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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GGH,
This what rankles me most.The team that is being finally wound up,is,as the heading says,and always said,is,RFC.Rangers Football Club,PLC.
Not a mention of any holding company,Hightower,for example,which was Craigy boys company,which is,
as far as I know,still operating.
Am I missing something?.
Turkeybhoy
I don’t think so.
Everything else is a a lie. Holding company vehicle to engine room subsidiary and anything else in between.
TBB much, much earlier.
Terrific.
Totally agree on benefit of the doubt for attacking team.
If there isn’t a frame available at the exact point of contact with the ball, take the last frame before, not the first frame after.
lets all do the huddle on 17th October 2024 5:27 pm
“i think the point about the ‘bedwetter’ pish is”
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Quote of the day, Ladth.
Love a good truism.
Cracked me up.
Burnley78 9.58 last paragraph
‘Let’s see if we can deliver 5 domestic trophies (2 leagues) in next 2 years and last 16 CL just once. That would be reasonable as KPIs would you not say ?’
I only know that Celtic attempt to win all they enter in Scotland,a last 16 CL place I feel is still a bit ambitious regards our team at the moment,who we get in in Jan and in summer could alter that.i would be happy with section entry this year.
Re kpis – if only we could be more transparent with communicating these it would certainly help board/fans relationship( ps break them all done for all who are subject to them.
HH
It must be the Sagres or the Super Bock….but agreeing with a couple of my adversaries, transfers can be complicated more these days, swings and roundabouts this summer, getting Bernardo for £3.5 million is a steal,and given time he will be better than MOR,and we overpaid for Idah,when it looked like we were the only team after him.And Brendan needs to get us better set up away in Europe, obrigado
The Huddle Break Down Extra Time
https://youtu.be/wEedMbuvV4g?si=P6wksl5THDYyCBVV
Then work for me after my
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Maestro – healthy !!!
No coffee in there?
https://celtsarehere.com/spfl-intensifies-crackdown-on-pyrotechnics-with-lengthy-ban-proposed/
Don’t know how far along this nonsense is.
Shades of OBFA – the totally wrong solution IMHO.
Fringe benefit? Allows for very public virtue signalling by otherwise useless politicians I suppose.
BURNLEY78 @ 9:52 PM,
“If you honestly think that a decent player with a decent agent would immediately go to Celtic at the start of a window rather than wait to see if a big club from a top league was interested then, to be polite, you have a very different sense of the realities of how a football transfer market works than I do.
Maybe it will miraculously work that way because St Brendan wants but somehow I don’t think so.
I also think better to hear what the great man said in full as St Stivs mentions than edit to suit yourself.
I do agree this new guy is absolutely a Brendan appointment. I also have no idea if it will prove right for the club. There is little evidence of Brendan’s previous patsies adding anything of value in similar roles.
Personally I wish Brendan would get on with coaching and developing the football team and be backed and managed by a proper director of football the way so many other progressive clubs are these days. Clearly the Celtic board think differently and they have given him his own man again . Given the boards track record of success this past 25 years or so I will cut them some slack. I doubt the support will though should the manager not continue to deliver dominance like we have enjoyed or indeed step up in Europe. We will never have a better chance. The manager has every tool he could have hoped for. No excuses or finger pointing now.
Let’s see if we can deliver 5 domestic trophies (2 leagues) in next 2 years and last 16 CL just once. That would be reasonable as KPIs would you not say ?”
Hope you enjoyed your Holiday…
There certainly is complexity in the current transfer market, it’s more challenging and takes more resources than ever.
For me this does not make Brendan Rodgers wont for more suitable players in on a timely manner irrelevant, he seemed frustrated in the summer but also understanding of the challenges the Club faced.
It is simply imperative to have the players in early and take full advantage of the pre season, (especially if European qualifiers need to be undertaken) he was asking for a review and shake up of the recruitment and that looks like what has happened – we may lose high value players late in the summer, we may sign our most coveted targets late in the summer.
Yet there was no reason the deals for the likes of Idah, McCowan etc could not be completed in a timely manner, so definite room for improvement.
Not sure who the patsies are you mention, BR has brought the likes of Chris Davies, Lee Congerton, Adam Sadler etc etc to Celtic, all with proven credentials so let’s give Dr Tisdale a chance.
As you mention we have had getting on for twenty five years of success since the MO’N revival back in Y2K.
However moving the bar to an unreasonable level for the KPI’s is nonsensical.
A professional organisation would be setting their KPI’s at a realistic level.
In those twenty five years we have got to the UCL last sixteen twice – never winning a treble in the seasons we did that, so it would certainly not be reasonable to set the KPI’s where you suggest, especially as the UCL is harder than it’s ever been for teams outside the top teir leagues.
Also, and this would be no bad thing, there is every indication that the domestic environment will once again become more competitive.
Just as Big Pedro did not have the mythical midas touch, St Brendan won’t be working miracles.
A top twenty four finish in the UCL this season and a double, will be a very welcome return.
