So how do you feel about playing a couple of teenagers, Filip Twardzik and debutant Jackson Irvine, in central midfield, but dropping a couple of SPL points? Good, I hope. Welcome to the world of player development.
For a decade or more Celtic produced prodigious youth teams but watched as Dundee United, Hibs, Hearts even Hamilton Accies graduated more effective adult players. Key to this is perhaps ensuring that players are tested at a higher level at key times in their development. In short, if you have not played regular first team football by the time you are 22 there is a good chance you will not fulfil your potential.
There is cost to this development, you’re not going to win all the time, especially when the two teenage central midfielders are surrounded by other young players: Adam Matthews, 20, Tony Watt, 18 and James Forrest, 21. Half time substitute, Victor Wanyama, is still only 21.
I’m looking forward to seeing more teenage kicks in the coming months.
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Neg Anon
It is passion that makes me love my team.
I think you are mistaking tantrumming for being passionate. There are better ways to show you care. What relationship survives such relentless criticism and distrust? I said earlier, I am no paragon, nor am I a mumbler. I just don’t believe in giving the opposition what they want.
As for “outright” agreement with Kojo., try criticising the Board and see how much he agrees. He is happy for you to focus any negativity on the expendables.
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G’Day CQN Fae a Absolouter el Scorchio Down-Under..
Had a Great Fathers Day yesterday but Feelin a Wee Bitte Fragile today..
Are we Still talking Aboot the Green Brigade.. I would have thought that Debate would last about 10 Mins..
Summa of UltraSonicCSC
Petec
Yip. Sadly. This week that has been very much the case.
Celtic has been 1 of the few positives in last 6 days.
Anyway! Looking forward to Champs league and 2 come 13 in a row.
MWD
Snake Plissken
Vermaelen is an excellent player but they have other players there who have under-performed for whatever reason.
RVP is a big loss but then again maybe he isn’t. I just know Arsenal are swimming against the Debt tide strongly and they will be rewarded richly soon, IMO of course.
AKBW1888
00:08 on 3 September, 2012
As for your young Bhoys U16 Team they will learn from their mistakes
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I hope you’re right on that score AKBW1888:-)
Goodnight Celtic men n wumin. Time fer ma beauty sleep.
HH and let them free birds fly.
TSD @ 00.13
The point of communication is to get your point across.
A wee bit of colourful language and some sly hidden messages are fine, but, when it gets to the point where only you know what it is that you are saying, well you’re in autistic territory there.
P.S. Haven’t watched Corrie since they wrote Eddie Yeats out of the plot.
Did Ampleforth give you a Blue for watching Corrie too?
Awe Naw
Right home now only to find out that you disagree with me!
Gutted! or as we say in this part of Scotland …..Absolutely F’n Gutted!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Petec
Not if the SFA and the huns get away with it they wont but at least their shareholders will be happy trophyless mean time we might get 13 in a row and improvement.
HH
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. The Singing Detective
Ah wiz jist aboot tae.. Turn oot the Lights.. and Pit oot the Cat..
But.. fur You,pal..
Ah wull.. hing oan fur a few mair minutes..
No maitter how ye slice it ,dice it or.. leave it alain..
Master Broonie his a serious Problem…and
the Last thing that Celtic want is. anither..
well… Serious Problem.
So.. Ah figger.. in keepin’ those tae a minimum ,if we can
by
Advising Master Broon tae tak Kojo’s Advice..
Ah say.. that Master Broon should Hing up his Boots..a gie away his Jersies tae that Charity .. the wan who sends awe that used but.. serviceable Fitbain’ paraphernalia.. and equipment tae Africa.
Fur… he has Jist Hoid.. those
“Angel Feathers” regarding the fate o’ his future Health..if he continues tae
try and drag himsel up tae the mark.
Ye should Always pay attention tae that Rustle o’.. Angel’s Feathers..when he hear it.
If ye ur wise..
Kojo
yer pal..who ayewiz hiz time fur YOU.
Still Laughin’
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….
On Twitter
Scum return wee Oscars cash. Tyrone Herald.
Night all, will sleep better now. Just saw a picture of the wee man. Worth a million pounds!!!
God bless all the good people out there!!
SFTB
“The point of communication is to get your point across.”
Naw it’s no’!
It’s to procreate and ensure the continuation of your genetic greenprint! We are merely walking talking chemical reactions. Communication is an aberration of a pointless tear in the space time continuum. like capitalism!
