It’s really refreshing to hear the positivity towards the manager from senior players at the club. He has the squad pulling in his direction like no one has since Martin O’Neill. This hasn’t come about by chance. When a player asked Brendan if he could arrive late one day this week to see his child start school, training was changed for the entire first team squad.
With term starting across several days at the start of this week, training at Lennoxtown started at 11:30 Monday and Tuesday (we’d a game on Wednesday, in case you forgot). The fathers all got to see their kids start, or return to, school, while the others fell into line.
This kind of family support is credit in the bank for Brendan (a lot more than some entire clubs have). Players want to him.
I watched highlights of the Hapoel game and caught things I’d missed on the night. Leigh Griffiths’ delayed run for his first goal being the most striking. As Scott Sinclair pushed the ball right to James Forrest, Leigh stopped his forward run, waiting at the left edge of the box.
This created space. With that space, he built-up sufficient momentum to out-jump a defender and power a header into the net. It was a stunningly intelligent thing to do.
I had a word with a Celtic coach a while back on how intelligent you need to be to be a modern footballer. It turns out footballers need to be smarter than you probably think. There are outstanding talents in football, and we’ve had more than a few at Celtic, who are just not clever enough to understand how and when to use an abstract entity like space.
Today’s great teams deploy very complicated tactical systems in defence and in possession. It doesn’t matter how good you are with the ball at your feet, if you can’t keep up with the tactical demands of the game, you’ll bounce around clubs never quite fulfilling your early promise.
Some big decisions for Brendan about the line-up tomorrow. McDiarmid has often been a tricky place to go, so resting players could result in points being dropped. We’re three days away from the >£20m game in Israel, which I’d be reluctant to take risks with, despite the three goal advantage.
It’s probably a good opportunity for us to have a look at Dorus de Vries but I’d be reluctant to tamper too much. Only the two big Glasgow clubs haven’t dropped points yet, and I’d like us to be the last man standing in that race. A win for us in Perth and a draw at Pittodrie tomorrow would do nicely.
Sorry to see Scott Brown retire from international duty but it’s unquestionably the right decision. It’s also an acknowledgement that he needs to manage his fitness and recovery cycles carefully.
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As a wee aside, comrades – a resident Dortmund fan on the Huddleboard said that in their last European campaign they were fined a total of €200k by UEFA! That was for a series of misdemeanours by fans (including pyro) and the team (bookings, leaving the dressing room late etc). So ours is small beer really.
How did thompsons career turn out anyway? I lost track after he injured himself performing an Olympic standard double pike in a Glasgow Derby back before 2012
Chavez – small beer you say? Well, it is Friday. I think I might….
Pathe News
Robert, Corbyn and his merry band of Jew haters heartily embrace the Palestine cause. The working class will heartily reject the Corbyn vision. A Beta max recorder is more popular.
We need a striker. If Griff is injured?
Listening to Clyde on the background, how much is bfdj hurting?
The wheels on the wagon have not just changed, we have fancy alloys now whilst the huns hexagonal wheels.
Bury them for good this season.
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 19TH AUGUST 2016 3:45 PM
Mats Is not jack. Mats prose is superior to Jacks
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Yeah but his poetry is awful….
Fiesta this weekend in the village, stopped off for a quick beer on the way home from our weekly shop, the place is fair buzzing, a BBQ stall doing quality burgers for a euro, saved the Mrs cooking so she is delighted, hit 46 deg this afternoon, rather hot.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 19TH AUGUST 2016 6:51 PM
When the newsreader said we would be hearing from a former colleague of SB’s I thought…..
‘what ex Celtic player in their right mind would make such a connection?’
Then ex hun Thomson came on……
It is yet another ludicrous and desperate attempt by the media to suggest that everything and anything we do is somehow dependent on Sevco. It’s getting very tiresome.
It’s time for the flat cap to make a comeback.
Belated birthday present EuroChamps67 – Pathe News
RobertT…………
:)
I checked the dicktionary………and it refers to …
1. dyke-jumping sook-dougal, or deadbeat
2. crabbit or bitter plushy-worrier
Beefy – the phrase you use with regards Corbyn is incorrect. Another lazy unfounded slur. Just like the smsm will do anything to avoid talking about the facts, so too those who defend Israel and its litany of human rights abuses, transgressions of international law and general immorality.
