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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Kojo, “God bless Marcus Garvey”.
Surely some mistake.
Michael, they have taken you away.
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/sport/oneill-no-guarantees-over-gers-duo-3200812.html
the singing detective demands the resignation of campbell ogilvie
21:15 on
14 August, 2012
£$€¥£$€¥
Nope….people attack her coz she’s insanely dangerous and deliberately stooooopid.
As Barack Obama said of her : ” You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. ”
Come to think of it, the same statement could apply to mad wee Moisty.
And have you seen ‘Iron Sky’?
It takes S.P. to the cleaners.
Anyway….do you have a pin-up of the old Alaskan Thatcherite gone radio?
no apologists
Yes Durranty!
You must know him – he’s that semi-literate, jug-eared cretin who is supposedly the first team coach of some diddy team who play in SFL3!
Had one of his knees rearranged by Neil Simpson in a match against the sheep over 25 years ago. You must be very young!
HH!!
3-0 now to Swindon game over two goals fr a former Brighton player who had scored only 1 goal in 85 starts!!
Former players huh?
The Comfy Collectif….
Will you be burning Poppies at the Cenotaph this November….along with Anjem Choudary and his Loathsome Creeps ?
If we get a bundle for Ki, can we then please get a proven centre half?
Just askin’.i
greensideup
Paul Caddis was captain of Swindon last season when they won League 2.
He has apparently been stripped of the captaincy by ‘Il Duce’ di Canio for some reason – heard it today.
HH!!
Given the injury prone strikers at Celtic I suggest we give young Tony Watt a run out in the Champions League against Helsingborg…can’t do any worse than Bangura or Murphy?!!?
Samaras and Watt with Commons in support..
the singing detective demands the resignation of campbell ogilvie
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now now,dear boy,you are showing your tre colours there. no need to be sooooo vicious.
can ye no handle a wee bit contrary opinion? without resorting to spite?
Are we still boycotting Sky Sports? Were we ever boycotting Sky Sports? Should we be boycotting Sky Sports?
*Other football channels are available
**With or without giving Murdoch your cash
***Not that I would condone the latter
****Or even use any dodgy channel
******Much
miki67
Of course we can if the said proven CH wants to come to the wasteland of the SPHell.
They’re probably banging down PL’s door as I type.
Ross County at the week-end will be no push over the fact of the matter is the Bhoys are not fireing on all cylinders we are not creating enough chances and hence not scoreing enough goals.We are going into a very hard period and Helsenborg await and with no new signings we cannot inject that bit of the unknown into our line up we need to be strong in defence like all fellow Celts I would love to see us have a good run in Europe and enhance our reputation but to get that the Bhoys need to improve.H.H.
Had a wee conversation with hun in work today, regarding Simpson getting a testimonial.
‘That animal’says he.I replied” he couldn’t have been that bad ,or he would have played
for your mob” Now that Neil Cooper ,he was a dirty bass.
End of conversation.
whitecrook tim
21:00 on
14 August, 2012
GOOGYBHOY
only person in Balloch with two CQN badges,will wear one when Phil Mac and team come to dumbarton on the 24th
Go for it mate. I have two. So when I get up the there will be four.
Paul Caddis has apparently ‘shown a lack of commitment since he became a father during the summer’ and was stripped of Swindon captaincy. Di Canio gave this interview over it and goes a bit radio rental towards the end of it. Too far.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19254124
I think that someone who refers to our soldiers… taking part in the Olympic Opening Ceremony..as ‘Afghani Child Killers’ …richly deserves any criticism that comes its way…
Right ?
Tallybhoy
21:31 on
14 August, 2012
No stranger to contraversy ole Paolo. The man is a loose cannon. But I love the video of him when playing that team who used to play in the topflight of Scottish Football. I think he was gesturing to wee Bazza’s big brother and demonstrating that he would snap him like a twig! lol
gsu
Kojo. No, no poppy burning from me.
You really must learn to calm down dear. Have some more fallafal.
The singing detective
100 per cent
Weefra HH
eldiegobhoy
21:32 on14 August, 2012:
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Well,if they want to play for a well liked club and have the prospect of European football they might just be chappin’ on PL’s door. Better than many other offers they might receive. However, I do understand what you mean by the SPHell.
So,what are we to do then?
HH!
Tallybhoy
I was misled by your informal “Durranty”. Mistakenly thought it inferred some fondness for the imbecile. Glad to see I was very wrong indeed. I remember him as nothing but a coward and laughingly compared to the Maestro by the MSM.
Detest Di Canio. Brilliant, truly brilliant footballer but can’t help wishing that he’d never had the fortune to wear the hoops.
the singing detective demands the resignation of campbell ogilvie … 21:37 on 14 August, 2012
Right….
Derby 5 Scunthorpe 5 – extra time.
