Brendan Fraudgers!

2 smart for you pal

 

Your a *

Aye ok BUMblebee.......I'm onto you!

 

Bumblebee fumblebee cumbulbee...

 

Go grab your dictionary and get to bed ya *

 

Quick question, how * long does it take to pick up a Scottish accent?

Listening to the presser it sounds like he's got the twang already.

"It was a b-u-t-t-e-r pill."

Love it, great accent, he's right at home this kid.

 

That's his Irish one pal..

 

Ah, * it. I'll be off then - cheers :smiley-laughing002:

 

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Brendan Rodgers on his proactive approach: "You are either a coach that waits or one that creates. And I come from the creative side. I'll never die wondering."



BRENDAN RODGERS has never waited for the other side to blink first. Whether standing at his own career-shaping crossroads or on the touchline trying to find a moment of clarity amid the bedlam and tension of a match, the Celtic manager has always favoured a proactive approach. “Don’t wait for it, create it,” he says, boiling down a life strategy and philosophy into the sort of succinct slogan so beloved of advertising agencies.

There is something quite revealing about Rodgers admitting he has learned to rely largely on himself. Perhaps that comes from previous experiences of feeling helpless or at the mercy of others, in the same way that it is impossible to relax whenever someone else has the remote control for the TV. It speaks of a single-mindedness to take matters into his own hands, to not leave his destiny to the capricious whims of fate. Still relatively young for a manager at 43, Rodgers knows what he wants and has the resolve and confidence to try to achieve it. Should he fall short on occasion, it will never be for a lack of trying.

“I always think whether it is in life or in football, if you rely on yourself, then you can be happy,” he said. “Because at least if you fail, you fail on your terms. So that's by creating. If I wait [for something], I'm reliant on someone else. In life, you only rely on yourself, and the team and the people around you. If I wanted to become a manger, I was never going to cry in a pub when I was 60 or 65, saying “well, [Jose] Mourinho never gave me a chance, or Luiz Felipe Scolari never gave me a chance, or Steve Coppell, or Alan Pardew, or Tommy Burns, or whoever”. The responsibility is with me - I have to create it.”

Rodgers has the same attitude when it comes to trying to influence a football match when it is in mid-flow. That his side travels to Israel this week for the second leg of their Champions League play-off tie against Hapoel Be’er-Sheva accompanied by the luxury of a three-goal cushion is largely down to the manager’s willingness not to turn a temporary first-leg drama into a crisis. Having watched the Israelis shave Celtic’s 3-0 half-time lead down to 3-2 in the matter of two second-half minutes, Rodgers could have found himself immobilised by shock. Instead he made bold decisions, bringing on Nir Bitton to add steel to the midfield and then letting Moussa Dembele run at a tiring defence. The reward for such boldness was two more goals that effectively ensure – barring some unlikely disaster in the desert – Celtic will be in Friday’s draw for the group stage for the first time in three seasons.

“I think I'm a positive coach,” he added. “I like to be aggressive in the game. I just felt at 3-2 the momentum had swung [in Hapoel’s direction] even though we had total dominance of the game before that seven or eight-minute period.

“So you can go two ways: you can stick on a defender and consolidate what you have. Or you can think that the space is going to open up even more because they feel they've got something. So sometimes in the game if you make offensive substitutions it can set the team on the front foot again. You are either a coach that waits, or creates. And I come from the creative side. So I'll never die wondering or waiting.

“Sometimes it won’t need touched. Sometimes you just wait for the momentum to change, to swing back again. But this time we had enough quality on the pitch to hurt them so we went a little more offensive.”



The Champions League is up there with baseball’s World Series as the biggest misnomer in sport and many of its champions are in danger of being squeezed out. Rodgers, who took Liverpool into the group stage in 2014, hopes there will continue to be a home for the smaller nations alongside Europe’s all-powerful behemoths after enduring “the most difficult pre-season of my life” in trying to steer Celtic safely through the qualifying rounds.

