The return of the winter break to the Scottish football programme is welcome. There are a couple of physiological reasons for this. Players are never truly 100% fit during the season, they always carry knocks and scrapes. Allowing them time away from competitive action will allow minor abrasions to recover with less risk of a more significant injury.
The way a player can train during the season is also limited by impending football games. Endurance training requires lots of stamina-sapping exercise. This is possible in the early weeks of preseason but its’ simply not practical to push players’ endurance limits at the start of the week and expect them to play at the weekend. Even less taxing training is possible when a player has two games a week.
A three week break from games in January will allow training programmes to be implemented which simply would not be possible otherwise. A mid-season foundation layer of fitness can be laid down which will allow legs to appear fresher in subsequent months. This foundation layer should also prevent injuries.
Can’t believe it’s been 18 years since the League Cup final was played pre-Christmas. I’ve fond memories of the last one – against Dundee United, at Ibrox. The 90s brought us a Scottish Cup win in 1995 but that League Cup win came early in a season we believed we had a genuine title chance for the first time in years.
It felt like, and proved to be, a profound moment.
It was also our first League Cup since 1982 – the Hampden in the rain final, another great memory from a period we were so far out of the picture in Europe domestic competitions were always the ambition. For those to young to know, the Celtic end at Hampden was like a 90° ash park, with three inch wooden planks standing upright, which some decades earlier held back the ash to create long-gone steps. Good job we won.
I see Aberdeen’s inspiration, Jonny Hayes, is out for a month. As we know to our cost this season, losing your top players costs points. We’ll see how it affects Aberdeen on Friday.
Mangers Premium Seat Competition
Magners have offered us two Premium Ticket seats for the Jock Stein Stand on Saturday. To win you need to answer this question:
Which town do Celtic’s opponents on Saturday come from?
Put your answer in the SUBJECT LINE of an email to celticquicknews@gmail.com
The competition closes at 16:00 TODAY, so only a few hours to enter………..
…………. After you do so, you might want to donate a £1 to our Mary’s Meals School Kitchen Appeal, you know, to buy a child a meal for a year or so…….. You can do so here.
576 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- »
A lot worse.
tarantula
weeminger,
With the Greatest of respect, I’m hearing the same same boiler room sonics.
Stagnating, perhaps needs a bit of F them and their Laws
A funny thing happened on the way to Kilauea volcano.
I am currently on the Big Island of Hawaii and today I drove up to the active Kilauea volcano. On the drive up I saw a farmers market with a large sign, “EBTs not accepted”. Good to know the Hawaiians are well ahead of the SFA. I had planned on taking a picture on the return drive but this side of the island has 160 inches of rain per year versus 44 for Glasgow and it was chucking it down as we passed the EBT sign. So, no picture to forward to wee Bazza in case he ventures this way.
Mahalo
Control is easy when. LOL
It is almalgamated into 1.
Woah haud on a wee minute here.
:idea:
Ronny Deila is building a Family Unit, He is strengthening, IMO.
No more Muse.
CordovaBayTim on 19th February 2016 5:05 am
Electronic benefits transfer.
The buroo…the dole.
2000s
;))
TT nailed it. They Fear Lennoxtown and what it is about to Produce.
Ronny D is there for a reason.
Good morning fellow Celts
Good to see so many casting RITG aside and back into history where it belongs
Travelled to many games with the best Celtic fans I ever had the pleasure to meet – none were RC
The song does us no credit
HH
Still dark in the bishops toon.
Macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 19th February 2016 5:45 am
I had to check what that EBT stood for when I returned to our condo. I think Sevco might be finacing their current operation using something similar.
Makes interesting reading
http://www.scotzine.com/2016/02/celtic-state-aid-obsessed-accuser-linked-to-attack-dog-gregory-campbell-mp/?
Re. the auld songs debate…..
Am I the only one who would like to see us stick to Celtic songs and hymns?
‘God’s spirit is in my heart
He has called me and set me apart
This is what I have to do
What I have to do
Ch:He sent me to give good news to the poor
Tell prisoners that they are prisoners no more
Tell blind people that they can see,
And set the downtrodden free
And go tell everyone
The news that the kingdom of God has come
Just as the Father sent me
So I’m sending out to be
My witnesses throughout the world
The whole of the world
Don’t worry what You have to say
Donn’t worry because on that day
God’s spirit will speak in your heart
Will speak in your heart….’
OneLoveCSC
” Am I the only one who would like to see us stick to Celtic songs and hymns? ”
Where? I can`t quite imagine Hail! Hail! being belted out from the pulpit 0:-)
JJ
PS Hymns? Are you really an Archdeacon?
CORDOVABAYTIM on 19TH FEBRUARY 2016 6:03 AM
Macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 19th February 2016 5:45 am
I had to check what that EBT stood for when I returned to our condo. I think Sevco might be finacing their current operation using something similar.
