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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One of the greatest CL matches.Fantastic comeback by City.Sensational match.
Pages and pages of perma rage over on FF regarding the Celtic hotel development.
The expression ‘rubbing salt in the wound’ comes to mind. Hurting huns.
Cosmopolitan Celtic Hotel
The Throw Inn
Don’t know about you guys but I don’t like penalty takers (like Falcao tonight) who stutter up to the ball waiting for the keeper to jump out the way !
Moussa missed against Barca in the Camp Nou like that but notice he does it right now – pick a side and boot though the ball with pace.
West end @9:34
They must think Fife is in Outer Mongolia!
Great, great game. But I can’t make the €250 main stand price for the return game.
London
New York
Paris
Fife
Late to the party at the Celtic Triangle ;-)
The Sabhoy Hotel
The Best Exotic Green White and Gold Hotel
Aidan bought his Hun ticket (£30 I think) a while ago.
I can totally understand his annoyance.
I’ve not bought one item of skiing clothing, always last minute.
Always Last Minute.
It’s hard to get that excited about a game that featured absolutely rotten defending from both teams, and when most of the goals seemed to come from very basic errors
City’s defense was unbelievably bad but they weren’t helped be being consistently exposed by the lack of defensive cover. Guardiola should get slaughtered for how poorly he dealt with Monaco who he knew would play on the counter at pace
The goal from falcao was right out the top drawer though
But but but they come fae Fife in thur droves, Minted we ur minted:))
Fife, the final frontier – cue Star Trek Music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfnsVqwF05M
I remember when the floating pitch casino Govandisneyland space station story broke…my mates and me just laughed.From what’s being reported on here from hun media their reaction to Celtic’s proposal is anger.Default setting for the master race.I’m glad i’m not one of the peepell.
Teeheehee ;))
West End of East End on 21st February 2017 9:34 pm
Another wee diamond from FF, I blame the kaflick schools….
There is plenty of land available around The stadium we should make a similar offer to GCC for that. They would need to sell to us for same price and in a few years we could do something similar. We have some amount of fans coming from NI, Fife
Fife ffs…Awe Naw moves in mysterious ways….the Las Vegas of the east…
SP
I am sure guys like Geordie Munro and Tiny Tim would love a bed after their gruelling, tiring hour drive from Fife to Paradise. What planet are these FF eejits on?
Build it and they will come…from Fife.
Pal sent this by text. :@-))) Copied from FF apparently as Arnold pops up again.
Indeed, this is mind boggling stuff. Once again I turned to my brother-in-law Arnold for guidance on all matters monetary. He is English, thus the laws are somewhat different. In Glasgow circa 2017, they are very different!
In Arnold’s humble opinion, this is part of a long term strategy by Celtic fc. In the guise of urban ‘re-generation’, they have conned the ordinary tax payer (that’s you and me folks) out of literally hundreds of thousands of pounds down the years. Glasgow has always had a long and not so glorious history of city politicians down the years. In the distant past we were talking about the odd brown envelope here and there, however with the ascent of the Catholic minority in the city it is no longer “Rome on the rates” but rather “Museums for the Liams”. The idea of museums, educational and cultural institutions being placed to the tottiedome is an insult to our intelligence. Finally, in God’s name how do they justify that final figure for this development?? They have no shame and worst of all, nobody says anything.
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Museums for the Liams. :@-)))
MWD
Nectar card?
Whatever card?
You don’t walk you crawl.
DD,
I would give the Hun’s a bit of slack here because with all that extra time needed to get a result I suppose they need a wee lie down rather than that lengthy journey back home over the bridge.
BABASONICOS71 on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 9:57 PM
Build it and they will come…from Fife.
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Very good.
Lots of good name suggestions for the hotel.
I would hope that the 24 hour resident’s bar be named, OldTim67’s Gin Joint. :)
pretty sure arnold is a tim on the wind up
Inspirational Carpets?
