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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
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Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,164 Views)
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The Edge
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22 Dec 2016, 08:35 PM
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Todays press conference: https://vimeo.com/196772777
Scott Brown: https://streamable.com/43g4f
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22 Dec 2016, 08:56 PM
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- 22 Dec 2016, 08:35 PM
BR:Never seen a good game of football on a plastic pitch
Reporter: How to you go about trying to play good football on a plastic pitch?
BR: Can't be done. It's all about going out there and getting a result.
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22 Dec 2016, 09:59 PM
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- 22 Dec 2016, 08:35 PM
Mentions Rogic possibly making the Ross County game but if not hopefully "the game on the 31st".
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22 Dec 2016, 11:13 PM
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Appreciated as always The Edge man
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23 Dec 2016, 01:24 AM
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Mentions Rogic possibly making the Ross County game but if not hopefully "the game on the 31st". That was brilliant
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23 Dec 2016, 06:37 AM
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Brown thinks he's a 9.
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23 Dec 2016, 11:06 AM
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Broony is some craic
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23 Dec 2016, 12:04 PM
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Would love one of the journo's to follow up the Callum McGregor comments by asking about the benefits to a young player of being so versatile. Is it better to specialise or to develop along more general terms?
Brilliant PC from Brown. He was pretty sharp there!
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23 Dec 2016, 02:04 PM
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What was Broonys answer??
Can't make out head nor tail
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23 Dec 2016, 07:48 PM
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HE once sold a winger for 49 million pounds Sterling. That’s why Brendan Rodgers insists Celtic will never sell one of Europe’s best young strikers for anything less than the going rate. Moussa Dembele has got clubs everywhere talking about him. Premier League giants Manchester City and United are joined by Liverpool in scouting the France Under-21 superkid, with bids set to come next month. It’s going to require patience from the Hoops board before they decide to cash in on the 20-year-old, who was signed for just £500,000 by Rodgers last summer. But the manager vows the days of Celtic selling their best players on the cheap are long gone. He said: “We don’t want to or need to sell anyone. Gone are the days when someone’s going to look at the Scottish market and think ‘We’ll get someone out of Celtic because it’s Scottish football’. “A talent is a talent and, without being arrogant, I know what it looks like. I know what world class players look like. “I had a kid, Raheem Sterling. I put him in the team at 17, and he left Liverpool for £49m. He was a winger, there are other examples. “I understand there will be a point when something natural happens. A player might not want to leave, but there’s a pot of money on the other side that takes him to 70, 80, 90 grand a week. “That’s not showing a lack of ambition if we let him leave, that’s about having a moral obligation. How can we hang on to a player who is offered that? The player will move. But it’s our job to protect Celtic and the talent we have. “Having worked at a level where I know what the numbers look like, I know the value of players, irrespective of the league they are in. “Celtic will never have to worry about losing anyone for a sum of money that’s not relative to the talent they have.” He made big changes to his line-up for the midweek win over Partick Thistle, but insists he’d have that mentality even if Celts weren’t cruising to another title. Rodgers added: “I never ever thought it would cost points because I always play the team I think can win the game. “People may see it is a risk. We changed eight players when we went away to face Ross County, but I was confident the players who came in would win the game. “It’s a great symbol of the team and how hard they work. I’ve got players who have hardly been involved, yet they are at the lightest body weight they have ever been. “Some of them are hardly playing, yet they are still working and hoping they might get the chance, and their bodies are in great shape and condition. “If they do come in, they will be ready. That’s a big tick in the box for their mentality, and the respect they have for their profession. “I’ve always changed it. I remember playing a game with Swansea against Aston Villa. “We had played Tottenham on the Saturday when Gareth Bale was playing for them, and we had a great result, drawing 1-1. “That was the Saturday, and on the Monday we faced Alex McLeish and Villa, and I changed nine players for the game. “Villa were coming off the best result of their season, having beaten Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. “Big Al kept the same team, which you would do. “We won 2-0, we were fresh and dynamic and played really well. “To play how I want to play — with intensity, positioning and speed — I need that in the side. “I will make the changes because I trust the group.” This time last year Rodgers was out of football having been axed by Liverpool. But he actually enjoyed the festive break, even though he’s a massive fan of football at Christmas. Rodgers said: “It was nice to have that breather. I probably felt what it was like for my counterparts around Europe. Some of them have three to four weeks off. “For me it was a little bit strange. “But I don’t think we should lose the festive period of games. “I’m very much a traditionalist. and games you remember can come at this time of year. “I like the Christmas Eve fixture, too, as opposed to the Boxing Day game. “But what’s great this year is we have the chance to recover after that which is brilliant. “Let’s not also take away from the supporters who get a lot of memories created from these types of fixtures. “But it’s good to recognise that players aren’t robots. They need to press the reset button, and for supporters to see the best level of football they can, this break coming up is absolutely brilliant. “We recharge and we go again.” Celts have been boosted with the news that James Forrest has shrugged off a hamstring injury and is set to return to action. Rodgers added: “James is back which is great news for the squad. He’s back a lot sooner than we thought he would be. He’s fit, looks strong, and it’s a big credit to our medical team who have worked day and night with him. “It’s a relief. He’s had injury issues over a few years, but he is a big player for us. He has pace, power and has a goal threat. “You can see in training that he’s looking really good. “I like his type of player. I want my teams to have speed, mobility, power, unpredictability and James gives us all of that.” brendan-rodgers-insists-his-celtic-stars-will-never-leave-on-the-cheap/
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23 Dec 2016, 07:52 PM
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- 23 Dec 2016, 02:04 PM
What was Broonys answer??
