At 6’ 4” and built like the Free Derry Wall in the town he knows so well, Shane Duffy brings experience and assurance to the middle of the Celtic defence. What would have happened had he been at the club eight days earlier is imponderable.
I don’t know Shane well enough to comment on that question but I am assured by Irish friends he has been an impenetrable leader in their national team for years. He is at Celtic because his time as first choice at Brighton is over, but he is still only 28, which is the middle of the peak years for many central defenders. We have recruited a player who will be influential in the chase for 10.
The most pleasing aspect of his signature is the tactical shift another central defender gives us towards three at the back. Surely Shane, Kristoffer and Christopher will all play when fit? That being the case, I would like to see us add one more central def.: space for ‘a project’.
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Delaney
And by Home Rule they meant devolution.
The vast majority of the support voted Labour, a minority probably voted Tory, hardly any voted for the SNP or their precursors.
The vast majority of the Celtic support detested and distrusted the SNP.
In other words they were, by your view, Brittish Unionists.
I just wonder how that sits with you.
It seems you attempt to deal with it in a similar way to how the huns deal with their club having died, by denying the facts and constructing an alternative, fantasy narrative.
Which is fine, i suppose. It just strikes me as odd.
Good afternoon all from the People’s Republic of Govanhill.
Awe_Naw_Nae_Noo_Article_Oan_Anaw_Noo?
OK,a long time in coming,but I have some news from Peterboro.Mate was on holiday in Torquay,but back now.
He asked me,”OK, do you believe me now”All this talk of being lots of teams interested in Toney,true,but he has refused to speak to any,at the moment.Reports that Brentford have offered 10 million,false.Its 6 million with loads of add ons.He wants to go to Celtic.Waiting to see what happens with Edouarde.Strachan keeping him up dated.Celtic don’t know.
I asked him what he thought of Toney.He said”I stopped going ,but he is the talk of Peterboro,pubs and clubs.His son reckons he would score 30 odd goals a season at Celtic.Best player he has seen there,and been working there for 12 years.Fanatical fan.
Just an update,but going by whats happened since the first info,I tend to believe him.Only 4 weeks to find out.
Of course,anything can happen.Mega bucks offer.Who knows.
TOSB @ 3.39
Not-Jacinda — in my case I made it up.
My memory is that I has used JA to show what best practice looked like and that NS was well of the pace.
JA had saved her health minister a couple of weeks earlier by saying he was a very naughty boy but now was not the time for change.
NS tried a similar gambit to save CC but as we know things did not pan out well and she had to “accept her resignation.”
I think I read somebody else being described as Not-XYZ and thought that Not-Jacinda would be a good name for NS on the basis of her then recent issues.
I have used it more regularly as her attempts to follow the NZ playbook have become all the more transparent to the point that she thinks she is JA — she is not as JA has used leadership and innovation to keep NZ on-side as they try to actively suppress the outbreak towards local eradication.
NS wants local eradication but doesn’t know how to achieve it apart from getting everyone to sit in the house and watch her on the TV at 12.30.
Overall she has not had the leadership skills or the engagement with the troops on the ground to deliver it — passive government / self isolation doesn’t cut it in a global pandemic …
My thoughts are you need an active state — health ninjas jumping out of vans and setting up roadblocks to take peoples temperatures / handing out masks at bus stops / people knocking on doors to make sure holidaymakers are quarantining properly We do nothing and blame privacy regulations.
Not all her fault — public services in Scotland are not at their best at the moment. Nobody is managing them as the focus is on IndyRef2 and when the cat is away the mice will faff about and look busy. Unfortunately we have had 13 years of this so faffing about is now the default position of too much of the Scottish public sector — which is troubling if you believe in the public sector provision of certain public services.
BRRB good afternoon havent we met somewhere😎
FRANKTERRY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 4:34 PM
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 4:16 PM
Who mentioned politics? I was just reminding you of what you said to me – which was kinda bizarre because my post had actually been about football and Celtic. And now you’re posting about non celtic/football matters…
Oh, Shane Duffy will be a great signing.
