Aberdeen played three friendlies, scoring 10 and conceding a goal in each, before their four League Cup group games this month. They scored 12 without conceding in them.
Celtic Park on Sunday will be a whole different challenge, but as we remember from even recent times, getting the job done against lower league teams is seldom straightforward.
There have been more false dawns at Pittodrie over the last 30 years than sunny dawns, so we cannot expect too much from Jim Goodwin. Still, his team is close to full fitness, paying well, confident and will head to Celtic Park on Sunday as ready as they could hope to be.
The title defence will be tested from the off.
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Danny Crainey
Bigjimmy
I recall Vic,playing for the quality street generation that gave the lions their best game :)the book The Quality Street Gang is a good read. So many jim brogan,connelly,cattenach,Dalglish,hay,Macari, and my favourite Brian McLaughlin cruelly thugged by McViegh.of Motherwell in the days knee injuries put an end to careers.
In later years I realised he was from Glen, a wee village over lough Salt from my moniker in Donegal,cousin is married into the family and I usually share a pint with his brother when in Donegal.sadly Brian passed away rip,but a stunning wee place and he did indeed wear the hoops ;-))
Hope your good 👍
HH
Big Jimmy,moment
all those Vic Davidson memories, I can recall all of when he returned I was 12-13 and going to all the games.
The “that guy looks like Vic Davidson” really did happen.
Also at Easter road, seen as people are talkin Fulty and Owen (port connections), same thing happened when Mike Conroy made his debut, people at the game saying who even is that,
its Mike Conroy from the Port Juniors says me, I only knew cos the family all went to Holy Family chapel and i went sometimes.
Yir talking daft wee man, celtic dont just sign players from the juniors.
I know teary eyed memories can affect the reality,but I have to agree with Big Jimmy,there was something missing from Vic Davidson,that most of the others at that time had,Star Quality.A lovely wee footballer,but so is Mikey Johnston.The spark was missing.
Ended up a few seasons at Motherwell,I think.
Bless him,will always be remembered as a member of the QSG.
Wee bit of the Mad Man coming in there.
TURKEYBHOY
Except he called them the QSK.
Inq
Please keep posting, i have at times enjoyed reading your posts whilst lurking for many years.
How many sleeps is it now till https://youtu.be/hQo1HIcSVtg
Ross Wallace
We play at Dundee Utd on the Sunday so Tuesday would have been a bigger ask than Wednesday I think.
GGHS
Ross Wallace had a surprisingly long career, albeit not with us or a big club(unless Sunderland count)
Too attack minded for Strachan’s style. I liked him
Aberdeen will be a challenge to us on Sunday. I expect a packed defence and the attempt to hit us on the break
An early goal is required.
If you live on your knees sucking up any old guff, you’ll be correctly called a sucker.
And you’ll be treated like a sucker.
Coneybhoy
He could hit a mean direct free kick.
Oh well, good while it lasted.
Aberdeen seem to have learned how to park the bus and play on the break under the shrewd Jim Goodwin.
I’m sure it will serve them well and present another Livi type of banana skin for idealists.
Dalriadabhoy
Is your moniker related to the Dal on Edinburgh Rd?
Last train leaving Dalmarnock on Sunday at 16.13 pm,so no trains after the game, the shambles that is Scotrail…
“….and the corporate Celtic will be there…selling the jerseys….for £49quid.” 😶
Ross Wallace was a winger (as I recall) who was shoehorned into full back , but he couldn’t shake of the cavalier , attacking instinct . Quite ironic when you think of what’s expected of our current ‘full backs’ .
Pat McMahon
Thuffering thuffertatth,who called me a “Thucker”
Looney Tunes CQN..Tom Mc Laughlin,
You are correct.
:-).
The infestation returns.
Aberdeen will finish in the bottom 2 and Goodwin will get sacked
Kilmarnock will be this year’s Hearts
Hibs in bottom two
We will win the league due to winning head to heads with newco
I always thought Ross Wallace sounded like an Estate Agent
Tim Malone
I think Pat went to Aston Villa from Celtic. Might even have got a league cup medal, although that might be my imagination l
Interview with Jim Goodwin yesterday, before and after the game,
priority is not to lose goals, proud of defensive displays so far, doing what i ask them too, keeping the shape, Scales a big part of that success, miss him on sunday but we will set up the same, dont lose a goal you wont lose the game.
No kiddy on trying to make a game of it, they are coming to park some busses.
Turkeybhoy 6.26, aye a plague of numpties.
Gary Gillespie
Well remembered – just had a look on Wikipedia and Pat McMahon received a runners up medal in 1971 when Villa lost to Spurs.
I was just a wee boy but remember Pat being touted as “the next big thing”. Surprisingly (for me anyway) he apparently only made 3 first team appearances for Celtic.
INQV @ 12.08
Cut the crap — get yer erse back on here “tout suite”.
The usual half and quarter wits on here always complain about stuff they don’t understand.
