The trip to the US to play Real Madrid is core to strategy for Celtic right now. It allowed the significant North American support an easier opportunity to see the team, keeps the club’s profile high among the game movers and shakers and will have contributed valuable financial resources.
You know there’s a ‘but’ coming, don’t you.
Gary Hooper, Anthony Stokes and Daryl Murphy all picked up or aggravated strains on the trip. The players are still stepping up their fitness regimes. Muscles are being stressed, then rested, then stresses a little further. Returning from two lengthy flights with a high incidence of non-contact injuries suggests we need to review how we prepare athletes for travel.
Do you like the new-look Celtic Quick News? Some fundamental changes have engineered into the back-end which should make things more solid going forward. More new features will come on-stream shortly. My enormous thanks to Kev, who designed the template and everything new in the engine room.
Don’t forget, if you have an article in you for CQN Magazine email me: articles@cqnmagazine.co.uk and let me know what you would like to write about. I’ll be able to give you some pointers. Next edition coming soon.
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I keep saying this, we don’t need a big target man type of striker. We need one who is more mobile than we’ve got and who attacks crosses into the box.
Since the late 70’s the vast majority of our strikers have been under 6ft, have been mobile but have been able to score with their head because they attacked the ball in the box.
Nicholas, McGarvey, McCluskey, Judas, McClair, Macca, Walker, McGhee and Henke weren’t ‘big, target men’. Rambo MacInally was the exception but he was always on the bench when the others were fit.
Only during MON’S tenure did we have a heavier than usual reliance on this type of attacker with Sutton and Hartson.
It’s just my opinion but I don’t think we really need this type of player and anyway if needs be then Sammi can fill in.
No my feelings are that we should be going for the sort of player mentioned above all of whom scored goals with their head because they were prepared to attack balls in the right areas.
The Battle of the Yellow Ford took place on this day in 1598, probably the most decisive victory by the Irish of an English army. Led by Hugh O’Neill and aided by O’Donnell of Donegal and MacDonnell of Antrim the Irish out manoeuvred the English who were led by Henry Bagnell and trying to relieve Portmore fort where 150 English soldiers were under siege from the Irish.
Nine Years’ War: Battle of the Yellow Ford
Battle of the Yellow Ford – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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2. The Battle of the Yellow Ford, 1597-1598
3. YELLOW FORD FESTIVAL PHOTOJOURNAL PART 2.mov – YouTube
timbhoy2
Seeing as you are concentrating on the Big Issues, Could you ask Mr. Lawwell to show you the title deeds ;-)
wonkyradar
Didn’t hear anything about that WR…
I’ve seen him a couple of times on The Huddle Prog. looks good..
front door all cleaned up for another big day in the life of mini BT.
she starts high school tomorrow….
I will be a proud father as proud as her first day at school, her first Celtic match (Phil O’Donnelltestimonial)
her first communion, confirmatin and now high school..
no super Roman Catholic just a man trying to do the best for his family…
she is a super Celtic fan BTW…. o))
auld neil lennon heid … 19:37 on 14 August, 2012
LOTS of LLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL
Help required ! New Blog set up
Since changes commenced with blog a few weeks ago, I cannot view up to date comments, .
I only see comments up to time of logging in, ie – tonight at 7.21
Refresh or F5 not even updating with live time comments – I need to log out and back in.
Note, same issue with my works computer
How do I fix this
By the way how can I conduct work business with the new screen size, need to share with all what I am up to – 0h well, I dont really care
Did someone just mention Saga Noren of Malmo County Police?
timbhoy2
You’re not cleared to have access to such info.
You’re on the very bottom rung of a very high ladder with large snakes on the rungs above.
Got it?
hamiltontim
Thank you, we need a quick brained, quick footed striker to play in and be played in by Hooper and Commons..
Did anyone hear the advert for sevco SBs on Clyde ……
RANKERS THEN…..RANKERS NOW………RANKERS ALWAYS…
Methinks thou doest protest too much ….. Silly bhuns
Ghuys
Apparently, Green is stirring it with the Sevco masses. Seems to me he is goading the SFA to take action.
I can see a maximum fine of £200k, payable immediately. A warning that any further outbursts then he will fail the Fit and Proper test and if the rules permit he will be banned from representing Sevco on any committees / meetings and also on match days.
Auldheid hit the nail on the head earlier with Charlie.
On Levein, the selection of Black beggars belief, Black is utterly useless and should never be near an international game. Levein and Houston are miles below the standard of coach we require, Blacks’ selection designed to put a few thousand on the gate.
