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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
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3 Sep 2016, 02:43 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 01:52 PM
Absolutely delighted with BR...but can't shake this niggling anxiety that he's never been a financial trader in the City of London. his only flaw
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3 Sep 2016, 03:29 PM
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Alan Rough? His opinion means jack, clueless never was has been.
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3 Sep 2016, 03:41 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 03:29 PM
Alan Rough? His opinion means jack, clueless never was has been. Absolutely - but you can be sure he didn't call up and offer them, they were a response to some very carefully selected questions and the offer of a few quid
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3 Sep 2016, 03:44 PM
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- Big_Bobo_Balde
- 3 Sep 2016, 03:29 PM
Alan Rough? His opinion means jack, clueless never was has been.
Absolutely - but you can be sure he didn't call up and offer them, they were a response to some very carefully selected questions and the offer of a few quid They probably brought him out for a few whiskeys. That would explain the utter bollocks he was spouting.
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3 Sep 2016, 03:53 PM
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- ghirl86
- 3 Sep 2016, 12:43 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 12:42 PM
Brendan in the stand at Peterborough v Swindon. any ideas who he could be scouting?
His son plays for Swindon.
Looks like one of the more skilful players on the field. Defensive midfielder Defensive midfielder?
Or centre back converted into a defensive midfielder?
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3 Sep 2016, 04:12 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 03:29 PM
Alan Rough? His opinion means jack, clueless never was has been.
Absolutely - but you can be sure he didn't call up and offer them, they were a response to some very carefully selected questions and the offer of a few quid Whether we like it or not Craig Gordon has always been a msm favourite. He got away with his rix at Hearts because of it and the same can be said of his time in Sunderland, Scotland and Celtic jerseys. That a shampooe ex Scotland goalkeeper is giving an opinion on a far better ex Scotland goalkeeper shouldn't surprise us. This is a cliquey sport in a cliquey country. Another thing that shouldn't surprise us but is more disappointing is the lack of genuine analysis of why Brendan doesn't fancy Gordon. It's not because Craig can't pass the ball like Paul McStay. It's more about being confident and in control of the ball. The keeper isn't expected to pick pass after pass but more to be able to shift the ball from foot to foot confidently and make easy passes in a quick and timely manner. Gordon doesn't do this. He fancies about like Lurch when trying to shift the ball out his feet and this takes far too long which means our defenders can be closed down. This results in a punt up the pitch which more often than not ends in us losing possession. This isn't hard to understand.
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3 Sep 2016, 04:22 PM
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Despite continuing to buy a season ticket, in recent years I've only been over maybe four-five times a season. It's expensive to travel over from Dublin, and the pleasure I got out of attending games was not worth any additional expenditure above that.
By the end of November, I'll have got over ten times. I expect there's many Irish season ticket holders in similar situations. BRFA.
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3 Sep 2016, 05:26 PM
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That Alan Rough interview is desperate.
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3 Sep 2016, 06:13 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 04:22 PM
Despite continuing to buy a season ticket, in recent years I've only been over maybe four-five times a season. It's expensive to travel over from Dublin, and the pleasure I got out of attending games was not worth any additional expenditure above that.
By the end of November, I'll have got over ten times. I expect there's many Irish season ticket holders in similar situations. BRFA. I certainly saw far more coach loads on board the ferry last week travelling to the Aberdeen game. More than I'd seen in about two or three years. Queue for the bar was a bit of a nightmare though
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3 Sep 2016, 07:02 PM
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....give us a glimmer......
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- 3 Sep 2016, 05:26 PM
That Alan Rough interview is desperate. Ultimately the goalkeeping situation is a matter for the celtic manager. Rough can say what he likes.
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3 Sep 2016, 07:11 PM
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He has reinvigorrated my love for Celtic so much 
I don't think I've felt this way about a Celtic team since MON. Some achievement considering the collection of absolute shampooebags that they were under Ronny.