Happy clappers / Bronskis / board apologists — the usual suspects — they know no different.
If they are having a go at you then it gives me a break from their nonsense.
So phasers set to malky — give it your best shot regarding CL set up / squad.
Big Jock was horrified when Pat McMahon turned up for training on a motorbike and wearing leathers.
Tim
That is my memory as well.
I was 9 when we won the European Cup, so had a good awareness of how highly rated he was and I can remember being quite surprised when he was allowed to leave.
QSG angle being stretched to beyond breaking point.
JB — aka the Brogie Man — was never in the QSG.
He was older than BM for heavens sake.
BMcL — was never a member of the QSG.
He was too young being born in 1954.
Next up some will be claiming that RMcD was part of the gang.
Loving the chat about PMcM.
Local legend who was a ringer in the 67 Junior CF.
Again never part of the QSG but a Kiltoon hero all the same.
Tom
I don’t suppose that would have helped his case.
A product of Celtic Boys Club, Steve Fulton was another young Celt amongst a few aspiring players at the time who failed to live up to unfair expectations (Gerry Creaney and Brian O’Neill being others in this group). Pressure was high on them to perform as the club was increasingly mismanaged and unable to match the more profligate Rangers in the spending stakes.
In an interview in Steve Fulton’s first years, then Celtic manager Billy McNeill made a cringing comment that Steve Fulton could be Celtic’s “Baggio” (a reference to the then world class Italian midfield player ‘Roberto Baggio‘ at that time (1990) the most expensive player in the world and who later became a national hero [and loser?] for Italy in the World Cup in 1994). It was a comparison that was to unintentionally be a monkey on Steve Fulton’s back from then on in, making him an unnecessary target for mockery from some sections across Scottish football. Well, it was that remark and cause of his fat backside. In fairness, it wasn’t meant that Fulton was as good as the mercurial Baggio, but it gave an inch and the wits took a mile.
The Greenock-born midfielder signed professional terms with the Hoops in May 1987 and would make his first team debut on October 8th 1988 when he came on as a sub in a 7-1 league thrashing of St Mirren at Parkhead. By the turn of the decade hopes were high that the left-footed Fulton would be the man to fill the boots of the great Tommy Burns in the Bhoys midfield.
He sprang to prominence on April 16 1989 (one day after the Hillsbrough disaster) in the 3-1 Scottish Cup semi final win over Hibs at Hampden Park. Playing wide left in midfield, Fulton had an outstanding first half and tore the Hibs right flank to pieces as Celtic raced into a 3-0 half time lead making the second half a formality. This performance earned him a place on the bench for the 1-0 final win over Rangers on May 20th.
He had certainly shown some glimpses of real ability and vision, with pin-point crossfield passes. However, perhaps unsurprisingly given the poor state of Celtic at this time, Fulton never fulfilled the potential his early performances promised and a once promising young career looked in danger of being over before it had really begun. The coaching and management at Celtic at the time was poor. Liam Brady who took over from Billy McNeill as manager could have been great for Fulton. Brady was a wonderful skilled footballer, yet he was a poor coach & manager, so Fulton’s career lagged behind and likely didn’t progress technically under Brady.
Steve Fulton also has painful memories of the Tennent Sixes (a fun wintertime 6-a-side competition Celtic won with Fulton) recalling: “The organisers would lay on hot dogs and I over-indulged once and suffered a terrible stitch. I didn’t repeat that.” It didn’t help his case.
In July 1993 Bolton paid £300,000 for the midfielder, but the move to Lancashire was unsuccessful and he would return north to Falkirk in August 1994. He later moved on to play several years with Hearts, helping Hearts as their captain to a Scottish Cup title in 1998, which back then was a rare occurrence for them and killed off the jokes about Hearts being perennial also-rans. Made him a cult hero for the Hearts fans.
He left Hearts in July 2001 and moved to Kilmarnock playing on a match-to-match basis before being offered a contract to July 2004. At Kilmarnock he was a veteran midfielder amongst a youthful side. He moved to Partick Thistle for a final season in 2004-05 before retiring from playing.
After, he later moved to working as a labourer and was involved in coaching with the Falkirk FC youth set-up, and done quite well with two of his sons making the grade and playing for the first team.
In later life, he’d filled out quite a bit, but still retained a great sense of humour and personality. He was still laughing that even decades after finishing his playing career that people were still calling him ‘Baggio‘.
We hope him all the best.
@celticwiki
aye , that all made sense,
said nobody ever
Madmitch
I would agree re Pat and quality street gang.
I think he was a first teamer a couple of years earlier.
“442 PARK THE BUS on 25TH JULY 2022 6:11 PM
If you live on your knees sucking up any old guff, you’ll be correctly called a sucker.
And you’ll be treated like a sucker.”
Thus spake Zarathustra.
You know you’re old when yo remember both Celtic’s Brian McLaughlins.