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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im sure you will get them… :-))
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new article posted.
The Huddle / KevJungle
Don’t see Efe as a DM. No game awareness.
BOGNORBHOY
You would be amazed at the stuff WITS put the loads on to the other day.
The IRB in Maryhill….Wooft.
Shhhhh:)
Check it out.
When you get on that site….try putting your own name in:)
You will be amazed.
HH
Green Man
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RITG was used only to illustrate an emotional approach, rather than a reason approach
So to recap – some base their opinions on emotion – some on reasoned assessment.
Like Kev of the Jungle you ‘zoom in ‘ on what ‘lights your candle’ – him on his pet subject of Peter Lawwells mythical hot driveway and you trivialising the point by ‘zooming in’ on the ditty instead of the emotional driving force – or perhaps you are just being obtuse again.
This is a cut and paste from a business circular that I always get on a Friday:
Funny laws that are still in force in the UK
Excluding Sundays, in the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter.
It is an offense to be intoxicated and in charge of a cow, horse or steam engine in Scotland.
Placing a postage stamp bearing the monarch’s head upside down on an envelope is considered as act of treason. Also, defacing or destroying anything bearing a likeness of the monarch is illegal, which means burning paper money, bending coins or tearing a stamp apart.
It is an executable offence to allow your pet to mate with a pet of the royal house without permission.
For a pub landlord, allowing drunkenness in their pub is illegal across all of the UK.
In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet.
In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.
It is illegal to order or permit any servant to stand on the sill of any window to clean or paint it.
It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.
Under the terms of a bye-law it is illegal to “Jump” the queue in the tube ticket hall.
It is illegal to beat or shake any carpet rug or mat in any street in the Metropolitan Police District, although you are allowed to shake a doormat before 8am.
In England and Wales, it is illegal to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances
The 1313 Statute forbids the wearing of armour by members of Parliament when attending in the House and has never been repealed.
Under the terms of the Polish Potatoes (Notification) in England Order – 2004: No person shall, in the course of business, import into England potatoes which he knows to be or has reasonable cause to suspect to be Polish potatoes.
Under the terms of the Protection of Wrecks Order 2003: A person shall not enter the hull of the Titanic without permission from the Secretary of State.
It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
Meanwhile in the States
In Alabama, it is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses. It is also illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
A recently passed Texas anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hour notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
In Minnesota, it is illegal to stand around any building without a good reason to be there.
In New York, while riding in an elevator, one must talk to no one, and fold his hands while looking toward the door.
In Hawaii, you may only have one alcoholic drink in front of you at a time and all residents can be fined for not owning a boat.
In Utah, it is illegal not to drink milk.
A special law in Florida prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
I don’t know if I subscribe to the view that “Scotland is Racist”, but we certainly have a problem with racism and it’s a problem we are reluctant to recognise.
There are around 200,000 people living in Scotland from Black or Minority Ethnic backgrounds. Since the introduction of ‘racial aggravation’ to criminal offences in 2003/04, more than 25% of the BME individuals living in Scotland have been the victim of a ‘racially aggravated’ crime.
It’s important to note that for the purposes of collecting data, a crime is noted in the records when charges are brought against the perpetrator (whether or not conviciton follows).
This serves to diminish the number of reported Hate Crimes as, in the event that no perpetrator is charged, no Hate Crime is recorded.
Thus, should a building, say someone’s home, be vandalised with racist graffiti, unless a person is charged with the offence, the crime will not be included in the Hate Crime data.
The majority of Hate Crimes are thus unrecorded.
Nevertheless, despite the constraint on accurately reporting such incidents, 1 in 4 BME people living in Scotland have been the victim of an ‘official’ race hate crime in the past 12 years.
4% of the population of Scotland suffer 80% of the Hate Crimes committed.
You won’t read that in the newspapers, and it won’t be debated on the TV.
Perhaps we’re ashamed of it. Perhaps we’re inured to it. Perhaps it’s not really that important to us because it’s not ‘sectarian’, and ‘sectarian’ is more important than ‘racism’.
Perhaps we are really only interested in offences directed at ourselves. Perhaps “Scotland is Racist” after all.
TBB,
I see the original as a backlash, what you are offering is appeasement and we all know from history lessons how that ends.
An answer to a society that hates the Irish and Catholics all wraped up in a few lyrics.
