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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Paul67 et al
I would tend to agree that fitness is certainly an area where there is room for improvement. Recovery from injuries another, though better refereeing would probably have more of an impact there. Elsewhere, lifestyle decisions need to improve. I was shocked last season, not so much to discover that footballers attended a nightclub in er Prestwick, but that there was a nightclub in Prestwick in the first place!
Chile showed the way last night.
Even if we can’t buy their quality, there is no reason our team of young players cannot outmatch the speed, fitness and pressing of more expensive CL teams.
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White Shirt..
Is it Too Warm for His Denim Jacket..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZmxqlYuMg&list=PL352D911693DE1EEB
Dad..I Got it Wrong Again..
Summa
Eyes Wide Open
13:02, was it Mark Twain who wrote “Sorry this letter is so long I didn’t have time to make it shorter”
Yogiy
13:37 on 19 June, 2014
Eyes Wide Open
13:02, was it Mark Twain who wrote “Sorry this letter is so long I didn’t have time to make it shorter”
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I think Churchill said something similar.
He was a rotten painter though. Not like Hitler……………
Yogiy
Many people have written it, but the original quote is attributed to Blaise Pascal.
TnT probably uses Pascal’s principles to produce his expected values each day for the Napsters.
Neil on 5live , just said atmosphere at Spain Chile game was right up there with Barca game at Celtic Park
Leftckicktic
Not at home just now but given the events of the last few days your post is warmly welcomed.
I can just see auld Frank laughing and smiling as he hears the result.
YNWA
Good afternoon all
To any interested parties, Smurf, the tup, got 4th best in show this morning, rosette and all. Just shows that all the care we gave him since January has paid off. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Rio CSC on Talksport now.
The Battered Bunnet
13:43 on
19 June, 2014
Yogiy
Many people have written it, but the original quote is attributed to Blaise Pascal.
TnT probably uses Pascal’s principles to produce his expected values each day for the Napsters.
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Twisty is definitely a Goethe man through and through… :) …braw
Fitness..good thing to make to make unfit players fitter
Does it make crap players less crap
Making most of our foward options fitter would be irrelevant unless they improve their skill level …
We`ll require more than fitness in Europe
Will JC be able to find that illusive £6m player…you know the one we have the money for but just havent bought yet
Nae worries for the Sevco players getting back to training when they look over and see Ally and his side-kick still scoffing pies.
Pecentage body fat ?
Dr Dolittle would refuse to audit it until a whole list of conditions were met…
I will agree that JC was and apparently still is one fit guy, but when he was a player at CP it was his fitba ability that i appreciated most. Not his ability to run a 4 minute mile or something like that.
Im sorry gentlemen but for me its fitba ability first and fitness second
and i dont think that our side were particularly unfit last year anyway
I dont buy it!
Bookies
eye balled them last night
layed my bet when Croatia were 2-0 up and Cameroon down to 10 men
Cameroon were 325/1 …put £2 on….put £10 on Draw at 50/1
bets covered for £12….
was going to lay off £200 …..luck at last
Now some Celtic fans have turned up beside Neil on the copa cabana , the 5live presenter didn’t sound too surprised
Well done The Bhoys from Rio. They got a good mention of their charity work.
http://www.rioceltic.com/about-us/
If you want to buy tshirt
borgo67 (13:47): “Neil on 5live , just said atmosphere at Spain Chile game was right up there with Barca game at Celtic Park”
…as was the performance of the Spanish teams at each game!
Sipsini
Yep I do like the unfeathered variety as well probably even more !
The Battered Bunnet
Cheers mate
Darwinsbeautifulidea
Its unique mate no one knows about it and I’m the first to take a pic and discover it and I will be letting the SSPB know
timmy7_noted
Its on the southside nowhere near Lanark there are 2 chicks mummy was away hunting no one knows where this bird is except me
ernie lynch
I was about 200mts away I don’t need a license because no one knows where this bird is. Of course once I let the SSPB know the location the rules change
Sixtaeseven
Yer right fat really and his mob may soon have to run along the old railway line, near Milngavie, to try and drop some of the lipids off from round their bellies.
