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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EL
I have received a text from the Submari President praising us for Wednesday’s show of support for Palestine. He said that Celtic politics are now Villarreal politics.
Eurochamps67 on 19th August 2016 11:29 pm
Why do people on here keep using EUFA for the organisation known as Uefa?
Serious question btw.
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You’ll start another debate with that sort of post ;o)
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Think the major thing Brendan has done has gone pretty much unheralded.
He sorted out the guys who (allegedly) upset Ronny’s applecart. They’ve all been hunted, punted or……****ed……..ok, I’ll leave it at that,
GORDON64 on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:30 PM
Pal.
YOUR point about South Africa .
Voting rights .
Cubans have no vote. They have Fidel followed by brother of Fidel Raul.
Human rights ?
In your heart you know there is do defence for such a policy.
http://youtu.be/p0_der_5hRM
Friends in low places
Garth Brooks
HH
We kick off in 13 hours- too close to kick off for the flag debate.
Hope to see a few changes in the line up tomorrow
St. johnstone have beaten Hearts and Well- same as us- this season but also held the Dons to a scoreless draw in Perth last week so it would be good to better that.
My team, for what its worth
De Vries
Janko O’Connell Sviatchenko Izzy
Johansen McGregor
Christie Rogic Sinclair
Dembele
Griff, Paddy Roberts and Broonie to come on if needed
Ernie
For sure they will, I had people coming up to me today wanting to shake my hand, people who I didn’t think cared about scottish football, they saw the display and were impressed, they didn’t see it at the time but they saw the medias reporting of it, it seems we done good.
I posted a few days ago that on a football side of things, europe and the rest of the world couldn’t give a toss about us, but the GB did something on wednesday that the world took notice of, and in the main, apart from the usual zionist scum, was treated with much respect.
Sadly most of the crap at home has come from people who call themselfs Celtic supporters, the huns do what they always have done and hate us, they just can’t help it.
I would have thought that in this day and age when most are against us, at least our own wouldn’t turn against us.
But you live and learn every day.
HH
Lemonheads
http://youtu.be/4FJGU0gZOOo
DELANEYS DUNKY on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:33 PM
EL
Interesting.
SFTB
I wouldn’t let Johansen onto the team bus.
Ps. is that a Ronny D formation?
BCW
Hmmmm………© Paul67
sftb
looks like you’ve rested 7 players
EL
I met the guy in July in Benicassim. He approached my son and I in our Hoops. I asked him why he formed a Celtic social club in Villarreal?
He said that Celtic were the only club in Europe who are true socialists.
Had a great time with the guy and his mates.
I’ll leave you with the words of philosopher Thomas Aquinas
Every judgement of conscience,
be it right or wrong,
be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent,
is obligatory,
in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas
I’m off to the Leabaí,
Oíche mhaith a chairde gaeil.
I’ll wager that that overwhelming majority of those supporters opposed to the GB display will be oldfirmers. The same reactionary supporters who have held us back as a club for years.
SU
Summa Aquinas.
GNGB
Pixies – Where Is My Mind
https://youtu.be/5iC0YXspJRM
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:08 PM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:03 PM
Genuine question, no agenda.
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Cheap shot mate, everyone has an opinion on here wether they live here or not.
How long is it since you were last at CP?
Gordon64 on 19th August 2016 11:51 pm
I’ll wager that that overwhelming majority of those supporters opposed to the GB display will be oldfirmers. The same reactionary supporters who have held us back as a club for years.
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You love your percentages :O)
How many were in the stadium divided by the number that displayed a fleg = oldfimers ;O)
Well i see CQN reached an all time low tonight,
with the absence of master dj RC,we end up with
blooming Garth Brooks,deary me as some might say ;-)))
Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer
https://youtu.be/6JUbFj0BIc4
Velvets
http://youtu.be/EqmKoJ6EbUc
GORDON64 on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:51 PM
I’ll wager that that overwhelming majority of those supporters opposed to the GB display will be oldfirmers. The same reactionary supporters who have held us back as a club for years.
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I didn’t oppose the display, i disagreed with the display, but I’m certainly not an ‘old firmer’. I’m not quite sure how you arrive at that conclusion. Again, it’s unfair to categorise people into a certain bracket based on their views on a single situation.
Exiled Tim
the GB did something on wednesday that the world took notice of, and in the main, apart from the usual zionist scum, was treated with much respect.
I would have thought that in this day and age when most are against us, at least our own wouldn’t turn against us.
Maybe because among our own there are still some who are able to view an intractable political situation for what it is, rather than just shout, wave flags and turn it into yet another ‘us v them’ battle.
Oh, by the way, ‘zionist scum’? kinda gave the game away there.
Primal Scream – Country Girl
https://youtu.be/PWjm_W-4Ml8
The Huddle But as you said you have no opinion on non football matters. Hh
DELANEYS DUNKY on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:46 PM
The link was forged after the game in 2004. I remember after the game their fans lining the street and clapping us back to our buses.
Gordy
To be fair Babasonico and the Huddle are redeeming that GB low.
Pixies and Velvets just there magic. Thanks Bhoys.
Gordon64 on 20th August 2016 12:01 am
The Huddle But as you said you have no opinion on non football matters. Hh
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Again I never said that, read back if you can.
Every post you make you want to put posters in pot A or pot B I said what about pot C those that don’t give a fuck
Up Over
Tory scum, self serving scum, is that better ?
It’s always been us against them, from day one to this day, it’s been us against them.
The Smiths – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
https://youtu.be/GiqOsKngc-c
TTR its just my opinion amigo based on what I’ve heard since Wednesday night. Hh
Delaneys,
true mucker,
thursday should be good for a wee walk round Dalmuir
Wonder what Tommie Smith and John Carlos have to say about the flag display?
JOHN LENNON Watching the Wheels
https://youtu.be/Da69-pu_pqc
BABASONICOS71 on 19TH AUGUST 2016 11:57 PM
Not the Velvets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4w-kdu_34
The Huddle Those supporters in Pot C are the worst imo. Hh
SAOR ULADH on 20TH AUGUST 2016 12:05 AM
‘Wonder what Tommie Smith and John Carlos have to say about the flag display?’
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Or Peter Norman, if he was still alive.
Sonny Boy Williamson
http://youtu.be/4bY0vcg2F-I