Shane Duffy and space for a project

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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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  1. DD & JHB

     

    Thank you both for your replies. I think DD`s suggestion that the `conversation` be conducted via email was a good one.

  2. HS

     

    Thanks sir. Hope all is good in Arbroath.

     

    Was planning a weekend visit to our mutual friend in Carmyllie. The Scottish Government have forbidden me to visit though. 😔

  3. DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 5:11 PM

     

     

     

    So you come from a long line of British Unionists then.

     

     

    Just like most of us.

  4. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 5:49 PM

     

     

    OK is ok. It will never be aok. Walmington-on-Sea by the Clyde.

     

     

    Still annoyed at Paul in NISA using the COVID disruption as a convenient reason not to re-open his sub-post office after lockdown. He’s heard my considered view.

     

     

    Tomorrow’s fun will be trying for the T20 cricket at Twisted Thistle instead of the Scotland nonsense.

     

     

    Eat less. Move more. Keep breathing. C’mon the hoops.

  5. born on the 11th of july 1924 thank feck wasnt the 12th😎in mcdonnell st in belfast this ghuy went to st kevins school and played hurling and gaelic football ,he also played for celtic name him??

  6. GuyFawkes

     

    We are a bit lost in Dalmuir.

     

    Horse & Barge has not reopened since Covid lockdown.

     

    Cabin has become the pub of choice for the Dalmuir Tims.

  7. BP

     

    Charles Patrick Tully. 😊

     

     

    Philbhoy

     

    Was meant to be staying the weekend and playing a round of golf. Will wait a few weeks to rearrange 👍

  8. delaneys dunky

     

     

    1918 Labour Party General Election Manifesto

     

     

    Freedom for Ireland

     

     

    The principles which Labour acclaims as war aims it will apply to our own subject peoples.

     

    Freedom for Ireland and India it claims as democratic rights…..

     

     

    and it will extend to all subject peoples the right of self-determination within the British Commonwealth of Free Nations.

     

     

    Events overtook the Labour Party as we know, 1919, 1921 etc etc

  9. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Credit where it’s due to Brendan and Leicester.

     

     

    Sell a full back for £45m.

     

     

    Then buy a better one for half that.

  10. Delaney

     

     

    I’m not one for blood and soil nationalism.

     

     

    Your forebears (if you’ll pardon the expression) supported British Unionist political parties. They’re ethnic heitage has SFA to do with it.

  11. Big Packy

     

     

    Did brothers Willie and Tom Maley not play in Celtic’ s first game, both Irish?

  12. Gary g@6.24:

     

    Yes v Kerry.Only game for the ‘tic against Oueen of South.

     

    PACKY:

     

    @6.22

     

    My late father worked with CP during the war in Langford lodge,no,not that kinda lodge,and said he was one very funny man.Ah St.Kevin’s p.s.my old school.

  13. THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 5:44 PM

     

     

    No worries, pal. Take care.

     

     

    DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 6:23 PM

     

     

    The Polish Air squadron had the highest kill rate during the battle of britain (despite an initial reluctance to use them by the geniuses in the british army). I’m sure you already know this it’s just I was telling my son about it during our dinner as a Polish boy has just joined his class :-)

  14. Covid19 cases confirmed at Corpus Christi primary school Knightswood today.

     

    Four schools in Knightswood with positive cases. Bag o Nails boozer in Partick been ordered to close, due to Covid19 cluster.

     

    Pubs and schools should be shut.

  15. FrankTerry

     

    My grandfather was one of them.

     

    Moved here from Gdansk after the war. 👍🇵🇱

  16. FRANKTERRY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 7:03 PM

     

     

    I assume you mean the RAF rather than the army. It’s well know how effective the Polish pilots were. I believe it was because of their greater experience.

     

     

    What’s less well known though was the reluctance of Polish Jews to serve in the free Polish forces, because of the level of anti Semitism they were subjected to.

     

     

    Blood and soil nationalism is a cancer.

     

     

    https://www.jta.org/1944/04/10/archive/british-parliamentarian-insists-on-transfer-of-jews-from-polish-to-british-army

  17. Patryk Klimala is the latest Polish player to play for Celtic.

     

    Who was Celtic’s first Polish player?

  18. DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 7:11 PM

     

     

    Wow! I’m impressed, I’ll need to tell my son that :-)

     

     

    ERNIE LYNCH on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020 7:12 PM

     

     

    Piss off, you’re a superficially glib prick with no substance.

  19. Bhoyjoebelfast

     

     

    Ok so Willie is the first then? Unless Newry was in Spain or Canada in 1888?