While Celtic are busy preparing their players and supporters for the derby game at the weekend, Newco look to be storing up their major news story for after the game, perhaps anticipating a pick-me-up will be needed.
I’ve heard a bit of ‘Why this guy?’ chat about, Pedro Caixinha, one of our self-declared “Celtic brothers”. Why not Derek McInnes or Tommy Wright instead of a man who sends video messages across the globe to congratulate Celtic?
McInnes, and Wright are both better than any previous Newco manager, and would use the Murray Park budget to out-perform Aberdeen and St Johnstone respectively, but ask yourself, what percentage chance would Newco have of catching Celtic with either as manager?
2%? Maybe more, but it’s certainly not as high as 5%. Newco would probably finish second, but by this time next year the reality that they were miles behind Celtic would have dawned on everyone.
What chance would Brother Caixinha give them of catching Celtic? While there is a high chance he would be less successful in the Scottish Premiership than McInnes, the certainty of success or failure cannot be predicted as accurately, as with a manager we are more familiar with. You could be around 80% certain that with Newco’s budget and resources, McInnes would finish second in the Premiership, but 98% certain he would fail to top the table.
If you are left to choose between a manager you are 98% sure will fail, and a manager who you just don’t have enough information to estimate his chances of success or failure, why would you appoint the former? Newco are as well taking the Hail Mary manager than investing in a strategy they are sure will fail.
Brother Caixinha is being offered the job because there are no good choices, only bad ones, and worse still. And that’s the pick-me-up some will read about on Monday morning: ‘Brother Caixinha will give us a Hail Mary shot at winning the league, but might finish below St Johnstone.’ Although maybe they’ll phrase it differently.
I loved Ally McCoist’s assertion on Sky TV that it was rubbish to suggest Newco needed a director of football and that all they needed was to spend ever-more money. After all they have been through, their influential figures are actively briefing against adding technical resources, instead asking for a club already running at a loss to gamble more. I hope Ally knows the Hail Mary!
Here’s an idea, live within your means and get better at everything you do. Do this and you’ll survive.
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Tut mir leid ich hab immer win “s” zu veil ….
Ssmiley things
Braw
Schlaf gut
Hail hail
Braw
JJHS
Reading back I and
‘I heard it thro the grapefruit’
has had me smiling since hehe
HH
POGMATHONYAHUN
Billy Connolly used to sing
Campbelltown Loch,I wish you were Lanny.
Not quite up there with the Greenock and Kilwinning staple,El Dorado.
El D,the stuff of nightmares…
As was Four Crown,now that I think of it. Just as well I’m on nightshift,I’d never sleep for a’ the flashbacks!
Hey bobby …
Wit aboot a dose of the Inverkip?
Braw
NEUSTADT-BRAW
I suggest penicillin for that,bud!
Duty calls,offski…
Twa fae Weyms Bay ….
Perfect…???
Braw
Goodnight all..
And may all James Devine,s family and friends find peace
My songs and words go with you all…
NB.
I hear there was a lot of smoke down Govan way earlier this week. Have they found the mirrors yet? Bet they were all broken.
Just catching up.
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We dont care what the animals say only what they do.
Who are the animals?
Do we really know?
Margaret
Animals, bheasts, how do we rise above the despite of fellow human beings?
Anyway, in my own world I’ve been reflecting on mirrors, so this….
“Mirror Mirror on the wall
Who the fairest People of all?
Oh you People this is true
You are the best in Royal Blue
But greater far the world has seen
Are the bhoys in Emerald Green
It is too late, your time has gone
Just go home and have a scone
Teach your children well in spite
The future is bright Green, and White.”
So they smash the mirrors that tell them the truth. Bad luck.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RYlAPjyNm8
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Odd stats from the SPFL
Dembele has scored more goals than the top three Sevco defenders combined. 17/15
Scott Sinclair’s total is equal to their 3 best scorers total 15/15
Sevco have shipped about 1.3 goals a game, 37 goals from 27 games.