“Football is for all – it can’t just be for money,” he said. “The Premier League is the most sought-after in the world. There isn’t a league that can even compare financially. The Premier League as a brand is a superpower. Big teams in big countries like Germany, Spain and Italy are worried about what is happening in England with players. AC Milan and Inter are big clubs and it worries them that Leicester are in the Champions League.

“It worries the game. They want historical teams at the table. But talking after doing the most difficult pre-season of my life so far, if you are here and you qualify through the champions’ route, you’ve earned it.

“You have earned it from a physical perspective and a psychological one. You go through your season and you become a champion. Within a matter of days and weeks, you are back in setting out on a journey to put the flag in and try to represent your club and country. It’s so tough for clubs in these countries and you have earned the right to be in the Champions League.

“It wouldn’t just be great for Celtic, it can empower a nation too. Scotland probably suffered for a few years and there has been a bit of doom and gloom. We are here to excite the supporters first and foremost. But when you are one of the big clubs here, the champions, there is an obligation to the nation. Hopefully we can finish the job off and the country gets a lift on Wednesday morning and we are in the draw.”

Even just a few months into the job, Rodgers is convinced he has made the right decision in electing to make the switch to Scotland. “I'm a better coach for the [Champions League qualifying] experiences. It's why I wanted to move. Working in the Premier League for the next 20 years doesn't really broaden my horizons.

"Coming to work here gives me a wonderful experience of life and football. A lot of coaches may never experience this level of intensity at this stage of a season. I take my hat off to the guys before me who have had the experiences.

“My life is 24 hours a day football. I ask the players to embrace that lifestyle too. There's no doubt it has been a whirlwind with game after game and all the travelling. We have been all over the world and I look forward to after the international break when it will settle down and you know what games are coming up. It's been intense but I have absolutely loved it.”

 

* I love that guy even more having read that How in heaven we got this guy I will never know. He might just turn out to be one of the greatest legends this club has ever known. I feel humbled and a little in awe of this giant of a man

 

Ask this question in Hun chat am sure Barton the cunto will be talking with a govan twang by Christmas

 

Surely Desmond has got to be giving him some kind of compensation off the books or at least have promised him something.

 

Money normally.

 

I don't think so :smiley-laughing002: I genuinely think he had time to really think about the job before taking it. He's a fan and he sees what we see and likely hears all the same stuff from his brothers and uncles. He probably was apprehensive about taking the job and I suppose it's a bit like starting to date a good friend and not knowing if the outcome will ultimately be to the detriment of your relationship with them. Will you still care about them the next morning :smiley-laughing002:

 

He's certainly brought the excitement back to watching Celtic. Think I've had more posts on this forum this season than the whole of last already.

 

I post just as much if we are pish. Agree though the buzz is back!

 

I will never die wondering after following my coaching dream says Celtic boss Brendan

“I will never die wondering.”

In five words Brendan Rodgers summed up the positive philosophy that has taken Celtic back to the brink of the promised land of the Champions League group stage.

With 20 minutes left against Hapoel Beer Sheva inside Parkhead last Wednesday night, the Celtic boss was asked the most searching questions yet of his fledgling Hoops reign.

Defensive naivety had seen his side hauled back to 3-2 within 12 minutes of the restart after leading by three at the break.

Now the Northern Irishman had to earn his £45,000-a-week wage to drag them out of the mire. He found the answers.

Instead of shoring up defence and settling for a narrow lead, Rodgers withdrew Australian midfielder Tom Rogic and pitched in French striker Moussa Dembele.

Rodgers at full time

The balance of the game shifted again as late goals from the ex-Fulham hitman and skipper Scott Brown secured a memorable 5-2 triumph.
Rodgers said: “You are either a coach that waits or creates. I come from the creative side. I will never die wondering or waiting.
“I always think, whether it is in life or football, if you rely on yourself then you can be happy. Then at least if you fail you fail on your terms.
“So that’s by creating, right? If I wait I’m reliant on someone else.
“In life you only rely on yourself and the team and the people around you.”
The former Liverpool and Swansea boss lived by the same “never die wondering” mantra while his stock rose as a coach.
The 43-year-old could have stayed safe in a Premiership academy, protected from the itchy trigger fingers of owners and chairmen chasing their dreams and uttering those time-honoured words, ‘This is a results business’.

