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Amid all the consequences of Champions League group stage qualification, lies a subtle shift in the calendar for Celtic that could prove pivotal.  The club has started competitive football for recent seasons in the first or second qualification round, often in the first week in July.  Added to our habit of reaching (and winning) the Scottish Cup final, Celtic’s close season has been truncated into a period of between six and eight weeks.

This year, we will have an impressive 11 weeks to rest and rebuild before the cinch SPFL Premiership campaign gets the competitive season underway on 30 July.  Consider what that differential means for the fitness coaches.  They were previously tasked to allow the players sufficient rest, then accelerate their return to peak condition to avert a potentially disastrous exit from European competition.

In recent years, this has resulted in giving players as much time off as possible before a three-week fitness ramp up.  You and I can speculate on what impact this has on Celtic’s multi-season catalogue of soft-tissue injuries.

Preseason is also when the base layer of endurance is laid.  Players can do speed work between games, but they cannot do endurance work and play a game five days later.  This training is only effective if it exhausts and breaks muscle fibre, allowing a natural period of regrowth, which builds the muscle.  Squad-wide, it does not happen during the season.

We have seen enough hamstring injuries, as well as Celtic players looking exhausted late in games, to know we have preparatory issues to address.  We also know the fitness coaches are not given the opportunity to work on either matter effectively.  This close season is such a change to the norm, the techs at Lennoxtown will have no realistic experience of how best to spend the valuable weeks handed to them.

Getting it right could extend the careers of the likes of Callum McGregor.  It will also make the type of football Ange Postecoglou wants to play more achievable.

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  3. An Tearmann on

    Leave you alone —- victim are you now Martim?

     

     

    Just how do you make those shark jumps mate?

     

     

    All I ask is an explanation!

     

     

    You said ‘My campaign to censor other is obvious’

     

     

    What by questioning where you got this from👇

     

     

    :That’s fine. What happened last night in the awards was acceptable for you.”

     

     

    It’s absolute shite.consistent tho with your SD and T7

     

     

    Run along troll.

  5. Martim1980 on

    AN TEARMANN on 9TH MAY 2022 11:04 PM

     

     

    Hypocrite at every stage you are a troll nothing more could be said. I made a valid pont you try to discredit as it’s me.

  7. Martim1980 on

    Will let those reading to make up their mind. As I could not be any less interested in your views, your posts every five minutes or your visable multiple personalities.

     

     

    Those who are easily offended are easily manipulated…….😉

  8. An Tearmann on

    Give me an example of where I censor you Troll?

     

     

    One example

     

     

    Now I have an example tonight of you making up shite on these pages

     

     

    This atop your previous snider and you troll are playing the moral high ground

     

     

    And you point of order for your fellow troll is not viable as my reply was on behalf of “certain posters” who pin that troll down.that was not on Tom’s post it was his reply.he like you is an anonymous troll,he even bought Persil tabs for jimmy bell

  9. An Tearmann on

    Oh dear Martim youv been asked before to talk about your offensive imaginings,multi tag from anonymity like yourself

     

     

    Your actually believing what you imagine.

  11. celtic40me on

    I wasn’t suggesting you were, it was a general comment on the received wisdom that we’d do better if we had a D of F. It’s lazy thinking, all the successful clubs do it so so should we. It ignores all the unsuccessful clubs who have a similar management structure and the ones who we do better than.

     

     

    Out of interest what is it about Benficas model that you find so attractive? They are €145m in debt, which would be closer to €250m had they not sold their ground to their major shareholder. They are desperately trying to find someone to pay for the naming rights to the stadium to help service the huge debts they have. If they don’t make it through the qualifying rounds of the CL after finishing in third this season they are in serious trouble. Sound familiar?

     

     

    Can you imagine Celtic £120m in debt playing in the DD-owned Screwfix arena?

  12. An Tearmann on

    You are already discredited Martim

     

     

    Your previous imagining at the death of another cqn’r

     

    Show that.

