“People don’t realise how hard he trains or how much he works at it” – Kieran Tierney, talking about Leigh Griffiths. Therein lies a story. One young player, who has worked enormously on his development, recognising the efforts of our other clear success story from this season.
Anyone who believes there is a consistency in the application at training of professional footballers is misinformed. Some are there early and/or stay late to work on their own. Some breeze in at the last minute and never hang around to run, lift or practice with a ball after formal training ends.
The club provides players with breakfast and lunch, but can’t monitor their evening meals or snacks. Or more. Some don’t need to be monitored, others do.
In three months we’ll watch thousands of dedicated athletes, swimmers and sportspeople of many disciplines, pretty much all who work on their development 24×365. Some live lives in the margin of early rises and hermit-like lifestyles. Most footballers live a different reality.
Things are changing at Celtic – and have been going on since before the Ronny era. Players like Kieran Tierney have been brought up to understand the importance of lifestyle and hard work. For years, young players’ attitude has been a major factor in determining if Celtic will retain their services.
Success is not just about inherent genius.
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MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar. If MASH lawyers have been furnished with this information, which one would expect after spending so much time in and out of court debating it, why don’t they just release it to the wider world?
This is Scottish fitba, not secrets about North Korea invading Monaco.
HH Ex St Berts fella
Hoi Stivs, me and my boy are the two fenian basturts that rile the Carnoustie sclaffers by sporting Celtic golf towels on our bags. Never fails to draw a comment on any given 18 holes. Usually followed by F*(K off ya duffer hun bastart, could you take any mair shots ya clown……… + more.
Not all golf is bad………………….:_)
Neganon2
You’ve been handed an open invitation, I’d like to be there, make it before Monday and I’m in, I’ll sit by your side and let you ask the questions.
Bring big nan, ultra bhoy and tonyDonnelly67, you’ve been given a gift here, go loaded don’t knock it back like a pussy. Engage.
St Stivs, the Saturday night hun is still bugging me. I think if the wives hadn’t intervened I could have done more to humiliate the smirking hun prik.
I let myself down there by being distracted by the old mantovani.
Canamalar, any chance you could drop me a quick email update on Resolution 12.
I’d rather take my information from you, BRTH, Morrissey or Auldheid than try to decipher Tony D’s shite.
Thanks
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 29TH APRIL 2016 12:51 AM
about 5 years ago i rented a lovely wee house at the side of the railway, facing the beach, green windows , in caroustie. along from the rail crossing,
a magic weekend,
i can get why people get bit by the golf bug.
i walked across the course and around the holes,
i heard many shouts
“join the club you nice person”
but seriously beautiful setting ,
spoiled by loud trousers.
-)))))
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 29TH APRIL 2016 12:54 AM
St Stivs, the Saturday night hun is still bugging me. I think if the wives hadn’t intervened I could have done more to humiliate the smirking hun prik.
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i like that type of fenian fortitude , you remind me very much of uncle dunky in blackpool.
hope to meet you some day.
off to bed,
keep it lit.
Stivs, loud trousers? You’ve obviously not seen me in my green elephant pants. They’re all the rage in Cambodia, Cambodia, Cambodia and Carmyllie.
Maybe soon to be seen at a Celtic game near you:_)
Sir Gallivanti,
Racing round the stupidverse, what’s harder ?
Aveagra of boabies
Orascabbieboabie
Ok am no perfect yet
Canamalar what invitation?
on carnoustie, i got a really good sunset picture over the 18th,
need to find it,
Neganon2,
Read back a bit, you are a grey bus rider, special invitations
meet me at a celtic game,
there is the great dilemma. the plc have stolen celtic from us.
i will go watch us pick up our 5 trophy,
next season, no chance, not a masonic penny
Wait minute, a silver Surfer, ?
Can I am too old to read back etc…..
Neg..,
Pathcopulatingetic, you’ve been squealing forever, I’ve said I’d be your witness and you bottle it, yer giving me a showing up here.
St Stivs, if you are in fun city next sat I’ll be more than chuffed to meet and dram you. Hoping my wee bro will drop in for a few (or as Neg called him, my creepy acolyte….:_)
Noo that was funny
HH
Big nan ? Ultra ?
Let’s go minute a meeting
Top of the evening to all you Celtics fans, it’s your majority shareholder here again.
I have been on a few of these pesky fan sites – so many ungrateful malcontents moaning – and I see people questioning why big Peter was in the dressing room on Sunday.
