One of the things Neil Lennon may have on his agenda for the international break is an inquest into the physical condition of his playing squad. The season is a month old and Celtic have an injury list which would wipe out pretty much every other team in the country. If this was an isolated occurrence it would be no more than curious but we have written about, and discussed, the fragile limbs of Celtic players since the Lennoxtown Training Centre opened nearly five years ago.
Since then Celtic ‘lost’ (more on that at a later date) three leagues by a maximum of six points and lost valuable form and points due to first choice players sitting in the stands on match day.
On Saturday our central midfield was without Ledley, Brown, Wanyama, Kayal and McGeouch (on a non-fitness related injury), while even auxiliary stand-in for central mid, Charlie Mulgrew, was on the list of others getting treatment.
The run of bad luck has moved clearly into the realms of statistical relevance. It is not luck at all, we are doing something wrong.
Football clubs look to sports science to deliver multiple objectives. Competitive pressure is put on players to become faster and to be able to run as effectively late in games as they can in the opening minutes (which for now is a physical impossibility but remains a key target), but we are clearly missing a trick.
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When are our new players likely to get their international clearance, if anyone knows, is it likely before our next league match or CL group stage, just wondering
philvis\kojo,
any comments
http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=1601
Invercelt,
You are correct. I used the word “liberal” because that was how the Risorgimento was perceived in Europe at the time – the logical progression of Enlightenment and Democratic ideals.
David Gilmour, in his excellent “The Pursuit of Italy” demolishes this notion, and describes the Risorgimento as essentially an aggressive war by the Savoia against the other kingdoms on the peninsula. The destruction of Naples was particularly brutal.
The new nation went on a series of disastrous colonial adventures as a means of “uniting the kingdom in a baptism of blood”. The failure of these led to immense disillusionment and shame, an atmosphere which undoubtedly benefited a skillful demagogue like Mussolini.
This summer, I went to several Italian cities I had never visited (in over 30 years of visiting the country). The sheer variety and persistence of regional customs and language is astonishing, and emphasises just how artificial the state of Italy actually is. It’s amazing it hangs together at all.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
cheers
thats absolutely crap celtic……..i’m a faithful customer and have been……well since the 60’s, man i’m old.
peter lawell if your reading f**k right off with that!
pure ragin’
I miss the straightforward way the Aussies tell you things….don’t say they didn’t warn you as you wander around the mining areas in the outback…..
Health and safety Australian style
Hail hail
Estadio
Well bhoys,
holiday tomorrow,nr Kemer in Turkey,dont think there are any places to
catch next weeks game,unless anyone knows better,
as is tradition just opened a bottle of champagne for me and the good lady,
Lanson black label,on offer in Sainsburys for £20,
look after the blog while i am away,i have been warned that i aint
allowed near a computer for a fortnight
JimmyQuinnsBits (Re-Assembled)
If I Recall….This Book (Like Other Research)..Does Suggest That Some Of Our Forebears Came From A Pocket In Galicia…..But This Was Merely A Small Offshoot Of The MAIN PAIRTY of Oor Ain Folk…
Who Were Gathered In The Big ‘Ice Refuge’*…In The Pyrenees…Mainly Oan The French Side…
Cos Further North….It Was Colder And Bleaker Than Larkhall ….
Oan The Dreichest Day In February….
Cos A Meteorite Hid Struck The Canadian Glacial Ice Shield….In The Region Of The Great Lakes…
Unblocking….A Blockage….Sending The Waters Rushing Down The Mississippi…
Tae The Caribbean Sea….
Instead Of Maistly Flowing Oot Through The Gulf Of St. Lawrence….Into The Great Banks Of Labrador….
So The Cold Waters Flowing Into The Caribbean ….Disrupted The Gulf Stream..
So We Hid The “Wee Ice Age” For Many A Year…..
Till KOJO Came Along….And FIXED IT..!
(But Ye’d Never Know That… If Ye Hid Tae Listen Tae Awe Those Shockin’ Leftie Teachers Of Today)
Yer Pal…..Who Thinks Yer A Brammer..
*Asbestos Free
Glen Daly. It’s much easier to get the lift up and walk back down.
no, i’m neil lennon “i’ll never walk alone” (fourstonecoppi )
I would hope Celtic try and sellout the 3 match packages before selling the individual games. (unless to ST holders who should have choice to have their seat for any individual game)
hh
Evening all, just bought Phil’s book, now up to No 8 in the Amazon best seller chart.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bestsellers-Books/zgbs/books
I reckon it will be No 1 tomorrow. You’ve got to laugh at those poisonous huns they have given Phil more publicity than he could have contemplated by not having his book serialised.
As many a poster on here has said before:
Stupid, stupid huns.
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
Whisky time be back in 5!! <:o))
BT
Will need to pluck up the courage to ask the HT by Monday but if it happens I’d probably need to do the one day trip :-(
hendrix67 – I could do with some work for extra cash. Have disclosure scotland cert allready and driving license
Invercelt & Italiabhoy – thanks for the informative historical posts, my wife loves Itay, especially her town of Venezia where she lived she still hasn’t read about affairs in Abyssinia a big disgrace
BB
Excellent podcast. You sounded quite professional compared to the two beside you? :-)
Thanks to Bjmac for organising.
