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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
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31 May 2016, 07:46 PM
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Regardless of what the support think of certain players, it would be a terrible move for him to be publicly slating our captain and one of the other most experienced players before he has even met the squad. Is the correct answer
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
I don't usually read these rent-a-quote pieces but I agree, his ethos and his knowledge could inspire a generation. Exciting times indeed. 
I was at a hun wedding last week. I was kinda worried as the person who invited me as their plus one had told the groom I was a big Celtic fan, really into it, blah, blah. My heart sank when they added that both bride and grooms families were really into the huns, orange order, masons etc. Worse - the wedding was in Armadale. As the car drove down past the delights of High Academy Street we passed Windsor Hall (a puffed up scouts hut) with its Union Jack wafting high. A little further on was the Masonic Hall in all its tattered glory. 'That's it over' thought I 'if we go the other way to the reception we might never have to witness such spectacles again.' However, the church had a big union jack inside the porch and God Save the Queen was in the hymn book. I was surprised by this. I thought it was the National Anthem. I felt very low and was dreading the reception in case they got pissed and started fighting - probably with me! I felt so uncomfortable. Well, I never enjoyed a reception so much. They were all nice enough. And they were all utterly, utterly depressed about our Brendan's appointment. Gloomy in the extreme. An ex Liverpool manager has far more kudos than an ex Brentford one. Silk vs Nylon, one might say. It was a truth universally acknowledged that a piss poor Celtic side had still won the league and they worried that the huns would be no competition next year. Rodgers could only improve the team. He could sign quality, manage well, get CFC through he qualifiers and our finances would outstrip theirs by even more millions. They were also unsure that one Joseph Anthony Barton would be sufficient to pierce the halo of Brendan Rodgers and stop us winning the league again. It was all music to my ears. I just sat there, sipping my champagne, dreamily imagining halcyon days where all their deepest worries came true. Lizzy is the head of the church. That will be why they have that song in the hymn book.
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Green brigade over in santa P chanting a new brendan rodgers song
Brendan Rodgers Brendan Rodgers You have heard us calling in the night Brendan Rogers Brendan Rodgers You've come home to lead the green and white
Cant beat a good hymn
That's terrible. I like it and looking forward to singing it when we are back in paradise for our first game of the new season. I'm also sure BR will be overwhelmed by it too. Brendan Rodgers....
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
I was at a hun wedding last week. I was kinda worried as the person who invited me as their plus one had told the groom I was a big Celtic fan, really into it, blah, blah. My heart sank when they added that both bride and grooms families were really into the huns, orange order, masons etc. Worse - the wedding was in Armadale. As the car drove down past the delights of High Academy Street we passed Windsor Hall (a puffed up scouts hut) with its Union Jack wafting high. A little further on was the Masonic Hall in all its tattered glory. 'That's it over' thought I 'if we go the other way to the reception we might never have to witness such spectacles again.' However, the church had a big union jack inside the porch and God Save the Queen was in the hymn book. I was surprised by this. I thought it was the National Anthem. I felt very low and was dreading the reception in case they got pissed and started fighting - probably with me! I felt so uncomfortable. Well, I never enjoyed a reception so much. They were all nice enough. And they were all utterly, utterly depressed about our Brendan's appointment. Gloomy in the extreme. An ex Liverpool manager has far more kudos than an ex Brentford one. Silk vs Nylon, one might say. It was a truth universally acknowledged that a piss poor Celtic side had still won the league and they worried that the huns would be no competition next year. Rodgers could only improve the team. He could sign quality, manage well, get CFC through he qualifiers and our finances would outstrip theirs by even more millions. They were also unsure that one Joseph Anthony Barton would be sufficient to pierce the halo of Brendan Rodgers and stop us winning the league again. It was all music to my ears. I just sat there, sipping my champagne, dreamily imagining halcyon days where all their deepest worries came true.
Lizzy is the head of the church. That will be why they have that song in the hymn book. She's the head of the English church not the Scottish church.
