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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JJ,
Oh aye. I’m not saying he’s some mercenary who’ll be off at the first sniff of increased salary.
It’s just the nature of the beast neebs.
HH
Barney67
Souness is Scottish but I don`t think that would have enticed Turkeybhoy at the time !!
JJ
Who he?
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1636318530009459&id=100008939821986
Bobby,
Totally!!
HH
Geordie,
Would a second Indy Ref , if the Yes vote won, lead to increased business opportunities for you as bagpipe playing became compulsory in all Scottish schools?
Do you still go to that Club before games?
JJ
Hot Smoked, good point.
I should have put, plays for France.
Brentford Supremo Robert Rowan being considered for the new Ibrox director of Football
And it’s back working again……
TD67
I wonder if he’ll have a word with warbo – would be stupid not to.
WD Bada.
TONYDONNELLY67 on 21ST FEBRUARY 2017 3:12 PM
Brentford Supremo Robert Rowan being considered for the new Ibrox director of Football
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Hope he’s good at counting ginger bottles….
JJ,
The increase in demand would definitely have a knock on affect. It’s been in schools for years over this way but not compulsory.
Dalbergia melanoxylon (the wood) recently being added to the protected species list will kill many places.
Yeah I still go to the club. That said, the motherwell game there was my first weekend game this year. My liver has been wondering what’s going on :)
HH
As I looked at the `Brentford Supremo Robert Rowan` article , I noticed that once again a picture of the iconic gates of Ibrox are used to headline a Sevco story. Is this meant to create a subliminal picture suggesting that they are not dead and remain something of importance in Scotland? A wee bit scary, this desperation of the MSSM.
JJ
Some good posts and thanks to the Bhoys who posted the links. Some good stuff,
Cheerio for now,
JJ
Was it Brentford Pep Warbs was with?
Tony,
Yes
HH
£2 fish supper Its cod Cod!!
The great weatherspoons cod con.
HH
@BMCW….Great vid of Hampden in e Sun……
“Magnificent Supremacy” …”Out of this world” Phrases you won’t hear on Sportscene:)
And ROBERT Peacock lifts the Cup…….Superb .
H.H
A man that’s good at rumours told me Celtic’s price for Dembele is £xM plus leaving him here for the CL qualifiers which end on 23rd August this year with a week of the transfer window still to go. Less pressured than previous years (earlier start for a world cup year I think) and that the qualifiers and play off round no longer deem a player cup tied. Chelsea fine with it, PSG too, it’ll be up to the player where he goes, he’ll likely have 4 or more options.
All made up.
BMCUW….
We’re booked into the The Lisbon City Hotel for six days, be seeing you. HH
Coyle sacked by Blackburn, shame that……waste of space
Owen Coyle for Ibrox?
Cod?
I thought it was just Pollok south of the river…
Warbs for Blackburn?
Do you get chips Chips, with that?
Sorry guys, I was filling out these boxes thinking it was live job application for the Record.
IT help required.
Sometimes when I access CQN through my Iphone (this doesn’t happen if I access it at home, on ipad, or at work), it flips over to other screens (now it says ‘red.trksrv.com), and then asks if I want to open this page in “App Store”.
If I close the window and open it again, it usually (but not always) works okay …
I assume that it is some virus (not reading the nudey pages, honest!) ….but I’m a complete numpty when it comes to computers.
any help on how to sort this out would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance for any thoughts/advice/assistance.
mike in toronto
An iPhone? Place it on a table and hit it with a hammer.
Problem solved.
I suspect at least part of Rowan’s appeal to sevco would be the fact that he believes in scrapping youth academies and utilising the B-team model as in the article below. Would be especially useful if you’re rooked and need to close down your academy and sell Murray Park etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/38178077
Davidopoulos … I was told that it was the phone for people who dont understand technology … it seemed perfect for me!
HELP
Anyone know of someone who repairs minor paint scratches scuffs on body work of cars, I just noticed the stone guard on my car has a 3 inch by half inch scratch, it is noticeable as my car is a gun metallic colour so I want it fixed before rust gets in.
MiT what browser do you use?
mike in toronto on 21st February 2017 3:50 pm
Davidopoulos … I was told that it was the phone for people who dont understand technology … it seemed perfect for me!
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I prefer Android.
It matches how many people describe my personality.
Non Celtic, non football, non political question.
When I open my pc, a wallpaper showing a city or a town sitting on a cliff looking towards a wilderness.
Any ideas where this is?
NatKnow
I suspect at least part of Rowan’s appeal to sevco would be the fact that he believes in scrapping youth academies and utilising the B-team model as in the article below. Would be especially useful if you’re rooked and need to close down your academy and sell Murray Park etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/38178077
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Are the Silly Boys getting a different type of hatchet man to the ones they are used to?
Barney67
It is Google …
I thought I had installed Norton on my iphone … but perhaps I didn’t install it correctly.
Awe well a guess that clears that up then eh? Ffs I’m 50 yes. Behind the ref. And I can see its a sending off, what a load of sh…
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/why-referee-didn-t-show-red-card-for-foul-on-kieran-tierney-1-4372652