I had a conversation a week ago along the lines of, “Daizen gives us lots of running, but not much else.” A player with speed as his most potent weapon is stifled against Scottish opposition.
Putting the ball in the net is the best counter to that concern. A player who produces a hat trick when his team mates most need him is priceless.
More of the same, Daizen.
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CONEYBHOY on 11TH MARCH 2024 3:42 PM
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The bonus for us then was that we had an outstanding midfield 3 and 2 top class CFs. Bang average winger to supply…
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I was wondering who you were meaning, thinking it couldn’t be Davie Provan. I think he’d succumed to ME by then.
MNCELT on 11TH MARCH 2024 4:29 PM
We’re getting better and peaking at the right time in the season – fully expect us to win the league and probably the cup as well.”
More of this kind of positivity would help counteract the constant negativity of the MSSM ( and of many on CQN).
Davie Provan was an outstanding Celtic player
MNCELT
I should have been a chef!
I’m Just an amateur cook and a professional eater.
!!BADA BING!! on 11TH MARCH 2024 4:43 PM
Davie Provan was an outstanding Celtic player
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Yep. Some crosser of the ball, hitting it with tremendous bend. I think we mainly played with just the one winger then.
owen archdeacon
palma injured at training ?
Hot Smoked on 11th March 2024 4:39 pm
I would doubt that the vast majority on here don’t have the clubs best interests at heart and are hoping that the season ends with a double.
I think the frustration is that we have found ourselves second in the league, with 20 + million pissed high upon a wall and nothing to show for it when the vast resources at our disposable should have us within touching distance of another league title and cruising into the semi-finals of the cup where we will face the Edinburger Huns, and not scrabbling 85th minute winners against the worse side in the league and hoping that the left back doesn’t get injured.
owen archdeacon
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scored an important goal against the hun at celtic park.. the first time my old man allowed me to go to a huns game!
provan was a great palyer.
i remember a hearts game at home when they thugs spent the whole game trying to maim him but he just kept getting up and ripping the pish out of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq7Tnj7GUUM
UEFA Cup 2003/04
Last 16, first leg
March 11, 2004
Celtic Park, Glasgow
CELTIC… 1
(Thompson 59)
BARCELONA… 0
It was the tie of the round and the one which got the fans talking as Celtic took on Barcelona for a place in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup.
Celtic, having reached the UEFA Cup final the season before, were looking for another extended run in the competition while Barcelona, with Ronaldinho in their ranks, arrived at Celtic Park as favourites for the game.
But although the Catalan side created a number of chances, it was Celtic who scored the only goal of the game.
Alan Thompson cracked home a knock-down from Henrik Larsson after 59 minutes was enough to give Martin O’Neill’s side a slender lead to take to the Nou Camp.
The main controversy of the night, however, was the sprinkling of red card issued – one for Rab Douglas and Thiago Motta after a half-time stramash in the tunnel which saw David Marshall emerge in the Celtic goal for the second-half.
And Argentinian striker, Javier Saviola, also exited early when he got his marching orders for a reckless tackle that earned him his second yellow card.
The return leg in the Nou Camp saw the Hoops produce a heroic performance, with David Marshall in superb form throughout the 90 minutes to ensure the game ended 0-0, with Celtic progressing to the quarter-finals.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I was privileged to have been in attendance that night.
Big hello to An Tearmann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJFBAr_FTY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fthecelticstar.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.huffpost.com%2Fgen%2F828143%2Fimages%2Fo-THOMPSON-facebook.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ec3026b92fbf8af25a5ea45a2e58621f1f99d10ef2d1b68240d77f0108574e9b&ipo=images
sorry all; meant to say it was Archdeacon. Provan was a hero of mine in the 80s.
PS Archdeacon played really well in the last game at Paisley.
Ziggydoc – yeah, the lopsided 3 up front could be a strange. Aberdeen were the same to an extent with Weir, McGhee, Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TBI7vcauL4
G Fearon – “the resources at our disposable should have us within touching distance of another league title and cruising into the semi-finals of the cup”
I think you’ll find that this part of your post is factually accurate, while the rest is just hyperbolic nonsense.
It’s all about perspective .
Maeda is erratic .
His feet go faster than his brain .
He is a trier ,but good Celtic sides have had much better forwards that Maeda .
He is touch is erratic ,his control is erratic ,his crossing is poor ,and his conversion of good chances is generally poor .
He fills a similar role to Scotty Sinclair .
Over similar timescales Sinclair was a much better finisher and provider.
That’s the quality we need to be looking for .
TT
Davie Provan was our best right winger since Jinky .
We haven’t had a better winger on the right wing since .
TT
mncelt on 11th March 2024 5:34 pm
In your opinion.
We are past the three-quarter point in the season and are therefore entitled to analyse the ‘meat’ of it, without having to come to any definitive view as to what the eventual outcome may be. Paul’s piece this morning and the postings of some others reminds me of particular study piece in my formal learning years, namely Thomas More’s A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, written whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London in the first half of sixteenth century for defying Henry V111.We seem to have voluntarily entered a prison of our own making.
