Appointing a manager is an incredible gamble but the risks can be mitigated, especially at a club which is successful or even pointing in the right direction. In this case, clubs should look to build upon whatever platform they have. Bringing in a new guy with a team development strategy which is completely different from the existing plan accentuates the risks.
This is why the boot room strategy is successful over any extended period. Build on what you have, sign players needed by the squad and who have been scouted extensively. The new man may or may not prove to be the world’s best coach but at least he’ll have a successful infrastructure to insulate the club from lurching into oblivion.
When Gordon Strachan succeeded Martin O’Neill, Gordon picked up a scouting folder, flew to Poland and got on with the development project, much as Martin would have, had he stayed. Celtic were technically no less successful when Tony Mowbray took over in 2009 but the team, and strategy, were tired. A change of direction was appealing, we couldn’t continue to sign Hibs players, although the execution of the new strategy was flawed. The writing was on the wall from the moment we signed £3.9m Marc-Antoine Fortune.
Neil Lennon was an enormous gamble when he was appointed in 2010. He was a rookie, had never signed a player, won a trophy (as manager), or deployed a game plan in anger. There were a few facts in his favour. He’d worked with the other coaches at the club, as well as chief scout, John Park, and Peter Lawwell. For years, they shared a development vision. Celtic retreated into a strategy closely aligned to the vision of the remaining technical staff.
Despite the Scottish Cup semi-final debacle against Ross County Neil got the job, spent much of the next year learning a few painful lessons and hasn’t looked back since. The club gambled on the guy with ultimate responsibility, but they knew he was not about the step out on a ledge.
The time to have a root-and-branch clear-out is following a John Barnes-type season. The manager was wrong, as was tactics, scouting and team development plan. Martin O’Neill brought with him radical and necessary change. This worked at Celtic but, if anything, it is even more risky than appointing a rookie. The lower leagues of England are full of clubs who have gambled unsustainable money on a manager only to come a cropper.
There are gems out there, Pochettino and Simeone, for example, but finding them is a challenge. Pochettino pitched up at Southampton after being sacked by a hugely underperforming Espanyol, and Simeone got the Atletico Madrid job after several years of average-to-poor returns.
Big Davie Moyes was a good manager at Everton but watching him at Manchester United was a bit like watching him 30 years ago in a Celtic shirt. He started by dismantling whatever platforms were in place and served notice he would be following a Haphazard and Wasteful player recruitment policy on the final day of last summer’s transfer window by blowing all his pocket money on a guy he didn’t need and refused to sign for less money a few weeks earlier. He had to go.
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thunder road
My Brother in law also hails from Falkirk, although he’s a hun. My sister is a bitter disappointment.
Ernie
You answer iPaddy’s nonsense …saved me ..ta
Btw …if the sheriff had misdirected the jury COPFS would have appealed …but, you knew that
Jungle Jim @ 19:17
EMBRAMIKE
Where in the renewal pack is the reference to THEM? I looked just now but couldn`t see it.
JJ,
if you look inside back cover under “HCTS”, second paragraph in right hand column, stating ….
“Season Tickets in sections 115 to 118 (inclusive) and 416 to 419 (inclusive) are not valid for a home cup competition match versus Rangers FC and Season Ticket holders, including memebers of the HCTS, are not guaranteed a ticket for these matches”
No excuses this time !! Straight from CFC
Mwd.
All due respect. Your decision to side with a party who persecute celtic fans and to allow them free reign in Scotland will have massive implications for you and your sons future. Lucky that you won’t be visiting celtic park any more as this will reduce the chances of you or your son picking up a criminal record and all due to the party that’ll rule after independence. All my opinion of course.
derbyshirebhoy
18:56 on
22 April, 2014
So sorry reading your post,stay strong and be assured of prayers and good wishes from many other contributers. Your on my list now. HH
derbyshirebhoy
18:56 on 22 April, 2014
Truly sorry to read that.
derbyshirebhoy
Just came back on to read your very brave post, you’re a true Celt and I’ll be thinking of you.
