A one-season trial in the Lowland League for Celtic’s B team, the fifth tier of Scottish football, got the green light yesterday. It will present nowhere near the level of challenge I think our youth players need, but at least they will face men, not aspiring boys who themselves may end up on the semi-pro circuit.
They need to compete against sides the calibre of the Falkirk team that visited Celtic Park on Scottish Cup duty last month. They are currently mid-table in League One, but have the wherewithal needed to test and develop the best of Celtic’s youths.
There was a hope that the current economic position of the SPFL’s lower league clubs would make them agreeable to any opponent that could muster more than a dozen visitors per game, but despite the financial argument, online fan pressure groups like to say “no” to pretty much anything, so that proposition never got off the ground. We will see if the impact of forgoing this income to the benefit of the Lowland League changes minds going forward.
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Tonyrome – Big Jimmy will be sitting next to me and I am a ringer for Steve McQueen in his hey day so you will recognise him no bother.🍺🍻🍺
D :)
Well done ” The ‘Well”….but I really cant see Celtic being able to follow suit…Differing amounts of cash at stake to be realistic ?
HH.
DAVID66 on 12TH MAY 2021 8:28 AM
Tonyrome – Big Jimmy will be sitting next to me and I am a ringer for Steve McQueen in his hey day so you will recognise him no bother.🍺🍻🍺
D :)
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Aye…and I am Brad Pitts STUNT Double…
HH.
BIG JIMMY on 12TH MAY 2021 8:04 AM
My objection is to you bracketing Unionists along with Brexiteers as though they are one and the same.
They’re not, and you know they’re not.
Which makes me wonder why you insist on lumping them together.
Diffrent day same shite.
Things to do.
Brad shhhh.
Stevecsc
Any football chat today?
Naw?
“DAVID66 on 12TH MAY 2021 6:54 AM
Good morning cqn from a dry but overcast Garngad
….. getting a new patio, path and half of front garden paved.”
Very different from the Garngad I was born in :-))))
ONENIGHTINLISBON @ 9:06 AM
Any football chat today?
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ONIL – My neighbour’s youngest kicked his ball into our garden yesterday?
Big Jimmy
Looking forward to it. I will arrive around 2.30pm as my bus is due in to Buchanan St at 2pm. Not sure if tables need to be booked? Anyway, it will be great to get out and about.
HH
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 12TH MAY 2021 9:15 AM
…..and I have just seen a guy walking by wearing an Arbroath FC scarf.
That awkward moment when you are buying Made to Measure Jackets ONLINE….and having to TRY and take your own Measurements with a METAL Tape Measure !
I may have to ask my Postman this morning to take my Shoulder and Arm measurements, ALBEIT with a Metal Tape Measure….as theres no one else around ?
” Big Jimmy NAE Mates” !
Where are all the Tailors when you need one ?
LOL.
HH.
IF Eddie Howe is the next manager ….
…. I wouldn’t be surprised if one or more of Junior Stanislas, Steve Cook, Adam Smith and Asmir Begovic sign.
Winger, CB, RB, GK – all positions needing attention.
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
We’re Not Half of Anything
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 12TH MAY 2021 9:15 AM
LOL..much better chat than a lot of therecent stuff….keep me posted….
FRIESDORFER on 12TH MAY 2021 9:17 AM
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Dont worry about Tables/Booking etc, I will take care of that on Monday the 17th May, when I am finally allowed to drink INSIDE my Local.
I will be chatting to my Mate who owns the Pub. Hes also a Celtic man and season books holder
My local is Spacious and there will be plenty of room on a Friday afternoon…for us auld Geezers to talk about Celtic, tell Jokes and several stories and Lies etc
HH.
Hot Smoked – I think your football update easily beats mine in terms of quality and human interest.
Mine might win in terms of frequency though.
How a 3-foot waif can kick a ball over a 2-metre fence with such regularity is beyond me.
“Don’t lean back when shooting!”
🤔🤭
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 12TH MAY 2021 9:24 AM
You reminded me of a Big Jimmy style joke:
Man in Butchers: Half a pound of bacon,please.
Butcher: Lean back?
So the guy did.
Hot Smoked – Regeneration has hit a lot of Glasgow.
I am in the old Convent 26 houses in our wee crescent or Place as it’s called built 23years ago 3 bed 2 bath and loads if outside space and great neighbours and bought it off plan for next to nothing and love it.
D :)
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 12TH MAY 2021 9:24 AM
Hot Smoked – I think your football update easily beats mine in terms of quality and human interest.
Mine might win in terms of frequency though.
How a 3-foot waif can kick a ball over a 2-metre fence with such regularity is beyond me.
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You live next door to Ryan Christie??
SQUIRE DANAHER
😂😂😂😂
DAVID66 on 12TH MAY 2021 9:40 AM
274 Garngad Hill ( or RoystonHill as,apparently, they renamed it during the war, ) was where I spent the first 5 years of my life.
FRIESDORFER on 12TH MAY 2021 9:17 AM
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You can get a bus from Buchanan St Station to Glasgow Cross and then walk down the Saltmarket. No buses go down the Saltmarket…Not even Brexit Buses…LOL
Or….you could get a Taxi from the bus Station ?
HH.
With quite a few `Ifs` involved, what about this selection to begin next season:
Barkas
Ajer Welsh Jullien Taylor
Turnbull Soro McGregor
Forrest Edouard Johnston
Like many others I am waiting impatiently for our new manager announcement. ( How can we talk Celtic when there is nothing to talk about )
I hope its Eddie Howe, if so I can forgive the seemingly abysmal lack of foresight. But anger is turning to a more serious apathy.
If we are kept waiting all this time for really unimaginative and unimpressive announcements then there will be severe consequences.
Our custodians must know this.
HH to all.
Big Jimmy
👍👍
HH
Hot Smoked
Are you anticipating that Eddie will still be with us next season? Unlikely imo.
HH
Apart from `poor` this has also been a strange season.
a) Covid ,at the outset, leaving Sevco untouched whilst affecting us and Aberdeen severely; it then affected us dramatically after the mistake that Dubai turned out to be;
b) Signings that turned out to be inexpicably poor :Barkas, Duffy and Ajeti,for instance;
c) Loanees who blew hot and cold;
d) Broonie losing that vital few per cent of impact
e) Same for Calmac;
f) Long term loss of Jullien from an already dodgy area;
g)Sacking of the manager;
h) Sevco`s seldom if ever mentioned in Scotland penalties against record combined with their equally remarkable Red Cards AFTER the events record;
i) The MIB`s even more blatant bias.
I `ll leave the ` We needed an Old Firm` scenario for others to argue.
FRIESDORFER on 12TH MAY 2021 10:44 AM
No. He is one of the `ifs` .
HOT SMOKED on 12TH MAY 2021 9:36 AM
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My jokes can be worse than that ?
HH.
Much worse in fact.
LOL.
HH.
Squire D – brill.
Genuinely laughed out loud at that one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46199577
are LG and ajeti fit yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-57059148
Cough cough ahem…..
GREENPINATA on 12TH MAY 2021 10:38 AM
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I know you sometimes drink in McCuills…You are also most welcome to join us next Friday Afternoon doon the Saltmarket ?
BIGRAILROADBLUES…..
Me and DAVID66 Hope that you can also make the Saltmarket next Friday ?
HH Bhoys.
new article posted.
Steven Gerrard has been blabbering on about all the good guys who helped him finally topple Celtic,
Kenny Dalglish,
Walter Smith,
Graeme Souness,
Rafa Benitez,
what a shower of ratbags, and thanks a lot ‘King Kenny’