Our tribulations this season have been many after a stellar domestic campaign last – departures of Ange, Startfelt, Juranovic, Mooy, Jota and now of course Abada – injuries to CCV, Taylor, Johnston, Hatate and now Calmac – a lack of first-team ready signings in the summer widow – a subsequent loss of form & performance together with a faction in the support doing its best to divide us all and sending out the message that Celtic is a HAMAS sympathizer.
Paul says, it is good that Diazen scored a hat-trick against the bottom of the league team, and of course it is, it is also good that we handed out comprehensive beating to Aberdeen and Dundee in the last few months –I say ‘flash in the pan’ results against pretty poor sides. Over the piece we have been poor performers and raw results have ‘papered over the cracks’. We are not done yet of course, but any comfort that we take must be tempered, realistic and not ‘clutching at straws’. I don’t say Paul is ‘clutching at straws’ at the moment, but he and others looks for comfort wherever it can be found and hands appears to be outstretched.
Tribulation may have three distinct forms:
1. Caused through our own fault.
2. Punishment for past sins & to prevent future sins.
3. To try our patience and our merit.
I reckon we tick all three.
If we somehow manage to snatch victory from the jaws of a ‘forecast’ defeat this season, it will be a momentous feat, however it will be as nothing if tribulation returns, and it surely will if we don’t address the above three forms.
Is Darwin attempting to take the moral high ground on genocide again today. . .. . .
Noice.
Davie Provan Had A Magnificent Perm.
FACT!
CQNTeasyWeasy CSC
Ignore the odd squad lhads………..
Impossible to keep thum out………
And it’s impossible for thum to stay away from The Dear Green Place.
Hell Mend Thum!
Davie Provan used to take the schoolboys training back in the day. It was sad when he became ill. Used to love watching him glide past defenders with the socks rolled down. I remember having a conversation with him when I was in the boot room. He talked to me of the importance of the number 7 jersey. I was number 7 and felt very proud. Listening to him and Neil Mochan talking about 1986 and Paisley was amazing. It was hard for him to get picked for Scotland as Davie Cooper was in hi prime with thems, and he was a fantastic player as well. I think if you look back at our history and the lack of caps for certain players, it is just laughable. Davie Provan would also get stuck in as well. Who will ever forget the freekick and the commentary from Archie McPherson in the 85 Cup final:)))) How many of us young kids used to try and reenact it on the hard ash pitches with yer friend doing the commentary. I am 52 now and I still use it at practice, and when it does go in on the rarest of occasions I celebrate like a maddy.
Oh to be young again.
Sean
Talking of Davie Provan, check this out especially scrolling down to ‘nickname’
https://twitter.com/MemorabiliaMal/status/1016420092014399488
saint – that provan freekick
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saint_stivs/4149753913/
Henry V111
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why go out of your way to start going all Roman on us with a V and then finish off with three 1s instead of three Is.
should just have written “8th” instead of insulting the whole blog with your foolery.
Also if we are not watching The Gentlemen on netflix
You are missing out a fine series of TV
Good evening all from the Victoria Bar. You are an absolute shower.
Read a guy on here last night who’s ‘close to the club’ who was not only raising the white flag for this season, but for seasons to come. This defeatist plc defender has presents himself in the role of true fan and routinely criticises the wider fan base as the problem. Is this guy representative of the Board groupthink? I fear so.
a good wee read.
conroy, orovan, burns
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20200509/283064121521459
!!BADA BING!! on 11TH MARCH 2024 4:43 PM
Davie Provan was an outstanding Celtic player
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Agreed Bada/TT as a player/winger
Seem to recall tho as a reporter he was a bit short
on the valuation of Virgil Van Dyke saying Celtic should be happy with a £10m valuation
HH
Scullybhoy keep the pics coming mate and thanks 👍
HH
I remember this from when Daizen signed :-
https://youtu.be/QqhaminuaNQ?si=X8SXnxLEJ_ZMaQ8k
The majority of these goals were from crosses in to wee Daizen in a central position
Clunks
Enjoying Gentlemen on Netflix
Scullybhoy
Enjoyed both those Barca games. For me this was MON team at his peak. Just before HL left and Sutton downed tools. To be in Barcelona that night was special. They had a great team which HL helped win the CL a year or so later.
Still gutted we had a goal chalked off v Villareal at CP in next round. We could have won that one too.
Davie Provan was a great outball for a really poor Celtic team when he joined in 78. He was the key reason we won the 79 league and played his part in the beating of Real Madrid for sure.
Scullybhoy
If you are around, could you tell me the answer to the venue and game question from last night please?
the way our club is being run is a microcosm of how the UK has been run for years.
Austerity forced on us by a gang of Tory rastards for the financial benefit of greedy oligarchs
St Stivs
Enjoyed reading that. I thought Michael Conroy was a great player for Celtic.
A real 100% player.
Rimtimtim,
In addition kids should learn how to cook themselves in those kitchens and to learn about the world of food. It’s the only way in a society to avoid the slide into drink and drugs
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You’ve obviously not met some of the chefs I have over the years…
😂😂😂