Dilemma of youth development

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I know squad numbers are limited but I’m disappointed Eoghan O’Connell has not been retained. In his performances early last season he displayed the attributes of a modern-day footballing central defender. He has a future in the game and will do well wherever he goes next.

The perennial dilemma of youth development is that while teams want to improve performances NOW, they also need to leave space for worthy development squad candidates to grow into. Kieran Tierney got there, but the truth is, Celtic had been trying to sign a left back for year but were unable find anyone of the necessary standard. If we did, Kieran, Eoghan, would never have had the chance.

 

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  1. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    AULDHEID:

     

     

    Don’t be so feckin superior, that is Hunish.

     

     

    Explain your post if you can… in basic TIM language.

     

     

    Or if that is beyond your articulation please explain why, after 2 years we haven’t tapped in that 6 inch sitter?

  2. Philbhoy –

     

     

    It’s not my birthday although it soon will be (going for 55 by the way!)

     

     

    My son’s Stag do tomorrow and Sunday, dan sarf. Then, if God spares me, off to Puerto Pollensa on Tuesday for 10 days. Can’t wait.

  3. A Stor Mha Chroi on 9th June 2017 1:28 pm

     

     

    As the intro said it was posted on the JJ site originally. It was posted there to clarify the narrative he was putting across iro CF so hardly an endorsement of JJ.

  4. A Stor Mha Chroi on 9th June 2017 1:32 pm

     

     

     

    AULDHEID:

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Don’t be so feckin superior, that is Hunish.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Explain your post if you can… in basic TIM language.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Or if that is beyond your articulation please explain why, after 2 years we haven’t tapped in that 6 inch sitter?

     

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    That is a question you will have to put to Celtic.

     

     

    We laid on the sitter and left it there, where it sits still.

  5. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    And further….

     

     

    no equivocation….

     

     

    do you think the Scottish game is corrupted?

     

     

    A simple YES or NO.

     

     

    I’m sure you can understand the question but are you brave enough to answer it?

  6. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    AULDHEID;

     

     

    Are you really, really, using Johnjames site as a point of reference?…. Mary Mother of Jesus please protect us all.

  7. A STOR MHA CHROI on 9TH JUNE 2017 12:37 PM

     

    TURKEYBHOY:

     

     

     

    Did you not once profess to CQN that Ciftci was Celtic class?

     

     

     

    Nope.In saying that,the way that team were performing,”Celtic class”would have been a broad church.

  8. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    TURKEYBHOY:

     

     

    I remember differently. I remember you being very aggressively pro-Ciftci….

     

     

    I suppose it is all back in the archives if anybody is interested.

  9. Stor Mha Chroi on 9th June 2017 1:37 pm

     

     

     

    AULDHEID;

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Are you really, really, using Johnjames site as a point of reference?…. Mary Mother of Jesus please protect us all.

     

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    Are you being really really obtuse?

     

     

    JJ put out a blog that to me did not reflect my recollection of events. That same subject matter either got an airing on CQN or folk will have read the media article

     

     

    https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1390627-rangers-chairman-dave-king-bought-hacked-whyte-emails/

     

     

    so I thought it useful to put the same clarification here as I made there. Nothing more, nothing less.

  10. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    ASTORMHACHROI

     

     

    I was flicking through my mails this morning. I sent you a load of photos from Lisbon as I did some others.

     

     

    I was surprised not to get a reply from any,didn’t really give it much thought.

     

     

    I’d sent similar to my family,but day by day. I didn’t realise that the amount of photos wouldn’t take to an e-mail. It was sitting quietly in drafts.

     

     

    Home shortly,expect some nice photos of the big event on Wednesday,the visit to Estadio Nacional,Pink Street,the Mass on Thursday morning and the Basilica.

     

     

    A few from packed Tim pubs on Saturday,and…

     

     

    A lot from Fatima.

     

     

    I’ve still got your wee icon,it’s lodged in my photo of The Lions celebrating. I look at both and smile.

     

     

    I doubt I will have a memory outside my family and friends which makes me smile as much as Fatima did-though CONNAIRE12 might have nightmares,poor sod had to put up with me for about three hours!!!

     

     

    Incoming in thirty,promise.

  11. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    AULDHEID;

     

     

    Are you being really really obtuse?

     

     

    You promoted HEARSAY, FANTASY, PREJUDICE, on CQN and you dare ask me am I obtuse…..

  12. A Stor Mha Chroi on 9th June 2017 1:50 pm

     

     

     

    AULDHEID;

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Are you being really really obtuse?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    You promoted HEARSAY, FANTASY, PREJUDICE, on CQN and you dare ask me am I obtuse…..

     

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    Nope. The story was first reported in the national press and commented on the JJ and SFM sites at least to my knowledge.

     

     

    That msm story gave a different impression of events than what took place and I posted what I remember taking place for the benefit of anyone who had read the CF narrative..

