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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NEGANON2& DD
That song is an insult to thousands of Celtic fans who happen to be non-Catholic.
No call for it imo
HH
Thats the other myth that is perpetrated…That all Celtic fans are Catholic….which of course is ridiculous.
But it suits the hun narrative.
HH
green man is it an anti Protestant song?
Nah.
It’s just moronic.
NEGANON2
Its moronic indeed.
I wouldnt say its an anti-Protestant song.
Id prefer it if people remembered that not all Celtic fans are Catholic.
HH
I see the fearless commandos of Police Scotland have again risked their lives by storming the battlements of fenianism and lifting 5 wee boys for singing Irish folk songs.
Thank you, jackbooted saviours of fair Caledonia, and thank you Herr Salmond and the SNP Klan for moving to preserve this dear green land the way ra righteous peepil of its glens and mountains like it; Circa 1690.
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY & WEE OSCAR on 18TH FEBRUARY 2016 5:45 PM
CelticFC Solo 5mins ago
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
Might stop smoking in the gents in the JS upper :)
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I had a discussion with a Hun and fellow smoker today in work about what effect the smoking ban has had on attendances…
Like the ban in pubs it has deterred some from going.
I know some supporters at Celtic park still try to have a fly puff in the toilets, of which I don’t agree with but to honest I thought it had mostly been eradicated.
Now and again I get invited to the number 7, I can pop out at half time for a puff no problem, yet when I am in the stands it’s a no no.
To which the hun smoker told me at most games they just smoke away as since they erm…died, there is practically no police and just stewards about, especially at away grounds.
To me this is a good move by Celtic if it’s true, treat all supporters with the same rules.HH
Our first eleven is….
Ok positive look at it,
CG/ LB
Saidy or ML. Any two from Dedryk, Erik, Jozo or Efe. Kieran or Izzy.
2 from Bitton, Liam H, Broonie and Kris A. ( Chas Muldini cover for back 6)
GMS or Roberts, Rogic, Allan or Christie, Armstrong or Johansen. ( Commons cover all 3)
Griff or CKR
Obviously there is a need for the back up striker but with the money freed up from a dozen sales our Henrik replacement is surely just round the corner.
Eurochamps67
ThismanagementlarkispimpsysoitisCSC
TGM
You remember the add on to North men South men comrades all. The Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Donegal line was the only one allowed on our Knightswood supporters bus.
25% of our members were Protestant Bhoys.
Molde already down 2-0, early second half. Lost 4 players since beating us. Look naive at this level.
TGM
Yip…totally agree.
No need for it.
Celtic are open to all….and thats the way i like it.
Loads of Protestant Celtic fans…Thousands and Thousands and Thousands.
HH
DD
So the dawn raids are back for “sectarian” singing. I’m guessing that around thirty thousand bluenoses are dreading the morning knock as a consequence of the bigotfest at Ibrox when they played Hibs, or maybe not. Think about that for a moment. Most of the crowd belting out anti Catholic songs and caught live on national TV. Do the police condemn the sectarianism, do they call in the press to announce a firm response, do they report the club to the SFA, as they did to Celtic not that long ago. Of course they didn’t.
Anyway bhoys…offski
Cara’s 21st in the Calton.
If anybody is going….give me a shout.
Im Cara’s uncle.
Good looking one:)
Laters Celts.
HH
TGM
Was ready to drive up to your’s. Worried about you rappin wi yerself. Hahaha
sipsini on 18th February 2016 7:00 pm
Maybe they will make Stand where you it’s Legal to sing Irish Rebel Songs next.
HoldsBreathJustKiddin…..Sorry to disappoint ye!
http://www.scotland.police.uk/contact-us/
Feel free to ask them why no arrests when thousands sing sectarian songs at Ibrox .
If enough people ask we might get somewhere .
Just been told that my role has been downgraded but I stay on the same pay and title. Only changes if I leave and they re-fill the role. No real impact on me but why did they tell me? I haven’t lost anything but am now demotivated.
