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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MM
re wig and pen discussion earlier on, is Tannahills no a Celtic shop?
PC67
ht
A type of artist?
JimmyQuinnsBits
I am more of a plodder than a musician
When it comes to reading music I decipher it more than can actually do it.
I sing like an angel however ;-)
Hail Hail
Cereal, Milk, Fish, Pork, Eggs, Mushrooms, beef liver, ALL VERY HIGH IN VITAMIN D
Awe_Naw
Are you big into Frankfurters over there?
Not sure how that could/should be interpreted:o)
sing like an angel?
aye, lucifer was once an angel… o))
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Aye every time I listen to Equinox by John Coltrane, canny play a note on anything me!!
greenjedi16:43 on 4 September, 2012:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You sound like a Stalinist. You & Philvis would be a match made in hell.
Go far enough left, far enough right you meet and are the same. Intolerant ,xenophobic ,cruel totalitarians.
But hey, each to his own.
” I may not like what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ” (Voltaire.)
You probably wouldn’t like me.
But hey, I couldn’t care less.
A C G R
got tickets organised today, the two tickets next to you, one was restricted view. Sitting directly behind you now.
PC67
Awe naw,,there goes HT again looking for a bit of attention.
Did I tell you the time that I had to phone him from 6 feet away
cause he was that engrossed in his own story,no one could get
a word in edge ways?
TallyBhoy
the introduction for the cure for cancer argument is designed to throw CQN into a fighting free for all.
Always happens on CQN before a Sevco tribunal
Nobody should fall for it.
Phil should be asking Amazon and Paul67 for technical details i.e comparative i.p addresses , email addresses, timestamps etc. to see if he can get a match and track down WC Melville if he is looking to sue … which it looks like he is.
Hail Hail
HAil HAil
I just realised I am very angry at the types with power running this ConDemNation we live in.
I apologise for mouthing off.
I’m just so hacked off, and this is no place for that.
I’ll return when I get over myself.
Awe Naw,
I sing like a crabbit ould hoor, but it works for me, and t hell with the audience
On a completely different subject, best quote from the wife on holiday: “Aw, thank god…, he’s only lickin the dog”
Can anyone give me the URL for purchasing Phil’s book, please…..!!
HT
Oanykid,you know I luv ye………….like a brother………..I don’t even like my
brothers.
hendrix67, where are you based about?
KevJungle – Murdo..10 men Championees..1979
19:15 on 4 September, 2012
Missed this re Terry O’Neill and SSB.
Is there a link?
HH
Maybe I’ve missed something? The thems ‘reviewing’ Phil’s book on Amazon – how can they if it’s not out yet?
EDB
Wurst !! Sausage … Germans consider to vegetarian
Hail Hail
BT
Shhhhhhhhhhh……………………….. :-)
Cherub ??? ;-)
Hail Hail
THE EXILED TIM
I hope I didn’t come across as having a go at BTB. It reminded me of the story in The Herald today re fake reviews and how underhand some people can be. I doubt if WC Melville exists but I agree we need to know that stuff is out there and that some people will do anything to distract us from the truth.
Worst quote: “Is it supposed to do that?”
What drink is made for
Awe_Naw…
Ach, I know that!
There IS a cure for cancer anyway – aliens, currently residing in Area 51, imparted it to Nazi scientists in the 1940s: At the end of WW2 these scientists were taken to the US and passed it on to their new employers.
As for tracking down W C Melville, I don’t imagine it should be that difficult in this day and age.
HH!!
Hendrix67
Thank you brother.
Hail Hail
Help needed.
What part of the ground are the Celtic support in at the Barca game, want to get tickets as near as possible.
Thanks in advance.
voguepunter
19:40 on
4 September, 2012
That sounds like me on the two 30 second occasions a year I can keep an audience captivated.
Hail
ticketbus
Based in Muirhead but we have 10 parlours from Muirhead to Helensburgh.
GeriHatric
Wasn’t your post I picked up on.
I find it amazing that there is a review without the book being out as yet.
It’s ironic for them that the more they try and discredit Phil and the book, the more he will sell.
Anyways, more power to his pen.
HH
starry plough
19:39 on
4 September, 2012
LOL I remember buying the single and playing at 33rpm and 78 rpm and being quite proud of myself that I got six songs for the price of two ;-)
HAil Hail
Disappointed to see Ibrahim left out of the Champions League squad although it seems to have been a numbers thing rather than him being completely off the radar.
I’m hoping he makes the breakthrough this season…. liked what little I’ve seen of him so far.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
19:27 on 4 September, 2012
‘Immigrants should adopt the overall ‘basket’ of the Country they migrate to…’
Would it be OK if they started their own football club?
Just opened a letter from Celtic with the price / order form for the 3 home games …..£210 for Investor Club Members …… No discount then, as was the case for other SB Holders ,….mmmmm
Is £210 not about the same price as the zombies SB ….?? …….. LOL….!!! That must be some kind of record ……….
TET-I respect you and everyones right to post here my friend.I didnt refer to guy as a hun, but IMO Phil has earned the right not to have scurrilous allegations posted on CQN.
Evening chaps.
Don’t think I’ve ever seriously used the word ‘hun’ on here (think I used it as a joke, once), but having been reading back after work, I am tempted to apply it to a few of those people who were posting their uncharitable, economically and socially- vacuous opinions on our welfare system (again) today.
Among the many highlights were the ‘let’s make all immigrants speak fluent English, despite the fact that we saunter all over the world expecting everybody else to tolerate us’ nonsense, the ‘all unemployed to work for all benefit, despite the fact that they have contributed National Insurance contributions and that to force such national slavery would be to deny paid employment to those seeking work,’ BS, and the ever-popular ‘nanny state’ crap.
In 1947 we established, by popular consent, a system of out of work benefits which was hugely successful in raising living standards among the poorest in society and in improving educational and emploment opportunities for the masses.
Since 1979 we have increasingly moved towards in-work benefits, encouraging employers to pay starvation wages in the knowledge that the government would subsidise them, thus stealing their so-called profits from the people. Government and employers continue to pursue disgraceful policies which have, for example, this year seen coach loads of decent young people bussed to London to act on behalf of a private company being paid millions of pounds of state subsidy from taxpayers. These young people were unpaid and left to sleep on the streets under a bridge. To add insult to injury, the Army had to be brought in, again at public expense, to do the job properly, in the end.
Last week, CBI Scotland (an organisation which fails to attract the support of even half of those eligible for membership) issued a seven page begging letter encouraging the Scottish government to sack public employees and cut state spending in order to fund their ‘private sector’ (!) recovery.
Today, right-wing hacks on here advocate cutting social support for disabled people because some of them might be dishonest… With no evidence to support such claims, these individuals betray their real agenda.
I had the luxury, for a short time, of a Marist education. Brother Walfrid would be spinning in his grave. Views such as those expressed on here again today are a shameful mirror on our society.
Jocular epigrams and the like cannot hide the Leviathan such ideas would promote within our society.
THUMBSUP
HH
Sorry if posted already.
Why weren’t Sevco seeded in the League Cup as 1 of “the eleven highest placed clubs at the end of the preceding season” http://t.co/mLvJJYMM
>>> Is this the SFL admitting they regard The Rangers are a new club? League Cup rules here: http://t.co/mLvJJYMM
miki67
19:39 on 4 September, 2012
” I may not like what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ” (Voltaire.)
####
He never said it.
End of.
FACT.
Snake Plissken
You are brave man.
TET
Deary me.
He set you up ENTIRELY
HH