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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Foxy, you’re about 24hours too early to be getting us fired up for the game mate!
The Rising Of The Moon – Acoustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVSvit98Zw
The Valley of Knockanure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TKKSh0IHEo
CQN for Rebs 24/7 CSC
Take It Down From The Mast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-CpZ6qtnjk
COOLMORE MAFIA on 19TH JULY 2016 3:28 PM
Pre season friendly. Couple of mates and myself had a craic with him outside Craven Cottage. Mate, never slow to come forward, asks if there’s any chance of some souvenirs. Coleman says ‘Yeah, hang on’, disappears into the ground and comes back out with some Tshirts and some boxes of chocolates. I notice the chocolates are from Harrods and say so. ‘Yeah’ says Coleman, ‘the chairman hands them out in the dressing room whenever we win’. I then asked him if that’s why he had so many left. To which Coleman calls me a cheeky tw*t. Top bloke. Delighted for him at the Euros.
PAUL67
Good points,all of them. But by ridiculing Hartson,you have reinforced his points.
He says we need a central defender,midfielder,striker.
You say we need more than that.
That’s it,John. Yer a choooob. We sure as hell need more than you suggest.
Obvious point being who is responsible for us needing so much more than we have?
Bobby Lennox and rosemary burns
Will be guests on the pitch
For the flag ceremony on Wed evening before game .
BARNEY67 on 19TH JULY 2016 3:56 PM
Foxy, you’re about 24hours too early to be getting us fired up for the game mate!
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That’s European football for ye these days. Tonight? Tomorrow night? Der hun gets upset regardless, Could be peaking in early for all I know :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-I8bB3K07c
Any whispers about a bid for this guy?
Bartosz Kapustka
A wee song for the UK Unionist CQN’s . God bless em ;-)
Who sez we’re not a club for all :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1CSSZa1v0
FOXY on 19TH JULY 2016 4:44 PM
‘A wee song for the UK Unionist CQN’s’
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Have you got one for the EU Unionist CQN’s?
Great Links Foxy, Loved the old pics shown during The Valley of Knockanure. Liam Lynch my all time favourite Rebel. Tom Barry whom I had the privilege of meeting a few times & sharing a public platform with.
Great men all.
I thought all we needed was an unfit midfielder to. :-]
MWD Indy2 get in there
ERNIE LYNCH
At one of those games some Hooped rapscallions climbed over into the British Army base, near the Kings Arms I think, took down their regimental flag and hoisted a Celtic crested tricolour in its place.
Loudest cheer of the day
Delighted to see Booby Lennox & the wife of the legend Tommy hoisting the flag.
Tommy is and always will be my all time favourite Celt, we will never see his like again.
Just popped out to pick my car up from being serviced. I’m going to need to sell a kidney – retribution for taking the piss out of the Germans, but the truth is the truth.
Der hun and no European footbal this season?
I’ll tell u one thing that’s not two, bit harsh if you ask me ;-(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzzJL5aRoQ
O.G.RAFFERTY on 19TH JULY 2016 4:49 PM
Mmm. Not sure that isn’t a tale that’s grown in the telling. There was talk of such an act being carried out at a TA place near Putney Bridge, but it didn’t occur, mostly due to the presence of CCTV. Allegedly.
ERNIE LYNCH
That’s the one. It did, I saw the flag flying
Starry
hope you are well
19 yr old Polish winger-plan b if Scot Sinclair deal falls through?
I read somewhere that we were being linked with him-also Ajax in the hunt too[allegedly]
hh
Evening Timland from a seriously hot hun free mountain valley.
Neil McGuinness is I understand responsible for scouting Victor and Virgil, NOT John Park.
He was one of the two IT support guys at Celtic Park and then got a job scouting!
all he did was video analysis.
Heard this from someone who works at the club.
THE EXILED TIM on 19TH JULY 2016 5:06 PM
Heard this from someone who works at the club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqa_xTSHneI
Foxy on 19th July 2016 2:51 pm
Johnny Thompson – Glen Daly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tOjIFICHWY
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Foxy
That & The Celtic song are my earliest memories of my da & uncles putting their heart and sole into singing after coming home from the game or the pub,
must have been listening to them while still wrapped in my mams shawl :))))))
ps i’m the same age as The Celtic song
JOHANN MURDOCH
Enjoying the sun JM! Picked the right time to have three days at home, garden done , dinner made, CQN time:))
A mate of mine wrote me on F/B that we’re looking at this guy, don’t know how solid it is???
Enjoy the sun!
Mon The Hoops
O.G.
“rapscallions ”
word of the day sir
LEFTCLICKTIC
Rap-scallions?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-Z_l907DY
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH JULY 2016 4:47 PM
FOXY on 19TH JULY 2016 4:44 PM
‘A wee song for the UK Unionist CQN’s’
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Have you got one for the EU Unionist CQN’s?
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Of course I have, we’re inclusive, Internationalists right ;-)
( Jesus wept. Alll you’ve got to do is stop sucking, Ol Mother England cant take it anymore!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9aXxWwdTYc
Gettin ready for another European game :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmX56cTAfio
Im not sure wither we need 3 new players or more but what I do know if we dont sweep the Red Imps aside tomorrow night questions really would be asked.I said yesterday this is a mis-match and i have not changed my mind in the away game with just a little luck we would have finished the tie but the Imps carried all the luck.Despite Brendan urging patience 4 or 5 nil should be the minimum we achieve so come on you Bhoys in green. H.H.
LEFTCLICKTIC on 19TH JULY 2016 5:13 PM
Foxy on 19th July 2016 2:51 pm
Johnny Thompson – Glen Daly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tOjIFICHWY
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Foxy
That & The Celtic song are my earliest memories of my da & uncles putting their heart and sole into singing after coming home from the game or the pub,
must have been listening to them while still wrapped in my mams shawl :))))))
ps i’m the same age as The Celtic song
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God bless you and those belonging to you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54-WLPB5E68
Ernie Lynch
Ah, that must be it, need to get my teeth oot o’ the glass, otherwise I’ll just have to “sook it up”. Better remember to bring that to the attention of the Hygienist at my appointment in 3 minutes!
HH
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH JULY 2016 4:47 PM
FOXY on 19TH JULY 2016 4:44 PM
‘A wee song for the UK Unionist CQN’s’
And a definiton
Theresa May opined in her first remarks as prime minister outside 10 Downing Street last Wednesday.
“The full title of my party is the Conservative and Unionist party and that word unionist is very important to me. It means we believe in the union, the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,” she said.
JOE FILIPPIS HAIRCUT
Joe ye’ve jinxed us mate:))
As soon as folk come on here saying 4-0, 5-0 we always struggle awe naw Joe the morra night is gonny be hell.:))
Nooye’vedoneitCSC
http://thecelticblog.com/2016/07/blogs/spfl-clubs-set-to-defy-mps-as-sfa-stick-it-to-celtic/
Agree with you to a certain extent, Paul, and with Big John also, to a degree.
However the three players needed thing, assumes that the current squad are good enough to benefit from such an injection and deliver the required results.
If in fact we have been left with a bunch of duds that cannot be trusted against even the most modest of opposition, e.g. The Imps, then much greater emendation will be required.
That being the case, I posit that three, four, transfer windows may be needed, with any kind of success, in the interim, problematic to say the least.
STARRY PLOUGH. Have no fear fella we will do just fine. H.H.
Luke Kelly – Kelly The Boy From Killane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvt25IsIZ0