Amid the hype surrounding Nicolas Kuhn it would be easy to overlook the re-emergence of Yang as an alternate choice on the right wing. The South Korean took time to settle into life in Scotland after his arrival in July last year, but as Celtic hit a run of poor form in February, he was given a chance by Brendan Rodgers.
That opportunity closed as a harsh red card at Tynecastle in March posed a major threat to our league challenge and led to a mandatory ban for Yang. Since then, he has started only one game, but six substitute appearances this season have seen his stock rise.
Player development is no less important to Celtic than player recruitment. Some clubs get a reputation for destroying young players by allowing them to wither on the vine. Compare and contrast with the rate Motherwell seem able to develop central midfielders.
We are back at Tynecastle next time out, which I expect will be more difficult than Hearts 11th place in the table suggests, so our strongest team must start the game. But with the visit of Brugge four days later, it would be good to see Yang involved, to rest Kuhn and to allow him payback for that harsh red in March.
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Power to the Yang gang.
Hello everyone. Don’t tell me I’ve got a podium.
Damn and blast!
Well done BigChips ………… congratulations ,,,,,,,,,, grrrr!!! 🤣
Teehee.😀
I’ve seen flashes of talent from Yang, but others have questioned his ability to make an impact on a regular basis. Obviously, if he doesn’t play regularly, he’s not going to be able to do that. Getting more minutes on the pitch can only help him to increase his confidence and impact, and Kühn is unlikely to maintain his level and stay injury free if he is not given some rest and recovery time.
No need to rest some players this early in the season, Kuhn not playing international football, he will start both games IMO, if we are a few goals up,hopefully, we can sub a few guys for Bruges game
North Korea currently playing Iran in an axis of evil cup qualifier 🤪
Yang had a chance against Dundee and did very little to warrant another start, especially at Tynecastle. Forrest is still next in line after Kuhn for me.
Fred Colon
Who does the winner play?
Wrang aboot Yang aw alang ?
If there was ‘ a player in there ‘ I think he’d be out by now. As for Motherwell midfielders the last one they sold, is warming the bench in Cardiff having passed through Parkhead’s gates.
Au contraire CSC
Vale Bhoy at 12.34
TRFC
Iran winning 1-0 approaching HT but North Korea radio reporting the score as 17-0 to North Korea .
Cracking Mafia documentary American Godfathers- The 5 Families
On Sky History……..where you might see some Rangers games…..
Chairbhoy
“No doubt you have a very good point, yet you ask for metrics when the whole point of my reply to Weeron was we are lacking that detail.”
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Asking for the metrics was not the main point- I knew it was unanswerable. You were squeezing 2 similar players into 2 different categories on the basis of nothing but “it seems to me”.
The main point I was raising was “If we don’t know the metrics and we don’t know the detail, how can you recognise a “sea-change” in an unstated signing strategy?
From then, you fall back on – “Well, that’s what Paul67 said Mark Lawwell’s strategy was (and I assume you think that was Paul telling us what Peter Lawwell’s strategy was too- a shared family approach , dictated in secret by Peter the Puppet Master).
Paul67 is reading the runes just like you and me. The Official Celtic “strategy” is just a pious wish- “To be as good a team as we can be”. It will never commit itself to clear objectives such as:-
We will qualify for CL Groups in x or y years out of 5
We will qualify for last 16 once in a decade
We wil win a domestic treble every 3 or 4 years.
No club does this and no club should.
If you say there was a “strategy” to sign under 24’s for under £4m, you have to account for Edouard, and everyone who cost more than £4m under Peter Lawwell and some imagine “old guard” and you have to account for Aaron Mooy, Carlton Cole, Joe Hart, Craig Gordon and many others. If you can’t account for that then your definition of the “strategy” falls.
It’s possibly looking at it back to front. If you are looking for both football value and trading value in signing a footballer, then, by default, you will be looking at MOSTLY younger, less well known players who will cost less to sign. But we never had a “ceiling” of £4m and it was oft-stated that, If it was proven to be worth it, they’d go beyond it. They did so for Albian Ajeti and that was no shining success or sea-change.
