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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bournesouprecipe on 19th February 2016 10:37 am SFA set to consider banning plastic pitches due to Sevco ‘stars’ injury.
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Could they not just ban Sevco?
Nae herm tae ye Big Ronny but……
…beware of Big Yogi’s bushy-tail the morra…
…bed-time zzzzz…….
Stockholm syndrome tims gave up all objectivity when they accepted that one is as bad as the other, and there are plenty on here who contort the English language to suit their desire to conform to Scottish establishment thinking. Babble about freedom of speach then spend the rest of your energy denying it and justifying that denial with utter garbage about future and history.
Remember the lessons of your history and the future will take care of itself.
Ignore the lessons and you’ll have exactly where we are going, clowns logic becoming accepted wisdom.
Thankfully I’m not a bigot or a dinosaur.
The bigot thinks rugby is played by men with oddly shaped balls.
Mr Pastry
I think we all have reservations.
HH
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BobbyM
Lost me there mi amigo, maybes cos I am fik :-)
HH
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Auldheid
Lucky bassa, enjoy :-)
HH
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 19TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:16 AM
The problem with that attitude is that it ignores the fact that one of the two culture’s was/is the dominant one and the other the subservient one.
And it’s one thing to assert dominance, it’s another to assert defiance. Therein lies the difference.
You can argue about the degree of dominance/subservience but you can’t ignore it as a factor.
So a player who now finds himself at Hibs because he canny stay off social media because of his big petted lip now turns to social media to advertise who his best mates are,knowing full well that it would be seized upon by the media. It’s. not only the Scottish media but their sister paper in the republic that are running with it. When that said player is sitting in some backstreet pub in Dublin in 20 years time hoping someone else will stand him a vodka and coke I wonder if he will truly reflect on how many chances he was presented with but failed to take at the big time
just because you have republican connections doesn’t automatically qualify you as a Celtic great there is some degree of work and hard effort to be put into it also
And for certain bloggers to dress up the article as an attack on Celtic, well some folk will write any old guff to raise their audience figures
bsr
What? Odd as in shaped differently from your own?
;)
traditionalist88 on 19th February 2016 10:47 am.
Thank you for your considered reply. I will try to address what you percieve to be moronic comments.
Firstly I did did say I have no definitive view, it was put out for discussion,thought and opinion.
Secondly I am one of the 6 million residents of the UK who has at least one Irish Grandparent.
i hate the term old firm, but I believe we will never get rid of this tag as long as we are seen as the opposite side of the coin. The huns are an embarrassment to the year 2016. They live in the past, we should not.
We should be aware of our history, but move forward in a progressive manner that will encourage support from all sections of society. I think that singing about the BOTOB, RITG et al have no place in a modern football ground, may actually deter potential supporters and perpetrate the myth that we are indeed the opposite side of the coin.
What people do in the home or in clubs is entirely different.
Many teams in British football have Irish roots and support, eg. the two Merseyside clubs and Man Utd, with the Irish influence running deep and well established.
To completely leave the old firm tag behind we may have to face unpalatable choices for some.
Hail, Hail.
Mickbhoy1888
At the other end of the spectrum, if you hang about with loyalist murdering scum, the scottish media will give you a job.
HH
Actually Ernie, I rather think the problem is wrapped up in the desire to perpetuate invalid perceptions of difference between One and The Other.
Morning Celts
Winning Captains….Good stuff with BIg Tommy.
Celtic Legend and well loved Lion.
Hail Hail to you.
BTW…most of my mob come from Ireland.
Anybody anything to say about that….Get yer dukes up:)
The Fighting Irish love a rumble:)
HH
GreenPinta
Thats fine, the relevance of Irish Ballads is not what I was replying to. That can be done till the cows come home. I also don’t accept that we should forget our heritage because the misguided mainstream media portray the ones as bad as the other rhetoric – that should be challenged at every turn, not meekly accepted with us changing to suit them.
What I was dealing with was the phrasing of your initial post which suggested that the singing of said ballads was a hinderance to us being perceived as a club who stood against bigotry be it religious or homophobic. That is another mainstream media myth which too many have swallowed.
Apologies for being a bit brash with the original post.
HH
Greenpinata,
I’m pretty sure this was clear from your first offering,
“I think that singing about the BOTOB, RITG et al have no place in a modern football ground, may actually deter potential supporters and perpetrate the myth that we are indeed the opposite side of the coin.”
And contrary to your claim, is a bit more than simply throwing it out there for discussion.
You are/were looking for confirmation which is pretty sad.
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 19TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:54 AM
Actually Ernie, I rather think the problem is wrapped up in the desire to perpetuate invalid perceptions of difference between One and The Other.
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One culture is/was dominant the other subordinate.
It may not have been the only, or even the most important, division in society but to deny its reality is perverse.
That’s the background that leads to be someone coming up with the words to Roamin in the Gloamin and the reality against which it should be judged.