Has Murray Park been bought by the council yet.
HH
PFayr…………….braw :) you were mentioned in dispatches last night …nice to get a wee lift now and then …braw
Really = fat = Sally
Predictable texting !!!
ernie lynch
Just seen the BBC link from this morning .I would say thats a very rare story thats critical of the Israeli government. Occasionally a rogue journalist will slip in a report that goes against currant US-UK policy. Its usually quickly withdrawn from following news programmes. Even in that link the Palestinian had to be a christian for them to report it in a sympathetic light. All the big international crisis’s are not covered with even the slightest attempt at balance.With the conflicts in Ukraine ,Syria ,Iraq, Libyia ,Afganistan where the US-UK have bloody hands theyve been telling blatant porkies. We are living in the most media manipulated era ever and the BBC is the worst. If your wanting some balance and a little truth you have to find it elsewhere.
bigchipsuk
At least Barcelona turned up and gave a decent performance .
Spain last night looked done in.
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WeeFra..
Correct me if l am Wrong..But l thought You still had the Cloak of Invisibility..
Did l get back off you one Night i was Pashed..
Summa
thindimebhoy,
Good luck on the bird watching, enjoy the birdwatching before it becomes common knowledge, then we can hit the toon wae acgr :)
Was dropping off a few hundred extra copies of the (fast selling) Seville book at Celtic Park early this morning.
The outside of the stadium is being transformed for the Games.
Anyway the chap from the Celtic warehouse was loading a van and I helped him. Turns out in was the new kit for the first team and it was on its way to BobbyLennoxtown!
Apparently our new manager had made a great impression with the staff. Yesterday he went round each and every department, introduced himself personally and took an interest in the jobs people were doing.
If I’d have been a day earlier could have sold him a Seville book!
http://www.rioceltic.com
Not bad… Bedtime.
White shirted fitness freaks arrive at Training Centre
Jobo & TnT
Oversee training facilites :))))))
Coatbridge celtic shop has new top with or without sponsors logo
bonusCSC
Neil now talking up England’s chances for tonight , this does not make him a soup taker as someone on here ridiculously suggested, just a football pundit giving his opinion .
PF
Very nicely done!!
Summa
Nope, I’ve still got it. :-))) how you doing this weather, haven’t blethered for ages. :-) Hope all are well on your side of the world. :-)
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
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CQN Announcement..
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CQN will be Offline for a Few Hours on Saturday morning while the CQN Writing team ‘Get a Room’ with the New Management Team..lol
Summa of FawningCSC
…. from the previous thread:
TnT,
Dropped you a quick e-mail – would appreciate if you could send on any stats you get which could help me out (I need plenty of help :-) )
For example I had chosen Tac De Boistron, which your data pretty much tells me not to and it is now a non-runner !!!!
Had a decent day yesterday with 2 places from my 3 e/w bets (Sea shanty & Wee Jean), plus had them on a small e/w Trixie. Then had Chile to win in the evening ;-)
My 3 win bets were not so good with two of them finishing 2nd and the other nowhere :-(
Cheers Mate,
BJM
Twists…..
I’ll take the stats info if available. Usually well behind the 8ball here….
Desertbhoy1888@gmail.com
pfayr- well done amigo.Fancy Engerland 2-1 ……..:(
Thindimebhoy
– quality pic mate,they are beatiful to watch catching a therm then swooping.
Timmy_7_noted
Thoughts o the hun at newlandsfield will set cat among the doos if truex lol, tho I have heard Pollok are not as strong as before both in team&social club.Giffnock is a fine place to toddle bout in hoops:-)
It has its own FOODBANK too,and apparently its 3rd most affluent area in Scotland…crazy world eh
Ernie Lynch
Imo BBC has pandered more to infotainment with the rise of murdochs press and politicization by tories-thatxher and labour-bliar. its world service/R4 tho is stil a must listen too for critical dissent
HH y’all