Instead Rodgers, who had been recruited by Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho to head up their youth set-up in 2004 after working as Reading’s academy director, pursued his own goals.

He said: “I wanted to become a manager and I was never going to be crying into my pint in a pub when I was 60 or 65.

“I had a vision of me saying, ‘Well, Mourinho never gave me a chance, or Luiz Felipe Scolari never gave me a chance, or Steve Coppell or Alan Pardew or Tommy Burns or whoever’.

“The responsibility is with me – I have to create it. It’s like in a game, if you are wanting something or feel it needs something, don’t wait for it. Create it.”

This season’s Sevco jousts with Rangers boss Mark Warburton are set to be fascinating. Two calculating football thinkers able to separate themselves from the emotion and clamour around them to affect the game with the switches they make will go head to head.

That’s what Rodgers did when it mattered most in midweek, ensuring his side go into Tuesday’s second leg three goals to the good.
He said: “Sometimes it won’t need touched – sometimes you just wait for the momentum to change, to swing back again. Yet at 3-2 I’m thinking, ‘We are really dominant here but a little inexperience has cost us at the back’. That had given them a bit of life, a bit of oxygen.


“But we have enough quality on the pitch to hurt them so we then go a little more offensive.
“With the momentum then swinging, as a coach you’re thinking is the other coaching thinking, ‘Well, at 3-2 we can maybe get something’.
“So you can go two ways. You can stick on a defender and consolidate what you have or you think, ‘Actually the space is going to open up even more because they feel they’ve got something’.

Celtic's Scott Sinclair (right) celebrates scoring to make it 2-0

“So how can you swing the momentum back again? Sometimes in the game you make offensive substitutions – it can set the team on the front foot again.”
Now that £20million group stage windfall is beckoning if the Scottish champions can safely navigate Tuesday’s second leg in the Turner Stadium in Beersheba.
However, the Celtic manager has resolved to plot his way past that obstacle before he ponders the next purchase in what has been a careful rebuilding process of a squad that was malfunctioning under Ronny Deila.
He said: “I would like to add another creator to our game so if we could get someone of that ilk in that would be great. Hopefully we can get that done.
“If you’re in the Champions League it may make it more attractive for some players.

Peter Lawwell and Dermot Desmond

“I said to Dermot Desmond and Peter Lawwell when I met them that these guys were champions and I would have a look at them first. I like to see players with my own eyes.
“That’s why we didn’t make early signings, although I felt I knew what I needed. I wanted to assess the squad and we did that.
“Speed was needed in the team and now you can see the dynamic in the team changing with pace in it. If we can add a wee bit more creativity that will help us further.
“And then we will get better the longer the season goes on.”
The two-year absence from the Champions League since Neil Lennon’s side tackled the European aristocrats of Barcelona, AC Milan and Ajax has been keenly felt.

Leigh Griffiths goal and manager Brendan Rodgers

Rodgers for one would relish their return after sampling a staggering atmosphere last Wednesday.
He said: “We had some great nights at Liverpool and great occasions. Anfield is one of the old-school grounds.
“It’s different here. I was born into Celtic so I understand deeper what it means to everyone. It was a real special night and the support was brilliant. I was so thankful as I’d asked them to be patient.
“They understood that at 3-2 when it could have been edgy but there was a crackle inside the stadium.
“I have never been to a Champions League game before where I haven’t heard the music. That was unique.
“I was actually looking forward to coming out and hearing the music but I couldn’t hear it. The noise was unbelievable.
“It’s a different roar. My English staff who have come up here with me weren’t really aware of Celtic but they are now. They just can’t believe the noise. It’s a different level – and that was just a qualifier.”


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Haha. I just cbf lol. Was always just arguments.

This is the beginning of something special I think.

 

Terrific article... Great man to listen to and have lead this club.