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3 Sep 2016, 07:13 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 04:22 PM
Despite continuing to buy a season ticket, in recent years I've only been over maybe four-five times a season. It's expensive to travel over from Dublin, and the pleasure I got out of attending games was not worth any additional expenditure above that.
By the end of November, I'll have got over ten times. I expect there's many Irish season ticket holders in similar situations. BRFA. Good to hear Behan.
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3 Sep 2016, 07:42 PM
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Impressed again with his interview yesterday & he seems happy that the board have supported him. I'm guessing from what he said that we were hopeful of getting Mcarthy,possibly on loan,until Everton's replacement for him signed for Spurs. If that is the case then it's been unfortunate,but we will have to look further afield than just the EPL in future Windows as it's difficult to entice many signings from that market. The funds must still be available though & lets hope that they are utilised to Make us a lot,lot stronger on the field after the next 2 windows.
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3 Sep 2016, 07:48 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 07:42 PM
Impressed again with his interview yesterday & he seems happy that the board have supported him. I'm guessing from what he said that we were hopeful of getting Mcarthy,possibly on loan,until Everton's replacement for him signed for Spurs. If that is the case then it's been unfortunate,but we will have to look further afield than just the EPL in future Windows as it's difficult to entice many signings from that market. The funds must still be available though & lets hope that they are utilised to Make us a lot,lot stronger on the field after the next 2 windows. From his quotes on the Celtic Twitter account after the game last Saturday he definitely wanted another player in, but he said that even if we didn't get one he was delighted with the transfer window, which suggests that maybe he was wanting someone like McCarthy but wasn't entirely confident we could get him. That's fair enough. I'm quite glad that we're shopping for the right player these days rather than any player.
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3 Sep 2016, 08:24 PM
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Impressed again with his interview yesterday & he seems happy that the board have supported him. I'm guessing from what he said that we were hopeful of getting Mcarthy,possibly on loan,until Everton's replacement for him signed for Spurs. If that is the case then it's been unfortunate,but we will have to look further afield than just the EPL in future Windows as it's difficult to entice many signings from that market. The funds must still be available though & lets hope that they are utilised to Make us a lot,lot stronger on the field after the next 2 windows.
From his quotes on the Celtic Twitter account after the game last Saturday he definitely wanted another player in, but he said that even if we didn't get one he was delighted with the transfer window, which suggests that maybe he was wanting someone like McCarthy but wasn't entirely confident we could get him. That's fair enough. I'm quite glad that we're shopping for the right player these days rather than any player. My guess (with no info whatsoever) is that we wanted McCarthy and were confident that he wanted to come. Either his groin injury or Everton's reluctance to loan him to us (as opposed to selling him to an EPL club who could afford to pay crazy money) meant that the move became less likely in the last few days.
The rhetoric about "one more" definitely dialled down in the last couple of days of the window.
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3 Sep 2016, 11:06 PM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 07:42 PM
Impressed again with his interview yesterday & he seems happy that the board have supported him. I'm guessing from what he said that we were hopeful of getting Mcarthy,possibly on loan,until Everton's replacement for him signed for Spurs. If that is the case then it's been unfortunate,but we will have to look further afield than just the EPL in future Windows as it's difficult to entice many signings from that market. The funds must still be available though & lets hope that they are utilised to Make us a lot,lot stronger on the field after the next 2 windows. It's not entirely true - we wouldn't pay the full cost Everton were asking. Looked like he was heading to Palace after it became clear Everton wouldn't budge with us but I think after Sissoko fell through they pulled the plug on any moves.
We genuinely tried pretty hard and so did the player apparently but wasn't to be.
I still think we should have had a back up option and would still like us to try and get someone in but guess if the manager only wants his first targets then so be it.
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4 Sep 2016, 09:20 AM
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- 3 Sep 2016, 07:42 PM
Impressed again with his interview yesterday & he seems happy that the board have supported him. I'm guessing from what he said that we were hopeful of getting Mcarthy,possibly on loan,until Everton's replacement for him signed for Spurs. If that is the case then it's been unfortunate,but we will have to look further afield than just the EPL in future Windows as it's difficult to entice many signings from that market. The funds must still be available though & lets hope that they are utilised to Make us a lot,lot stronger on the field after the next 2 windows.
