 2012
SPOT ON ….. I’m actually convinced some of them are zombies trying to ‘stir it’ …… There was one female on last week and, if she’s a Celtic fan, I’m Greengo’s financial advisor…..LOL
Snake
SSB….is an appalling radio show … Best avoided.
Panders to their lowest level of customer…anyone with a decent point is condescended to and cut off sharpish
They manage the calls with Stalinist principles…they also have a wee penchant for some Orwellian redefining of history if so required
And their panel members are cretins ..
re: league reconstruction
i am all for a bigger premier league, a 16 team league with lots of relegation and play-offs is a no brainer, turnover of clubs, more success (relative to club size), more chance of clubs getting some consistancy. we should be looking down south and trying to (again relative to size) copy the success i.e. having lots to play offs, having very strong and very weak teams, lots of ups and down each week, more than 1 or 2 team challenging for the league throughout the season, until april/ may time, a surprise package or two every season.
the current set up is a fix for celtic and rangers (oldco) to dominate all the time, its no wonder footballs dying on its feet up here and league reconstruction is the single, best way to improve things. I dont understand why the league below is 10 and 18, for me thats a bit mad, surely a simple 14 x 2 set up below the top flight would do.
then again i want domestic t.v money distributed between all clubs in the top flight in a fairer manner. if there is a gain for sevco then so be it, so long as we make sure that the changes benefit scottish football as a whole. IMHO its time to change, if we keep waiting for things to improve i think we’ll be waiting another 10 years.
MickMacPaddyWhack
20:03 on 12 November, 2012
Tontine, we used to get free tickets at Saint Peters Primary in Bellsmyre.
* stand corrected, didnae dae much good though as Bellsmyre became the new Brucehill.
….pfayr
20:18 on 12 November, 2012
“Listening to the radio ..all the journos selling their allegiance ..RANGERS ALWAYS MENTIONED FIRST ..”
…and they are so blatant about it…….sending out ‘smoke signals” to the zombies…….
I’d like to know what the heck is going on with BDO / FTT …… It’s all gone too quiet …..
Anyone, not part of a CSC, had their bank accounts debited for the Hertz game up here in Edinburgh?
Emailed them with appication details on the first day and thought the deadline was past by now?
Tontine
* stand corrected, didnae dae much good though as Bellsmyre became the new Brucehill.
So much so , Boghead flitted to the Down the Castle to get away
Celtic First
Oviedo are struggling at the moment
They have set up a investment scheme trying to raise …1.9m euro
I remember them in the top league not so long ago
Tough times in Spain
TT
How are you old timer:o)
Noticed you mentioning you’d retired recently.
P O’R retired earlier this year. How are you spending your time?
Sevco should never play in the top flight until justice has been done and those responsible for the biggest fraud in sporting history have been brought to trial and we as Celtic supporters should not rest until this has been done..
Murray, Johnson, King, Greig, Smith, none of these people and the rest of them should ever have a football boot near the game again…
Justice for the Scottish game not appeasement and knuckle crunching..
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
From what i`ve picked up, because the ftt was heard in private
the lawyers can argue for anonymity for god knows how long.
The cardihun might be one thats been allowed anonymity.
When Scottish football start supporting CFC …I’ll be happy to support Scottish football
Until then they can die cozying up to the Zombies ..
I will not aid those who hate and despise us
snake plissken
20:04 on 12 November, 2012
It does, indeed, say it all …….. they don’t seem to realise what the zombies did to Scottish Football’s reputation……… And they now want to bring back their ‘hellish spawn’…..shame on the lot of them…… Meanwhile, we will continue to build up Celtic’s already fabulous reputation, despite those barstewards on SSB, and some other fuds in the media …..we shall not be moved / defeated …….integrity and honesty are not negotiable…
Proper radio
http://glasgowradio.blogspot.co.uk/
thetimrieper
20:37 on
12 November, 2012
The truth will always ‘out’ …… They merely delay the inevitable…….think they might be wanting to keep it all under the carpet until after their share issue…..further duping the Newco supporters……
TET,
Just watched the first two mins of that video. Desperately sad stuff!
