White shirted fitness freaks arrive at Training Centre

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Fixtures are out and the management team are in-situ at Bobbylennoxtown; the air of anticipation for a new chapter in a 126-year-old story lies heavy over Celtic supporters.  I wish we were starting tomorrow.

If you are a Celtic player, what would your overbearing sentiment be today?  If it was me, looking at photos of those two white-shirted fitness freaks at the Training Centre today, I’d be tempted to get out for a run, before the real business starts next week.

There are only a few things a manager can do in his first few days in charge of a new squad but setting standards for fitness and training are two clear examples.  Monitoring is not just about stepping on the scales anymore, the players will have their body fat, glycogen levels and heart beats documented from when they get back and throughout the season thereafter.  With benchmarks for all, as well as performances.  I’m feeling tired even thinking about it.

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  1. GerryBhoy

     

     

    21:06 on 19 June, 2014

     

     

    starry plough

     

     

    21:01 on 19 June, 2014

     

     

    GerryBhoy

     

     

    Wie so nicht? Die Deutscher und Schweizer fans nennen die arrogant Engländer so!

     

     

    Yep, could be but we need to keep it to a Celtic level IMO :-)))

     

     

    Tschüss,

     

     

    Gerry

     

     

     

     

    I would say, Home before the postcards is much nicer and much more incisive…….

     

    ……….

     

    HH

     

     

    Gerry

  2. Thunder road

     

     

    To emphasis what i was saying this is a fifa 2011 world rankings per capita.

     

     

    Sobering thoughts for us

     

     

    Rank Fifa Rank Country Points Population

     

    1 20 Slovenia 833 2009245

     

    2 5 Uruguay 1156 3431932 0.00033683651074672

     

    3 9 Croatia 1033 4494749 0.00022982373431753

     

    4 38 Jamaica 632 2780132 0.00022732733553659

     

    5 12 Norway 972 4610820 0.00021080848959621

     

    6 19 Denmark 857 5450661 0.00015722863704054

     

    7 26 Slovakia 779 5439448 0.00014321306132534

     

    8 35 Bosnia-Herzegovina 642 4498976 0.00014269913864844

     

    9 24 Paraguay 804 6506464 0.00012356942265415

     

    10 29 Israel 771 6352117 0.00012137685751065

     

    11 28 Switzerland 778 7523934 0.00010340335255466

     

    12 7 Portugal 1076 10605870 0.0001014532518313

     

    13 17 Sweden 884 9016596 9.8041433818261E-5

     

    14 2 Netherlands 1542 16491461 9.3502934639933E-5

     

    15 13 Greece 959 10688058 8.9726309494204E-5

     

    16 42 Bulgaria 599 7385367 8.1106328229863E-5

     

    17 25 Serbia 797 10150265 7.8520117455062E-5

     

    18 33 Belgium 691 10379067 6.6576311724358E-5

     

    19 36 Belarus 636 10293011 6.1789499690615E-5

     

    20 41 Hungary 603 9981334 6.0412766469893E-5

     

    21 11 Chile 973 16134219 6.0306606722024E-5

     

    22 40 Senegal 619 11987121 5.1638754626736E-5

     

    23 21 Australia 831 20264082 4.1008519408873E-5

     

    24 1 Spain 1588 40397842 3.9309030418011E-5

     

    25 43 Cameroon 595 17340702 3.4312336374848E-5

     

    26 32 Ghana 696 22409572 3.1058156755515E-5

     

    27 23 Peru 805 28302603 2.8442613564554E-5

     

    28 10 Argentina 1013 39921833 2.5374586382344E-5

     

    29 34 Venezuela 648 27730469 2.3367798070779E-5

     

    30 6 England 1146 50431700 2.2723802687595E-5

     

    31 8 Italy 1059 58133509 1.8216688072279E-5

     

    32 31 Colombia 707 43593035 1.6218187148475E-5

     

    33 3 Germany 1305 82422299 1.5833093905813E-5

     

