Over the weekend, Erik Sviatchenko spoke about Scott Brown as Celtic’s “fine minister” as the captain had authority to fine players who broke discipline. In Erik’s instance, it was lateness. Scott Brown has been Celtic’s first line of discipline since Neil Lennon’s first period in charge. Young players were led by example, as more experienced players were given clear guidance of what was expected from them as a Celtic player.
Reprimanding a player for hitching a ride on a buggy intended for an injured colleague, as I once witnessed, requires oceans of respect from players and coaches alike. This takes pressure off the manager, who can ration his use of discipline for more select matters, when its rarity has more effect.
Controlling a squad of several dozen well-paid athletes is a challenge when results are not going your way and there are campaigns against the manager. Players cultivate all the wrong feelings when reading social media and pester their agents. At these times, the manager’s voice can lose effect. Scott Brown could not prevent our collapse this season but you do not need to think too hard to figure how heavily Neil Lennon and John Kennedy have relied on him. Not that you will hear any of this from Scott. I would have him in my corner before anyone else in football.
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GEEBEE1978
It’s dying tabloids trying to push sales.
PHILBHOY on 30TH MARCH 2021 8:48 AM
You ole charmer, still life in the ole dog yet, all lovely ladies of course just don’t tell the wife
PAUL67
“Swiss boss in Celtic link”
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The photograph of him does not fill me with confidence.
Surely there was another, more positive snap available………….somewhere?
The hallowed turf in 1976 being invaded by rock concert fans
https://twitter.com/MotherSoccerNL/status/1376667521269501953?s=20
LIONROARS67
Alas, at my age and physical condition, chat would be about all I could do!
Enough of my nonsense aff oot
I see Nicholas is talking tripe as usual. Surely Celtic are better to go through a proper interview process this time considering how the last one was handled.
lionroars67 on 30th March 2021 8:43 am
Time for a change of debate while we wait on white smoke
If you could invite 3 famous people to a dinner party, dead or alive, who would it be?
Billy Connolly, Nelson Mandela, and Joan Baez
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Jesus, Jinky and Elvis.
You’d need Jesus to do his bread trick if you had Elvis for dinner.
Better off with Lenny Henry……
I’m not too sure the tabloids are dying.
They probably make more money/profit now with online advertising and affiliate links than they did with their hardcopy ads.
Billy Connolly
Mick Jagger
Jimmy Johnstone
Sub- James Gandolfini
SIONNAIGH on 29TH MARCH 2021 10:58 PM
Dermot Desmond won’t let us down.
Comedy gold.
GEEBEE1978 on 30TH MARCH 2021 8:05 A
There’s nothing in that article to back up the headline. It’s pure clickbait, it doesn’t tell us anything about who might be interested in coming here.
Don’t play the Sms’s game
Geebee1978 7:59am
Couldn’t agree more. All this “figurehead” stuff really annoys me.
Bayern didn’t seem to think Hansi Flick needed someone with a bigger name as “manager” because he wasn’t well known enough. They had confidence in his coaching ability and trusted him with the top job.
Hasn’t worked out too badly!
LIONROARS67 on 30TH MARCH 2021 8:54 AM
The hallowed turf in 1976 being invaded by rock concert fans
https://twitter.com/MotherSoccerNL/status/1376667521269501953?s=20
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I was there. Smuggled in half bottles of wine.
George Orwell, Spike Milligan and Juliette Binoche 😉
LIONROARS67 on 30TH MARCH 2021 8:54 AM
The hallowed turf in 1976 being invaded by rock concert fans
https://twitter.com/MotherSoccerNL/status/1376667521269501953?s=20
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Went there as a huge Who fan….. Wee Alex Harvey blew them away….. first and only time that happened. “ I can see ma mammy’s house from here”, never mind I can see for miles!
DeniaBhoy on 30th March 2021 9:19 am
You’d need Jesus to do his bread trick if you had Elvis for dinner.
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Cheeky! We’ll not mention turning the water into wine.
HH
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 30TH MARCH 2021 9:55 AM
Exactly and I’m not even sure what a “figurehead” does. doesn’t it undermine the other coaches? Do they undermine him? Who’s in charge?
And if Roy Keane is such a figurehead, why did Sunderland players celebrate when he left and why couldn’t he get a tune out of Ipswich despite being given funds?
CELTIC40ME on 30TH MARCH 2021 9:34 AM
That’s true although this very website has run with the story too.
I was trying to make a broader point that we don’t have to just look at ex-Celt and/or Irish managers. There are plenty out there that would take the job.
Guests to dinner –
Sherpa Tensing Norgay, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus
And Polly Glot.
guests to dinner
1 – Rachel Allen cos she can cook and we would have something decent to eat instead of my rubbish
2 – Rachel Allen cos i could sit and listen to her accent all night
3 – Rachel Allen cos i want to snog her
😄
How about having Jesus, Muhammad and the Buddha around for dinner to clarify a few questions I have.
How about having Jesus, Muhammad and the Buddha around for dinner to clarify a few questions I have.
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i agree
some their explanations for stuff is slightly suspect
clarification could sort out a few of the worlds problems
The Mass of the Lord’s Supper is on Thursday if you want to joint him.
Will Rachel be there?
From the Front page of today’s Telegraph lest any of you well heeled Socialists have missed it.
No 10’s £2.6m question: what was wrong with the old room.
It was as if a courtroom had been repurposed as the set of an extremely patriotic ITV game show, or the Glasgow R*angers club shop.
DENIABHOY on 30TH MARCH 2021 12:28 PM
To be fair, I think they’d be absolutely flabbergasted and maybe embarrassed at the legacy their words and actions left.
GREENPINTA @ 10:34
Agree 100% with all you say in your post.
Neil Lennon, post Dubia, is the only person to tackle the highly-selective & heavy-handed interptretation of covid-breaking guidelines against our club. He was reported to be ‘having a rant’ at the SNP government.
Since the Bolingoli, and indeed the Aberdeen incidents there has been ample proof that our ‘friends’ at Ibrox are being treated differently.
Why has no one else spoken out?
GENE on 30TH MARCH 2021 12:36 PM
The Mass of the Lord’s Supper is on Thursday if you want to joint him.
He can roll his ain … 😁
Awe_naw_nae_noo_article_oan_the_day_anaw_noo?
BSP
How many times can a man write about Scott Brown
Before you can call him a man?
bobbyzimmermanncsc
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 30TH MARCH 2021 12:48 PM
No need really; omnipresent beings are already at hers and everybody else’s.
GENE; nice one.
Not one for politics but thought I would share this i run a Cleaning buisness do a lot if pressure washing you can no longer get a honda gx engine in the UK thats the smaller engines for lawm mowers ect.Honda have totally pulled of UK 😃 because of brexit.
Maybe Paul’s waiting to announce the new manager on CQN. 🤣
MCPHAIL BHOY on 30TH MARCH 2021 8:48 AM
I am available for the Celtic manager’s job, just putting it out there. Well if Thierry Henry can do it why not me?
indeed.Tho most irish i know would know what to do with their hand when Thierry is anout :-)
ps did you see the wee mural done of the cottages going up to the cathedral ? a great uncle of mine bought some of the row last century.
smiled when i seen that.hoping to get back at ènd of summer hope your well
HH