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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TINYTIM
Tom McGlaughlin
Was CQN GOING IN 2001?
TT
Just seen Ernie’s update – 2004.
I wasn’t sure when the incident happened as it was too far in the past and I had nothing to gauge it against.
Thanks Ernie.
Season Ticket renewed. Section 138 Jock Stein front behind goals. Up from £312 to £352. Can’t complain as it’s the first increase in 3 years. Great value for money.
“TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 10TH MAY 2022 8:56 AM
Season Ticket renewed. Great value for money.”
I agree that it is great value for money. Three Season Tickets for Celtic Park for the same price as a return flight to Seville?
I have no EVIDENCE to substantiate this BUT I have a STRONG suspicion that the MAJORITY of Posters on CQN are OVER 50.
So, with a FEW exceptions, why so many CHILDiSH posts?
Is this Children’s Quick News now?
al que le caiga el sayo que se lo ponga
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I think paying £352 to watch behind goals is a bit much ,I put them seats along with restricted views ,personally them seats should have been set above the goals at each end of the Stadium and possibly all round ,fans should be sitting with decent views not being restricted,that’s another thing Celtic need to look at .
TIMBHOY163
There is no restricted view. I am in row N and my seat is just inside the 18 yard line. My ST is £352 because I am Age 65+ category.
You sound like a bit of a snob with that comment.
“TIMBHOY163 on 10TH MAY 2022 9:15 AM
I think paying £352 to watch behind goals is a bit much ,”
If those seats are all taken, then I suppose 352 pounds is not considered a bit much.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 10TH MAY 2022 9:26 AM
“TIMBHOY163
You sound like a bit of a snob with that comment.”
Is there not a letter too many in that comment? :-)))
with the £ being quite strong vs the € at the moment, my ST cost looked quite scary on my AIB app! Same as pints bought in Babbitty Bowsers. Why is it so expensive in there? In saying that, I bought a pint of Heineken in Carton House hotel in Kildare at the weekend – €9. My wife’s glass of wine was €15.
Think I’ll stick to walking the dogs on the grounds😎
18 years?
Whodathunkit?
Paul would have been young when he started this up then.
Coneybhoy
Outrageous prices in Carton House…then again it’s known for that isn’t it.
After all if prices dropped you might En d up sitting next to some working class soccer yobs…worse still they might be wearing Celtic taps!!!!
WITS
🤣 It was always posh but they are 5 star now so way too many staff and massive prices. We were there for wine tasting and the €45 a head looks good value now – we ate all the cheese and meats and nicked another glass of wine each when left alone!! I was going to neck the the lot but wife is from nice housing estate, not a ‘scheme’ like me
Toaty Trumper @ 10.47
Wind yer neck in ya trumpet.
That is if you can …
In fact — you have a brass neck you couldn’t mark it with a blowtorch.
Moon howler who offers nothing positive but spouts Forger’s Gazette headlines at the drop of a hat.
Still waiting on your thoughts / definition of monetarism.
You can shout the headlines but you don’t understand the story.
A bit like you and “comedy”.
Paul 67
Please do something about the anonymous trolls on your blog?
Is it about the clicks Paul.
It really harms your blog.
HH
Wits.
Are you over this weekend?
HH
Toaty Trumper @ 10.22
Congratulations sir — you have just won the CQN Henry Kissinger Diplomacy / Peace Award for a record 19 times in succession.
On a more upbeat note …
Your copy of the Ladybird Book of Economics is now on its way.
dearie me, you would think someone doesnt know the celtic park layout.
seats behind the goals are great viewing.
The brains behind SG — the bloke Beale would appear to be that person.
Regarding the issue of TFOD2.1 recruitment — when you are skint you have to get creative.
The issue with them is that they have been successful when they have been skint.
They have been less successful when they have had money to spend.
Money to spend and they seem to look for headline material rather than football outcomes.
This season — Cup runs and fleecing their supporters — their financials will make interesting reading.
T/O vs ours will be something to look out for.
We really need to move up a gear.
Our 2030 target should be a T/O of £200mill.
We have stagnated for too long.
Good morning all from a rain soaked Garngad.
I too have the dreaded Covid. 🙈😣. On the mend now.
