Ronny Deila introduced an interesting edge following yesterday’s preseason friendly against Rapid Vienna, saying his players’ “body language wasn’t good. I can accept not playing well but the most important thing has to be the attitude and that was lacking”.
Noting a “lack of energy and that players “looked tired” is par for the course at this time of year but adding “we need to do something with their attitude” gives you an indication of what is expected of the players this season.
Celtic players have for a while now been criticised, fairly or otherwise, for languid body language. Caught between Premiership games against teams they are vastly better than, and Champions League games they need to raise performances for, coaches would need to work hard to raise the heartbeat for domestic football. I suspect its’ this Ronny was targeting, instead of a preseason warm-up.
Does anyone know how to stretch hamstrings prior to kicking the ball? It’s incredible that professional footballers, and Celtic players in particular, are so commonly afflicted by this injury. All it takes is one incomplete warm-up routine and a player is out of action for weeks.
Bids for the European Cup canvass, signed by Billy McNeill, close shortly after noon today. Keep an eye on the action here. You can buy a raffle ticket for the second canvass for as little as £1 here.
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Einstein’s Folly wins at 8/1, got it 12/1 :), thanks to the tipster
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som mes que un club
11:00 on 28 June, 2014
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I have been following Einsteins Folly ever since I backed it and list by a nose at 12/1.
Knocking on the door so to speak and running tonight at The Curragh at 1840.
Could be out if it’s depth here, but at 16/1 I shall have a go.
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Einstein was 3rd that evening.
He runs again tonight at Rosscommon at 2030, and is priced at 10/1.
I think this a less competitive race and shall have a bet accordingly.
dontshootthemessengercsc
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Get in!!!!
some interesting posts this evening. I for one am not willing to castigate any of our stalwarts after 2 games. Didn’t watch either of the friendlies, but if I was RD/JC, i’d be willing to give KC, AS etc. plenty of opportunity to shine. They will both start the CL. BK looks to be fit and up for it. He will also start. Stressful times, but let’s be patient bhoys.
No place at CFC for Commons and Mulgrew…..great …..we might have a fit , fast team …devoid of any football nous
Kayal …two decent games and some suggest he’s a must stay …FFS ..totally hopeless last year , positionally naive and often injured ….
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
19:49 on 7 July, 2014
See marspapa for the 10%…:)
Might make Saturday depending on time, Mrs. LB has an appointment A.M., will explain tomorrow to marspapa.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Where is Livibhoy? He is the voice of calm and reason!!??
By the bye, I wasn’t even beginning to criticise our manager when I said I was worried about Kris Commons and Charlie Mulgrew. The manager has his priorities right, imo. I hope the 2 make it.
som mes que un club
20:35 on 7 July, 2014
Thank you kind Sir, bet it this morning at 12/1. At one point it was 15/2. A cyber Pint to you.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Marspapa
what first shot?
Lennybhoy, bada bing.
Cyber pint accepted, one of those where you have a feeling so to speak.
It won well in the end, and you got 12’s where I got 11’s!
Som mes que un club
cheers for the heads up
HH
Quick pop in as don’t have Wi FI.
Media in Scotland so poor in reporting good news published about Independence….See below… Jock Stein mentioned in a bizarre story. Please accept my apologies about not responding to responses.
Most people only read one daily newspaper, if that. We, for our sins, read almost all of them, and if you do that you learn stuff that other people don’t know.
Firstly, you spot how many agency stories pop up in multiple papers, repeated almost or actually identical, word-for-word. (Though it can also be fascinating to see which paragraphs sometimes get left out.) And secondly, you find out how many stories aren’t the result of journalism, but of one paper’s hack reading something in another paper the day before, lifting the quotes and presenting it to readers as their own story.
(Occasionally they’ll credit the original source, eg “such-and-such made the comments in the Guardian yesterday”, but more often they won’t bother, and will just write “said in an interview” or similar.)
And as with the agency stories, it’s interesting to note which stories DON’T get stolen.
Yesterday we highlighted a piece in the Sunday Times (crediting the source, of course, as we always do) in which a director of the pro-devolution Reform Scotland thinktank made a stinging attack on the UK government’s pessimistic projections for an independent Scotland’s oil revenues, and claimed that the likely true figure was a breathtaking £8bn a year higher – enough money to completely wipe out even the highest estimates of the country’s deficit.
Pretty big deal, right? So you’d naturally assume that the rest of the media would pick up on a representative of a respectable organisation endorsed by the No campaign making such a dramatic and potentially game-changing statement.
Or at least, you would if you’d never read this site before. So we went through the motions of checking for you, although we knew what we’d find.
DAILY RECORD: nothing
SCOTTISH SUN: nothing
THE SCOTSMAN: nothing
THE HERALD: nothing
SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS: nothing
SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL: nothing
GUARDIAN: nothing
COURIER: nothing
PRESS & JOURNAL: nothing
BBC WEBSITE: nothing
STV WEBSITE: nothing
What most papers DO pick up on, however, is an embarrassingly feeble non-story about a tiny handful of businessmen who “feel like” they’ve been pressured by the Scottish Government to remain silent on the subject of independence. It’s based on a Channel 4 “Dispatches” show airing tonight, in which just FIVE business leaders (out of 50 surveyed) said they felt like there had been “implicit” suggestions that they should stay quiet in the debate.