It is a supreme irony and insult that lifelong anti fascists, anti racists, activists who were on the front line when fighting apartheid South Africa etc etc are now being accused of anti Semitism, even as they stand alongside many many Jewish activists making the same call for BDS, an end to the occupation, the dismantling of the wall, an end to Israels version of apartheid.
Norman finklestein, max blumenthal, Ilan pappe…. I could go on…. all share the same views is Corbyn, me and many others. Jew haters? Seriously? Again, your unfounded sound bites let defeat your own argument.
And fair comment on a striker. But midfielder first for me.
Glen@7:10,
Funnily enough that was my initial thought too, thankfully I wasn’t drinking my wine or I would have spat out a very tasty Kruger pinotage
Bankie – I also found ‘washed up gullible’ as a definition.
Warbiola set to defend GLIB’S ‘rent a 888ny’ signing policy?
Jew haters.
Seriously! Can this place stoop any lower with it’s level of analysis.
What a fucking dicky arsehole.
There. That’s better analysis.
MWD
Is it just me or do the words “old” and “firm” not come up nearly as much on RS when MacIntyre and Wilson aren’t on…..?
bankiebhoy1 on 19th August 2016 6:56 pm
What’s a “Kevin Thompson” ?…………….
one of these!
contains swearies warning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s20sSrmnzhc
Regardless of what the latest fine and/or sanction from UEFA may be – why can’t the ‘blinkered mini herd’ not understand why there is a ban on political activity inside football grounds, in the first place.
UEFA is not a blameless organisation, has many faults and must be held to account on many things.
However if there were not a ban, football, having such a high world-wide profile and billions in TV audiences, would be hijacked by every kind of terrorist movement throughout the world. Football as we know would die, people would not turn up, bombs would be exploded, as we seen recently in the Stade de France, Paris.
When you frame a law, you always look to cover all eventualities in order that the law is enforceable – this by necessity involves banning minor infringements as well as major ones, in order that loopholes are not created and precedents set.
Do we really want to hand football grounds to the propaganda wings of organisations who carry out atrocities, day and daily?
Roberto…………..
….nailed it!
Zoomer alert!
I’VEHADTOCHANGEMYNAME
Left work for a fortnight and dont have email
(recently switched provider and never set it up)
My kids are down south at some pop concert this weekend
with aforementioned French expert
.So nobody to get me connected. : > (
BUT I have on phone numbers for
JOBO orBMCUW
if either of them have your phone number i could pass on
my mobile
Else ill try when kids come home.
Sounds like Davidopolous did opposite of Frenchy
All those criticising those who waved the flags are not anti Palestine. The left wing loonies have their own agenda, like foisting Corbyn on the Labour. That simply ensures Tory rule for the foreseeable future. Uefa will pu ish the many for the selfishness of a tiny few. If a stand is closed I hope it is their section. They do NOT represent our support, much as their vocal prompters might have us believe.
Captain Beefheart on 19th August 2016 6:38 pm
The flag fetish is mostly for middle class lefties who use Celtic.
As opposed to the lower class right wingers?
Broony quits Scotland because the Hun Replicants are in the SPL.
According to Kevin Thomson on the BBC Scotland news
Desperate attention-seeking Replicants.
Sign Deckard, Celtic.
This time next week, with a solid professional perfomance out of the way in Israel, we could be discussing the teams we’ve just drawn in the CL group stages.
As the BBC zombies search the historical stats to see how many times the Deid Club encountered our opponents, just to shoe-horn in a wee mention of them in the same breath as ‘Celtic in the Champions League…’
Desperate, straw-clutching, Hun Replicants.
I have attended a few Celtic games with Jewish freinds, they never feel threatened. I remember a few hours after the 1995 Final watching four of them dancing in Sauchiehall St singing along to Roaming in the gloaming and chanting how great it was to be a Roman Catholic…so why should I wish the harm? I am being glib, but I also was with two of them at the Aberdeen game when the GB paraded the Palestine banner and they felt that it was unnecessary. They just could not see what it meant to the majority of the Celtic support and we’re almost insulted, they were perhaps being polite.