On a quick break as I am working from home.
Philbhoy how are you and the family? Hope you are all well.
D :)
Does anyone think that lawyer who made racist, sexist and homophobic remarks will receive a visit from Scotland’s finest with a view to charging him for said remarks?
CB @ 9.33
Strong £ — you really are having a laugh surely.
More likely a weak Euro as the GBP is getting monstered everywhere else.
VALE BHOY on 10TH MAY 2022 10:47 AM
Which remarks?
Specifically, verbatim, which remarks?
After dinner speaking — the recycling angle.
Govan as the wee fishing village on the Clyde — that trope must be at least 30 years old by now.
No surprise that the walkout was at the football writers awards.
They aspire to be a badly run bowling club.
Full of knuckle crunching / young grannies.
Second rate Natland in all its glory.
Might be interesting for some on a quiet day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWg2WdeVnpI&ab_channel=SupremeArchitect
EL @ 10.51
Get it straight from the horse’s mouth — ask EB.
I wonder if anyone was recording the awards dinner / performance?
If KS was involved I am sure a Tory student would have his camera out.
Or failing that his da would be offering double pocket money to follow him about.
…..and this one on Wee Jimmy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AUQW1Ticoo&t=192s&ab_channel=Harms
“Second rate Natland in all its glory.”
Oof! And you talk of others reading Forger’s Gazette…
SFWA is strewn with follow follow unionists…
It’s amazing that here in Scotland we’re going to get the chance next year to see, on public display, a document produced in 1320 yet the Scottish government can’t find key documents produced in 2015.
Tom McLaughlin I thought you said you were right down the front behind the goals ,we’re I always thought how can fans see the whole of the match sitting down the front ,but I still say they could have built the Stadium about 4 Metres higher that’s all ,as being a snob ,I consider myself a kind and considerate person originally from the East.End of Glasgow Brigton to be precise.
Dundee United have cancelled a number of tickets for tomorrow night’s game, possibly after checking postcodes…….
David Marshall for Hibs – probably one of Shaun’s ‘earmarked’, and he’s gone – a diabolical liberty after four months. Player power at Hibs…who’d have thought
ERNIE LYNCH @ 11:01
It’s amazing that here in Scotland we’re going to get the chance next year to see, on public display, a document produced in 1320 yet the Scottish government can’t find key documents produced in 2015.
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Can’t or, won’t?- I think we all know the answer. The equivalent to Sturgeon’s litany of “I don’t recall” at the (smoked) Salmond enquiry.
!!BADA BING!! on 10TH MAY 2022 11:07 AM
Dundee United have cancelled a number of tickets for tomorrow night’s game, possibly after checking postcodes…….
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Ridiculous dog in the manger stuff. Fair enough if they thought there was going to be trouble, but no one seriously believes that’s even remotely likely.
ERNIE LYNCH on 10TH MAY 2022 11:01 AM
It’s amazing that here in Scotland we’re going to get the chance next year to see, on public display, a document produced in 1320 yet the Scottish government can’t find key documents produced in 2015.
Is it material Ernie? This document you are putting on a par with the declaration of arbroath
Is it pertaining to the transfer of wealth from poor to rich
As in failed business woman ‘titsoot’ mone.
Don’t see any scrutiny of that?
How much did she get?
£314,000,000
She is one of your own frauds so you’ll allow Ernie
Tam /jhb
Can’t or, won’t?- I think we all know the answer. The equivalent to Sturgeon’s litany of “I don’t recall” at the (smoked) Salmond enquiry.
Still looking at Michelle’s tits
TIMBHOY123
I have read my comment again and what I said was Jock Stein front, meaning front tier as opposed to upper tier. So I can see how you thought I meant front row. I should have said lower. I therefore retract the “snob” comment although to be fair, it wasn’t meant literally.
Ernie- cant be too difficult to create a segregated area,if they want to sell more tickets, can’t remember any trouble at Tannadice
AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2022 11:15 AM
I’m not putting it on a par (thought there is a debate to be had about how much impact the declaration of Arbroath had at the time).
I’m highlighting a glaring inconsistency.
Talking about inconsistency, how come you claim not to vote SNP but act as their attack dog on here?