I know squad numbers are limited but I’m disappointed Eoghan O’Connell has not been retained. In his performances early last season he displayed the attributes of a modern-day footballing central defender. He has a future in the game and will do well wherever he goes next.
The perennial dilemma of youth development is that while teams want to improve performances NOW, they also need to leave space for worthy development squad candidates to grow into. Kieran Tierney got there, but the truth is, Celtic had been trying to sign a left back for year but were unable find anyone of the necessary standard. If we did, Kieran, Eoghan, would never have had the chance.
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— Paul John Dykes ⭐️ (@PaulDykes) June 11, 2017
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Congratulations to Englands under 20’s winning world championship.
BBC asking are they the next golden generation?
For me the answer is no.
I watched a lot of the games and strangely England were one of the tournaments least skillful sides.
They made up for that with strength and organization and a brilliant goalie.
A very good defensive team but but no real flair and skill.
Those strengths will be watered down on an adult level so i don’t see them being a real force in the future as they just looked more of the same.
Now, onto football.
The window opens tomorrow has opened and the season of Celtic supporting emotional volatility begins.
We will cry out disgrace when Celtic are linked with a footballer we don’t rate.
We will cry out disgrace when Celtic when celtic sign a player we don’t rate.
We will cry out disgrace when Celtic are linked to selling a player we don’t like.
We will cry out disgrace when Celtic re-sign a player we don’t like.
We will cry out disgrace when Celtic fail to bid for a player we like.
We will cry out disgrace when Celtic when Celtic’s bid is inadequate to land a player we like.
And we will be generally unhappy, based on Speculative HITC type rumours.
And re-signing Paddy Roberts will resolve most of the above tensions.
Roll on the 1st September and a 4 month break from all of that before it starts again with a New Year’s Day hangover to add to the fun
Big Packy,
Haha, cheers ;-))
intemporateCSC
SFTB
Like your recent posts
Well done to Alan MacRae for letting us know who he was, and what he was about.
Thankfully Celtic fans that didn’t know that we play in a rigged format with an SFA filled with anti masters of all sorts within the blazered bowling club fraternity are now few and far between. Those that have stumped up with a regular £600 (again) to watch and see in how many ways our usually superior squad could be diddled out of full points come match day, are well used to McRae’s of the parish.
Peter Lawell and his ‘but this is Celtic’ ‘ we are Scottish’ we say nothing about anything mantra will be delighted with Alan McRae whose comments could push the sale of the remaining ’restricted view only’ season tickets off the radar.
Patrick Roberts CSC
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Pretty much my own thoughts too. No party should ever rest on it’s laurels,least of all one which barely won 40% of the seats and votes available.
It is,however,a vast improvement on forecasts at the time the election was called. It is a boot in the balls to the back-stabbing fraternity of we know best pseudo-socialists/intellectuals who argued that elections can only be won from the centre.
In fact,it’s the first time in twenty years that Labour have improved their results.
Additionally,Tory policy of refusing to discuss any bar u-turning,and relying on their rabid devil dog press to vilify Corbyn personally backfired big time,on both the party and the press.
Labour needs to figure out what it got right and what it got wrong. Of course they do. They can start from a position of unity,by and large.
As for the tories,Brexit will eventually be engraved on their headstone. They enter negotiations against skilled and knowledgeable people who-rightly-do not have our interests at heart.
They do so with a deadbeat lame duck PM and few if any skilled trade negotiators.
And they then have to take that result to the country once negotiations are completed.
Interesting times,all of which could have been avoided had internal party politics not taken precedence over the national interest.
“Leeds target Leigh Griffiths bags two against England”
LOL CSC
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 11TH JUNE 2017 12:55 PM
Quonno
You seriously talk about ‘British taxpayer money or resources’
The English have fleeced Ireland for nearly a thousand years….maybe you should read about that, then we can discuss reparations.
HH
Bit late with this one.
Actually being a PAYE punter with no recourse to any form of tax dodging, I am talking about my money.
As I have posted a number of times lately, I need no lessons on Irish history. Surely if the Chuckle Brothers could move on, the rest of us can.
MON the Rafa
GoingForTen csc
And there u have it
TGM,
I’m still right
ultimate edit ;-))
politicsNawCSC
“For hundreds of years my community has enjoyed cheddar cheese and pineapple on a stick…”
https://mobile.twitter.com/LADFLEG/status/873491780527960064/video/1
;)))
Melbourne Mick 2.28pm
Good stuff, keep the wee mhan on his toes with the old keepy-uppies…. Ability never leaves us, unlike fitness :-)
Glasgow, SunduL – Media Spanyol menyebutkan bila Celtic kehilangan Moussa Dembele musim panas ini, striker Real Madrid akan diincar sebagai pengantinya.
