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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Please welcome me today by joining me in wishing King David’s mother, the mother of all mothers, a very special nad simply the best mother of all mothers days. Without King David’s mother birthing King David I wonder just whether I’d have been provided the opportunity as the best manager to have been birthed by a mother managing this the best club to have provided the best players in the world their opportunity and I’s to play and mange for the best stadium in the world. Only the greatest mums, that’s King David’s and Is will be enjoying a Kings Breakfast this morning at the best breakfast establishment of breakfasting establishment to serve breakfast ever.
Ally’s Alkibar to all you sunny Muslems out there. As you will be aware we The Champions of Europe Elect are a club open to all and sunny Muslems. Being of a sunny disposition they are drawn to naturally supporting this wonderful club of King David’s. I don’t need to spell it out but we intend to convert the Shoite Muslems who support your wee diddy team to the South Side Global trotters as we Champion our way around Europe Elect.
Have as good a day as possible with your mothers and respect them the way King David and I respect ours.
I would love to see a convincing victory( or any victory) for Scotland with our celts having the lead roles. Especially hoping SA and LG feature prominently and stake a claim for the jersey.
TBH like a few posters here I was once dissalutioned about supporting Scotland, due to biased ( cheating) SFA, tartan army’s booing of our players periodically etc,etc. I stopped watching the games and never even looked for their results for a while.
I must’ve had some sort of epiphany ( no laughing now ) or something and realised that is exactly what the huns want. I had let their hatred determine my actions!
I’m glad I woke up to myself , their hatred will never stop me supporting my team ever again!
C’mon Scotland!!!
Morning fholks, happy Mothers Day to all mums. First blog for a week. Please enjoy and share. Thankshttps://stayinguplateblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/from-underneath-the-southern-cross-they-came/
Sare wan today for quite a few of the bhoys on here.
Thoughts are with you lads.
16 at 8.01
Another cry ba ?
Good to know you have been following my posts as infrequent as they are and find them worthy of comment.
Hopefully I will be able to return the gesture someday. Obviously to those posts without the personal insults
With link..
https://stayinguplateblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/from-underneath-the-southern-cross-they-came/
Morning fholks!
If i was a billionaire with wealth off the radar, i would commission EA to make FIFA 67.
Best British team ever!
DBHOY on 26TH MARCH 2017 10:11 AM
Good morning, I realise that I have lost an hours sleep andhave a head like an Arapaho war dog; but why do the Huns want to prevent you from supporting Scotland.
Most ,if not all Huns canny stand the sight of Scotland. The days are loooooooog gone when the Huns had any affinity to the Scottish footie team.
HH. And happy Mother’s Day to all.( the PC brigade will be after me if I limit it to females only )
Dharma Bam
Didnae know he did that kinda thing………but its great to see that he has settled in nicely with The Hibees and is being appreciated.
http://allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=22499
Wonder if BR would allow him to play against us IF both teams get to the Scottish Cup Final?
Going by previous examples it looks like he would be told to sit it out……would BR do the same?
THUNDERROAD
Rules is rules,but there should be room for manoeuvre within them.
If Celtic and Hibs both make the final I hope both clubs will do their bit to allow Efe his chance to shine. And that the SFA do likewise.
Give it a month and start the petition!
Btw,three MOTM awards in four appearances is some going!
BMCUWP
Forgot that he played for us in an earlier round………DOH!!!
Morning all.
I have said it before and I will say it again, I was in The Camp Nou a few years ago, when we narrowly lost 2-1, with the winner scored in injury time.
Efe Ambrose was the best player on the park that night.
THUNDERROAD
Me anaw
Schoolboy error!!!
HUNDERBIRDSAREGONE
Sometimes confidence matters most,games can be played in your head as well as on the pitch
If you go out there just hoping you don’t screw up,yer toast. Sadly that was what Efe was reduced to.
He is a much better player than that. And has the medals to prove it.
I hope his return to form at Hibs gets him on the radar at a club who will appreciate him.
Great to see Efe playing as he can once again.
Thankfully, too, under Neil Lennon’s tutelage, as, imo, it was Neil’s foolish decision to play him in the CL so soon after playing in Africa that destroyed his confidence.
