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. timhorton

     

     

    Seen that before, some good stuff in there.

     

     

    We all have the right to question what they tell us, we all have the right to believe what they tell us, choices, choices.

     

     

    I probably believe more than 95% of what the msm tell me, it’s the other 5% that I question, my choice, I am not asking anyone to accept it, they have a mind of their own.

     

     

    What miffs me is that those who don’t believe, label us as nuts.

     

     

    Let’s take the Hillsbourgh Disaster, had it not been all those who refused to believe the official line, the truth would never have been known.

     

     

    The hun thing, are we to believe what the msm tell us………….

     

     

    I don’t happen to believe the 9/11 official version, but I am nuts for not believing it, aye right.

     

     

    HH

  2. Conspiracy theories? Conspiracy theories?

     

    Please ? Turn it up will ya?

     

    Charlotte fakes is shut doon and PL becomes a high heed yin in the SFA?

     

     

    I was in the Taxes book depository. Couldnae say anything about grassy Gnomes.

  3. The thing that always stops my belief in most conspiracies is the number of people involved for them to be successful.

     

     

    I had a brief period of reading Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels and in one of those Ryan’s boss reminds him that the likelihood of a plot being discovered is equal to the square of the number involved ie if 2 are involved it 4 times as likely to be discovered (or not kept secret). I think that holds true.

     

     

    So lone gunman in the book depository – easy to keep secret. Mafia/CIA co-funded operation as revenge for Bay of Pigs fiasco – not so easy to keep under wraps (although I love the James Ellroy books that deal with that).

     

     

    How many would have been involved in setting demolition charges in towers 1,2 and 7? Too many to make it viable and remain secret in my opinion.

  4. bournesouprecipe 23:51

     

     

    Sadly this was just a friendly the one you are talking about is

     

    Celtic (Scotland) 1:2 (0:2) Dynamo Kiev (USSR)

     

    Stadium:

     

    Match time, city: 20 September 1967, Glasgow

  5. Weeminger

     

     

    You mean the Rangers fiasco isnae real, cos there are hundreds involved in this conspiracy!

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  6. Yup

     

    But correct me if i am wrong but didnt he also give JFK a pardon for having his brains splattered all over watergate plaza?

  7. 21Nov2006 @ 20:18

     

    If still on ….

     

    Many thanks for the Munich Celtic Bar information.

     

    I shall pass the information on to my friend ( if he did not see it earlier )

     

     

    The Onlooker

  8. The conspiracy is not in large scale events. It is the media portrayal of a dangerous society by continually bombarding us with a myriad of negative small scale events.

     

     

    I suspect a straw poll of the general population would have the majority thinking we live in a society more dangerous than it’s ever been. Yet serious and violent crimes are at their lowest level in years.

  9. What is the Stars on

    Kikinthenakas

     

     

    I listened to an interview today with Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (despite the first name SHE is the DAUGHTER of the late Robert Kennedy)

     

    Born 6 months after her fathers assasination,she recently produced a documentary “Ethel” about her mother (bobby kennedys widow)

     

    Seems an interesting person,spoke eloquently about the unfilled vision that her father and uncle had believed in,(end vietnam,create a fairer society) etc

     

    Yes I can definitely believe that some powerful people wanted them out of the way

  10. WITS

     

     

    August 4 1964, Gulf of Tonkin

     

     

    It is what is called a false flag, like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, remember that one, or gassed kids in Syria.

     

     

    Oh and they are not fairytales or obsurd conspiracy theories.

  11. kikinthenakas

     

    00:09 on

     

    12 September, 2013

     

     

    Well when it was just Minty, the fiasco was kept secret for a long, long time. Then when Craigy was added, the new secret lasted a wee while, but nowhere near as long. Now we’ve had Green, Ahmad, Mather et al involved secrets barely last a week.

  12. tet

     

    agree,excepet 9/11 but only my opinion.

     

     

    my problem is!!!! hit the ball great of the t but chipping from 40 yds in not a clue.

     

    this is my reality and my grandkids.

     

    enjoy your posts.

  13. bournesouprecipe

     

     

    00:12 on 12 September, 2013

     

     

    You need to understand that in America its of paramount importance to have an airport named after you for some reason

     

     

    New York JFK

     

    New York La Guardia

     

    Washington Dulles

     

    Washington Reagan

     

    La X (after Malcolm)

     

    Chicago O’Hare

     

    Charlotte Fakes

     

    ..the list just goes on and on

  14. What is the Stars on

    DJBEE

     

     

    Those incidents you refer would indeed not fall into the absurd fairytale category

     

     

    What is your point

     

     

    The American Military Establishment decided to kill over 3000 of its own citizens in order to create an appetite for war and allow it start invading various countries in the Middle East to secure Oil

     

    Or am I missing something

     

    Please enlighten me

  15. As an ex firefighter ,i hope all who perished on 9/11 RIP.IMO it was expertly planned and executed unfortunatly.I met a pal in Tower 1 the previous year and was in awe of the sheer size of the buildings .Every time i see the footage my heart sinks ,why people could do that to others.NY is my favourite place in the world,can’t wait to go back,and see Ground Zero to pay my respects.

  16. Margaret Mc

     

     

    Where here in Scotland our dug’s even get a kicking, for wearing a Celtic Strip? and it was

     

    the owners fault.

     

     

    Has Murray Park ( Now Auchenhowie ) got an airstrip for Minty?

     

     

    Maybe not CSC

  17. Weeminger

     

     

    I think re the Huns, there was collusion of banks, SFA, referees going back years…what we are seeing now is years of collusion and conspiracy unravelling…

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  18. bournesouprecipe

     

     

    00:24 on 12 September, 2013

     

     

    Yes. Amazing. Why would anyone want to encourage that Scottish humiliation and disgust ?

     

    Beats me. We will regret these times.

  19. timhorton

     

     

    Ok, not a bother.

     

     

    Chipping is the hardest thing to master.

     

     

    If you are right handed, and it will be the opposite if you are a leftie.

     

     

    The first thing you need to do is let the club do the work, most scramblers like us think they have to give the ball a wee lift, the club will do that, trust the club, second, put all your weight on your left foot, lean toward the direction you are wanting the ball to go, your right foot will be barely touching the ground, and trust the club will lift the ball, it will, but your weight must be on yor left foot.

     

     

    Another problem we have is trying to get the ball in the air, again the club will do that for you, swing slow, about 75%, keep the left arm as straight as your club.

     

     

    Never try to hit the ball, never, just imagine swinging the club without the ball there, forget about the ball, it’s small, it’s only there to annoy you >}

     

     

    HH

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