MickBhoy
The much vaunted moneyball approach would see Stokes in the team every week, given his record of nearly 60 goals for the club.
But since he has failed to mature much since his Sunderland days, off he goes and in comes a guy with ~30 goals for Dundee Utd, who lasted a matter of months.
Sometimes better the devil you know.
HH
Another know it all.
http://etims.net/?p=8664
winning captains on 19th February 2016 10:25 am 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.
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…and there’s me thinking he was actua;;y playing on your team last night at CQN 7s, when you bhoys lost :-)
Its a shame I cannot make the night on 8th April. I hope it is a great night
HH
CRC
MICKBHOY1888 on 19TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:43 AM
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Can’t find anything on his Twitter ..
Have you a link ? Or who is his best friends ?
I have no problem with our ‘song-sheet’, just because the songs are not liked by the institutionally racist and sectarian establishment in Scotland doesn’t mean they should be deemed racist and/or sectarian.
BUT
Why do you not hear the same songs at Ireland international football/rugby games?
People, in my experience in the South of Ireland, think we are a bit of a throwback, much the same as they think of ‘the tribes’ in the north of their Island.
ernie lynch on 19th February 2016 12:05 pm
Touching back on yesterday, it’s not an experience many (minority / majority, that I don’t know) share anymore. Possibly tied to the change to a service based economy that demand different skill sets and knowledge to the traditional Scottish industries.
Who in this day and age is allowing themselves to be subservient to anybody, least of all based on something like race and/or religion.
Well said Paul, a stadium full of Jay’s wouldent be a bad thing at all.
http://www.hailhailmedia.com/jay-beatty-one-of-us/
TET
you can rest easy that I don’t contribute a penny to the wages of any employee of the Scottish media be they Billy or Tim. However a fair proportion of my salary went towards contributing to the wages of someone who doesn’t give a flying duck about Celtic or its support
Ernie Lynch
I was whistling RITG in the house one day(a long time ago!) and my mother was shocked that I would know such an old Scottish song.
She had no idea there was a Celtic Park version.
I had no idea there was an original.
HH
proudbhoy @12:13
I think the Irish Mirror will point you in the right directiction
I would say that the way things are shaping up.
We might see a few players leave.
I reckon Scott B might be nearing his limit, in terms of age, injuries etc.
KC,,,,contract up soon….injuries
CM,,, Injuries
JF.. Contract up….very rarely plays
SJ….Im not sure about Stefan,…on his day really good player….when its an off day….well.
EI…Izzy has given his all for Celtic….good player, never seemed to recapture his style after bad injury….KT has replaced Emilio.
TB….Tyler wont be here much longer.
CC…Big man wil be offski asap
NC….Will prob stay in Turkey……Bad buy….somebody should have known better
LH…Good player Liam….however i have my doubts…..might stay at Hibs.
AS….Stokesy is toast.
HH
BSR… do the women have them also??
desertbhoy
That’s a whole different kettle of oddly-shaped balls.
The Green Man says SACK THE Board on 19th February 2016 12:22 pm
Agree with most of that, the exception being Liam Henderson. Think he’ll be back next season vying for one of the two centre midfield slots and being developed as Brown’s long term successor.
The Green Man, Nice that you are hanging on to Derk.
Djerk…. is he still on the books?? Someone must be getting a cut from his modelling enterprise.
GARY 67
Be interesting to see the outcome….maybe Liam can improve….Hibs have certainly given him game time.
CORKCELT
Derk….I dont even count him as a player.
Better if he leaves very quietly….Exit stage left.
Dont call us:)
HH
Mickbhoy1888
I reckon you could say that about most who play for the club.
If the boy chooses to be mates with whomever, it’s his choice, it should have no bearing on him as a footballer, but in scotland it does if you are of teh Republican hue, where as the loyalist scum are lauded, you can even get 24~7 police protection to amble down the beach in Ayr at your leisure if you are of the loyalist persuasion.
HH
New airteagal?
Songs
There is no doubt that, in the past, many of us sang republican songs, some of which supported the Provos during the 1970s.
Times have changed and those songs are very rarely, if ever, sung by Celtic fans. The FTQ chant, eg, has disappeared completely.
Republican ballads, expressions of Celtic’s Irish heritage, are not sectarian and should not be criminalised. CFC should come out and state that supporters who sing these are not criminals. This action would attract complaints from the moronic element in Scottish society and perhaps some mealy mouthed tutting from the likes of Speirs, but it would make the SNP Govt think very carefully about their refusal to abolish the OB Act. The Club must take the lead here and do more to protect fans whose only “crime” is to sing eg BOTOB.
It would also enable the Club and the authorities to distinguish between them and those who are simply singing.
There are those who are offended at the mere mention of anything Irish/Catholic?Celtic. The MSM pander to them because that is who buy their rags. Any Celtic fans who buys them need to seriously examine their consciences.
Them = flare throwers
https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/transparency/