Erik Sviatchenko made an instant impact on Celtic’s defensive performances when he arrived in January 2016, six months after the departure of Virgil van Dijk and Jason Denayer. He was our top central defender for the remainder of Ronny Deila’s tenure and for the first six months of Brendan Rodgers’ time.
Then came a game at Ibrox on Hogmanay 2016. Celtic were rattled for much of the opening period and Erik looked most out of sorts. His assured touch was replaced by a need to get rid of the ball early. Fortunately things turned out well that day but I wondered if the manager’s faith in the defender was shaken. Some of us doubted his temperament.
The season just ended started badly for Erik as he picked up an injury early in the Champions League qualification rounds. A loan for former club, Midtjylland, confirmed where he was in Brendan’s plans.
Midtjylland returned most of the money we paid for him and the player is in an environment, and at a level, which suits him. It takes a lot to be a Celtic player, more than just ability or experience elsewhere.
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RON BACARDI on 29TH MAY 2018 7:56 PM
DELANEYS @ 7:11pm,
CLYDEBANK aso had St Eunans primary school before St Columba senior school was built. Eunan was a disciple of Columba.
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The cathedral in Letterkenny of Ss. Eunan & Columba
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/farewell-to-sviatchenko/
He “Liked” one of my Tweets, so he be awright.
Probably not quite as good as the other central defenders and a bit injury prone. But he leaves with medals and good wishes. A Sviatchenko retrospective. Paul67 was right.
Enigma Machine urgently required….. not lazy contributing….
Delaney’s , Clydebank for being such a Celtic stronghold, particularly Duntocher, has not given us more players. Jamie Smith was the last I think. His uncle Billy used to be a few of our players’ barber.
The number of colleagues I worked with in Clydebank who were from the area who called Saint Eunan’s , Saint Eunian’s , amused me no end.
All this stuff goin on with gasl …….smoke & mirrors…play to the gallery….
Hypocrite …f …lmao
VFR/Charibhoy
Sorry … one of those days where work gets in the way …. hate it when that happens….
so, will be brief
Two things:
1. for administrative decisions, you leave yourself open to challenge not just in cases of actual bias, but if there is a reasonable apprehension of bias (which is much broader). Why even risk it? It is not like he seems to have a wealth of experience in football …
2. The sense i am getting is ‘hey … they did it to us, so why cant we do it to them/tehy had their people, why cant we have ours?’ … understandable, but, if the purpose is really to clean up the game, not the way forward ….
DD
Playing to the crowd and the worst of them at that. For me he’s the Trump of Scottish football as he goes after quick ‘fixes’ and gallery pleasers whilst trying to discredit the prosecutors.
All we need is an orange strip, a big new wall to guard and draining the Broomloan ‘swamp’…Oh wait a minute!
He was well named by the Judge.
Ron Bacardi
My sister lives 2 minutes walk from Saint Eunan’s Parish and school. Saint Columba of Iona, Now the larger Saint Peter the Apostle Secondary school is 2 minutes walk in the opposite direction towards the Boulie. My nieces and nephew had an easy walk to their primary and secondary schools.
Gooood Evening CQN – Double Treble (&EBT loving) Champions
No idea if it’s just my iPad
Tried to post last few days, and when typing, get page reloading ???
Weet Weet Weet – thoughts with you, keep the faith
by the way …. I fully accept that, DK has known about this appointment for some time, and did not raise it as an issue … and is only raising it now to deflect from the shitshow that is brewing over at Snake Mountain….
I think John McGinn would do well for us in SPFL ?
Weet Weet Weet
God bless & KTF
& while The Glib and Shameless wants transparency
Can we have all Masons, and known Rangers supporters disclose their allegiances
Be that FtSFA, or SPFL, including referees etc
Oh Dave, is Mr Dickson still in position at FtSFA, the same one from your defunct club board, who applied for licences for European games ??
I wasn’t sure when Scott Brown signed for us and only really enjoyed it as the deid club wanted him but look how that eventually turned out. A true Celtic captain.
John McGinn has all the raw materials and watch how he progresses at Celtic Park.
HH
Finally
As a CH, I thought Erik was too small and slow
Struggled in quiet a few games due to this, in SPFL
Dave King has brought a whole new dictionary definition to the word shameless…
Quick question guys- a number of other commitments will prevent me from attending most games next year however 16 year old son and 11 year old son are desperate to attend on a regular basis.
Can the 16 year old accompany they 11 year old to the games or do they need to have an over 18 with them?
for season book purchases for them both i should have said
Dallas
Jamie’s uncle Billy was my barber when I needed one. He would also supply us with something for the weekend. A deal of blaw. Billy was an extremely colourful Tim Bankie. His clothes were colourful themselves. Think he retired in Thailand. Lovely bloke who taught me loads about Celtic and life in general. One of Bankie’s best character’s in a cast of thousands of Bankie characters.
YNWA
JOHN51 on 29TH MAY 2018 7:12 PM
In a statement mentioning
“allegations on non-disclosure”,
“conflict of interest”
“transparency”
“credibility”
“confidence of stakeholders”
“probity of governance”
King fails to mention his own role in the past & current incarnations of his club.
Correctamundo
Norrie- beat me to it re ES
Hi Bhoys
I think our club should just ignore all the pish that is being spewed from anyone with anything to do with the huns. Unless it’s libellous of course. The deluded people who run and surround that thing are just trying desperately to make any issues in scottish football an us against them thing.
