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 will celebrate Maggie’s journey to hell with a fine malt and a smile. Although, that said I do fear for Azazel’s position down there once she arrives.
Still stick up the fingers to Yule n Dodd & WH Malcolm truckers to this day anytime I drive past one. Habitual. Hope both companies go bust as they made their millions from the misery of others.
MWD doesn’t hate but does seriously dislike some.
Would give Watt a run rather than sign Sammon.
HH Bhoys
Unrelated comment but anyone seen the latest Breaking Bad episode with the train robbery superb TV , along with the magnet episode think this season is the best so far and that’s saying something.
Anyone that’s not seen Breaking Bad I highly recommend watching it from the start , top quality tv
JP
Invercelt.
Thatcher was only interested with voters south of the watford gap.
Experienced it personally as I saw grown men cry as they were made redundant as mod contracts went south.hh
pauloantony/Cosimo63
It all changes again tomorrow and the next day :-)
Agreed, looks good.
Like the mobile CQN too – just left a comment there. Works for me.
NegAnon2
Be very, very careful or we’ll end up agreeing.
Moonbeams
A man of principal!!
Id bring in Big J J to help Neil!!
Just speed reading through today’s posts.
2 points of note thus far.
1. American Football – please God. No!
2. Like/Dislike buttons. I prefer Banker/No a Banker buttons or debator/master-de-bator buttons.
Now onto P6
MWD
Good nite Bhoys!!
jimphil70
00:03 on
15 August, 2012
Aaarggghh! You`ve just gone and spoiled it for me! I never would have predicted a train robbery, but now I know it`s going to happen theres no point in me watching it. I suppose you`ll tell me the Helsingborg score now as well…….
Jimphil70
Love BB watched it all up to this season and the first one this season but not watched any more. Hope to watch it soon but don’t post any links as I think P67 gets in trouble.
Sorry bud- it’s just the plan I’ve given away watch and enjoy , Helsingborg score will be 1-2 first leg 3-1 2nd leg job done CL footie coming you’re way ;-)
DJBEE
No worries
Understood
Think I just spoiled it somewhat for BobbyRussell by mistake oops
Enjoying Hell on Wheels too – for anyone that liked Deadwood etc defo worth a watch 2nd season just started
HH
Jimphil
I will give it a look, Hell on Wheels. BB is the best thing since The Sopranos and its never been on here, don’t know why.
So CG got a phone call from the SPL today , saying he can’t put oldco results on newcos website , as they don’t own the rights to them .
Thats more interesting than his subsequent rant about agendas. Is it not?
NegAnon2
23:48 on
14 August, 2012
Invercelt – I hate Margaret Thatcher and will have a party when she dies. I lived through her recession and witnessed first hand the devastation that it wrought and the reckless disregard for people and their lives. Its very very personal for me.
Did you also live through the devastation of the `70s? The months of rat infested streets of Glasgow as the ” cleansing ” invoked their democratic right to inflict filth on the good citizens of Glasgow.
Or,how about the grave diggers strike which prevented bereaved families burying their dead,even if they brought a shovel.
The miners who subjected the elderly to freezing Winters?
The Labour govt. bailouts to loss making industries,U.C.S.,the steel industry,British Leyland( Linwood,anyone) subsidised by the tax payers.
VIZ. the banks today.
Thatcher went miles over the top in dealing with fascist unions and the introduction of the staggeringly stupid poll tax,but MAYBE at the end of the day we have a much more civilised method of dealing with industrial disputation.
Not to mention the hitherto underclass ,and yes,many of our lot,to whom she introduced the independence and financial stability of home ownership.
The Anglo-Irish accord which laid the groundwork for the current political civility in N.I.
Her role in the liberation of Eastern Europe from fascist communism.
Perhaps Zbyszek may have a different view of her contribution to that flowering of democracy.
Celebrate her death if you must,but that diminishes you,not her.
DJBEE
Loved The Sopranos never watched it when it was on but watched it all over a month or so and will watch it again at some point hopefully , superb.
Good point about BB not being on here , there are quiet a few series that were never given airtime here except maybe on the more obscure channels Sons of Anarchy , Carnivale etc
HH
personally, i’d gladly dig the hole for her.
Jimphil70
I am just going to wait till I can get season 5 of BB on disc and watch it one weekend but I think there is sixteen episodes so prob wont be able to wait that long, I think they are showing 8 now and 8 later so prob try get the first 8 soon as I can.
Reading Sandazas comments regarding their attempt to win the two cups(as well as div3) not sure what 2 cups he’s talking about league cup, scottish cup and/or ramsden cup anyhow still think we should be lending out a few promising players to a div3 club .
I guess we know Peterhead were favs for div3 before they were shoehorned in but who else would be their next closest rivals that we could support and give our players some hunskelping experience?
Off to bed
DJBEE
I like that, sounds like a good plan it’s good to have multiple episodes to watch, I might do the same with last 8 myself .
In the meantime I promise not to mention any spoiler type comments on here again.
HH
Interesting, if rather large, new look,..p.s…who stole the link creator?
Couldn’t we just wait and if we win the league with some spare games to go lend all the players out to the team nearest them in Div3 n see what happens, not being serious but it would be funny. If they still around after Xmas.
Off noooo
jimphil70
anyhow still think we should be lending out a few promising players to a div3 club .
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dear god no!!! can you imagine the state they’d come back to us in when ian black and his team-mates get to kick lumps out them 4 times a season. that’s difficult enough for battle hardened senior players.
let them fester. a few wet nights getting crunched in angus will show them what a walk in the park the 3rd division is. i think they will come up this season, but i wouldn’t bet on it.
