Celtic Banter Archive April 10 2012

10 Apr 2012 19:51:10
In a sport how do you get better at it? well practice, yes, but almost as important is coming up against playetrs who are better than yourself maybe not in all areas of the game but in some. Now this i feel is a problem that has dogged scottish football for a long time.

This is why i feel teams like Celtic and Rangers have stagnated esp in europe recently. There are few if any players out in the league who are better than them in enough areas for them to be able to help improve their game than what they face at training. And yes other teams will raise their game often but do the players on the opposition actually get better for the experience? no they dont as they do not come up against the better technical players like Celtic and Rangers have or have had often enough for it to have an effect on their game. Which means when they get into europe they are usually out at the first hurdle, because we do not have enough people in the league with these better attributes or will to become better or have the youth system to set them up with the basics they need to be able to take advantage of these situations. Hence all clubs sign a multitude of foreigh journeymen wheo do little if anything to help the situation as clubs are in search of the holy grail of uncovering the next Larsson or Laudrup on the cheap.

This isnt just an Old firm problem, most of the other (mostly spl im talking here but other leagues too) are far too closley matched all round. Yes there arew discrepancies in points totalled etc but you are not going to get better at anything if you consistantly play opponents at a similar level to yourself, you will stagnate and really be left with no scope for improvement. You can only really be as good as the others around you which is why when we get players outside this mould we have little chance to keep them (money aside here)

Look at our players who have gone down south. Now Steven Fletcher is probably a good example here. We knew he was talented at hibs, but if he stayed in scotland his whole career would he be the player he is now? i dont think so. If you are the best of the rest you will remeain that way and some might be able to improve to close to your level. This does not happen enough in scotland. And in scotish sport as a whole. This is what makes european football so important to Celtic anyways. It is the only place that they are going to come up against players better all round at the game than them to try and learn and possibly excel ( i know not very often that has happened recently).

We dont do enough to bring in young players who have enough of the basics to be able to take advantage of these sorts of learning exxperiences. Some make it but they are few and far between. We will all remember the kid at school who would run rings round everyone else ( i liked to think of myself as that kid at school, no ego trip here lol) but you will only reach a certain point of development as a player playing with others at a lower level than you and then look to move on from there.

I dont really have the answers to these problems. But i think there are too many clubs in scotland that help bring these issues to the fore we have too little spread too far and i just hope the plans currently being implimented by the SFA go some way to a remedy for this.

I think this has made sense, I cant be arsed proof reading, i seldom do lol

Evinguu

10 Apr 2012 18:06:03
Hi Ed Ifeel a song coming on.
Weve paid our dues,
Time after time,
Paid all our taxes,
and committed no crime
Thats why
We are the champions, we are the
champions no time for cheaters cos
we are the champions of the league.
CM

Hate that song

I like it.

10 Apr 2012 13:13:42
Has Tommy got his hands on highly sensitive documents claiming major consessions to the dodgers ? ...TTTS

??????????? bb

Tommy who? sheridan? {Ed007's Note - Tommy in Glasgow.}

Aw ye meen big tam,fksake how did ye no say

What makes you think this?

Cos big tams aewaeys in glesga heez daen 3 yeers fur a ladbrokes robbity, hey ah warnt um ah sade tam ahl gie ye 3tae wan aganst gettin away wae it, cum tae think ae it that lousebag owes me £ 20 kwid, ahl need tae pit ma name oan his " tae do " list bye ed peepul tae dae plasis tae go

The only thing tommy sheriduns goat hiz hauns oan thits highly sesitiv iz hiz tag!
hee haw

Dr Pt, or N nyms, ths gy NG, t fnd hs nw vntr plns t sll th brs thr vwls t prft t fnd hs tkvr, Pt gt n frst nd mk frtn hl hl Tmlly

Alex Thomson C4 News has been in contact with HMRC and HMRC have rubbished the Tommy Blog

source Alex thomson twitter page

Lubo25 {Ed007's Note - Tommy is a WUM Lubo, you shouldn't have needed Thomson to tell you that mate!!! Don't take any notice of him. He conned Craig Whyte into thinking he was going to invest in Rangers, have a listen and spot the mug ;-)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6E8WzGPIXI

???????? bb somebody explain this {Ed007's Note - Tommy from Glasgow is a taxi driver who has phoned Craig Whyte and numerous radio phone ins pretending to be ready to bail out Rangers with financial investment. They all fell for it, from Whyte to Talksport who 'interviewed' Tommy live on air. Have you not heard about the Saudi investment by Sheikh Matadger?}

:-) Any more news on the Guiness Stadium ED? {Ed007's Note - Erm...no. Negotiations are at in impasse ;-)

Ed
i read the blog and instantly seen through it.
to many flaws in it
Witholding PAYE is non negotiable with HMRC by law for a start.

Lubo25 {Ed007's Note - He is good for a laugh, and must have some brass neck to do it :-)

10 Apr 2012 10:43:41
Obviously we have a long controversial relationship with Scottish refs and dubious decisions - some for many against - but I have watched a lot of English Prem games and some of their officials are absolutely rank rotten as well.
In my view we will never move to England (in my lifetime anyway) but IF.... I reckon the decisions in some games would cause much the same debate.
Man U and Chelsea (recent examples only) appear to get the 'benefit of the doubt' quite a lot and there are big mistakes in almost every game.

Jungle Jim

Just remember there is no sectarian bile in
the EPL

Naw jist bile ful stoap!

It's easy to make a bad decision look like incompetence even though you meant it.

10 Apr 2012 06:56:32
Great to see rabiu ibrahim on the bench at the weekend.u can't really judge a player on youtube clips but he does look a tricky player that celtic miss sometimes can't wait to see him get a chance weather that's this season or pre season JAMES1888

He looks so small and skinny i can c why he hasnt featured yet