Maybe we told Gary Hooper he was still our main man but if he left we would buy Amido Balde!
On sectarianism, I find it unbelievable that some on here reckon it’s minuscule now and is fading away.
Don’t be misled that it’s only uneducated polyester prods that walk for three months a year.
As for the hidden branch (masons) that to your face tell you they don’t agree with the above, they’re the ones to keep at a distance.
Their core value…is to look after their own.
Molde getting gubbed by a Sevilla side resting the likes of Reyes.
FGF
I was in the company of a young Tim copper on the train to the match on Saturday.
I asked him that very question. He giggled, blushed and requested I change the conversation as he was aff duty. Nice young guy. Wish there were more intelligent polis like him.
Ivehadtochangemyname:
1.Desmond
2.Lawwell
3.Bankier
4. Alison
5. Livingstone
6. Lawwell jnr
7. Deila
8. Collins
9. Kennedy
10.
11.
FOURGREENFIELDS on 18TH FEBRUARY 2016 7:23 PM
Feel free to ask them why no arrests when thousands sing sectarian songs at Ibrox .
If enough people ask we might get somewhere .
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Doubt it. All it will prove is that Police Scotland is not an Equal Opportunity Employer. For when you ask that question the Statistics will show that around 90% Police Scotland is made up of Deaf & Dumb Employee’s.
sixtaeseven – Gardez la Foi on 18th February 2016 6:34 pm
I will add this:
“Our end was the uncovered end. That meant often standing there in the sleet and the rain, while at the other end they were sheltered.
*and we donated 100 grand to help facilitate that end.
Incidentally “roamin in the gloaming and the bells of hell go ting a ling a ling are not sectarian as orange is NOT a religion. soon there’ll be no ken dodds at all is, but who sings that nowadays.
Dj67…
I’ll keep the Rebs for the pub, house and the March hootenanny:))
Police Scotland shouldn’t have too much difficulty identifying at least some of the Billy Boys ‘choir’ from the recent Sevco/ Hibs game.
There were probably a few off duty in among them, giving it laldy.
cultsbhoy
Ha ! :)
Maybe, maybe – the next window might give us a fixed 11 injuries aside
Coneybhoy…
Haven’t they heard the term “a happy workforce is a motivated workforce?” Obviously not, like most workplaces now. HH
Sipsini
The ironic thing about Easter is that you guys will be out and enjoying it more than me! I have a grudging pass out for the Sat gig but nothing else.
I will try to meet up as early as poss and go home late as poss that day.
Did Clogher say when the gig finishes? May have to hit your disco ;-)
Delaneys Dunky
Several years ago I watch the police wade into a section of Celtic supporters along from where I sit , this led to a reaction from supporters nearby who claimed there was no need for this overreaction , as a policeman passed me I asked him why they were not wading into the away support ( Hearts ) who had been indulging in sectarian singing. His answer was ” what do you want us to do , arrest them all ? “
INIQUITOUSIV
“Molde getting gubbed by a Sevilla side resting the likes of Reyes.”
I don’t think Molde have played a competitive game since early December. Does Reyes play much these days?
Sevilla will gubbed better teams than Molde ;)
HH
Maybe the half time smoking break will settle the fractious nerves of the boo boys.:>)
Scratching my head trying to work out how a song with the line “eff King Billy and john Knox” isnt sectarian.
Dj67
:-) you could be right there .
neganon, if you’re serious about the eradication of racism and sectarianism in Scotland you need to start with your own attitudes to it
Coneybhoy…
Not a problem, mind and wear flares (the trousers) striped tank top and platforms…we’ll burn those two young pups of the floor with their skinny jeans. :-))
From SFM.
The Ungrateful Dead 18th February 2016 at 6:20 pm #
re “SAME CLUB’S ” unhappiness with the Killie playing surface. Why are an artificial club complaining about an artificial pitch?
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