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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Saint Stivs
:@-)))
MWD
BSR
They are defo Huns.
MWD
Emdy goat the link to the fat gardener’s interview?
MWD
Thom
FELIX Cumpleanos mi amigo, I hope you have many more :-)
HH
watching MAN U. guy heads ball clear ,man u player heads defender.a foul but no card.if he had done it with his foot it’s a booking or a red he was so late.
Ach well some folk never learn ;-))
Caixinha resigned after only three games into the following campaign, amidst rumours of several months due in wages to both him and the players.[2][3] He quickly signed for fellow league team C.D. Nacional,[4] helping the Madeirans rank seventh after winning ten of his 21 games in charge.
On Sky Sports just now, Jim Shite and some guy called Charlie managed to squeeze in 6 OF references in 5 minutes. Sterling effort by the denial junkies.
Massive Football News From Qatar
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/massive-football-news-from-qatar/
Wee story…in the early fifties my family moved to a new scheme. I was seven years old and a Celtic fan. Across the street there was a guy, same age as me but a rangers fan. We had one thing in common, our passion for playing football. When others were fed up, chucking it and going home, we were still out on the street playing away…I played one season with him at amateur level before I moved to London and eventually lost contact with him. The last I heard was he had signed for rangers. My reaction was, well done! After all, he was my pal and we had never had a Celtic-rangers or Catholic-Protestant problem. He was a good guy…Fast forward nearly fifty years. I’m walking to my mum’s house, the same one I grew up in all those years ago. A car pulls up alongside me…it was him, I would never have recognised him. We had a very, very brief chat. He had just moved back to the area and gave me his address. He’s retired now and suggests we must catch up, lots to talk about etc…So, later at home and on the spur of the moment, I decide to see if my friend is on facebook…he is!……and the first thing I see on his page is a shared post, something with masonic symbols and…………….sashes as well…Aargh!!!
Needless to say, I haven’t yet taken up his offer of a catch-up….am I wrong? Should I let that affect me?
Answers please on a twenty pound note…:-)
Surely this compensation package will be no more than 6 weeks wages? By the way, he was always the number 1 target…..aye right!
If its Photoshop – – its even funnier.
Many thanks to all my well wishers today.
As for the rest of you……..see if I care!!
Heading for the Birthday Dinner with my principle carer.
TTT…have a nice evening sir…
THOMTHETHIM
Hoopy Birthday
http://www.justopenedlondon.com/timmy-green-victoria-london/
Great pub
67ECW
BTW…if peter cashmachine takes over, does that mean ten percent of his hun salary will go into the vatican coffers?….where’s dan brown when you need him?
any news on the new Sevco Football Undead Director (Hun FUD) yet?
If PedroBhoy turns up at CP on Sunday He may get a better cheer from us than ‘thems’, wouldn’t that be funny, and really annoy them. Let’s make it happen.
Barry went to make a cup of tea and missed the end of the game.
Probably spent 10 minutes looking for a jar labeled “T”…….
Chick trying to sell Hamilton’s players to Sevco. Doesn’t say why they would go there.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/cheltenham/i-just-cant-make-ends-meet-cork-trainer-adrian-maguire-considering-retirement-over-costs-35516679.html
Never mind that
Who is the celt writing the questions on 15 to 1
Mrs mmpd aka Maria the cook
Was watching said programme at 5 in the morning(apparently I snore)
One question
Which former Celtic manager now manages in Edinburgh
Later in the programme
By lonely harbour wall I watched the last star fall. Name the song
Not even the weekend yet, and although I’m guilty of complacency as much as the next Celtic fan it’s very, very difficult to see other than Hoopy humping. The complacency charge comes from SMSM and the same club continuity myth where comparisons are faux made with Laudrup – MacKay Amoruso – Keirnan Goram – Foderingham Hateley – Kenny Misser.
This is catchy stuff and we’ll probably get a cautionary warning from Paul67 in Friday’s leader, but the reality is Sevco have been to Celtic Park just the once in their four and a half year existence.
And got thrashed CSC
bournesouprecipe on 9th March 2017 6:08 pm
What happened to good ole real Rangers men?
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What happened to good ole real Rangers ? :-)
Shortbread concerned about lack of challenge to Celtic……let me think back a few years here.?
Bada
never seemed to hear about those concerns during the EBT era when they were ‘swooping’ more than the Red Baron. They are clutching at straws and I hope to see more of a challenge from Aberdeen, Hearts etc
This mob seem to think football started with Souness.
HH
“What I like about it is the value of your team-mates and the demand for perfection.
“In my coaching career, I learned a lot from fighting the bull. You have to give everything for each other. The preparation is demanding, the physical side of it, the analysis.
“The downside to it has been the physical injuries that have occurred. But fortunately, I have escaped injury.”
He’ll have to be good at ‘fighting the bull’ because he’ll be hearing plenty of it at ayebrokes.
Bada
Let me think………………………………….
‘They boasted of a Sugar Daddy floatin pitches and mocked Celtic’s ‘biscuit tin’
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 9TH MARCH 2017 6:08 PM
What happened to good ole real Rangers men?
There’s only kiddy-on Rangers men now cos there’s only a kiddy-on Rangers!
“fighting the bull’ because he’ll be hearing plenty of it at ayebrokes” CSC
And a different team for each competition, the dawn of Fake News back then…
‘Pedro’s only herre to watch the Celtic
Here to watch the Cellll-tic
He’s only here to watch the Celtic’
repeat ad infinitum…
I wonder if ole Pedro will want John Park as his DOF? I read on twitter earlier in the week he scouted for us for a short period, is this true? If so Park maybe someone he knows.
Same old Alloa always cheatin
The green Jedi
I agree re big Erik?
If he is 6 feet then I’m 5″11
I walked past him on Tuesday and whoever gave his stats isn’t as accurate as DBBIA
How should we look upon Pedro?
Pedro the footballer?
Pedro the football coach?
Pedro the bullfighter?
” You s£@g one lousy sheep ………….”
pedrotheboatbuildercsc
Roy Croppie
No but he sat his coaching badges with big Stubbs what about him as no 2 after they chanted he was a sad fenian bassa at the cup final
Bobby I got the same email’s, one at 3:30am in the morning