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.
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Morning Timland from a cold and damp hun free mountain valley.
WC
Great news about Tommy and well done.
HH
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Mr Pastry
Changed your tune about Ronny :-)
HH
Saw a couple of comments about Molde being gubbed last night. They haven’t played a game for over two months, so if they were poor it’s hardly surprising.
Celtic have played ICT 18 times at CP in the SPL winning 15 Drawing 2 Losing 1
Exiled Tim
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G’day – trying to be pragmatic – he is our manager for the foreseeable future, and although I have reservations – I would not be a true Celtic man if I did not get right behind him now.
So there is really no point in being churlish and mithering on, day in and day out.
I am looking forward to this week’s match and I hope that we can now ‘kick-on’ HH
THEEXILEDTIM
The YTS lad is on duty this morning,the others are on a long weekend.
BMCUW…..does that still exist?? Was registration of first car I bought the better half.
Winning captains
Great news about TG. Thanks for sharing.
DESERTBHOY
I hope she took the hint,and learned how to skivvy for you properly!
No,it’s long gone. They replaced with a scheme where you ‘train for work’ stacking shelves in Poundland,etc. For free.
And no,I’m not joking.
Apparently,it’s only for a few months until a hospital place is found to treat your problems of low self-esteem and self-worth,etc.
Tommy Gemmel was my first childhood Celtic hero. I have had the pleasure of meeting him briefly twice, as an adult. Great Celt, great news.
TheBigShot CSC
WGS lost 36 games whilst in charge of Celtic (from 203)
RD has lost 18 in (from 103)
FORMER Celtic striker Mo Bangora, who would struggle to get a game at the CQN 7s, has sealed a £800,000 move to the Chinese second tier with Dalian Yifang.
The non-scoring striker is now reportedly Sierra Leone’s highest paid footballer in the world.
Any Chinese scouts looking in, some great strikers at West Street Glasgow at 6pm every Thursday.
PS on the Tommy post earlier, The Affiliation of CSCs via the Tommy Gemmell CSC also made a very generous contribution.
3 Goalkeepers.
10 Defenders.
14 Midfielders.
3 Strikers – that’s including Calton Cole and Kazim-Richards.
9 players are out on loan, including 4 strikers – Stokes, Scepovic,Ciftci and wee Aidan Nesbitt.
The club attempting to defend a league title and win the cup.
Bad organisation and that’s an understatement.
How did the club find itself in this predicament?
Who’s in charge,and who allowed it to occur?
Amateurs should be sacked right away.
HH.
There will be a pilot scheme on Sat for smokers located in the Lower North, JS & LL Stands, where you can get a pass out at HT for a smoke.
Today’s gossip, sorry about the pic. Of the penalty King at the start.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/rumour-mill-waghorn-out-for-8-weeks-ex-celtic-flop-seals-800k-move-hearts-duo-return-1-4034392
Winning Captains
Great news about Tommy Gemmell.
Winning Captains
It was terrific to see Celtic fans rally round to assist Big Tam. He is a true legend and one of my childhood heroes.
Joe Miller is active in a group which seeks out and makes sure that all ex-Celts are comfortable in their post football years.
SFA set to consider banning plastic pitches due to Sevco ‘stars’ injury.
Was reading the blog last night about ritg and was going to post but thought I wouldn’t bother because it’s one of those discussions your instincts tell you not to get involved in but having read this morning the rest of the debate I’m moved to post.
First of all I absolutely take issue with the condemnation of expressing publicly in song the how great it is to be a Roman Catholic.
Excuse me but I’ve cherished it most of my life and for me that’s what some sections of society would love to see,the eradication of such an expression,it’s in the same vain as vilifying Artur Boric for blessing himself at Ibrox.
The Second issue I have is that somehow John Knox and King Billy were sung about in a derogatory manner because they were important protestant figures.
What utter rubbish and these are same who will tell you about Celtics,quite rightful links to all manner of protestant fan and player alike
Why the he’ll would we as a support say on one hand were proud of our open to all ethos to then try and say we sung about the two aforementioned figures because they were leading protestants?
The song might have had it’s time but it’s not half as bad as some are making out.
If it was up to me I’d build statues of the two of them at Celtic Park for being the misguided inspiration to the biggest footballing collection of dumb see you next Tuesday’s ever shat into existence for being the reason our former rivals had lesser successes and ultimately died.
Parachute Man.
Due to financial restrictions, D.King is no longer able to jet into Glasgow.
Is there not a clause that players away on loan can be brought back to the club at anytime?
I’d bring the four strikers back to the club immediately.
