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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DAVID66 on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2024 9:19 AM
Should be walking tae work and sortin out the IT problems !!.
Oh, MA KNEE !.
once more
Is Tom Mclaughlin having yet another birthday?
That’s just greedy?
He’s had more than most of us have had?😀
Seriously- all the best
joes11 on 5th September 2024 9:00 am
“But, on the other hand, international break immediately following a win against them is lovely, chust
sublime!”
Are you a para Handy Fan?
Happy birthday, Tom.
Happy Birthday Tom.
😎
Have a good one Tom.
I enjoy your contributions here.
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
Nope CB I think Mrs Taylor done well introducing you to medieval Irish history at all I think maybe you picked her up wrong on the numbers stretching back over 1,000 since the norman English invaded Ireland and this was after the raping and pillaging of the vikings.
Factors affecting population in Ireland were many as there was inter tribal warfare,pro and anti power source of the invader thro to flight of the Earls when a more modern planter took over after the union of crowns
Famine you mention,was a constant in Ireland,generally 1 or 2 a century from the middle ages
Famine was also a weapon of war used against those who did not buckle to authority,as I said in my last answer poet and English chronicles suggested a little famine would help flush those rebelling out.
Cromwell – it is thought a quarter,1 in 4 of Irish people were slaughtered at the hands of his armies and tyranny.There was also employment slavement where the Irish were enslaved abroad,the Caribbean isle of Matinique was known as the ‘Irish isle’ due to the numbers enslaved under bandage to central America,
There was bubonic plague,the black death as illness ravaged europe.
I have a question out to a friend at Trinity on population over the last millennium,on reading up I am amazed there are any irish left!! after reading up.good haver tho for an international break.
HH
Incessant wars CB forgot that :-)