The fact is Peter has been doing a SVQ in Sports Coaching and Nutrition on day release at Glasgow Clyde college these past 12 months. Now that Ronny is going, it’s time for Peter to step up to become manager of Celtic as well as CEO. Hopefully he’ll be adding many win bonuses to his annual fecker of a 600k bonus!
So on Sunday Peter was just getting a handover from Ronny. It’s great succession planning in action – no wonder I’m a billionaire!
Peter will be assisted – at my insistence – by Robbie Keane who will be coming in as a player coach. Robbie turns 36 this summer so while he might not be fit for the whole season he will placate my pals in the Dublin Financial sector and at least sell a shed load of replica shirts, just like back in 2010.
The first piece of business Peter will be doing as manager is to sell young Kevin Tierney to Southampton. Peter tells me that young Kevin has a bad attitude, can’t tackle and will never make it as a player. He says we should bite Southampton’s hands off for the £10 million that they’re inexplicably offering and that his contact Dudu Dahan has lined up five excellent left backs for us to sign at £1 million a pop from the Israeli league. Peter assures me we will make a fortune selling these guys on to England in 12 months time just like we did with frankie Forster, Vincent wanyama and co.
This is great news as the £10 million that we were hoping to make from the Irish midfielder fella Niall Bitton looks like it has gone with the fairies as I’m told that his form has slumped drastically this season and even Southampton won’t touch him with a barge pole. Despite dudu’s best efforts.
Now Peter tells me that there has been a lot of angst over this Resurrection 12 business. I thought he was talking about a Colin Farrell film or something but seemingly it’s something to do with a Celtic AGM. Now he lost me at that point as obviously I make a point of not attending Celtic AGMs so don’t have a scooby what goes on at them.
But seemingly this resurrection 12 thing is threatening to cause grief for our chums at the SFA and indeed at Rangers, the club with the great fans and great history that I greatly admire.
This will not do.
As Celtics fans it is your duty to turn up like the turnstile fodder you are, with thick wallets and adopt the “bend over and take it” position. If you don’t it’ll be your fault when Rangers win the league.
Listen, we need competition. We’ve missed them and they’ve missed us but they’ve been punished enough. I know most of you Celtics fans feel the same way – Peter tells me so.
Now rangers are skint and signing guys from accrington so they’ll need some honest mistakes to keep the league going next season.
But that’s ok, that’s how we in the board like it. Because if you mugs, erm I mean fans, feel slighted or hard done to by the referees you’ll keep coming to the games out of defiance and the dosh keeps rolling in. Lovely jubbly.
And remember – we’ll be playing in the English Premier League in 3 years time. You heard it here first! You wouldn’t want to miss out on that so renew your season ticket today – the only way to guarantee your seat at Paradise for the EPL in 2019/20!
Toodleloo.
Canamalar. see my post at 01.00, if you don’t reply, no problem. Just feel a wee bit in the dark here.
HH and keep it going.
Carnoustie ..,
You should know better :) made too many arses guiding my ……,
But if yer wanting respect, then it’s yours, hail hail, yer a better mhan than I bunged it in.
The respect is serious, yer up there with Pablo in my book, ghood ghuy.
Hail hail
Has neganon2 ran away ?
Comeon neganon2, that’s both you and ernie been offered special treatment and I’ve no, and I wrote res12 fffs
Canamalar, an email update would suffice. Respect cant be asked for but thanks for the kind sentiment.
HH
Goodnight Celtic men and wummin and Neg2 too………………….:_)
Ah, trying to run away Canamalar…….
DERNOT
Brilliant stuff.
It would be hilarious were it not so close to the truth.
Neganon2,
Tell p67&winningcaptain yer available
Work out a time between now and Monday
I’ll be your witness, I’ll also be their witness
I’m a professional grass :)
If I don’t think you done it right, it’s my job to make sure your bad decisions don’t kill babies.
Whodathunk I’d make a statement and get paid handsomely for it :) ?
Dernot annoni, always good to see a friend :)
ELJUAREZBRAVO
Bloody shambles,innit?
Wasted our position of absolute power,just to appease peepul who bloody hate us?!
I really don’t understand these intelligent Titans of the business world.
Pass it on to the Unionists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFVXvtTUMPc
Foxy,
To a mhan woman and child they sought justice, and it’s coming faster than they planned for, life is catching up
Is enlightenment the same as OCD ?
