You and I have seen enough of the football business to know that even when someone verbally commits to joining Celtic, we should assume nothing. Eddie Howe wanted his next destination to be an English Premier League city, not Glasgow. Right now, the Bat Signal is lighting the clouds, anyone who wants to secure English football’s best young manager had better make their move over the weekend. This is how football works, so let’s not get carried away.
If he arrives, it will be an appointment at the higher end of expectations, compare and contrast to Man City youth coaches who have never been in charge of a dressing room full of adults. Or even Roy the Intense.
Having filtered through so many possibilities in recent weeks, I can find fault with every one of them, even Brendan Rodgers, who is clearly the best manager in British football right now, did not get a tick in the box when it came to recruitment. We will critically assess Howe if and when he becomes Celtic manager. For now, let’s just hope we get our man.
Falkirk are atop the third tier and nurse a grievance from a year ago, when they were pipped to promotion by 0.03 of a point per game average by Raith Rovers. Tomorrow’s Scottish Cup tie has all the hallmarks of an underdog fully motivated against an inconsistent giant. Some of us will remember a comparable freezing cold night 15 years ago when a young Falkirk striker, Anthony Stokes, scored at Celtic Park on his way to a penalty competition victory in the League Cup. Let’s turn up prepared and hungry this time; I want the Scottish Cup.
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Big G on 2nd April 2021 11:00 pm
Scullyboy, do you know who jim white is, I’m startling to think you’re in your, 20’s
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I apologise. I did misread you. Yes, I do know all about Jim White, but as I said I misread you and allowed the beer to do the talking. Sorry.
HH
https://twitter.com/geeedawwg/status/1378102100102643714?s=24
First pint after lockdown?
Under 11 hours until our team kick off in defence of The Scottish Cup.
JobobaldieCSC
i hope they keep these saturday/sunday evening kick off times when fans are allowed back in
Monster Munch Boyd saying Howe could be another Mowbray. I can smell his fear.
!!BADA BING!! on 3RD APRIL 2021 8:05 AM
https://twitter.com/geeedawwg/status/1378102100102643714?s=24
First pint after lockdown?
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Not enough tables to sit yer pint on – need to get the practicalities right for you serious beer-quaffing gentlemen and ladies.
HH
BGFC
BANKIEBHOY1 on 3RD APRIL 2021 7:42 AM
Jimmy Bhoy………..
one of the best gigs I went to was at the QM Union- The Christians 87′ 88…I think………
Phenomenal night, after the set they hung around the bar and just got wrecked with all of us, the lead singer was a big hit with the rather discerning ladies of the QMU as I remember…….You’d a got on well with him!
HH.
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IF I had been there I would have taken Garrys Burds aff of him…No probs….LOL.
What a voice he had, I read that he went to live in Paris in the early 1990′ ?
HH.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/thecelticstar.com/video-eddie-howe-micd-up-during-afc-bournemouth-training-session/amp/
Dalglish is there at the end of the session
Good morning cqn on matchday from a beautiful Garngad
Get Howe in, give him cash and watch The Glasgow Celtic soar. Simple.
Speculate to accumulate, spend to win this title and get straight into Champions League proper.
COYBIG
What a day yesterday in that lovely sun, I need another case of Tennents for the game tonight😂 and the wife is not happy.
Anyway have a good day yall off to specsavers then B and Q then fence painting followed by a few beers for the game tonight.
Hail Hail
D :)
Obviously next years title… 😣
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 3RD APRIL 2021 8:50 AM
i hope they keep these saturday/sunday evening kick off times when fans are allowed back in
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Sorry I disagree. Great for watching on TV, but not for actually attending.
HH
Give McGregor a new 4 year deal, top money, make him captain
Good luck to the Celts today, a step on the road to Hampden.
World’s closed until further notice. Country’s in disarray. Celtic are a club in crisis. Again. So what, the game’s on. C’mon the hoops.
I’m sure these guys wish they came from Bournemouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dZ0i77Pz0&ab_channel=TheBrightonBeat
RC on 2ND APRIL 2021 6:55 PM
If Hughes does come in, it doesn’t necessarily follow that Harkin won’t come in, two different roles.
I think a technical Director deals with the every day running of stuff but a DOF is all about the structures. It may also just come down to Howe saying this is who and what I want and Celtic bending.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Sorry I disagree. Great for watching on TV, but not for actually attending.
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sorry to disagree with your disagreeing 😄
but it is also great for attending, for me anyway
each to their own…
Give McGregor a new 4 year deal, top money, make him captain
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not convinced about any of those
big season for him coming up
Eddie Howe ticks around 90% of my boxes and, as it’s clearly not Clemente (or Marsch) I’m happy with him. I didn’t do an analysis of him when looking at managers as, like many, I assumed he’d end up the an English Premier League team. Anyway, here’s a very brief summary:
Took over Bournemouth back when they were in League 2. As they were Ohhh n administration they had a -17 points punishment and transfer embargo to contend with. He kept them up comfortably. His second season saw them gain promotion to League 1.
Burnley came calling giving him his first taste of the Championship. 8th and 13th place finishes followed. In his second year, his mother sadly passed away, and thus he resigned from his post.
He took the reigns at Bournemouth again, securing promotion to the Championship in his (second) debut season. A creditable 10th place finish in their first season in the Championship was followed by promotion to the premier league. 4 seasons of safety followed.