We have only conceded 3 goals in 2017, scoring 32.
The Sevco team bus will come up the Celtic Way and be parked in front of their goalmouth.
Will their fans need rosaries to pray Hail Marys for their chances on Sunday?
Sandman
Thanks for the post of the Barca commentators. A simple expression of how football can be such a pleasure. Cheers.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry, calm but grey cloud covered East Kilbride.
Probably already mentioned but it just occurred to me that there was a lot of smoke emanating from Govan then shortly after there was news of a fella with papal connections being announced as the new leader. Hmmmm…?
JJ
Good morning from an overcast Somerset, again.
Are the Moonhowlers on vacation this week or are the mods on overtime?
Rest in peace El Diego Bhoy. You came on this blog and shared your anguish and pain, you shocked us all with your prognosis and stunned your Celtic family.
You bravely fought the bastard disease but sadly we lost you in the end.
You will never be forgotten. Never.
Respect for those who will make the trip to celebrate Jim’s life today. I hope it goes as well as can be expected under these sad circumstances.
Hopefully Jim’s girls find solace and some comfort in the love that’s flowed for their father on these pages since his untimely passing.
RIP EDB You will be sadly missed.
HH Celtic men and wummin.
Pog
The mods are on Ovaltine.
Golf beckons. Dull but calm in Arbroath and any smoke here just means the fish are being prepared.
Cheerio for now,
JJ
ACGR
Nice one, M.
Good morning CQN from a dull, mild and positively balmy East Devon.
Hail! Hail!
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 10TH MARCH 2017 6:57 AM
Well done.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/ally-mccoist-moussa-dembele-not-worth-his-30m-price-tag-1-4388307
Morning all, a sad day where we bury a player and a supporter of our great club.
Tommy Gemmell, Jim Devine, one as important as the other in the fabric of Glasgow Celtic.
Requiescat in Pace
Ayrshire is Green and White
Lennybhoy
Pass on my regards to the ghirls today as I’m unable to attend
God bless and look after Jim
A wee smile as I pass paradise thinking of his undying love for his family and Celtic
RIP EDB
P.S Someone was wanting picked up and dropped at the airport today….for Jims funeral, did he get required lift..? Someone text me if not..I’ll be passing in about an hour or so, both ways..!
HH
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 10TH MARCH 2017 7:30 AM
I will do mate.
If any of you are going, see you there. I will put our donation of £200 towards Marie Curie collection that will be taken up today.
May God Bless Jim Devine’s Soul.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
MICKTT on 10TH MARCH 2017 7:32 AM
I text you, all sorted.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 10TH MARCH 2017 6:57 AM
Well said that man…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Got head…
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Ha!Ha! McCoist knows about value for money, right enough!
£750k to not win the Scottish Championship, eh Chauncey?
Still, good of him to admit Sevco are shite.
“It says a lot about his mentality that he’s scored in every Old Firm (sic) game so far” added McCoist.
It’s difficult to maintain that quality of level of finishing, regardless of the opposition”.
Word of The Day (Our domestic form so far)
Preternatural /ˌpriːtəˈnætʃrəl/
adjective
out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal:
preternatural powers.
outside of nature; supernatural.
Derived Forms
preternaturally, adverb
preternaturalism, noun
preternaturalness, preternaturality, noun
Word Origin
C16: from Medieval Latin praeternātūrālis, from Latin praeter natūram beyond the scope of nature
KTF
Or for Barça’s victory the other night!
Taxi duty this morning in the rush hour. Aaaaarghhh!
It’s ok for the East Klbride mob, driving unimpeded through their swanky new underpass!
But what about those stranded on the Raith Interchange above. All those millions, all those months of diversions, delays and diggers, and somehow it’s actually even worse.
Back roads it is then!
Pog….good morning Thomas John, R.E. The Jungle…..
http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/jungle.html
Those ain’t priests, they’re Champagnat’s Marist ninjas.
JK
‘i’ know!