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Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic"
Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,288,111 Views)
Bryan67
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The extended interviews with key members of brendan's backroom team have been great. We have some real quality staff working behind the scenes, it's exciting.
I don't know what it was like under previous managers but we seem to have a very professional and comprehensive backroom setup now. Really good to see. Talk of money in football usually means transfer fees and player wages but you can see that money is being spent on squad welfare and support. Proper club.
Under ronny we had guys doing the same jobs. maybe just not with the same quality or experience? Last year most of our performance medical and science staff were brought in from norway with some promotions for guys working with the youth team under lennon. This year weve gone out and brought in the liverpool head of performance and nutritionist, the ex real madrid sports scientist and BR isn't finished there
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3 Mar 2017, 10:07 PM
Today's press conference: https://vimeo.com/206635554
"It's been a real joy to be here this season and to work, to see the development of players, and the beauty is, we've only got started." :wub:
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The Edge
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Today's press conference: https://vimeo.com/206635554
"It's been a real joy to be here this season and to work, to see the development of players, and the beauty is, we've only got started." :wub:
love the way he said 'no more no less, same focus, every game'
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Today's press conference: https://vimeo.com/206635554
"It's been a real joy to be here this season and to work, to see the development of players, and the beauty is, we've only got started." :wub:
It really does seem likely that h is in for the long haul. This makes me giddy.
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Bryan67
4 Mar 2017, 09:05 AM
The extended interviews with key members of brendan's backroom team have been great. We have some real quality staff working behind the scenes, it's exciting.
I don't know what it was like under previous managers but we seem to have a very professional and comprehensive backroom setup now. Really good to see. Talk of money in football usually means transfer fees and player wages but you can see that money is being spent on squad welfare and support. Proper club.
Under ronny we had guys doing the same jobs. maybe just not with the same quality or experience? Last year most of our performance medical and science staff were brought in from norway with some promotions for guys working with the youth team under lennon. This year weve gone out and brought in the liverpool head of performance and nutritionist, the ex real madrid sports scientist and BR isn't finished there
Not to mention Jim McGuinness, who has achieved amazing things with Donegal GAA.
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3 Mar 2017, 05:51 PM
Where's all this negativity towards Celtic came from all of a sudden anyway? It's rife at the minute from that lot down there.
Is it hatred? Is it a jealousy thing? I'm genuinely at a loss.
It's nothing new to be fair, they've never rated Scottish football in my lifetime & have at every opportunity tried to run it down.

Even when we were managed by MON & Advocaat was in charge of Oldco they arrogantly said we'd be midtable in their league at best. I'll concede that Arsenal & Manchester United from 2000 to 2004 were comfortably out of our league, no one else was.

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Under ronny we had guys doing the same jobs. maybe just not with the same quality or experience? Last year most of our performance medical and science staff were brought in from norway with some promotions for guys working with the youth team under lennon. This year weve gone out and brought in the liverpool head of performance and nutritionist, the ex real madrid sports scientist and BR isn't finished there
Not to mention Jim McGuinness, who has achieved amazing things with Donegal GAA.
Mcguiness who worked with the first team under Ronny no longer works with the first team and is asst coach to the under 20s
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I maybe went over the score calling him a god before....actually no eff it, he is a god. Love him to bits :wub:
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BRENDAN RODGERS believes Celtic’s dominance is causing some opposition teams to view 1-0 or 2-0 defeats at their hands as the “new win”.

The Hoops head into this afternoon’s Scottish Cup quarter-final against St Mirren, hoping to extend a season-long unbeaten domestic run which now stands at 33 games.

And in trying to explain why the majority of his club’s goals come late in matches, their manager admits he feels it is causing teams to treat them differently.

“There are a few reasons why this is happening,” said Rodgers.

“First, if you look at early parts of the game, no team is going to open up against us.

“So when the game starts, you are virtually straight into the opposition having 11 players behind the ball, giving you very little space.

“That is very difficult to break down, so you have got to wear them down.

