There are sooooo many secondary benefits from winning the league last month. Take a look at current crop of international fixtures, which for Scotland, continues until 14 June, seven weeks before the third Champions League qualification round.
Our significant body of full and Under-21 international players would have little time to rest and recuperate before having to reach full fitness ahead of potentially four weeks of crucial fixtures. This is not how an athlete’s body is designed to work. It has consequences for performance and injuries.
With the Scottish champions likely to gain automatic entry to the Champions League group stage for several years to come, the responsibility of using this year’s qualification to further strengthen is paramount. It was a tough shift for Celtic, carrying Scotland’s coefficient burden single-handedly for all those years, we need to make the most of whatever help other Scottish clubs are happy to give us now.
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That the geezer who slept with Willie Collum? Or woke up with us winning 3-2? Allegedly.
Collaborated ffs. I give up.
Might have been right the first time.
Juicier the first time
😂😂
Unsurprising big chief all talk routine from the Ibrox graduate.
Nowhere to be seen when it counted.
Turns up full yap afterwards.
Fully plied by SMSM of course.
Plus ça change.
Prestonpans Bhoys, how are you? No reports of riot police in Morpeth so I can only assume that you had a good day. HH fella. 👍😂
It doesn’t cost a penny for Celtic to improve its performances in Europe next season or any season. Cut down on mistakes and take more of the chances created.
It’s down to the players, manager and coaches to sort it. Always been the case for the fifty+ years I’ve been watching.
BRRB
Don’t mention Morpeth, yesterday coming out after a Morrison’s visit, my SatNet is obviously too old for directions.
Told me to head left to Newcastle for four miles, down a underpass and back to where I originally was. It didn’t know another newer roundabout existed😱😵
14 degrees of separation
By Joe Sullivan
Callum McGregor is the latest in a long line of Celtic captains, and this season’s new signings and youngsters breaking through are next in an even longer line of Celtic players who have served the first team.
When Celtic took to the field on May 28, 1888 for that first ever game, they set in motion a link and a bond between players that carries on right through until the present day, with Callum McGregor among the latest in the current batch of Celtic heroes.
Those first Celtic heroes, the team that beat Rangers 5-2 that day, was Dolan: Pearson, McLaughlin, W Maley, Kelly, Murray, McCallum, T Maley, Madden, Dunbar, Gorevin and that side contained the first of the over 940 players who have represented the club up until this season.
Among their number was…
JIMMY KELLY
He also played in the club’s first competitive game when the Celts beat Shettleston 5-1 in the Scottish Cup – that was his first of 178 games in all competitions, and among them were 40 with…
DAN MCARTHUR
The keeper played from 1892 until season 1901/02, making 147 appearances as the last line of the Celtic defence and among the last of them were three with..
JIMMY QUINN
A Celtic legend of the highest order who carved his own chapters in the club’s history in his 369 games with 239 goals in all tournaments, which included 42 matches alongside…
PATSY GALLACHER
Another club hero, the Donegal Bhoy would make nearly 500 Celtic appearances between 1911/12 and 1925/26, with no fewer than 34 of them featuring a young…
JIMMY MCGRORY
Quite simply, the greatest goalscorer of them all, with more goals scored than games played, with 502 Celtic goals in 477 games in all competitions, and among those games he lined up in 90 alongside…
JIMMY DELANEY
A Celt whose career traversed the Second World War years and who played 327 games between 1934/35 and 1945/46 before he moved on to Manchester United, and among those games were nine with…
BOBBY EVANS
One of the heroes of the post-war years who played in the Hoops right up until 1960, finishing on a total of 580 games in all tournaments, with 33 of the those team line-ups including a young…
BILLY MCNEILL
The club’s greatest ever captain also tops the appearance charts with 822 games in a career that started in 1958 and ended in 1975, but not before he had played 153 games with…
DANNY MCGRAIN
World-class defender who made his debut in 1970 for the first of 681 appearances between then and 1987, and those games featured no fewer than 208 in which he appeared with…
PAUL MCSTAY
Another Celtic legend and a one-club man who hit 72 goals in 683 games played between seasons 1981/82 and 1996/97, which included 43 games in the same team as…
JACKIE MCNAMARA
Son of a former Celtic of the same name, the defender played in 358 games which delivered 15 goals before moving to Wolves in 2005, and 23 of those Celtic games were played alongside…
AIDEN MCGEADY
Product of the Celtic Youth Academy, the winger scored 37 goals in 251 games in the Hoops before joining Spartak Moscow in 2010, but not before playing 90 times with…
SCOTT BROWN
The absolute Celtic legend scored 46 goals in 620 games in 14 years with the club, collecting no fewer than 22 trophies along the way and 266 of those games were played alongside…
CALLUM MCGREGOR
The man who took the captain’s armband over from Broony, and the attack-minded midfielder has scored 57 goals in 378 games and he captained the side to two more trophies this season. There’s still more to come from the Hoops skipper, and lots more to come from Celtic after that beginning on May 28, 1888 when men such as Jimmy Kelly started the Celtic lifeline.
