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.
Visit the CQN Bookstore to get Tommy Gemmell to sign your personal copy of his book, All the Best.
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BMCUW
In answer to your two questions:
-possibly;
-yes.
Still can’t get those (very long) legs out ma heid! Absolutely magnificent they were!
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
Do they do a DIY cat wash?
The BBC hardly makes any decent programmes these days. It commissions a lot, and buys a lot.
The Green Man,
I don’t remember Wayne Rooney personally but I used to live quite literally across the street (Stonebridge Lane) from his family in Croxteth, when he was a wee boy. I know it is a working class area but I never realised until your post that there was some agenda against him because of his background. I would have thought most great players came from such a background. It certainly used to be.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
I knew i would get pulled up on the eastenders bit, i dont watch eastenders though when it first started i used to watch it religiously for a good number of years and have watched it on and off over the years when err, ‘forced to’!!
so i would only be lying to myself if i included it in my mince list!
the apprentice is 100% mince though and belongs on another channel!
philbhoy…….there is an excellent whisky sampler in Hamilton , that will give you a complete and honest perception of your single malt, BMCUWP has his addy just send the bottle and£10 to cover the p&p for its safe return…….yernoasstupidasalookcsc
charliebhoy
Do you want a cheque or a postal order?
:-)
It seems the English are bewildered that their team are so poor when their players are drawn from the best league in the world. Imo, it is quite simple: the EPL has so much money that the clubs buy the best and don’t allow their home grown talent to develop. The hype and the jingoism give the supporters a false sense of their true place in the football firmament.
Talking dugs ????? The Sauve Sav is full of them on a Thursday night
philbhoy either will do just tape it to the bottle !!!!! jingsyeurasdaftasalook!!!csc
Can you still get postal orders?
weeminger
11:15 on 20 June, 2014
The BBC hardly makes any decent programmes these days. It commissions a lot, and buys a lot.
There was a government edict which forced the BBC to have a certain percentage of it programming externally produced.
auldheid
I like dogs but have no plans to hire one so I can take it to the ‘dog wash’! Can you hire dogs anyway?
billybhoy
Also like cats. Was given two kittens by à friend about 15 years ago.
Named them Henrik and Larsson.
HH!!
mick don’t drink in the sauve loos…….it will only come back to bite ye!!!
Just came across this pic in my favs.
cant remember which CQNr posted it :))
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21795726@N06/7074869301/lightbox/
Till later all
back on Mam duty today and tonight,cant wait to see the look on her face when she’s asking me if my wife knows I “Talk to strange men on that(laptop)”.
Philbhoy
Yes
Parkheadcumsalford
11:22 on
20 June, 2014
It seems the English are bewildered that their team are so poor when their players are drawn from the best league in the world. Imo, it is quite simple: the EPL has so much money that the clubs buy the best and don’t allow their home grown talent to develop. The hype and the jingoism give the supporters a false sense of their true place in the football firmament.
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They don’t buy the best. You seem them get passed off the pitch by good teams in the group stage of the CL never mind the latter stages.
They buy the best of the rest of the foreign markets,the players the Barca’s/Reals/Bayerns/Juves etc don’t want, but which is still a level above the typical English footballer.
They then convince themselves they have the best league in the world and expect great things and are usually let down.
As Roy Keane put it, they have the best marketed league in the world, maybe. But thats about it.
Blantyre Tim.
Ha.
He’ll have aged another ten years by the time he makes it to the hall.
Some guy Jimmy.
I think it’s quite simple. The EPL is NOT the best league in the world – it has a raft of top players but it also has a lot of athletes who aren’t great footballers. It is extremely poor value for money and all the other top leagues have overall better technique.
This is partly due to the British psychology of getting ‘stuck in’, and wanting our refs to be lenient, it makes our footballers triers but doesn’t promote good skills. The ball players get bullied or worse, dropped in favour of hammer throwers.
That and the fact they import their top players… just because they have a good league with world stars doesn’t mean they are going to be a good side. Their best players come from Brazil, Holland etc. It is any surprise?
And it disgusts me their need to scapegoat players. I didn’t get to see the game but blaming Gerrard for heading the ball from a kick out seems extremely harsh.
leftclicktic
Thanks!
It must be 40 years since I last bought one.
http://www.celticfc.net/news/6099
I heard this in the car yesterday. This young man knows about Celtic.
p.s. – he was just being diplomatic about England.
Think I’ll just stick with WTF!
