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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Does Barton know the Huns don’t pay holiday money?
TC45….thanks pal….
And once again a big thankyou to everyone on here…have passed your condolences on to the ghirls… And they will be lurking now ….hail hail
Braw.
Sinead found safe….
Braw…
NB-condolences HH
NB, just read back, condolences to you and yours.
I wouldn’t worry too much about what BBC Scotland & the rest of the Scuddish Media don’t say about Celtic & their 5IR For, come Wednesday the 25th of May, everyone outside of that wee bigoted Country will be talking about them, their corruption & the Zombie Club they wish were as great as us.
Sit back, relax & wait patiently until that day when we watch as they are humiliated in front of the eyes of the world.
TET
He’s also used to pitting his wits against 3 of the best teams in Europe. Ok not done so great this year but that is more to do with club than manager. He’s proved himself in previous 4 years.
MWD
Kayal should have been off there
MWD
Considering he has had to virtually start from scratch and rebuild every year he has done superb, and he would be used to having players that were worth anything sold from under him.
It depends if they want to think outside the box or go for an uninspiring appointment like Lenny or McKay.
HH
I do like the look of Hein Vanhaezebrouck of Gent though. Probs out with our reach though after a fine performance in CL last year after taking Gent to clubs first ever title the previous season.
MWD
Bada Bing….he should be off to the barbers!!
Daftbarnetcfc
Braw
TET
He definitely would fit current model.
MWD
Brighton look a right dirty team to me. Hope Wednesday beat them. Kayal has been one of the worst.
NB-ha ;))
Brighton finished 15 points ahead of Sheffield Wednesday and they are about to go out to them.
Brighton went 24 games unbeaten at the start of the season, and 14 games unbeaten at the end of it.
They missed automatic promotion by 2 goals’ difference.
Them’s the breaks.
Congratulations Girvan FC ! League Champions tonight after beating Kello 3-0
NB…
Condolences mate, ended up in the Zoo on Sunday and my mates missus mentioned my ma’s passing, ended up just going home.
It never leaves you, prayer will be said. HH
Donation for advert made.
SIPSINI
I know we all deal with these things differently buddy. My mum will be 10 years gone January next year. I rarely get down when I think of her. Miss her like crazy but she had this laugh that was drawn from deep down somewhere in her toes. Every time I think of her it’s her laughing and it only brings a smile to me. Because for all she has left my family and me in body that laugh lives strong in my memory.
MWD
Plenty of slagging of the Huns again.. Short memories we have sometimes.
Barton would be great signing if it happens.. I can’t see it happening thankfully. Hope our new manager announced adsl and we can start sorting our squad out.
“For me it’s very sad when I see players who were at Celtic for many years sitting and criticising them all the time”.
“I couldn’t look myself in the mirror if I was going to do that every day”.
“But that’s how some people are and that’s very sad because this club is very special”.
~Ronny Deila
MOONBEAM….
Cheers for that, your mum sounds like she was a good lady, like my ma. HH
Sin City Bhoy
Aye, some will do or say just about anything for the ££££s.
I’m sure Ronny will have had his eyes opened up re the scottish media big time, I have a feeling that he might well say something, here’s hoping anyways.
HH
Contribution to advert done! Hail Hail
SIN CITY BHOY on 16TH MAY 2016 10:12 PM
Very interesting comment from the psychological point of view.
Question regarding parking tickets
Did anyone else get a ticket for parking in the Forge car park on the day of the Aberdeen Game? We were parked in front of the B & M store and today received a £45 demand!
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Ironically Mrs C was with me so we spent some time and no little money in the shops after the game :(
Does anybody know if you can (a) ignore the ticket or (b) reason with them by proving that we were shopping?
Craigellachie10 on 16th May 2016 10:19 pm
Question regarding parking tickets
Did anyone else get a ticket for parking in the Forge car park on the day of the Aberdeen Game? We were parked in front of the B & M store and today received a £45 demand!
ignore it, they will go away
Craigellachie10
Ignore mate. They’ll keep sending you threatening letters till they get bored. They can’t enforce them.
MWD
SIN CITY BHOY on 16TH MAY 2016 10:12 PM
Thanks for that. Ronny really is a class act.
Craigellachie 10
Put it the bin can’t be enforced in Scotland
Winning Captains
Donation made to the newspaper ad ,
Resolution 12 guys , excellent work , lets hope it works out for us .
Moonbeams
The Gent lad looks like an Irish Mixu P.
Heart attack waiting to happen too !
His cv fits mind you.
Thanks guys.
Burnley78
Wins league with Gent. 1st in their 115 year history. Takes Gent out of CL group with Lyon . Zenit St Petes and Valencia only to lose to Wolfsberg after turn of year. Sitting 2nd in Belgian league with 1 game to go 2 pets behind. Not a mixu there that I can see.
MWD
Point not pets
:-]
Braw braw braw bhoy, sorry to read you lost a dear family member. RIP Agnes. Still need to get that dram session when you make it to the frozen wilderness of Angus.
Winning Captains, if brth necked that bottle, you’d be waiting a long time for that last .001% input on res 12. He did have a spring in his step when we parted company yesterday.
Good luck with the ad, Im very much looking forward to reading it and seeing the huns frothing at the eyes once more.
HH
Craigellachie 10, have you met Craigellachie 11?
WC has a very fine bottle which would suit you:_)