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Liam Brady Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Status: Offline Points: 2957 |
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18 months left at Celtic. Hard to see any breakthrough in that time frame. Leaving on a free the most likely outcome. Made a few quid in his 4 year trip I suppose.
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Jack Charlton Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Status: Offline Points: 6773 |
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He'll be 22 by then, having likely not played any proper professional football for about four years (Scottish League 1 is mostly a semi-professional league). I think the damage is done with him, although his complete lack of pace was a limitation in any case. Hope he has made a few quid from Celtic because it's hard to see where he goes from there.
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Jack Charlton Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Status: Offline Points: 6773 |
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I would agree. I think we almost have a few tiers of developing players. There's the lads we're pinning our hopes on, like Bazunu and Knight and the centre backs, as well as the group of forwards that we're hoping we can pull at least one good international striker from.
Then there's another group just below that who are doing very well - lads like Kilkenny and McNamara and Ebosele who could go on to be important players for us. But then there's a huge group of players that are, at best, long shots. The odd one will develop late and come good but most of these will either fall to a level where they won't be good enough to play for Ireland or possibly even fall out of the game altogether. I think every player mentioned in the post above probably falls into that category, and there are loads more too sadly. It's just the nature of the game.
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Stimpy
Liam Brady Joined: 01 May 2014 Location: Dublin Status: Online Points: 1099 |
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2 goals so far today for Connell
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King_Kenny
Liam Brady Joined: 31 Aug 2019 Location: Claudy Status: Online Points: 2443 |
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Who against the dog and duck?
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Greenie50
Liam Brady Joined: 06 Sep 2021 Status: Offline Points: 1243 |
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Grabbed an assist to help Queens Park win promotion to the Scottish Championship. 2nd promotion in 2 years for him & QP. Celtic really have wasted him. Going into the final year of his contract there.
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horsebox
Robbie Keane Born n bred in darndale. Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 34716 |
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It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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Roberto_Carlow
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Jan 2019 Status: Offline Points: 1362 |
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How dare Celtic not use a Scottish League 3rd tier level player to try and win the league and 40m CL entry. |
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Greenie50
Liam Brady Joined: 06 Sep 2021 Status: Offline Points: 1243 |
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Wow lads, your reading comprehension is pretty terrible. Nowhere did I say Connell should be playing for Celtic. I said Celtic have wasted him, which they have. He's better than Celtic reserves & Scottish League1/2. 3 down the drain that is Celtics youth system when he'd have been far better off playing in English League 1.
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nvidic
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Have thay not wasted him? He was a regular at Bolton, goes there and ends up playing in the 3rd and 4th tiers. Hard to imagine his career taking a much worse trajectory.
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Jock
500 Club la la la Joined: 09 Sep 2015 Status: Offline Points: 697 |
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Four academy graduates in the last matchday day squad. With countless others on the bench through the season.
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Nialler
Liam Brady Joined: 20 Aug 2019 Status: Offline Points: 1488 |
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How many played more than 10 games in the last 5 years?
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KingKenny
Alan Kernaghan Joined: 15 Jan 2022 Status: Offline Points: 139 |
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5 actually. None of them under the age of 22 though. Even just looking at Connell you easily see the mismanagement of their young players. Do you really think after 10 appearances in the Championship, the best they could do for him was 6 months with no football and then a loan to a league that's a lower standard than the LOI First Division.
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horsebox
Robbie Keane Born n bred in darndale. Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 34716 |
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Maybe he's just not good enough? I don't see a whole lot of clubs looking to take him on loan either. |
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It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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KingKenny
Alan Kernaghan Joined: 15 Jan 2022 Status: Offline Points: 139 |
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Is that really the best you can come up with. He was playing in the second tier of England and in the Irish squad but wasn't good enough for a loan above the 4th tier of Scotland
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horsebox
Robbie Keane Born n bred in darndale. Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 34716 |
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Can you offer an alternative view?
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It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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9fingers
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It was a terrible move for the lad. Who’s exact fault it was is immaterial. Hopefully he can get a move in the summer
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nvidic
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Maybe, but I think it's fair enough to say they wasted him, there was high hopes for him and he did well at Bolton and had his pick of suitors . Not sure the reason for the laughy emoji!
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