     

     

    I know martim it’s common for people like yourself who imagine things to look for confirmation.when it’s not there.however the proof is out there of your imaginings.you know it,a troll

  13. An Tearmann on

    Don’t worry,

     

    But if you post made up pish like you have been doing your get called Troll.

     

     

    Give me a laugh,whose my multi monikers? Feel free to name troll.

     

     

    You manipulate no one Martim

     

    You can’t explain your own thinking let alone tour imaginings.

  14. Martim1980 on

    Personal attacks again, started by you again, only to certain posters whilst being nicey nicey to your chosen special ones.

     

     

    I don’t need attention like you do.

  15. celtic40me on

    Benfica are a basket case. Kept afloat by debenture loans, and by selling their ground, desperately looking for funding wherever they can find it

     

     

    They owe €55m more than they are owed in transfer fees. They don’t even wholely own their own players.

     

     

    As a publicly listed company none of that is open to us.

     

     

    If the club sold the ground to DD it would be burned down in days

  16. Martim1980 on

    Apologies to the blog for having to read this cr*p. I’ll be excused now to attend to loved ones.

  18. An Tearmann on

    Chairbhoy.

     

     

    Re your posts etc,seem to recall when having the haver previously with Gérard background team role of Beale,I seem to recall posting 2 really good pods on Ian beale,his background etc interesting character,had been to s.america and U.S pre Liverpool academy days.will try and see if I have them somewhere as it was a good(to good!!) insight.

     

     

    HH

  19. quadrophenian on

    Haven’t seen the speech transcript but went to a few SFWA and sports media do’s back in the day.

     

    Some were attended by couples but mibby not the writers dinners and the stuff of the time was very near the knuckle…the laugh in the locker room/old boys club enviro was, often, in the shock value that someone purposely went there and delivered it with brio and good timing. There was an expectancy to be rude n crude.

     

    The best/roughest corporate speaker then was ex-Well player John Gahagan who’s on record with one of his fave jokes as:

     

     

    ‘Paula Yates should be playing with the England cricket team because she’s the only person in the last 10 years that has gone Down Under, f***** the Aussies and came back with The Ashes.’

     

     

    That joke would not be well received today.

     

     

    If our players – Japanese and others – were targeted by the Billy boy’s banter, you can bet it would be done so as a guaranteed SFWA crowd pleaser.

     

     

    Probably going along to South Melbourne stadium – a smashing wee stadium close to us – on Friday night to support Ange’s Hellas in my Sellik tap, HH

  21. An Tearmann on

    MARTIM1980 on 9TH MAY 2022 11:31 PM

     

    Personal attacks again, started by you again, only to certain posters whilst being nicey nicey to your chosen special ones.

     

     

    I don’t need attention like you do.

     

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    Aw diddums.

     

    I don’t need the attention either,stop posting shite that your making up and is wrong as fact.its shite.

     

     

    Personal attacks from an unknown troll victim awww

     

    No apologies blog

  22. Martim1980 on

    🎶🎵You’ll be deleted in the morning, deleted in the morn-ing, you’ll be deleted in the morn-ing🎶🎵

     

     

    Just like a true troll should be

     

    🤣😂

  23. JHB on

    Tom McLaughlin & I may have differing opinions from time to time, but he is no liar.

     

     

    Accusing another poster of lying with nothing to substantiate is reprehensible – surprised the Moderator is not interested….ce’st la vie!

  29. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    Martim1980 on 9th May 2022 11.37PM

     

     

    Good to read you’re standing your ground.

     

     

    Watched Paddy Roberts push his team forward tonight, in the Lusset here in OK.

     

     

    I’ll be back on Wednesday to see Celtic win the league. Brace yourselves, huns.

  30. Greenpinata on

    Maybe the whole concept of after dinner speaking is outdated.

     

    Mainly rich middle class white men who dress up like penguins and crack ” dodgy” jokes to a like minded audience while quaffing copious amounts of the finest bevy.

     

     

    It is 2022. Women have now joined the football party. They are no longer just serving the meals in short skirts.