=========================================================================
The plucky cash strapped hun.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from an above freezing, damp, half-clear skied East Kilbride. Just one and a half more sleeps till we see the Champions play.
planninganafterworkpowernapCSC
Good Morning Celts.
JJ you are up early for a retiree? Got my bus pass in the post yesterday, I guess that I’m now officially a grumpy old ……! May join you in that line of business soon. See you on the (Arbroath CSC) bus tomorrow.
HH
EBT?
Eternal Bloody Turmoil
Cheerio for now,
JJ
IMATIM
He should be charged with abuse of Parliamentary Privelege,and with wasting the House’s time.
Bitter twisted old b…… with nothing more on his mind than hatred.
I am not for constantly looking back and comparing.
On the songs, yes we all sang them and thought we were the ‘bees knees’ – they made us feel that we ‘belonged’ – however, but for a small minority, we really didn’t believe in the words – and most times didn’t know, or, cared, what they meant.
On the club/squad/team – it is pointless to keep harking back to past glories and past mistakes and stand them up beside our current operation – the world is a very different place and changes constantly.
Yes of course we will always remember our wonderful feats and our fantastic teams and great players – they are indelibly etched in our hearts and minds.
We must move on – because of the constraints we work under, every new season must be treated as ‘tabula rasa’ – a clean slate.
We face enough pressures and sniping from many outside forces – we musn’t divide our great support with petty squables.
Ronny is here for the forseeable future, so let bygones be bygones, and from Saturday let’s ‘roar’ him and the team to a league and cup double.
For the first time there will not be wholesale tinkering with the squad just prior to the qualifiers – I think, as I have said previously, after substantial ‘clearing of the decks’ with probably around nine going out the door, we could bring in a couple of high quality additions early in the window.
Settingthebears..
————————–
Your analysis is fair, accurate and well made – I agree without reservation – Cheers HH
A Wee birdie has told me that many bars in Glasgow where blitzed at the weekend with sheriffs officers and have told these bars NOT to be showing anymore live games at Celtic park that are not legally televised, or they will be fined and be made to pay the court costs, it was only a matter of time I suppose, I wondered how long it would take.
Correct David.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/celtic/14287942.Fans_need_to_wise_up_to_flare_stupidity/?ref=rss
Did anyone get a mystery delivery of Milk Tray last night?
TD
The cost for pubs to legitimately show live football is ridiculous. My publican mate reckoned he had to sell an additional 200 pints per game to cover his costs of showing it. That’s why so many are using the illegal sausages.
Harry Hood lost a major court case on this issue recently.
Ger57
I’m not sure how they come to a price structure here in Scotland for bars showing live games, but I know that when I had my bar in Canada the costs where based on how many people your bar was licensed for,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17150054
This landlady won her case,wonder if she’s still open
HH
Wee weet weet
I do remember that particular case, I wonder if she still shows the games?
Oldtim must be in town today ;)
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14286269.Mystery_man_parachutes_into_Glasgow_city_centre_at_midnight___and_then_vanishes/?ref=mr&lp=2
HH
WWW
The last guy to parachute solo into Scotland was arrested and kept in jail for 50 years. No wonder the fella has disappeared.
FC Midtjylland must be raging with their board.
So many “projects” in that squad
Morning Bhoys a damp cold morning here in Central Scotland.If we are lucky tonight may see the end of the Dandy Dons challenge if the Harry wraggs take all three points. H.H.
Tommy Gemmell has won his latest fitness battle and has now returned home.
Tommy at the end of last year spent a few months recovering after his operation on his broken hip. He spent Christmas in hospital in Larbert.
CQN’ers at this time had a whip round and were able to fund a TV package for Tommy for his return home, which was expected at the start of January. A Sky engineer was booked but Tommy wasn’t quite ready to go home and his doctor gave him six weeks to prove his fitness.
Well Tommy has passed his fitness test and is absolutely delighted that he is now getting SKY TV installed. He also has access to Celtic TV, courtesy of Adrian Filby at Celtic, and we’ve even purchased a laptop for Tommy – thanks to CQN’ers! He’ll be reminded of his old CQN password and I’ll tell him he’s welcome to post on here anytime.
The Tommy Gemmell CSC is holding its 20th Anniversary dinner on Friday 8th April at Stirling Rugby Club.
Come and meet Tommy there along with a few others we’re inviting to the two CQN tables. If you fancy coming along and meeting the likes of JamesGang, Doc, Cowie Bhoy, Paul and others then drop me an email to david@cqnpublishing.co.uk
AMAZING
—————
Manchester United – Income £750 million – under LVG spend £250 million – get beaten by a Danish side.
Celtic – Income £60 million – under RD spend minus £5 million – get beaten by a Danish side.
Are we being too hard, too soon, on RD?
Winning Captains
————————–
Tremendous gesture – take a bow!!!
Winning Captains – great news, and an excellent start to the week-end.