A UCL qualification and a domestic double next season will be good going, of course if we do qualify then a top twenty four finish is a reasonable aspiration.
That should set us up very nicely for a sustained period of performance at the higher level Micheal Nicholson and Brendan Rodgers indicated we would be striving for when the Manager was appointed.
As far as a Director of Football goes, it was certainly the way to go back in the day, why we didn’t take that route in a headscratcher, especially when we have been so light in the Executive Suite.
Still, with the current set up, for the first time this century all our bases will be covered with the exception of a COO.
It would be great to get an Edwin van der Sar equivalent in that role, yet they are thin on the ground.
Still, we now have Brendan Rodgers in a key position making the calls and that different approach to me is welcome.
The blame game and sloping shoulders is endemic in the Scottish game and if Brendan Rodgers wants to stand up and be counted and take the responsibility then fair play.
There are many ready to set our manager up for a fall, all too eager to point the finger of blame should things go wrong.
Well, they won’t go wrong, and if those who are sharpening their index finger for the purpose of allocating blame, do in fact give credit where it’s due when we succeed, that would be great for Club unity.
Hail Hail
What do pyrotechnics bring to a match? Imo, NOTHING whatsoever. Stop them asap.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 18TH OCTOBER 2024 9:04 AM
Don’t know how far along this nonsense is.
Shades of OBFA – the totally wrong solution IMHO.
Fringe benefit? Allows for very public virtue signalling by otherwise useless politicians I suppose.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 18TH OCTOBER 2024 9:27 AM
What do pyrotechnics bring to a match? Imo, NOTHING whatsoever. Stop them asap.
BTB – I don’t know how far along the proposal is, or, indeed what will be the final outcome, however something must be done now as quickly as possible to save a catastrophe. How would Celtic face a family who have had a youngster badly burned, or, killed as a result of this madness? As of now could they honestly say that the club have done all in their power to stop it? I don’t think so. Celtic would be sued and the damages asked for would make recent UEFA fines seem miniscule in comparison.
Do you remember the Bradford City stadium fire which occurred during a English Third Division match on Saturday, 11 May 1985 at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265? Previous warnings had been given about a major build-up of litter in the cavity below the seats in the stand and nothing had been done. A classic case of ignoring the problem ending in cataclysmic consequences. What would you suggest as a solution to the selfish madness of pyros?
PCS – Of course you are correct. To the overwhelming number of supporters these displays are abhorrent and remind us every time of the disastrous outcomes that they may bring. In addition there is the real risk that a repeat in Bergamo will result in all Celtic fans being banned from the last two remaining away CL ties this season. Who knows what further penalties and fines might ensue, as UEFA may view other breaches as defiance by supporters and negligence by the club.
CELTIC40ME, SFTBS…
Your exchange at the end of the last blog was interesting.
On the subject of the scientific method, obviously not so much of an adherent as you are SFTBS, when you look at issues such as gravity, the copenhagen interpretation and more relevant to what we were discussing, the hard problem of consciousness then science struggled – when discussing the mind or psyche, Jungian methodology is as good as anything science proposes.
On the question of AI, CELTIC40ME, the insidious and complex nature of the “beast” means the potential threat is all encompassing.
It will not be terminators visiting us from the future, nor trying to unplug our brains from the matrix.
An example is Myanmar, where social media played it’s part in the Rohingya genocide.
By convincing the populace that Rohingya’s were not in fact natives but Bengali’s encroaching on there country, the army was given the green light to commit genocide.
That YNH suggests is the way these catastrophe’s play out in actuality, unlike the apocalyptic movie versions…
Hail Hail
I’m in the standing area directly behind the GB and when those pyros are fired off its absolutely chocking in there. Certainly wouldn’t like to be suffering from asthma , that’s for sure.
Prestonpans bhoys on 18th October 2024 10:30 am
I’m in the standing area directly behind the GB and when those pyros are fired off its absolutely chocking in there. Certainly wouldn’t like to be suffering from asthma , that’s for sure.
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Must be terrible – even where we are on the other side of the ground, on a still day/night the smell is noxious. Those who inflict this on others are not true Celtic supporters, they’re actions defy this. The good name Celtic and our stadium are merely a convenient platform for their antics.
How long can it go on? Well quite frankly until someone, whether it be Celtic, SFA, SPFL, OR, UEFA puts the foot down; because this faction will not stop regardless of the consequences to other supporters and the club.
MCPHAIL / WEERON
Thank you so much for the heads up.
Hail Hail…..
Prestonpans bhoys on 18th October 2024 10:30 am
I’m in the standing area directly behind the GB and when those pyros are fired off its absolutely chocking in there. Certainly wouldn’t like to be suffering from asthma , that’s for sure.
Apart from that…ye canny even see the fekin’ game!
Dobwin/multimonikered persona
You don’t go to games.you live in england
Your somebody might die panic does not cut it
As with cbc your chat on suing is usually wrong
Big vacuous paragraphs on nothing
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