17 Feb 2018 11:24:44
A few people have already mentioned about the end of season friendlies Scotland have in South America. I really hope Brendan tells the SFA none of our players will be going.

Celtic have played a total of 45 x Competitive games so far this season.

Aberdeen have played 34 x games

Sevco have played 33 x games

Just think about those numbers! The Body cannot keep taking a pounding. As we have already seen fatigue comes into play.

Our Scottish Internationals will need to rest and recuperate to be ready for the early European Qualification Campaign. Remember some of our Team will be playing at the World Cup. What rest will they get?
Celtic has been flying the flag for Scottish Football for a number of years and ALL the SPFL Clubs have benefited financially.
Our Club MUST come first and Scotland will just have to look at other Clubs to supply the Players.

1.) 17 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 11:42:54
Totally agree and to add to that, aberdeen and rangers don't have many scotland international's in their first team. Therefore they will benefit greatly if our players go on this tour.

2.) 17 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 12:32:17
They should use the tour to bring on young untried players, and try to unearth some that could walk into s competitive international match, they should omit any Celtic players from the tour, I hope McLeish doesn't go down the ridiculous route that Strachan did, by being loyal to players that he had used before, instead of giving inform players a game,

3.) 17 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 12:49:39
That's a good shout Swindon about using it as an opportunity to unearth some youngsters.

4.) 17 Feb 2018
17 Feb 2018 15:26:40
We have the qualifiers for the CL also therefore I would be amazed if any of our players go on that tour.

5.) 18 Feb 2018
18 Feb 2018 09:36:43
agree with most comments and don't want to go back to old managers, but there's a bigger picture here regarding income and revenue for clubs, do the clubs get paid ex amount for the players playing in internationals, the players get paid? i read somewhere that England offered 650k per man to win the competition, then the USA raised the bar to 1 million per man.

This new competition offers a way into through the back door, its all a con and and money spinner. reference players playing too many games, its incredible the teams don't have the capacity to deal with such matters, Joe Bloggs is doing a 60 hr shift with 28/ 30 days holidays a year on 8 quid an hour. lol Maybe there should be a rule that only 2/ 3 should be picked per club and not all 6 from one club, especially for this type ocf Mickey mouse competition. I hope Celtic inform the sfa that the CL takes priority. whinge over hail hail 5.0 tomorrow.