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
I was at a hun wedding last week. I was kinda worried as the person who invited me as their plus one had told the groom I was a big Celtic fan, really into it, blah, blah. My heart sank when they added that both bride and grooms families were really into the huns, orange order, masons etc. Worse - the wedding was in Armadale. As the car drove down past the delights of High Academy Street we passed Windsor Hall (a puffed up scouts hut) with its Union Jack wafting high. A little further on was the Masonic Hall in all its tattered glory. 'That's it over' thought I 'if we go the other way to the reception we might never have to witness such spectacles again.' However, the church had a big union jack inside the porch and God Save the Queen was in the hymn book. I was surprised by this. I thought it was the National Anthem. I felt very low and was dreading the reception in case they got pissed and started fighting - probably with me! I felt so uncomfortable. Well, I never enjoyed a reception so much. They were all nice enough. And they were all utterly, utterly depressed about our Brendan's appointment. Gloomy in the extreme. An ex Liverpool manager has far more kudos than an ex Brentford one. Silk vs Nylon, one might say. It was a truth universally acknowledged that a piss poor Celtic side had still won the league and they worried that the huns would be no competition next year. Rodgers could only improve the team. He could sign quality, manage well, get CFC through he qualifiers and our finances would outstrip theirs by even more millions. They were also unsure that one Joseph Anthony Barton would be sufficient to pierce the halo of Brendan Rodgers and stop us winning the league again. It was all music to my ears. I just sat there, sipping my champagne, dreamily imagining halcyon days where all their deepest worries came true.
Lizzy is the head of the church. That will be why they have that song in the hymn book. Not the first time i have heard it sung in my local chapel
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Is there not a resonable middle ground you could inhabit between declaring him the messiah and deciding it might all be going wrong based on some paper transfer talk and a few quotes about our current squad ? Jus-sayinCSC
Your missing my point mate. It's the board I'm worried about. He'll really need to be the messiah, if he is going to be required to work with what our board have been giving lately. I'm hoping against my recent evidence of experience, that he'll be given the means to make improvements - this means moving a lot on - especially the underperforming senior squad members. I'm genuinely worried that he'll be convinced to keep them on & then stifle any possible progress. I've been worried about this for ages & I'm yet to be convinced otherwise, as our deterioration in every possible department proves. It's going to take a while before I'm confident of having a team who could do what Rodgers is talking about. It'll take more than him going to a few games years ago to change that - that's just where I am at the moment. Really hoping he will help turn us around. Jeez oh man you sound in a bad place. Do you seriously think BR would have taken the gig if he hadn't received adequate assurances around financial backing for his plans.
From what I've heard (oh no, not that phrase again) DD was behind the appointment and is committed to seeing him backed up. Yes, let's not believe he is the Messiah but the analysis of the Armadale buns is in my view spot on.
We were rancid in parts last year and still won the league with points and more importantly, goals to spare. They will have their hands full dealing with the sheep, the tarts, St Johnstone, Motherwell etc week in week out. This will not be like the championship where you can have a few weeks off playing lesser knowns back to back. This will be full blown and I can't see that they will stand the pace unless they radically strengthen.
We need to get into Europe and earn serious money and establish clear water between us and the rest for the foreseeable.
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
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British church Do you mean Church of England is the "British church"? Cos that's all she is the head of.
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
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Do you mean Church of England is the "British church"? Cos that's all she is the head of. Her Maj is Defender of the Faith which means she has a role in Church of England and Church of Scotland since they are the established churches of the land. There is NO established church in Northern Ireland, it was disestablished in 1869. Thus all these years of cap doffing and Royal arse licking, was just wishful thinking from grown up orphans with abandonment issues desperately inventing 'mummy.' - I do have a mummy and don't you dare say I don't. She happens to be very rich and lives in a big palace far away and one day she will send for me - that type of scenario. And as much as Mr Paisley desperately claimed her for his own, she didn't see it that way. Doctorates supplied by loon balls from America for $100 dollars with 'I am a doctor of divinity' written in crayon, don't count as far as Lizzie is concerned. While such people would never publicly admit that Lizzie had disowned them it's generally accepted by them that this is the case, thus many don't take seriously the requirement to pay her, her taxes.
The church in Wales was disestablished in 1920. The Welsh were a bit more adult about it.
Parliament pushed through a series of Acts in the 1530's to make Henry VIII head of the Church of England. As we know, St Thomas More would not take the oath to accept this and Henry louped off his napper. Interestingly enough, no less than David Bowie commented that he had great respect for More's courage and principles but said that ultimately he did not die for a principle, but rather a dogma, and this made him, in Bowie's eyes at least, an idiot.
The Church of Scotland's relationship with the monarch was set out in the Act of Union of 1707 where the King is required to uphold the Church of Scotland (Defender of the Faith) but is NOT head of the Church, merely a member. Thus Lizzie is just a wench on a bench whenever she graces the kirk with Her royal posterior.