I honestly do expect our Protestant friends who have never experienced that hatred and can easily forget witnessing it, to claim it doesn’t exist and there may actually be a few Catholics who have not experienced it but the bottom line is because a bit of lip service has been paid, means not a jot,
Nap today – Woodford Island – 3.15 Haydock
Best of luck to all
Cheers GFTB
Lads,
CQN Naps on here today please…
Cheers, fleagle1888
CQN Saturday Naps Competition : WEEK 29 results (Feb 13th)
Winners:
leftclicktic (Taquin du Seuil) @5/1
Som mes que un club (Extreme Impact) @5/1
twists n turns (Lunar Deity) @5/1
Dim Sam (Top Gamble) @11/10
Losers:
16 roads (Blazer)
21-5-79 (Kalkir)
Angel Gabrial (Mad Jack Mytton)
BMCUWP (Zarib)
bonbhoy (Sternrubin)
Bull67 (Dicosimo)
Burgas Hoops (Picket Line)
Cathal (Sykes)
Cosy Corner Bhoy (Cheltenian)
El Madrigal (Mutasayyid)
Eurochamps67 (Bayan Kasirga)
Fastbhoy (Blazer)
fleagle1888 (Champagne at Tara)
gerryfaethebrig (Sternrubin)
Graffitionthewall (Kingsley Klarion)
green T (Sternrubin)
Gweedore Celt (Captain Conan)
hashadenough (Batavir)
Nye Beavans RS (Sternrubin)
Onemalloy (Ballynagour)
PFayr (Marcilhac)
Rockon (Black Minstrel)
The Bhoy from the Village (Blazer)
TheBarcaMole (Waxies Dargle)
Thunder Road (no selection)
tommytwiststommyturns (Affaire D’honneur)
voguepunter (Dormouse)
What is the Stars (Positively Dylan)
Zihuatanejo (Bleu Berry)
Cheers, fleagle1888
(—Beirut CSC—)
Rigadin De Beauchene in 2.40 Haydock
CQN Saturday Naps Competition : WEEK 29 Standings
Still only a nostril between the two front runners…
+19.75 > 16 roads (8)
+18.50 > Zihuatanejo (5)
+9.00 > Nye Beavans RS (6)
+7.33 > bonbhoy (5)
+6.75 > Rockon (6)
+5.45 > leftclicktic (6)
+4.50 > BMCUWP (5)
+3.83 > hashadenough (7)
+0.58 > El Madrigal (5)
+0.50 > twists n turns (4)
-1.50 > Graffitionthewall (6)
-3.13 > gerryfaethebrig (5)
-6.00 > Angel Gabrial (4)
-7.83 > green T (6)
-9.10 > Eurochamps67 (5)
-9.50 > Cosy Corner Bhoy (3)
-9.90 > fleagle1888 (4)
-10.00 > tommytwiststommyturns (2)
-10.25 > PFayr (4)
-10.88 > Bull67 (4)
-13.00 > Burgas Hoops (3)
-14.00 > Gweedore Celt (1)
-14.50 > TheBarcaMole (2)
-15.13 > Fastbhoy (4)
-15.75 > Som mes que un club (3)
-16.00 > voguepunter (2)
-17.50 > The Bhoy from the Village (2)
-17.55 > Onemalloy (3)
-17.95 > Thunder Road (3)
-18.00 > Cathal (1)
-19.13 > What is the Stars (3)
-21.53 > Dim Sam (3)
-29.00 > 21-5-79 (0)
Cheers, fleagle1888
(—Beirut CSC—)
Aigle De La See 16:10 @ Ascot.
14:05 @ Haydock – At Fishers Cross – NAP!
Good luck everybody.
Ascot 3pm Sirabad
Silviniaco Conti Ascot 3.35
Kings Apollo 4.30 Wincanton.
Good luck all.
Calling Des Blins 4:45 Ascot.
Morning all, Encapsulated 4.20 Lingfield for me,good luck.
Le Mercurey 1.50 Ascot NAP
Best of luck everyone.
Eurochamps67
Lads,
Laverteen to upset the fav (Fairyhouse 17:10)
fleagle1888
TRADEWINDS 315 HAYDOCK is my tentative pinsticker today.
Thanks as always,Fleagle!
Ascot 1.15
Yala Enki
Cannae get beat.
Tikkapick
1630 wincanton
Good morning CQN NAPS
2:25 ASCOT
Spookydooky
Goodluck to all .
Fleagle – PF ayr on the lash again and asked me to put his nap up….Drumacoo in the Ascot 1:50.
Back on later with my own selection.
T4
Silviniaco Conti in the 335 at Ascot please HH
13:40 Wincanton
Morestead Screamer
HH.
Silsoe 2.05 hay
Oops…. silsol 2.05 hay
Here’s Herbie
4-10pm Ascot
Gl
NORSE LEGEND. 4.10 AS OT
Flemenstar 3.35 Ascot
Good Luck all
HH
I’ll go for Harry the Viking in the 2:40 at Haydock.
T4
2.40 Haydock CLOUDY TOO.
Chinned on the line last week and the commentator called it wrong!
Good luck.