After working for the club on an ad-hoc basis over the summer, Paul Tisdale (51), was confirmed as Head of Football Operations yesterday. The Malta-born coach has extensive managerial experience in the English lower and non-leagues. This is the first time he has worked for a club competing in top-flight or European football.
Tisdale’s most impressive tenure was a 12-year spell at Exeter City, whom he led into the Football League and spent two seasons in League One. Since leaving Exeter six years ago, he spent less successful periods in charge at MK Dons, Bristol Rovers and Stevenage. By any measure, this is a big step up on the level of player with whom he is familiar.
His job at Celtic is “to develop Champions League players through our Academy and recruitment processes”. Despite extensive bed wetting across Central Scotland, the summer recruitment, which Paul participated in, is on target to meet those objectives. Hopefully we can expect more of the same in the coming windows, doubtlessly with the same laundry consequences.
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I smell Friday!
It’s nearly here.
HH!
The Kyogo ‘offside ‘ v the Huns has been airbrushed, no surprise, and read the rest of the nonsense
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/willie-collum-rangers-souttar-butland-33907592
Excuse the DR link
HH.
CELTIC40ME @ 12:02 PM,
If CQN ever turned into the echo-chamber you and some others want, we’d lose another plethora of contributors…
Hail Hail
What larks Paul Tisdale
– what larks may your conkers be steely
Speaking of Offside, Bada, there was an interesting piece recently explaining the fallibility of VAR that is worth a mention here, I think.
We’re getting VAR decisions for Offside on the narrowest of margins, a nose length, a boot stud, and we are told that VAR is correct on a binary basis – the player is definitively Onside or Offside. No question irrespective of how close it looks visually.
The reality is that VAR, like all systems, has a margin of error, and for VAR (as used in Scotland) it is determined by a) the speed of the player in question, and b) the frame rate of the camera.
Decent speed for a player is 30km/h while the top boys can hit more than 36 km/h.
Frame rate for TV cameras is 50 frames per second.
Taken together, we can calculate that a sprinting player covers between 16 and 20cm per camera frame.
[30,000 meters per hour/ 60 minutes/ 60 seconds/ 50 frames = 0.16m per frame]
To determine offside, the VAR must determine the position of the player at the moment the ball is kicked. In effect, in one frame the ball has not been kicked, while in the next the ball has already been kicked. Between the first and second frames the player can have moved perhaps 20cm forward.
Worth noting that 20cm is almost the diameter of the football.
In the round, with a player sprinting forward VAR is accurate in identifying the position of the player at the moment the ball is kicked to about +/- 10 cm. It stands to reason that if the defending player is moving in the opposite direction, that margin is bigger again.
In other words, the margin of error for the form of VAR used in Scottish football is more than half the diameter of the ball.
Given all of that, there’s good argument for a ‘benefit of the doubt’ rule to be applied such that, in cases where there is no obvious answer, instead of (almost literally) splitting hairs, accept that VAR can’t be relied upon and give the benefit of the doubt to the attacking player.
VAR is good but it’s not perfect. About time we recognised that and adapted accordingly.
(PS I gather the EPL is replacing the camera frames and introducing a system based in part on a sensor in the ball itself to determine the moment the ball is kicked.)
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 17TH OCTOBER 2024 12:38 PM
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Great read 👍
TBB- Thanks for reply, there’s a still photo of McGregor passing to Khun and he’s at least a yard onside, the VAR MIBs deliberately confused the audience of showing a still of Kuhn roughly in line with a hun defender,a player is offside/onside when a pass is hit,not when the ball gets to a player,as you know
I am happy to see Paul Tisdale appointed to Celtic. I note he reports to the Board which was mentioned in the statement by Celtic.
My worry is in the overlap with Brendans job. When at Liverpool, the club appointed a committee to handle recruitment which did not work well with Brendan. Brendan wants the football side to be his domain and will not accept a contrary opinion. If Paul Tisdale strays into Brendans area or what Brendan considers his area then there could be conflict.
Brendan has a direct link with Desmond and would not hesitate to use it in event of a conflict.
The Battered Bunnet on 17th October 2024 12:38 pm
I’m sure I read somewhere that the SFA are working with the most basic type you can buy hence the crayon like lines being drawn manually.
If you buy cheap shoes you get sore feet 🫣🙄
Baw hair technology made in Scotland by baw bags
Welcome Paul, good luck!
All the quotes make it sound like he’s coming into a very important role, hopefully he has the talent and strength of character to carry it out effectively.
BB- I would say PT is a Brendan appointment, good to see him getting his own guys in post
BSR- sums it up perfectly
More talk of bed wetters…
For a man that predicted very big things for Mark Lawwell in the aftermath of his departure from Celtic, P67 remains full of self belief.
P.S Mark Lawwell remains unemployed having stood down as head of recruitment at Celtic FC, some 7 months ago…
TBB
An interesting account and an equally sensible suggestion re benefit of doubt , which will doubtless never be adopted . Would it be paranoid of me to suggest that VAR operatives like things to be a bit fuzzy and open to (their) interpretation?
Meanwhile we can only look enviously at the EPL who have the money to make an already superior system to ours , even better.
!Bada Bing!! on 17th October 2024 12:55 pm
BB- I would say PT is a Brendan appointment, good to see him getting his own guys in post
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I agree Brendan is shaping his team. PT’s involvement in the summer window augurs well.