If the Tartan Army really cared about the football rather than glogging up Glasgow Airport at busy times and just drinking in European cities then they would have organised a boycott of the Scottish games until the SFA get their fingers out and deal with Sevco.
Levein will be sacked after 2 games.
blantyretim
Best wishes to miss bt for tomorrow. Starting the “big” school is serious business.
This is the first time in 20 years we’ve not had one or other daughter returning to school after the hols.
She’ll take it in her stride.
BT
Please pass on my best wishes to mini for tomorrow.
My two are going into P7 and P5 tomorrow but starting in new school.
Thanks Starry check it out on OwnersDirect Ref IT8923
All the Tic games live too.
headtheball
That was me.
Jordan Rhodes…a mobile and skillful striker ,who also happens to be quite tall..6’2”…
Tony Watt……….a mobile and skillful striker ,who also happens to be quite tall..6’1”
SIx Foot-Plus is the New Five-Foot Seven
Nutrition,You See….!
Banish The Midgets…..
Hamiltontim
Agree, its pace and mobility we need, not 6 foot 4
cheers bhoys..
she has family from 2nd year up to 6th year so she will be fine..
lovely green uniform of course…
EKBhoy 20:02 on 14 August, 2012
Think about it………….. Chairman/ CEO can’t get sent to the stands for X matches.
200K fine……….. peanuts compared to an expensive Marketing/ Advertising campaign aimed at ST renewals. MSM are giving him his victimised coverage daily!
The Pantaloon Duck
I’ve just finished watching that series and really enjoyed it although it did have some whacky storylines. Sofie was great in that part.
NordicNoirCSC
Getting tickets here in Sweden for the game in Helsingborg is proving to be very effin difficult. Ghod has given our CSC 2: Only 18 left to scrounge. I’m a tad concerned.
SiciliaBhoy
19:20 on
14 August, 2012
Any CQNer wanting a cheap villa holiday here in Noto Sicily let me know
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Are the flights included?
If some of you bhoys and ghirls have a few hours to spare on your trip to Sweden then check out what we believe to be the smallest Celtic pub in the world. In tomelilla just à few miles east of wallanders Ystad, only room for 34 but a great
hamiltontim
Totally agree.
The ‘wee’ strikers you mentioned scored plenty of goals for us for a variety of reasons.
They had pace, attacked the ball in the box, found space and were often in the right place at the right time. They were also natural goalscorers – and scored quite a few goals from headers as well.
The 3 leading Celtic goalscorers of the modern era Bobby Lennox, Henrik and Stevie Chalmers were certainly not giants!
I want to see Tony Watt given a prolonged run in the first team, because I honestly feel that the boy has so much to offer.
HH!!
Experience (hate writing on this iPhone)
Lloyd Marcus ——
He can be a Tea Party lulu if he wants —-
But ——–
I will never forgive him for turning The Temptations mighty -My Girl – into a paean for the vile Sarah Palin called Our Girl . . Pal in the states sent me a horrific clip of the man singing said song to thousands of Tea Party lulus. Unforgivable !
SiciliaBhoy
Looks like something that would be great for us, I will be showing it to Mrs Starry when she gets home, good luck with the project, we’ll be in touch..
Never mind…I’m hearing that on match days,there’s to be a special lane set aside on the London Road for the Exclusive Use of Saab Drivers….
Celtic FC appear to be caving to the demands of the Handsomest Celtic Supporter In The Huge Big World…
How Very Dare They…!
Good Evening,
Anyone in the field of television entertainment and television production who achieve’s the status of being household name and national fame must be deemed to be a success in that particular industry.
If you have been nominated for a Bafta award as best Director for a documentary series, or if you have been nominated as best scriptwriter by the Writers Guild of Great Britain for successive scripts in a children’s series– then surely that must be a measure of success?
If you produced over 600 editions of a local news programme for the BBC- similar to Reporting Scotland-, and produced a series of documentaries featuring Alan Wicker then that is a measure of success. If you devised children’s series which ran nationally, for 4 series in 4 successive years, and then later devised an entire evening indoor sports programme which was screened from Land’s End to John o’ Groats then you must have achieved success. If you helped influence and fashion the careers of talk show hosts such as Michael Parkinson and Russell Harty, or starred in your own documentary where you sampled being a butler in a stately home, on the dole, and a caravanner— then it is no wonder that you eventually become an oft quoted household name in the world of television and entertainment.
Yet all of the above is not widely appreciated, because the man who did all of the above became famous for something else entirely——– darts!!!