In other words, 90% of the survey said nobody had tried to exert pressure, and of the rest nobody could actually identify or quote a single comment or message, merely a vague feeling. It’s a laughable nothing of a result, yet it’s covered prominently in the Record, the Express, the Sun, the Scotsman (where it’s the front-page lead, no less), the Times, the Mail, the Guardian, the Herald, the Courier, the Press & Journal and, we have no doubt, the Auchtermuchty Observer.
The Sun and Record also both pick up a bizarre piece from the Sunday Times about Scotland manager Jock Stein trying to cancel a 1982 scouting trip to New Zealand before that year’s World Cup because he thought Margaret Thatcher was about to start a nuclear war over the Falklands.
But they don’t think there’s anything even slightly newsworthy about the fact that the UK government is trying to massively mislead Scots about their finances, to the tune of BILLIONS of pounds, in order to scare them into voting No.
As ever, readers can draw their own conclusions.
Worth a re-post
timabhouy
22:56 on 6 July, 2014
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/scottish-government-ban-orange-order-marches-in-scotland
marspapa
Special thanks to you, sir, for the lift back on Saturday. Got home ok.
Felt a wee bit rough on Sunday, but I’m fine now. I’ll be taking it a lot easier this weekend at the hootenanny.
HH
Documentary channel now –
great topical programme on Gangsters and The Mob –
The Life and Times of Bugsy
Seagull……………
( Hat, coat, gone)
HH.
Tbj,
My Celtic collage is defaced constantly in the work, just makes me laugh as I know how much thems are hurting.
Great to see those two Irish “beggars” and living legends, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe come face to face once again with Sue Barker on BBC before yesterday’s mens singles thriller.
som mes que un club- thanks mate HH
Does anyone know if we’re getting new season cards or if we’re using last seasons?
Som mes,
You’re a star neebs.
Skybet paying for my fancy new bbq now :)
Burghboy
Same ones unless you’ve moved mate.
Ger57
I’m surprised your up and on your feet so soon ;)
The wife asked me how i got teeth marks on my arse ?!! I told her i shared a bed with CQN’ s Saurez haha !! Catchye later Da ;))
Geordie Munro
Brilliant mate thanks.
burghbhoy- a few guys on here said they got new cards
Billy Bhoy, Thats nice research you just posted, it’s a whisper in the middle of a hurricane, but I can hear it, I hope everyone else can too.
Hail Hail.
An Tearmann
19:23 on
7 July, 2014
An interesting view from Ireland.good read.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/irish-independence-owes-an-enduring-debt-to-scottish-support-1.1854392
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Yes I remember reading about Dev thanking the Diaspóra na nGael in Scotland for their moral and material support for the IRA during the war of independence something along the lines of ‘most faithful of the faithful’.
Bt thanks to Colin and John after that first shot they talked me through the rest of the course , phew !! I thought this gonnae be one hellova long day thankfully that was only one of three bad shots all day ;)
gamriestu & tictaewin
Congratulations on your anniversaries and to yer long suffering bosses:)))
Som mes
Gutted I missed you latest wonder tip
Big prices today and Saturday ….top tipping
Had a hopeless day at Ayr yesterday …Saturday gave me a wee cushion tho
Don’t know why I bet at the Ayr meetings always get stuffed
Thanks again for Saturday
som mes que un club,
BAR 67
Says thank you, we’ll really only me….
Billy Bhoy 05
20:42 on 7 July, 2014
UK government is trying to massively mislead Scots about their finances, to the tune of BILLIONS of pounds, in order to scare them into voting No.
As ever, readers can draw their own conclusions.
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In order to give the post a bit of balance you should have also added ‘the SNP is also massively misleading Scots about potential revenues post independence, to the tune of BILLIONS & BILLIONS of pounds’ As ever readers can draw their own conclusions
Som mes que un club,
Merci beaucoup, once again,… My fav barmaid thinks Im gifted haha
Lilys
Marspapa
I’ve known john for about 20 years, good bhoys both of them..
ger57
glad you and ayrshiretim kept the auld fella happy…
Bada bing
Now I’m confused!!!
Geordie said u got a new card if u moved seats.Im in same seat so maybe that explains it
has anyone seen foties of the CQN open?
HH
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey,
I think Billy was highlighting that a narrative is being created in mainstream media and this conflicting data is therefore expunged from the conversation. I am not prepared to discuss any of the financial projections either side claim as evidence, however as he has illustrated, there does seem to be consensus on the way this story is presented for the hoi poloi to discuss at the bus stop in a well educated fashion.
Who is setting the parameters ?
Hail Hail.
….pfayr,
No one is suggesting what you are saying.
There is concern that the players mentioned may not be equipped to adapt to RD’s ideas.
Other than that, we are just looking at the early evidence of the first two games, to see what patterns are emerging.
Nothing definitive at this stage and no player is being overly lauded or condemned on two games.
So Liverpool have nearly spent £100m so far in the window.
Obscene