St Johnstone have been a managerial proving ground in recent seasons. Owen Coyle did a great deal of good work without achieving promotion to the SPL, but his two years there managed to sufficiently impress Burnley that they tempted him south. The people of Burnley were probably as surprised as the rest of us when Own led them to the FA Premier League but five months into the season he jumped ship to Bolton Wanderers.
Coyle kept Bolton up in 2010 and again in 2011 but they slipped from the league last summer. Poor form in the Championship soon turned sentiment against the manger and he was relieved of his duties in October.
Derek McInnes followed Coyle at St Johnstone and brought them into the SPL in his first full season but 15 months ago, after being touted for several jobs in England, he left for Bristol City, who, bottom of the Championship, sacked him today.
Steve Lomas is St Johnstone’s current manager and the latest to impress clubs south of the border offering larger pay-packets. He would be foolish to accept a job from a struggling club who have sacked their manager mid-season. As we have said several times before, managers receive a great deal of credit or blame but the success of a football club is infinitely more dependent on the entire structure of the club.
St Johnstone’s structure is just fine. The same is true of Inverness, where Terry Butcher decided to stay this week, as well as Ross County and Motherwell. The city clubs, Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts, Dundee United and Dundee all churn through seasons as compulsive underachievers. If they were able to do something about this fact our league would be the envy of most.
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Thanks for the response guys – time to do something about it….
Hen1rik-a very talented Pole :)
Billy Sloan on Clyde 2 on a Sunday night is very good bhoys.
!!bada bing!!
21:28 on 13 January, 2013
Hen1rik-a very talented Pole :)
Oh yessss :)
Philmacs blog. More lies from green.hh
In Austria the Viennese are known for being notoriously grumpy.
Well at the moment some of them have good cause to be rather miffed.
I am told that officials of Rapid Vienna nearly choked over their Weiner Schnitzel last week after the Sevco supremo claimed that the new football club that rose from the ashes of Rangers FC were debt free.
Mr Green was quoted as saying:
“Coming to agreements with all of the European clubs where we paid all of the debts or reached settlements with them is another example of the commitment ‘new’ Rangers have made and not turning our back or walking away from oldco’s responsibilities.”
Very noble.
But my friends in Vienna say there is just one slight problem. Mr Green and his cohorts have not settled the debt owed following the 2010 signing of Nikica Jelavić.
The Scottish Press of course carried the statement in full without asking any awkward questions of Mr Green, like:
“Is it true Charles? Have you paid every penny of football debt incurred by the old club? Is there not even a schilling, outstanding?”
Moreover, did those noble seekers of the truth contact officials of Rapid Vienna to ask:
“ Are you dancing in the streets of Vienna and drinking bottles of Grüner Veltliner at the news that that champion of football integrity Charles Green has paid your all the money owed from the transfer of Nikica Jelavić?”
Of course not, because that would be journalism!
Watch Charles and his cohorts do a Viennese waltz around this slight mistake, misunderstanding, slip-up, gaffe, oversight, clanger.
!!Bada Bing!! 21:29 on 13 January, 2013
I remember listening to Billy Sloane on Clyde probably more than 20 years ago…..Think it might have been Clyde1 back then but not sure.
jackie mac
21:19 on
13 January, 2013
What makes me laugh more than anything is NI isn’t even British!! If the thick asses could read, they’d only need to look at their passports for confirmation.
Floying the Flog has nothing to do with it, its pure and simple Proddy supremacy looking for an excuse to bash the Papists again.
Dani Alves is a great athlete. A very average footballer imho.
Bada Bing
Sometimes he does my nut in, him and his eclectic musical tastes, but I’ve had one ear on his show tonight and for me it’s been his best for some time.
On my brand new Digi radio thanks to her indoors:o)
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/opinion/comment/tom-english-green-would-rather-create-the-myth-of-rangers-being-persecuted-than-admit-that-the-sfa-backed-them-1-2734842#.UPKwGTgSZ2g.twitter
So let me get this right….
