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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Paddy has done many 90 mins without dying. Drink would only be a problem if he was still doing it.
Paddy’s difficulty is that he hasn’t convinced NFL that he is better than others in the. squad.
For me, he loses possession in critical areas too often.
HH
BMCUW
Along with Middlesborough
Remember Boksic, Karembeu, Ravanelli, Juninho et al?
Ernie 08.35
He wasn’t drunk.
He wasn’t questioning Paddy now.
He was telling me how he was at Rochdale ,and he genuinely believed that he was paying for it now.
He also said he was a smashing lad and that his skills ,were up there with the best.
A67
D/harm Bam
Thank’s for that .
I have no idea why my response to Clink/o was removed.
Possibly someone wanted the topic to die.
Incase I am weak ,fold and name my source to try and gain some credibility.
I won’t.
A67
Andrew67:
No matter how you qualify it, it was hearsay.
Dharma Bam \o/ stands up for Neil Lennon:
My post went too. Normally if it was Paul who deleted them then you are given a reason.
Bolton are vital to a strong EPL. The rules will be changed to allow them to survive in a new form and the leagues will be reconstructed to allow them to retake their rightful place in the top flight.
That’s how it usually works, isn’t it?
Andrew67
09:32 on
13 November, 2012
Kit
There is nothing derogatory in my post about Paddy in his time at Celtic.
I was given a reason as to why he doesn’t get more game time.
I was told his skill was not in question,but excesses in his earlier career meant that his body would not allow him to reach a certain standard of fitness now.
I actually don’t think that it is anything that most of us haven’t heard before.
A67
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You don’t think thats derogatory??????????????
Have to flounce bhoys.
Work to do.
A67
Perhaps the disappearance of posts is a hangover from the the site being unavailable overnight.
Dharma Bam \o/ stands up for Neil Lennon
Perhaps, but then again… Perhaps not!
Good morning fellow Celts
Players having a bevvy – shock horror!!
It’s been happening for donkey’s years and some of the most revered players in fitba history struggled with the oul’ Don Revie and the dubious delights if the bright lights…
They still played if they were good enough. So the issue seems to be that Paddy’s undoubted ball skills and footballing vision is not fully appreciated by successive Celtic managers
We could get into hours of chat on why that may be the case,but let’s not be blaming the bevvy …it comes down to ability to make a significant contribution to the team performance.
I would play Paddy from the start in some games at CP – tell him to fill the mighty hole in front of the massed ranks of SPL opponents and find a way in. Play him until he get knackered. Game should be won by then. Last Sunday would have been an opportunity and case in point.
Significant number of fans happy – simples!
HH
I feel there is a wee bit of the holier than thow on CQN this morning Andrew67 posted something he had been told and it wasnt as specialy bad but some posters jumping all over him.Come on Bhoys give him a break look back at some of your own posts let him without sin cast the first stone.H.H.
Dharma Bam
I heard the disappearance of the posts is Paula Broadwell threatening messages to the moderators. She allegedly said :back off my Paddy, you Poppy Tempests.
Andrew 67
As your reply to me was lost to the ether would you mind reposting or paraphrasing.
Also your blog name is newish.
What was your old blog name
Caught up on Youtube with the H/T display at Ibroke on Sat
Is that how you pay respect to those who have fallen? a rabble running around a fitba pitch……………………..
IMO their was Sectarian undertones to some of the behaviour displayed by present serving MOD personnel, certainly the MOD need to reflect on what took place at the bigotdome
League reconstruction back on the pages of the MSM
Who will front up the proposals for league reconstruction? SFA and SPL discredited
Chuck says that the SFL are good guys, the MSM tells us the SFL are good guys, they are, aren’t they………. step forward Longmuir to front league reconstruction proposals, the SFL website has no news or details on these proposals, just whose is pushing the this agenda for league reconstruction to allow Sevco back.
Zbyszek,
Well she does have friends in high places
lionroars67
Ally McCoist demands to know who is pushing these proposals for league reconstruction. :-))
Champions league returning…debt-free club….140 year history…Walter back…league reconstruction…..orange poppies….blah blah…
Is there a share issue coming I wonder?
lionroars67
Every hurtin’ dirty stinkin’ hun still in a position of power and corruption within the national game at a rough guess, Saturday’s “display” at the Bigotdome just confirmed their descent into even deeper extremism, they must not be allowed to destroy our game…
Liquidation for Sevco please..
lionroars67
Longmuir & co can try as hard as they like with their aim of trying to get SevCo back in the top flight asap
It will fail.The SPL clubs will boot these proposals into touch and the fans of the majority of Scottish clubs will not stand for it
Except Kilmarnock of course :)
Dharma Bam \o/ stands up for Neil Lennon
10:15 on 13 November, 2012
Zbyszek,
She does friends in high places?????
I live near Paddy. I could chap his door and find out the truth. I could ask the searching questions like “How come you don’t sit in the conservatory where I can see you on my way past.?” or “I’ve never seen you having a kick about with the kids in the garden what’s that about?”
