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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I survived the carnage!!!
Whats the latest on the wee Oscar donations??
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wko0y2H5EI
Wan for ramorra
The Strokes “The Modern Age”
http://youtu.be/3zHO-ipBiWQ
Doc
Get Eurovision on for some more carnage!!
This one’s for weefra ;-)
http://www.justgiving.com/oscarknox
We went to organise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes
Jude, we took a fair amount today, with CQN’rs donating to a wee memorial.
Any surplus will go to the Hospice.
We did that by selling the badges.
Not going to guess at how much, but some Ghuys were donating twice!
Roy C
Some great tunes…
Cheers & g’nite
Well done Doc :-)
Pedrocaravanichio, watching it with the kids, oh dear.
Pog, CRC and I of course.
Netherlands or Denmark for me
What a time I’ve had at hootanny. fun met a load of great guys and gals
The Celtic family are wonderful
Doc
Check pogs post @ 21.41
That’s whit ye’ve missed ;-)
NI Hospice at £22,700. In Memory of Oscar.
If you would like to contribute, go to CQN corner tomorrow and buy a badge. 100% of the money you pay will go to the Hospice, and you will get a CQteN badge.
I’ll be outside the Pools office around 11:15-11:30.
You can, of course give a donation via this link…..
http://www.justgiving.com/oscarknox
David Bowie “Oh You Pretty Things”
http://youtu.be/pBQ-S6njQQw
doc,
Well done to the both of you, lol
Kings Of Leon – The Bucket
http://youtu.be/kWaFVvVoj4o
Pedrocaravanichio, wow.
Sammi singing for Austria.
He must be joining Rapid Wien.
Surprisingly high standard of songs.
Netherlands for me……or the Polish butter churned!
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=i5GMHzPeEyA
Doc
Ta
Was over 22k the last I looked. Still cant believe my wee hero has gone. Have watched the Euro game with him and Hoopy and Scott Brown about 50 times.
Talking Heads at their peak – “Psycho Killer” live at the BBC
http://youtu.be/NC9IfjEQXOA
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zplaNKA3aeY
David Bowie … Heroes ( probably the best version of this song )
For all the guys today
For the guys tomorrow
And for wee Oscar
Sober, running in the morning for st Vincent’s then off to see the champions..
Night night
HH PC67
IPaddy, no a song about the Huns then?
ttt
There was 2 butter churners!!
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
http://youtu.be/a_426RiwST8
Jude, it is hard to take in.
But a life to be celebrated, one that touched so many.
Humbled by Our wee Hero.
A unifying presence, so we need to take that spirit forward.
As one.
An absolutely superb day.
Never has so many eedjits been gathered
in such a wee space.
BTW i’ve changed my moniker to
‘Don’t buy my another drink i’m already steaming’.
HH
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
22:05 on 10 May, 2014
ttt
There was 2 butter churners!!
******
Of course, and a scrubber to boot!
Doc,
Incredible sum raised in only 2 days. The wee Mhan was much loved by many people God Bless him.
I’ve got my wristband on, it normally lies next to my bed, that CRC gave me last year when I was at Cowiebhoy’s Champions League hootenanny. Lizzie should be handing out the official gongs to you guys for the sterling work you do for charity instead of some of the rockets that get them for being pally with a politician.
16 years ago tonight, I was celebrating the fact that the great lottery of Life had decided to grant me a ‘lucky’ day. I had gone to Celtic Park with no ticket, and no real expectation of getting one, for the game we had to win to stop the ‘ten’.
My plan was to soak up the atmosphere outside pre-kick off, return to my car to listen to the radio, and then to go back to the ground at the end to join the celebrations.
I witnessed guys holding handfuls of cash high in the air fail to get a ticket, and was just heading back to my car when I noticed a young guy take his season book out of his jacket, look around anxiously, and then pull a second season book out, as he looked at his watch, even more anxiously.
He took one more look around him, put the second book back in his pocket, and headed towards the turnstile. I ran over, and simply said: “Please mate, don’t go in with an extra book! I’m desperate to see this game!”
“Ma mate’s no turned up. Ah don’t know hit tae dae!” he said.
I told him he should do what he thought best, but, again, begged him not to leave the SB unused. Finally, about 5 minutes before kick-off, he took the book out and handed it to me.
I said ‘thanks’ about 50 times as we made our way in, and handed him money to get a good drink for him and his poor mate (maybe ex-mate now), which, typical proper Celtic supporter, he refused. “Ticket’s paid for, don’t want any dough, just make sure yer luck passes tae the team as well!”
We got to the top of the stairs at the West corner of the North stand just as Henke scored.
I never thought Love Street ’86 would be bettered, but it was that day.
In the unlikely event you recognise yourself, for the 51st time, thanks a million, mate!
ttt
They looked better in HD btw
4 windae cleaners on now!!!
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