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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Td @1008
Hoi! Don’t funk with the George’s.
Thewanderers csc
thomthethim for oscar ok
09:59 on 23 April, 2014
VERY, VERY well said, that Mhan……..take a bow, and stop being so sensible, please…..!!!!!!!!
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors…..
you’ve never been to a scotland/ engerlund game then!!
Footage just in of Salmond’s speech today, St George’s day, in Carlisle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cUxawA_6w
“Impeach Bawface.”
St. George was a myth, made up by one of the Eddies, 11 or 111 no sure what one it was, think it was Eddie the III could be wrong, any history teachers in let us know before the pub opens?
Aw Ffs tony.
Give it a rest with the 111 bashing.
:p
tonydonnelly67
10:23 on
23 April, 2014
St. George was a myth, made up by one of the Eddies, 11 or 111 no sure what one it was, think it was Eddie the III could be wrong, any history teachers in let us know before the pub opens?
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he wasnae a myth, but never set foot in engerlund.
Desert bhoy
So where did he kill all the dragons then?
Thon peter Jones is a big lad. I think he’d give St Geo a good go.
Did St Andrew ever set foot in Alba?
Geordie… the dragon was the myth.
Desertbhoy
Oh thanks!!
You could have broken that to me a bit more gently!!!!
Or are you claiming the one he slayed was unmarried and had a lisp?? :)
Gene’s a Bhoy’s name
10:31 on
23 April, 2014
Did St Andrew ever set foot in Alba?
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he did indeedy
Geordie ….
in that example he would have thlayed it…
Ernie,
In answer to your question, Nope.
…..these was no dragon!!???
Gene’s a Bhoy’s name
10:31 on
23 April, 2014
Did St Andrew ever set foot in Alba?
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he did indeedy….
well mibbes no his foot.
thomthethim for Oscar OK:
Don’t mean to butt into your wee exchange with Vmhan, but this is the way I see it:
The old board were in it for their own gain, but they stood by the club and its ethos. After money they did have some principles, Robert Kelly especially so. During that period the club made some bold decisions that courted extreme sanction… The Flag, their refusal to play Hungarian champions Ferencvaros. They did make some mistakes too, the third game against Racing Club and going to Old Trafford to play some Austrian mob to recall just two.
The new board had a Flag Day too, when they humped Jim Farry but it wasn’t quite on the same scale as Robert Kelly’s Flag Day or his swivel finger to EUFA post the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Robert Kelly has gone now, and so too has the intrepid Fergus. I don’t remember either of the boards they served on lying to us as frequently as the present incumbents, actually, I don’t remember them lying to us at all, though I’m sure they maybe told a wee fib or two along the way. With their lies and deceits and their Machiavellianisms, the present board have driven me away from Celtic.
As a club, our Annus Mirabilis was without doubt 67, conversely, for me, our Annus Pudor ended when the Aberdeen fans awarded us our very own Medal of Honour with the banner proclaiming “YOUR SILENCE IS DEAFENING”.
There are just some things in life money just can’t buy; or so I believe.
Nae dragon, sack the board..
Kitalba
“I don’t remember them lying to us at all, though”
Had tinternet and the likes been available back them I’m sure we’d have found out the odd lie or ten.
” …whit happened tae aw th’ dragin munny?”
starry…. why thack the board??
Seen on TSFM
What with the mention of F1 and Sir Jackie, I noticed that a certain Paul Tyrrel is rumoured to be the new PR consultant at Ibrox. His task is apparently selling the upcoming 120-day super review.
An anonymous twitter account (again) is posting some interesting info. Although this may be a wannabe reposting extant material, I hadn’t heard of Tyrell, well not outside F1. The account is: @apocryphal5
Hmmmmmmmmmm
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40apocryphal5&src=typd
Geordie Munro:
Maybe….
Kit,
The old board never lied to us because they never told us anything.
I was never one for publicly attacking the club. We are family.
Bob Kelly’s days have gone.
He was a Corinthian and he would be eaten alive in today’s shark infested waters.
He oversaw and single handedly held the club back in terms of winning honours, via is insistence in controlling team selection through the affable and compliant Jimmy Mc. Grory.
His values may be suitable to Queens Park.
Still, we loved Celtic, unconditionally back in those more simple days…..sigh!
Who would take Peter Houston as assistant manager.
Not for me ,but just the usual chatter in the local roll shop this morning. :))
Myth and a chancer, some say Charles Green is related to him, and St George didn’t die, it was his horse that died, and something about a lesbian princess, or Lebanese princess, not sure.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/471923/Google-s-St-George-s-Day-Doodle-and-Medieval-myth
I wondered why the new article page was quiet.
I see lots of you are still posting on this one.
Alec Salmond’s in Carlisle?
Serves them right for signing wee Ignacio.
thomthethim for oscar ok
11:06 on 23 April, 2014
Kit,
The old board never lied to us because they never told us anything.
I was never one for publicly attacking the club. We are family.
Bob Kelly’s days have gone.
He was a Corinthian and he would be eaten alive in today’s shark infested waters.
He oversaw and single handedly held the club back in terms of winning honours, via is insistence in controlling team selection through the affable and compliant Jimmy Mc. Grory.
His values may be suitable to Queens Park.
Still, we loved Celtic, unconditionally back in those more simple days…..sigh!
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Not entirely in agreement with your last paragraph as my Da constantly moaned about the Kellys and desperately wanted rid of them. No other names but the Kellys mentioned in my memory
thomthethim for Oscar OK:
I don’t think Robert Kelly was God, he is/was as fallible as the next man and he proved it more than once. I liked him though, I liked him a lot. I liked his courage, his soul and his passion, thing money just can’t buy.
I’m not one for attacking the club in public either but wouldn’t it be grand if todays club would appreciate that that is a two way street.
Kitalba
I’m not one for attacking the club in public either
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Ha hahahahahahaha aye right, good wan.
For clarity……….
“Impeach Bawface.”
Kitalba cough, cough!
Robert Kelly has gone now, and so too has the intrepid Fergus. I don’t remember either of the boards they served on lying to us as frequently as the present incumbents, actually, I don’t remember them lying to us at all, though I’m sure they maybe told a wee fib or two along the way. With their lies and deceits and their Machiavellianisms, the present board have driven me away from Celtic.
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Selective amnesia?
BITTER TOGETHER
They are getting desperate
Same Newspaper: Different Headlines for Scotland from the rest of UK
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10201001284994916&id=1850757533
Kitalba
http://youtu.be/9EH1G4EwljM
Leftclick,
Peter Houston?
Neither up nor down.
I’m not for getting my knickers in a twist about the next assistant.
I could barely tell you who half our previous assistants were.
Billy,
During the era of the Kelly Kids, there was adverse reaction to Kelly’s policy.
His response was, if you don’t like it, stay away.
Kit,
I, too, admired Kelly’s principles, but, they also had a negative effect on the club, as mentioned in previous posts.
The world is a changed place since then and, for good or ill, we have to change with it.
It is not survival of the fittest or the most scrupulous It is the survival of the most adaptable.
Off to the Trading Post to barter for vittles.