Just days after The Beating of Barca in 2004 the youthful Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell presented teenage sensation, David Marshall, with a new contract, reward for his incredible goalkeeping performances against the Catalans. Having made only a single first team appearance, in a cup game against (then) lower league opponents, David played the second half of the first leg against Ronaldinho & Co, then all of the second leg, without conceding a goal.
It Camp Nou performance was the most remarkable I’ve seen from a keeper. After years looking for a solid performer to make the position his own, it looked like we had a new star.
A year later David had, if anything, regressed. He remained first choice until after the start of season 2005-06 but Artur Boruc, for a while the genuine article, soon replaced him. David was shipped out to Norwich before eventually settling at Cardiff City, where he has built a solid career, but his star never shone as brightly as we expected it to. His Scottish contemporaries, Allan McGregor and Craig Gordon, both overtook him.
It is incredibly hard for a youth player to break into a team like Celtic in a position like goalkeeper, or striker, the pressure to deliver – every time – is so high, we are a whole lot more likely to introduce wingers. The parallels between David Marshall and Tony Watt are remarkable, so far.
From the outside it’s hard to guess what went wrong for David at Celtic. He lost his place at Celtic when he was just 20 and the trajectory of his career was never the same but 20 is still remarkably young for a keeper working at Champions League level. Tony Watt is two years younger than David and he is in the considerably better position of being able to come on as substitute for sections of games, or to drop away for a few weeks, if necessary.
We should expect more fantastic splurges of form from the player but there will be frustrations and dips in form too. He has the skill, speed and strength to make it. With hard work and patience he stands an excellent chance.
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petec-Correct, some things don’t read as well as they were intended,maybe Kevin Bridges can have a wee word on coaching IB :}
winning captains,at 17:39
I don’t doubt that something like that happened, but we should have said “NO!!!”…
and I’m being polite.
I don’t know any Celtic man (woman or child) who would disagree with that, although there may be some and they would be perfectly entitled to their view.
They NEED us, we certainly DO NOT need them.
I just wish our Board would get completely in phase with us.
This is about something more than money, sponsorship deals, …
Just as we are something more that a club.
Vmhan
Sincere condolences, very sorry to hear of your loss.
A Cluster£#{{ of Sevconians
And some on here wonder how chuckles can fool them :)))
Breaking news from DEADclub media
Iron Curtain, on 16 November 2012 – 05:43 PM, said:
Green will obviously have held talks with Man Utd and they cannot discuss anything as yet publicly, promising news that United are on board.
hellscuditintothemcsc
Got an e-mail from a Pars fan who has pretty close contacts to the board he says:
“We are feked,players still not paid,although a joke the way the fixtures have been arranged has not helped cash flow, and a debt of £30million to Charleston Developments is not helping either.
Half way through November and only 5 home games !!!!!
Been looking into Masterton’s shenanigans and it seems like the net is closing in on him:Operation Hornet mentions him.
How he managed to wiggle his way out of the Stadia Group fiasco must also come under scrutiny ..although having Murray’s lap dog Jack Irvine on board certainly helped keeping a lid on that story. Watch this space!”
………………………………………….
Not a very positive take on the Pars is it?
Yorkston has resigned and will finish at the year end too. Funny how he said he didn’t need the Rangers cup tie money?
DBBIA
Knew before and I still clicked it (⊙_⊙)
Big Nan
The Chickens are coming home to roost…
!!Bada Bing!!
I think the whole structure of the Club is excellent and we could even afford to have Kevin Bridges as the Chairman…..
For One Night only!!!!
He is a financial guru after all…..
;))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZJUORkiiY
Big Nan-I am sure debt-free Sevco will return last year’s favour,and ride to the rescue of their Fife cousins ……….
Evening….
A Shame of sevconians!!
Juan Agudelo..
Next.. Bargain .. Gem??
Hope so.
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
Kojo,
I see he is Colombian.
Colombia will do very well at the next World Cup, they may even win it.
Big Nan
I remember back in the 60s/70s we seemed to have a great relationship with Dunfermline FC.
Don’t know what happened over the years to make them switch to the dark side?
I just think it’s sad – really sad.
RFC, and their overbearing(*) influence over the game in Scotland over the last 20 years and more has all but destroyed the game up here.
Well done the Huns, Well done the SFA, Well done the Scottish press/media!!!