“You have got to get them running, and then if your bits of improvisation and individual quality can come through early, then great. You get your goal.

“That goal then means the opposition have to attack. If they don’t, okay. Then the new win for them is to lose one or two-nil.

“How they play is down to the individual coaches. I can’t tell them how to work or how to have their sides play.

“I can see people in the media look at it and think it would be nice to see two teams trying to win. But I respect where teams are at.

“There is no discredit on any opposition coach who comes into matches against us with a game plan.

“For us we have to work away around the field to break the opponent down. But we have a belief that it will come.”

The Northern Irishman likewise credits the Celtic support with having a positive impact on his players in games where sides set out to frustrate the champions-elect.

“The second thing is the supporters. They are huge for us,” he said.

“This is why, when I first came in, I stated how important it was they become educated in the way we were playing.

“You cannot attack all the time. You are in attack when you play back, in order to go to the side to go forward.

“Early on when I came in, if the ball wasn’t going forward, there was a little bit of nervousness amongst the supporters.

“Now I think they understand how we are working.

“They know they need that bit of patience when we are trying to break down teams in order to win the game.”

Worryingly for the rest of Scottish football, Rodgers pledges Celtic will get better still.

Three or four quality signings are planned for the summer transfer window ahead of next season’s Champions League qualifiers.

He also says he expects to see the players he already has at Celtic Park get better and better.

“The improvement has to continue,” he said.

“The key for me this season was to try to find a clear way of playing.

“We had to define a way of working where we have a defensive philosophy and an offensive philosophy and really impose that on the team.

“Then, as we go through the season, I look to the summer and to getting a few players who can really increase that level of the output and add to a real good core.

“But I look through the team and can see players who can all go up to even higher levels of performance.

“I’m talking about the likes of Kieran Tierney – a brilliant young player already – Dedryck Boyata, Stuart Armstrong and Tom Rogic.”
sundaypost.com/brendan-narrow-defeats-are-the-new-win-for-opposition/
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Brilliant substitutions and tactical change today. :thumbsup:

Thanks, Brendan. :worthy:
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“St Mirren are the best team we’ve played domestically this season.” :thumbsup:
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Well done on getting us through a tricky game.

Now, let's hunt some Orc!
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Made the right changes in attack but...

...we're still susceptible to crosses into the box IMO
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5 Mar 2017, 03:47 PM
“St Mirren are the best team we’ve played domestically this season.” :thumbsup:
That's a smack in the face for "Manager of the Year" winner, MacInnes
Edited by Otis, 5 Mar 2017, 03:59 PM.
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5 Mar 2017, 03:54 PM
Made the right changes in attack but...

...we're still susceptible to crosses into the box IMO
We certainly are when GMS allows his man to saunter 40 yards up the park, unmarked, and then allows him a free cross.
Edited by Novelty_Bauble, 5 Mar 2017, 04:00 PM.
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5 Mar 2017, 03:47 PM
“St Mirren are the best team we’ve played domestically this season.” :thumbsup:
He isn't far wrong btw. What struck me was if St Mirren are as good as they were first half today, then why are they bottom of the second tier?

They've gotta be better than where they are. No way are they deserving of the amateur leagues below them.
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No effing about. Made the necessary change at half time to get us going and then brings on Griffiths.
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Was following the game on here as usual (sadly, can only make it a couple of times a season).

When Griffiths came on today, did he play as a no.10 in a 4-5-1, or did BR change the shape to 3-5-2?
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5 Mar 2017, 04:07 PM
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5 Mar 2017, 03:47 PM
“St Mirren are the best team we’ve played domestically this season.” :thumbsup:
He isn't far wrong btw. What struck me was if St Mirren are as good as they were first half today, then why are they bottom of the second tier?

They've gotta be better than where they are. No way are they deserving of the amateur leagues below them.
Two words. Alex Rae.

Fwiw I reckon Rodgers is taking the focus off how bad we were first half as much as anything with that comment. The players will have had the other version.
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