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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Just reading back, so apologies if already posted. Hotel names…
….. The Get Inn :)
A friend just bought me a pet christ.He says i’ve to take proper care of it as christs are for life and not just for dogmas. ;))
The Bertie Auld Triangle Hotel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE8uQIj3jls
There was a wee zoomer who came fae Fife
Nickety-nackety-noo-noo-noo
And when his team lost he’d beat up his wife
Hey Billy Walloper learn to read
And accept that Sevco is new, new, new!
Hotel Castle Greyskull. Lol.
The sat navs would be completely baffled.
HH.
A House of STEEL
SP
I know one knuckledragger who left Glasgow for the first time in his life on the tenner return bus fae Drumchapel to Manchester in 2008. Many like him on bucky and methadone that infamous day. Like the Kaiser Chiefs, I predicted a riot that day.
Sure
are you sure… Yeshua?
If it’s called the RAdisson. There’ll be outrage. :-)
celtic1member1vote on 21st February 2017 10:07 pm
Have we not talked about this before?
That exact model of several Celtic hotels in big European Football cities is something I have been advocating for several years as a potential business plan.
Any football fan, bar the obvious lot who rarely get an excuse to travel (even to Fife), would be happy to stay in a Celtic themed hotel.
If Celtic want to break into Europe seriously they should look at partnerships with other clubs and their supporters.
Years ago someone with a similar name to myself actually championed the name European Sporting Club and I believe that there is a trophy somewhere in the Celtic Supporters Club which was awarded each year by the Holiday Enterprises European Sporting Club to their player of the year as voted by a fans committee.
Jimmy Rooney told me a few years back that the trophy is in there somewhere but I have never been over to see it or resurrect the idea.
But think on this:
Celtic could do so much with European partnerships including running games from across Europe on Celtic TV which for a lot of the time sits and does nothing with no content to show, and most importantly no advertising revenue coming in on the back of good content.
Further, imagine a fans European Sporting Club where fans pay an annual subscription to join and in return get a discount in The Celtic shops and in various other outlets across Europe. Sell the idea to the fans of other clubs and so, going back to the hotel idea, members of the said club get a discount on hotel rates across Europe in various cities and in shops, restaurants etc.
Any shop or restaurant wishing to participate either has to pay an annual fee or share a percentage of any spend made by a Sporting Club member – which expenditure would be measured and recorded by the swipe of a qualifying membership card without which manoeuvre the member does not get the discount.
European Football fans are a huge affinity group and Celtic should be looking to target their commercial outlook far beyond west central Scotland.
However, I fully realise and accept that the development of the ground on our doorstep must come first but the ultimate commercial and partnership possibilities are endless.
In my opinion of course.
Wealthy people are imposing a Triangle.
Not for me that patter.
DELANEYS DUNKY
Bucky and Methadone (shudders) is that a thing(shudders again)
He’s prolly still trying to find his way hame!!
Hotel names:
My favourites so far are;
F¥>k the Crowne Plaza
The Feeney Inn
and Pogmathoin’s very clever
Sabhoy Hotel.
I’ll accept any of these, as long as they have a fan’s café in them.
ItaliaBhoy on 21st February 2017 10:11 pm
I drove past Ibrox today (as I regularly do) and noticed for the first time that the Broomloan Road stand has been decorated with a series of big posters kinda like our own stadium.
They proclaim:
Founded 1872
54 titles
9 in a row
etc etc etc
I hadn’t noticed that before and wondered if it was new.
DELANEYS DUNKY
20 (orank) club in Ruglen turned back because of fighting on bus.
Shame them hillbillies didn’t even get to see the riots of Manchester.
SHITONPLATFORM.TRIFC
CELTIC WAY
CELTIC STYLE
CELTIC AREA
Anything but the CT, FFS.
The Power given there is off the scale.
I want to see the Jungle
Ditch that Triangle jibber jabber, it comes from text you want no interest in.
SP
He got home, proudly proclaiming that ootside Drumchapel is no what it’s cracked up to be. Sad but true.
