'Creativity and innovation' - Grant on Celtic set-piece role

[SNS] Ross Grant has reflected on a "surreal" start to life at Celtic and detailed what his role as a set-piece coach entails. A lifelong fan of the Parkhead club, Grant has joined Martin O'Neill's backroom team after a year at Hearts, where he had a significant impact on their title push. Celtic ultimately denied the Tynecastle side a historic Scottish Premiership triumph before going on to lift the Scottish Cup. Despite that domestic success, Grant is confident he can enhance the team's level by making improvements from dead-ball scenarios. Speaking on the Official Celtic Podcast, he explained how his role is "heavy on analysis", not just of Celtic but of opposition sides, "seeing where we can get success" and looking at "where other teams can get success against us". "A lot of stuff I can do is also built into the style of play," he adds. "There still has to be an element of speed and intensity to the game." So what does that look like for a team like Celtic? Being a side that dominates possession for the majority of domestic games, Grant referenced not allowing teams "to rest when we get a set-play". He also touched on using "creativity and innovation" to make the most of set-pieces, though not making "radical changes" but instead giving "clarity to roles" and "a little bit of simplicity". His influence at Hearts last term was clear. In his only season in Gorgie, a third of the team's league goals came from set-pieces, while no side managed a higher tally than their total of 23. And the Celtic fan, who is now working with O'Neill after watching him guide his boyhood heroes to domestic honours and a Uefa Cup final, is determined he can replicate that success at the club he has supported all his life.