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Burning candle at both ends will catch up

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For a while, Celtic burned the candle at both ends: reaching both domestic finals, and navigating four European qualification rounds, six group stage games, then a knock out round.  Callum McGregor was always first choice while simultaneously fulfilling international duties.

To add insult to lack of injury, he was never injured, resulting in the accolade of him playing more football than anyone else in the world.  This was an achievement, but an unsustainable one which would inevitably blunt his effectiveness.

Callum’s season ended last night, 50 weeks after he started preseason training. This time, there was an injury, resulting in him missing 12 games, although he still managed to appear in 53.  Last week the Celtic captain turned 30.  If we are to get the most from the remaining years of Callum’s career, this landmark should be recognised as a watershed, where business as usual cannot be allowed to continue.

Fortunately, we have no European qualifiers this summer, but Callum can now expect to compete in Euro 2024, which starts on 14 June, his 31st birthday, just three weeks after the Scottish Cup Final.  He may play wall-to-wall football for the next two years of his life.  What chance his body will remain fit and sharp throughout, 10%?

There are few enough benefits of competing in a weaker league, so for the sake of our senior players, we have to make the most of them.  Callum should be rested wherever possible during the coming season.  This may be disrespectful to opponents, but if we cannot resource a trip to the likes of Dingwall without him, we have bigger problems.

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  5. bigrailroadblues on

    Good evening all from the Victoria Bar. It’s a hard life. If yer a hun it’s murder.

  7. Tom McLaughlin on

    BIGRAILROADBLUES

     

    Tam McLaughlin

     

    Up for a bevvy soon?

     

     

    Sounds like a plan.

     

     

    Let me know.

  8. Tom McLaughlin on

    BIG WAVY

     

     

    Hopefully Odin Thiago Holm will be there for his own unveiling.

  12. Turkeybhoy on

    Celtic4 Me,

     

     

    If it was easy to work out a way to stop all the champions of the top5 leagues,dont you think the mega rich teams below them would have figured a way.

     

    When we beat Barca,that useless manager Lennon worked out how to get a win.Give them them the wings,but dont let them come inside.Fill the penalty box with defenders..But what did that tosser know.

     

    CL is in the hands of the balls out of the hat Gods.Stop worrying about it.This year the league is the most important.Give Brendan a couple of windows,hopefully with a good run in the EUEFA,and we are in withe big boys.

  13. Turkeybhoy on

    The new series of “The Full Monty” is a fantastic put down of Tory Britain.

     

    Full cast from the movie,Robbie Carlysle and the rest,brilliant.

     

    Not to be missed.

  15. bigrailroadblues on

    Good evening all from Paddy Neesons. Nobody told me there would be days like these…strange days indeed.

  18. Turkeybhoy on

    Very interesting that Anger first dip into the transfer market for Spurs,is an Italian goalkeeper from,Empoli ??????,I think,for £ 17.2 million.The French incumbent Lorries ,and French captain,obviously not good enough.

     

    If he had stayed,would he have thought Joe Hart was the man for us between the sticks for our Euro games ?

  19. Turkeybhoy on

    Sionnaigh,

     

     

    Would not call guys that can conjure up Tifos,that would make Banksy purr,”Cretins”.Do you actually know what goes into this ?.

     

    I totally disagree with their stance on Brendan,as I do with their hymn sheet,far too clever for 1970s guff,but believe me,they are not “Cretins”

  20. Prestonpans bhoys on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 21ST JUNE 2023 8:17 PM

     

    BIGRAILROADBLUES

     

     

    Tam McLaughlin

     

     

    Up for a bevvy soon?

     

     

    Sounds like a plan.

     

     

    Make it next week and I’ll join the Edinburgh fun 😀

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Let me know.

  21. AuroraBorealis79 on

    I don’t get all the talk about the brickies. Once they reached their peak, they done. What a wash-out

  22. THE EXILED TIM on

    TB

     

    Aye they have many many faults, but stupidity is not one of them, they are totally misguided at times granted, but cretins, FFS, that’s reserved for the onion mob from the other side.

     

    Anyways I hope the divisions can be ironed out and everything ends up hunky dory

  23. Moderator1888 on

    TET

     

     

    Trophies and winning will iron out all the creases and crumples

     

     

    It’s guaranteed

     

     

    Welcome Brendan Rodgers

     

     

    I look forward to more success

     

     

    More trophies

     

     

    And silencing the doubters (including me lol)

  25. THE EXILED TIM on

    I have to bid you all a good night, didn’t realise the time and I have to get up at stupid o’clock, as ever much to do and little time to do it, even getting the Samson treatment the morra >:)

  26. hairlikespaghetti on

    Turkeybhoy, did not realise Ange had signed a keeper, but Lloris had made it clear before Postecoglou joined that he wanted out. Just guessing, but I reckon Hugo could see the writing on the wall and wants one last big money move as his last contract…two of his French WC winning teammates now on big bucks for little effort at Al Ittihad…

  27. Timbhoy163 on

    Bishrove at Sevco that is unlikely that Celtic fans will get a full away ticket allocation at Ibrox,well our club should do the same to there club .

  29. big wavy on

    Young, 20-year old, sooper dooper winger Yang Hyun-Jun from South Korea..

     

     

    Tonight’s decent rumour.

     

     

    Looks a pler.

     

     

    HH

  31. big wavy on

    #kleague transfer window already heating up with Czech defender Tomáš Petrášek set to sign for Jeonbuk as Petrescu’s first signing. #Transfers out of the league as well with Kim Ji-soo leaving for Brentford and Celtic officially tabling a bid for Gangwon’s Yang Hyun-Jun

  32. AuroraBorealis79 on

    9, 2023

     

    #15

     

    They have 7 legit trebles.

     

    They are so bent on us that they belittle themselves by counting the covid league and cup.

     

    It’s that’s type of mentality that shows there is only really one big club in Scotland.

     

     

    Interesting this. They actually have an article claiming that we won the covid league & Cup, which rules them void.

     

     

    This effectively rules that the 10 year old club has only 54 titles ()()

  33. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    TIMBHOY163 on 21ST JUNE 2023 10:23 PM

     

    Bishrove at Sevco that is unlikely that Celtic fans will get a full away ticket allocation at Ibrox.

     

     

    That’ll play well to the gallery.

     

     

    Strange time to raise it.

     

     

    Must be bad news coming

  34. !!Bada Bing!! on

    I don’t have any issues with guys who object to BR being back,we were all pissed off at the time,2 sides to every story,but I don’t want to see a GB banner every game objacting to it,move on….

  35. Sionnaigh on

    If we don’t stand up against the Green Brigade and their teenage angst we play right into the hands of Loyalist scum. It’s 25 years since GFA, we’re winning the peace. Why the fcuk are the cretins in the GB still singing about SAM missiles?

  36. Sionnaigh on

    Post Scriptum

     

    I’ll tell you one thing about SAM missiles that the Green Brigade won’t. The battery power on the mechanism meant locking onto a target before pressing green for GO, not after. Dumb fcucks.

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