    34 14 France 920 60876136 1.5112654324841E-5

     

    35 39 Ukraine 620 46710816 1.3273157120612E-5

     

    36 22 Turkey 820 70413958 1.1645418370034E-5

     

    37 30 Egypt 735 78887007 9.3171236677797E-6

     

    38 18 Mexico 869 107449525 8.0875183021982E-6

     

    39 15 Japan 918 127463611 7.2020554948816E-6

     

    40 16 Russia 914 142893540 6.3963703327666E-6

     

    41 4 Brazil 1202 188078227 6.3909577369634E-6

     

    42 37 Nigeria 635 131859731 4.8157234599546E-6

     

    43 27 USA 778 298444215 2.6068523392219E-6

  3. Starry Plough and GerryBhoy

     

     

    Schade, keiner kann mit mich Polnish sprechen here :-)

  4. Thunder Road on

    clunks

     

     

    Practice?

     

     

    Do our kids practice, practice practice…..honing their skills in the hope that they will 1 day become what they dream to be……running around with a ball every minute of the day that they get a chance, or do they do what they have to and then go home to play games online, sit on their butts and eat rubbish……while some of these youngsters from abroad may do well to actually eat anything.

     

    Hunger?

     

    Does their hunger and hardship actually drive them on to become better?

     

    I think it does.

     

     

    btw……i am not proposing the starvation of kids!

     

     

    Could something good actually come out of the disgrace in these times that foodbanks are?

  5. bournesouprecipe on

    Tom Boyd has still scored more World Cup goals than Wayne Rooney.

     

     

    Tom Boyd CSC

  6. Commentators who have been slaughtering players for diving surprisingly reticent about Sterling’s dramatic penalty box fall.

  7. Zbyszek

     

     

    21:15 on 19 June, 2014

     

     

    Starry Plough and GerryBhoy

     

     

    Schade, keiner kann mit mich Polnish sprechen here :-

     

     

    Ja, richtig……..schade….aber wir sind alle Celtic Fholks und dass is wichtig….oder?

     

     

    Freundliche Grüsse!!

     

     

    HH

     

     

    Gerry

  8. Delaneys Dunky on

    Are the team whose capital’s greatest building is a tribute to Saint Paul, about to be heading back there from Saint Paul’s City?

     

    I sincerely hope so!

  9. bournesouprecipe

     

     

    21:17 on 19 June, 2014

     

     

    Tom Boyd has still scored more World Cup goals than Wayne Rooney.

     

     

    Tom Boyd CSC

     

     

    So far, I have scored as many WC goals as Wayne Roooonaaayy.

     

     

    However,

     

     

    300PPWCSC

  10. Billy Bhoy 05

     

     

    I was never a big fan of skippy but he scored against the deid club and a last minute winner against AC Milan so im happy to call him one of us

     

     

    B-)

  11. The doctors should not have been allowed to have been over ruled re the guy who got kneed in the head.

     

     

    The manager of Uraguay should take him off for his own safety.

     

     

    If he doesn’t that’s negligence and a failure of his duty to care

  12. Iv never seen Cavani do anythin good any time iv watched him

     

     

    Cue Cavani goal…

  13. don’t see Uruguay being able to sit back and defend for 20 mins they need to try and push out a bit

  14. Loads a straw clutching going on from ITV “commentaters”.

     

     

    Will desperation yield results, one asks ones self……. :))

  15. TET

     

     

    Care to elaborate? I’m in Englandshire this weekend and may be asked for an opinion :)

  16. Delaneys Dunky on

    Tallybhoy

     

     

    Enjoy bud. Spain on 17 July wi my son and two daughters is the Dunky’s carrot the noo. :)

  17. starry plough

     

     

    21:27 on 19 June, 2014

     

     

    Zbyszek

     

     

    Du bist der Sprache Meister!!

     

     

    Vier sprachige??

     

     

    Mais oui, mes Amis.

     

     

    Ahvonlygoat3CSC

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