However, in recent times, Her majesty's role is going through somewhat of a period of change when Lord Russell of Brand declared her to be merely, "an old woman with a nice hat." And attempting to stifle a guffaw at the tragic death of a troublesome daughter-in-law, didn't do her any favours either. She has no relationship with the Churches of any of the Commonwealth countries which is just aswell since at Mick Jagger's wedding on the beach in the Caribbean, the 'meenister' sprinkled the couple with the blood of a sacrificed chicken. No very Presbyterian really, and certainly not high Anglican.
For these reasons, it must have stuck in many a craw that Her Maj opened the Commonwealth games at Celtic Park - and Ibrox was flung the bone of the pretend rugby tournament, the 'sevens.' The Establishment could never be seen to be rewarding any group of subjects who had stiffed the Queen for north of £160 million. This makes all the loyalist noise emanating from Ibrox even more hilarious because clearly, she wouldn't touch them with a Royal barge pole. Quite right, Ma'am! (As in jam.)
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Really enjoyed reading that.
Insightful, humorous and with the added bonus of the Huns getting a metaphorical toe in the baws.
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Brendan Rodgers plans to ginger up Celtic’s ambitions
ANDREW SMITH Spoiler: click to toggle When Neil Lennon became Celtic manager he stated his mission was to “bring the thunder back”. For Brendan Rodgers, the quest is to bring the numbers back. His week in post has been accompanied by close season ticket office queues at Parkhead not witnessed in more than a decade. That fact suggests the Irishman has made a thundering start in his desire to drive up attendances, an upswing achieved simply through Rodgers being Rodgers. In the past two years, Celtic Park has been around a quarter empty for the league flag unfurling. Such modest crowds hadn’t been witnessed for such an occasion in practically three decades. When that day arrives in early August, the sell-out signs can be expected. Rodgers, the supporter, the high roller managerially – courtesy of three years at Liverpool and Swansea City success – will pay his way for his Scottish record £2m-plus salary, and pave the way for the crackling atmosphere he craves. At least initially. “To inspire the supporters to come back and fill Celtic Park,” was how he explained his mission. “When you have 60,000 in the stadium it’s a special place. It’s not just for European nights, it’s week in, week out. It’s a challenge here, we need the supporters if we’re going to succeed and there’s not many better when that crowd’s behind you.” Rodgers will certainly be helped by the presence of Rangers in the top flight for the first time in four years – especially when they have serious designs on restoring the old order. Ultimately, though, he really helps himself. He is a calibre of manager that a disaffected Celtic support had resigned themselves to their club hierarchy having neither the will nor the wherewithal to land. His background, both professionally and personally, ensured a whole different feel from Ronny Deila’s parade two years ago was tangible at his meet and greet on Monday night... wherein he inspired 13,000 punters to come to Celtic Park. “That passion is one of the big draws,” he said. The draw for Celtic supporters is how he differs from Deila, to be frank. There is plenty of common ground in the pair’s drive to develop players and pursue a football vision that involves pressurising high up the pitch without the ball, and dominating in possession. So too their ideal about small-ish squad size, Deila latterly lamenting he allowed it to bloat to over 30. Equally, with the need to bring a coaching confrere with you – which Deila regretted not doing and Rodgers immediately has in recruiting Chris Davies as first-team coach. Yet, as he admitted himself, there was always something alien about Scottish football culture and the obsessive interest generated in his every word and deed for Deila. The contrast with Rodgers is acute. He may be in a new job, but the familiarity with all aspects allowed him to present himself as a man slipping into a pair of old comfortable, beloved shoes as he eased into his surroundings. His clearly well-warranted reputation as a football anorak helps. Whatever we expected from Rodgers this week, it wasn’t wistful, respectful reminisces about Gary Bollan from the former Northern Ireland youth internationalist. This came at the end of a treatise on Scottish managers, whom he seems to have universal knowledge of, after he was asked about the warm words his appointment elicited from Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. “There’s a number of very good guys up here,” he said. “Derek was very unfortunate at Bristol City. He took over a squad with a load of players. I always found him, when we spoke on football, very good. We met and we would speak. I was delighted to see how well he’s done up here. “Robbie Neilson came down to see me for a couple of days when I was Liverpool manager. I was really impressed with Robbie and I think he’s done an excellent job with Hearts. The other boys up here, Mark McGhee I know, big Tommy Wright. There’s good guys up here. I was looking through all the managers working in Scotland because I was interested to know. “I saw Gary Bollan. He’s at Forfar. I played against Scotland for Northern Ireland at Under-16s and Gary was the captain of Scotland. Paul Dickov was in there as well. Big Jim [Will] was the goalkeeper. It was interesting going through the names.” Rodgers relished reeling off other names the other night. Whether it was