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Petrov, Bernardo and Engels

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Paulo Bernardo was one of a clutch of players who raised the level on Sunday to achieve a comfortable victory.  He did more than enough to ensure he will keep his place for the visit of Hearts in 11 days.  By then, he will be close to fully fit, having started his preseason when joining the club at the beginning of August.

Arne Engels will likely make an appearance from the bench in that game, and in the next against Slovan Bratislava.  The League Cup tie at home to Falkirk should give Brendan Rodgers an opportunity to start Arne.

Watching Stiliyan Petrov on TV coverage at the weekend brought back memories of one of our big success stories in central mid.  Stiliyan was 19 and a full Bulgarian international when he arrived in Glasgow, but his first season was far from promising.  Announced as one of Europe’s most promising young talents, we couldn’t see what the fuss was about.

John Barnes did not help, when he played him at right back.  The sight of Motherwell’s Lee McCulloch whipping past him, as 10-man Well won at Celtic Park, still lingers.  Stiliyan needed time to cope with his new environment.  Playing where you are expected to win every game is different than anything he knew back in Bulgaria, or that Arne experienced in Augsburg.

I could also make the case that our priorities should be to develop both Paulo and Arne.  That way, we have a procession of talent available to step up when one leaves.  For me, that means Paulo keeps his place.

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  1. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Scott Wright pushed for a move to League 1 Birmingham City, as 1 more game, he would have owed the huns money…..

  2. lets all do the huddle on

    Barnardo does remind me of Stan Petrov

     

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    as players they are nothing like each other.

  3. Hot Smoked on

    UEFA Women’s Champions League –

     

    1st Round –

     

    Semi-finals

     

    Arsenal 6 , Rangers 0 at Full time

  7. An Tearmann on

    Celtic Mac.6.56

     

     

    Adams inclusion is as part of the home based quota,he is still a full back :-))

     

    Best of luck to Mikey in his new path at WBA

     

    Holm missing out is a problem as he seems to have slid down the midfield pecking order,he is a good player imo,alas I am not Brendan.

     

    Hope you are good

     

    How is the OT67 doing?any update

     

    Thinking of getting thro over weekend

     

     

    HH

  8. marspapa on

    Just read a piece on Connor Barron equating his play , skills with Callums 🙈🤣 holy moly!!

     

     

     

    Aye TURKEYBHOY ,Hope the GB take it on , my grandson loves it as do I.

  9. marspapa on

    An Tearmann on 4th September 2024 11:02 pm

     

     

    Regarding auld Davie I haven’t seen him in a while… I was at the golf day in Aberdour and the bhoys put on a great day Davie was always a big part of the day and him not being there just wasn’t the same .

     

     

    I’ll text you tomorrow about whether I can make it through on Sunday (chores , grandkid duties).

  10. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    marspapa on 4th September 2024 11:06 pm

     

     

    Just read a piece on Connor Barron equating his play , skills with Callums 🙈🤣 holy moly!!

     

     

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    Great news Marspapa. Cheers.

     

     

    I hope we see a hundred such pieces published before the tribunal meets.

     

     

    I think he’s an unbelievable talent ( honest ! )

     

     

    Aberdeen got c. £7m for Miovski.

     

     

    I think Barron is even better. ( honest ! )

     

     

    £10-12m bracket.

  11. ordinary joe on

    !!Bada Bing!! on @5:29pm

     

    Darwin, the still picture is immaterial, it is when the ball is passed ,and he’s about 2 yards onside ,seems we have asked for an explanation.

     

    ……………

     

     

    Bada, the most important aspect of these mibbery issues is – what did Brendan say about it?

     

     

    If Brendan says – zero – then that is the opinion of the Celtic executive which Brendan is a member of.

     

     

    Like last season and also Brendan`s 1st spell as manager, he only mentions mibbery issues if it causes lost points or trophies which is the hiding behind the sofa approach hoping that the mibbery dog dizny bite a chunk out of his ass.

     

     

    Any club which only allows questions from planted glove puppets at the AGM is a club which cannot be trusted.

     

     

    But, there are 60,000 who obviously do trust the executive, and if fans main way to get access to the stadium [ which the fans money built not a directors ] is by giving the same executive your money first and by paying the full season of home games up front, then that has to be football tyranny executed by an executive who`ll take your money £700+ and then spend the next 10 months glibly explaining that each and every issue is actually not their problem.

