One lesson on what happens when you undermine your manager in the days before facing Celtic was not enough for Newco, who today let it be known Steve Gerrard is on their shortlist when they tell Graeme Murty he will not retain the job.
One of the worst things for a football club is irrelevance, so this chat about Gerrard has achieved some merit – they are being reported. The ‘news’ may or may not have more substance than earlier news, that Derek McInnes was about to be appointed manager, but giving your supporters reason to believe they are relevant is worth something.
The seven thousand or so who will attend Celtic Park on Sunday (they should be there for the start of the game at least, although they tend to leave en-mass on conceding the fourth goal) will have a sprint in their step for the future. It may even sustain them through what could be a harrowing Celtic experience, comforted in the knowledge that whatever happens, the future is yet to be mapped out.
This plays out differently in the dressing room. Graeme Murty’s authority has been shot. No wonder players can openly question the manager’s ability. Even if this leaking of part of the short list sells a few season tickets, it will do nothing for the team on Sunday, much like Bitcoin bonus codes.
Murty must tactically prepare a team to deny Celtic the chance to win the championship. On his day, he is capable of achieving this, on two occasions now he has taken a point from Celtic Park. But these results were achieved when he arrived on the Celtic Way ahead of a united and embattled squad, with the support of board and fans. Not the players don’t want him, the fans don’t want him and the board don’t even consider the task ahead of him when writing to fans or speaking to the media.
Steven Gerrard is, of course, another Celtic fan/brother and would become Newco’s third successive manager with these credentials. He has been a regular at Celtic games for years. You would be forgiven for regarding this persistent policy as flattery. I don’t see any problems with the appointment.
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But these results were achieved when he arrived on the Celtic Way ahead of a united and embattled squad
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On both occasions I think weather conditions more than any tactical nous were a factor in them getting a point.
A factor hopefully not in play on Sunday.
HH
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Definition of insanity doing the same things over and over
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Definition of insanity doing the same things over and over again”
Surely that’s a definition of OCD???
You know some goon will get unveiled at Poundland on cup final day, Jabba style…
!!Bada Bing!! on 26th April 2018 2:06 pm
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 26TH APRIL 2018 2:01 PM
Wonder who Jim’s got lined up to be the first player involved in an “old firm tug of war”…..?
Fernando Torres?
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Reckon he will keep the “big names” exclusively for them.
More likely to be some random Motherwell player that we’re not remotely interested in so that they can “beat Celtic to his signature”.
Employ an ex-Liverpool legend as a manager, with no top-level managerial experience, at a club that’s going through challenging times? What could possibly go wrong?
Said John Barnes.
Deadly serious about the weather conditions favouring them in those 2 games.
Although, at one point. Gordon tried the now famous lob onto the head of the full back (KT, in this case) but it took a bounce before him and the wind took it over his head.
So maybe it saved us rather than them…still maintain it would have been 4-1 or 5-1 if it’d been a decent surface :)
HH
When the whistle goes it be 11 men versus 12 as per usual. We still need to win the match.
I don’t really do gloating.
Pre gloating I fear to be a precursor to hubris.
HH jamesgang
Feels Like Rain…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0sAVMfrWM
Jamesgang
Wise words
However….
Can I add
Carthago Delenda Est ( again,part 2,the Sequel etc) -V- Have they not suffered enough
Interesting that the SFA wish clubs to get a signature for proof of delivery, yet having this done, they will not replace any lost or partly torn ticket.
I have just realised that the Hampden tickets say concession on the ones I have received in the past, yet I am always charged the full price. Any suggestions as to why that should be so?
WITS…
forget them and their suffering?! (forget was not the first word that came to mind)…
WE are the ones that to have to put up with THEM …. and they are still here, and polluting out stadium this weekend with their songs of hate….
have WE not suffered enough?
!!BADA BING!! on 26TH APRIL 2018 1:40 PM
SAINT STIVS on 26TH APRIL 2018 12:36
Don’t know who said it was a pound. £7.00 is the charge.
CONNAIRE12 on 26TH APRIL 2018 3:03 PM
The ftSFA tickets have full price and concession price printed on them. It’s the same ticket.
KTF
WITS and MIT
;-)
The way they go about their business beggars belief. Murty comes across as a decent bloke. But on to the game and the chance to wrap up the league again. Best wishes to brendan and the bhoys.