We also have to account for inflation. We wanted Idah- Norwich knew that and got what they and their fans think is a good deal. Sheffield United fans thought the same about the fee we paid for Trusty and Spurs fans think the same about CCV.
This early into our non-sea-change period (in my opinion) only the Spurs fans have been proven palpably wrong. Trusty is doing well but it’s too early to say he’s a success but the team he’s playing in is successful and he’s contributed to that.
We need to watch developments over a longer period than a year and a bit of Brendan2 in order to determine the vague outline of a strategy. We will never have the detail disclosed to us.
Our squad rotation methodology will ensure than Yang gets more game time in the short to medium term. Long term may be different
I also strongly believe that there is a a place for Anthony Ralston, especially in the cold, wet and winterly conditions.
We do not have a top 11 anymore, we have a squad with a horses for courses approach.
HH. IBWT
Au contraire bournesouprecipe, he’s played the entirety of Cardiff’s last three games, even chipping in with a goal in one of them.
Paul 67
Yu’re trolling your critics now.
A couple of cameo appearances under Brendan is not a renaissance or proof that he will make it with us. I hope he does and he could still do so but…… Iwata and Oh did so much more for us than Yang has and, still, we got rid. Holm and Nawrocki have impressed me a little bit more than Yang has, on the rare occasions they got a chance to play, but the manager is seeing something different to me and he is the one who is paid and trusted to choose the team, quite rightly.
But come on, Paul- neither Yang nor Tillio or Kwon have convinced the majority of the support as yet. I think Kwon has done well at both St. Mirren and Hibs and has got a lot of game time but I don’t think he’s close to reaching Celtic class yet.
“ Never hate your enemies “
Michael Corleone
Not bad Pablo.
We need at least four wingers, maybe five if Daizen has to do a little bit of the “3rd striker”lifting.
Similar to An Dun earlier, I’d put Yang at #4 currently … behind Kuhn, Maeda and Forrest in that order.
For me, Yang should be targeting #3 spot this season.
I suspect Luis will leave.
We know James will get a year older.
I expect one, possibly two, incoming wingers across the next two windows.
If that happens (big IF – just one guy’s opinion) … Brendan will want quality.
We brought in numbers to replace Jota, but Liel became unavailable and Daizen got injured.
Yang could easily slip down to #5 and we might be having the same conversation next year.
Over to him.
Fred Colon, if Iran are still leading towards the end of the game, their may be some pyrotechnics yielding a nuclear crater sized hole in their defence!
Yang still looks more like an impact player than a starter, for now anyway.
On the other hand we might see the best of him if he starts in our strongest eleven
Bigchips
Didn’t make the grade at the Celtic, – I hope he has a long happy career wherever he plays.
I know it is a football club, and we exist to play football, but once you start putting fooball objectives as strategy well you are setting up to fail.
you cannot say “our objective is champions league footabll in 3 from 5 years”,
what is the cost ? not winning the league sometime, or accepting going out the cups as they get in the road of the big european games ? or spend all the millions in the bank in january just to progress one more round in europe.
the business strategy is growth, to support the football operation, it does mighlty fine where it is.
if we beat bruge is that ok to then use as an excuse for losing to rangers in the league cup ?
Why do politicians always seem to ignore the blindingly obvious ??
It is almost a certainty global warming is about, little doubt about that.
We have a Global warming pow wow going on as i write, full of world leaders. They go on about emissions from cars etc, yet seem to totally ignore the deforestation going on in the far east and South America.
Talk about pissing in the sea to warm it up.
and at the same time, the Uk smugly blames China for the majority of pollution, while ignoring the fact the majority of our products an sale here from big UK names, virtually all , made in China..
so we are saying the industrial revolution here all these years ago did nothing bad to the environment, dont make me laugh
KINGLuBO
KINGLUBO on 14th November 2024 1:14 pm
Do you think cloud seeding should be on the agenda especially with all the recent flooding, or will that be too political for the elites?