that of Paul McStay, his favourite Celtic player of his mid-1980s days of travelling over to games from County Antrim – “He was brilliant for me,” he said – or legends of an earlier vintage. These tripped off his tongue when he was asked about the similarities between the footballing, post-industrial heartlands of Glasgow and Liverpool. “There are similarities, but this is different. This is family, this is blood, this is...Gallacher, Johnstone, McGrain. I loved Liverpool, I loved my time there. At 39 years of age as a manager to feel that there was brilliant for me. And it’s created a great platform for me coming to here. I might be young as a manager but I’ve had quite a bit of experience and hopefully Celtic can benefit from that. “I think it was fate really that got me here. There are so many stars aligned for me to be here at this time. That time at Liverpool. When I went in [four years ago] they were eighth and we weren’t predicted to be in the top four within two years but nearly won the title [in 2014]. It just wasn’t to be. “We had everything going into that game and unfortunately the slip [from Steven Gerrard, to lead to a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea] changes the landscape. But what I did there will be similar to what I can do here in terms of the expectation. Liverpool were never expected to be near the league within two years and with a bit of luck we could have won it. “The idea is to do the very best that you possibly can.” Rodgers has already watched every goal Celtic scored and conceded last season. He was pleased to see PFA Scotland and Scottish football writers’ young player and left-back Kieran Tierney, score off his right foot in the final game, because “attacking full-backs in the modern game have got to get goals”. He will spend the three weeks before the squad return to training in preparation for the mid-July Champions League qualifier “meeting agents”, and being “full on” in his work. “I’ve had a holiday, a great holiday,” he said of his “resting” period since his sacking by Liverpool in October. Rodgers is a canny sort. The feeling persisted that the Deila-John Collins management team never entirely won over the Celtic dressing room. Collins’ unhappy history with Scott Brown from their time at Hibs probably didn’t help. Rodgers knows that Brown is the dressing room leader and intends to ensure the captain is firmly in his corner. It was, he said “one hundred and fifty per cent” the case that Brown will retain the armband as he eulogised the combative performer and predicted a mutually beneficial relationship such as that he previously enjoyed with Gerrard. “I saw him at Hibs as a young player and I thought he was a great athlete, very mobile and competitive. Obviously he’s come here and is a real warrior,” Rodgers said of Brown. “He’s up for every single game. Last year towards the end of the season he was maybe hit a little bit by injury and what not, but he’s 30 years of age and I think he’s still got his best years ahead of him. “When I went into Liverpool Steven Gerrard was 32 years of age. There was talk that his best days were maybe gone but Steven went on for the next two years and was brilliant for me – a great leader and nearly went on to pick up the title. His performance level went up again. So I’m really looking forward to working with Scott. I’d obviously come across him in some of the friendly games we had played and I’ve always been impressed with him as a player and I’m sure he can be a really big help for me.” Rodgers was once derided for stating that he had been his own “biggest mentor”. At Celtic, though, he really is his own biggest asset. Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-plans-to-ginger-up-celtic-s-ambitions-1-4140516#ixzz4A1qq0pwU Follow us: @TheScotsman on Twitter | TheScotsmanNewspaper on Facebook
Do you mean Church of England is the "British church"? Cos that's all she is the head of. Just quoting above me. As far as I know, the Queen is head of the Church of England; not the Church of Scotland.
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Can we please get back on topic
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Did anyone seriously expect him to come in and within 2 weeks announce that he's selling the captain and Charlie is leaving?
Some people really are impatient. And that's putting it gently.
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Did anyone seriously expect him to come in and within 2 weeks announce that he's selling the captain and Charlie is leaving?
Some people really are impatient. And that's putting it gently. I wouldn't say expect, more demand.
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Did anyone seriously expect him to come in and within 2 weeks announce that he's selling the captain and Charlie is leaving?
Some people really are impatient. And that's putting it gently.
I wouldn't say expect, more demand. Your going to be in for a long wait then
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Did anyone seriously expect him to come in and within 2 weeks announce that he's selling the captain and Charlie is leaving?
Some people really are impatient. And that's putting it gently. Yes, they did.
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KDS to BR: To paraphrase a former Celtic captain, WE'LL decide who should go and who should stay, ok, Brendan?
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Does Brendan have a ruthless streak? Cause he's gonna need one!
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Does Brendan have a ruthless streak? Cause he's gonna need one! Only if someone says 'steady' to him in training.
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