Hail Hail
Billy bhoy:
Lots of non-Celtic stuff on here. Lots of posters with particular messages to sell.
If we can tolerate neo-con, trickle-down reaganomics with a dash of misogynistic, supremicist, good ole boy imperialism then I’m sureve can tolerate your particular pidge; keep on keeping on…
For what its worth as a Welsh-speaking English Irishophile living in the land of song and poets, I’d probably vote ‘yes’…
Ernie
Why would the jury convict on an aggravated breach charge but not an aggravated assault one for any other reason that they didn’t really grasp the issues?
The guy offered a guilty plea to common assault before the trial but they managed to acquit him of any assault, whether common or aggravated. Most likely scenario is that they didn’t really understand the issues.
Derbyshirebhoy.
Thoughts with you.
Don’t lose hope, medical advances are being made every day in the fight against cancer.
Hail hail
I paddy.
Gct posted the gist of a conversation he had with one of the jurors. I’d believe that before blaming ignorance or bad advice.
derbyshirebhoy
Your in all our thoughts mate
HH
iPaddy McCourt Supports Wee Oscar
19:42 on 22 April, 2014
They didn’t convict on an aggravated breach.
They deleted the aggravation and convicted on a simple breach.
They could have done the same with the assault.
Great, our resident kid-on fiscal is on to explain matters
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
18.51
I’ll hold off acknowledging the decline of the Blazerati for now, thinking that the credibility test for the changes reported in today’s SFA Statement will be next year.
We know that CO was re-elected unopposed last year for two years, half of the normal four year investiture.
Co-incidentally, the British FIFA Vice-Presidency position falls to be filled in 2015.
It’ll be another defeat for transparency and decency should that wretch be bounced out of Park Gardens under the new structure only for him to land in Zurich, then.
quonno
‘The problem at present and probably for some time to come, is that Scotland generally votes Labour and gets lumbered with right wing governments.’
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Makes you wonder maybe what the people of Banff and Buchan and places like that know that you don’t.
They’d rather bathe in their own excrement than vote Labour, yet they now vote SNP.
ernie lynch
19:46 on 22 April, 2014
iPaddy McCourt Supports Wee Oscar
19:42 on 22 April, 2014
They didn’t convict on an aggravated breach.
They deleted the aggravation and convicted on a simple breach.
They could have done the same with the assaullt
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So the aggravated element wasn’t proved beyond reasonable doubt. That’s up to the jury. The fact that they failed to convict the guy of assault of any kind when the whole nation saw him assault Lenny on live TV kinda suggests to me that they didn’t clearly understand the issues.
Just a thought
I’d like to see Mourinho try to poke Simeone in the eye……..aye….
Maybe big Johan fancies throwing his name forward for a recently vacant spot in the EPL. Sorry to see you go big man – you have been a great servant to our club.
IPaddy
Wee dig at me
You have no idea what you are talking about and are on the verge of embarrassing yourself
Quit while you’re behind
Maybe big Johann didn’t want to take a pay cut……
Derbyshirebhoy and jamesgang thinking of both of you this evening I hope coming on here can help you if only a little
ipaddy mccourt supports wee oscar
19:47 on 22 April, 2014
Great, our resident kid-on fiscal is on to explain matters
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Shakes head ruefully but desists from flouncing…
:-)
The Honest Mistake
Do you make every decision in life based on the football club you support? Serious question.
Na wait don’t bother answering. You’re not going to get it as you can’t see through your green triple tinted specs to make a decision one way or the other based on what is best for your country rather than your football club.
Sadly there are too many like you who will decide this on a single issue or an ingrained hatred of SNP.
But fire away.
MWD
Thoughts with jamesgang and derbyshirebhoy. Hope you guys keep strong.
HH
So where is Big Dolph off to?
Mrs CRC is devastated
HH
CRC
Jamesgang and Derbyshirebhoy –
Stay strong and know that you have the full support and prayers of ole Jobo and, I’m sure, all CQNrs.