Hail Hail
Estadio
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
00:16 on
3 September, 2012
AKBW1888
00:08 on 3 September, 2012
As for your young Bhoys U16 Team they will learn from their mistakes
………………………………………………………………………………………………..
I hope you’re right on that score AKBW1888:-)
Goodnight Celtic men n wumin. Time fer ma beauty sleep.
HH and let them free birds fly.
Good Night A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Don’t worry I’m sure your young Bhoys U16 Team will learn from past mistakes along wth their Coach/Manager time will tell
Moonbeams,
I’ve not read the blog fully this week so apologies if I have not picked up on bad news for yourself.
We are at the start of an incredible journey, IMO, we have defeated a terrible enemy so much so that they are nothing but an irrelevance now.
They were nothing before their bling and they should be totally forgotten about now they have been exposed in the Court of Scotland.
We have to bring through our own players, they will be schooled in the Celtic way and it is very good. We must Keep the Faith.
Estadio
I think your wrong and was hoping you were going to shed more light on it. Phil always refused further interrogation from me on his subsequent bigging up of Fleming the ref boss. I found that strange and left me less than impressed.
I still stand by that it is a story we want to see publicised right ?
And NI have went with it more than any other news outlet.
Phil gets dirty money from a dirty man in a dirty industry … If it helps us and the truth getting out there its hardly worth quibbling over.
Anyways nite nite
HH
Estadio
“Naw it’s no’!
It’s to procreate and ensure the continuation of your genetic greenprint!”
As a general point on our species imperatives, you are right.
However, anyone expecting to achieve that aim on CQN is wasting more energy than Ricky Martin’s female fans.
Any truth that lennys back in for sebastian boenisch on a free
The Radical Ursine Liberation Front…..
Here’s A Juicy Wee Article Tae Parse….
It’ll Be Getting All You Lefties Reaching For The Gaviscon…..
The Item Could Do With Better Paragraph Spacing
But…..
From The “New English Review”….
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/122119/sec_id/122119
Discuss……
I have achieved valhalla,
Awe Naw Disagrees with me and SFTB concurs!! (albeit with resevations….like the crow, blackfeet or sioux).
I can expire happily!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
We can’t change everything at the one time, I’d love to be able to do that but we can’t.
As long as we are progressing, and as always you need good luck/fortune on your side for that to happen, then I’m happy.
Hindsight has exposed what every Celtic fan knows but the rest of Scottish football might not have as they just classed us the “old firm” regardless of who was getting the benefits. The media is so influential after all.
Estadio
Does it matter that Awe Naw and me are agreeing and disagreeing with you on completely separate points?
Good night and God Bless Everyone, my PC is going into sleep mode
& So am I speak with you all later.
Keep The Faith Everyone.
TSD
Paragraph spacing is the least of its worries.
Any criticism of Trotskyist politics, Stalinism and fundamentalist religion (not just Islam), and we’ll find lines of agreement.
But to generalise that to all left and centre left politics and to equate fundamentalist third world Islam with all aspects of that religion, well that’s just stoopid.
P.S. Are you really impressed with someone who can write this?- “High brow Marxists take their cue from Nietzsche, whose influence on modern culture is almost impossible to overstate.”
That’s up there with giving Ian Black a Scotland cap.
SFTB
The subject is immaterial! as all bar flies know it is the agreement/disagreement battle that matters.
Think ‘Woman’!
Think ‘ look this is a rational discussion’
Then remember just how often you have been thrown out of Valhalla on a technical disagreement over the offside law!
Talking of which, Hoops was!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Moonbeams
Strong language for you.
I don’t know what has happened and it is no doubt terrible but for me God will Judge everyone in a Just way.
Matthew 18:6
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Ghod it’s Deep in here Tonight..
Not Hangover reading At All..
Summa
Summi
.
Blame it on the boogie…
Imagine that now. Suppose instead of jist blogging we all sang a song……right after 3
Ah One, ah two …..ah one two three
Don’t blame it on the sunshine
Don’t blame it on the moonlight
Don’t blame it on good times
Blame it on the ……….
Hail Hail
Estadio
Estadio
My song lyrics for tonight:-
And I play classical music when it rains,
I play country when I am in pain.
But I won’t play Beethoven, the mood’s just not right
– Oh, I feel like Hank Williams tonight.
Hey, I play jazz when I am confused,
I play country whenever I lose.
Bird’s saxaphone, it just don’t seem right
Now, I feel like Hank Williams tonight.
But when I’m real high I play rock’n’roll,
I play country when I’m losing control.
I don’t play Chuck Berry quite as much as I’d like,
Now, I feel like Hank Williams tonight.