US Apocalypse in Mosul in the Guise of Bombing ISIS
By Felicity Arbuthnot
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus, 1913-1960
April 28, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Dissident Voice”- On May 1st, 2003, George W. Bush stood in a dinky little flying suit on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and in a super stage managed appearance told the lie of the century:
Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
The illegal occupation and decimation of Iraq continued until December 2011. In June 2014 they returned to bomb again in the guise of combating ISIS. As the thirteenth anniversary of Bush’s ridiculous appearance with a vast “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him, Iraq is largely in ruins, Iraqis have fled the murderous “liberation” and its aftermath in millions, and there are over three million internally displaced.
The nation is pinned between a tyrannical, corrupt US puppet government, a homicidal, head chopping, raping, organ eating, history erasing, US-spawned ISIS – and a renewed, relentless US bombardment. So much for the 2008 US-Iraq State of Forces agreement, which stated that by 31st December 2011 “all United States forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory.”
On the USS Abraham Lincoln Bush stated:
In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world … Because of you, our nation is more secure. Because of you, the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
In what has transpired to be monumental irony, he continued:
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of al-Qaida, and cut off a source of terrorist funding.
There was, of course, no al-Qaida in Iraq, no funding of fundamentalist terrorism under Saddam Hussein. It is the invasion’s conception, birth, now reached maturity from Baghdad to Brussels, Mosul to the Maghreb, Latakia to London.
In Iraq, US terrorism from the air is back in all its genocidal force.
Incredibly on April 23rd, the Independent reported another staggering piece of either disinformation or childish naivety, in a predictably familiar script: “A spokesperson for the US military said all possible precautions were taken to avoid ‘collateral damage’”, but in approaching 7,000 airstrikes the number of confirmed civilian deaths had risen on Planet Pentagon to just – forty one.
In another past its sell by date mantra:
Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesperson for Central Command, said the casualties were “deeply regretted” but maintained that the campaign was the “the most precise air campaign in the history of warfare.”
And here’s another familiar one:
In this type of armed conflict, particularly with an enemy who hides among the civilian population, there are going to be, unfortunately, civilian casualties at times.
The Geneva Convention, amongst other Treaties, Principles and Conventions, is specific on the protections of populations in conflict, Colonel Ryder should familiarize himself with the texts.
So another onslaught in a quarter of a century of bombing Iraq is underway – another mass murder with a silly name “Operation Inherent Resolve.”
Here is reality from Dr Souad Al-Azzawi, Award winning environmental scientist who gained her Ph.D from the Colorado School of Mines.
She states of just the onslaught on Mosul, her home, the ancient university city of 1.5 million, that the stated figures from US spokespersons are: “either misinformed about the real situation on the ground, since they are using drones and guided missiles, or airstrikes blindly, intentionally not saying the truth.”
She adds:
I would like to list SOME of what the Americans’ airstrikes have been targeting and killing in Mosul:
Destroyed are all state services buildings, including Municipalities in right and left sides of Mosul. When they bomb at night, all security personnel get killed or injured, also residents of close by areas, and adjacent properties are destroyed.
Bombed and destroyed all communication centers.
Destruction of Dairy Production Factories in both left and right sides of Mosul. Casualties of these two are one hundred deaths and two hundred injuries among civilians who gathered to receive milk and dairy products from the factories.
Dr Al-Azzawi reminds that this is reminiscent of the bombing of the baby milk factory outside Baghdad in 1991 with the claim it was a chemical weapons factory. This writer visited the factory ruins just months later. There were still charred containers of milk powder – the machinery was provided and maintained by a company in Birmingham, England which specialized in infant food production.
* Bombing of Mosul Pharmaceutical Industries.
* Mosul University was bombed with ninety two deaths and one hundred and thirty five injuries. Earlier estimates were higher, but many were pulled from the rubble alive. “They were students, faculty members, staff members, families of faculties, and restaurants workers.”
*Al Hadbaa and Al Khadraa Residential Apartment compounds. Fifty people killed (families) and one hundred injured.
* Hay al Dhubat residential area in the right side of Mosul, two days ago, five women women and four children killed and the whole house destroyed. The father is a respected pharmacist who has nothing to do with ISIL.
* Destruction of houses in front of the Medical College, killed twenty two civilians – eleven in one family.
* Bombing Sunni Waqif Building, twenty deaths and seventy injuries which included those in nearby commercial and residential buildings.
* Car maintenance industrial areas in both left and right sides of Mosul destroyed with civilian’s casualties.
* Bombing of flour factories in both sides of Mosul.
* Rafidain and Rasheed banks and all their branches in both sides of Mosul. Destruction of all commercial and residential areas in the vicinity of these places, with as yet unknown civilian casualties. (My emphasis.)