     

    The after dinner clientele is now diverse. It is virtually impossible to be funny without offending someone.

     

     

    We all need to embrace the new normal. What was acceptable years ago is no longer acceptable. More and more previously ” acceptable ” occurances are under scrutiny.

     

     

    Which brings me poignantly onto our song book. Some of the content is no longer acceptable and if we dont self police we will be taken to task. That my friends is inevitable.

     

     

    HH.

  33. Chairbhoy on

    CELTIC40ME @ 11:24 PM,

     

     

    Please read the context – I clearly stated at that time 2004/5.

     

     

    A lot of water under the bridge. Ajax found their way to maintain their position in Europe. Their excellent academy – great Club structure, very professional approach and buy in from the support.

     

     

    Benfica had the Brazilian Imports of course like all the Portuguese Clubs, remember Deco.

     

     

    Various Clubs using various means.

     

     

    So you don’t copy anyone, you do what works for you. I have said many times before, what is wrong with just being very good and excelling in what you do!?

     

     

    I’ve never said there was anything wrong with PL’s balancing the books. What was wrong was the operations side. Did he ever complete a project?

     

     

    Our executive needed a blueprint and a road map and a risk averse route – what you really need is talent, energy and winning mentality.

     

     

    AN TEARMANN @ 11:38 PM,

     

     

    Hope all’s good

     

     

    Cheers, if you could dig them out I’d appreciate it, a scholar of the game…

     

     

    Hail Hail

  35. Turkeybhoy on

    Dundee U,with Celtic going for the League,on Sky,are happy for this showpiece game to be played in a half empty stadium.Going to outlandish lengths not to accept money from our support.

     

    What is the problem with these fekin lunatic chairmen.

  36. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Chairbhoy

     

     

    I’ll tell you what would surprise me, if Ross Wilson does prove to be the real deal the know it all’s put their hands up and say I was wrong – now that would be a first:))))

     

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    I don’t know who the know it alls were about Beale anymore than I know who ever said “Celtic can’t compete in Europe” or the evidence of “seismic” changes in the running of Sevco. My recollection is that lots of people felt Beale might be or was the brains behind them.

     

     

    Similarly, I haven’t seen anyone ridicule Ross Wilson tonight. I have seen people be sceptical about whether he is as good as you assert, that is all. And Beale is not proving to be as obvious as a strategic force in the EPL this season but I would not seek to make too early a judgement on the guy.

     

     

    P.S.- Fans of Benfica and Ajax would raise several eyebrows at Celtic claiming to be a peer of theirs. They were competitive at Euro level throughout the late 70’s, the 80’s, 90’s. noughties and tens. Much more so than us. Even our 3 CL last 16s and a lost Euro final did not see us reach the standards they have maintained for 40 years. They have outperformed us and have to be regarded as historically superior teams to us.

  37. Turkeybhoy on

    Will be delighted to hold their hand out for the Uefa payment due to us being in the groups.

     

    Two faced bass as.

  40. An Tearmann on

    Quadrophenian

     

     

    Enjoy Fri,mate n Mrs in Melbourne wi daughter and family,I posted the smfc flyer to him(I am in his seat so he can stay as long as he wants) suggesting he would go to it.hope it goes well mate.👍

     

     

    Re the dinner speaker thing.i think they are a relic of a time gone by,been to a fair few since early 80s.

     

    The whole writers ceremony needs redone.its bit clichéd now.

     

    It’s a misogynist mentality that needs approached at the top about their whole approach to woman.these daft bastids will be sitting wondering what they done wrong.

     

     

    HH

  41. An Tearmann on

    GREENPINATA on 10TH MAY 2022 12:06 AM

     

    Maybe the whole concept of after dinner speaking is outdated.

     

     

    Recall saying that to a colleague circa 1990.next year yank take over.binned.

  42. Tom McLaughlin on

    AN TEARMANN

     

     

    I can assure you the Jim Delahunt / Tommy Burns story is absolutely true. In fact I posted the details on CQN the day after it happened which would have been circa 2000/2001.

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