Getting a managerial appointment right is difficult. A number of things went in our favour when we landed Brendan Rodgers, not least the market for managers in England. The days when a club the size of Liverpool would recruit a manager from Swansea, as they did with Brendan in 2012, are gone.
The era when Arsenal would risk a manager from Grampus Eight, as they did with Wenger, or Manchester United would take someone from Aberdeen, as with Ferguson, even now seem bizarre.
It’s relatively easy to get a short-term boost from a managerial appointment which would take the pressure off board and even players, but football has a habit of bringing reality to the fore quickly. A defeat or two can make years of forward planning difficult to achieve.
I like the strategy of appointing a caretaker if you lose a manager midseason. This buys you time to test the market before appointing an available and familiar name. We have had a few caretakers in our time: Kenny Dalglish won the League Cup, while Frank Connor managed to retire undefeated before handing the reigns to Luigi.
Kenny took over a decent, if poorly managed, squad, while Frank steadied the ship after Liam Brady’s ill-fated tenure ended. Their task was straightforward, get the players pulling in the same direction. If you limit the caretaker’s remit to this, he should do OK.
Had we appointed a permanent replacement in the weeks after John Barnes ‘resigned’ we would have missed out on Martin O’Neill and all that followed. Taking your time can pay.
I’m also open to the idea of a director of football. There is no right or wrong policy on this subject. Changing a manager is the biggest upheaval a club will face (a normal club, anyway). Often the coaches and scouts go too, but if you have a director of football controlling recruitment strategy, for example, you recruit a coach to match the existing strategy. You also don’t need to start scouting players for different roles from scratch.
If we were sitting with a youth coach in charge of the first team right now I’d be doing my best ‘Calm down’ routine. A decision rushed, or worse, a decision made because you are terrified to visit Celtic Park in three weeks, would be the worst of all worlds. Take your medicine at Celtic Park but get it right for June.
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Heard the huns are opening a bed & world class breakfast place called The Tadger Mahal.
Didnt realise wee Colum ref at bl v am
God ….the hand of bigot Dallas at work
PETEC on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 8:36 PM
Awe naw no ma vinyl anaw noo..
Wonder what happens if ye play Sacred Cycles backwards? does Darren Emersons Underworld take on a whole new meaning
Brianwash washed up ravers on the beach of doom:))
Hep Me Jesus Hep Me CSC
Babas
Defawlty Towers?
Awful pen, if I was Monaco skipper I’d boot his haw maws.
!!Bada Bing!! on 21st February 2017 8:46 pm
Gollum doing the Leverkusen -Atletico Madrid game….
…………………………………………….
HOW?
The Corruption is so deep.
I’m sick of these officials.
I’m sick of those that are so SELFISH.
BOURNE…
;)))
Asbestox…………..
(repro)Bates Motel ?
Dallas
I was driving on the A4 Trieste to Venice road and saw a Huncargo truck racing a Timitrans lorry.
They were taking turns to overtake each other.
Awful goal keeping.
Auld Tam,
South Stand may not look great from the rest of the stadium ,but the view from it is fantastic. The noise blasting across the pitch when we score makes for a full sensory experience.
The front of the stadium however looks a bit like a Barrett Show house.
Superb
Falcao that is SICK. Oooooft!!
Monaco a joy to watch against Citeh.
EPL teams nowhere
Stones made a balls of that
But what a finish
Wow from Falcao
Lennybhoy on 21st February 2017 8:05 pm
I have no doubt that Celtic are in the wrong here with regard to the releasing of Data.
Banks and other institutions rightly insist that the Police obtain a warrant to recover data when they are investigation serious and organised crime. The reason that they do this is not to be obstructive to the Police but to protect themselves from a claim by ordinary punters whose information they disclose in terms of the Data Protection Act.
The way to deal with the Police in these situations is to avoid confrontation and any suggestion of lack of co-operation, by simply saying that they need to get a warrant for the recovery of the data or documents to keep Celtic right and of course because no one can criticise any action by Celtic or anyone else if a Sheriff or a judge has had to consider the legal basis for ordering the release of data in any given circumstances.
If a judge considers an application and then orders that the data should be released in furtherance of a properly framed warrant which specifies that the data is needed for lawful and legitimate reasons in pursuance of a criminal investigation, then there is no problem and everyone knows where they stand.
Without that protection, in my opinion, Celtic are potentially in the wrong and leave themselves at risk.
starry plough on 21st February 2017 8:53 pm
PETEC on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 8:36 PM
Awe naw no ma vinyl anaw noo..
Wonder what happens if ye play Sacred Cycles backwards? does Darren Emersons Underworld take on a whole new meaning
Brianwash washed up ravers on the beach of doom:))
Hep Me Jesus Hep Me CSC
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Sing a Celtic Song for me that I dinnae Break Anything on the 12th of March. My Son really wanted those 90 Minutes more than seeing his extended Family. I have managed to persuade him to go Skiing for 5 days. Tough Sell.
He wanted to see the Hun get Spanked… AGAIN.
He has an Uncle and a lot smaller Nephew that will benefit from us going to Switzerland.
Modern French Football Teams are rubbish
What a goal Falcao
The huns could re-open the old Swallow Swallow Hotel , those muppets swallow anything.
Brilliance from Monaco – 3-2 up now.
Falcao chips the keeper from inside the box – world class like Henrik
John Stones £50 million?!
Ffs!!!
HH!!
This could end 5-5
RaDancer
i like the south stand, what it needs is reconfigure the seating (reducing the capcity actually, take off the old roof, and install another teir on top or not (but definately have a new roof.
the biggest inhibitor is the old main stand frontage and inner walls actually make up a lot of the structure.
dont flatten it. improve it.
maybe take out the original front and incoporate it in the new hotel main side.
ps.
I would call the hotel Castle Greyskull.
settle the debate once and for all.
he man and she ra were tims.
I reckon if we played City now we would take them no bother, if Brendan had a full squad to choose from right enough, I also reckon we would take any english team, even chelsea.
Stones will be as sick as Falcao’s Parrot.
How much for van Dijk now?
Who was the English pundit that laughed at the French league last week and called it ‘pathetic’?
THELURKINTIM
my favourite hotel name so far vg :))
Auldheid
HH
VVD £100m
Sandman
Wilkins.
I hope Sevco don’t tap up the Monaco director of football ☘️☘️:-))
Wonder if the hun had a scout down at Sutton yesterday?
How much would it be to upgrade the main and front stands,at the present,the facilities,and toilets,and whole structure,is out of date,
Aidans Uncle has had a bad preperation and he disnae think he can get any where near 2:45 @ the London Marathon. Most of the FAMILY are going down to Support him.
FFS
Noo Under 3 Hrs is the norm for Abnormal stuff.