It's not entirely true - we wouldn't pay the full cost Everton were asking. Looked like he was heading to Palace after it became clear Everton wouldn't budge with us but I think after Sissoko fell through they pulled the plug on any moves. We genuinely tried pretty hard and so did the player apparently but wasn't to be. I still think we should have had a back up option and would still like us to try and get someone in but guess if the manager only wants his first targets then so be it. Well BR did say he didn't want to sign guys for the sake of it. Maybe that's why we didn't have a back up option. And the fact we have a number of midfielders who aren't budging.
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4 Sep 2016, 10:16 AM
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Good piece with BR. Liquidation mentioned a few times (not by Brendan) which won't go down well. BR also talk about the players that he knows that are ow at rangers. Looks like Warburton is taking BR's sloppy seconds.
Brendan Rodgers wary of danger in Celtic v Rangers clash
Spoiler: click to toggle ANDREW SMITH Whatever may be claimed of the first top-flight tussle at Parkhead in four years that puts Celtic up against Rangers, this Saturday’s occasion is certainly not a game between equals. It would insult the intelligence to suggest otherwise; to recall the titanic struggles for domestic supremacy between clubs bearing these names across all previous footballing ages. It is refreshing that Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has no interest in insulting anyone’s intelligence. In itself that might be a measure of how times have changed when it comes to the biggest box-office fixture this country can serve up. Rodgers’ first such derby pits his Champions League team, built with a budget that allowed the recruitment of players such as Scott sinclair and Kolo Toure and serviced by a £25 million wage bill, against opposition assembled by Mark Warburton with a third of that finance... and that last season resided in the second tier. Forget that Rangers defied expectations against a lame Ronny Deila side to claim a penalty shoot-out victory in April’s Scottish Cup semi-final. The Ibrox men will create a surprise next weekend if they merely avoid being on the receiving end of a dispiriting defeat. The current incarnation of Rangers cannot match Celtic for financial muscle, as the old Ibrox club attempted before suffering liquidation four years ago. Rodgers doesn’t just rest easy that his team are acknowledged as overwhelming favourites for a potentially awkward encounter. He cannot see why it would be any other way. “I would say going into this game, there’s a bit of justification in saying [that Celtic will win]. I think the proof is there for that,” said the former Liverpool manager. “[Yet] they are always dangerous games. It doesn’t matter how well one team is doing and how badly the other team is doing. “I remember an Everton game, they came into it when Roberto Martinez had taken charge and they were on a real high and they hadn’t won at Anfield for so long. It was deemed this was going to be the game for them. We were doing well too, but it was felt this was Everton’s time, it was going to be their day. And we won 4-0. And we were 3-0 up in the first half. We were incredible in that game. “But I think here, with justification, people can look at the team in this very early stage, and there’s a real vibrancy and energy, there’s an aggression, and I’m happy with it.” Rodgers is a boyhood Celtic fan from Northern Ireland. The Troubles meant he was never given parental consent to travel across the water to watch his team face up to a fevered confrontation against the club’s bitterest rivals. He is willing to draw a line between those derbies and the one his team will contest next weekend, even if there is an “Old Firm no more” fixated-faction of the Celtic support. Rodgers is impressively astute in how he handles that issue. A subject proving a monumental bore to outsiders who allow the post-liquidated Rangers to build on the history of the pre-liquidated version simply because they – and football – have had few qualms about doing so with other liquidated clubs such as Airdrieonians, Fiorentina, Coventry City, Luton Town and Middlesbrough, to name but a few clubs that went bust and could not obtain a CVA. “I can respect that there will be different views in terms of how they [Rangers] are held and how they created the club, but for me it’s a Celtic v Rangers game and it’s a big game. It always has been,” said the 43-year-old, who has had derby experience at Anfield, Swansea City, Reading and Watford. “I know what it means to the supporters and I know what it means to us in terms of our objectives this season. It’s important we stay calm – there will be lots written and lots said – but we’ll