Celtic Thread - 2023/24

[Magicpole]

Anyway, enough of the above shit.

Last night a game of two halves. First we were poor and gave away two goals through mistakes. Played too passively and never really got going apart from a few moves. Second half more like it. Took the game to them and scored two excellent goals. Big CCV back looking great, Rocky did well, Kwon was all over the place and needs to calm down. Yang looked good as did young Odin. Much better and looking forward to all the officials giving Rangers a penalty every game, but secretly wanting us to win. Which we will.

 

[bennyboy]

Hugh Dallas hounded like Jim Farry for being a cheat. Farry the head of the SFA at the time, who deliberately held up our signing of Cadette, the Bunnet hunted that fat cheating bastard down. . Aye, all the officials have always been on our side. Just like how the Lisbon lions never got any caps. Jimmy Johnstone got a pitiful amount too. Yes we have always had the officials on our side. Utter deluded bollocks in your rewriting of history and actual facts.

Don't think they played a huge amount of games back then.
Who played in the games instead of Jimmy.

 

[Gabriel]

Don't think they played a huge amount of games back then.
Who played in the games instead of Jimmy.

He played 23 games of the 78 international matches that spanned his main career. Rangers‘ Willie Henderson, his main competitor, played 29 times in a similar, albeit shorter, period, Latterly, Scotland also had players such as Hutchison and Lorimer who could play on the wing, and they were representative of the shift in reliance on players based in England. The 1974 squad to West Germany contained more Anglos and Johnstone never featured.

 

[bennyboy]

He played 23 games of the 78 international matches that spanned his main career. Rangers‘ Willie Henderson, his main competitor, played 29 times in a similar, albeit shorter, period, Latterly, Scotland also had players such as Hutchison and Lorimer who could play on the wing, and they were representative of the shift in reliance on players based in England. The 1974 squad to West Germany contained more Anglos and Johnstone never featured.

Aye coming back now.
Lorimer and Willie Morgan on the right.
The Henderson and Johnstone days was before my time.Seemingly both great players.
Lorimer and Morgan played in the 74 World Cup.Jimmy did not help himself with the rowing boat incident.
Though the drunken antics was not just Jimmy.
Sandy Jardine pushed the rowing boat out.

 

[Magicpole]

Don't think they played a huge amount of games back then.
Who played in the games instead of Jimmy.

Mostly Willie Henderson, I can’t remember who he played for. Funny how so many lesser players got caps, yet the team of Scots who won the European Cup, defeated England’s Leeds, never got as many caps. Nothing to see though. All above board.

 

[bennyboy]

Mostly Willie Henderson, I can’t remember who he played for. Funny how so many lesser players got caps, yet the team of Scots who won the European Cup, defeated England’s Leeds, never got as many caps. Nothing to see though. All above board.

The season has not started yet and 2 of the old firm supporters on here getting all worked up and paranoid already about 60's players and refs.lol.

 

[Magicpole]

The season has not started yet and 2 of the old firm supporters on here getting all worked up and paranoid already about 60's players and refs.lol.

We are working back. Wait until I post my 50’s rant.

 

[Gabriel]

Mostly Willie Henderson, I can’t remember who he played for. Funny how so many lesser players got caps, yet the team of Scots who won the European Cup, defeated England’s Leeds, never got as many caps. Nothing to see though. All above board.

With the exception of Auld (and Fallon) they all played for Scotland whilst at Celtic, as did half of the Scottish population at that time, but they were all ‘lesser’ players when it came to qualifying for tournaments, which is one of the reasons such a fuss was and still is made over the defeat of England in 1967.

 

[Magicpole]

I am starting as of today, Non Entities Corner. To focus on these young guys and see if they are as good as I stated or indeed non entities as No 8 so generously labelled them. He questioned wether I could make my assessment on them with YouTube clips, forgetting he did the exact same on the same evidence to deride them. Also funny how he was getting excited for the season with his teams signings, on the same type of evidence. Go figure.

This is how Yang, Odin, Kwon and Tilio were classed. I have seen them all, apart from Tilio.

Kwon, first game he played looked excellent and strong. Last night he was trying too hard to impress on his home debut and was pish. Lost the ball, as they all did to ge fair and his passing was woeful, again in the first half he wasn’t alone. Hatate made a terrible pass that led to their goal, although to be fair, it was a brilliant strike, but Hatate too was off with passing. Scored a brilliant goal, so not in the bad books. Kwon will get better and be a good addition, just needs to calm the fuck down.

Odin. First game he looked tidy and unfazed. Last night he was excellent and already a contender to take the field.

Yang looked eager first game, didn’t have a lot of impact but you could see there is a player there. Last night he was excellent. Always looking to drive forward. Linked well with Ralston and defended too. Looking forward to him getting more game time and confidence.

Tilio the last of the non entities is injured but I would back him too to ge a star.

Big Rocky looked good too. First 45 minutes beside big CCV, who was brilliant. His passing was good, positional play good and strong in the tackle. This lad will be brilliant.

Book a seat for this weekly update. I know I will. :)

 

[No.8]

Re. Your comments on me judging Rangers signings on YouTube clips. I actually don’t watch YouTube clips and only watched the Odin ones as you were raving about him. I watched it and the games were played on public parks and nothing spectacular

As far as it goes regarding Rangers new signings. I haven’t been raving about any of them. I’ve been overly critical if anything

For the avoidance of doubt I have no idea how good , bad or indifferent Celtics new signings will be.

Maybe I’ll get an answer if I ask just one more time. Who’s place will the new signings take in the Celtic starting XI