* Central Bank of Mosul in Ghazi Street, with nearby residential and commercial properties.
* Pepsi factory, currently producing ice cubes only. Three deaths and twelve injuries among the workers.
* The Governor’s house and close by guest house.
* Mosul’s old industrial compound destroyed, with parking area for fuel Tankers and cars. Three days ago, huge explosion of fuel tankers, one hundred and fifty deaths and injuries.
* Urban Planning Directory in Hay al Maliyah bombed.
* Engineering Planning Directory in Hay al Maliyah bombed.
* Food Storages in left side of Mosul bombed.
* Drinking water treatment plants bombed.
* All electrical generation and transformer stations in the left side of Mosul bombed.
* Domez land communications center in left side of Mosul destroyed.
*Al Hurairah Bridge – and many more.
There is a sickening familiarity to some of the targets – food, pharmaceuticals, water treatment plants, electricity generation, communications and educational facilities, bridges (the country, towns and cities are divided by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) have been favoured targets since 1991. Every time painstakingly and imaginatively restored they have been re-bombed for a quarter of a century.
During the 1990s a Canadian film crew captured footage of US ‘planes dropping flares on harvested wheat and barley, incinerating entire harvests in a country, which due to the strangulating embargo, there were near famine conditions in parts of society.
“When Iraqi civilians looked into the faces of our servicemen and women, they saw strength, and kindness, and good will”, said George W Bush in his “Mission Accomplished” speech.
No, they saw invaders destroying their lives, their families, their history, raping, pillaging. They saw Falluja’s destruction, Abu Ghraib’s horrors and the eleven other secret prisons and nightmares ever ongoing.
On April 25th, Dr Al-Azzawi added:
More war crimes have been committed by American Coalition, yesterday April 24, 2016. The coalition airplanes bombed Rashidiya water treatment plant left side of Mosul city and Yermouk electricity generation station in the right side of Mosul. Through targeting these populations’ life sustaining necessities, the coalition is committing genocidal action towards Mosul residents in the pretext of fighting ISIS.
Also on 25th April, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore, on returning from a week in Iraq wrote starkly of the government:
Iraqis are crying out for fairness, recognition, justice, appreciation and meaningful participation in shaping their future – a process that goes forward and not backwards … We all have responsibilities towards the people of Iraq. While there is an international military coalition in place, a comparably resourced international coalition of practical compassion is also needed to help with the building blocks towards a sustained peace in Iraq.
In the US military lexicon it seems “compassion” has been replaced by their missiles of choice.
Ms Gilmore also stated that Iraq was being run by a failed government and warned foreign powers not to be “complicit” in its neglect of the plight of normal Iraqis.
Further: “The international community must not allow itself to be made complicit with the failed leadership of Iraq … There is political paralysis in Iraq. There is no government in Iraq”, she stated blisteringly of America and Britain’s illegal, abortive, parliamentary project.
“Our commitment to Liberty is America’s tradition … We stand for human liberty”, concluded Bush on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Were mistruths ever bleaker? And when will George W. Bush, Charles Anthony Lynton Blair and their cohorts answer for their crimes in a Court of Law?
Is it any wonder they want to love under sky’s no bombed, Europe, land of the bombers forgot the bombed
NEGANON2
____________
Your flag will always fly high and proud
on the ole Jungle roof.
Hail Hail fella…keep it lit.
You’ll Never Walk Alone….in the Jungle.
P.S. As for awe this p#sh about ye should write a letter to PL
after having previously sent one – without reply.
FLUK Lawwell!
Never mind letters – joost don’t gie him yer money then,
he’ll be gone.
Celtic PLC ?
P-eter
L-awwell’s
C-lub.
The Jungle would have sacked these soulless basturts by now.
Apathy has chased 40,000 oot they’re seats.
I reckon that ole apathy has a few more cards to play.
The Jungle LOVES NEGANON2
The Jungle HATES the CLIQUE and all the extended rules that
they’re afforded – Huns wi keyboards.
……oot-zzzzz…….
Canamalar
Peace, justice and parity of esteem. Amen to that.
Pass it on to the Unionists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWodYX2sqw
Kevj..,
You can come too, we’re going to the zoo
Dissidents arrange a meeting with the Celtic Plc executive and I’ll minute it, or we can get big nan to minute and distribute for free
Foxy, one mans republican is another mans unuionist, I expect I represent a majority when I hope the secular nationalists find harmony.