You’ve got to love John Hartson, a subscriber to the ‘All we need is three new players’ belief structure. This is a common sort of anti-analysis which crops up regularly in place of any actual thought.
There are three outfield areas of a team, defence, midfield and attack, and if you can only improve each area, you’ll have a better team. Go figure. Hartson told us we need “a central defender; a creative midfield player and a striker”. It’s as though the reality hasn’t occurred that any team in the world wouldn’t improve with the addition of a better player in each area of the field.
Yes, we need a central defender, but we need a right back too. We need a striker, but, I could argue two strikers would be handy. I’ve no idea how Brendan Rodgers is planning to play tactically so we might need a midfielder. Or two.
Pretty much every team in Europe will be having the same conversation right now. John could usefully reflect that it’s not actual headcount we need, we have the numbers, it’s players able to improve the team we need. That’s the magic ingredient everyone in the game hopes for.
Lincoln Red Imps captain, Roy Chipolina, is well within his rights to talk up their chances of knocking Celtic out of the Champions League. They hold the lead and it will take three goals to settle nerves among the home support tomorrow. It could be a tense occasion…….
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WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 19TH JULY 2016 12:57 PM
Serious question…what would be the reaction if the huns were to win the title this season?
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Had never really contemplated that.
If the unthinkable happened it would be nothing short of disaster.i can’t really dress it up any other way, and no amount of spin would alter that. I really don’t know much about the new hun’s team, but they are strengthening.
What your question has done , it has made me more determined to give BR and the team 100% backing. In return the supporters will demand nothing less than 100% effort and commitment for every single game.
What a question to ruin a nice sunny day.
HH.
CQN Selfie
BoredOnBeach CSC
WeeBobby
Genuine fake to go with the wives Mulberry bag.
Davido
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/687377/Good-Housekeeping-Food-Awards-Lidl-wins-Supermarket-of-the-Year
It’s supposed to be torrential tomorrow night.
HH
Bsr.
Just Bread.
bournesouprecipe
Leavened bread…this was the giant leap forward to the ultimate goal of sliced bread.
we have quantity, indeed too much quantity – a little more of that quality thing would be nice.
Barney/Davido
Have we done the ole…………What’s inside a can of evaporated milk?
bournesouprecipe
We did. We previously combined it when I posted the link to a can of bread. Good times.
Whilst on the subject of bread.
Transubstantiation, aye or nay?
Always been a difficult one for me, still is.
Lidl is a fantastic supermarket.
The anology is spot on. Tesco sell expensive groceries, which are rather bland, and ultimately disappointing.
Lids shopping (I defected about a year ago) has been a revelation, new exciting products, great quality, realistic pricing.
Man Utd = Tesco, overpriced, overrated, no silverware.
Leicester = Lidl, good value, good product, Champions
Celtic = Spar? Out of date produce, well overpriced.
Greenpinata @ 1.40…
Sorry sir…a big grey cloud just now covered up the sun…
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the Lidl with you.
Gerry Rafferty CSC
All these supermarket analogies, Celtic need to be Iceland,
Punchingwellaboveourweight.CSC.
Billy re Glasgow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDXIYFDlC38
HH
BTW, love to see the GB start that Icelandic clap chant thing, then the whole ground joining in.
Good morning CON
Just getting ready to leave Las Vagas
We have had a ball
Great City great great people
Sin city Bhoy
Thanks for the big friendly welcome to your City
November will not belong coming around and we will meet again
If you make it to the CQN corner you meet lots of
Like minded tims
Keep the flag flying high in Las Vagus
God bless
Hail Hail
Mt
Apple’s SIRI refuses to apologise for saying the Zombies are only four years old.
LOL CSC
Problem with Lidl’s is the long queue at the check-out…and then the announcement..”Check-out 2 is now opening.” Cue:- mad rush to check-out 2…but no one appears for another 5 minutes and all of us in check-out 1 smile at those in check-out 2 as we leave the store…..
weebobbycollins on 19th July 2016 2:17 pm
Pmsl!
