Scott Brown

Just had my pal (Millwall fan) saying Scott Brown couldn't lace Alex Rae's boot's. Word for word..

Pfft

 

BR on players taking on @ScottBrown8: "It was the same with Steven Gerrard at Liverpool, everyone who comes up against Scott Brown here looks forward to taking him on and proving themselves but he invites that and enjoys it."

 

Is there snow up Glasgow??

 

Must be.

 

Theres not been a flake down the port?

Love snow as long as its proper snow

 

In the hills anyway

 

Iam up the hills

Back onto brown lol, thought KT was coming on when he was waeming up cause he was out warming up wa his shorts an strip wa socks round his ankles at -5 degrees but realised never seen him or brown on the bench lol

 

These posts, one immediately preceding the other, makes me laugh.

 

BRENDAN Rodgers held Scott Brown up as an inspiration to young players in the Premiership who raise their game when they come up against the experienced Celtic captain. The manager was speaking to the media ahead of his team’s trip to Tynecastle this weekend where they will face fifth-place Hearts.

The Edinburgh side have changed manager since Celtic defeated them 4-1 in the season opener, with Craig Levein returning to managerial duties. The former Scotland boss has given some young players a chance in the first-team, including 16-year-old Harry Cochrane who has made seven appearances for Hearts in the Premiership so far.

The Hearts midfielder has spoken openly of his desire to play against such an accomplished player of Brown’s experience, and Brendan Rodgers praised the affect his captain had on younger players coming up, saying it highlighted just how inspirational a player he has been for club and country.

“Scott always invites that because of the type of player he is,” said the manager. “I saw it with Steven Gerrard. Every player that would come up against Steven would raise their game 10 or 15 percent and Browny has the same effect up here.

“They know how good he is, so they always see it as a good test. Browny faces that every week. That’s why it’s remarkable what Scott Brown has done here because of the challenge he has. Good players always invite that.”

 

Hehe, everybody wrapped up apart fae Broony.

Reminds me of the times when ma mates and I would play fitba roond the park in sub-zero temperatures at night.

You would be walking back roond the road wi the sweat oan yer hair turning tae ice.

 

That's just typical from Brown.

 

Think he'll score tomorrow. Due a goal and got into a couple of decent positions against Hibs last week.

 

THE reaction to Celtic’s defeat against Hearts on Sunday may well, considering it was the first time they had lost a domestic fixture in 70 games, have been bordering on the hysterical in certain places.

Yet, Scott Brown, the Parkhead club’s captain, conceded yesterday the Scottish champions have failed to attain the high standards they set as they went unbeaten and won the treble last season in recent months.

The 4-0 loss at Tynecastle at the weekend was preceded by unconvincing displays and fortuitous draws against both Motherwell and Hibernian away in recent weeks and had been coming.

The midfielder, speaking as he opened a new Celtic store in Livingston, vowed there would be no repeat of their woeful showing again and targeted a return to the level they were at in the 2016/17 campaign.

“Everyone is disappointed after one defeat,” said Brown. “But it will not happen again, not the way we played. We never got on the ball, we weren’t brave enough all over the park and we didn’t defend well enough from the front to the back. It is not like us.

“Going 69 games undefeated is a fantastic achievement. I don’t think anybody would have expected that 19 months ago. It is a great standard, but that is the standard the gaffer wants us to hit every day whether it is in training or it is in games. We need to make sure when we go back into training tomorrow we hit those standards yet again and try and go on a fresh run.

“That is the good thing about football. There is another game coming around the corner. If we win on Wednesday night against Partick Thistle everyone has forgotten about the Hearts game. We just need to make sure we bounce back and get a good performance and victory.

“It has still been a good season for us. We have lost just one game. We were pretty much unbeaten until Hearts there. But we have probably not played as well as we could have this season. There has been a couple of sloppy games against Hibs and Hearts there, but it is time for us to kick on now.

“There is a great honour and pride in captaining the lads to 69 games without defeat. It is a phenomenal feeling. It shows you the disappointment the lads feel that when we get beat in the one game since the manager comes in and everybody is devastated.

“It is one game in 70. Eventually the record was going to go. It is just disappointing the way we lost it. We will bounce back. We are strong enough to deal with it. We have been beaten in the Champions League and we came back and won so we need to make sure we do that once again.”

Craig Levein’s revelation in the immediate aftermath of his side’s shock victory that he had sensed a nervousness in Rodgers’s team when their defenders were put under pressure has led to suggestions that he may have discovered a way to overcome them.

Levein had seen Anderlecht benefit from using a high press in a Champions League group game at Parkhead at the start of this month which they won 1-0 and adopted the same tactic with startling results at the weekend.

