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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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  3. Kojo on

    Bada Bing..

     

     

    Thanks fur ..the Video Clip.

     

     

    Noo..

     

     

    THAT’s Whit Ah’m Talkin’ Aboooooootttttttttttttttttttttttttt!

     

     

    This Kid.. wull Go places..if… they gie him the Price o’ a Ticket.

     

     

     

    He has the Magic.. awright.. He wid fit Right in.. tae the Ongoing

     

     

    Fairy Tale..

     

     

    That ..IS… The Celtic Fitba and Athletic Club..

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

     

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Yer pal..who likes ye aloater

  7. kikinthenakas on

    TET

     

     

    He is a belter as is Jackson Irvine, been to a few under 20 games and Ibrahim has looked the part too. Think they might get a run later in the season….

  10. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Paul67,

     

    So the sfl and meeja are complicit in fabricating a story to manipulate the market and encourage the up take of a share flotation, publicising a proposal that has already been discredited must be a bit dodgy surely.

  11. Thindimebhoy on

    Whilst we are in the tail end of remembering

     

     

    Lest we Forget

     

     

    The team of “the people” basically bankrupted the game here just to get one over the tims

     

     

    Their hate for timmy overshadowed common sense and national purpose

     

     

    Lets hope Celtic gets to fekk out of it before they come back and start the phoney war all over again

     

     

    new horisons csc

  12. THE EXILED TIM on

    kikinthenakas

     

     

    I have seen a bit of Jackson Irvine, a superb prospect, Ibrahim is making the bench regular enough, throw him on, he obviously has what it takes.

     

     

    I still remember his antics when we had the league trophy presented last season, he was amazing, he really enjoyed it, he gets it.

  15. Kojo on

    Canamalar.

     

     

    Pal..

     

     

    Paddy has the sklll… he has experience.. he his the Fitba’ Brain..

     

     

    Howevahhhhhh..

     

     

    He lacks the maist Important thing..

     

     

    Which, tae Adjust to a Chinge in Circumstances..

     

     

    He always wants tae Tak oan .. that Extra Guy.

     

     

     

     

    Sure, Sometimes..he breaks thru.. but.. the S.P.L. defences..are noo .. well up tae his

     

    tricks.. NOW…and they cut him aff at the Pass.

     

     

    If..

     

     

    Paddy.. could adjust his Ideas.. tae suit the New Change in Circumstances..

     

     

    and..

     

     

    Become.

     

     

    Mair of a Provider. rather than a Wan MAN Band..

     

     

     

     

    He may.. commence tae convince.. Me.. and the Celtic Movers and Shakers that he

     

    is worth much mair Playing time… if……. he would show signs that he

     

    wiz dropping the TANNER BA’.. Mantle

     

     

    However..he has failed to do that..

     

     

    In Ma opinion.. He is noo..Grist fur the transfer Mill.. when the Windows Open fur bizness..

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still. Laughin’

  16. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Jude…,

     

    I expect Paddy would need to approach him, a he is only responsible for the u20’s

  18. kikinthenakas on

    TET

     

    Spot on…..hope you enjoy Lisbon next week…will be having a few here…wish I was going and hope you meet up with the CQN wine club!

     

    Kikinthenakas

  21. Kojo on

    Gotta Go

     

     

    Good Night Scotland

     

    Good Night Ireland

     

    Good Night Wales

     

    Good Night England

     

    Good Night Canada

     

    Good Night New Zealand

     

    Good Night Australia

     

     

    And

     

     

    Good Night.. Benny Cuthill, wherever you are.

     

     

    Kojo

     

     

    Still.. Laughin’

  22. THE EXILED TIM on

    kikinthenakas

     

     

    Oh I will enjoy it, tho things have changed, the wife will not be going now, the lassie who was supposed to be looking after our animals can’t now manage it, family crisis, can’t be helped.

     

     

    I am now going to take the bus to Lisbon, she needs the car, so overnight from Granada, arrive in Lisbon about 6 in the morning, then off for a few hours kip, and up as fresh as an auld fella.

     

     

    I honestly don’t think we will get beat, have the good feeling :>)

     

     

    HH

  24. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Jude…,

     

    We’ll see, we’ll also see if Paddy wants it enough,

     

    I also have a sneaking suspicion the powers that be don’t like the support he gets from the crowd which may be another negative for him to overcome, especially the Fenian army stff.

  27. kikinthenakas on

    TET

     

    Shame about your Mrs not being able to attend.

     

    Canny see you goin for a kip tho!

     

    Beating Barca on our anniversary

     

    Qualifying in Lisbon

     

    That has a great Celtic ring to it.

  29. Andrew67 on

    Canamalar

     

     

    I’m just home from a fundraiser for a Scottish senior football club function.

     

     

    At that dinner I was able to speak to someone who has up close and personal ,first hand experience of Paddy.

     

     

    He told me that Paddy’s problem was fitness.

     

    He said his skill was up there with the best, but that he had abused his body bevying in the earlier days of his career.

     

    The result is that he can’t be trusted to play wide , because he doesn’t have the stamina to track back.

     

     

    He said that 20 mins was his limit.

     

     

    He told a personal story about how poor Paddy was when asked to do stamina training.

     

     

    A67

  30. THE EXILED TIM on

    kikin

     

     

    Something about Benfica, just can’t put the finger on it, but it just feels right.

     

     

    Aye the Mrs is a tad dissapointed, but can’t be helped, the lassie’s family comes first, as we all know and understand.

     

     

    Watch that vid I put up, well worth it, and if you can’t muster a wee tear………:>)

  31. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    T E T

     

     

    Great stuff. Shld send that to that wee rat bag ferez who’s at the London huns just now but wears a deed clubs tap!!

     

     

    ps I dont know if thats his name btw.

  32. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Thindimebhoy,

     

    Problem signing the petition, looks like you must live in Ann American state

  35. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Thindimebhoy

     

     

    Big enquiry about to start down under about child abuse years ago. Not going to be pretty reading for the Catholic church.

  40. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    andrew67,

     

    We discussed his stamina earlier, his only run of games 11 proved to me and many others that neither his stamina or defensive duties were in question, both statistically and physically.

     

    In fact his defensive nous surprised me on the number of times he made winning tackles in our box and came out turning defence into attack.

     

    Stamina for me, is an easy sop that has persisted only because that is what we’re told to believe.

  41. Thindimebhoy on

    jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/

     

     

     

    00:37 on 13 November, 2012

     

     

     

    The problem with child abuse is that its almost universal and endemic, no country, idealogy or religion is exempt

     

     

    It seems we are guilty in varying degrees

     

     

    Of course if you erode the rights of children the grown ups make money

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