I prefer to Aldi to Lidl because I’m a big fan of M.A.S.H…
Between August 2001 and July 2009 Celtic lost 2 from 36 matches in all European competitions at Celtic Park, to Barcelona on both occasions.
OptaCeltic
You always get the same frosty reception from Iceland staff on Main Street Rug’len
BSR…in quantum physics, what’s the situation with the evaporated milk inside the can? Is it a cat?
I’m sure TGM will have the answer…or Turkeybhoy will tell us, ” You trumpets don’t realise it’s a f****** dog and not a cat.”
Just rediscovered Lidl’s – popped in for a loaf of bread, no time later I found myself standing at the checkout with a 2 man tent, a chain saw and a diving suit!
BARNEY67 on 19TH JULY 2016 2:14 PM
‘BTW, love to see the GB start that Icelandic clap chant thing, then the whole ground joining in.’
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Motherwell started that. Apparently. For that reason I can’t see it catching on at CP.
If it’s raining cats and huns tomorrow nite dont say I didnt warn …HH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIltgDzgvk8
WeeBobby
Every day is a school day on CQN, especially if the ole Battered Bunnet
isn’t stuck up a mountain somewhere in the Sierras
Aldi and Lidl sell gadgets that solve problems you didn’t realise existed. Anywhere. Ever.
I think my favourite has to be the cigar humidor.
I mean, who goes to Aldi or Lidl to buy one of those?
And who, shopping there, sees one and thinks ‘Oh, that’s just the very thing’?
Pizza scissors, that’s another one, who uses scissors to cut up a pizza?
It’s like a parallel universe.
BSR…’Every day is a school day on CQN’
Aye, but don’t tell TD67 or he might flounce…
Only kidding Tony :-)
Cowiebhoy
There are, literally, thousands of footballers out there: Young, experienced, defenders, forwards, technical, athletic, on and on.
The EPL takes their top 500. Germany and Spain the same. Then Italy. The Championship is the next biggest league. We’re somewhere behind that lot in the queue for players with a performance record.
So we look for players who (we think) have the attributes to play at a European level, but don’t yet have the performance record, aka Moneyball, and find we’re competing with Portugal, Holland, Belgium. Those young players with all of the attributes are gobbled up by the Big 5 Academy machines, leaving players with some attributes that we might be able to “work with”, and those who didn’t cut it at the Big 5 Academies.
(I was surprised we got Dembele given he’s had a full (and impressive) season in the Championship already.)
But we can’t build a winning team on untempered 19-23 year olds, so we need to find some experience. So we trade down talent for experience: A good central defender who’s too short; A goalkeeper with an injury record; A striker who lacks real pace; A box-to-box runner who can’t pass; A passer who can’t run; and so on.
Then there’s the influence of fluctuating finance and club policy. Are we going to release some of the cash hoard, or run lean for another season?
And then we’ve got the brief given to Park and the scouting department – We sold Virgil for £12M, but the replacement was to be found with the original fee and wage offer:
-But what can I get for 2 bob?
-Hmmm. Have you seen this guy Boyata?
There are too many influences and variables to pap all the responsibility onto Park’s napper. Granted, we’ve had more guisers dressed up as strikers than we’ve had goal scorers from his department, and that’s been a long standing issue, but as I say, unless we know the brief and constraints of the job, it’s a little unfair to single one person out for what has been a group failing.
Just popped out to Lidl’s to buy a cigar humidor and a pair of pizza scissors…came back with an exhaust manifold for 1959 Vauxhall Victor. Now off to Aldi’s to see if I can find a 1959 Vauxhall Victor.
And if I find one I’ll celebrate with a Cohiba cigar…oh shoite! Forgot the humidor…aff oot again…
Norwich city have signed Michael McGovern
Three year contract
He left Hamilton accies at end of season
weebobbycollins
Get me a bag of compost will u!
Johnny Thompson – Glen Daly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tOjIFICHWY
BARNEY67 on 19TH JULY 2016 2:49 PM…
go to Iceland and you’ll get a bag of permafrost…
Season Tickets sold:
Chelsea – 25’000
Tottenham – 28’000
Celtic – 50k ?