Can't make out head nor tail In relation to the track download?
Said he seen it on sky sports and there were some good singers
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23 Dec 2016, 07:52 PM
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Imagine we had him when doing the Van dijk deal.
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23 Dec 2016, 10:10 PM
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What was Broonys answer??
Can't make out head nor tail
In relation to the track download? Said he seen it on sky sports and there were some good singers  I got that lol thanks
What did he rate himself 9 for?
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23 Dec 2016, 10:17 PM
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What was Broonys answer??
Can't make out head nor tail
In relation to the track download? Said he seen it on sky sports and there were some good singers 
I got that lol thanks What did he rate himself 9 for? His dashing good looks.
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33-rpm
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24 Dec 2016, 03:39 PM
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Still we sing with our heroes, thirty-three-rounds-per-minute
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This probably belongs in the Chris Davies thread, but imagined it would probably be seen by more here. An interview with our assistant manager in today's Times by Graham Spiers. Talks very highly of Brendan and the club...
Spoiler: click to toggle ‘Brendan always stood out — it was the way he treated people’ Chris Davies, Celtic’s assistant manager, tells Graham Spiers how he has applied science to his craft
There is something a little bit different about Chris Davies. For one thing, the Celtic assistant manager has a first-class honours degree in sports science. In 2015, aged 30, he became the youngest first-team coach in the history of Reading FC, Now, aged 31, he surely qualifies as the youngest ever assistant manager in the history of Celtic.
The son of a Welsh father and English mother, the road of Davies’s coaching life began in classic fashion: his football career was cut short by injury at the age of 20. But he yearned to stay in the game. “I was devastated by my injury but I knew I wanted to stay in football,” says Davies. “Like my dad, like my brother, I lived for football. The question for me was: could I become a coach?”
He soon found his answer, and it lay partly in the mind of a new, up and coming coach at Reading called Brendan Rodgers. As a young player Davies was wide-eyed at the Rodgers way of coaching: his training ground methods, his ideas, his care for his players. Rodgers had made Davies his youth team captain at Reading and the two would go on to form a strong bond, with Rodgers very much the mentor.
“I was given confidence by the people at Reading after injury finished me as a player,” says Davies. “Brendan, for one, convinced me that I still had a career in football. I felt confident that, with my personality, and my understanding of the game, I could develop into a good coach. I felt, whatever I had lacked physically to be a top player, maybe I had the technical and tactical knowledge to develop as a coach.”
In 2002 Davies started attending college one day a week. The PFA in England then helped him get a place at Loughborough University where, after three years, he would graduate with first-class honours in sports science.
“That was a big thing for me, because coming from football, you are not really respected academically,” he says. “But I put everything into my studies. I wanted a complete understanding of the body: physiology, bio-mechanics, nutrition and the rest. I wanted to know everything about that, plus I wanted to know everything tactically that there is to know about football.”
The Davies coaching career was now unfolding. At the age of 22 he went to New Zealand in 2007 to spend three years coaching there, and then returned to England in 2010 when Rodgers, by now on the rise himself, made him one of his first backroom appointments when Rodgers was appointed manager of Swansea City.
It has been a repeatedly bold move by Rodgers — handing someone as young as Davies key roles at Swansea, Liverpool and Celtic — and Davies is unashamedly admiring of his mentor’s methods in football.