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antifa
02:09 on 20 June, 2014
Blessing yourself is now illegal in Scotland.
Antifa says no.
Nationalism is an evil thing, and it nearly always leads to mass graves, look at what happened in nazi germany, a Yes Vote is indeed a vote for the mass deaths and murders of English people and non white non protestant or atheist peoples. Telling us a million times you are voting yes doesnt make any one else more likely to vote the same way. Your vote is no more important than any one elses MWD, the people, not yourself will decided if we want a progressive left wing Scotland under a labour government within the union or if we want a hostile far right Scotland that says no to catholics and English people under an SNP government. I know which version is more in line with the internationale.
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Loonies and asylums come to mind!!! Double WTF WTF!!!
MWD says AYE plus a wee extra AYE for those in need of medication. Just WOW! WOW! WOW!
Big Nan
10:37 on
20 June, 2014
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I’m booked in the Forth View Thurs/Fri, dinner booked for Thursday night. Thanks for the Trop Advisor input :-)
Before I go
Heard Ray wilkins say on SSN Innngerluuuuund players should have targeted & tested how strong LS knee was with a few challenges”within the rules of the game” to see how it stood up.
new article posted.
Tallybhoy
Naw you hire dogs out to mugs who do not have a dog but want to wash one.
A slow burn fetish market I admit but it worked for Reggae Perrin. :)
Hey Mon
Reggae Perrin?
I’ll smoke to dat.
billy bhoy 05
11:15 on 20 June, 2014
TALLYBHOY
Do they do a DIY cat wash?
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Just a catwalk for the pampered poodles.
Antifa
Please say that post was a joke…?
atadworried csc
The problem is with the conceit that the media etc in England have.
Prior to the World Cup starting I was listening to Talk Sport one morning on the way into work and Alan Brazil was asking his co host (Mickey Quinn I think) what percentage of players registered to play in the WC did he think played their club football in the EPL.
MQ replied with 50-60%.
The actual figure was around 15%.
My friends in Celtic,
If we say the English league is not the best in the world, but the best marketed, then are we saying the best league is in Spain. ( CL finalists etc. )
The German league may attract big crowds but IMO the quality of most teams is inferior to the Spanish.
The Spanish squad is predominately players who play in Spain.
All the dugs in the street know that.
HH.
MWD,MALONE BHOY
Antifa is the product of someone’s poisoned imagination.
If you go back to about two years ago when he first started posting,he couldnae string two sentences together,his spelling was all over the place,etc.
Make your own mind up but see if you can locate his early stuff.
About August 2012.
Only reason I remember is that I was due home for the first time in over a year and offered to give him a book which might educate him a little.
I should,of course,have read it myself instead!
We can all think we are football experts and armchair coaches but we are not. We are merely pundits who have an opinion on the game and spout as much garbage at times as the highly paid former players/managers, current players/managers and journos.
Watching the world cup has been a joy. No pressures of supporting any particular team and just wanting there to be rakes of goals which there have been in most of the games.
I still don’t see an outstanding team so far but the Germans, Dutch, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Italy, Columbia & Uruguay look very good and strong when they have their first 11 fit.
It is as wide open a world cup as I remember but there is really some dross there. In fairness to Australia they are not the best team in there but they have had a go and scored some goals. People will remember them. I spent 45 mins watching Japan v Greece last night and that is 45 mins I won’t get back. Totally brutal.
I watched the England matches with interest. It is all we hear about in the coverage so I take more than an interest in their games.
They never learn do they? Italy completed over 90% of their passes against England. The highest amount ever recorded in the world cup since records began in 1966. England have some very good players but they give away the ball way too much. Why play two players who are hot and cold like welbeck who would not even make my squad and Sterling who is a kid and an impact player. Why put your most potent goal threat and probably best player on the wing? No other team in the world cup would do that. Can you imagine Pirlo being asked to play wide right to accomodate a young player who the media fancy as a player? No chance. You play your best players in their best positions and fit the rest around them. Every other team in the competition does this except England. They always do it. They will play a veteran whose best days may be behind him but has experience and know how which is vital at these tournaments. There are players in teams who don;t play regular for their clubs and have flopped at English teams who are performing very well. The commentator will say things like ‘He had a short unseuccesful spell at Charlton, Watford, Swansea, etc). Now they are performing at the world cup and don;t look out of place.