It seems to get worse every year. I remember Graham Speirs calling it out for what it was last year.A Sevcovian actually called in to Clyde on Sat. to berate the panel for not making a big fuss about the big pre-match fuss. You could detect the discomfort of the panel in having to then respond.
Anyway, here’s a sneak preview of next year’s possibilities:
Lee McCulloch will have the names of all those who fell at the Somme embroidered onto his shorts.
Mr Abie and Andy Cameron will dress up as Monty & Rommell and have a boxing match.
(Don’t worry, The Rev McCurry will referee so the right outcome will be assured).
NO TO JOINT SPONSORSHIP WITH SEVCO
Billy Bhoy
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
Exactly what im thinking, their propaganda machine seems
to be going into overdrive just when the prospectus is due out.
PF Ayr
The Palencia president said today that Real Oviedo was the model they had hoped to follow. He thinks they have had great support from local “institutions” in Asturias, which I took to mean the local authorities, whereas the corresponding organisations in Palencia were prepared to let their city’s club go to the wall.
You’ll do well to get Mr Abie…..
Prestonpans Bhoy
Money was taken off my account last month,tickets arrived last week.
if scottish football dies then celtic will die with it, because celtic may be a global club but we play in scotland. celtic were 1 of 30 + clubs robbed by oldco.
scottish football needs changed from top to bottom but only one club robbed and cheated so why should everyone suffer?
Eyes wide open 13:21. thanks for the info, best of luck to the man from Donegal.
Hoping for improvements throughout the season.
Picking up 3-4 points in the last two grupp games is the target.
When Lassad is up and running along with the returning fitness of Broonie,Sammy and Hooper we should see better attacking displays.
We lack pace at the moment.
KTF
Itaiabhoy.
The huns couldn’t spell dignity.
Can’t mind who posted about when the gun was fired and 2 thirds of the the crowd ran to govan shipbuilding.
Think it might have been steinreisupreme.
Anyways it clamped a few huns today.hh
EastCoast BHOY
20:48 on
12 November, 2012
Thanks, very odd, that will be the first time in years I’ve not got a ticketfrom them. Ah well, will just watch it on the telly :(
Next year , the huns are remembering their efforts in WW 2, where they bravely stayed at home to build ships, They are planning a 21 Rivet Gun Salute
50 shades of green
20:11 on 12 November, 2012
‘regarding stewards removing people at yesterdays game.
same thing happened in the north stand upper.
pretty sure its folk on the pay up scheme who for some reason not paid the final payment.’
1. Would the automated turnstiles not be able to pick that up?
2. To those who might be at risk here– don’t sit in your own seat. The board should be grateful that people are turning up at all at the moment.
I would like to say I’m surprised that the regiments involved allowed their troops to behave in such a manner in what was supposed to be a rememberance event, As I said I’d like to say I’m surprised but I’m not.
only in Scotland
Prestonpans
You’ve just reminded me I forgot to apply for Tynecastle tickets!!!!
Wee phone call required now me thinks ;-)
When do Celtic hand over the money to Hearts?
HT
the doors ill be shut before we play them next
Hamiltontim
20:55 on
12 November, 2012
Well if you get more than one ticket then you have my mobile number :-)
chancerprestonpans.csc
Messi still chasing the world record for goals scored in a year. He has overtaken Pele but is still behind Gerd Muller…………I think.
Gene’s a Bhoys name
20:55 on 12 November, 2012
I think you’ll find that the regiment’s will not be at all happy with the behaviour.
off for the night have a good and safe one bhoys and girls
Never thought I’d say this, but in the latest SFM blog STUART COSGROVE, yes STUART COSGROVE actually talks sense.
A couple of quotes to whet the appetite:
Armageddon was a tissue of inaccuracies from the outset. It tried to script a disaster-movie of chaotic failure and financial disaster and at the very moment when senior administrators should have been fighting for the livelihood of the league, they were briefing against their own business.
The biggest single barrier to change was the lingering and outmoded notion that Rangers subsidised Scottish football. As a supporter of a club that had spent seven economically stable years in a league that Rangers have never played in made me deeply suspicious and I was in the words of the we-forums ‘seething’ that St Johnstone were portrayed as somehow ‘dependent’ on a club that was already fatefully insolvent.
http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/