Gooooood evening CQN
Well done Celtic with today’s announcement and plans :-)
I also think Celtic should be doing something with the main stand roof and steel structure, to open this up allowing more light onto the playing surface etc, plus as already pointed out, could we then add additional hospitality with better unrestricted views ?
Anyway onwards and upwards for the Bhoys :-)
Hail Hail hotel and cafe, oh and ticket office & superstore oh and Museum :-)
Incidentally I often stay at the premier inn at Trafford park, I believe it was the several ex Man Utd player ( Nevilles plus others) that had the hotel football built right next to the stadium, this is within 50m of the stadium, both hotels attracting lots of visitors solely for visiting and touring the stadium etc
MWD
Shirley a Tim at the wind up.
Hilarious either way.
For a bit of fun .. Can you IMAGINE
The CELTIC Hotel Glasgow
The CELTIC Hotel Belfast
The CELTIC Hotel Dublin
The CELTIC Hotel London
The CELTIC Hotel Paris
The CELTIC Hotel Rome
The CELTIC Hotel Lisbon
The CELTIC Hotel New York
The CELTIC Hotel Boston
The CELTIC Hotel Shanghai
The CELTIC Hotel Melbourne
The CELTIC Hotel Rio Je Janerio
All Celtic themed of course, and all with large Celtic Shops inside as well.
Now that would certainly put Celtic on the map on a Worldwide basis.
CELTIC would own the Hotel in Glasgow, and let the others be operated
under Celtic’s brand name with a annual license fee paid to Celtic.
An annual license fee say of £2 million per hotel per annum
x 11 other hotels = £22 million.
Over 5 years = £110 million which would pay for the New Main Stand.
Then re-build the Main Stand to increase the capacity to 80,000 and
apply for the Champions League Final to be held at Celtic Park as well.
By this time the final part of the East End LINK ROAD to the M8 should
completed, and the then open a new Railway Station near the Forge.
Well that’s the marketing and planning sorted for the next 5 years.
Yes of course this is just a bit of fun, and my imagination was
running riot, when I was dreaming of this, but then I also dreamt
that Rangers Died, and that Celtic will win 10 IN A ROW !!
Hail Hail ..
PB
Do they think that Fife is where bananas are grown and, therefore, farfaraway. :)
If the idea takes off we could replicate the hotel brand abroad…..
The Jesus & Mary Chain
cathoatcsc
Hi all. My son is after some advice! He is arriving in Cancun on the 11th March and I was wondering if any posters know of any where that will be showing the the game on the 12th, bearing in mind it will be 7am !! Cheers in advance
Drove past Ibrox the other day and tbh, the whole area is looking pretty tatty. Think the plan is to build houses next to the plastic pitch off Edmiston Dr, so not sure there’s a lot of room for them to expand, even if they wanted to/could afford to.
The reactions on FF tonight regarding our announcement are priceless. But also tinged with a realisation of where precisely they are in the pecking order.
And if Hearts and the Dons can get their acts together off the pitch, things could be about to get a whole lot worse for the Sevconians.
The Pitch, when highlighted, it showed that there is So Much more to come from CELTIC.
Celtic1member1vote,
think you should run your business plan past Arnold,
sure to get sound advice
DELANEYS DUNKY
When I was five I thought Fife was the other side of the world, Kinghorn it might as well have been the moon compared to Carfin:))
Seems the mental age on FF is around the same..
Good luv’ em, wee souls never been oot the Toon:))
The bobbles are obvious when Brendan highlights them.
AoW
Bobby Gillespie would love that suggestion.
No sure about the Reid brothers?
when Brendan said, I watched the warmups… the pitch is POOR.
CELTIC1MEMBER1VOTE on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 10:07 PM
Melbourne ?
Sydney Celtic Hotel.
It`s got a ring to it.
Home of the Sydney Celts.
Hugh Keevins is prophetic.
What Brendan Wants, Brendan Gets.
Inspirational Carpets