For all those who don’t believe in magic!!
http://enematic.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/the-smile-never-dies/
Hail Hail
And good wine…I mean good night
Estadio
Pauloantony
Its true link to story just been on twitter.
Thoughts on tonights,
usually cant work out why a butter knife can be considered a dangerous weapon and a car isnt, then I remember sea cucumbers, price, easier to aim a car than a gun.
on philmac,
what thomthetim said, Lenny done the dreary retard after the thugs n thieves. We discussed it here for a long time, and I think accepted publishers rights.
BTW ttt, the reason they pulled it is because of me :o)
300K to 30K circulation, they know their audience.
Celtic park,
wierd atmosphere, stopped believing the team have a dip in form after europe, its the support.
Most of the booing came from 442 it was traumatising, but if yer sitting in the Jock Stein stand, where else but 442, sometimes I think the board are getting exactly what they asked for, customers, then I realise, I dont actuall know what is going on in the lives of unhappy customers, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, human beings dont have many places they can express their frustrations, football is probably one of the last sancturies you can scream at the world and no get the jail.
Step down from europe is too much for some, I mump and moan at the game, if you dont then your too stupid to be there. We watch the players we want, some weeks they put in a good game sometimes they dont. Dooheid looks for bad performance players and their favorite, any mistakes by their favorite is usually aportioned to their unfavorite. Release valve, me, sammi is world class, always said it always right IMO :o) no enough supporters favorite, glad the big man liked my support :oD))).
Oh
kojo
“So..
Ah kin see that you ..are wan o’ they folk that Ah wiz talkin aboot..
Who are doomed tae End up in a Garret..in Maryhill.. wi’ only a Canary and a Cat
fur company..”
stunned at the venom, signs of a personality disorder, even I can see that.
Tom & Jerry will not be amused.
: > )
Neither will Sylvester & Tweety Pie.
: > ))
Ben & Jerry missed a big opportunity on the ice cream front……I see a fetching Madagascar Vanilla with Mint Swirl……
……dagnabit….now the freezer is calling to me.
Phil Mac gets both barrels in the Sun.
THE Scottish Sun has never been afraid of controversy.
Throughout the years, we have never shied away from tackling difficult subjects. We have never taken the soft option, the easy route, the quiet life.
Yesterday, we ran an interview with Phil Mac Giolla Bhain in which we described how he’d been given death threats for his role in uncovering the financial scandal that was to engulf Rangers.
We knew he was a controversial figure, but it was clear from the book he had written that he had a story to tell.
And we felt it was a story that needed to be told to you, so that you could make your own minds up. So that you had a chance to read the behind-the-scenes details about the downfall of Rangers.
So that you had a chance to see where the blame lay for the collapse of the club.
On Sunday, many Rangers fans contacted the paper.
Most were reasonable, and wanted to point out some of the other material that the author carries on his website.
Others, many of whom had clearly not read the interview, immediately engaged in the kind of disgusting abuse that sadly infects some of Scottish football’s blogs and forums.
Let’s make one thing absolutely clear. We will never be bullied into not publishing stories simply because they upset some people.
We pride ourselves on having the finest journalists in the country who are totally and unequivocally impartial.
But Phil Mac Giolla Bhain is not one of our journalists and his blog undermines the entire industry.
THAT is why we have decided not to carry the serialisation of the book.
NOT because of the social media backlash.
NOT because of the internet bullies.
But because the author — previously unbeknown to us — is tarred with a sickening sectarian brush.
We believed Phil Mac Giolla Bhain to be a proper and sound journalist. Channel 4 News chief correspondent Alex Thomson obviously agreed and wrote the foreword in the book.
He was wrong and so were we.
The Rangers story has gripped the entire nation and it is one we will continue to tell.
We will tell it truthfully, honestly and without fear or favour.
That is a promise to every football fan and to every one of our army of loyal readers.
Didn’t want to give them the hits. I hope they can stand up the sectarian claim or it might get interesting. Do it Phil!
ok I have been out of touch for a while. Have they huns been liquidated yet? doesnt seem like it. What goes?
tomtheleefstim,
wow, and they dont tell the story or the truth, just denial of thier fear to publish.
300k to 30k circulation if they publish the truth, as their army loyal readers refuse to handle the truth.
Now, who paid for that loyal army, we know the sun published the jingoism, I dont remeber the any outrage at fraudulent fundraising and moral support for the armed services, denied basic survuval equipment ,while facing mortal aggression, caused by tax evasion.
sea cucumbers eh