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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One of the posts I try to make annually is to list a couple of teams from players elsewhere in the SPFL who have impressed me with their performances against us in the flesh or on TV. This year it has all been seen via the TV
I usually pick one team without Sevcoites and one team with and I am very reluctant to pick Sevco players at all. This year 7 of their players would walk straight into Team 1-
McGregor as GK
Tavernier, Goldson and Barisic in the back 4
& Kent, Aribo and , possibly Kamara in midfield
I don’t rate the season long performance of any of their strikers or Steve Davis who only started to play in recent weeks. I don’t rate Helander and Jack has been injured for too much of the season as has Katic.
I am still going to pick 2 teams without Sevco players in them- I struggled with keepers to pick. I am horrified at the thought of Siegriest or Marciano coming to CP. Siegriest looked good because the United back 4 was so weak that he got a lot of shot stopping practice and I don’t see Marciano as having any virtues at all.
My teams are:-
Team One
Liam Kelly (QPR on loan at M/well)
Shaun Rooney (St, J) Declan Gallagher (Well) Joe Shaugnessy (St, M) Josh Doig (Hibs)
Alan Campbell (Well) Lewis Ferguson (Dons).
Ali McCann (St. J) Jamie McGrath (St. Mirren)
Martin Boyle (Hibs) Kevin Nisbet (Hibs)
Team Two
Trevor Carson (Well)- Out injured this year but he’s the only other talented keeper in the SPFL
Ryan Porteous (Hibs) Connor McCarthy (St, M) Considine (Dons)
Hedges (Dons) Harkes (United) Callachan (Hamilton) Scott Pittman (Livi) Hayes (Dons)
Robinson (Livi) Cole (Well)
The only ones I would be interested in seeing at CP in a Celtic shirt are Doig, Campbell, Ferguson, McGrath, Boyle or Nisbet, and maybe Carson, if he ever gets back to his best.
Talksport Bournemouth correspondent just said Eddie Howe is going to Celtic
Boris has NOT Paid a £535.00 debt since last October..on BBC News today…he probably didnt have anybody to pay it FOR Him…The dirty sleazy bassa !
SFTB
I’m surprised we didn’t move for Gallacher for a small fee last summer or winter. Even now we could have taken him. We have a glaring lack of defenders and especially centre halves.
some basic , heid the ba’s were what we needed especially after we were out of europe. Kenny was the right idea and although he has made a few mistakes, he did add balance for a while on the right side
My preferred first 11 next season would be
New player
New player Julienne New Player New Player
Forrest Ajer Turnbull McGregor
New Player Edouard(if he goes, Ajeti gets a chance with new player)
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