Insanity in real terms having only the one striker, that being LG.
HH.
Typos,lol
16…
hard to get past a packed midfield.. unless it’s long ball over the top; now whoever would think of that in Scotland!!
Huge 36 hours ahead of us which could see the title all but decided!
Can Aberdeen cope without Hayes? Can Ronnie cope with the pressure?
BMCUW… just dropped in to see what I’ve been missing for months. Can’t recall too many visits after Molde.
How’s things??
Not too aware of what is going on but looks like RD is team-building and getting the backing to do so; obviously causing much angst in the ranks.
Desertbhoy – Happens often enough to this Celtic team.
Maybe we are gonna eventually start games with zero strikers like the imperious Barcelona team from a few years ago.
The football department haven’t got an ounce.
HH.
DESERTBHOY
The linesmen!
Greenpinata on 18th February 2016 8:00 pm
My friends in Celtic,
I have been intrigued by the dominent conversation this afternoon. My insignificant thoughts.
We are a club open to all, we continually reafirm that, and I believe it to be true. We also know that our support is not just attributable to any one religion. We can also assume that about 25% of our support ( as a modest estimate ) share no affiliation to any part of the Island of Ireland.
I make no comment and have no definitive view, but wonder that in 2016, should we sing any songs about Ireland’s past history.? Should we not embrace the future as a secular, multicultural, modern club who welcomes peoples of all religions ( and of none ), all faiths and all sexual orientations. Let other sad supporters who live in the past, sing about the by-gone days of yore.
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Insignificant, you got that right.
You may not have any connection to Ireland and nor do many but hey, guess what, YOUR CLUB DO! Its central to our very existence, defines us and the miniute its lost its not Celtic.
Regarding your second moronic comment suggesting that the singing of Irish songs somehow is a hinderance to us embracing the future as a secular, multicultural, modern club who welcomes peoples of all religions ( and of none ), all faiths and all sexual orientations, do most Irish songs we sing contain religious, homophobic, inward looking small minded sentiment, because I must have missed it?
The Irish songs I have heard us sing are about uniting the people regardless of their religious persuasion[not I am not talking about a minority of idiots changing a line in On the One Road]
HH
Firhill for thrills
Guid mind-games management from John Collins yesterday…players will leave in the summer.
Only bit that annoyed me about this was that, it should have added….
“We’ll decide in the summer, who those players will be.”
Winning Captains
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Well done with Big Tommy.
Hail Hail fella.
Lennon n Mc…,
It’s a catchy number too :)
One thing about John Collins – he is similar to Tom Boyd in the sense that you would never hear him say a bad word about Celtic, when he was working in the media – in fact he only spoke in positive terms in relation to the club.
Two outstanding footballers also when they played for Celtic, it has to be said.
HH.
DESERTBHOY
Mail reply later. Phone being a bitch.
Good to hear from you anyway.
Roamin in the Gloamin
What is the problem with that song ?
Seriously ?
King Billy & John Knox were bigots so, eff thum.
And, it is good to be a Roman Catholic.
Celtic FC should have fought for the right for this song to be sung, maybe even put onto cd-format and played over the tannoy.
There’s an idea….
Why dont the creative techno-wizards at the club, scroll through all the material of games throughout the clubs history and, compile a background sound-track of the fans in full voice.
I remember at one time the club compiled a collection of commentary of goals being scored…even Gerry McNee used to get a mention…there was also a song about Di Canio…
Get a cd made of the Jungle’s greatest hits and, get it played at ht and, am no sure but can bits of the cd not be played at corner kicks ?
The club have to stand up for songs because….the day is not too far off till, Celtic supporters will be told that they’ll only be allowed to wear their Celtic colours inside the stadium as, green & white seems to annoy very easily in this country.
Celtic supporters cojones were cut off the day the Jungle was flattened.
Oh, and don’t the board know it ?
Oh, how they know it…..
BMCUW… i thought that was life!!
TET
I got a ticket for Malaga v Real Madrid on Sunday.
Last time I watched Real play in the flesh was 1960 at Hampden.
I’m expecting some changes in the team from then.
some real dinosaurs on here sometimes. People who live in the past have got no future. H H Hebcelt
Bigotry’s restricted to the actions of The Other, isn’t it.
Our own actions are, of course, exempt from criticism. We are, after all, righteous, and when our actions are questionable, they are justifiable. Aren’t they.
We are beyond reproach.
The Other mob though. Well. Bigots.
The Battered Bunnet on 19th February 2016 11:16 am
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Exactly!
We arra peepul!