The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Angelo]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

[screenexile]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

[illdecide]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Have you actually watched Ireland play recently...You're having a laugh FFS. surely. Please don't say that was a serious comment

[Angelo]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Duffy is the only Irish player who would get near the Celtic XI presently.

[Angelo]

Glen Kamara currently bossing the Irish midfield here.

[dublin7]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Duffy is the only Irish player who would get near the Celtic XI presently.

You should be on stage with your comedy gold.

Ireland are no world beaters but off the top of my head Matt Doherty, Enda Stevens, John Egan in the back line alone would walk into the Celtic team. 

[bannside]

Wise up. Never heard of any of them.

[Baile Brigín 2]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Duffy is the only Irish player who would get near the Celtic XI presently.

Hmmmm.

I broadly agree with the argument that Celtic is as good an environment for an Irish player as mid table EPL, but Duffy is by a distance the weak link in the Irish back 5. He is there for his goals.

[Main Street]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Have you actually watched Ireland play recently...You're having a laugh FFS. surely. Please don't say that was a serious comment

Just because Screenexile is probably  a Nordie, doesn''t mean he ain't dumb as fck, probably he's from Ballinascreen Co Londonderry, isn't that where Lynchbhoy was born, the lad who claimed DvD couldn''t defend?
One day there might well be a drama called Derryboys and the only people who watch it will end up on suicide watch. The will to live will just vanish.

[tonto1888]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Duffy is the only Irish player who would get near the Celtic XI presently.

John Egan also

[screenexile]

From an Irish point of view it's a bad move for Duffy/Ireland, but it's a good signing for Celtic. Why move for a season on loan?

No doubt he'll improve Celtic's team, but on a personal and professional level it's a backward step for him

He chose Celtic to try to challenge himself. It would've been easy to continue getting a big wage at a lower epl team where regular defeats don't matter that much as long as you get the odd win to make sure you stay above the bottom 3. That attitude goes nowhere at a club like Celtic where winning every week is demanded from the supporters. That brings real pressure of a type he would never experience in England. Every mistake will be scrutinised by the media and his own supporters so he will have to get up to and maintain a very high standard.

Who's he testing himself against in the SPL? Celtic are far superior to all the other SPL sides. He can sleep walk through games against piss poor opposition on a weekly basis and Celtic will still win. At least in England he'd be challenged on a weekly basis. Hopefully it's only for the season and he gets a move to an EPL side next summer

John Bull here is devastated to see Irish internationals playing for Celtic.

Dry your eyes, pal.

He's got a point why would you want Irish players regressing and playing against lesser opposition it'll hardly help them when it comes to a crunch international game!!

Have you actually watched Ireland play recently...You're having a laugh FFS. surely. Please don't say that was a serious comment

Just because Screenexile is probably  a Nordie, doesn''t mean he ain't dumb as fck, probably he's from Ballinascreen Co Londonderry, isn't that where Lynchbhoy was born, the lad who claimed DvD couldn''t defend?
One day there might well be a drama called Derryboys and the only people who watch it will end up on suicide watch. The will to live will just vanish.

You ok Mainstreet?? Very bizarre for an ardent Celtic fan to be talking of "Londonderry".

I think you just need someone to hold you tight and tell you "Celtic wouldn't get relegated in the Premier League"

Actually you're in Monaghan so there may just be someone dumb enough there to believe that!

[Angelo]

Celtic have far superior players to Ireland at the minute.

Duffy is the only player I could honestly see getting in the Celtic team right now.

The Rangers midfielder Kamara was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch against Ireland the other night.

[Newbridge Exile]

Celtic have far superior players to Ireland at the minute.

Duffy is the only player I could honestly see getting in the Celtic team right now.

The Rangers midfielder Kamara was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch against Ireland the other night.

Would you not think that Enda Stevens a premiership regular would get in ahead of Greg Taylor

[Angelo]

Celtic have far superior players to Ireland at the minute.

Duffy is the only player I could honestly see getting in the Celtic team right now.

The Rangers midfielder Kamara was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch against Ireland the other night.

Would you not think that Enda Stevens a premiership regular would get in ahead of Greg Taylor

Did you see Stevens the last night? Taylor is a vastly superior player, Stevens is a journeyman who has spent the majority of his career around the English lower leagues. Watching Enda Stevens would make you yearn for the days of Stephen Ward.

Callum McGregor and Ryan Christie are currently keeping many EPL regulars out of the Scottish side as well.

It's the lazy analysis barstool EPL fans engage in, they must be good because they play in the EPL.

The EPL is awash with some absolutely atrocious footballers at present. The best player on the pitch the other night was Kamara.

[dublin7]

Celtic have far superior players to Ireland at the minute.

Duffy is the only player I could honestly see getting in the Celtic team right now.

The Rangers midfielder Kamara was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch against Ireland the other night.

Would you not think that Enda Stevens a premiership regular would get in ahead of Greg Taylor

Did you see Stevens the last night? Taylor is a vastly superior player, Stevens is a journeyman who has spent the majority of his career around the English lower leagues. Watching Enda Stevens would make you yearn for the days of Stephen Ward.

Callum McGregor and Ryan Christie are currently keeping many EPL regulars out of the Scottish side as well.

It's the lazy analysis barstool EPL fans engage in, they must be good because they play in the EPL.

The EPL is awash with some absolutely atrocious footballers at present. The best player on the pitch the other night was Kamara.

More comedy gold. Clearly football scouts/managers need to talk to you as they aren't seeing what you're seeing. All these footballers at Celtic and the SPL who are superior to most in the the EPL yet apart from Edouard noone seems to want any of them.

Also who are all these EPL starts being kept out of the Scotland side? They are unlucky their 2  best players are their LBs Robertson & Tierney. McGinn who has been injured is good footballer and won't be at Villa much longer, a bigger side will sign him.