Yang at least showed us that the Liverpool/Dundee full back was not all that – yet.
Fred Colon on 14th November 2024 12:41 pm
Iran winning 1-0 approaching HT but North Korea radio reporting the score as 17-0 to North Korea .
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With Kim Jung Un on a hat trick, not sure if that’s goals or pies, my Korean is a bit sketchy
What is the Starz on @8:46am
Never stop talking about Palestine
Never stop marching for Palestine
Never stop boycotting Israeli goods and services…You are either for genocide or against it.
here are no ifs buts or maybes
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And then blow it all by voting for mainstream zio licking political parties?
WEF, WHO, FDA, IMF, FBI, CIA, MI5, EU, etc. all owned and controlled by zios.
Lab, Lib, Con, Gre, SNP, SF, FF, FG, all went along with the zio financed vaxxeen genocide of millions of innocent people and are refusing to here surgeries from their vaxxeen injured voters or from the relatives of vaxxeen genocided voters.
Only the DUP out of every UK or Ire political party are opening their doors to here from victims and relatives of victims of this evil deceit.
SF posing for photos with Krankie whilst Ireland is being invaded and its people being murdered raped and beaten by countless undocumented arrivals off of luxury Aeroplanes not boats is worse than any Hun actions in my book. Know why? Cause Huns don’t masquerade as the good guys.
Just goes to show what money can buy eh.
GreenPinata
some Indian guy I was chatting to reckoned that poorly managed cloud seeding was responsible for the flash flood in Dubai last year tho google says different.
Pretty proud of the Ghirls last night. Very good result despite it being a defeat. i do fear CL might mean missing out domestically this year, e.g., Glasgow game just before Chelsea and R2angers coming up
International weekend so i was glad to see Rodgers give Ralston and Taylor game time recently. Ralston is 1st pick for Scotland after all and Tierney not fit.
My sources tell me that Taylor isn’t happy with his contract offer. If he wants better than Celtic offer, he will likely have to move south to an even more physical league. Hopefully he signs soon
countless ? why not just count them ?
I watched A Celtic World podcast this morning.
One of the contributors had photos of Seville and his pal a young Michael Nicholson decked out in the Celtic gear
The discussion was about how we see these guys (the board) as suits but they are actually supporters in suits
” Countless?.Why not just count them”.
Because there hunners ae them.
” We need four or five wingers”
H,mm,every one of them quality,no doubt.All perfectly willing to do what,Yang,Palma,Forrest does?.
Sure theres hunners and hunners like that about.Funny how they all keep wanting ours.
spikeysauldman on 14th November 2024 1:43 pm
some Indian guy I was chatting to reckoned that poorly managed cloud seeding was responsible for the flash flood in Dubai last year tho google says different.
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Indeed . It should also be noted that Spain raised concerns about Morocco cloud seeding in August 24.
Morocco has recently admitted tjat they have carried out 70 such operations in 2024.
Lots of countries participate in cloud seeding. Of course they deny any adverse affects. Well they would say that, wouldn’t they ?
However if you play God with nature of course there will be consequences.
Greenpinata
“However if you play God with nature of course there will be consequences.”
They said the same thing when we split the atom- maybe with well founded fears.
But they also said it when electricity became mainstream.
Remember the 5G threat- whatever happened to that? I dare say some pre-Facebook Senga also confidently predicted doom when the wheel was invented.
We can all find random Indian men and Spanish and Moroccan ones who confidently associate the cloud seeding with disasters. And we can find individual Indians, Spaniards and Moroccans who say the exact opposite and we remain none the wiser.
Unfortunately, there is little in the research to prove it so we can associate it with cloud seeding or you can associate it with my favourite sign of Western decadence and doom, i.e. the dominance of boy bands in the chart. God must be punishing us for that.
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/cloud-seeding
Strange time for our game next Saturday v Hearts 19.45pm ?