Pleased, but can’t believe there are no Celtic players in that team ….. Nothing changes …..
jock tamson
dear god no!!! can you imagine the state they’d come back to us in when ian black and his team-mates get to kick lumps out them 4 times a season. that’s difficult enough for battle hardened senior players.
Thats true watched their Peterhead game and their players were the ones taking a kicking so can see them having a lot of injuries and they may well struggle rather than stroll especially away from home
night all
HH
In this country,UKplc,under Thatcher,the ‘big bang’ took place in the stock exchange,freeing the markets from all constraints. That led directly to the beginning of the collapse of capitalism in 2008. For the rampant free booters :
“fascism/:
(historical) A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights. Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to Benito Mussolini’s Italy.
By vague analogy, any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting and violence against largely unarmed populations.”
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If you think Thatcher does not fit the criteria,that’s up to you. For me,she does.
Feedback on the new look,
Crisp and sharp,,however,,I would like more words per line making paragraphs wider and filling up the screen page more giving more to look at as opposed to more scrolling now. The page seems empty and underutilized with maybe only a third in use on my laptop at least.
Best blog around tho,,keep up the good work.
Hail Hail
Apologies if posted already………interesting article:
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http://leftbackinthechangingroom.blogspot.com/2012/08/celtics-biggest-challenge-keeping-their.html?
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Celtic’s biggest challenge? Keeping their players
Rarely has a team started a league season as such overwhelming favourites as Celtic start this season in Scotland.
The reasons for this are well-documented. Their eternal challengers, their bitterest foes, are fathoms below them. Out of sight but never quite out of mind. The likes of Motherwell, Hearts and company will fight as they always do but the depth and quality of Celtic makes the idea of them not winning the league utterly unthinkable. They will win at a canter.
Last year, I wrote a piece on Celtic’s transfer strategy. The next challenge for Celtic is, with the league essentially won, to keep hold of those talented players. There are some extremely talented – and no doubt ambitious – players at Celtic Park and if the league season becomes a procession will they wish to stay? My view is they’ll have to make a decent foray into European football otherwise the draw of the Premiership, and other leagues, may become too great.
Ki Sung-Yeung, Victor Wanyama, Beram Kayal, Emilio Izaguirre and Gary Hooper (my views on the Hooper here) are all fine players who could survive in the Premiership.
If relative success in Europe doesn’t follow, I’d expect the biggest English clubs to start a feeding frenzy on Celtic at new year. In the shorter term, Manchester United are said to want a left-back. If they sign Baines from Everton, Moyes may well turn to Celtic for Izaguirre. He is likely to be cheaper and very possibly better than other alternatives.
I’ve seen Kayal, Ki, and Wanyama linked to clubs who finished in the top 6 of the Premiership last season. It may well be that if one of those teams comes calling, Celtic – even with their strong finances and sound management – will be unable to resist whilst, no doubt, haggling for a fair price.
The only other ways for Celtic to keep hold of this talent? Well, players aren’t always economic automatons.
Lennon may be able to point out that Celtic plucked many of the above from relative obscurity. That argument might cut some ice if not a huge amount. Further, if Lennon can sell a long-term vision of the club to the players, and show them why they are integral to that vision, some may be convinced. If he can convince them that weekly football in front of 60,000 passionate supporters, trophies, and perpetual European football is better than the comparatively big money and occasional football available at a mid-table English Premier League team, more may be convinced. It isn’t, despite what we may have heard, all about the money.
Scottish football needs talented players. Even if we don’t support Celtic Football Club, we shouldn’t wish talented players away from them. Scottish football as a whole will be poorer for it – not just because we’ve lost those players but because the other clubs may well be cannibalised as Celtic consider replacements.
I have been reliably informed that Jordan Rhodes will be a Celtic player as soon as either Ki is sold, or a Champions League place is secured, or both.
Another young striker with a lot of goals in him.
I would be delighted with such an acquisition.
PS. Love the new slick look on CQN, both on the PC and phone. Thanks and well done to all concerned.
Tom McLaughlin
02:17 on
15 August, 2012
Tom,
I think we need to, and will keep Ki, especially if we qualify for CL group stage.
HH
Mahe the Madman –
Got to disagree re line lengths.
When lines are very long, it makes the content difficult and cumbersome to read. I think the shortened line lengths strike a proper balance and make the blog much easier on the eye.
Neil Lennon & McCartney –
Can’t disagree with that, but wonder if Ki would want to turn his back on the EPL as he might never get the chance again, and don’t think Celtic would stand in his way, especially at such a profit to soften the blow.
Tom,
Ki – he’s still a young man who has just won a bronze medal that precludes him from national service………must be like 2 years added to your life……and now he has the chance to star in CL. Big Vic will miss the first leg so Ki has a great chance of playing in Sweden.
I think his chance will come soon enough, and Celtic will reap a handsome profit. Just not now please!
Neil Lennon & McCartney –
Again, I agree. I would prefer him to stay for a few more years yet, but you know what football is like. Does someone from Korea turn down the EPL and hope he can go there a few years down the line, what with injuries and the many other hazards that can change the course of a career?
It’s not as if he is a Scot who has grown up stepped in our traditions, so he won’t have the natural pull towards the club that others might have, and that is understandable.
I suspect he will grab his chance now while he still has the chance.
I hope I am wrong.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Charlie Mulgrew is our 21st century Billy McNeill in the making?