Media menyebutkan bahwa penjualan Dembele sebetulnya tak diinginkan Celtic namun dengan banyaknya klub top Eropa yan berminat, sebaiknya Brendan Rodgers menyiapkan daftar penggantinya seandainya pemain Prancis tersebut pergi.
Satu pemain yang disebut disukai Rodgers adalah striker Madrid, Mariano.
Menurut media, Los Blancos siap meminjamkan Mariano musim depan untuk membantu perkembangan sang pemain, dan Celtic mungkin menjadi tujuan ideal bagi pemain 23 tahun tersebut dan nampaknya Zinedine Zidane akan menyetujui hal itu.
Zidane juga menyarankan pada Dembele untuk tetap di Celtic beberapa tahun lagi, sehingga besarkemungkinan ia akan meminjamkan Mariano supaya bisa berkembang seperti Dembele.
BSR
What a load of rubbish !!!
Glasgow, Sundan – Spanish media mentions when Celtic lost Moussa Dembele this summer, the Real Madrid striker will be targeted as his replacement.
Media says that sales actually unwanted Dembele Celtic but with a number of top clubs of Europe yan interested, should Brendan Rodgers prepared a list of replacement if the player France the go.
One player who is well-known for Rodgers is Madrid striker Mariano .
According to the media, Los Blancos is ready to lend Mariano next season to help develop the player, and Celtic may be an ideal destination for the 23-year-old and Zinedine Zidane will agree.
Zidane also suggested to Dembele to remain in Celtic in a few years, so that he would probably lend Mariano to develop like Dembele.
https://mobile.twitter.com/imajsaclaimant/status/873214646995628032/video/1
BSR / G67
Stuff Mariano we have Leigh Griffiths who will develop for Celtic :-)
Love the Cheese On A Stick skit…………( thull no’ like it)
which is always……………
……..guid.
Re Brither McRae…..
…..just another Sleekit hun……….
effortlessly slippin’ into the old blazer of
Grimmond McCrummoch.
Just playing to his base.
Is he up for re-election?
Just read someone describe the DUP manifesto as “basically just the bible,with fortnightly bin collections.” ;)))
I don’t do Instagram but my son does and Dembele posted these in the last hour, I believe.
https://s10.postimg.org/ikfwpcg89/IMG_0022.png
https://s30.postimg.org/j3srsobq9/IMG_0023.png
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES
He’s bought a house in Glasgow!
Actually second one from his agent.
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 11TH JUNE 2017 4:07 PM
I don’t do Instagram but my son does and Dembele posted these in the last hour, I believe.
Paddy signing?
He’s bought Bairds………….
Who knows? He might be screwing with the SMSM.
POG
What was on the links,I’m getting page not found
Nothing is on Moussa’s Instagram or Twitter.
https://www.instagram.com/mdembele_10/?hl=en
Moussa has bought McChuill’s?!
HH!!
A feature from CNN on the AS Roma approach to performance enhancement
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AS Roma: The optimal ‘performance mind set’ takes shape off the pitch
by Motez Bishara, CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/05/football/as-roma-director-of-performance-darcy-norman/index.html June 5, 2017
Francesco Totti concluded his remarkable 24-year career with Roma on May 28. The 40-year-old striker has provided an interesting case study of football longevity for the club’s director of performance Darcy Norman, who is not your everyday sport scientist. Norman is interested in using a supply chain management and systems thinking approach, borrowed from the world of big business and applied to European football. It’s an approach based on the idea that knowing that every action sets off a chain of events that will impact performance.
As for Totti, Norman cites a “complex system” that includes “good genetics” and balanced lifestyle that allowed the Roma great to make effective appearances at his age. Totti is very much in tune with his “performance mind set,” says Norman. “His ability to read the game, (and) be at the right place at the right time can compensate for the fact that he may not be as explosive or 1/100th of a second slower,” he adds. Darcy also notes that there are “definitely things to learn” from Totti, along with the careers of Daniele De Rossi (completing his 14th season at Roma), and Juventus’ 39-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. “There is a thing you see in sports,” Norman explains. “At a younger age your physical skills are at a peak, whereas your technical skills are still being developed. As you age your technical ability and your ability to read the game go up, and your physical ability goes down. “So you get this point where they intersect, which is kind of your sweet spot.”