Delaneys-Starry
I knew a couple from Easterhouse many, many moons ago, through work, he was an out and out hun, she was just thick, anyways they had a couple of weans and none of the four of them had ever been out of Glasgow, Mrs TET thot she would ask them out for the weekend to the country side, the weans had never seen cows, sheep or anything like that, I asked the oldest wean, about 7 if I remember where the milk came from that they were having on their breakfast, didn’t have a clue but proceeded to tell me that mince came from cows bottoms, neither of the parents told the wean she was wrong, true story.
Mrs TET didn’t invite them back :-)
HH
BRTH
I honestly believe the current TV deal and subsequent game changes/schedule, is actually costing Celtic, and more importantly its fans a huge amount of money
The idea such as your would probably generate greater revenues than which we currently get from the TV deal, and allow Celtic to better cater for their fans, particularly those who travel great distances
Hope that makes sense :-)
Hail Hail
DD- your banana ref reminded me of a meeting i was at in the 80’s. Meeting of European architects/planners etc..called the Milan Tri-ennale ( *sp)
Big Armani clad fecker fae Milan was showing slides of all the big players of fashion/architecture in Europe and described a line running from Milan to Berlin to Paris.
“This ladies and genteelmen is known as the Style Banana!”
Up pipes Big Jungle Jim –
“Aye we’ve got one of them in Scotland!”
Heads turn to look, Jim pushes on-
“Goes from St Andrews to Kirkcaldy to Dunfermline.”
Italian- “I am not aware of this, what is it called?”
Jim – “It’s the Fyfe banana!”
Cue bemused looks from the assembled Italians as the rest of us guffawed.
Probably a “you had to be there” story but hey-ho.
Low lie the fields of Athenry
somebody is on the meds tonight, usually a moonhowler must be a shift change
See if Res 12 gets the result that it should, can we rename it the Auldheid Triangle?
I used to play the Triangle in my very Catholic primary and secondary schools Petec.
It’s a shape. You really need to stop overthinking every single thing in the world that you believe might equate to some silly organisation or evil.
Me, I’m off to Celtic Park on Saturday and will have a wee wander around the Celtic triangle just to try and picture our likely mono grey boring structure that will eventually be built. I can’t imagine we’ll see anything like what the club pages have put up today. But you never know.
MWD
BRTH
I think they put them up shortly after ours. Look like giant sticking plasters to me.
Oh Really
Magnificentseven on 21st February 2017 10:39 pm
somebody is on the meds tonight, usually a moonhowler must be a shift change
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You talking about me dude?
VP
The UDA ran subsidised double deckers fae Drumchapel for tenner return. Nae Tims and nae UVF were allowed to travel. They still rioted and wrecked their ain transport hame tae ra Drum.
What kinds of triangle should we be looking out for?
Equilateral? Scalene?
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 10:41 PM
See if Res 12 gets the result that it should, can we rename it the Auldheid Triangle?
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We’ll name a wing after each of you.
PETEC
Stop watching you tube:))
It’s a triangle man, christian symbol, ancient Celtic symbol, greek symbol…
Beware the triangles they move at night:))
Are we OK to go to mass at Holy Trinity?
DELANEYS DUNKY
On the other side fae that, we had family up in Airgold Drive, and I remember thinking that Carfin wis the most beautiful place on God’s Green Earth when we got hame:))
Stuck between the Chapel and the oxygen plant was like heaven tae me!
Shire CSC
NATKNOW on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 10:47 PM
What kinds of triangle should we be looking out for?
Equilateral? Scalene?
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Dairylea
I am All for Israel. I’m against the Triangles, that Symbology is utilised to promote Man over God. The Israeli Star is not Biblical.
Tell me where I am wrong.
The Tower of Babel – the Enemies of God got to Work Fast.
BABASONICOS71 on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 10:52 PM
NATKNOW on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 10:47 PM
What kinds of triangle should we be looking out for?
Equilateral? Scalene?
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Dairylea
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:-))))
Actually, I’m not a fan. So I’m with Petec here – but it’s only the cheesy triangles I object to…
SP
Sorry to say that I last visited the Grotto was 30 odd years ago. Your mention of Carfin has made me think of a return visit soon. Cheers