Boyata transformation is beyond belief

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When we signed Dedryck Boyata, while simultaneously losing loanee Jason Denayer, I heard that bullish comment from Celtic Park “We made Denayer into a regular Belgian international and we’ll do the same for Boyata.”

Teenage Jason Denayer was part of a record-breaking Celtic central defence.  Fast and skilful, there was little chance parent club Manchester City would allow him to extend his stay in Scotland.  Dedryck was older, had played less football, and City allowed him to leave for £1.5m.  The claim that we could make him into a Belgium regular seemed fanciful.

Belgium are the top team in the Fifa rankings.  Getting anywhere near this squad is an achievement, but Dedryck is now a regular fixture.  When Jason Denayer made a late entrance in the game against Iceland last night, it was captain, Vincent Kompany he replaced, not the Celtic central defender.

Dedryck has only been at Celtic three years and the early months of his time here were memorable for an own goal against Malmo and a very poor performance away to Molde.  His transformation is beyond belief.

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  1. TRAVELLERBHOY

     

    How’s it going pal it was a pleasure to meet you last week , and anytime your back in Girvan we will share a beer or two ! Take care !

  2. Shut up

     

    Shut the feck up

     

    Stay quiet

     

    Be small

     

    Rose said

     

     

     

    Later

     

    After

     

    The home

     

    Mother’s funeral

     

    All the stuff

     

     

     

    Shout

     

    Shout the feck

     

    Be loud

     

    Stand tall

     

    Rose said

     

     

     

    And here I fecking am

  3. Park Road 67

     

    We had a great craic

     

    About me staying in

     

    That Hun hellhole

     

    ?

     

     

    Till the next time

     

    My bro

     

    Hail Hail

  4. TIMBHOY 12-10 AM

     

    What you all about wanting to kill Peregrines and Buzzards ? I’m guessing your a pigeon man ? I sympathise if you are and you are losing birds to Peregrines but you should know a Buzzard is not capable of catching a pigeon in full flight ! The amount of pigeons lost during race time is not totally due to birds of prey !

  5. Just want to say

     

    An absolute heartfelt thanks

     

    To Paul 67 and the moderators

     

    For letting me post my stuff

     

    Absolutely brilliant

     

    And also everybody on here

     

    Who

     

    Took me

     

    Embraced me

     

    Loved me

     

    Encouraged me

     

    Met me

     

    And made me one of our own

     

    The Celtic family

     

    A club like no other

     

    Hail Hail

  6. DD.11.21

     

     

    Alright there G.hope your good mate.just having a tea break and quick read back.must say am suprised at ye.Both you and eurochamps67 are unquestionably good Celtic men.ihave had a beer or 2 or 3 with yourself and met EC67 awaiting entrance to Estadio Nacional in lisbon last year I enjoy both your view of our club.

     

    All said wi good intent :-)

     

     

    HH

  7. Travellerbhoy.

     

     

    Enjoyed your company last week at the hoot.

     

    Your never alone,your one of us

     

    YNWA

     

     

    Thanks

     

    :-)

     

    HH

     

     

    Back tae it csc

  8. I love the High St. in Glasgow. But I am always aware I am only a few steps away from Glasgow Cross where St. John Ogilvie was murdered. Hanged and drawn. It sends a chill through me.

     

     

    I’m not sure I believe in hell, but St. John will be closer to our Lord than those murderous bastards who took his life.

  9. This is your new daddy

     

    Battle of wills

     

    He broke me

     

    He was the man

     

    The man

     

    Who

     

    Raped

     

    Abused

     

    Hit

     

    And attempted to murder

     

    My young brother

     

    This time

     

    It wasn’t hidden

     

    My father

     

    Was released

     

    And

     

    “Was looking”

     

    They met

     

    In linlathen

     

    Dundee

     

    Burns was dead

     

    My father

     

    Was jailed

     

    We were happy

     

    God forgive me

  10. Travellerbhoy, What a hellish time you have experienced. And yet when I met you, you would never meet a sounder person. You have done well.

  11. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    JIMTHETIM53 on 18TH NOVEMBER 2018 3:20 AM

     

     

    Who was right and who was wrong ?

     

     

    Sadly , both sides were responsible for the carnage.

     

     

    Learning from the errors of the past.

     

    And moving on is for me the aim.

     

     

    The horrors of tit for tat.

     

    As WITS said ” any Taig will do “.

     

    Seared on my brain.

  12. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    On behalf of my Aussie children , thank you Donald Trump and V.P. Pence for the decision to open a combined US , Aussie military base in P.N.G .

     

     

    Anyone who doesn`t see the global expansion of the Chinese military threat , isn`t paying attention .

  13. They bulldozed

     

    The social work dept

     

    And all their their records

     

    Cos they don’t exist

     

    Anymore

     

    Apparently

     

    Baby P

     

    Was repeatedly failed

     

    By this department

     

    Did anyone loss their job

     

    Did anyone go to jail

     

    Establishment cover up

     

    Whether my records now

     

    Hopefully I’ll die soon

     

    Like the rest of my siblings

     

    Help children

     

    Shame on you

     

    Knowingly covering this up

     

    Enjoy your pension

  14. Sorry above

     

    Not baby p

     

    But a similar case

     

    Brandon Muir

     

    From Arbroath

     

    Absolute scandal

     

    Rip

     

    Babies

  15. I’ve not seen the Scotland game or the goals. Deeeelighted for the Celtic Bhoys dominating and just being Quality.

     

     

    The wee man wisnae coming doon to Dumbarton this week but when he knew his Uncle was over for the weekend he made sure he was there.

     

     

    He dropped this Amazing song by Richard Ashcroft on the long way downhill where you can see so much of Glasgow with Celtic Park in my mind in the Centre – it is an incredible view – just a shame I’m always driving so dinnae get to stop and look around once in a while.