Whatever the reason for Paddy McCourt’s failure to hold down a regular place in the team, I cannot see that change any time soon. He has all the skill in the world but he is never able to sustain it for the whole game. 20 minutes seems to be the most.
Morning CQNer’s
Now, what I’m about to say may not sit too well with most folk on here but none the less, I feel that it has to be said. I won’t be surprised if some heat comes my way but you know what, I’m not on here to win any – popularity contests – nor do I have any – vested interests !
So, here goes…Sunday’s result v’s St. Johnstone is what we can expect at CP from here on in, imo ! The reason why this is so is because…in Celtic’s dressing-room, you will find a clique, driven by cronyism, consisting of – Kris Commons – Charlie Mulgrew – Joe Ledley and headed by NFL !!!!
No matter how inept the performances of these thee players…they just seem to walk(unchallenged) straight back into the team.
This reminds me very much of the situation that, the late TB was confronted by when he took over the reigns at CP and had a decision to make regarding the failed central midfield axis of – the Maestro and Peter the Pointer. A CM pairing that had consistently failed for the previous five years and which led to the hugely talented – John Collins – having to play almost like a maverick. imo
As history will telly you….TB failed to make the correct call and paid the price for it.
Now the thing is…will NFL continue to accept the less than acceptable performances from the three players mentioned ? Or, will NFL get it right by dispensing with the – wee gang hut culture – of the dressing room and turn it into a, place were productivity is a must ?
Furthermore…I think it’s time we had an Alan Sugar type of person running ‘our’ club instead of those who are consumed by personal bonus.
Rant Over.
God Bless
Hail hail
starry plough
10:24 on
13 November, 2012
The commentary from Rankers TV was beyond belief
Apparently no club in the UK can match them in their support for the armed forces………………………unless of course you pay your taxes and make a 10 grand donation to poppyscotland, they pesky facts
FourGreenFields
10:16 on
13 November, 2012
Finger on the pulse there FGF, we demand to know
Ten Men Won The League
10:24 on
13 November, 2012
There is a new controlling force in Scottish fitba according to Chuck and the MSM the SFL have taken over!! the balance of power has shifted, like me you must have missed it
I agree the fans wont take it
Very grey , low 20s , it might monsoon , it might not ——
Haven’t seen the guff from Ibrox , won’t see the guff from Ibrox but a PTFC pal has and he said it had all the class of a mob of rapists celebrating virginity ..
Heading for Rome then Lisbon . — Curry , cherry brandy , fado and lots of very good record stores [ including a very good 2nd hand Aladdin’s cave ] —– all that plus a game of fitba …
New Scott Walker LP — Bish Bosch -arrived .. An extraordinary work . The woman from Padova doesn’t want to hear it again ,ever .
Planes to catch CSC –Way down south.
You can tell its international week
The crazies are back on CQN with their made up p***
KevJungle – Murdo 78/87 – 97/98 = Cheerio 10 in a row :o)
10:36 on
13 November, 2012
Morning CQNer’s
Now, what I’m about to say may not sit too well with most folk on here but none the less, I feel that it has to be said. I won’t be surprised if some heat comes my way but you know what, I’m not on here to win any – popularity contests – nor do I have any – vested interests !
Absolutely hysterical best laugh this morning
You get stuck in mate
Yawn!!!!!
Kev…
Is wee murdo writin’ yer script?
lionroars67
I’m still waiting for the “decent rangers fans” we hear so much about making themselves known and challenging the EDL like direction their club seems to be taking.
They must be forming themselves into powerful action groups to stop this disgusting theatre going on as we speak, they are aren’t they all those decent bluenoses that people talk about.
All joking aside that performance at the Redneck Ranch at the weekend is sinister in it’s conception and execution, I would love to know who is the driving force behind that???
Greetings from a very wet & very windy Tipperary, where my Golf outing has been cancelled, which maybe is just as well considering I couldn’t hit the ball out of my way yesterday. I agree with Joe that ye have been a bit hard on poor old Andrew. When Paddy was playing League of Ireland over here, the issue of his stamina and ability to perform for 90 mins was a regular topic. Now I must say that maintaining that this is a result of the guy permanently damaging his body through boozing at an early age sounds totally nonsensical and I most certainly wouldn’t believe that.
Well, there’s the usual morning grenade thrown. It’ll be ‘off oot’ soon. :-)
starry plough
10:45 on
13 November, 2012
SOT PTFC friend summed it up perfectly
Peacekeepers around the world?
The MOD really need to have a look at Ibroke on Sat
Don’t suppose anyone knows when this damned FTT decision will be made public? It’s taking forever.
Damp squib mair like!
KevJungle
to quote you “Furthermore…I think it’s time we had an Alan Sugar type of person running ‘our’ club instead of those who are consumed by personal bonus.”
Alan Sugar not interested in personal bonus, i think a bit of wee came out i was laughing so much!!
Brillaint lets get a (failed) computer salesman in to run our club!!
still laughing
hail hail