Fraser Forster has missed the last two games with a neck injury, which Neil Lennon suggested could have been sustained as a result of sleeping on an unfamiliar pillow in Spain last week. Fraser has been treated by a chiropractor but it might be a few games before he is back between the posts.
This is a known phenomenon. As well as bikes, spare tyres and pumps the GB Olympic cycling team make sure that each cyclist brings their own orthopaedic pillow on each journey. Olympic cyclists, like professional footballers, are finely tuned athletes who stress their bodies each day. Muscles are continually bashed and stretched making their bodies especially vulnerable a whole range of ailments.
The GB Olympic cycle team also used heated trousers. To be best of my knowledge velodromes are not particularly cold but as much as any type of athlete, cyclists require their leg muscles to go from rest to full throttle in an instant. Warm muscles are less prone to hamstring, calf, rolled ankle and ligament damage.
Did all this fine tuning get them anywhere? GB cyclists won 7 out of 10 gold medals available to them, so they are doing something right. Jock Stein was the first British manager to take food with the team when they played away in Europe, soon everyone was doing it. The need to find ways of ensuring Celtic are as well prepared as possible for every training session and game remains just as important.
Orthopaedic pillows and 20 minutes in heated trousers before warm-up would cost less than £1000. They would support neck muscles and potentially reduce our horrendous muscle-injury record. Best practice suggests we look into this.
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No way Hooper will go to Norwich. The risk is that other clubs come in on the back. There have been a few strikers signed in the EPL this window though, and I see him staying until the summer at least.
Gary Hooper is a Celtic player, he has 18 months on his contract, there’s no way he’s going anywhere unless someone meets Celtic’s value of the player, at this time it is unclear if Supper Gary likes the Beatles or not…
Remember we all thought Scott Brown was for the off, the only people who know are Gary and NL,the longer it goes on the less value to Celtic,if our best offer salary wise and playing in big games for cups and leagues is not enough he will be sold and rightly so, modern footbal finances dictates you do not get to attached to players as they will up move on some after a year or so, makes the scouting the most vital part of the club,I personally hope he does stay for a couple of years yet.
From the Herald Diary:
Sad to hear of the death of Celtic’s Sean Fallon, Jock Stein’s right-hand man. We recall the story of Stein being seriously injured in a car crash, and Fallon taking charge of the team. He visited Stein in hospital where the great man could not speak. Instead Stein scribbled in a notepad asking how the team had performed.
Fallon wrote down a reply about the team doing well and handed back the pad. Stein scribbled furiously away and wrote, with a few expletives, that, while he couldn’t speak, he could still hear perfectly well.
Burnley78
I started in estate agency in 1983 with a company of solicitors in Fife.
It was a sink or swim type of induction.
In 1985 I moved to a company called Stuart Wyse Ogilvie.
The company was built by a genius of a man called Mike Rutterford.
Mike is now one of Scotland’s most successful business angels.
After impressing him in a trainee role in Edinburgh I was given the opportunity to train in his most valuable branch in the new town of Glenrothes in Fife.
I did very well and at age 22 he put me in charge of the branch.
I scored goals for him and set new sales records.
Records that still stand today some 25 years later.
One of the areas that I was incentivised to achieve in was selling newspaper property adverts.
It would cost £29 for the company’s marketing fee, but on signing up the new instruction, I had to persuade the Vendor that it made sense to advertise their property in the local newspaper.
This aligned to the proactive marketing that my company did , would help achieve the maximum sale price of their home.
The problem was that , I had to sell ad’s at £50 each.
So we packaged up the ad’s and sold a block booking of 6 ad’s for a discounted price of £250.
Every Thursday night the local newspaper came out.
All the estate agents would rush to the newsagents to get a copy.
We needed to see who had the biggest advert.
Mike would have someone phone every week to note the size of the ad , and take note of our competitors.
It was just as important as the numbers of actual sales that we had achieved,because one led to the other .
Our main competitor in town was a national chain and they had their equivalent of Mike.
After a while he called me , and a headhunting expedition took place.
I travelled through to Glasgow to meet the head honcho and his head of marketing.
Both very astute guys.
The head of marketing had a room which was full of newspapers used by each individual branch.
The paper that dominated the room was the Glasgow Herald.
It had page upon page of this company’s listed properties , all headed by the company logo.
The marketing Guru told me to take his next statement to my estate agency grave.
“Your weekly property advert MUST be placed in the newspaper that attracts the largest local readership for your branch.
The agent with the largest advert will attract more custom and eventually sell more properties.
