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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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  4. Greenpinata on

    One thing we should do is embrace our Ladies football team.

     

    We should all get right behind them as they take on the female huns on Sunday.

     

     

    Ladies or men, we never stop.

  8. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    The Giro moves to Sicily on Tuesday, pedalling up Mount Etna. Not to be missed.

     

     

    Q. Who put the ram in ramalamadingdong?

     

     

    A. For me, here it was always South of Tunis.

     

     

    I hope he’s half way up the volcano, parked with an olive sandwich spread and a Glasgow carry-out laughing at the idiocy typed on CQN. I hope his dad is 100 past, still following the Celtic.

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_M2NqgIHq8

  10. An Tearmann on

    GUYFAWKESAFOREVERHERO on 10TH MAY 2022 12:05 AM

     

     

    Martim1980 on 9th May 2022 11.37PM

     

     

    Good to read you’re standing your ground.

     

     

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    Respect to you guyfawkesforeverahero.i know you are a real person

     

    His ground Is quicksand imo,and if making up something I wish Liz Hurley was in there:-)

     

    Saturday for West brewery and champions pint to look to Saturday if your bout.a lot of ol names you’d know.

     

     

    HH

  13. An Tearmann on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 10TH MAY 2022 12:49 AM

     

    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.

     

     

    Tom,

     

    I take your word for it Tom,I just find it strange and from what I know of each am a bit shocked tbh.but you are your word and you are a tim,apologies ma mhan hh

  15. quadrophenian on

    AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2022 12:34 AM

     

    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.👍

     

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

     

     

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    Cheers AT – I’m sure it will be a great celebration of Ange; the only pity is that SMFC play in blue and white ;)

     

    Despite antique boors and buffoons like Bill, it’d be a shame to entirely cancel the art of after-dinner speaking. Good oratory mixed with food dates back to before the Last Supper and cements our need to socialise together over food, drink and stories. Great spielers craft their material to be aware of their audience and the context wherein they’re speaking. Clearly, Bill didn’t.

     

     

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    Mrs QUAD and I watched Bad Sport about Juventus role in refereeing scandals; the parallels are spooky. HH

  18. An Tearmann on

    JHB on 9TH MAY 2022 11:52 PM

     

    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!

     

     

    Tom is not a liar. You are

     

    You support a lie- union

     

    Your here for a lie -union

     

    You post here in support of the shatout symbol of the union

     

    Your jimmy bell stuff was boil wash

     

    Not as sick as your child abuse stuff tho

     

    Team is an apt enough description tam,the c40s a shrewdy.

  37. timmy7_noted on

    quadrophenian on 9th May 2022 11:40 pm

     

     

    My youngest is in Melbourne at the moment on a 12m visa but I doubt he’ll be back in a hurry he has picked up a great job with a company that will sponsor him. I forwarded on the link from AnT yesterday he is going to attend the South Melbourne event. He’s a 6ft5 southsider you can’t miss him :-)

  38. Sláinte Ange on

    Anyone know about the extent of Liel Abada’s shoulder injury?

     

    I hope he can play a part in our title celebrations at Tannadice and Paradise.

     

    In Ange We Trust

  40. quadrophenian on

    TIMMY7_NOTED on 10TH MAY 2022 5:16 AM

     

    quadrophenian on 9th May 2022 11:40 pm

     

    My youngest is in Melbourne at the moment on a 12m visa but I doubt he’ll be back in a hurry he has picked up a great job with a company that will sponsor him. I forwarded on the link from AnT yesterday he is going to attend the South Melbourne event. He’s a 6ft5 southsider you can’t miss him :-)

     

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    Cheers TIMMY – I’m feeling there will be more than a few hoops around and if I spot yer bhoy and get chance to say hi, will certainly do. Am glad he got a gig here – a wonderful town. HH

  41. ernie lynch on

    TINYTIM on 10TH MAY 2022 12:54 AM

     

    Tom McGlaughlin

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Was CQN GOING IN 2001?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    TT

     

     

     

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    It started in 2004.

  42. Big Jimmy on

    JHB on 9TH MAY 2022 11:52 PM

     

    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!

     

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    Interesting from ” JHB” .

     

    During my recent Exile from here ( I was Banned….approx late March), this very same ” JHB” character submitted a Post on here that HE could NOT ” SUBSTANTIATE”, and on my return I asked HIM ( JHB) to provide ANY EVIDENCE to what HE had CLAIMED on here about ME ?

     

    ” JHB” FALSELY STATED on here that ” Big Jimmy is on here DAY and NIGHT”.

     

    On my return to the Blog, I asked ” JHB” to provide EVIDENCE of HIS Claim…..I am STILL WAITING ?

     

    I am very rarely on my Computer never mind CQN, beyond 6pm at night, and I pointed this out to “JHB”, but as I say…HE COULDNT/Wouldn’t RESPOND to HIS Deliberate LIE about me….so my wait goes on.

     

    So my question to ” JHB” STILL STANDS…” Please PROVIDE any Evidence of ME being on here ” DAY and NIGHT” ?

     

    ADMIT it…YOU KNOW that YOU can NOT ” SUBSTANTIATE” your deliberate LIE about me.

     

    Does ” JHB” stand for ” JIMMY HUN BELL” ?

     

    CHUMP !

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