When Roy Race’s scriptwriters sat down to decide on their weekly football fantasies they would never bring themselves to write what Jack Aitchison went through yesterday.
A scoring debut.
With his first touch.
As the youngest player ever to play for the club.
This is classic (Roy) Race-ism. To get to the stage of making your Celtic debut as a 16-year-old striker Jack would have to have eclipsed many older players in the youth structure, so he clearly has something about him, but consider anything he achieves in the next five years as a bonus.
With Kieran Tierney (18) and Ryan Christie (21) also scoring their first goals for the club yesterday, there was an air of optimism that some of the development work we’ve invested in recently is bearing fruit. The most important lesson from yesterday in this respect was Tom Rogic (23).
Tom has been at Celtic for over 3 years, which indicated the time it takes to develop a player. He came through long-term injury during that period but he could easily have dropped off the scene a year ago without much fuss. He now looks every inch the modern creative midfield player. What he did to create the chance for Ryan Christie’s goal yesterday was sublime. If you didn’t see it, go look for it.
It takes time and patience to develop players, but the evidence is mounting that we’re good at it again.
Really pleased the sun shone on Ronny’s last day, in every sense of the word. It was a high to go out on after a lot of rainy days, in every sense of the word. I planned to appraise him, and our strategy, after the Scottish Cup semi-final defeat but decided to leave it to the end of the season after his quick announcement that he was leaving. Will pick up with this in due course.
As I walked away from Celtic Park yesterday and pondered the success or otherwise of Ronny Deila’s reign, the thought occurred to me, maybe it’s too early to tell?
Remarkably, over the weekend, more than 500 of you have contributed to a crowdsource project to publicise issues relating to Resolution 12 in The Guardian newspaper, and a business paper serving Uefa’s territory in Switzerland (all without a mention in the main blog).
We are not served particularly well in Scotland with oversight, accountability and governance. It’s important for our society, not just our game, that those who can articulate this situation do so. Read this article for more information, with a link at the bottom to participate.
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NEUSTADT-BRAW on 16TH MAY
God bless the soul of your aunt Agnes
GEORDIEMUNRO FIELDOFDREAMS
Players like Christie,Armstrong and McGregor thrive in a pass and move system.
Yesterday we had the best off the ball movement in RD’s tenure.
NEUSTADT-BRAW
Thoughts n prayers with you n yours.
NB
May your Aunt Agnes rest in peace.
HH
I was never an advocate of summer football, but yesterday has me thinking.
One reason for my reservations was that it would put us out of alignment with European football and would mean we would lose first team players to international tournaments every other June.
Maybe a wee bit of tweaking to our current set up would suffice?
12 team league to start the season in August and play each other twice.
That would be 22 games which could be easily completed by mid to late December.
Winter break until early March.
SPFL split to top and bottom 6, beginning in March.
Teams in each section play each other twice providing 10 games to be completed by late May.
This will give us a 32 game season, with time in the “Clausura” calendar to accommodate cup tie weekends.
Players would be available for the Euro and World Cup tournaments and would not be suffering from a long demanding winter season.
Anyone care to shoot it down?
Bada Bing
Spoke to tbj at Cqn corner yesterday
Great form as usual
Moonbeams-
Agree about your suggestion of a savvy Continental boss.
As long as he had a minder initially close to him to iron out the unique “challenges” he’ll face in the Scottish game.
PieInTheSkyCSC
No worries Bognorbhoy….. I bet everyone on this blog has or knows a wee aunty Agnes…..a wee strong ,principled hard working Bankie woman…..family ,church and always helping others ….loved the Celtic….I bet she loved yesterday…a big smile and a dram with a smoke…..
Thanks for the condolences ,I will pass them on to her three lovely lassies …..
She will never walk alone ….hail hail
Braw.
Bada
Unrepentant as usual.
But of course you knew that. :-)
Blantyre Tim
Tell him to email Paul and get himself back on here.
WC
I think we all know him better than that
NB
God rest the soul of your Auntie Agnes RIP.
She would have been well looked after in Saint Margaret’s.
A McG is just not good enough for us. PR is 5 times the player he ever was. The gulf in class is substantial….no comparison talent-wise. Aiden just did not live up to what we hoped would be his potential. The stats and facts just do not lie……unfortunately. That he can’t get in the starting line up in a Championship team says it all really. Not for us now.