Rumoured Scotland 11 tonight
Gordon
Tierney
Martin
Mulgrew
Robertson
Fletcher
Brown
Snodgrass
Armstrong
Forrest
Griffiths
I make that 6 current Celtic players, 1 former Celtic player, 1 Celtic youth product, 2 Celtic fans and Russell Martin.
If it is correct, has there ever been a more Celtic biased Scotland side ever?
Come on you boys in green , white and orange.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775745/irish-european-union-exit-republic-trinity-college-anthony-coughlan
!!BADA BING!! on 26TH MARCH 2017 11:44 AM
Late `60s .
If someone ever gets that flux capacitor build im sure Efe would jump in and go join his Nigerian teamates to celebrate their success in 2013.
Normally its a bad tackle or unfortunate injury that can end a guys career but getting on that plane and trying to play v Juve effectively done that for Efe with us.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 26TH MARCH 2017 11:13 AM
Kind idea but no thanks. Not for me.
Besides, you can’t continually claim for the team from the Southside to play by the rules then ask for change just because it suits ye.
Deary me
Greenpiñata 11.03
Good morning
Do you think Celtic fc and it’s players over the years have been treated fairly by the SFA/tartan army?
AURORABOREALIS
Aye,I take your point.
Slight difference being that we would not have been asking for a favour,we would merely be giving a potential cup final opponent a full squad to choose from.
IMO,a nice gesture and nothing more. Academic since he’s cup-tied anyway.
DBHOY
Well,as an example,Bobby Murdoch was treated fairly by the SFA about a dozen times.
So,naw. Not really.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 26TH MARCH 2017 12:13 PM
Equally fair treatment of the Legendary Jimmy McGrory 7 caps , 6 goals
Off on bizniz this week and will eventually find myself in the vicinity of Playa Del Ingles or Maspalomas down in Gran Canaria next Sunday when the Hearts game is on.
Anybody know the recommended Celtic pubs for catching the game – either PDI or Maspalomas?
For a club , that’s supposed to be Skint,were are they getting the cash to get a new manager,etc,also looking for a 3rd coach,so were is the cash coming from,i don’t normally write about them,but they are a bunch of sleekitt of so and S Of B,or maybe Glib,is money laundering,which wouldn’t surprise any of us,
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 26TH MARCH 2017 11:50 AM
!!BADA BING!! on 26TH MARCH 2017 11:44 AM
Late `60s .
_____
Not sure about that one Macjay.
Paddy Crerand mentioned ( on a jinky dvd ) the bias of the national selectors of that era and how they would sometimes pick 12 Rangers ( rip ) players even though only 11 could play in the Saturday
DBHOY,
No I don’t think we have been treated fairly over the years. The stats will prove that.But they now need us more than we need them ( BB’s post @ 11. 44 hrs will emphasis that )
But the Huns have no love of the Scottish team and very few follow them, so with respect I cannot see that as an issue for us supporting or not supporting the National team.
Yes I witnessed booing of our players and fans wearing Hun scarfs, but that was decades ago.
HH to you.
Scotland get beat, Strachan resigns,Broony retires for good..
DBHOY
Aye,but they were used to the twelfth man as the ref.
Greenpiñata
I suppose for me it was mostly the historical treatment of our players eg jinky asking not to be selected due to the stick he got from the Scottish fans and the ridiculously low amount of caps the lions got. I know it was still happening with McStay and Collins in the 90s. Not sure how it is in the stands these days TBH
Also the SFA’s well documented treatment of youn govan club in recent times as well leaves a bad taste
Just to clarify, the huns in the tartan army that booed our players weren’t all rangers ( rip ) fans/huns.
Like I said earlier, I will support Scotland regardless of the actions of the hun
HH to you too
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 26TH MARCH 2017 12:37 PM
:-)
DBHOY on 26TH MARCH 2017 12:24 PM
Re. an earlier discussion.
Current stats. re . child protection Oz.
Interesting percentages.
Check them if interested.
Buenas noches.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 26TH MARCH
I’d forgot about that but did remember something alone the lines of you having no interest in winning the argument :-)
HH
I note that the SFA are running free busses from Glasgow town centre to Hampdump. This is something I have been advocating Celtic to look at.
While I want Scotland to win and will be watching the game I don’t support them enough to make the effort to actually go and see them.
HH.
Macjay
BTW I wasn’t digging you earlier re your comment to bada.
Not one for holding grudges,hence the smiley and HH in my last post to you