At the time, you and I talked about the hoard of wingers at the club after the summer’s transfer business. James Forrest, Mikey Johnston, Liel Abada, Daizen Maeda, Luis Palma, Yang and Marco Tilio. That’s seven players for two starting spots; it was always going to be a handful keeping everyone happy. Marco got his first outing of the season at the weekend, playing for the Australia under-23s, and has apparently intimated a willingness to leave on loan in January. A rationalisation was always likely.
Unfortunately for Brendan Rodgers, he has never had all seven available to him. Mikey and Marco started the season injured, Liel soon joined them and Daizen is now out. We head to Rome next week without Liel, Daizen or suspended Luis, meaning Yang, James and Mikey are each likely to play some part in the game. It would be bizarre and unfair to ask Marco Tilio to make his Celtic debut in such circumstances.
Brendan needs to concentrate developed work on Luis and Yang. We are hampered by being unable to attract the finished product to Scottish football, so we have to excel at improving the players who arrive here with little more than potential. If either of these two leave Celtic without pushing forward as professionals, a key metric for the club will have failed.
Development is never linear, they will need support to realise their full potential, but by the end of the season they should be competing for a start alongside Daizen and Liel.
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Celtic won’t be punished by UEFA for the displays of support for Palestine throughout the Champions League match at home to Atletico Madrid on October 25.
Ahead of the match Celtic issued a statement urging fans not to bring flags, banners or emblems relating to the war in the Middle East with Palestine under attack round the clock from Israel.
Thousands of supporters ignored that statement with images from the stadium going viral with the distinctive green, white and red flag prominent.
Before and after the match it was expected that UEFA would fine Celtic with some howling about a partial stadium closure as a follow up to a fine in 2016 after Palestine flags were on display for the match against Hapoel Be’er Sheva.
One month of from the match against Atletico UEFA dished out their latest round of punishments with no mention of Celtic.
Disciplinary action on six matches was announced on November 6, yesterday a further six matches were judged on by UEFA’s Disciplinary Committee with no mention of either Celtic match against Atletico.
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Quadrophenian
Well done to the Aussies for an incredible and unexpected World Cup triumph. They really do own that trophy now. 6 wins out of 12 competitions compares with England & India with 1 a piece !
Thanks for sharing Re Jackson Irvine and St Pauli.
Great article. I am a huge fan of St Pauli and what they stand for. I first met the St Pauli / Celtic fans at the match in Ekeren (folk on here spoke about this game earlier this week Re the cake) and it’s so good to see their progress since. Their interest in Dunfermline is intriguing. Their disagreement with our potion Re Palestine also interesting.
As for Jackson I totally agree with you and the article. He appears to have matured Int a really good man and a great ambassador for the sport.
BURNLEY78 on 21ST NOVEMBER 2023 10:47 AM
Quadrophenian
Well done to the Aussies for an incredible and unexpected World Cup triumph. They really do own that trophy now. 6 wins out of 12 competitions compares with England & India with 1 a piece !
Thanks for sharing Re Jackson Irvine and St Pauli.
Great article. I am a huge fan of St Pauli and what they stand for. I first met the St Pauli / Celtic fans at the match in Ekeren (folk on here spoke about this game earlier this week Re the cake) and it’s so good to see their progress since. Their interest in Dunfermline is intriguing. Their disagreement with our potion Re Palestine also interesting.
As for Jackson I totally agree with you and the article. He appears to have matured Int a really good man and a great ambassador for the sport.
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Aye, Aussies love their cricket but not me; tho’ they say the Boxing Day test at the MCG is a sight to behold!
I also like the St Pauli brand ethos (any club that can boss ‘brown’ has to have something else going for it.)
Jackson seems to have a great attitude and even flourished in unfashionable surroundings (Ross County, Hibs, Hull…) and to become the Socceroos captain where before it’s been Lucas Neill, Jedinak and Mark Milligan suggests he has a steel about him. I think he’s be a great model captain, even for us one day.
Re St Pauli and the Pars, I found this… ” the DAFC Fussball GmbH investment group have a stake in the East End Park club and the Pars’ Sporting Director Thomas Meggle has both played for and managed St. Pauli.”
So mibby not a political alignment so much as a commercial one.
For me, I don’t first look to anyone’s terracings for political insights, but I can appreciate the spirit in which fans offer support to worthy causes; esp to the innocent unfortunates caught in this bloody Gaza shemozzle. HH
Burnley 78
I wouldn’t characterise the St. Pauli position on Palestine as being in opposition to ours. The story is a wee bit more nuanced than that. This article in the Morning Star covers it fairly but we should remember there are very stiff penalties for being seen as even potentially anti-semitic in Germany, because of their recent history. A Mainz player lost his job and his “offence” did not seem to have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.
The “opposition” from Hamburg-based St. Pauli fans is towards the less nuanced position of many of the International St. Pauli fan clubs, including the Glasgow one, which is largely made up of Celtic fans. The German -based fans feel that the International Groups do not sufficiently condemn Hamas and Arab Terrorism and are not even-handed.
They are not in opposition to Celtic fans only. I would hope that many of us have a nuanced approach and are not Hamas fanbhoys either.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/st-pauli-supporter-clubs-clash-over-palestine-solidarity
BTW
James Forrest, the blogger, brought this to light in an article around 10 days ago.
SFTB
Yes. That was why I had said it was ‘interesting’. Their position is more nuanced (a great word) reflecting German law and also a what felt a genuine more humanitarian view in my personal opinion.
Thanks for sharing Re article.
Rishi Sunak is now an Irish Republican
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67485141