29 Jul 2015 23:26:55
Imagine someone telling socrates he's not getting a game because he smokes 40 cigs a day, imagine a manager who says to best, no more football for you boy you were drunk last night and didn't eat your weetibix this morning, imagine a manager saying to Maradona, hi boy your carrying to much weight so I've no place for you. Imagine no more, we have that guy with his side kicks Collins and Mc Guinness.
Life is hard enough with governments and corporations creating clones without bringing into our entertainment also.
Summary is ,fudge your talent and individuality play to my system.
Nice 1 celtic football club!.
29 Jul 2015 23:47:40
maybe we could get a cigar room and have a card school instead of daily training ,go for a piss up the night before a game , followed by a full fry up breakfast the morning of the game and that will make the players into clones of Socrates best and maradonna
30 Jul 2015 00:00:50
You don't see the point do you?
30 Jul 2015 00:26:45
No haha
30 Jul 2015 00:44:09
I have nothing to ad regarding the game tonight, but I get your point. In Scotland you always had to be tall to play football. Why? the goals were massive and the boys were tiny. Now you have to be an athlete. What happened to being a footballer. Look at sir Walter giving gazza a half before a game. A great footballer doesn't have to be An athlete. And I also agree with your point with 3 Utd players. Look at the rumours site we are being linked with Souter and Allan imagine for a second we sign those 2. We could start a league game with 4 guys who this time last year were playing for Utd and 1 for hibs. So not a comment from tonight just a long time disillusionment with the way we are all being treated by CFC.s lack of ambition.
30 Jul 2015 08:38:18
TTTS. Are you actually suggesting Socrates wouldn't be better without smoking? Or Best without drinking? C'mon man. We were well behind the times with fitness and nutrition. Again last night we showed that we looked stronger than our opponents in the latter stages of the game.
{Ed001's Note - I think TTTS is missing the point. Socrates and Best would not be signing for Celtic, which is why the players need to be fitter and stronger than their opponents to have a chance. The truly world class talents, who can get away with being out of shape, just aren't clamouring to play in Scotland. As the technique is of a lower level, they will make more mistakes when they get tired, making them fitter lessens those mistakes and so helps to lower the gap in technique between top teams and lesser talented teams.}
30 Jul 2015 08:51:50
This is 2015. There's no coach I can think of that would let their player smoke 5 cigs a day never mind 40. Think of how the youth would think of that. If he can smoke and play I can too. Also how much better would these guys have been if they had a decent diet and healthier living. It's a fact that a healthier life will improve fitness put that with already having the football skills and you'll have an all round better footballer
30 Jul 2015 08:59:15
Did you go a bit 'funny' last night after some dancing juice. Do you think Celtic would be better if more players were fat and smoked? I understand players like commons are never going to be super fit, but obviously it makes sense to have them in peak condition. If best was an athlete he'd have played for United past 27, and maradona bit have been even better without the coke habit! Other than that. GREAT POINT!
{Ed001's Note - could you imagine how good Maradona would have been if he had lived clean and worked harder in training??? There would be no debate at all about who was the greatest footballer of all time then! He would have been unstoppable.}
30 Jul 2015 10:15:02
Well that was another point I was thinking Ed. We haven't exactly produced Socrates or Bests since the 1960s. So something has to change. Our future players are in good hands I think. But we need a better side NOW. If Nadir Ciftci, or Griffiths and Scepovic for that matter are what we view as strikers to lead us into the CL then we're automatically giving ourselves a hard time.
{Ed001's Note - youth development requires long term thinking, it takes ten years to truly show any effect. It is a long hard road to get that part of the club to compete with the best.}
30 Jul 2015 12:00:24
I know mate. Hence why the methods we're putting in place have to last. Whether RD stays on as coach, or steps into the backroom, or goes completely, we have to stick to what he has given us. I said in a post yesterday I think he has already given us a legacy more than most coaches we've ever had.
30 Jul 2015 15:18:03
To reply, my point is we have a manager who is so rigid in his approach and tactics that any young lad coming through would have any form of individualism drummed out of them hence never developing it to something special. It's a sad time not just in football but from when a child first enters school they are taught repeatations not expression.
30 Jul 2015 23:59:32
Think you are missing the point Ed,if Best or Socrates or Marradonna where at Celtic ,do you think RD would put them in the team.
{Ed001's Note - of course he would. Why do people want to ask stupid questions like that? Celtic quite simply do not have anyone with any real pace or ability, which is why you go all cuckoo over Kris Commons, who has been shown as an average waster in the English leagues.}
31 Jul 2015 12:24:09
So his rigid regime only apply to some? BTW no fan of commons and accept the standard of football in Scotland isn't great but quite a few guys down south running around with their heads up their ar$es thinking their wee murdoch poisoned league is the best in the world
{Ed001's Note - what on earth is this bitter rant all about? I was saying he would play them, not that he would excuse them from training or not expect them to work at their game too. As for that crap on the end, it is typical childish idiocy that shows how clueless some of you Scots are, when you destroyed your own league with the Premier League and the English one was merely following your example. But you go ahead and blame it on everyone else, it just makes you look pathetic and bitter, like Balotelli. Celtic are every bit as much to blame as anyone else for the greed is good that has taken over the sport, certainly more so than the prick Murdoch, who merely took advantage of the greed. If you had not destroyed your league with the stupidity of the SPL, you might have a product worth someone showing on TV. As for best in the world, who cares?}
31 Jul 2015 17:54:21
I'm not Scottish
{Ed001's Note - nor am I, what is your point? Is it that you are proving that you are bitter enough to pick a team based on reasons other than football? Or is that you are showing that you can't understand that it means fans of Scottish football rather than Scottish nationals?}
01 Aug 2015 07:20:59
Ive been supporting celtic since I saw a guy called John Dixie Deans slapping in goals for fun and the instant love for a hooped jersey,wasn't influenced by others in any way. To suggest it was for other reasons is the sort of thing I heard on a daily basis and learned to disregard it as ignorance.
{Ed001's Note - suggest or ask? Because I just asked a question and gave more than one option, so you could pick which it was. Only thing ignorant is to be unable to read and so make assumptions based on a lack of understanding.}