Sid Waddell is often mentioned as a Cambridge graduate– perhaps the oddest Cambridge graduate of all time having graduated with a 2:1 degree in modern history from St John’s College Cambridge having gained entry by way of a scholarship. He spent many a weekend playing on the Rugby field for Cambridge where it is very possible that he came across his equivalent in the “odd student” category within the Oxford ranks– where there was a Rugby playing lanky American who would gain a blue for boxing before gaining his degree in English literature ond Philosophy.
The Amercian, a magnum cum laude student, would later be offered a professorship back in the United States and Waddell would go on to teach at Durham University, but both would turn their back on academia, with Waddell going into television and the American choosing to fly helicopters, bum around Nashville, write a song or two and grow a beard instead of donning the professors robes — his name was Kris Kristofferson.
Waddell would also write– biographies of darts players Jocky Wilson, John Lowe and Phil Taylor and his publication “Bellies and Bullseyes” would be shortlisted for the British Sports Book of the year award in 2008. He even achieved fame– or would that be infamy– when His racy 1973 novel Bedroll Bella about a Geordie groupie, was banned by WH Smiths and John Menzies! He also later published a memoir of his boyhood in a Geordie pit village The Road Back Home.
How odd then that such a talent in so many fields should find fame describing events at the oche. Yet without Waddell coming up with the idea and the format for The Indoor League ( hosted by Fred Truman if you recall ), televised darts and snooker may well never even have been considered as viable. Before that he was the inspiration behind “The Flaxton Boys” which gave a start to many a young actor over its 4 year span, and a later wrote the scripts for a later series called Jossy’s giants. He was also the writer of two series of another children’s show Sloggers which ran from 1994 to 1996.
I won’t bother you with any of his famous quotes– they have been widely reported over a number of years.
Sid was married to Irene, and between the two they raised 5 children.They lived in Leeds, but despite a prolonged stay in Yorkshire he remained a committed Newcastle United Fan.
Stephen Fry tweeted on his death, commenting that Sid had remained true to his working class, son of a miner, roots– and his ever present love of darts, which he introduced to Cambridge by starting the inter college darts championship.
Sid Waddell was an ordinary man– nothing special, nothing grand— and proud of it.Yet he possessed extraordianry talent in many different fields which brought him all sorts of success— but not necessarily public fame and recognition.That he left to a pastime which he was so enthusiastic about, that his enthusiasism invaded our homes like an epidemic with Sid being both the carrier and the cure.
We will be lucky if we come across such an infectious character again.
Tony Watt may be the answer but I haven’t seen enough of him to be certain.
headtheball
Indeed, it was rather wonderful. Almost as good as season 1 of The Killing.
SoT
Plenty of appropriate Temps material for that gal:-
Papa was a Rolling right-wing nutter
Ain’t too proud to reduce you to begging
Just My Imagination (Leading me to believe in Creationism)
BRTH
Really enjoyed reading that, obviously a lot I wasn’t aware of.
somebody is bound to know this, but it’s been bugging me for a while.
why are england playing italy… in berne?
this seems to have gotten to absurd levels.
ireland take on oman next month at craven cottage. we played brazil last year(ish) at the emirates.
i seem to recall brazil started it a few years back, playing somebody at loftus road. and african nations quickly jumped on the bandwagon.
don’t even start me on the italian super cup being played in… beijing???
i can understand that many brazilians were based in europe so there is a degree of logistical simplicity, but…
england v italy in… berne???
it seems to generally be a bunch of “events managers” who organise these games called “kentaro.” and by the look of it, business is booming. however, i fail to see how it would attract a bigger crowd, or provide better opportunity for tv coverage being hosted in berne than in england. or italy.
is it to do with proximity to the olympics?
somebody surely knows why this company is dragging two sets of fans around the globe for meaningless friendlies.
would it be absurd to examine whether any interested parties exist as significant persons within the company and any other significant swiss organisations?
sorry, it’s just been bugging me for ages, and ever increasingly so. anybody any thoughts?
Blantyretim
Best wishes to mini bt tomorrow,tell her to be prepared ,not all teachers
are as nice as her uncle HT.
I really hope NEIL rests the majority of the 1st team on Saturday….
ystatim
20:12 on
14 August, 2012
If some of you bhoys and ghirls have a few hours to spare on your trip to Sweden then check out what we believe to be the smallest Celtic pub in the world. In tomelilla just à few miles east of wallanders Ystad, only room for 34 but a great experience.
Indeed it is. You can get a train directly from Malmö.