Asi- in lead up to semi final a bhoy posted there was no postage, or a pound for Exec type tickets mate HH
Here is an excerpt from Real Madrid Quick News at the start of the 2008-09 season.
“Employ an ex-Barcelona legend as a manager, with no top-level managerial experience, at a club that’s going through challenging times? What could possibly go wrong?”
Well… Pep Guardiola won a treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League in his first season as a manager of a senior club.
Every manager is a Rookie at the start of their career.
Careful what you wish for.
(No offence FieldofDrams)
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Too much shouting the odds on all fronts about Sunday – can’t say I like it, nor is it the Celtic way.
There’ll be time enough for countin, when the dealin’s done.
CONNAIRE12 on 26TH APRIL 2018 3:03 PM…
As Vfr said mate its the same ticket , however if its for a concession only they remove the end bit that says Adult before you receive it…
H.H
I really can’t see Gerard going to the bigot dome, I mean, really!!!! The guy is loaded, doesn’t need the money, hunns have none for him to try to improve, naw, canny see it, sorry. All horse shit methinks
KINGLuBO
Bada
Not doubting you but that’s the cost (which I fe***n hate) anytime I’ve bought one in last couple years as exec member. Never had it free or for £1.00.
HH
Connaire12,
I was in the Jungle the night of that 3-1 game. I was right in line when we scored the 2 goals in the last few minutes. People were saying that the deid team’s supporters occupied part of the Jungle back in the day. We scored the 2 goals at their end and there were none of them in the Jungle that night.
By the bye, that was SOME night.
to much chat on what they are up to , lets concentrate on the task at hand and get this title put to bed, too many on here obsessed with them i think.
If it turns out to be a Liverpool REal Madrid final, I wont be too upset …. on their day, both teams can play some nice football… and Mo Salah is probably the most fun player to watch just now … and CR7 seems to raise his game for the CL ….
Adi- apologies, i was repeating what was on here a few weeks back, but the £7 x maybe 20,000 internet tickets……money scammed from our own club, and £1.50 for the pleasure of using your own internet…HH
I’m being considered for a curry the night……………
Bankie …’being considered for a currie’?! who are you having dinner with…. Hannibal Lecter?
Scottish football is a pantomime .
Oh yes it is.
Hunderbirds with all due respect Sevco are no Barcelona, football wise and budget wise.
D. :)
Some times you just have to make a choice.
It cost me £43.50 for my Cup Final ticket.
I didn’t need to buy it but I chose to.
I could’ve watched it on the TV but I wanted to be there, in Hampden, ( a stadium I loathe), to support my club creating history.
It was the same for the League Cup Final and last year’s Cup Final.
It will be the same for next year’s major cup ties.
Last year I paid much more to see Van Morrison,( who I seen at least a dozen times ), the Beach Boys and Cat Stevens.
I also paid much, much more to go to Lisbon for the 50th anniversary celebrations.
There is zero point in complaining about it.
You either choose to pay the going rate or don’t.
Eurochamps67
JusthopeiamfitenoughtoactuallyusetheticketCSC
TULLY57 on 26TH APRIL 2018 3:48 PM
Too much shouting the odds on all fronts about Sunday – can’t say I like it, nor is it the Celtic way.
There’ll be time enough for countin, when the dealin’s done.
*****
You took the words right outa my mouth.
I happen to think Sunday will be a close encounter (of the turd kind?)
There will be some meaty challenges from the boys in blue after being mocked for barely getting near a Celtic player at Hampden. Of course, Craigy Thomson out on his last hurrah is bound to apply a very liberal interpretation of the rules against such challenges.
Just broke out in a cold sweat there. Someone said that Steven Gerrard was going to Sevco. . . . . . . just realized they meant he was going to be the manager.
#careermistake
Davidopolous bang on.
D. :)
i think we will pump them, there i said it. another 4 clear goals.
they are broken, seriously broken.
Vfr and 50 Shades thanks for replies. Will await ticket arrival to see what has transpired this time. Looked at my Bank Account just now to see if anything had been taken off for CF ticket. I noticed that my payment for my season ticket had been paid over to Celtic. Quick work as I only sent in my application on Tuesday. Someone must be working overtime gathering in the money at Celtic Park.
Davidopoulos sorry not having a good day here.
D. :)
David66
Lol no worries, I’ve seen many, many variations on the spelling over the years :)
And been called a lot worse too come to think of it…