Personally, I love Bitton and believe he will be real star, sadly it will probably not be with the Celtic. BTW Man. Utd scored a real own goal yesterday.
Thanks Delaney….. Aye she was well looked after…….a credit to the town is St Margaret’s….
Braw.
Looking through Ronnie’s highlights, Good guy and glad he was with us for a couple if years, I will watch his career from here on in. Bring on the new Mhan. I think it will be a team. :)
KLV
BlanytreTim
No harm was done. We can all get hacked off with things. He has plenty of friends on here.
Every time you see that tribute to Cqn’ers no longer with us , remember that it only happened because of TBJ.
Neustadt-Braw
God Bless yer’ wee Auntie Agnes RIP
RIP your wee Auntie Agnes.
Thoughts and prayers.
KLV
NEUSTADT-BRAW –
Thoughts and prayers for your Aunt Agnes, family and friends.
Turkeybhoy
I like Bitton but this season he has, by his own standards been poor, too slow to release the ball, gets caught in possession too often (remember him losing the ball and fouling Skippy for our only home defeat this season) has the heart of a mouse at times, big improvement needed next season.
Broony as much as I love him just isn’t a very good footballer, heart and soul and effort yes but we have better options if everyone fit.
Winning Captains
Cannae find the donations link, will fire another donation in for the RES12 adverts if you repost it.
Great Response for the Res 12 donations Bhoys. Magic!
KLV
‘GG
I wouldn’t like the league to be split so early. Too much randomness.
Would like a longer winter break though.
http://cqnbookstore.co.uk/shop.php?p=68
Here’s the link again.
KLV
He who gets liquidated never has the last laugh.
(Well, apart from one guy, maybe).
“remember him losing the ball and fouling Skippy for our only home defeat this season”
Robinbhoy,
Are you thinking about the penalty?
Simunovic was it not?
HH
What about Ross Wallace? He at least does get into the Sheffield Wednesday team.
Not sure we really need any more players in that area mind you.
Winning Captains repeat post you should have the donation address up every hour plus emphasising you pay by credit card as opposed to Paypal. Not a complaint just a comment,keep up the good work. H H Hebcelt
kevinlasvegas
Cheers! WC another donation made ………..
Geordie Munro
Who> :-0)) forgot about him, it was Bitton who lost the ball that’s for sure………….
Blantyretim
Few days ago I spoke with our friend, CQN poster J, who you met in Tortilla Factory when in Warsaw. He is after chemotherapy.
Robin Bhoy
Anyone wanting to contribute to the Resolution 12 newspaper statements can do so at the following: http://www.cqnbookstore.com
And if you fancy a book a fiver from all orders this week goes to the newspaper fund.
And if you order Charlie Gallagher’s book you get Winds of Change for free. Charlie had signed the books too!
Just a wee plug for the book!!
‘GG on 16TH MAY 2016 4:09 PM
Here’s why I advocate full summer football.
1) It gets us in a position where we’re at full tilt in time for the European qualifiers
2) The weather is warmer if not guaranteed to be dryer, although that’s more likely too (on a personal front both my boys have stated they’d want to keep their STs if it was summer)
3) It’s the school holidays, again on a personal not I’d be happier about kids staying up for evening games etc.
4) If we’re being totally realistic we’re unlikely to get past the last 32 in CL, so it doesn’t impact progress there. I accept that’s not necessarily the case for EL.
5) International tournaments are only every other year and if we’re trying to breed home grown talent, how often are we going to lose more than a few players anyway. Apart from that we could have a summer break those years to accommodate them.
I think it’d be far better to have summer football.
WINNING CAPTAINS
Just tried there to put through a further donation. Did everything the same as before only cannot get the payment accepted – same card, same details, no blanks yet doesn’t seem to go through. Overload at CQN end ?? HH
Joey Barton will sign a two year deal with burnley later on today FACT emdy seen anything in press up here No didn’t we would HH
Neustadt-Brau. Sorry to hear about the death of your wee aunt Agnes. Prayer said and will be said later at Mass for her and her bereaved family.
Hebcelt
Yes I agree that we should have more ways to pay.
If anyone wants to pay straight into the bank account just email me and I will pass on the account details. Lots of people have done that already and some have sent cheques too.
Email address is david@cqnpublishing.co.uk
In case anyone is interested all money received is managed by Paul and Celticrollercoaster is auditing these transactions on behalf of the wider CQN community.