HH
CRC
So…..the ConDemNation swings further to the right. Workloads increase. No welfare safety net left to speak of. And yet only 15% of the proposed cuts have been fully implemented yet.
Government borrowing way up and more than New Labour (Tory lite), proportionally.
Full employment a distant dream. Part time work the norm, but working tax credits cut.
Child poverty rocketing. Rickets increasing. The NHS being surreptitiously. Food banks stretched to breaking. Fuel price increases. Food price inflation.
And yet we have right-wing Tims on here in full smug mode preening and polishing their discredited notions. They should be ashamed of themselves.
2012 ? It’s more like 1812.
Scunnered to bits, me.
Whers Philis btw? Not do a backshift??
Michae 21:41 on 4 September, 2012 I can just see the dark side desperately buying 50 shades to keep Phi out of the Amazon chart……
50 Shades of Gre….en and Whyte?
Hatandcoatcsc
CRC
Cheers mate, one thing tho. Realised i say basically a lot lol
HH
CRC
I’ve not listened to it yet but the missus has.
She says she’s never heard me so polite :-)
Jude 2005 – philvis butler has fallen asleep at the wheel!
sorry Hendrix67, didnt notice it was fulltime.. can only consider part time work (evenings) while I build my new business and take zilch wages!
Cracking read bhoys.
Hot Tip for “The Sun” on Biggest Financial Scandal in UK Sport – Guest Post by Kenny McCaffrey http://t.co/f9GhqVKj
Bundoran Bhoy
Did you get my text abt the leaflets??
ItaliaBhoy @ 22.18,
Good to see your response – hope to have enough energy for a rejoinder tomorrow.
jungle Jim,
I suspect that site may be buying the pavcks and selling the tickets individually ??
Surely if der hun wants to find out the truth about what happened to their odious little club Phil’s book should be their first port of call,but they would rather believe all the hunguffery peddled by hun apologists like jabba and wee chico
They are indeed stupid stupid huns
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
22:52 on
4 September, 2012
I got a text from you. Will reply in a couple of mins
HH
CRC
dixiebhoy69
22:15 on 4 September, 2012
Hello there…….!!……..As ever, I’m hunkiedorey …… I blame being a very happy Celtic fan …. AND the fact that the bhuns are no more ……. HOW GOOD DOES THAT SOUND
If you haven’t ever seen great balls of lighting in the sky…..get yourself to Kamba and stare up at the sky, camera in hand and this is what I caught!!
catch a falling star
Hail Hail
Estadio
I’m hiding from philvis after yesterday morning ha ha he’s like a bear with a sore head on a Monday morning lol.
Anyone know if there is anywhere in the Camyuva/Kemer area of Turkey
that may show next weeks game
B B/CRC
If its not possible no prob btw.
Galicia Wiz Merely The ‘But N’ Ben’ For Oor Guid Folk….Livin’ In The Pyrenees..
Wi’ Saltcoats Thrown In….
And Of Course….You Do Realise That These Same Folk Were The Very First Humans To Set Foot On The Virgin Soil Of The Americas….?
And Settled Extensively Around The Chesapeake Bay Area…
As Has Been Covered By Numerous Documentaries On Channel 4 …And Nat Geo…Over The Past Twenty Years….
And The Oldest Bodies They Ever Discovered…Hid Northern European DNA..ONLY….
However….The Native American Indians Got Wind Of This….And For The Past 20 Years….There Has Been No Forensic Or DNA Analysis….Of Ancient Bodies….Uncovered Oan The Eastern Seaboard…..
Cos They Claim Them As The Bodies Of THEIR Ancestors….And The Standard Practice Is That The ‘Remains’ Are Held Oan Military Bases….Until They Are Released To The Indian Reps…To Be Re-buried/Disposed Of…At A Secret Location
In The Middle Of The Night….
Tragic….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9110838/Stone-age-Europeans-were-the-first-to-set-foot-on-North-America.html
Ryan Mc Gowan in the Eagle Inn the best Tic pub in Little Ireland!!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=435817466470080&set=a.435817313136762.115205.100001254914501&type=1&theater
Hadn’t realised just exactly what had happened regarding the Sun, Phil Mac and the usual suspects.
Pre ordered the book on Amazon. Would have bought it anyway but Paul McConville’s article hastened the transaction.
When you are a Celtic person you really will Never Walk Alone.
The worst of it is that if we are true to ourselves we still have to hold out the hand or reconciliation to these people. If they keep refusing it then that’s up to them. I pity them. What it must be to be so myopic, so stupid, so lacking in understanding, so bound by chains of their own making.
ToneLoc @ 22.41,
Nice to know that our outpourings have pleased someone besides ourselves.
Mrs IC & I visited Venice for the 1st time last year: we knew that it would be beautiful, but were still bowled over – stupendous!
Can’t criticse your Mrs for gaps in her knowledge of history when the Italian Govt. still won’t face up to the truth after 150 years.
For the vitamin D aware! Very important up here in the North of Sweden where the winters are very dark
I prefer to eat mine :D
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-foods-containing-vitamin-d/
I also eat spirulina and hemp protein every day in my shakes for their omegas and immune system building content and high proteins and maca to balance the hormone production.
Been doing it a few years now and never felt better!