Strachan lessons as Milan looms

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Neil Lennon will begin to get his players back at Lennoxtown tomorrow after, what for most of the first team, has been a two week international break.  For many of the established players, he’ll be hoping for a clean bill of health, but with trips to Tynecastle and Milan ahead, the manager will be keen to spend time with Teemu Pukki.

Teemu played 92 minutes for Finland in Tbilisi last night so will get little time on the training fields before Celtic’s next two games.  Tynecastle itself may provide the most effective training opportunity ahead of Wednesday’s game at the San Siro.

Delighted for Gordon Strachan, who has already caused an unlikely upturn in Scotland’s fortunes.  He is a better coach and tactician than he ever got credit for.  His Key Performance Indicators (winning leagues, knock out stages of the Champions League) were achieved in spades, but there was a soft underbelly which always seemed to undermine progress.  Curiously, his Celtic team went 15 months without keeping a clean sheet away from home in all competitions, despite winning the league in both seasons this run spanned.

The one game during this period of note was the 1-0 defeat to Milan in the Champions League knock out stage; the only game Celtic completed 90 minutes without conceding.  If Neil Lennon can replicate this achievement he stands an excellent chance of a second successive memorable Champions League campaign.

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  1. gordybhoy64

     

     

     

    22:29 on 11 September, 2013

     

     

     

    Delaneys Dunky,

     

    not now used to be a few years ago,i now drink in the Hibs club or the Glenhead Social

     

    Club to give it its proper name,i was there on Saturday night,not that I remember much about it :-))

     

     

    * I have cousins in Duntocher and the last I heard one of them was pulling pints in the Hibs Club, first name Alan, he’s a big lhad, pretty good player in his day.

  2. Leftclic

     

    TET

     

     

    It was very good, I am sure someone will have saved it and with a bit of investigation it could be found. Unlikely to by me as I am on a nice Barolo at he moment!

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  3. What is the Stars

     

     

    Maybe you should spend a few years reading what the architects, engineers, pilots and top military and demolition experts say about it. Watch some films and read some witness accounts. Just saying like, how did the Vietnam war start?

  4. Or is Dark Mingwall laying the path for the sale and leaseback of Morder, as the only way to save the company from an administration event?

  5. What is the Stars on

    DJBEE

     

     

    Because I dont agree with you I need to be “re educated”

     

    Ah yes I heard that before

     

     

    And the vietnam war,

     

    How did it start,colonial and post colonial misadventures by western powers I think

  6. what is the stars

     

     

    23:14 on 11 September, 2013

     

    I am truly amazed that people dont believe the 9/11 attacks were……..well the 9/11 attacks,

     

     

    Actually I am truly flabbergasted by some of the conspiracy theories that are “given the oxygen of publicity”

     

    Shame really

     

    plenty of real issues for people to put their time and energy into

     

     

     

     

    Wits – bang on. It appears to be ‘trendy’ to believe in conspiracy. Move on to the real issues.

     

     

     

    Meanwhile, Sevconians discuss te definition of liquidation on a historic entity. I’m Sure there between folk of this ilk and conspiracy theorists?

     

     

    Here’s some assistance from the Collins English dictionary –

     

     

    Definitions

     

    noun

     

     

    the process of terminating the affairs of a business firm, etc, by realizing its assets to discharge its liabilities

     

    the state of a business firm, or equivalent, etc, having its affairs so terminated (esp in the phrase to go into liquidation)

     

    destruction; eliminations

     

     

    Perhaps they need to look up definition of eliminitation and not liquidation :)

  7. People love conspiracies. People need conspiracies. The idea a loner, an outcast could take out Kennedy and single handedly alter 20th century history is just too scary.

     

     

    The idea a group of 20 fanatics could strike at the financial and military heart of a world empire is just too scary.

     

     

    In the real world, I think ordinary joe soaps can alter history. 9-11 was not an inside job. There’s no conspiracy.

     

     

    May all those killed that day and in the subsequent wars rest in peace.

  8. Murdoch McGrain Larsson on

    yogiy

     

     

    Does anyone remember an exciting friendly against Eastern European opposition ,which Celtic lost in which Jock promised a new type of attacking style in which the players passed Rugby style or is my memory playing tricks.

     

     

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    Dynamo Zagreb 0-1. Players wore different numbers (I think that Yogi wore number 5) but they played their normal formation. Stein showmanship in action to raise interest and crowd numbers.

     

     

    Earlier discussion re KK getting 34 consecutive caps to match Young. He subsequently got more than 34 in a row. So, he missed only one of 70+ consecutive caps. What a coincidence!

