Delighted for the Celtic Youths, who won the Under-20 league for the fifth successive season. Youth football is not skewed in favour of the wealthier clubs in the way first team football is. Celtic will be able to afford better coaches and scouts, but wage levels at this age are broadly consistent across the board, so that five year stretch is an indication that we’re doing a lot of things right at development level.
Greg Dyke’s review of English football this week drew an incredible level of condemnation but it’s central thrust, how to translate 18-year-old talent into first team stars, remains a challenge. Especially at clubs competing who recruit to compete at the very top of the European game. Celtic chose to send many of their top Youths out on loan this season, one of the suggestions Dyke’s report made. We’ll see how productive this proves.
The final week of the season saw the Youths need two wins, against Rangers* and Dundee United Youths to deny the boys from Sir David Murray Park snatching what would have been a significant title. While progress has been patchy for their first team, Youths boss, Gordon Durie, has narrowed the gap at the top better than the other Murray Park coaches. If and when they can afford to get rid of McCoist, don’t be surprised to see Durie step up, I hear he’s impressed for all the right reasons.
*occasional use of the word “Rangers”, “Airdrieoneans” or “Elvis” without the prefix “Newco” or suffix “Costello” does not infer that the original entities to bear those names are currently in existence. Both football clubs were liquidated, Sevco Scotland changed their registered name to Rangers after administrators of the old club changed and released their name. Clydebank changed their name to Airdrie United, and then to Airdrieoneans.
Pump it up.
Hope everyone one attending the Hootenanny this afternoon has a great day. My chances of getting there and remaining intact is diminishing by the minute.
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supersutton.. i know of a very well run sat amateur team in the north of glasgow who would love to have him come along ?
thanks to whoever posted the picture of the celtic way to use as the background wallpaper on our computers
looks brilliant on mine
a perfect backdrop while watching some quality german err, soccer videos…ahem.
thunder road
Think I ate it in two minutes, I was starving. If you had said I would have shared it with you…the tail anyway.
Enjoy the game mate.HH
theweegreenman
11:30 on 11 May, 2014
I didn’t say the numbers would increase. I said their influence would increase.
At the moment they are part of a state with a population of about 60 million.
If the nats get their way they’d be part of a state with a population of about 5.2 million.
It follows that their influence would be greater.
Incidentally this is an argument republicans used to use to persuade the Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist people in the north of Ireland that they’d be better off in a united Ireland. They’d have a bigger voice and more influence because they’d be in a state with a much smaller population.
robcfc11
11:36 on 11 May, 2014
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Thanks. I’ll let him know. I think he also has opportunity with friends that still play.
He.is in the process of getting fit and strengthening.
Will let you know.
Cheers.
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Talking about Independance is there Any other Country in the World that Doesn’t have a Football team from it’s Capital in the Country’s Top Flight..?
Summa
rwe
I’d hope most Celtic fans would be mature and smart enough to decide Yes/No after considering the pros and cons of both options rather than simply diametrically opposing what the Orange Order say. I’m sure whichever way they vote most of them will be.
It’s interesting that Better Together have distanced themselves from the OO’s position. Can’t remember exact quote but something along the lines of “No voters would be better off talking to undecided voters rather than marching on the streets”
The OO are a bunch of loonballs on the fringe of society. The idea that tens of thousands of people would decide their vote on Scottish Independence (whether Yes or No) on the basis of what they say would be rather worrying.
Ok, assume it’s sairheidsRusdaytheday!!
Hope no casualties yesterday.
Headin to the Dubliners (Dubai) for the game. Could be sairheidday4me later.
COYBIG !!!!!!!!!!
HH
DESERTBHOY
Grand day,mate. I could do that every week if I had my way and a lottery win.
Summa of Sammi….
11:55 on
11 May, 2014
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Talking about Independance is there Any other Country in the World that Doesn’t have a Football team from it’s Capital in the Country’s Top Flight..?
Summa
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Brasil?
Stand up for the Champions and for Wee Oscar Knox, Celtic Warrior..
Just popping in to state that if the huns weren’t about to go to the wall 6 years ago WGS would be clinching 9 in a row today
HH
BMCUW… Split it with you if you win!
Come on Filip Twardzik, big chance for you to impress. Strange day mixture of joy & sadness. Heart of a Lion, Courage of a Champion, Jeez I’m in tears already.
sipsini
Awww thanks mate.
I would have went and got 1 myself but the funds were severely depleted by that time and so it was either some food or a few more beers so i took the sensible option.
Just finished cutting my mums grass for her.
Hangovers and good deeds do not go.
The honest cover up
I would have thought simply diametrically opposing what the OO want is a fair benchmark at what us Celts want
As for their influence growing in an independant Scotland I cant see that happening in fact I expect quite the opposite
For starters there will no longer be a a queens highway to march on
Hangovers and golf don’t mix very well.
Got to the club carpark….opened the boot…..looked at the clubs and thought…..feck this I’m off tae the Swallyden to watch Liverpool win a league title.
HungoverbutoptimisticLFC
Afternoon drinking is neither big nor clever….but tell ye whit…..it’s feckin’ great!!
The Orange Order are a seething mass of contradictions.
They are manna from Heaven to wee Fat Eck’s Yes Campaign…….
Even a backward looking country will not be taken in by their vile agenda…..
Ermmmmmm….Mibbes aye / Mibbes Naw
Funniest nickname I’ve ever heard anyone use for Celtic?
Standing in the Jungle some time early 80’s heard a guy screaming ‘come on the leather belts’
Still laugh when I think about it.
Thanks to the guys who took the time to talk to / listen to me
Frantic07
Coneybhoy
Masty / billy
The unthank road
!!bada bing!!
Weet weet weet
Paulosboots
And Delaneys Dunky your a star and your sons a gem , thanks from myself and my daughter
And a pleasure to say a passing hello to , to many to mention ;))
My mother was drunk again
2 men came into the house
Rid Jean pointed them
I heard their feet on the stairs
They went elsewhere
I feel guilty that it wasn’t me
2 men came up the stairs
I was really sick
They came towards me
They looked at my brother
I thanked god
I heard my siblings
God never helped us
I heard Irene screaming
She was being raped
She can’t t have children
Liz was slightly older
She can’t have children
Rose was repeatedly raped
Before she was 13
My mother held me down
Rid Jesn was there
I had to lick
So did my brothers and sisters