(*) no pun intended
Juan Agudelo
@ jagudelo11
Yes I’m here in Glasgow training with #Celtic . Nothing to hide.
He was THE BIG THING two years ago in USA.
Zombies supposes his shares’s are Roses but the Zombies supposes erroneously……………….Zombies supposes his Sevcos are in the clear
but the Zombies supposes erroneously………..Zombies supposes………………
……………….
Hooptie Doodie Doodle CSC
to the rescue of their Fife cousins ……….
Agent Craig “Green and” Whyte!!
18:01 on 16 November, 2012
Evening….
A Shame of sevconians!!
surging into the lead with that one!
A seepage of Sevconians
A delusion of Sevconians.
bournesouprecipe
18:10 on 16 November, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFpwsfHnBjw
!!Bada Bing!!
17:59 on 16 November, 2012
Big Nan-I am sure debt-free Sevco will return last year’s favour,and ride to the rescue of their Fife cousins ……….
……………………………..
They came through to the Auld Grey Toon in their hoards after Yorkston said his words of brotherly comfort.
A Sash Bash was hastily arranged for a fiver a head in the St. Margaret’s Hotel, to raise funds to pay the Pars with the Cowdenbeath Young Defenders Flute Band providing the entertainment.
From what I heard the receipts were mislaid in the obligatory battle that ensued once Govan’s finest fell out with their Fife cousins.
A long way away from the fine traditions of friendship we had with the team that put Big Jock on the football map.
fergus slayed the blues
18:12 on 16 November, 2012
A seepage of Sevconians
climbing up the charts with that one!
A sewerage of Sevconians
A sludge of Sevcovians.
Sevco Toilet Sign
Same collective noun as Dodos of course…
An extinction of Sevconians!
Sixtaeseven – you get a full name check in the CQN Annual btw
Easy to say that on here but it was a Celtic deal and it was then not now. They are over and we have just grabbed world wide attention by beating Barcelona. And on here at the time that deal was done we were shouting for ambition, new signings etc -Celtic needed the money. In future perhaps we can now say no. the guy who made that phone call was as upset about having to do it as you would have been.
We are free of them now.
I remember Dunfermline fans showing up in 88 with a congratulations message.
The club rapidly deteriorated under Yorkston and his poison.
PJBhoynyc
18:17 on 16 November, 2012
Same collective noun as Dodos of course…
An extinction of Sevconians!
Briliant!
Hibs game 29th Dec …..is this game on the tv
Evening friends,
See this Old Firm tag….rips ma knittin by the way.
Below is an exchange I just had on Twitter with Nick Noble, Head of Press for the EPL.
Noble tweeted: more noise about old firm and premier league. Not going to happen, premier league position very clear.
To which I responded:no noise about old firm nick. just owner of liquidated club spouting rubbish. Celtic nothing to do with this. be good if you clarified.
and,
old firm term is obsolete. No rangers in original form equals no old firm. Celtic nothing to do with this story as you know.
Noble responds: Only used old firm as easy shorthand but take the point. Tweet today re:Rangers. But PL stance relevant to any Scottish club.
Easy shorthand, easy funking shorthand…….aaaaarrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh!
Very frustrating we are viewed as one and the same. At a time when we should be actively distancing ourselves from whatever abomination they have created for themselves our chairman is still advocating joint sponsorship…aaaaarrrrgggggghhhhh.
TJ
Wan thing aboot this Celtic Scouting Staff..
They Don’t Hing aboot!
Woik. Woik.. Woik…
and…
JIst like the Seeven Dwarves…
They…
“Happily, we…Dig,Dig, Dig,in oor Mine,
The Whole Day Thru,
fur…
To ..Dig,Dig,Dig, Dig,Dig, is whit we really..
Like tae Do!
It’s OOR Trick.. tae Get Celtic Rich..fae the Mine
and Noo in again.. We Seven Little Men..
Find A Diamond.. that’ll really Shine.!
Whit a Happy Band ur They.
so they ur.
Right?
Kojo
Still Laughin’
ASonOfDan
18:19 on 16 November, 2012
A poison was injected into this Land when SaruMurray took control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jc9WpF3t1s&feature=related
An overflowing incontinence slip of green sevcotia, humming with overpowering strains of rule britannia…
PFayr
No. Queens Park v Sevco on SS4.
Good evening CHAMPIONS
Howz about a septic tank of sevconians
Weefra HH
A Stramash of Sevcovians