do what we’ve done until now, which is to work well, focus on the job and be calm on the ball. “Celtic and Rangers games are always big games. I’ll be told during the week by uncles, brothers and relatives. I watched them on the telly and I listened to them on the radio. “Like lots of derbies, this has its own uniqueness. Swansea-Cardiff was a unique Welsh derby, a very intense old-school derby. Liverpool-Everton, they call it the friendly derby. But I don’t think it was that. [Manchester] United-Liverpool is a derby in itself. So, this one will be a separate one, completely different. “I’m really looking forward to it. They are very emotive – as much as you set the team up to play, my experiences in derbies are that they are not always the best football games. We will always have the notion to play well and it’s important for us that we keep this real momentum going. We’ll always ask questions of the players.” Rodgers’ team have come up with all answers required of them as Celtic have returned to Europe’s top table for the first time in three years and proved free-scoring in racking up three straight league wins as well as disposing of Motherwell in the Betfred League Cup. The Rangers’ visit provides Celtic with the opportunity to move seven points ahead of a team expected to be their closest challengers; though, in reality, there will be no serious impediments to a sixth consecutive title. Matters could become a little uncomfortable for Warburton if a Celtic Park defeat leads to his side being nudged out of the leading Premiership places come Saturday evening. Rodgers may have had the Englishman as his academy director as he began his management career at Watford. And Warburton may have told this week how back then his boss would then write his drills in Spanish – which Rodgers subsequently explained was so that they were unlikely to be understood if falling into the hands of opposition. However, the Celtic manager seeks to place professional and personal distance between himself and the Rangers manager, and so lance any suggestion that their status as adversaries at the country’s top drawing clubs has all of a sudden put bosom buddies on a war footing. Instead he presented Warburton as one of the many in the Rangers set-up with whom he has past associations. “We worked together for seven months and before that I never knew him,” Rodgers said. “We’ve had little bits of contact since we worked together, but there are probably closer friendships in the game. He’s a friend and a colleague and in the same profession so I respect that, like I do all managers. “He’s a good fella and I think he’s done really, really well. He’s at a club now where the expectancy is up there. Apart from these games, I want him to do well as a human being. I spoke to him early on when I came up here and then you get into the season. “I worked with Frank McParland [Rangers’ head of recruitment] for a period of time and probably know Frank better than Mark because we worked at Liverpool. Davie Weir came to see me when I was coaching at Liverpool and he was out of the game. He spent a bit of time looking at methods and stuff. I gave Jordan Rossiter his debut, he’s a good kid, Danny Wilson I had [at Liverpool], Rob Kiernan I gave his debut at Watford. [Rangers head development coach] Graeme Murty was the right-back at Reading. “So, it’s funny, the older you get the more people you realise you know from working at various teams.” Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/brendan-rodgers-wary-of-danger-in-celtic-v-rangers-clash-1-4220443
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4 Sep 2016, 10:38 AM
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Despite continuing to buy a season ticket, in recent years I've only been over maybe four-five times a season. It's expensive to travel over from Dublin, and the pleasure I got out of attending games was not worth any additional expenditure above that.
By the end of November, I'll have got over ten times. I expect there's many Irish season ticket holders in similar situations. BRFA.
I certainly saw far more coach loads on board the ferry last week travelling to the Aberdeen game. More than I'd seen in about two or three years. Queue for the bar was a bit of a nightmare though Bet there wasn't a prawn sandwich to be had for love nor money either.
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Despite continuing to buy a season ticket, in recent years I've only been over maybe four-five times a season. It's expensive to travel over from Dublin, and the pleasure I got out of attending games was not worth any additional expenditure above that.
By the end of November, I'll have got over ten times. I expect there's many Irish season ticket holders in similar situations. BRFA. top man behan
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