Last season Bournemouth were relegated. A good start to the season tailed off and Bournemouth were really poor after the COVID restart – not alone in that as several teams were: Liverpool and Leicester being two obvious examples. They also had two major pieces of bad luck: firstly, Fraser refused to play when the league restarted to avoid the risk his Bosman transfer to Newcastle might fall through if he got injured/contracted COVID.
The second piece of bad luck was a hammer blow! Bournemouth finished 1 point behind Aston Villa and had a better goal difference. Villa famously “earned” a draw at Sheffield United because the Hawkeye system didn’t work and SU had a perfectly good goal disallowed. That happens in football, but when the PL spend a fortune on Hawkeye, it’s extraordinary bad luck that it goes wrong and that point saved Villa’s status.
He left by mutual consent and said he wanted a year out to learn and spend time with his family. He puts in the hours and Bournemouth players write to Mrs Howe to thank her for letting him do so. That probably partly explains why he knocked us back in November – he wanted a break and didn’t want to be moving his family (or away from his family) during lockdown. He also apparently turned down other jobs in England in this time, so it suggests he promised his family 12 months out and stuck to it.
Signing policy has, on the whole, been pretty good. Ibe and Solanke were the obvious poor signings – though Solanke was someone with real promise having been at Chelsea and Liverpool. Those failures are offset by the massive successes of Calum Wilson (Coventry to and England international), Nathan Ake, Ramsdale, Mings, etc.
Lots been said about his style – the boys analaytics fella has done some analysis here: https://mobile.twitter.com/BhoysAnalytics/status/1372864780936040448
More here (which shows how, left winger aside (and I’d expect us to look at Stanislas on a Bosman) our midfield is already in place in Forrest, Turnbull, Soro and CalMac): https://www.footballcoin.io/blog/bournemouth-fc/
SPIDEY101- Howe overachieved at Bournemouth, won 2 successive promotions to EPL, on a budget of tuppence, he probably should have left 2 seasons ago when they hit the ceiling.
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 3RD APRIL 2021 9:46 AM
Yeah, you are absolutely correct. Kick off times will never suit everybody.
Personally ( if we ever get back to normal ) I prefer the traditional 15.00hrs ko for attending the game and an early afternoon ko for watching away games in the boozer.
However I seem to remember the very unpopular 18.05 hrs Time on a Sunday night gave us our biggest attendance of the season, against St Johnstone.
HH.
Let’s all- makes a statement, new manager, new captain…..Callum could get 3 times his money in England, the guy needs a rest BTW
The first important step IF Howe accepts the position is to replace the existing directionless low morale with a culture of respect care, and professionalism, current staff throughout ALL football depts as Broony’s recent explanation of why he choose Aberdeen reveals the months of indecision and lack of leadership, indeed there has been no leadership even when the previous manager was in situ, Howe will have to infuse in staff that their immediate future if they choose to stay at Celtic is secure, reassuring words and confidence as below
https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/1378270924399591425?s=20
clinching the title in motherwell.66
https://twitter.com/tirnaog_09/status/1378245324939091968?s=19
“one wonders how long this Stein era is going to go on” Archie
hh
EDDIE HOWE: The Big Interview with Graham Hunter Podcast #26
https://youtu.be/Lr_Y6iPC-wk
Visited the isle of Staffa twice never as magical as this
https://twitter.com/LifeAfloat/status/1378077297232723972?s=20
Team sheet latest………………………..James Forrest
I hate sat night football.
Let’s all- makes a statement, new manager, new captain…..Callum could get 3 times his money in England, the guy needs a rest BTW
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he definitely needs a rest. cant argue with that. he plays far too much football without enough rest in between
Is the new pub,the old Grace.Need to be keeping an eye on those windows.Lovely entrance.
BadaBing – you’re right, he stayed 1 or 2 seasons too long. I think he was banking on another job and Bournemouth getting compensation, so I admire his loyalty.
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@Stephen4_2
One for the Celtic Granda’s. A very young big Yogi in action at a packed Cappielow in early 1960’s
https://twitter.com/Stephen4_2/status/1378242487647670273/photo/1
SPIDEY101
Excellent as always
LIONROARS67 on 3RD APRIL 2021 10:52 AM
Visited the isle of Staffa twice never as magical as this
https://twitter.com/LifeAfloat/status/1378077297232723972?s=20
that would be brilliant B.last time i was in Tobermory a mini orchestra were hoping to get out and perform and the weather was not like your clip.Ben More great hill,went down to Iona watchin sea eagles talon their tea out
he locb.
wee bit bout fingals cave,isle of Staffa and boating in from Tobermory.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/all-you-need-to-know-about-exploring-fingals-cave-in-scotland/%3famp=1
hh
Spidy
Excellent as always. And much appreciated.
I’ve been a bit of a Howe fan for a while.
I would be delighted if he joined and did a transformation/restoration stint.
I’d hope for three years. He might hope for 2!
HH jg
AN TEARMANN on 3RD APRIL 2021 11:53 AM
Iona with sea eagles talon their tea oot
Those are memories forever
Thanks for the link still love the idea of kayaking in
how did we spend millions and lose the league so badly – gonna hurt for a long time.
Spidey101 on 3rd April 2021 9:50 am
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Excellent stuff – as always.
A bit of stability and a gameplan will get the league bac – dem lot are not good- got to where they are via the refs.
Saint Stivs on 3rd April 2021 11:40 am
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Love the photies – lots of memories associated with them.