Brendan Fraudgers!

The one comment under that article. A microcosm of a certain Celtic fan in a nutshell.

Aptly named too.

 

"St. Bernard"

He's talking about Brendan Rodgers.

"Wee Bunnet and WGS in charge"- Fergus McCann left the club 7 years before Gordon Strachan joined.

He's not a well man.

 

Wish Commons would * off.

 

By the board how the every day worker feels when their boss makes life harder

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This week * is really starting to get on my nerves. * I take that back, he's been getting on my * all season..

All the top athletes and top player's push themselves beyond the norm to get to the top..

He's bringing in age and mentioning player's like Sinclair who've picked up what, 1 tight hamstring since he's been here? Mentions Broonys improvement but this is a guy the same age at 32 as Compper who's looking the best he's ever been and playing the best he's ever played. That training intensity ay Mr contradiction. Boyata is playing more football than I think he's ever done.....gymin it at 1 in the morning as well as with Brendan. * him as well Kris?
Lustig playing virtually every week as well, another senior member struggling under the Brendan regime..

The guy is a bitter wee * who talks a power of *..

* off Kris. You've said enough lately..

 

In the space of less than a year Commons has almost managed to ruin his time at Celtic with ludicrous comments just to get him a job in the media because he can't get fit to remain playing football.

 

Aye he's turned into a right vile wee media-pandering *.

 

He may be right about Compper..

 

Don't know why anyone liked him after this stunt anyway. One of the guys that tried to force RD out.

 

Hope you don't choke on all that soup Kris!

 

Brendan Rodgers believes that Celtic will hit the ground running as they prepare for their first game since the winter break.

The Parkhead side will host Brechin this afternoon in the William Hill Scottish Cup as they look to take a step on a journey that could lead to a back-to-back Treble for the first time in their history.

“When you think of the games we’ve had, we’ve a lot less games in the second half of the season compared to what we played first half,” said Rodgers.

“So we pressed the refresh button in Dubai and we’re really excited now for the second part of the season.

“We’ll definitely be a lot fresher. I think it’s natural, the players did brilliant to get through to that point of the season and through December when it was demanding a real burden on your physicality and mentality but they came through it well, finished the league eight-points ahead.

“We played a large chunk of the games in that period and now we can recover and get ready for the second part, where we’ll play a lot less games.

“We’re competitors. We made good use of the breather and now we come back and get ready to compete. That’s what we want to do.”

Brechin arrive in Glasgow with the ignominious stat of not having won a league game this season. It has been a difficult time for Darren Dods, the Brechin manager, but Rodgers believes he has watched enough of the side to believe the players are still performing for the former defender.

“I look at Brechin and I have studied them and watched them and see they are at the bottom league,” said Rodgers. “I don’t think they have won a game and have four draws but when I look at the team, they are playing for the manager.

“When you study them and watch them it is not as if it is a team that is downing tools and not playing or not working for him. It has been tough for him, of course, but this with 60,000 at Celtic Park will give them some motivation. We just have to focus on ourselves and do what we normally do.

“They are a team that is part-time in what is predominantly a full-time league. The guys there are giving their all. It doesn’t mean we disrespect them. We expect to go into the game, work well ad get through.

“You have got to just be ready and do your work. There can be no complacency.

“I am looking forward to it. You always want a home game in this scenario. Last year when we came back we were away and played well, got the win and that set us on the way to winning the trophy.”

Aside from the fact it is the first game since the draw with Rangers at the end of December which would always suggest the emergence of a strong starting XI, Rodgers has lived through making too many changes for a Cup game before.

An experience as Liverpool manager when he changed the personnel has created a wariness about mixing it up.

“The first season [at Liverpool] we lost away to Oldham,” he said. “I changed the team around quite a lot in for the FA Cup. It wasn’t the first game because we had beaten Mansfield away, Daniel Sturridge scored his first goal, and then we played up in Oldham away from home. There were a lot of changes and we were punished for it.”

One of the ambitions of Rodgers when he first arrived at Celtic was to fill the stands again after a lacklustre campaign the season before he came to the club.

This week it was confirmed that the Parkhead side have had more than a million spectators through the turnstiles since the start of the season, the first time in almost a decade that has been the case.

“It is great for the club,” he said.

“The whole thing when I came in was to hopefully create an environment and ambiance where the supporters would want to come and watch. So that’s brilliant, that means we’re along the right lines and that’s how it should be.”

 

Why is it that teams with lower revenue's with lower valued defenders are getting further in the Europa League?

Excuses imo.

 

BR: “Brechin came with a good spirit. They have had a tough season so far but history tells you these types of games can be difficult for you.”

BR: “We started the game well and created chances and took our goals well at good times. It was a professional performance.”

BR on @Leighgriff09: “He had an ankle injury at the start of the week so he hadn’t trained and it was too much to risk him today. He is going to join in a session after the game and hopefully he will come through and that will allow him to be available for Tuesday.”

BR on transfer window: “There is obviously work going on with the club behind the scenes. It’s just about getting the right type of quality that can improve us – that’s what’s important and that’s never easy.”

BR: “We are hoping between now and the end of the month we can do that and that injection of quality into the team will then serve us well hopefully for the rest of the season.”

BR: “There have been some enquiries we have made and obviously other clubs have made enquiries about one or two of our players. There is nothing imminent.”

BR: “@MDembele_10 is fine, there have been a few enquires and we will find out what happens between now and the end of the month and we will take it from there.”

 

A huge plus in his favour.

 

Brendan quote

“Injection of quality that will serve us well through the rest of the season” makes me think there is a loan deal coming

 

What's the "no wonder he won Minnesota" thing?