(All stats used also include competitions such as the Glasgow Cup, Charity Cup etc)
PRESTONPANS BHOYS, There is a free app for your phone called “Navmii ”
It uses location of your phone, but not data.
Always assuming you don’t have an Apple. :)
Prestonpans Bhoy
There’s also an app Waze which lets you know of traffic problems reported by users
Gene
I agree with about Barkas and Ajeti would be moved on. I think Boli, Soro and Jullien are not in Anges plans and will be attempted to be moved on, however, can these players be motivated to leave?
Hazard is already on loan and several others may join him. Scotsman today suggests loans for Johnston, Scales, Kenny, Shaw and Urhoghide. Moffat and Dawson are also candidates.
If all this came to pass that leaves us with 23 players which suggests we need up to 7 new players.
10 players out maybe 5 more to go. 7 or 8 to go out on loan
Preseason work is massive.
First week in July kicks off with 10 day trip to Austria the home Friendlies Blackburn 16 July and Norwich on 23rd
Bigbhoy
Interesting few weeks ahead
Refugees are welcome,racism has no place at Celtic
https://twitter.com/UKGovtGoogles/status/1515271182198706179?t=yrZeOyJs7j3FyXpeJLtXig&s=19
Please share.
HH
That’s a fine Celtic post BOGNORBGOY. 7.12pm
Thanks a lot 👍
HH
Evening all.
Hope you are all well this evening.
BRRB, would love to know what you think about this version of one of your favourite tunes.
https://youtu.be/e4Ao-iNPPUc
Brian
Bognorbhoy, AT. The greatest ever Celt. James Edward McGrory. Glasgow Celtic 1922-1937.
AN TEARMANN on 6TH JUNE 2022 7:33 PM
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BelmontBrian, love that song. Effing brilliant mate. 👏 👍
BRRB
I’m glad you enjoyed it, which den of iniquity are you gracing this fine evening?
Home now Brian. Here is a great version of Thunderstruck.
https://youtu.be/Af0P6XEkI7Y
BRRB
Cracking live version from Donnington.
I’ll give two more tunes and leave you alone.
First one, again an alternative version of ‘Thunderstruck and secondly an absolute anthem, IMHO.
https://youtu.be/uT3SBzmDxGk
https://youtu.be/hW_WLxseq0o
‘ ‘mon the hoops’
In Euro Under-21 Qualifying, the Republic have 19 points from 9 games, Englandshire have 19 points from 7 games, and Scotland have a truly pitiful 6 points from 7 games.
More and more, it looks like the future for Scotland is grubbing about in the football basement, with the likes of Moldova, Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Faroes, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Kazakhstan and Armenia.
The Kazakhs thumped us a couple of years ago. We’ll see next week if the Armenians have caught up.
Despite the u21 results Armenia beat The Republic of Ireland – so where does that leave them
GENE
The Armenian U-21 team have 3 points from 9 games. Little hope on the horizon for them either.
I meant the Republic side losing to Armenia
https://youtu.be/xbhCPt6PZIU
https://youtu.be/ioOzsi9aHQQ
https://youtu.be/_nLmM9kcBKs
Last one
GENE
It would appear that the full Republic side are technically very poor, but the future may be brighter as they have quite a few promising youngsters.
Ourselves and Armenia? Poor senior sides with no youngsters breaking through. Yesterday, Spain played a 17 year old Gavi, after previously starting off Fati ( also 17 ) in the senior team.
The chances of us finding a 17 year old talented enough to play for the senior team in Scotland are somewhere between no hope and Bob Hope.
BIGRAILROADBLUES
AC/DC was the first and best live gig I went to
In the old Apollo glasgow
Had a ticket to see them at hampden but couldn’t go gave it to my young nephew and he,s been a fan ever since
HH
Israel match postponed ?
Jackiemac
Think they were supposed to play Russia
Not sure how to do that link thing.
But I read a very interesting article on Video Celts about the credentials of Mark Lawwell or should I say , the lack of.
Worth a read.
St Tams
This wan
https://videocelts.com/2022/06/blogs/latest-news/the-real-mark-lawwell-back-story-and-the-city-football-group-claim/
PB
Yes that’s it.
You’ll need to teach me how to do the link 😄
came through GLA this morning, and in the non fast track ques now that all privelages disappeared, so ended up with holidaying joe and jospehine public, which was fine but slow.
joining the queue came Greg McHugh, great comedy actor, writer and maybe even better drama actor.
wit his family,
hunners of school kids going on foreign trips as well.
poor greg, what started off as fist bumps and arights, descended into loads of kids calling each other, and answering with
“chinese embassy”
“nawe its me Garrriiieee”.