England are fixated on young players with some flair. What they need is Gerrard and Lampard to play in the middle and hold the ball. Pass the ball to death between themselves and the back 4 and then hit the runners and get a shot off. England had too many players bombing forward and when they do get a chance they snatch at it because the area in and around the box is too congested. It’s a bygone era of kick and rush football similar to watching schoolboys who have set up ther own game and all bomb forward when the ‘best player’ gets the ball. This in turn leaves the team wide open at the back and so far they have lost 3 goals in this manner in 2 games. 2 last night and one against Italy. England are prone to lose goals when they are in the ascendancy and when they are looking like scoring because their players don’t have any tactical discpline and ball watch while their team attack. Watch the 3 goals they lose their defence are standing watching the play rather than anticipating where the striker may go and where the ball may go.
It’s tactically naive but in the main it is just lazy. England captain is Gerrard. Who is next in line? Rooney?
Look at most international sides they have at least 3 recognised club captains on the pitch and the team play as one. England are a team of individuals thrown together and forced to bond when it looks clear that even for the sake of their country most of them can;t stand to be around each other. Nations that are doing well at this tournament have displayed an incredible togetherness and a national pride that England just don’t possess.
I would wager that most players don’t really care and the ones that do are frustrated by the ones who don’t.
If I were manager last night I would have played a 4-4-1-1.
Rooney would have played off Sturridge and Sterling would not have ben near the starting 11. Lampard would be a certain starter. You do not take a fully fit experienced pro like Lampard and not play him. Totally pointless. I would assume other managers are puzzled at that decision. 3 players who should be in the squad whether the manager the fans or the media like them are Rio Ferdinand, Terry and Cole. Experience is vital. If I were boss I would put Rio and Terry on the spot. Get on with this not for each other but for the nation. Put the ball in their court. I can not understand any player being OK with not being selected for the world cup in Brazil for their country. That speaks volumes for what is wrong in England. Rio Ferdinand has the audacity to sit in the studio and pass comment on his team and what it means to play for England when he refused to play for them. The modern English player right there. John Terry for all his faults is the best English centre half and captain since Tony Adams. He is a wily player who gets away with lots of fouls and gets offsides for his team. He is more importantly a leader. He is a good captain. England need to sort out their players attitudes and their in fighting. John Terry was charged with racisim and the fall out from it has affected the England team. Stand up and apologise shake hands and move on. We all make mistakes and as much as I hate racists he is human. No other team at the world cup would not pick one of their top players for similar reasons. Not one! Maybe England should be praised for that? Who knows? They have sacrificed their world cup chances on principals. Fair play to them if that is the case but I doubt it. They are terrified of the media reaction who will ultimately slate them anyway and then write articles similar to what I am saying about who they should have taken and most of the time it is players they have said beforehand shouldn’t go.
England need to sort their game top to bottom but they won’t because the obssession in England from players, coaches, managers, clubs and even to fans is money. Regardless of what their team wins everyone is concerned with how much they will get. Whether it is bonuses or cash to spend. They have no thouughts on the development of their game. Much like our old friends across the city they think building a super training ground will grow new players. It is the attitude in their game that is wrong. They expect to win. They think all their young players are the new Gazza. They do not encourage good habits. What England should do in their friendlies going forward is keep the ball. Play 90 mins against a team who are way below them and forget about how many goals they score go for over 70 percent possession and complete a rake of passes. The more they pass the ball the more tired the opposition will become and they can then through on their youthful players. To me looking in it looks easy. It doesn’t look difficult surely you look at the English players and pick the best ones. You then put your best 11 together you don;t pick them becase they are young. You put the players in their correct positions because they are the best in their position in the country. You fill the spine with experience and keep the bright hopes on the bench and let them have 30-10 mins near the end of the game to make an impact.
It amazes me tournament after tournament they make the same mistakes. It’s amusing to a point as the media really go to town on them after praising them to the rafters beforehand but they surely need to realise that they have the players to have a decent tournament but not if they are not in the squad.
LB
LiviBhoy
Agree with every bit of that, except Ferdinand, think he’s past it.
I just think the approach to football in the UK as a whole in the main is backwards and old fashioned.
The way the tournament has gone I think it shows skill, passion and hard work will win. Hard work sometimes gets you a draw, and hard work and no shortage of skill will often win over excellent skill with a lack of effort or bravery. But in the end, without technical ability 9 times out of 10 you will not find success.
The french finding holes all over the swiss cheese defense…french firing on all cylinders.