Nasa has used its high-resolution imaging satellite at the Big Hoose to look down on the Oddity rover (Southside Extradivisional Vicious Custodians of Orange, or SEVCO) and acquire a new picture of the recently landed space crash.
The vehicle appears as a round scotch pie.
The view from the Southside Reprobates Reconnaissance Orbiter (SoRRO) has been colour enhanced in orange to emphasise certain ground features, like burst pipes.
These also include the disturbance in the soil made either side of the vehicle by the rocket powered crane that lowered Sevco into the Third Division a month ago.
Since then, engineers have been checking out its systems and instruments, particularly flutes.
The past four days have been spent upgrading the vehicle’s onboard software, as it is currently unable to accept card payments or direct debits.
Oddity runs two computers – a main unit and a back-up It’s understood the main one will be used for the conquering of europe, and the back up for an assult on division 3. Both have been updated to what programmers call the WTF configuration.
This software is optimised for surface operations, enabling the rover to drive, drill into rocks and take samples into the laboratories inside its body to check for asbestos, and promote the sale of season tickets.
The update also removed all the code used by Oddity during the complex manoeuvres required to land in the Third Division, a deep depression on various offices at Hampden.
The mission team will continue to shake down the vehicle and its instruments in the coming days. A first drive is expected next week, if Ian Black hasn’t kicked the c**p out it first.
Oddity’s ultimate goal is to drive to the base of the big mountain in the centre of the Third Division known as Hampden.
There, it is expected to find rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of Eldorado and Buckfast, and throw them.
At Present, Oddity will probe these Southside sediments for evidence that past environments on The Southside could once have favoured microbial life It is not expected to find evidence of civilisation. It is widely known the lack of atmosphere at Ibrox cannot support advanced lifeforms.
The key targets are about 8km away, but it will take several more km to find a drivable route across the rugged terrain, up through the divisions, and back to humanity. Barring of course a predictable hot-ball cup draw.
NASA Researchers hope to have the rover at the base of the Scottish Premier League in a year’s time. However, they caution, it’d be easier putting a robot on mars than getting SEVCO back into the SPL. NASA’s previos explorations of Ibrox have met with mixed success. They are still known to be frustrated at the failure of their big budget “moonbeams” mission, whilst the Casino probe vanished from contact in 2005.
just read back a little and i do like to make comment so here we go again
we should only buy quality players to play in the first 11 or young quality players with an eye for the future.
if we have a couple of players preforming to a very high standard in the under-20s team they should be promoted and played. i think the biggest promlem for our young players is not ability but lack of opportunity.
would like to see thompson, wilson, murphy, bangurra and ki sold in order to buy a quality centreback and would be happy with keatings and watt making the step up and any other who is preforming well, as and when required.
if pl had any sense he would have spend a good few million on a centreback to maintain a feelgood factor amoungst fans and to sell more season tickets and would avoid all the doom and gloom
hail hail
TSD,
I just found out you are a Sea Cucumber
no apologists
Could have referred to him as something else, but Paul might bar me for using industrial language!
A truly horrible individual and a well-known bigot!
HH!!
…..and anyone who proclaims Sarah Pallin and Reagan as upstanding role models deserves to be ridiculed and mocked in equal measure….
Right?
Scotland team to play Australia. Frankly not that bothered – but am about no Mulgrew. Best player in Scotland doesn’t get a sniff, and I’m delighted.
•McGregor (Besiktas)
•Hutton (Aston Villa)
•Webster (Hearts)
•Berra (Wolves)
•Fox (Southampton)
•Caldwell (Wigan)
•Adam (Liverpool)
•Morrison (West Brom)
•Snodgrass (Norwich)
•Naismith (Everton)
•Rhodes (Huddersfield)
hamiltontim
remember watching di canio before the match started (warm up) then talked about that for the rest of the game, absolute genius of a footballer, but mad as a hatter
going to celtic park and seeing him do his thing stands out for me, remember the partick game a kid fell over the wall and there’s di canio, mid game picking him up, priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone else noticed the large sky sports billboards everywhere, the one that shows a large Rudi Skacel, there is no advert for the SPL only the Scottish cup. can anyone shed any light on this?
HH
hamiltontim
21:42 on
14 August, 2012
Know what you mean and you’re not alone just look at the link that Bloke109 posted, canny play it over here but the verbage is enough to see that his brain is on a different planet
Bloke109
21:37 on
14 August, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19254124
gsu
jock tamson21:45 on14 August, 2012:
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Is Mars really the orange planet and are there huns in space? They do run around like space cadets so I was just wondering.
HH!
No Forrest in tha line-up either. Good. We need to keep our good yins injury free.
Levein….how long has he got left?
I don’t want any Celtic players injured in a pointless friendly match so I’m pleased Charlie, Scott Brown and James Forrest are out of that side.
stephbhoy/Greensideup
Amongst the most talented players I remember playing for us but as mad as a box of frogs!!