A year ago you and I discussed Scott Brown’s fitness with some concern for the season ahead. Since then the captain has not skipped a beat, his form and availability for selection have been without question.
It is clear he can cope with a Scotland game this weekend, and no doubt finish the season untroubled, but Scotland have an international against England on 10 June, two weeks after the Scottish Cup final, and four weeks before Celtic’s Champions League qualification campaign gets underway.
If Scott is to participate in all games, he will have a week off after the Scottish Cup final before being called into the Scotland squad, then two weeks before Celtic’s preseason training starts. For a player of his age, with his injury profile, this schedule would not allow sufficient recuperation ahead of a new season.
Selfishly, the most important thing to you and I, and to Celtic, is Champions League qualification, more so than the Scottish Cup, or than a season of invincibility, delightful, though both would be. What Brendan Rodgers backroom team need to do is prepare Scott as thoroughly as possible for the middle of July. Planning should start now.
If there’s another player in the Celtic squad who I would also like to ration his football it’s Mikael Lustig. The Sweden international is likely to be involved in both their international squad in June; a World Cup qualifier against France and a derby against Norway.
If Scotland fail to get a positive result against Slovenia on Sunday, Scott might consider it best to retire from the international stage, again. He and Mikael could do with a few weeks on the beach at the end of the season.
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I got sent a link about Islam.
Not Any Muslims
Posting it on CQN. NO No Limits.
I’m not scared.
No Limitations
THANK You.
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Son will know about Shariah Law, Awe Naw..
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The FUNDAMENTALS.
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RD AWESOME again
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Trio this Season.
A hard earned Treble.
For Celtic to Win.
Awesome players must be on the Beeeeyatch subject.
They are likely on it. We will Soon see.
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I’ll always rewind a n incredible track.
I totally understand why HT likes Ant n Dec….
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Olde Oliver LIEb…….
CELTIC kicking ASS
Cheats Cheating CELTIC.
Europe is the next Mountain to climb. And Celtic Will.
Is the blog bust?
Seems like it..
Had a long offline day and thought, ‘I’ll see what the jibber jabber is on ole CQN’. And I see PETEC flying solo, more or less. mayber an earlier then expected night then… ;-)
Pit time.
KTF
Watched the Greeks get a 1-1 tie with Belgium with a Wattenacio 6–4 formation.
If it was not for one brilliant goal by Luakaka in the 88th min they would have snatched a win.
Martinez stood staring blankly like the clueless coach he is.
Allahu Akbar
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Ya Salaam
MARGARET MCGILL on 26TH MARCH 2017 12:47 AM
Allahu Akbar
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That`s you under surveillance , mate.
GCHQ now involved.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/scotland/can-scotland-still-qualify-for-the-world-cup-1-4403161
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 26th March 2017 12:55 am
oh dear
Have i attracted unwanted attention to CQN from the NSA?
Maybe we should stop posting religious garbage?
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/scotland/leigh-griffiths-keen-to-play-his-part-for-scotland-1-4403639
MARGARET MCGILL on 26TH MARCH 2017 12:58 AM
Religion or lack of same is a personal matter.
Don`t think that proselytising promotes , mate.
Perhaps it has the opposite effect.
Allaahumma Innee As a Luka BI-Ismika
Fried rice with that ?
Macjay
Im only trying to reach out to all our muslim supporters since we are more than a club.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 26th March 2017 2:02 am
I’m not proselytising merely echoing to all our african, asian, european and palestinian colleagues. You have some problem with that?
I love them all , mate.
The more the merrier.
I wish we would reach out to more Jocks by emphasising our Scottish reality.
A number of years back a local commentator described Celtic as an Irish Catholic club.
An understandable mistake.
MARGARET MCGILL on 26TH MARCH 2017 2:10 AM
Merde.
I was not speaking about you.
I thought that you were speaking about our friend Pete.