  9. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/

     

    23:29 on

     

    11 September, 2013

     

     

    He’s posted on FF a projection from ‘an accountant friend’ that suggests they’ll run out of money around Q1 next year. Certainly before the end of the season. Given that he’s a poodle, somebody has probably ok-ed him to do that. The question is why? The hordes are in despair.

  10. What is the Stars on

    An Dun

     

     

    Funnily enough the one conspiracy theory I would give some credence to is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy set up to take the fall for killing Kennedy by more sinister/powerful forces who wanted Kennedy out of the way

     

     

    But as for the,Man never landed on the moon,all the jews were told not to turn up for work on 9/11 and other such bunkum,well no thanks

  11. Tontine tim,

     

    no alan in the club these days, been going in for a rew years and dont recall anyone of that name

  12. Murdoch McGrain Larsson on

    Young got 53 in total but his first 34 were consecutive.

     

    I am reliably informed by my Da that he benefited greatly from honest mistakes, before we knew what they were.

  13. Wits, I did not say re educated,you did. Do a wee bit of research.

     

     

    Vietnam started with a False Flag, you got google look it up. Take you five minutes.

  14. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/

     

    23:40 on

     

    11 September, 2013

     

     

    Nope. Every week I think we’ve reached a point where it’ll settle down for a while, and every week something new crops up to turn the wheel again.

  15. Stars

     

     

    You obviously didn’t look at that vid I posted, not asking you to believe it, but to put us down as nuts for daring to question what they tell us, without even looking at an alternative side, is, well you decide >}

     

     

    HH

  16. an dun

     

     

    23:32 on 11 September, 2013.

     

     

    Yes, conspiracy theories will always come to the fore when something tragic or horrendous happens but don’t doubt the power of greed.

  17. What is the Stars on

    DJBEE

     

     

    Reeducated/research ,is there a huge difference

     

     

    Why should I do any “research”

     

     

    Is it that after doing all the research I would come around to agreeing with you

     

     

    I was born in 1960,I have been interested in politics since I could walk and talk,

     

    I have read extensively on history,politics,philosphy and you suggest I do “some research” because I dont agree with you and some absurd conspiracy theories

  18. paulsatim

     

     

    Was a bit windy that night, and we even had angry Hunnies,because there were too many Timmys in the team.

     

     

    Yogiy

     

     

    Was that not sadly, – the first round after we won the big cup and lost, or is my mind

     

    playing even more tricks.

  19. What is the Stars 23:37

     

    Can I recomend this wonderful book, 11.22.63 by Stephen King, all the family have enjoyed and I re-read the last chapter four times.

  20. What is the Stars on

    TET

     

     

    You obviously didn’t look at that vid I posted, not asking you to believe it, but to put us down as nuts for daring to question what they tell us, without even looking at an alternative side, is, well you decide >}

     

     

    HH

     

     

    I had a quick look,skipped through it,I dont know whether it warrants an hour and half of my life

     

    Is there anything in particular in it that impresses you or hasnt been aired before in the last 12 years,If so point it out and I will have a look

  21. Some absurd conspiracy theories, all I asked was you tell me how the Vietnem war started, 5 minutes but ok you know better. Tomorrow I will go and by the DR and Scottish Hun, write a letter of complaint to that great bastion of truth the BBC and complain about one of their jounalists.

     

     

    By the way it is not an absurd conspiracy theory it is a fact. How did the Vietnam war start?

  22. WITS

     

     

    The best book I have read on Kennedy is The Mafia Killed President Kennedy by David E. Schiem, worth a read.

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  23. In the 21st century it is Self-Evident…..

     

     

    Propaganda, emotion and fear Trumps science, logic and integrity.

     

     

    Then again, maybe this has always been the case…

     

     

    Aff oot.

  24. WITS

     

     

    Meant to add…

     

     

    David E. Scheim is a director of management information systems at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The recipient of a doctorate in mathematics from MIT under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Scheim is on the Board of Advisors of the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington, D.C.

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  25. What is the Stars on

    DJBEE

     

     

    What is your point about the Vietnam War FFS!!!!

     

     

    What do you want me to say

     

    I gave you my opinion that the Vietnam War came to pass as direct consequence of Western Powers Colonial Misadventures

     

    Throw in the post WW11 superpowers and their cold war and american theory of containing the domino effect of “communist contagion”

     

     

    So I am wrong

     

    Now you can give me the correct answer

     

    But also explain why “knowing the correct reason” for the start of the Vietnam War will help me believe in Fairy Tales about 9/11

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