Brendan Fraudgers!

A fantastic achievement.
Another proud moment that we as supporters can boast,celebrate, savour and appreciate.
Thanks Brendan for your vision, players for your efforts and to all in the club who helped make this possible.....got a feeling that there are many more proud moments for us all to cheer in the coming seasons.
Hail Hail

 

BRENDAN RODGERS arrived at Celtic in May 2016 with great expectations.

But never in his wildest dreams did the Hoops boss think his new team would go 63 domestic games unbeaten.


Celtic shattered their own British record – created by Willie Maley’s side in 1917 – with a 4-0 demolition of St Johnstone.

Rodgers has been in charge for 62 of those 63 games – which includes 56 wins and seven draws.

And after his 400th game as a manager, he hailed his “special” group of players for their incredible consistency.

He said: “I remember getting the champagne when we beat the previous Celtic record of 26 games unbeaten.


“I looked at it in my office and though ‘What an achievement that is by the team’.

“I was given one for 63 after St Johnstone – it’s a truly remarkable achievement and the squad deserve all the credit they get.


“It’s virtually the same squad of players I inherited, with a little sprinkling of others.

“To show that level of professionalism and mentality is a real testament to their work.

“Could I imagine us going 63 unbeaten games at the start? Not really.

“But it was something I never really thought about – it was always the next game.

“That’s my motto as football is a very difficult game to forecast.

“But that was my 400th game as a manager and I’ve learned to just focus on my next game.

“That’s what we do. The players are in that mindset as well but you could never have said coming in here that we would do this.

“Going back to that team Willie Maley had, people of my age will be aware of guys like Patsy Gallacher.

“That was a great team with great players, who achieved so much.

“For us to go beyond them and make it 63 games unbeaten is a special feeling. I could never have imagined that.

“It is no mean feat – in modern sport and football especially.

“The players have had to face everything – going behind in games and playing in big semi-finals and finals.

“We have been tired in games, they have played on different surfaces. Everything has been thrown at them.

“But they have set a mentality and standard every day in training and really taken that on to the pitch.

“The squad has evolved from a tactical perspective.

“When I arrived, I was keen to work with the boys who were there. That’s always been my way.


“You can either come in and have an overhaul and not give the players there a chance, or not.

“I knew how I worked would be slightly different for the Scottish boys, so could they take on board the concept and could we develop them?

“We needed a a bit more speed in the team, a bit more power, but in the main the core group has stayed exactly the same and they’re developing and improving all the time.”

Rodgers laughed when he was told that Steaua Bucharest hold the European record for 104 domestic games unbeaten.

He wouldn’t entertain any talk of hitting that landmark – but is convinced there will be no complacency.

He said: “It’s very simple. You need to be allergic to complacency.

“I said that on the first day and we have dedicated our life to it – and that excellence of always looking to be better,

“This won’t affect them in any way. It’s important that they celebrate it.


“Any high-performing sports team, they have to celebrate – but they also know the levels we set every day.

“But this is a group that likes each other. They communicate and they were very comfortable on a difficult pitch.

“They were good on the technical side and scored some great goals.

“But complacency is something we have trained to avoid. It’s my job as the leader to ensure that.

“It’s important players have goals and targets to achieve.

“This was never a destination for us today.

“We wanted to achieve it of course, but we have to keep moving forward.

“This cycle we’re in, we want to really dominate.


“I sad when I came in, we’re winning titles, playing an aggressive attacking style and the players are doing that.

“But we won’t get carried away. It’s a great achievement but there’s a lot of work to do for us.”

Celtic were too good for Saints at McDiarmid Park – with Scott Sinclair, Moussa Dembele, Olivier Ntcham and a Steven Anderson OG doing the business.

Rodgers fielded the same team that faced Bayern Munich and is happy to be leading the Premiership ahead of a two-week break.

He said: “The three points was important as going into the first international break of the season, we weren’t first.

“We were second and I didn’t like looking at the table for two weeks.

“The confidence was high on the team and we had that extra day to recover.

“I felt we could start with the same 11 but that was never going to be the team that finished the game.



“It was a really good performance, on top of everything else that goes with that.

“Our quality came through.

“It was important that we won and it was important to play with a speed and intensity in the game.

“I congratulated them on that and achieving what they have done.”

 

I'm enjoying every minute of Brendan's, vision,strategy and passion....long may it continue.
We all know that the run will come to an end at some point, but the enjoyment, entertainment and most of all success will be consistently driven by him again.HH

 

Anyone able to list what records/notable events that have been broken/gained since Brendan's been here? Feel like there have been more than just

• Invincible domestic season/british record
• Most goals in a domestic season
• Most points in a domestic season
• Highest euro away win/First euro away clean sheet
  
  
• Record euro home and away defeats

 

Least amount of poppies worn in November

 

Incredible to think that in brendans time here , there still hasn't been one manager who has been able to get the better of him.

 

Graeme Murty beat him 1-1.

 

https://talksport.com/football/west...t-celtic-boss-brendan-rodgers-not-david-moyes

Some * are seriously * deluded, particularly the * at TalkSport.

Brendan Rodgers is here for 10 in a row

 

"Rodgers would walk to London for that job" My sides.

 

If he knows whats good for him he should head down there and get his nan to cover the job up here

 

Some record for Brendan 56 wins 7 draws, if you look at the draw s, 2-2 Inverness, next game we pump them 6-0 in Scottish cup, 1-1 sevco, next game s destroy them in cup then pump them 5-1, partick thistle 1-1, next game destroyed them 5-0 at firhill, st Johnstone 1-1, pump them 4-0 at Perth and to a lesser extent 2-2 hibs then beat then 4-2 in cup, he totally sees where it went wrong in the draws and rectify s it big style next game against same opponents
Beware Ross county in 2 weeks

 

“West Ham? Who are they?”

“Exactly” ..

 

Messi or Ronaldo?



Jacki Dziekanowski.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CelticLisboa/status/929049139584864256/video/1

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ms6fs#play

 

Greatest moment in chick huns life,he needs to interview guys like brendan Rodgers to remain relevent

 

PL at today's AGM

There’s no one else in world football I’d rather have managing Celtic.

 

Brendan Rodgers ‘last 12 months most enjoyable period of my life’

It’s not just about winning here, it’s winning in a certain way


the commercial team do a great job maximising revenue to help us put the best team on the park


BR: in modern football you have a six weeks cycle as manager’


BR - if you go back to your office and dwell on your successes you’ll fall into the trap of complacency If you dwell on the past you’ll quickly find yourself in the wrong movie


BR - The supporters are everything. It’s why we do it, it’s why we’re here





Brendan on centre half issue - Not too many Toure’s about. It’s a challenge to bring in. Do you bring in a young talent? We need to sign a centre half. We have great centre half’s but they need to be available #ticagm Nir Bitton has been brilliant for me


BR - People have been watching Nir with confirmation bias. He’s been great
We want to develop the club and squad and looking to do that

 

Brendan Rodgers was asked if he was here for 10-in-a-row – the most popular question he’s asked, the Celtic manager admitted – and he explained that he has never been happier in his professional and personal life, and that he and his team want to continue the great legacy and history of Celtic. To do that, he said, the team need to keep winning.









Peter Lawwell on Brendan Rodgers: “He’s an outstanding manager, an outstanding coach. He is a Celtic man and he carries those Celtic values and standards.

“At this moment, I don’t think there’s anyone else I’d rather have in world football as the manager of Celtic.”