The secret of selling more properties is to get more for sale.”
He told me that he could trace a drop in property advert sales to a reduction in property sales, right through to the closure of branches.
He was bang on.
He didn’t need to persuade me.
By that stage I had worked out for myself that the majoritu of the public take the easiest route to making a decision.
There was an element of sheep following sheep mentality.
I believe that all forms of media are aware of this.
The headline is accepted by the masses regularly.
How often do we read the article to find out that it bares no reality to the headline.
Anyway , I built a career on the principle that you MUST had a large newspaper presence.
Over the years the newspapers realised the power that they held and they increased their advertising rates accordingly .
To such an extent that by 2004 , a small colour advert in my local paper would cost my Vendor £150 per week.
My average client was spending over £1000 in local advertising costs, and on many occasions , they never achieved a sale.
Then around 2004 property portals became prominent on the Internet.
I had a meeting with my local newspaper to state that I needed them to reduce costs.
They were stubborn , arrogant , blind , lacking in foresight?
Call it what you want, but I left the meeting making a statement that they were a dying breed , and that I would find another way to build my business and service my clients properties.
Internet property portals have wiped out the need for local property ads.
My clients no longer have to pay on average £1000 in newspaper advertising costs.
I have used the principle that size matters in advertising.
I ensure that we have the most properties on the most visited portal, for each of my branches.
Nothing has changed on that front .
The public still respond to this.
My local newspaper no longer has a pull out property supplement.
They are dead in the water.
They have been too slow to react to creating their own property portal.
The water is coming out the pale ,quicker than they can fill it .
They have no commercial worth to me.
I no longer advertise any of my properties in them.
This will come to pass for all newspapers.
I use the net , to get all my daily news.
They are in terminal decline.
TT
Bada! Bing ! 10.34
Bang on .
TT
What price should the club except for Hooper?
TinyTim
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I am curious did you take the job in Glasgow or was it just a fishing exercise on their part
TINY TIM
When I arrived in Swindon,the local paper had a Jobs pull-out every Thursday,approx 48pp.
Now it is lucky to have more than two pages.
Its weekly Property section would regularly be 80pp,now it is lucky to have 24pp..
Now,either I jinxed the area or those ads are now being placed elsewhere.
And btw,I had a huge argument with my MD and Head of Digital Media in 2004 when they announced their intention to focus on online content.
It didn’t make sense then for a local paper,and IMO it still doesn’t.
Well done on being ahead of the curve…..
I’m fine with all this speculation. I don’t think Hoooper or Wanyama are going anywhere now but if all the paper talk inflates their price for a summer move then good.
I thought Izzy looked like returning to form on Saturday too.
did anyone hear BFDJ on snyde on Saturday night phone-in, he clearly states that Belgium and Scotland are a good comparison because we have the same population, they say anything and get away with it
Valentine’s Day
11:07 on
21 January, 2013
What price should the club except for Hooper?
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Hooper may go for £7.5 million but I understand there is a sell on clause related to his old club.Still too cheap in my mind.
SEAN FALLON.
Saturday’s tribute to Sean Fallon was one of those occasions that make you proud of being a Celt. Sean was not a great player but he was a true Celt and a real gentleman. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years ago and I asked him about his famous tackle on Sammy Baird in a Glasgow Cup semi-final at Celtic Park. I could see Sean light up as he told me the tale.Baird was a big Rangers hard man who had done the dirty on Sean in a match against Clyde where Baird played a few years earlier. Sean said he had been after him ever since., but he had never caught up with him. Picture the scene – a 50-50 ball in mid-field; Sean never lost 50-50 tackles; he won the ball and buried Baird, who was carried off to the biggest cheer of the night – even louder than the. cheer for the winning goal. Sean of course also got a cheer for scoring the winning goal in the 1954 Cup Final – a mere tap-in from a Willie Fernie cut-back. A great man and a great Celt! God bless him!
HH
sick of the transfer MSM chat …
It sells papers that’s all .. If hooper , already a rich man leaves Celtic, it’s s ludicrous decision…
Henke, Stan excepted, what players in recent years have left and gone on to more adulation and success than they get at Celtic..
WGS appreciates this fact.. Ignore this unsettling hype.
Incidentally SNYDE 0830 sports. We never got mentioned.
Top 3 items, Andy Murray, Motherwell, Sevco..
You can feel them ignoring us…
HH
I’d be surprised if Hooper went for £7.5m. Who would we replace him with for the same or less in the next 10 days?
The only option named seems to be Charlie Austin but Burnley are pushing for a play-off place. So why would they kill their chance at EPL by selling the leagues top-scorer mid-season?