Paul67 expresses it in his own inimitable way – “His job at Celtic is “to develop Champions League players through our Academy and recruitment processes”. Despite extensive bed wetting across Central Scotland, the summer recruitment, which Paul participated in, is on target to meet those objectives.” HH
I’m in Glasgow for two days unexpectedly. Stopped in the Shipbank just in case…nae luck.
T
So EUFA have given Celtic a “suspended sentence” and a €20,000 fine as punishment for some fans letting of flares in Germany.
One more flare and Celtic will be denied tickets for the following away match in Europe.
Question is, will the pyro brigade accept the ruling or will Celtic fans be punished for the actions of the few ?
TBB
Good points every well made. I always wondered about any technology which in reality changes the game of football as it has been for 2 centuries. I was always told when playing football, school and college only, that the linesman always gave the benefit of the doubt to the attacking player, there is only so much the human eye can see of the ball, player (s) and when the player is off side or on side. However, with this technology to decide that a toe is offside is ridiculous especially if it is determined by using a vastly inferior system (SFA VAR). Hopefully UEFA other FAs will decide this is no tin the spirit of the game and, eventually, the SFA will catch up!
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Clarification pls, P67…
Did Mr Tisdale participate in the bedwetting or the summer recruitment or – possibly – both?
Reading he is self-proclaimed Football Doctor his CV reads like more of a regional GP than a Harley St specialist. Hoping he turns our young piglets ears into lovely silk purses in the years ahead.
PS BURNLEY yesterday; thanks for stirring some Aegean memories of helping my ex’s sister and brer-in-law crew a bareboat charter around Corfu, Paxos and Anti-Paxos back in the day. Efcharistó!
thats the celtic christmas store openearlier each year, could they not have it after armistaces day, we havnt even had a poppy debate yet, i mean some respect please.
With the redtop rumour mill trying to link Jordan Henderson to the Ragers, i t made me wonder…
Could he not be a Mooy like signing to give US some Euro calms and gravitas. Based downunder, I have no idea if the guy is spent as a football force. He got on well eith Brndan and he – like Kacper – might no need the money.
JUSWONDERIN CSC
More bedwetting taunts.
Perhaps Paul or indeed anyone point out how much money Celtic saved in transfer fees by risking leaving signings until the final day.
The clubs that sold players to Celtic had a value of their players. As far as I know those clubs did not lower their player valuations. Celtic on the other hand ultimately met those valuations.
Similarly, when Celtic refused to sell O’Riley for £18M when we valued him at £27M. When that price was met he was sold.
To continue to pretend that we somehow got a better deal waiting to the final day of the transfer window is simply not true.
MadraRua on 17th October 2024 1:14 pm
… Question is, will the pyro brigade accept the ruling or will Celtic fans be punished for the actions of the few ?
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I hope not but the likelihood is that some eejits will continue and a ban will follow.
Good luck to the girls today. I expect the Real Madrid girls to be on another level.
Hi all.
I need some tips. It has always been on my bucket list to visit Estadio Nacional . My son is taking me this weekend. I have heard other Celts say to hang about in your Celtic top and you might get spotted by a considerate guard who would take you on a tour. If anyone can advise i would be so grateful. That occasiion is so pivotal in my memory of the backstreets of the Lower falls in Belfast where I was born and bred. So many memories of the buzz and all the men and my dad, a big Celt. all out in the street, with us youngsters jumping about exciteably. And the celebratory bonfire.. And not a drop of alcohol about the place.! This was just pre troubles and the area and people changed forever.
I just need to pay homage at that Celtic shrine.
Cliftoncelt- There is a timetable of when the stadium is open mate
jeez,
the ‘bedwetting’ patter is back.
not one of your finest moments Paul 🙆🏻♂️
you could maybe have said that before the 7-1 humping in dortmund.
and i was happy the way the transfer window ended as well.
but really…
Mr Tisdale, Mr Tisdale, welcome to celtic (said in my Norman Wisdom voice). One for the older celts
cheer yersel up…
https://thecelticstar.com/celtic-on-this-day-lubo-moravcik-scored-his-finest-celtic-goal-watch-the-video/
CD- VG
Was Lubo sourced from analytics ? or did Dr. Jo know better :)
Paul 67
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and we all , bedwetters and Lawwellites alike , can see how effective the summer transfer window was . Previous transfer windows were a different story however so there might be good reason for a gallon or two of pish on the Egyptian cotton .
It has taken a bit of a turnaround in recruitment to get those sheets smelling fresh.
LenorCSC
In the Algarve, a lot of bars advertising the game on Saturday live
Glen D- beautifully put…..
justshatered on 17th October 2024 1:50 pm
To continue to pretend that we somehow got a better deal waiting to the final day of the transfer window is simply not true.
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you just mean the transfer fee yes ?
because other than the parties involved none of us know what the wage demand, contract length, add ons, performance realted items, houses, schools, tax, agents, 3rd parties , actual cost of moving homes etc etc etc
why spend money early ?
last day deals may also suit the player.
did we gazump anyone for engels / is there a list of suitors who would meet the wage demands /
the winter window is already being talked about for what celtic have to do.
its a whole lot of daftness with added hyperbole and girning to artificial timelines,