Owen Coyle Would Have Been Better

It wouldnt matter what manager or whoever we have in charge. The board have no ambition and will not release money for the manager, so the guy in charge has to work with what hes got and try do his best.

The board want to run Celtic as a safe business, they will not take any risks.

 

Exactly mate so could owen coyle do any better?

IMO he wouldnt but i suppose well never know.

 

2nd best post of the night

 

In total agreement with Danni ,tonight was a sham and i didnt think Celtic could drop to that level ever again ,but one thing for sure is ,the only way is up.

 

nah Coyles CV was even poorer than Mowbray's. Problem is that whereas WGS and MON both had a lot of EPL experience and cup final appearances etc, all the candidates to replace WGS were a cut below that. The best they had was championship experience and 1 EPL season. You also have to remember that Mowbray is replacing the WGS of now not the WGS of 4 years earlier and its a nonsense to compare the candidates with WGS before he came to Celtic. What we essentially did was hire someone who has no experience in Europe and has to learn from scratch all over again. Problem was WGS was all but hounded out but there were no candidates with anything like his experience waiting to step in. For that you would have needed a Moyes or maybe even MON again but we didnt/couldnt aim in that bracket any more. IMO we got drove out a manager that we had no hope of replacing with someone of comparible experience so it would always be a step down.

 

I think you will find mate that we did approach OC first and he demanded 6 Million to buy two strikers. Lawwell wasn't wearing that
and Coyle turned us down. I have that on reliable authority by the way

Mogga was second or third choice from what I can gather

 

That performance did not have anything to do with lack of spending. Hapoel were at best a thouroughly average side and the team we had should have been good enough to win tonight.

Although I'd agree it's far too early to call for sackings or question appointments I would like to hear Mowbary's reasoning for bringing on Killen before McDonald and why we became so defensive when it was clear to everyone I was watching the game with that Hapoel were there for the taking!

Think everyone from the board down to the players need to look at themselves tonight.

 

The 3 main candidates were basically championship level in experience. The lowest type of standard we have aimed at in terms of headhunting a Celtic manager since Barnes. Basically if we couldnt get at least a solid EPL manager of the WGS or MON sort of level then we should have begged WGS to stay. You get what you pay for and BTM is a rookie for this size of job. I am kind of dissapointed we couldnt have found some old silver fox type manager of the Beenhacker sort. I actually thought Roy Hodgson would have been a good bet too.

 

This thread is pointless since Coyle was never going to be our manager as he had his sights set on the premiership.

 

Coyle would have been the right choice, but the biscuit-tin board wouldn't give him £5 million for a striker. So they resorted for a yes-man who finished rock bottom of the EPL.

Pish.

 

He was number 1 candidate. He met Lawwell in London in the summer. He refused the role because of Celtic's transfer policy.

The source? Coyle's brother.

 

Bang on the button mhate

We have appointed a bummer who got his last team fecken relegated

 

Well in Mowbrays defense here ,The fans wanted a left back ,and he delivered Dan Fox ,and i havent heard much been said about him in a bad way .

He got in N"Guemo he hasnt done much wrong by all accounts on here .

Fortunee ,Jury is out on him just now ,but i would say he has been missed for his holding play in the last couple of games .

McGeady and Maloney are aloud to roam and hit it off at the start of the season .

I dont know what has went wrong in the last 2-3 games but it has to be hit on the head asap ,but calling for the managers head ,seriously.

 

Fox s a clear improvement but the hjury is out with the others and when you consider we lost Naka, JVOH etc I am not convinced we are better over all. About the same IMO but with a slighly more risky fluid style that better in the SPL but probably worse in Europe. I think we will really have an idea how his reign is going to go after the first OF game.

 

pathetic you wanna compare the two easy mowbrary won the * championship remember coyle only won the * * play off if and it was mowbray that built that hibs teams that made it to third spot when he was manager and won the cis cup after he left shortly after so for me his cv was better than coyles

 

Burnley are a provincial team with no money. West Brom were one of the biggest teams in the fizzy pop league, who go up and down like a yo-yo. They have massive financial clout comparatively. Coyle got Burnley up at the first bash with the smallest squad in the division, and also beat teams like Arsenal and Chelsea in the long cup runs. He also did extremely well with St Johnstone, losing out of promotion by one goal against big-spending Gretna and getting to two semi-finals of the cups, knocking out Rangers and pushing Celtic all the way.

Coyle would be a great Celtic manager.

 

Aload of * all total crap , Tony needs more time * off and join the huns , ffs we can only judge him at the end of this season ,

 

Own Coyle, a celtic man through and through, why work with your hands behind your back.

Mr Lawwell China, Japan Korea, money talks, and that man is on a bonus fact, am sick of defending the board.

But cheer up Mr Desmond will pay Robbie keane's wages if you believe the Dailly Mirror lol :bbpd:

 

You missed my point. Yes he was the top candidate, however realistically Coyle was never going to come. The premiership was too inviting and he couldn't deal with having a very limited amount of money to spend on players coming in. It's not like there was an either or choice being made, I think genuinely Coyle just wasn't interested in the end for various reasons and the boards settled on Mowbray.

 

I didn't miss your point. Coyle wanted the job and would have taken it, but Celtic didn't agree with his transfer policy and he told them to beat it basically.