These days football has become an all-encompassing profession, where off-field activities can be just as monitored — and crucial to a team’s success — as the action between the goalposts. “We have (the footballers) for two or three hours a day,” Norman tells CNN, “so what are they doing the other 21 hours to either advance or hinder their performance? “There’s our little ecosystem of the soccer team and training complex, but then each of those players have a system outside of the training complex,” he says. “You know, actions with family, friends (and) agents (that impact) their lifestyle.”
Norman has adopted a “motivation through education” methodology earned from his time at EXOS — dubbed by MLB.com as “a high-tech fitness boot camp for professionals — to preach habits that are performance enhancing and injury shielding that he hopes players will adhere to away from the team. They include ideally refraining from alcohol, sleeping eight to 10 hours a night, setting daily goals in the morning, and even meditation sessions before bedtime or after waking up.
Norman, who was employed by Bayern Munich and then the German national team before arriving at Rome in 2014, has a background in physiotherapy and strength and conditioning. Much of his process, however, focuses on establishing a winning mind set.
At Roma, Norman overseas a team of five physiotherapists, four fitness coaches, a nutritionist, an osteopath and a podiatrist dedicated to the senior team, along with a full staff for the youth academy. Ideally, players would arrive before breakfast for a daily weigh-in, then partake in an individualized morning hydration session based on their blood chemistry. That’s followed by a individualized breakfast, video session, pre-training injury screening, tissue treatment and a pre-workout nutrition session all before hitting the gym and, eventually, on-pitch training.
Post-training has its own routine, featuring soft tissue work, steam rooms, more video analysis (if needed), lunch and finally an afternoon nap. Norman’s main objective is “to efficiently get guys in the best shape possible, as well as rehab them to perform again in the quickest way possible.”
That sounds simple enough, but is harder than you might think. Away matches take on a new set of challenges, which Norman classifies as “a constant dynamic process.” “Everyone has different elements of what their comfort zone is,” he says. “Some guys don’t like to play in the rain, some guys don’t like hot weather, some guys like to sleep on a certain pillow, some guys like a certain firmness of bed.”
While working with the German national team during the 2014 World Cup, the team Norman was involved with set up a full training camp in Bahia, Brazil with all facilities exposed to open air so that players could acclimatize to the humidity and temperature for up to 20 hours a day. Germany went on to win the tournament, beating hosts Brazil in the semifinals and Argentina in the final.
The 45-year-old from northern Alberta admits that he sometimes faces resistance when introducing his methodology, which includes such challenges as asking a locker room full of Germans to refrain from beer, or Italians to avoid red wine. The key, Darcy says, is balance. “There’s the social side that goes with alcohol, so I’m not totally against it,” says Norman, suggesting that when players do indulge they avoid hard liquor and keep it in moderation. Drinking while recovering from an injury is an absolute no-no, he stresses, as it can slow down recovery and increase risk of muscle tear.
Lately athletes in other leagues such as the NBA have frowned upon alcohol and cut down on nightlife, viewing those choices as hindrances to their performance and, crucially, their earnings potential. For the most part, the industrious nature of that thinking has yet to make it way over to Europe, says Norman. “In some cultures that mind set for earnings potential isn’t the same,” he says. “From what I’ve witnessed there are some players who don’t have that earnings potential attitude and they have careless lifestyles.” Norman labels that approach as a “fixed mind set,” often taken up by younger players with an “invincible attitude” that can hold back their potential. “They aren’t open to trying to be the best that they can be; they are content with good enough,” he says.
That’s partly because fresh-faced stars who are thrust into an unaccustomed life of fame and fortune face unusual pressure off the pitch. Part of Norman’s job is to keep youngsters motivated and focus on the tasks at hand. They include the likes of rotating goalkeepers Wojciech Szczesny, the Serie A starter on loan from Arsenal, and Brazilian Alisson Becker, along with prodigious Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah, who has been linked with a summer transfer to Liverpool.
The 24-year-old Salah, who Norman calls “the epitome of a professional guy,” will be fasting during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan which will decrease his lean muscle mass. “He’ll have to work to put that muscle back on,” says Norman, whose team will monitor Salah’s risk of injury from afar while he trains with the Egyptian national team in June. Though injuries are an unfortunate part of the game, they can also present career opportunities for those not accustomed to living the optimal lifestyle.
