FROM a fan’s perspective, the magnitude of the Treble Treble is hard to fathom. Even now, almost two months after Scott Brown held the Scottish Cup aloft for a third successive season, it’s difficult to fully appreciate the significance of winning everything top-level Scottish football has to offer for three years on the trot.

What this team has achieved is nothing short of remarkable. And from a player’s perspective, Celtic’s club captain reckons it will never be done again.

“We’re the first club ever to win the Treble Treble, the first bunch of lads ever to do it,” said Brown in an exclusive interview with this week's Celtic View the first of the new season. “It’ll probably never be done again. The way we won it, they we performed, the way we played - we bullied teams into submissions with our play and fitness and approach.

“We played some great football throughout the run over the three years, and when the heat was on us, we dug deep and produced the results we were looking for. Winning it really was fantastic and a great way to cap off the last three years, at times against the odds, despite playing and performing at such a high level.

“We now need to make sure we kick on this year. We’ve had a good pre-season, and now our focus is on the European qualifiers and we want to push on from there.”

Despite recent accolades, Brown is adamant he and his team-mates cannot and will not rest on their laurels, and the club’s recent pre-season summer training camp in Austria and Switzerland provided the perfect impetus to build for another successful season ahead.

Warm-weather regimes, of course, challenge players to perform at a higher intensity than they might at home, and in Stegersbach during the first week of the tour, temperatures rose as high as 37 degrees.

“That first week, in Stegersbach, it was much warmer than we’d expected. They were experiencing a mini-heat wave over there, and the first day was a double session. But that’s what it’s all about at pre-season.

“We did two hours or so of work before coming back in, getting some rest, avoiding sunstroke, and then going back at it for the second round. Like any other pre-season, there was a great intensity to everything over there, from start to finish. From day one until day 10, we looked at the stats and we were always hitting the figures that we wanted to hit.

“We're passionate out on the training pitch. That’s always been the case and always will be the case, and that’s doubly true of training in the heat. But we’re equally always encouraging each other to do well. The better we do together as a team, the better everyone is likely to perform individually, and the better we’re going to perform on the park.”

To read the full interview with the Hoops captain discussing his take on the young players coming through, and what he got up to during his time off this summer, pick up a copy of the Celtic View today.

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Scott Brown on Celtic's pre-season and the challenges ahead