“It was while at Reading as a young player trying to make it that I first realised what a fantastic coach Brendan is,” he says. “There were other good people around Reading at that time — coaches and managers — but Brendan was the one that stood out. You saw it in the way he treated people and young players. You saw it in the way he developed you as a player and in the way he cared about you. The whole way that Brendan approached coaching was different to anything I’d seen before: the care, the attention, the quality of it.
“I knew how good he was. I knew he was going to fly in football. When I finally left Reading I said to anyone I met in the game, ‘look out for Brendan Rodgers; he’s going to make it.’ He combined a high technical knowledge of football with a good way of treating people. His players wanted to play for him. They wanted to do well for him, they loved the environment he created.”
There also takes some explaining to understand what it was Rodgers saw in Davies, who was such a young, untested, albeit ambitious coach.
“In me, I think he saw someone who was very determined to be the best that I could be,” he says. “I think Brendan still wants that from me to this day — he wants me to be the best I can be at Celtic. It is all about having that mentality, and I think I earn Brendan’s respect in that regard. I still try to have that mentality every day — to be the best I can be as a coach.”
Moving to Glasgow has proved a profound experience for Davies. With his wife, whom he first met at primary school, and two young children, he has settled in Bearsden, to the north-west of the city, and is still coming to terms with what he calls “the phenomenon of Celtic”.
“Culturally, Brendan knew much more about the club than I did. I had always respected Celtic and the powerhouse that it is, but coming in here and becoming a part of it is something I have loved.
“I find Celtic unbelievable. I am not exaggerating — you have to witness it and be inside it to believe it. There are a lot of clichés thrown around about football clubs — this club, that club is ‘special’ — but ‘a club like no other’ is so true of Celtic. What this club means to people here is more than I’ve ever seen at a football club before. It is their whole life.
“I was at Liverpool with Brendan. That is a massive club, with an incredible support worldwide and some great traditions. But Celtic has got this real emotional draw and feeling from the fans which you’ve got to see to believe. It is incredible.”
Davies and Rodgers have been hitched in football for nearly seven years now, coming on for tackling 350 games of football from the technical area, from English Premier League to Champions League. The two men, he says, have a deeply-established modus operandi.
“We prepare, we study our opponent, we play the game, we study the match, we go back to the players, we take it onto the grass, we try to develop and improve the team,” he says. “My job is to support and help the manager. I’ve got to try and help Brendan in any way I can, and fill in the gaps as much as I can.
“I think we have a very clear model in terms of what we do. We don’t just turn up and say, ‘right, let’s try this this week.’ I’ve been with Brendan for six or seven seasons now and every week it is the same process: our training details, our game model, looking at the next team we are going to face.
“I would say Brendan is more about ‘people over process’. He wants people to feel valued — that has always been his way. My role is to engage with him and the other staff, and make sure we are all as one. I help in the recruitment too: who can we bring in to help make us better? So it is all-encompassing. I try to help in any way I can.”
Link (paywall)
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24 Dec 2016, 03:41 PM
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Brendan didnt moss in jis interview on Radio Scotland. He was very measured but made his point also got a wee dig in about being number one in the league when asked about fans dedicating Last Christmas to him
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24 Dec 2016, 03:43 PM
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It's incredible to compare us now under Rodgers and Davies, to a year ago.
Let the good times roll
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24 Dec 2016, 03:45 PM
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Sexy bitch.
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24 Dec 2016, 05:59 PM
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Celtic’s 3-0 win over Hamilton at New Douglas Park in the Ladbrokes Premiership means they are now safe from relegation. Their run of 22 domestic matches unbeaten has seen the club reach the 52-point mark. That coupled with their 36-point lead over bottom clubs Inverness and Hamilton means that even if Brendan Rodgers’ side were to lose all 20 of their remaining matches, they would still avoid dropping into the bottom six before the split. According to hasithappened.net, which collates data from Europe’s top five leagues, as well as the top divisions in Portugal, The Netherlands and Scotland and the English lower leagues, Celtic are the first club from among that sample to secure their status in their respective league. “After today’s win against Hamilton, the anomalies of the SPFL split mean that there is no possible sequence of results that would allow Celtic to fall into the bottom half of the table before the league splits, then in their remaining games fall into the bottom 2,” said Keith McNamee, who runs the website. “In fact the lowest place Celtic can now finish in an absolute worst case scenario is 7th.” safe-from-relegation-1-4325456
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Came through airport to fly home. Handsome bastard
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