Neil Lennon will be delighted to have secured his captain, Scott Brown, on a new long-term contract which sees the player tied to the club until after his 30th birthday in 2015, with the club having an option to extend the deal by a further 12 months.
Scott joined Celtic in 2007 and played central midfield until last season, when he was occasionally used wide right, to great effect. Reflecting some of the conversations we had earlier this week with Georgios Samaras, who has recently been a revelation wide-left after years of frustration as part of a front pairing, Scott seemed to revel in the space the wider position allowed him to exploit.
Before joining Celtic Scott made his name playing almost as an auxiliary striker at Hibernian, where he would burst into the box with well-timed runs but at Celtic he is more commonly anchored in a defensive midfield role. As a consequence, despite having played more games for Celtic than Hibs, and playing for a team who attack far more often, he has still to match his Hibs goals scored total at Celtic.
Read CQN Magazine for free online here. Subscriptions to the online copy are discretionary but you can contribute here. Old-school hard copies are available here from Magcloud.
[calameo code=000390171e35a62410844 lang=en page=40 hidelinks=1 width=100% height=500]
815 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- ...
- 21
- »
Rangers got a penalty, so what ?
I remember Celtic got a free kick against St Mirren and Nakamura scored from it. Just before that in a cup-final, Roy Aitken stole a throw-in and Celtic scored the only goal to bea agers an win the Scottish cup.
It evens out.
cheers jude, will go tomorrow after church and befoe pv…..
udinese on tv, barca on sky go and cqn on phone…
multitalsking is easy when you know how, or have an eleven year old to sort you out….
BIG-CUP-WINNERS says:
3 December, 2011 at 20:10
Mind that time we got a corner against Motherwell?
Bedlam.
MICK11,
Why are our Club not publicly asking the question?
Udi lookin slick. Well up to the 18yd line they are.
VP
Did you not have a good laugh in Perth
all those times we stopped of on the way back
from games in Aberdeen and Dundee.
nota
About what??
Dirtymac
And a penalty at Hamilton?? Outside the box by a yard too.
Clippin the bairn’ nails, missed the 4th :-(
Thats 2 times ive been done out a hat-trick. GRRRRRRR Am away for a claret and a chezwan!! That might no be the way U spell chezwan!! Ma spell checks broke!!
Ooft, now that’s what I call counter-attacking.
5-0
Chezwan? lol
dirtymac says:
3 December, 2011 at 20:11
Mind that time we got a corner against Motherwell?
Yip, even more recently I remember getting a stonewall penalty but Auld Broon felt Shaun went down “really easy”……….
deflection for the 5th but great pace again on the break from Barca..
Jude 2005
We should, I know it ain’t in centre mid or in front of the back 4, he isn’t an anchor. For fear of starting a broonie debate, I’m pro brown but can’t quite put my finger on why, he definitely played last year in ways we all hoped he would do from the start and I think we missed him this season.
BT
Have you got sky in the gang hut ?
Gordon64 says:
3 December, 2011 at 20:12
VP
Did you not have a good laugh in Perth
all those times we stopped of on the way back
from games in Aberdeen and Dundee.
_____________________________________
Course I did ,I was laughing at the local yokels.
Now I know that is not the Celtic way,but,
Perthshire and Ayrshire,my case is rested.
Just seen the penalty today, on a poor quality link on Twitter.
Now it may well be the quality of the stream, but just wait to you see it!
If it is as bad as it appears, then Conroy must surely be finished.
64
with sky go on laptop you can watch the match if it is still within your wireless network range …
Put it over for Napoli game; Napoli 2-0 up :-)
Evening everyone.
I think Scott’s best position could be in the middle of the 3 in a 4-2-3-1, where he can forage forward without worrying too much about defensive duties. It would also allow us to still play Forrest AND Samaras left and right of him.
We may find out tomorrow…
jude
I thought he would be a revelation in a Celtic jersey, unfortunatly not, but in mitigation, he is now playing for us and the related hazzards that go with that, his sisters death, and the realisation that he is our capatano.
I only want to see positives from this, too much negativity about the blog, we will win the league this season.
All the negative energy should be focused at the way we are being cheated, instead of slagging off our players and coaching staff, only my opinion mind.
“Somos el Celtic”
Jude,
About being robbed of a CL place.
Why are the Club not pushing this?
Just saw the hun’s penalty…..i know i know but OMG as the wean would say; even for them and their usual standards, that was absolute and total diving cheating bassas material. I suspect it will be airbrushed from existence prior to monday night phone-ins…..disgracefull decision by the ref.
slainte
tony
Bandit. 3-0 Napoli. Ki/Kayal/Petrov 25 yard special.
Does anyone have a good hangover cure.
Yeuch…
hamiltontim,
Drink less the night before.
hamiltontim says:
3 December, 2011 at 20:30
More alcohol?
HT
I do.
hamiltontim says:
3 December, 2011 at 20:30
More drink/dont drink
ML2 Militia : fully understand how underwhelmed you are about Broonie re-signing. We haven’t even got close to a return on our investment, but I’m glad he’s going to be available between now and the season end. After that is a different story!
We need all the options we can, you only have to look at Ledley (our most consistent player this season) and Wanyama going off injured on Wednesday. My preferred midfield is Kayal/Wanyama/Ledley, but Brown gives us a good right side option and can also cover in the middle if required.
He wouldn’t be my captain and he certainly wouldn’t be guaranteed a start every week, but he’s got a role to play while he’s in this squad.
HH
TTTT
HT
sleep, water and pray for tomorrow to come…
Anyone post a link to the huns dodgy penalty today???
Hail hail
Too late for don’t drink and more drink isn’t an option as I’m driving the bus to Tannadice in the morning.
This is what happens when no one else at the works night out drinks red wine!!
TET-The clubs are away till April mi hermano, with the exception of a wee week in Florida in February:) I enjoyed it this year and appreciate yer sage and sound advice, thanks again.
I’m heading up tae the Celtic club in a wee while for a lovely pint of Guinness and some good company. Later it will be tinto and a selection of cheeses, calamari, chorizo, olives and ham….i will raise a glass to you and my good pal BT, and all CQN’rs:)
slainte
tony
Apologies if this has already been posted??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mFpUTz3uj_I
Hail hail
Tony
enjoy mate… KTF
Just saw the orcs penalty, shakes head and sighs…
Deary me…
I hope Celtic put four past Utd tomorrow…