Q: On St Mirren, Stephen Robinson’s team dipped their toe in Europe this year. What are your thoughts on a tricky away tie?
Brendan Rodgers: “Always tough games at St Mirren. We managed the games really well last season I felt. He’s an excellent manager and I really like him. He’s very honest to the game and he works tirelessly. He works hard with his staff to maximise the resources that they have. For St Mirren to be in Europe is a great testament to the work they’ve done. It is a real challenge for some of the guys with the squads that they have, because they have great success at home and then go into Europe and the depth of the squad makes it a real challenge. I’ve seen players do amazing, like Barry Robson at Aberdeen who got into Europe and then lost his job having done so well! I look at Stephen and I think he’s done an amazing job at Motherwell – getting them into two finals as well as being competitive. He moved away then came back to St Mirren and likewise, his teams are really organised and he has a clear philosophy in how he plays and sets his team up. All of the players buy into that and they work very hard. We always respect the opponent we are playing and none more than them. We’ll be ready for the weekend, we’re in our flow and working really hard in training – which we’re taking into our games. We’ll look forward to Sunday.”
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It’s just more blarney from Brendan Rodgers. He gets very well paid for his “frustration” while the fans get short changed and lead up the garden path with feigned optimism. Brendan knows full well that little to no quality will be added to the squad by window’s end, but he cautiously tells the fans what he thinks they want to hear, always with caveats such as “hopefully we can add those players”, etc. IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
Every day for the past 3 months fans have been scrolling through the Celtic blogs and websites looking for positive news of quality additions to the team and every day all they get is rumour and disappointment. They know the money is there in the bank and they understand that it can’t all be spent on players, but they rightfully expect a sizeable portion of it to be allocated to team improvement for Europe. They’re ambitious for the club they finance with their hard-earned cash and yet every single transfer window they’re handed the same bowl of gruel by that greedy Board while men like Brendan act as their apologists. It’s no longer acceptable for a club the size of CeltiC and Brendan Rodgers should be declaring that openly. He has to man up and tell them that unless they invest in the team to give it the tools to compete with some dignity in Europe, then there’s no point in him being there. He won’t of course because he gets paid well and the fans get zilch!
send a copy of this to the Celtic View and see if it gets published. No wonder its called Pravda and the board the Politburo,Liewell as Stalin. Excellent Martin.HH