“Usually an injury — a big injury — can get them to change around,” Norman says, “because they realize that they are not invincible anymore, and have to pay attention to the details.” Two Roma success stories include Dutch international Kevin Strootman, who underwent multiple knee operations before making over 34 appearances this season, and Antonio Rudiger, who tore his ACL training with the German national team last summer and returned as a fixture in Roma’s defense.
Visit cnn.com/football for more news and videos
Norman’s hiring was part of a new initiative launched after Roma’s majority takeover in 2011 by an American consortium led by chairman James Pallotta, a co-owner of the Boston Celtics, and Thomas DiBenedetto, a part owner of the Boston Red Sox. The Americans sensed an undervalued asset in the Italian capital. They pushed global brand awareness by improving facilities — receiving approval to build a €2 billion new stadium — and optimizing the organizational structure with the likes of Norman. Roma’s proposed new stadium will end the Serie A club’s shared tenancy of the Olympic Stadium with city rivals Lazio.
Roma has just hired Ramon Rodriguez, aka “Monchi,” as its sporting director and the club has secured a fourth consecutive top three Serie A finish. With Monchi in Roma’s front office next season — and with Norman constantly re-evaluating his optimal supply chain — the Giallorossi look set for another run at Europe’s elite.
POGMATHONYAHUN…….
Sounds like we are signing an Invincible.
Must be Paddy!
Get a grip of this Ireland
McRae like many others before him , can do and say as he likes .he knows that he won’t be pulled up . It doesn’t’ half scunner you off, that all that has gone on and proven , will go unchallenged . The club was cheated out of cl football by there cheating , done out of millions of pounds by there cheating , Yet not a protest will be made from our club . I was wondering if the loss of the money was of no concern to the plc , but then it hit home , it can’t be that , as we pay two and a half quid for a scotch pie .
I’m just back from the Country Pastimes fair at Euston Hall. The whole thing was clearly a homage to Scottish football:
– There was a sheep sheering display which was disappointing (clear reference to Aberdeen)
– There were morris dancers wearing sashes flailing about like f@nnies (that’ll be Sevco then)
– Old tractors that just broke down (Inverness)
– Chinless wonders showing off their hunting hounds (those Tory voting St Johnstone b’s)
– And of course a totally incompetent organising committee getting just about everything wrong (yep. The SFA were in charge)
Still…the beer was alright…
SFTB @ 2.17pm
Thanks for the replies this afternoon.
Sorry I am typing this while watching the match.
Suffice to say I don’t agree of your analysis. I suppose you are stuck between a rock and a hard place having to vote to retain the Union when offered Independence from Westminster (did any other country ever reject independence by a popular vote from London?) Instead of rule in Scotland by a government made up of political mirror images of the SPFL, SFA and Sevco leadership.
(Corrupt and incompetent).
Many Irishmen of both persuasions acted in a similar vein to Scotsmen in support of the Union.
The decision to vote to stay with Westminster must have been difficult and the austerity predicated by the media was a factor. Many on here seem to think that the SNP Manifesto was the destination. Surely after the Referendum politics would have changed in Scotland and the SNP and others would have to devise policies to attract popular support.
Basically the opportunity to remove much of Westminster’s interference in my affairs was too good an opportunity to miss in my view. Once in a lifetime maybe.
A vote for ‘Better Together’ was a Unionist vote and gave Cameron the confidence to put Brexit to the UK electorate.
Anyway that is all in the past and the votes have been made and our/your ancestors will live with the consequences.
However I completely accept that your analysis is heartfelt and voters made their decisions with the best of intentions especially given the climate of fear created by the media.
Anyway we will see what happens ;)
agreeingtodiffercsc
Ernie,
Using terms like ‘the Mainland’ blows your cover and can be offensive.
Quonno,
‘I need no lessons in Irish History.’
I was talking to a Professor in Irish History a couple of weeks ago in Dublin.
He told me that he loves learning about Irish History and he learns lessons every day.
He retires in six months.
Can I give him your details?
Ireland awful. Half time 1-0 Austria.
JIMTIM
McRae won’t be sleeping nights.
And when he does, he will be having nightmares of us winning 20 in a row and another 6 trebles at least.
Just think, there will be hundreds of thousands of huns just like him.
Me, I love his comments and I love these Celtic times I live in.
Imagine the looks wee Blazer McRae gets from the other national association execs when he waddled into UEFA meetings.
Quite est-ce????
Another O’Neill anti football performance.
Once again he shows that he doesn’t trust proper footballers.
A home game and he has Houlihan on the bench, just like he used to do with Lubo.
Ward, Walters and Mc.Clean lumbering around the pitch, totally ineffective.