16 Mar 2025 23:24:17
Hopefully that's put this elite manager pish to bed. Detest this "elite" pish. By definition to be elite you'd have to beat everyone at your level and remain in the handful that can no longer beat each other?
17 Mar 2025 07:29:46
Elite managers have the ability to adapt different tactics/ formations at different times to suit how opposition sets up etc and obviously against a different calibre.
What holds brendan back from being "elite" is he is a one trick pony with his 4-3-3 tactics and playing out from the back with our aim to get the ball out wide in the final 3rd. Nothing ever goes thru the middle. It never changes even when it clearly needs changed. Its far too easy to exploit if you have the players to do so. He does so well domestically because all of them bar them don't have the quality to exploit it.
Some will try point to the bayern games for evidence that his tactics work. But we only pushed bayern all the way in those 2 games because every single player turned up and performed to the best of their abilities for them. Some of his tactics against the lesser teams in the CL cost us an automatic spot.
Now i have always said that when it comes to man management and improving players and instilling them with confidence there is probably no one better than brendan. But like i say his tactical knowledge of the game is what holds him back. And to be quite honest if he was even close to being elite he wouldn't be at celtic and unfortunatly that's the reality of it.
I still back him 100% and believe he is the right man to continue to take us forward as we will be very lucky to get someone of his calibre again. But he needs to be firm and drop 4 or 5 players for that performance to send out a message otherwise it could be a slow end to the season.
17 Mar 2025 07:56:53
I don't know if Rodgers has instructed Schmeichael under no circumstances do you hit ball long. There was 3 or 4 times yesterday when he tried to play the impossible clip out to Schluup or Johnston when it wasn't on and gifted possession away 25yds from goal. Infuriating.
17 Mar 2025 08:17:58
Said yesterday he takes far too long to realize problems and act. His substitutions are invariably like-for-like, has no plan-B and is stubborn in his formation and style of play and player type.
Apart from that he is elite by our standards ??.
17 Mar 2025 08:38:16
Brendan is the best manager we can get playing in Scottish Football.
We should appreciate him whilst he’s here.
Brendan has won every title and he’s lost only ONE domestic cup game in his 2 Celtic spells and that record deserves respect.
17 Mar 2025 20:19:53
I think most Celtic supporters that have followed Celtic in good times and bad appreciate what the one trick pony has achieved for Celtic not just an unprecedented invincible season, but I think out of almost five seasons with Celtic he has won at least 2 trebles and 3 doubles. Never less than a double would be to my mind a better gauge of an elite manager, than a small sample of results against a team formed by a con job and maintained by funny money .
Celtic supporters can by unrealistic claims of 5-0 wins making results worse for themselves and set backs in meaningless games harder to take.
If a fan wants to take credit away from BR over the BM matches, because every player turned up, then a reasonable man would take some criticism off BR for not getting result against Sevco because a few didn’t turn up and didn’t perform to the best of their ability.