Doesn’t seem practical for anyone right now.
I’m still really hoping Hooper signs a contract extension (even if he only stays until the summer). I think at present we would possibly get 7.5 million for him. If he was to play well or even score against Juventus this would push it up to around the 10 million mark. Again England caps and (and if we are really lucky) England goals would push it up further still.
It would be sad to see him go. He seems to get better every season and at this scoring rate he will end up with >30 this season. He is only 25 next week. To put it in perspective Larsson was 25 when he came to Celtic and only scored 19 goals in his first season….and we all know what happened after that!!
TonyG
I went for the money.
Stayed 18 months , my original employer then coaxed me back , with more money and a promotion.
This was at a time when these companies were building chains of 200 to 500 offices and then selling out to Multi national insurance companies and banks and building societies.
My only regret is not going into business for myself 10 years earlier.
The opportunity to follow your own moral compass is very liberating , and more rewarding than the financial return ( for me personally) is the power of being in charge.
Being directly responsible for the financial well being of others is very stressful in these times of recession.
But my make up is that I need to be the decision maker.
TT
BMCUW
I wasn’t ahead of the curve.
My clients could not afford there costs , and I didn’t have enough cash flow to afford hundred’s of clients , a considerable line of credit.
I just adapted.
I pushed a door open as one closed.
TT
TINY TIM
Be it good fortune or good foresight,you pushed the correct door.
“Give me lucky generals…….”
Tiny tim
Your mum would be very proud of you
TinyTim @ 10 53 .
Food for thought .
I sold 7 properties in the UK between 1981 and 1999. [ Glasgow / Edinburgh / London ] I never used an Estate Agent -in each case a wee ad in a newspaper did the necessary..
I will be 65 in 2015 . I own property in Edinburgh and London .I aim to sell those properties in 2015 . They are my pension .
I know that Newspapers are dead in the water -I know that a wee ad in a paper won’t do the necessary in 2015. I hope to avoid using Estate Agents ——- I have 2 years to figure out how I will get those properties online –.
Arranmorebhoy
I believe that Traynor is doing exactly what he was employed to do.
His appointment by Green has been a clever one.
He is manipulating all the sports news to favour Sevco , and he will be cheaper than a PR consultancy .
TT
niallo83- Do you think we will get £10 mil for a player ,who only has 12 months left on his contract? I’m afraid the league we play in goes against us re high fees too IMO.
TinyTim
I’m sure he is being paid with shares and magic beans.
He will also have one helluva story after he is finished there to write a book.
Never trust a journalist!
Not as shrewd a move as Green maybe thinks but then he only cares about the short term gains.
LB
Hooper…..i see folk are still reading the rags and listening to phone ins…..
Key action to uncover the truth:
BDO must issue immediately call in the “loans” made through EBTs.
If they are indeed loans, the various recipients of these loans must either cough up the cash or produce documentary evidence which proves otherwise.
Clearly, most documentation was not forthcoming from D&P but unless they are truly stupid, the recipients of the loans must have their copies of any documentation.
If they are loans, the creditors can reasonably expect their money back.
If they are not loans, HMRC can surely expect BDO to provide the evidence for the UTT investigation.
BDO, the ball is well and truly in your court.
South of Tunis
We all base our future decisions on previous experience.
It is natural for you to go back to what has previously been successful.
There are on lines websites that advertise for the private individual.
At present they are even less successful than local newspapers.
I am asking you to go against the grain here but my strong advice would be to use an estate agent with a high public profile near to your property.
If the agent is worth there salt they will have potential buyers already on there books.Not only that , but potential buyers who are in a position to buy without having to sell.
Having tried to sell properties in Edinburgh to mixed success from Fife.
I would recommended using one of the larger solicitors practices that will provide you access to the closed shop , which the ESPC is.
My personal experience is that Scottish estate agents, are not burdened with the weak property conveyancing system which exists down south, and there is seen as being more ethical and attracts more ethically minded employees, that our English counterparts.
I can honestly say that if I were selling a property in London I would use an Estate agent.
However , I would look beyond the headline and research 3 companies local to the property.
I suspect your mind may be closed on the matter, but my advice is experienced , well intended, and without any personal gain.
Good luck , whatever you do.
In the longer term property is a wonderful investment.
TT
new article posted.
The Bhoy Jinky
That is nice of you to say.
My family all say that I was her favourite (:-)
I choose to believe that , as it brings me great comfort .
As we both know.
The love of most mothers is unconditional.
TT
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