     

     

    Fans built the stadium and a clique of unaccountable accountants decides on who gets permitted and who dizny.

     

     

    It wasn`t that long ago that they couldn`t even give the empty seats away to folk who can no longer afford football, when the Huns, Dundee Utd, Hearts, Hibs, were all out of the SPL.

     

     

    The Huns didny die because 60,000 Celtic season book holders backed the executive who went on to cover up the fact that Rangers died and Celtic FC agreed to put Rangers prices from 2012 onto 2016 tickets which Celtic fans bought 7,000 of these `trick` tickets then sang “Your not Rangers anymore” [ Kev Jungle your not alone my hero ] after being duped by the Celtic executive which a certain Mr Rodgers was recruited to draw all of fans attention spans away from the ticket switcheroo…and it worked showing the football world that Celtic`s rebellious fans had just been diverted from their mugging by the new blue chip manager Brendan 1.

     

     

    These executives and their attached strings what are they like.

  12. Celtic Mac on

    an tearmann

     

     

    Well Oldtim67 is fine as it goes, though stiil in the same Community Hospital where you recently visited.

     

    The NHS has refused to sanction/use of drugs which during extensive research have shown to slow similar symptoms and which show the way forward in this area. (See New Scientist 27 August 2024). Cost the major reason as with all new medical treatments, and there are other concerns, side effects etc. Not really party to diagnosis/prognosis discussions so rely on Ward Nurses, who to be fair are always positive.

  14. David17 on

    I could also make the case that our priorities should be to develop both Paulo and Arne. That way, we have a procession of talent available to step up when one leaves. For me, that means Paulo keeps his place.

     

     

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    Ok but what would Chris Davies do ??

  25. joes11 on

    Gene on 5th September 2024 8:41 am

     

    International breaks suck

     

     

    ………………………………….

     

     

    I know what you mean.

     

    But, on the other hand, international break immediately following a win against them is lovely, chust sublime!

  27. David66 on

    Good morning all from a lovely sunny morning in the Garngad.

     

     

    Might be able to try a wee walk around my crescent today.🚶‍♂️‍➡️

     

     

    Gene from yesterday thanks for update re Jamsie and GT

     

     

    D. :)

  33. Chairbhoy on

    Good Morning Celts…

     

     

    The Bernardo, Engels development will be fascinating to see, we have a couple of gems on our hand if either of them (or hopefully both) come close to emulating Stan they will be a huge hit…

     

     

    And NAFOS may change have to change his name again

     

     

    AN TEARMANN on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2024 11:43 AM

     

     

    “~“The population of Ireland was greater than the population of England”~

     

     

    That is not so CB 👆 I don’t think it has ever been so am sure you will correct me,dates etc

     

     

    1841 Census

     

     

    Eng & Wales 15.9m

     

     

    Scotland 2.6m

     

     

    Ireland 8.2m”

     

     

    As you are aware, I posted a reply t’uther day telling of how my [English] history teacher taught us the population of Ireland was greater than the population of England during Tudor Times

     

     

    Ireland 7 mn

     

     

    England 5 mn

     

     

    Had a bit of a scratch about and something curious happened – in fact it happens often when you look at the “historian’s” stuff…

     

     

    Now it looks like Mrs Taylor was correct in her population of England, Shakespearean times, Elizabeth I ~ James VI & I (1603), the population of England was 5 million

     

     

    Curious thing, the population of Ireland was One Million

     

     

    Now, if we believe that!?

     

     

    Some 140 years later the population of Ireland was 2.4million

     

     

    Irish Famine (1740–1741)

     

     

    Depending on who you go with, that tragedy (slaughter) took 400,000 lives

     

     

    Leaving the population around the 2 million mark

     

     

    So if we go on your 1841 Census figures which should be fairly accurate the English population increased three fold between 1600 and 1841

     

     

    The Irish population quadrupled in less than one hundred years

     

     

    The British Empire did census for one main reason, the same reason Quirinius did it in Palestine some 1800 + years earlier for the Roman Empire, to work out who they could TAX

     

     

    I’d love to know where Mrs Taylor got her 7 million from (she passed a couple years back), it seems far more realistic than the “official” populations

     

     

    Hail Hail

  40. Chairbhoy on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 10:22 AM,

     

     

    RIP John Thompson

     

     

    Absolutely 🙏

     

     

    One of those tragedies that hit year after year…

     

     

    PrinceOfKeepers

     

     

    Hail Hail

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