Jamesgang:
Sorry mate, not had time to read back to find out what your news is, only know what derbyshirebhoy’s is as there was a post at the top of the page.
I will keep you also my Celtic Bros. in my thoughts and Prayers, You’ll Never Walk Alone and again as always…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
PF Ayr
So you are an actual procurator fiscal depute, aye?
LL.B?
Diploma?
Practising Certificate?
If anyone cares – I was a member of the SNP as a student.
CRC
I wondered that too
Next assistant manager ??
Ipaddy/Ernie
If memory serves me right the Jury in the Lennon case were set to convict when two of the members introduced the notion that Neil Lennon had been winding the Hearts fans up and had to an extent brought the attack on himself.
As a result of those statements, and a general discussion concerning Lennon’s public reputation, the aggravation was reduced.
None of what they discussed was produced in evidence and this was not an argument that was advanced or even alluded to by the defence for the accused.
Accordingly, the jury members introduced this element and any evidence or notion that supported it outwith the open court.
This version of events was later allegedly reported elsewhere by another jury member.
When dealing with a jury, when addressing them or charging them as the judge does you have to be really clear in spelling out what they can consider, must consider and must not consider in their deliberations.
Of course, once they retire to their room — the entire judicial process is in their hands and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it!
And two of the folk I used to kick around with are now MSPs
Ipaddy
Re PF Ayr
Never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to!
Rope, Noose, Neck …………
Eve all.
Whats the latest abt wee Oscar??
derbyshirebhoy
18:56 on 22 April, 2014
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Sorry to hear your bad news and by coincidence at about the same time as you, on 28th August 2013 I had accompanied my son Kevin and his partner to a consultation at Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy to hear the news of his oesophageal biopsies (about 150 over five visits), CAT scan, and x-rays and was given the bad news that it was cancer and was a large tumour, which may be inoperable.
The consultant didn’t hide his belief that there was not much chance for him but conceded he might be wrong and as a last resort had arranged for a PET scan and then if that proved encouraging then a further ultrasonic endoscopy test.
There is a sting to the tale of my son, though because though we all felt devastated by the initial bleak prognosis back in 2013 he was very brave and decided to go to the match that night with his mates. The Celtic v Shakhter Karagandy result is part of our rich history now and Kevin’s mum and I enjoyed watching it at home as we knew that for a few hours it would take our son’s mind off the trouble he had been through and was facing.
Now my son is like his mother, a placid, hard-working man who has never been in trouble in his life but when he came home he told us how he had managed to squeeze into a bar (Celtic Supporter’s London Rd?) and get a bottle of Bud which he took outside to the car for the journey home.
Then pounced on by two of Strathclyde’s finest and given a spot fine of £40!
So when I read the police in the ET http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/yob-fans-seen-using-streets-as-toilets-160060n.23713484 saying that the minor crimes around a football stadium will be committed by thugs who will later cause violence I am disgusted. Have we not got enough real crime to deal with rather than have highly trained police officers skulking around outside football stadia to make a killing from fines?
This is not about zero tolerance this is about criminalising football fans (and disproportionately Celtic fans) to make money or possibly for worse motives.
There is enough real trouble in the world without wasting time on trivial offences like urinating when toilets simply aren’t adequate to deal with crowds or the heinous crime of carrying an open bottle of beer ten yards to a car.
P.S. After the PET scan and further US endoscopy, 5 consultants conferred and Kevin underwent an Ivor Lewis procedure on 5th November at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and today he is making good progress and back in his seat at CP. The 1 year recovery the surgeons gave him looks to be on course and like you believe we are all Celts together and this site does often produce positivity for those in need.
So my heart goes out to you and to all those who battle cancer, which most of us will in our lifetimes, or at least experience it with a loved one.
H.H.
Cech off injured game changer maybe
IPaddy
What makes you consider it appropriate to ask personal questions of me on an open site ?
Suffice to say I am more than qualified to comment …..many on this can vouch for me
What about you ?