The ECA only reconises that servco is rangers if old after they consulted the SFA to advise them?
Wow? I wonder who penned that letter???
Ah well ….. Hell mend ogilvie and co..
You’ve created a monster
Sparkleghirl’He was on Clyde 1 on a Sunday night up until about a year ago,but on Clyde 2 now.Must be an age thing………..:)
There will never be a team with this Barca’s collective quality…never
sparkleghirl
It would’ve been Clyde1 then. He’s been punted to Clyde2 which is my second favourite station behind BBC Radio2. Chris Evans for me is in a league of his own on breakfast radio.
Eldiegobhoy-I have always liked his straight forward style and taste in music,good anecdotes too .HH
Commentator just metioned that Uefa are threatening to ban Malaga from Euro games for 4 years if they don’t pay their debts ……….you have a precedent, Malaga…
THE EXILED TIM
20:51 on 13 January, 2013
Evening bhoys from a very cold and soon to be very wet hun free mountain.
Benfica v Porto game is superb, 2 2 after 35 mins
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Superlative as well, the odds for over 3.5 were incredible, shame about the other games I have on my line, I cannae see it happening.
The 3 games over 3.5 goals game is well worth a punt. ;))) I got greedy and went for 4, Samp and AC done me a long time ago. If your luck is in it is in.
3 carefully selected games can bring in up to 100/1 odds, that is what it is all about.
Conservatives ;)) will go for the 70/1 odds that most go for.
Billy Sloane again – didn’t he ‘disappear’ from the airwaves for a while, probably in the 90s?
Bada Bing
I’m a huge fan of Clyde2 in the evenings and when he moved over I felt it lost something but only on a Sunday night. Hey, I can live with that:o)
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When I was at school we were made to take our books home and have them ‘backed’. This meant that they had to be covered in paper, usually using wallpaper leftovers.
You could tell who came from the better off homes as they had fancy flock wallpaper on their book covers. Others had woodchip or plain old brown wrapping paper. Ah, the good old days – not!
Barca win 3-1. Still only one defeat in competitive games this season!!
Kayal33
Who was that against i wonder?
Headtheball
Nothing wrong with brown paper
Kayal33
Useless shower conceding a goal in last few minutes – cost me a 40/1 treble!
Full time: Malaga 1-3 Barcelona
“No one’s beating Barcelona in this mood. ” – Jacob Steinberg in the Guardian.
Must have forgotten about the Bhoys.
Head the ball
A few in my class had newspaper on their books… Poor buggers got a right slagging…
The jinky bhoy
Apart from toilet paper it was probably the best use of it
Plain old brown wrapping paper (ツ)
The Boy Jinky
Yep, it’s sad how silly things like that could really affect a kid too,
Sorry the boy jinky
Getting late
Night cqners
The boy jinky.
Were you one of the snobby boys with the brown paper?
I was a wallpaper bhoy myself.
Gene’s a Bhoys name
And they were lucky to beat us at the Nou Camp, at the end of the day.
I thought the way we faced Barca at Celtic Park SHOWED, that we are on the rise. Barca wanted to teach us a lesson. They Failed, Our team might not have the sophistication of Barcelona yet, but our team will do what Celtic ALWAYS does. “win, lose or draw”, and that is, try and Win the game.
We might win it this year, who cares, we will certainly win it very soon. I’d much rather win it from Scotland.
I am so ANTI Globalism it isnae true.
20 years of Celtic Connections.
BBC Scotland NOW.
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Make that BBC 2.
Sipsini
Im sure it was anna glipta ;)
Obviously we drew the celtic crest on the cover… Not very well though.
Htb
We were in primary 6 .. When a new guy started… Musta been tough as we had all grown up together
Anyhoo.. He had glasses.. In those days it was nhs and his were the round ” john lennon” style with wire legs.
At that time there was a tv ad for sweets … The boy in the add ate one and his glasses jumped up and dowm on his nose
That boy in our class was known as Fruity Pops for the next six years
Jinkster
Cannae stop laughing:o) That is so cruel!