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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Some people have mastered the art of after dinner speaking
https://twitter.com/TheRyanMcGinlay/status/1523656086003195904?t=b-5Kt247xQUKaQovo8fSiw&s=08
Toaty Trumper @ 11.16
You were never good / even struggled to make it to tripe – but your recent stuff is just pure bile.
Moon howling turning into thinly disguised misogyny.
Take a couple of days / weeks off.
AN TEARMANN
There you go. If you’re not an SNP supporter/voter, how dare you challenge Ernie’s anti-SNP propaganda? That’s not how unionist democracy works.
Tom MC Laughlin That’s a good price for 65+Hopefully many more like ourselves will renew ,anyway good to have a chat ,I don’t intentionally go out my way to be offensive to other Celtic Supporters.
A wee picture of Michelle Mine’s tits
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/27/house-lords-reform-crucial
HOT SMOKED on 10TH MAY 2022 10:55 AM
Might be interesting for some on a quiet day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWg2WdeVnpI&ab_channel=SupremeArchitect
HOT SMOKED, thanks for the link, an excellent wee listen. Giles was very, very complimentary towards us, wasn’t he? And towards wee Bobby Collins.
Ave Ave
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 10TH MAY 2022 8:56 AM
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.
22games at just under £16 a game …bargain
Or £ 49 x 2 = £98 for two games against the uglies ( as some posters keep telling us )
And £ 11:50 for the other 20 ….
😜😜😜😜 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚😜😜😜😜
WBC @ 10.59
Football is the prototype of what an independent Scotland will be like.
We have had full control of football from the off and they way it has developed over the ages is the way that Scotland will develop if we were ever to get independence.
Scary thought — isn’t it?
Timbhoy163…”I don’t intentionally go out my way to be offensive to other Celtic Supporters.”
I wouldn’t worry too much about that, I’ve never seen an offensive post from you.
Rangers are launching a new orange top for the Europa League final.
Here’s what the Sun says about it:
It’s not been lost on the Ibrox faithful that the orange could have something to do with next week’s Europa League final in Seville. The Spanish city is famous for its oranges, which are often used in gin, marmalade and perfume.
Finger on the pulse eh?
SLÁINTE ANGE on 10TH MAY 2022 9:13 AM
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I am assuming that your Post above was/is directed at ME ?
You may not be aware of this, but a couple of years ago there was a ” Poster” on here who DELIBERATELY posted FALSE INFORMATION about my then ” Financial Situation” for NO GOOD reason other than somehow paint HIMSELF as being a Good Guy.
I will NOT allow CHUMPS, especially LYING CHUMPS to Post any LIES about me on here or anywhere else, without responding.
If that makes me somewhat ” Childish” in your eyes….I couldnt give a TOSS !
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 10TH MAY 2022 11:27 AM
AN TEARMANN
There you go. If you’re not an SNP supporter/voter, how dare you challenge Ernie’s anti-SNP propaganda?
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‘Anti SNP propaganda’?
Awww diddums.
You don’t find it just a little bit troublesome that key documents have gone missing?
Ernie
I could not give two figs about the snp.
You hard of thinking people I would like to see give the same scrutiny to your own when in power as you do to others.
You do not do that.
Your party will never be trusted until you explain iraqi dead.
Glaring inconsistencies.
Adopting Conservative policies
‘Marketizing'(privatization)of health care.- “new” wording was a big thing for the liar
Not 1 repeal of union anti/Labour legislation
Now you are unelectable and you do not do that most unionist of things,show insight or claim amnesia to how many dead in Iraq.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 10TH MAY 2022 11:29 AM
A wee picture of Michelle Mine’s tits
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/27/house-lords-reform-crucial
Is it page 5 in the guardian?
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AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2022 11:38 AM
You were trotting out the same stuff about Iraq when Corbyn was leading the Labour Party. Your politics start and end with Scottish nationalism.
MM…I’m too old to be scared now. I presume independence will eventually come though not anytime soon.
My concern at the moment is the fact it is very divisive. I would rather wait until the great majority wish it to happen and not before. So, I’m not so sure I’ll ever see it and that doesn’t bother me one bit.
Tom McLaughlin…we all know why they’re bringing out an orange top and it has nothing to do with the city of Seville and all to do with making more money out of the soft bears. They will be snapped up in no time.
hurrah, just in time for the marching season.
Rangers launch new orange third kit as fan favourite gets twist with navy addition
The Ibrox club have released their new change strip
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I hope Eilidh Barbour hasn’t been lurking this morning with Michelle Mone stuff
MM
The exchange rate is a ratio, hence non-dimensional. I matters not a jot which one is stronger or weaker, same effect on my bank account😎
Still shocked at BB prices; nice beer garden though
Ernie I was doing it long before Corbyn
My politics start and end in politics
You are an explainer of marketing,not politics
Your a Blair apologist
Socially,economically and marketing
Socialism for the murdochs of the world.
Now your rump need Scotland to go ‘marketing’
Run along
WBC
It is divisive as Blairs marketing party need Scotland(like it was in the 80s) a eunuch politically,
The divisiveness comes as Labour will never be trusted up here,keevs latest marketing is vacuous.its policies are tory light.They will never get that vote back
But no Scotland no power for Labour in the UK.
That will remain a fact
That’s why we have the poverty addicts farting that austerity is going to get worse if Scotland goes independent,worse than having more foodbanks than macdonald.
Anyways looking forward to Saturday and the title,you goin up?
HH
Amateur politics hour.
Back later.
AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2022 11:53 AM
When Corbyn was leading the Labour Party you were supporting the SNP.
An intoleratant, authoritarian, regressive party leading an intolerant, authoritarian, regressive movement. But a Scottish one, and to you, that is all that matters.
I know at least three Dundee United supporters who live in the Glasgow area and nearby.
The don’t have season tickets but regularly attend games.
I think they may be unhappy if any ticket they bought is cancelled.
Post code determines whom you support.
FFS!
new article posted.
VB- not sure how they’ve worked it out,Postcode plus first time account details?
ERNIE LYNCH on 10TH MAY 2022 12:05 PM
AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2022 11:53 AM
When Corbyn was leading the Labour Party you were supporting the SNP.
An intoleratant, authoritarian, regressive party leading an intolerant, authoritarian, regressive movement. But a Scottish one, and to you, that is all that matters.
Ernie
Cornyn was the victim of intolerance in your marketing exercise.
Corbyn was deposed by the marketing wing of your own party.
Corbyn as a racist skank on here called him was a Communist,your own marketing wing took him out!.
The marketing wing got rid of regressive Jeremy.no one else,why was that Ernie.
And he was taken out by keev and his vacuous empty nothingness,its a unionist thing as no Scotland you will never have power,you know this.
You unionists just don’t do insight or memory
Keep piling on the fact you are unelectable
Nearly as inane and boring as your snp jibe.
Wee clue- try socialism,it might work.
What right wing foundation I’d jim Murphy sitting his o grades at?
Socialist my arse