Brown, though, stressed the Scottish champions had coped with that approach before and ex-pressed confidence they would be able to do so in the future if other managers follow Levein’s lead.

“Hearts and Anderlecht are two different teams, let’s not get that wrong,” he said. “Anderlecht had 800 passes. They were fantastic the way they played. They pressed us really well, but they also got the ball down and played football the way they wanted to play.

“Hearts did it their way and managed to win as well, fair play to them. They were brilliant to be perfectly honest. They pressed us all over the park, squeezed the park, made it hard for us to play. I think every team puts every team under pressure. You try to force mistakes. The team made mistakes yesterday and that is why we got beaten.”

“But we have played against Aberdeen and we have played against Hibs when they have played a high press and we have managed to play out of that pressure and get victories as well. We will just need to continue doing what we are doing. It is the gaffer’s philosophy, it is the way we want to play. We will build on this.”

Brown added: “It is different going to Tynecastle to going to Celtic Park. Celtic Park is a lot bigger, it is a lot wider and it is in front of 60,000 of our own fans so if they press and we play through that press we will create a lot of chances and we will score a lot of goals.

“Teams will have their own way they want to play against us. I am sure their managers will maybe think about the way they play us and how they press us from now on.”

Hearts started Jamie Brandon and Harry Cochrane, who are aged just 19 and 16 respectively, and threw on Anthony McDonald, who is also only 16, in the second half and benefited enormously from their youthful exuberance.

Cochrane, who opened the scoring with a fine strike from the edge of the visitors’ box in the first half, was named Man of the Match at the end of the 90 minutes and Brown admitted he had been impressed.

“They did quite well,” said Brown. “It is great for Scottish football to have young laddies coming through. The more Scottish players coming through in the Scottish league the better it is for everyone I think.”

Asked about how he felt Cochrane fared specifically, he said: “I am up against quite a lot of players, it is not just individual battles, it is about us closing gaps. He played well on the day and he deserved the victory. Craig Levein got his tactics and his team spot on.

“Hearts have not been probably the best over the last season and a half, two seasons. Craig has come in and transformed them really well to be honest. It is like one of Craig Levein’s teams from ten years ago when he was last manager there, the high press, the long, direct physicality of the football and making Tynecastle a hard place to go.”

“Everyone wanted to beat us and Hearts were the team who played well enough on the day and managed to do it.”





















SCOTT Brown has dismissed claims that opposing teams had finally figured out how to play against Celtic as he called on his team mates to show a positive reaction to their first domestic defeat in 70 games.

The record-breaking 69 game unbeaten run which Brendan Rodgers’s side had been on came to a spectacular end on Sunday when they lost 4-0 to Hearts in a Ladbrokes Premiership match at Tynecastle.

Craig Levein, the Hearts manager, afterwards revealed he had urged his players to press their opponents high up the park after watching Anderlecht enjoy success with that tactic in a Champions League game the Belgians had won 1-0 at Parkhead the week before.

But Brown insisted that Celtic can cope with rivals teams who play that way against them and admitted they will be looking to get back to winning ways when they take on Partick Thistle in a league game at home tomorrow.

“It is hard to take for everyone,” he said. “There is always a hurt when you get beaten, especially the way we got beaten. We did not perform well as individuals or as a team. There is always going to be hurt because the gaffer wants us to play his way, his philosophy, and we did not manage to do that.

“We don’t like not losing four goals and I think it is the first time we have not scored a goal in a league game since the manager came in and that was slightly disappointing as well.

“We have been defeated in the Champions League and stuff like that, so you always take a moment to reflect. You watch games back and understand where we went wrong and what we can do better.

“I don’t think we won our battles all over the park and we did not manage to keep the ball. We are a team based on possession and making chances and we did not do that well enough.

“It is one game in 19 months since we have been on this fantastic record. There are a lot of teams who want to beat us and Hearts were the team who managed to do it. Fair play to them. On the day they deserved victory and they played to their strengths."

Brown added: “I think we will learn from it. Teams will expect they can press us high up the park and we won’t be able to cope with that.

“But we have a lot of different ways we can play, the gaffer understands that as well. He knows sometimes we need to get the ball up to Moussa (Dembele) and Griff (Leigh Griffiths) and play off them. We have that in the locker as well. We can build in different ways.

“We will continue to play the same way and go into the game on Wednesday and get back to the way we know we can play. But we need to bounce back now. Our game is in front of the home fans and we need to put on a show so they can enjoy the game.

“We have just got to try and go on now. We have got some huge games before the winter break. We need to make sure we bounce back well and get back to winning ways.”

 

See you ya * yer getting done next time

 

Class again..