I understand that offence can best be gauged when it is felt personally: there are times when I am angry and people in England do not understand my anger. They do not share the local reference or tipping point.
The Palestine issue is a global one, a portion of our support has shown solidarity with them. If this was solidarity with Mandela we would all be on board, well most of us. I would not chastise the ones not getting on board, just try to see there point of view. Life is too short to fall out with freinds, and we have other enemies pissing in our tent from the outside.
Let’s stick together, as yer man Ferry would sing.
Sorry for the long post….it’s Friday night and the Budvar is waiting to be spanked..
And just to add to my analysis.
People of the Jewish faith have suffered some of the worst atrocities man could inflict on other human beings for thousands of years. They have been maligned, systematically myrdered, improsoned and hated for the most rediculous of reasons and power gain morivations.
For a nation of Jewish people to then inflict the same on other human beings is also abhorrent and equally as disgusting. Disagreeing with Israel and it’s zionistic motivations is not the same as hating people of the Jewish faith. Like those of Islam, Hindu, Christian etc there are many more good people than there are evil but sadly it is the actions of the evil that outstrip the actions of the good 1000 fold.
To call those who disagree with the Israel state, it’s Zionism and it’s genocidal actions just points to the gross stupidity of the individual making such claims.
My simpler analysis was spot on but I believed it required some clarification.
I am obviously growing further away from this new breed of Celtic supporter we see more and more on here.
MWD
THE EXILED TIM on 19th August 2016 7:09 pm
Fiesta this weekend in the village, stopped off for a quick beer on the way home from our weekly shop, the place is fair buzzing, a BBQ stall doing quality burgers for a euro, saved the Mrs cooking so she is delighted, hit 46 deg this afternoon, rather hot.
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Aye, rub it in as I puit the lights on and turn the Tv up to drown out the rain.
;))
Do you get right wing loonies?
An teach Solaris – really good post earlier.
Like you I have sympathy for the objective.
Hail hail
Forgot to say, my niece will make her debut tomorrow for the Orcs under 11s girls side. Her old man , a sticky bun , is delighted. She is over the moon and the fact she was born on St Patrick’s day and a good Celtic fan only adds to my pride in her achievements, she is a cracking footballer and is the best player bar none at her primary school.
I am off to see her tomorrow morning, looking forward to it.
Zionistic = Zionist
Robert tressell
For someone who isn’t a Jew-hater, Jeremy Corbyn has a regular penchant for glad-handing anti-Semites and extremists.
He invited his “friends” from Hamas and Hezbollah, proscribed terrorist organisations. Hamas is bound by charter to “struggle against the Jews” until the “obliteration” of the State of Israel. The leader of Hezbollah said about Jews: “If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”.
He invited Raed Salah to tea on the Commons terrace. Salah is leader of the Islamic movement, promulgates the blood libel that Jews murder children for blood to bake in their matzah and maintains that Jews stayed away from work at the World Trade Centre on 9/11 (part of the lovely conspiracy theory that Jews and not Islamic fundamentalists were responsible for the attacks).
How anyone can be happy with Corbyn as Labour leader is a puzzle, unless they’re not a Labour voter.
Good evening CQN, delighted with Scott’s decision to hang up his international boots and if his improved run of form continues, we will see the best of him this season.
On a separate note, for many years I’ve avoided joining LinkedIn but am in the process of taking my first steps at getting set up as I can envisage a potential change in career direction in the near future. Any hints and tips gratefully received.
On the “people you may know” page, the first suggestion is none other than our CQN host, does that mean I’m spending too much time on here :-)
“Forgot to say, my niece will make her debut tomorrow for the Orcs under 11s girls side. Her old man , a sticky bun , is delighted”
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hope she scores a hat trick
in a 12-3 defeat
unless she is playing hearts under 11s
then i hope its only 10-3
Eldiegobhoy
Get yourself a drink and SOAL will pay for it!
BHOYS3
2 tickets for what mate?
Parkheadcumsalford
I hope you’re well.
Just a wee point. The GB have never, ever claimed to speak for the Celtic support, they’ve always said that tifos, displays etc are simply an expression of their own views.