     

     

    That memory is accurate: no hearsay, fantasy or prejudice, so yes you are being obtuse. Go and annoy someone else.

  13. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:

     

     

    Mate, I haven’t looked at my emails for a few days, Might sound unbelievable but I haven’t had any reason, or the energy to. I’ll find time tomorrow and make the effort, all photos’ are appreciated.

     

     

    Off to the dessert on Monday, no phone, no wifi, but it is fun in its own way.

  14. O.G.Rafferty on

    Much as I wanted them to lose North Belfast, those pals of Loyalist murder gangs who think Jesus played with the dinosaurs are about to be dragged from their backwoods swamp of bigotry into a media spotlight they couldn’t have imagined.

     

     

    There only crime was loyalty

  15. sixtaeseven - 67 trophies in my lifetime on

    Does anybody know if we got any money for Eoghan O’Connell (or any of of the other players that are leaving or have recently left Celts)?

     

     

    Just interested :o)

  16. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    Auldheid:

     

     

    You referenced Johnjamessite… nothing else…. you referenced johnjamessite and you have ignored every query I raised as to why.

     

     

    Actually, again, on reading back, you ignored every single question I asked of you.

     

     

    EVERY SINGLE ONE

  17. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    Don’t be a civil servent to your grave Auldheid

     

     

    You avoided answering it before, like a good civil servant…

     

     

    However, please, no passion as an excuse for for lack of morals, ethics, principles,values, lest we teach our children they don’t exist and are never worthy of a moments consideration….

     

     

     

    no equivocation….

     

     

     

    do you think the Scottish game is corrupted?

     

     

     

    A simple YES or NO.

     

     

     

    I’m sure you can understand the question but are you brave enough to answer it?

  18. Stor

     

     

    YES

     

     

    If it were a stick of rock the lettering “corrupt” would run its length (and UEFA aint squeaky clean either)

  19. BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9TH JUNE 2017 1:38 PM

     

     

    Labour and the Tories are not two competing parties, they are two competing departments in the same organization, Westminster.

     

     

    They will put the preservation of Westminster before all else.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  20. A Stor Mha Chroi on

    AULDHEID

     

     

    Thank you mate. Thank you for being honestly brave.

     

     

    I am not your enemy,

     

     

    I am your biggest ally.

  21. Auldheid

     

    When UEFA answered a question they were not asked i. e. new club/company that told me they knew something was wrong but that bone would pacify the complainers.Didn’t stop this being spun differently by STV sport in that they said UEFA would not be investigating the licence, but omitted to tell us this was due to UEFA saying they are a new club/company

     

    I am very surprised that nobody has raised the issue of Sevco’s co-efficient as they appear to be playing in Europe this season, and, only have the countries co-efficient as they are a new club with no European history, cant have been missed by everyone in the media can it?

  22. Auldheid

     

     

    Then UEFA go and give Regan from the SFA a new post, so I agree with you they are like the local association very suspect .

  23. SIXTAESEVEN – 67 TROPHIES IN MY LIFETIME on 9TH JUNE 2017 2:10 PM

     

     

    We’re due a development fee for O’Connell. Ambrose was a free.

  24. Yesterday, CORKCELT and I had a spat on the merits or otherwise of SF’s Westminster Abstentionist policy.

     

    I wonder how he feels today when SF taking up its seats could help thwart a DUP propped up Tory government.

  25. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    JAMABHOY

     

     

    You’re probably right,though I do recall a Labour Govt reminding their civil servant bosses

     

     

    “We Are The Masters Now!”

     

     

    So,all in all,till the system is broken,I’ll stick to hoping Labour get in,if that’s all right with you.

     

     

    Meantime,you can dream away about breaking that system,and I hope you’ll post it here first.

  26. Auldheid

     

     

    Any more of a cross examination and you’ll be needing old mutton chops Findlay as your silk!

     

     

    ;-)

     

     

    I’m going to France for the weekend. I may not return, apart from for Tic games.

     

     

    WITS, Corkcelt et al – source my an Irish passport brothers!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  27. BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 9TH JUNE 2017 3:08 PM

     

     

    I don’t dream of beating the system, you cannot. All you can do is extract as much of yourself from it as possible.

     

     

    My google searching skills point out that the the above quote was from 1946. Those days are long gone.

     

    this sums up modern politics to me:

     

     

    “Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh entered parliament in 2015 as an SNP politician, but she had previously stood for the Scottish Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament before briefly having been a member of the Labour Party.”

     

     

    Modern politicians are often just people looking for a job. Many don’t care which party, just as long as you have a job.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  28. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    Ernie Lynch

     

     

    Ernie where are you

     

    No post election analysis?

     

     

     

    HH

  29. JAMESGANG

     

     

    My nephew wrote to me this morning asking if I had all the papers for him to get his Irish Passport..

     

     

    Scunnered at 22!!

  30. Or perhaps ‘scundered’ if Ulster Scots is to become the new official language!

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