Fight The Power At Be

Right, I hate ma line manager. Think they’re useless at their job and a trained chimp could do better. But their boss thinks their the best thing since sliced bread. Tell ye what I’m going to do. I’m going to start undermining them and bad mouth them to the rest of ma team. Then I’m going to fight against the changes they are bringing in to improve productivity.

I mean, longer hours and shorter lunch breaks, hell, I find it hard enough to have a punt and a pint as it is in ma lunch hour. What’s all this crap about? Trying to change ma ways to get the best oot of me. Nae danger as soon as productivity drops I’m well to the boss boss to shop them for being useless. Then we will see whose boss. I also know a couple of pals who need joabs……

Put like the above it sounds as daft as it looked. But it least it gave us a big laugh. At least we now know how they felt in the mid nineties when we lurched from one crisis to another. But for me theirs is the biggest laugh of them all and the main offender is getting away Scott free and the meeja still find time to compare it to digger Barnes.

Which, for me is wrong. Digger was hung oot to dry by the board. He wasn’t help by a Celtic legend who had, had previous dealing with high paid prima donnas. Digger needed a hand when the players were throwing boots at him and Ian Wright was his only friend. Digger was a rookie but a rookie that peshed 20 odd million up against a wall.

PLG was none of those. Ok he was hung oot to dry by his chairmen but most of all like Barnes he was let down by his PLAYERS. R*ngers went for a guru coach with new ideas, tactics and fanciful notions of grander. Unfortunately for him his chairmen listened to there knuckle dragging support and there knuckle dragging captaino. His move could have set them back years.

Right, I think if PLG had joined Celtic instead of them he would have been a success. He had a better class of yoof and also more money to spend. But he would have had to do the one thing GS managed to do when he became Celtic manager. Get the players onside.

It’s well known when GS first introduced the beep test, the idication that ye would actually be doing some running the old guard gave a collective “what the f*ck is this?, ye mean I have to train? What into the afternoon as well? And “what’s this swimming shite all aboot?”

While all the huffing and puffing was going on the barrowfield young team ran past the old guard flicking them the “v” as they ran by. The old guard noses were oot of joint and the performances showed. Bratislava was caused by this change. The 4-4 at Motherwell was caused by this change. But GS stuck to his guns and got his defining dressing room on side moment.

When Lenny went mental at Kenny Clark at the crisis brox.

After GS gave Lenny his full backing the dressing was his. His ideas accepted and also what helps was the fact that he knew a player, as the majority of his signings have been passable. His ideas started winning games and winning runs ensued. Winning runs means more money for the players, player’s wie more money means happy bunnys.

Any discontent will know be settle by Lenny in the changing room. When Lenny goes other characters- Mick, Big Jan, Tommy G etc- will settle the discontent. GS was allowed time to bring in his own charges to ensure that he won’t lose the dressing room. Maybe PLG was a bit to aloof to realise this but he needed Barry more than Barry needed him.

GS was a forward thinking coach like PLG. He changed the way coaching was structured at the club just like PLG was doing. Difference was oor players accepted change was guid the others well were happy in their set 3rd place ways.

Who cares really cause all this episode has showed is that professional fitbawers are weans of the highest order. I mean, in what other profession can you get a gadgie the sack then go oot and win the next 10 games. They’re a fickle lot, not caring aboot the support or anyone else bar themselves. They’re pampered and detached from reality.

One thing that made yesterdays result for Dunfermline so pleasing. I don’t gloat usually but I LURRRVED nothing better than watching a bunch of spoilt brats getting their comeuppance after a week of chest beating and gloating aboot them being right and the coach being useless.

I’m sure a certain French European pedigree coach, who WILL be successful elsewhere was laughing at Ian Durrants, the boy Bell and Jim Whites coupon at the final whistle yesterday. I know I was.

It’s a sad indictment on Scottish and British fitbaw that PLG left cause of knuckle dragging attitudes, attitudes that have ensured we have been left us behind in terms of competing in Europe.

The mythical Stone Roses once sang, “The past was yours but the futures mine” aye, but only if you embrace it, only if you embrace it.

FORZA THE HOOPS