Let them flounder around in the cesspit of their own making and we can just keep on a course of onward and upward. We have never been in such a position of strength before and we have to keep our focus and stay there.
They will try anything to stop the ten and this just seems to me to be another muddying of the waters to cover up their criminality and deceit. Possibly in the demented hope that someone will restructure our game and give them a shot at the title before ten is complete.
This of course is just IMHO.
KEEP THE FAITH
Balornock Bhoy,
I assume all 3 of you have the appropriate season ticket. If so then there’s no reason why either boy wouldn’t get in. I assume all safety considerations have been satisfied in your role as a father ;-)
McPhail Bhoy
There are a few neighbours of mine in Dalmuir West, Clydebank who still speak with a Donegal accent after 50 or more years living in Dalmuir. Most hail hail from Ramelton and have the name Gallagher,Gallacher or McLaughlin. My sis married a Ramelton McLaughlin. Little Donegal by Dalmuir tram terminus fae Broomielaw is Green and White.
Stuck in Clayton Hotel in Manchester after Flybe flight to Düsseldorf cancelled. Seems to be a common thing with Flybe.
Anyhoos they are paying for the hotel and my dinner and breakfast.
When’s the next statement due Tom? When’s the next statement due?
THE Club notes with concern the latest disclosure through the media regarding activities of the Chairman of the SPFL, clearly indicating his allegiance to a fellow SPFL club.
An independent source has provided evidence of the Chairman of the SPFL wantonly disregarding blue jelly beans, wilfully and ravenously consuming green jelly beans in preference.
This source confirmed that during an official meeting of the board, the Chairman reached out to the bowl of jelly beans at the centre of the table, a bowl containing at that time, 3 green jelly beans and 2 blue jelly beans. After withdrawing his hand, only the 2 blue jelly beans remained as he consumed his chosen delicacies.
This has given rise to allegations of non-disclosure and it is now imperative that we discover exactly the nature of the information supplied to the SPFL regarding this relationship.
It is equally important that any conflicts of interest, or even the perception of such, whereby positions within the Scottish football authorities could be undermined, or abused, must be aggressively rooted out of our game.
The SPFL, therefore, must immediately suspend its Chairman pending an independent investigation by a senior QC into the allegations and into the extent that other parties within the SPFL may have cooperated in this alleged non-disclosure. There is a clear prima facie case for this investigation.
Unfortunately for Scottish football, this incident immediately follows a similar call by myself for an independent non-executive director of the SFA to be suspended under similar circumstances. The credibility of Scottish Football in the minds of supporters and sponsors is at stake and urgent action is required. Transparency will be key to recovering the confidence of key stakeholders in Scottish football and this cannot be achieved if the SFA and/or the SPFL conduct internal investigations.
The SPFL and SFA must now appoint independent investigators. Scottish football is an important national asset and must have levels of probity and governance that are beyond reproach and that are transparently so.
Dave King
Chairman
29 May 2018
SP
Frank Gallagher from the Manchester show Shameless has more credibility than The Lying King.
HH
I always believed that nothing good ever came out of Ibrox however I’m going to have to revisit that. The Sevco TV commentaries and the crayoned statements from Traynor are pure comedy gold.
Awards may be forthcoming.
Exparrotfc
STEPHBHOY on 29TH MAY 2018 7:14 PM
Mcginn signed yet??? HH
hope not, not good enough , we need quality first team picks not another squad member to be loaned out once he is found out that he is just another spl player playing at his level at hibs.
Big Jessie FC and another outburst……..
Something must be up.
BTW, it’ll always be St. Columba’s to this Bhoy….
Jobo Baldie
this would be first time season tickets for both so I would be apply to waiting list for both.
PS the good lady will be dropping off at the door and picking up at end of game, for she does not share our passion for the same team!!! :-)
France u/21 leading Italy u/21. 1.0
Our bhoy Moussa.
Hail Hail
DELANEYS DUNKY
It’s a new level of insanity over there these days, I’m hoping it’s because there’s a hurricane a coming:))
Pandering to the lowest common denominator and instigating witch hunts sounds all to familiar from across the media spectrum with here and across the pond..
“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne”
HH
DELANEYS DUNKY
Yes very popular names here; McLaughlin more of an Inishowen name but they’re everywhere. I was at school with 5 of them none of them related.
Gartan, Columba’s birthplace a few miles from Letterkenny is a beautiful place as is Iona I’m fortunate to have been to both places
Bankie
It is now Saint Peter the Apostle and it is still producing talented human beings. Clydebank High is left in it’s slipstream.
A blame ra skools.
The Timmy parents to blame too.
YNWA
jeez, they’re like beggars in the street with nothing but horse shi* to throw cos it’s all they’ve got
adi dassler
In your opinion – obviously. :o))
Seriously, (in my opinion again) 80% of the posts on here are mostly if not all opinions.
It should be taken as read that when I give my views on what someone writes it is only my opinion.
In my opinion, there are rarely any real debates on here – only exchanges of opinions.
There are some factual things or links to choons, articles etc but mostly just opinions.
Impressionist CSC
McPhail
It amazes me that the majority of my mates here in Dalmuir are called McLaughlin, Gallagher and Gallacher all from Donegal and none are related. Us Delaneys fae Sligo over here are all related. Maybe the Donegal folk don’t research their family tree like us Sligo bhoys. ???