     

     

    Surprised by the Joy

     

     

    Genius.

  16. PETEC

     

    The Celtic was predominant in that result

     

    Callum was awesome

     

    Jamesy was on fire

     

    My man o the match was

     

    Ryan Christie

     

    He is gonna mature

     

    Into a brilliant Celtic player

     

    Hail Hail

  17. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Wow !!!

     

     

    Impressive !!!

     

     

    How to compete with that contribution.

     

     

    Shucks.

  18. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Global expansion of Chinese trade is no the same as military expansion but then your only used to US expansionism which has proven to be a military threat.

     

    Providing aid and trade is now considered by failed imperialist capitalism as undermining its monopoly to exploit and starve sovereign nations uncontested.

     

    From your article,

     

    “Chinese aid is unconditional with no strings attached and the Government can use this aid more flexibly.”

     

    While Oz and the US might no be happy with a sovereign nation choosing who it trades with or how it spends its aide, you can bet your house the electrification plans will cost P.N.G. a lot more than their freedom if they accept it. The yank and Aussies could not give a monkeys about the PNG populous until the Chinese got agreement to build a port/base. Now they are too late and happy to start a war in the region as is Macjay as long as it stays in PNG, thing is it won’t, awaking a sleeping giant has never been more fitting.

  19. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Well , Cana.

     

     

    The only imperialist in this region is fascist China.

     

    Not to mention Africa.

     

     

    Sadly , you have to look for facts and beyond ideology to understand that.

     

     

    Too hard basket for some.

  20. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Just like Israel stole the Golan heights from Syria.

     

    Well. Why not ?

     

    It needed security.

     

    What`s your problem ?

  21. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    EcEverybody knows, typical unadulterated myth.

     

     

    While the yanks and their lickspittle Aussie lapdogs have had free reign in the south China seas the vast majority have grown poorer. The Chinese have had w

     

    Enough of the showboating and decided to challenge the bullies and the bullies on cue squeal about no being allowed to bully any more.

     

    The Chinese have as much right as the yanks and Aussies to put defence mechanisms in place, if they don’t like it then they should maybe have thought about it when they turned Korea and Japan into satellite rocket launchers.

  22. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Lest anyone should be under any delusion………

     

     

     

    Disputes.

     

     

     

    The nine-dash line area claimed by the Republic of China, later the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which covers most of the South China Sea and overlaps the exclusive economic zone claims of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

     

    Maritime boundary along the Vietnamese coast between the PRC, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

     

    Maritime boundary north of Borneo between the PRC, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, and Taiwan.

     

    Islands, reefs, banks and shoals in the South China Sea, including the Paracel Islands, the Pratas Islands, Macclesfield Bank, Scarborough Shoal and the Spratly Islands between the PRC, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and parts of the area also contested by Malaysia and the Philippines.

     

    Maritime boundary in the waters north of the Natuna Islands between the PRC, Indonesia and Taiwan[9]

     

    Maritime boundary off the coast of Palawan and Luzon between the PRC, the Philippines, and Taiwan.

     

    Maritime boundary, land territory, and the islands of Sabah, including Ambalat, between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

     

    Maritime boundary and islands in the Luzon Strait between the PRC, the Philippines, and Taiwan.

     

     

    ================================================================================

     

     

    Yeah.

     

    Them lickspittle Aussies and Yanks.

  23. Good morning CQN from a damp and chilly Garngad

     

     

    Travellerbhoy, from one of your posts last night “Hopefully I’ll die soon” please please do not feel like that…. You have so much to give, so much to tell, so much to help others.. I did not make the Hoot last week, so I have not met you but from what I gather it was indeed a Hoot… and you by all accounts are a good person.. Your posts are a way for you to release some of the bad stuff that has happened in your past and by God it’s harrowing, God bless you… You keep on keeping on amigo.???

     

     

    Hail Hail and YOu Will Never Walk Alone

     

     

    D. :)

  24. morning bhoys from a very cold Cheshire. was proud of our bhoys last night. traveller bhoy keep on keeping on.hh.??

  25. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    The Oz and US plan for PNG is to build/expand the yank base and its full steam ahead, was wondering about Macjays electrification and this appears to be a consession to stop this kind of talk

     

    No one has sought support from the locals, Manus Island Governor Charlie Benjamin said, as cited by Reuters. The project was also criticized by a former Papua New Guinea MP from the island, Ronnie Knight, who said that “there is lot of questions to be answered” first.

     

     

    “There was no discussion with any of the locals, it has just been bulldozed through again and that is what makes people cross,” he told Australia’s ABC broadcaster, expressing his concerns about potentially “having a foreign base on our soil.”

     

     

    Aye the US & Oz always looking out for people freedom eh

  26. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Oh and a byline, the same place Oz opened up a concentration camp for immigrants of a certain hue, aye freedom is their motive ha ha ha ha ffs

  27. Travellerbhoy , hope you are ok mate, you have been through the mill fella, but you have survived, and you should be proud of yourself you my friend are a star

  28. Pleased that Scotland won and that Tims lead the charge – hopefully unscathed by their exertions.

     

     

    Winning at anything is a great morale booster and confidence builder.

     

     

    That’s a good thing.

     

     

    HH.

  29. Morning all, from a slightly overcast Dundee.

     

     

    Traveller Bhoy, ?

     

     

    JNP/Johnbay belated happy birthday. ?

     

     

    ACGR, big up for your ghirl. ?

     

     

    As I type, the sun is trying to make an appearance. It’s a sign, a tell ye! ?

     

     

    ??

  30. Tom Devine on radio Scotland before 11 talking of 100 years of catholic education,it’s effect etc.should be interesting listen.

     

     

    HH