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Are you sure it was me? I can’t remember posting that? I can’t remember a lot of things these days. When did I post it?
TOSB @ 30 minutes late
One line answer — Not-Jacinda relates to Jacinda Ardern the PM of NZ and the person wee Nic wants to be even though she lacks both the stature and talent to carry it off.
Now that Shane Duffy will be playing for Ireland tonight as an on-loan Celtic player; who was the last actual Celtic player to play for Ireland? I’m think Darren O’Dea or Anthony Stokes. I think McGeady left earlier
Hey ho, hopefully a good game anyway.
It’s noticeable that since July the club are not promoting Celtic kit. Instead, at every revelation we’re encouraged to go pop-eyed at adidas x Celtic kit.
Looking at the pictures of the stadium today, I wonder if home games are to be played at adidas x Celtic Park.
MadMitch
Thanks for taking the time and trouble to answer my question. I now completely understand the reference.
Bye the way,been to Bulgarian border,Passport stamped ,and back.A wee scary moment coming back to the Turkish side,they thought “WTF is this”.7 bedraggled punters on foot approaching.They thought we were Refugees,!!!!!!!.Armed guards approaching,until we showed our Passports.After,they thought it was funny.
I did’nt.Now,legally driving.
come on whats the answer, the first irishman to play for celtic.
Well,I will leave you now to your politics.Have a good evening.
HAIL HAIL.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 4:53 PM
Sunday night. But no worries, it’s not worth arguing about.
Ernie
Nobody in my family has ever voted for any party but Labour, and my father voted Communist for many years. I despise all political parties, but desire Scottish independence.
Labour and SNP are parties I detest as much as the Tories. Do not make assumptions about me please.
Saor Alba
If you want to know how stupid and willfully ignorant the SG response is to CoViD19 then please look at the comments put out by Jason Leitch — him of the stiff talking to / I did not hold back let me tell you — about the new tests and testing strategies that are becoming available.
His negativity just confirms that too many in the SG don’t want to test in any meaningful way to suppress the outbreak — they just want to pick up the pieces when it something goes wrong.
His analysis and his analogy just show him up for the charlatan that he is — he is a dentist so he thinks 33 is a big number verging on the impossible and yet we have him pontificating on testing strategies that he does not fully understand.
Everything is point in time with testing but we need the Tesco strategy — every little helps.
We need to weed out the asymptomatic carriers and sample testing / mass testing does this.
It is costly / it is messy / it is hard work but it needs to be done.
Beware of a public service that want’s you to do it all — organised theft from the working class would be a polite way of describing their lazy / self centred actions.
ok the answer is Donegal Bhoy, Charles McEleny.
BIG PACKY 1 on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 4:39 PM
Not sure if he was first, your namesake Packy Bonner spoke very movingly a few years ago about a Donegal man Alec Collins, buried at St Kentigern’s cemetery, at a Graves Society commemoration.
turkeybhoy
4.59 “……They thought we were Refugees, !!!!!!!! Armed guards approaching…..”
5.02 “Well, I will leave you now to your politics.”
Irony doesn’t come into it
Brilliant sunshine in Bo’ness and tropical rainstorm.
Had to bring my glass of wine in from the garden.
Have we signed anyone today?
GuyFawkes
Big Packy is correct. Charlie McEleny according to my Celtic history books.
Celtic Mac
The irony made me chuckle too. 🤣😂
get Ivan Toney in now, we will quadruple our outlay when he/we decide it’s time for him to move on , he is the real deal.
RC
Toney went to Brentford this week
Sure GAvin Strachan would be well aware of Toneys strengths and weaknesses
We got Strachan from Peterboro did we not ?
CONEYBHOY
dearie dearie , we have missed a star then.
JCS
He was headhunted for his exception coaching and managerial skills.
By his dad’s mate Neill.
PACKY:
What about Willie Maley born Newry.
Who was the Lurgan born goalie,played one game for Celtic and played in an all Ireland senior final at croke park?
DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 5:25 PM
No worries. I was responding to the original query posed. It stirred a memory of catching a rare sunny afternoon at one of those services, just a coincidence it bounced in on the given answer.
Early 1950s for that poser.
FRANKTERRY on 30TH AUGUST 2020 9:35 PM
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 30TH AUGUST 2020 7:46 PM
“Who really gives a toss about the CL anyway?
Actually, loads of us. We all know we won’t win it but if we qualify for the group stages we get £30m + and the opportunity to see some great teams at Celtic Park. Many of our fans enjoy attending the away legs too and making friends in lots of European cities.
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We get the opportunity to be thrashed by a number of great teams at Celtic park. The Europa league last year was much more enyoyable (for me anyway) than the previous Champions League games. And we also get to go to other European cities and make friends in that competition. I get no joy from watching teams like Man City or PSG (funded by abuse human rights abusers to make their governments more palatable to to west) but we obviously differ on that.
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To be honest I don’t particularly care for football nowadays, there was a time I would watch MOTD and other live games not featuring Celtic but now i can’t stomach it as it is increasingly a front for sportswashing”
Why come on to a football blog and post about football if you don’t care much for it?
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I care about Celtic and I care about Neil Lennon. Not much else in the football world but those two should surely be enough for a Celtic blog, no?
“ And even if we don’t there are far more important things going on the world that you should be getting angry about.”
This is a football blog. It’s purpose is to give us the opportunity to discuss all things Celtic and football. We come on here to escape the ‘far more important things going on in the world that you should be getting angry about.’
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A lot of people were losing their head today, that was just my way of trying to put things in perspective. Although to be fair, I was also making a point about how football/sport is being used to distract people from political issues – which when you think about it is kinda relevant to a football blog?
You win first prize for the strangest post of the day!
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I’m afraid I can’t accept that prize, there were other posts far more deserving.
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I think I’ve traced the post you were referring to Frank. I was hardly telling you not to post about politics per se. There was a right ding dong on the blog on Sunday and I stick by my guns on what I had to say throughout the day.
I questioned why you came onto a football blog because you had said that you don’t particularly care for football nowadays. I think our comments need to be looked at in the context of Sunday’s debate.
Anyway I’m happy to let matters rest and don’t want to restrict freedom of speech from anyone. So absolutely no hard feelings from me.
I didn`t think of any irony whilst reading Turkebhoy`s post but his gentle style in describing the event made me smile. I was thinking that, there was I, sitting out in the Arbroath sunshine at the same times as the Magnificent Seven ( TB and pals) was being approached by an armed military unit :-))
so did OE miss our last to games so that he is able to play for the French u’21.
!!BADA BING!! on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 3:47 PM
Unless Eddy would be Cup tied for Europe, if he was sold?
43.06
… Exceptionally, however, a player who has been fielded in the first, second, third qualifying round or the play-offs of the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League is entitled to play in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League for another club as from the group stage.
GuyFawkes
No probs sir.
Hope all is good along the road in OK?
Just in case anyone doubts Coneybhoy:
“Ivan Toney became our second summer addition, joining from Peterborough United yesterday. Get to know more about our new man”
Brenford FC site
ERNIE LYNCH on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 4:41 PM
I don’t get the whole SNP thing. Their achievements, to date, are microscopic and don’t bear scrutiny. That’s why they’re so averse to scrutiny. The whole kilty project is a triumph of style over substance. They’re not socialists. They’re not radicals. They’re not much of anything.
Now, I like Scotland and Scottish people, irrespective of creed or colour. But the proposition that the SNP bears the remotest resemblance to the men of Easter 1916 is beyond absurd.
If it’s history the SNP wants then here’s something to chew over: the Irish in Scotland have fared worse in terms of social progress and living standards than in any other English speaking country (England and Wales included). And a study featured in the Herald about 15 years ago came to the conclusion that the Irish who emigrated to Scotland in the last century would have been far better off staying put.