I'm going to stand up for Warburton and his comments on the development league, someone better call a doctor for ayrshireman1.

The development league games are played at such a slow pace and such limited physicality that I don't really think that it helps anyone but the youngest players in the squad develop. Once a player is 18/19 he'd be better heading out on loan or, what would be better in my opinion, sticking the Colts teams into the league set up.


The 30 league sides and 1 representative from both the Highland League and the Lowland League?

I'd go for that.


The wee man is obviously raging, give him a break mate.

I'm very happy to admit I was wrong about Scott Sinclair, he's not getting much credit for last night but, particularly in the first half, I thought he was giving his FB a torrid time and he played crucial roles in 2 of the goals, finding holes and ghosting in behind the defence. He probably should have scored as he had 2 good chances, one in either half, but he was still a crucial cog in the machine last night.
I've also been surprised by Brown adn Forrests performances, I'm not going to get too excited about them yet as I've seen it too often over the years where they have all too brief purple patches.

Sinclair's off the ball running was excellent. His pace is what will allow Celtic next week to do damage on the break.

Just ignore Frankie 'troll' Fixer. His opinions mean nothing and doesn't have the intelligence to offer real debate.

The Celtic youth team should be added to the 4th Tier, we are head and shoulders above the rest and our youngsters should be allowed to play real football. They've won the League pretty much every year for 10+ years, they've won the Youth Cup most of the time, they've cleaned up the U17/U19/U20/Reserve Leagues for a long long time.

Last season the U20s won the League unbeaten, also won it with 8 games to spare.

We also have our youngsters competeing in all the best youth tournaments since they are primary school age with all the other best teams in Europe, other Scottish teams cant afford to do that or they don't get invited so we are in a different League to them.

Our youth team play too good a football that they dont even need to be at their best to skelp the rest. There is no need for Celtic U20s to be playing other under 20 teams when they are probably one of the top 20 teams in Scotland themselves.

I agree with most of that.

Since the turn of the century Celtic have won the development/u18/u19/u20 league on 11 out of 17 occasions, won 5 out of the last 7 Scottish Youth Cups and we won the reserve league 8 years in a row before it was scrapped.

Despite all that the players have found the step up difficult so I think that joining the league set up so they are playing competitive games against experienced players every week would do them the world of good.

I'm not sure they'd be one of the top 20 sides in the country though, I reckon they'll get beat by Livingston in the next round of the Irn Bru Cup.

Mentioning the Irn Bru Cup, here is the draw for the 3rd round.

Alloa Athletic v East Fife
Brechin City v Dunfermline Athletic
Dundee United v Peterhead
Turriff United v Hibernian
Falkirk v Elgin City
Forfar Athletic v Raith Rovers
Queen of the South v Stenhousemuir
Stranraer v Dumbarton
Livingston v Celtic Colts
Albion Rovers v St Mirren
Ayr United v Airdrieonians
Queen's Park v Morton

If they lose against Livingston part of it will be lack of experience though, if they were in the 4th Division this season they will by the time of that match have played 7 or 8 or so real matches, probably be top of the League and have more confidence and experience. It being only their 3rd ever game against a real team they may get caught out though.

I love it - how is there any real debate on this thread??

Just a band of deluded sellick fans spouting shite and obsessing over a superior club that they claim is pure deid man.


Its actually Sevco fans who are raging that their team are crap and miles behind Celtic and so can't debate anything as they know they'll get the pish ripped out of them. So have nothing to say.

Same in real life, I can slag them as much as I want and hear nothing in return as they know their teams crap.

They're spewing that Celtic are looking like qualifying for the Champions League again too about to be 3 times in 5 years playing the best Europe has to offer in the best atmosphere in the competition.

All they've seen in that time is a three quarters empty Ibrox in the Ramsdens Cup up against Stevie the janitor, Eddie the butcher and Wullie the bin man from towns that no-ones ever been to.

Tantalise us with your debating skills Crofter? Of course you can't, as you just have to say your usual 'sellick' comments.

You could have spelt dead right.

You are more obsessed about Celtic then Frankie.

No. I don't wish to see a few under 20's/colts sides (including buy outs of East Fife or Albion Rovers wuth effectively their first team beibg under 20's of Premiership clubs) appearing in the lower senior leagues.

Potentially 2 of them could get up to the championship, and finish top 2 so nobody can get promoted or relegated between the top 2 leagues. It stifles competition. An effectively closed Premiership would be ridiculous.

They could be banned from competing in the top League though or taking part in Championship play-offs and stuff, so even if they won the Championship it would never matter.

Would only be Celtic too, theres no point in any other clubs having a team in it as they wouldn't be good enough. The Celtic youth team have been getting no competition for years and the players can't really be loaned out as the style of football played by teams like Dunfermline and Morton and that isn't good enough and neither is the coaching. So they can only get experience for playing for teams with poor styles of play and poor coaching which doesn't suit them and there's not much point in it.

Speaking of deluded, how is the investigation into my whereabouts coming along?

I've been waiting 4 years and 2 weeks for you to track me down yet I'm still waiting for the chap at the door.

Last season the Celtic U20 team won the League by 26 points, won 28 and drew 4 of their 32 games. Thats not any good for anyone, they are in a different League to the other teams.

They only conceded 15 goals in 32 games, the next best defence was Aberdeen who conceded 42 goals, almost triple the amount. Their goaldifference was +38 better than the next best team.

Incase people don't know.

Crofters probably still at school and has to be accompanied by an adult.

No clubs would be bought out. It would be the Colts going in at the bottom level in addition to the existing sides and as glasgow67 said there would be safeguards put in place to stop them playing in the same division as the first 11 or stop them blocking other sides from getting promoted to the Premiership.

It works elsewhere .

So crap we beat you at Hampden.

Again, Hampden.

Whereas you got beat off a team with the same and a friendly local bobby.




Honestly, mate, if you are older than about 15, god help you. At least Timboy and Celt1987 are clearly adults. Your prattle is so immature its embarrassing.

Superb statement from the Green Brigade about the fantastic display at Celtic Park last night.

I have heard you have had plenty of chaps at your back door in the last 4 years and 2 weeks timbo.

Gay 'jokes', are they still a thing in 2016?

I'm sorry but I'm not impressed by this rubbish, I support a FOOTBALL club, if I wanted to be a political activist I'd support a political party not a football team. Clearly not enough glory hunting in liberal politics for the Green Brigade.

Imagine if the sporting world would have ignored what apartheid south Africa was doing.

Green brigade had some Palestinian flags. Whats the big deal. Dunno why UEFA have an issue with flags being waved.

Will they stop barca waving Catalan flags. Ajax have Israeli flags at every home game.

It's a piece of cotton for crying out loud.

Scott Brown has retired from international football.

I guess there will be Celtic fans happy to hear that based on his performances so far this season and Scotland fans happy to hear it based on his previous performances.

Celtic have never been just a football club. If you know your history and all that.

The impact of what happened on Wednesday in the media is far higher that what would have happened if a similar number of people had done the same thing outside of the Israeli embassy.

We'll get fined but it is one I'm willing to take.

Oh, and there were far more than just the Green Brigade who had Palestine flags on Wednesday night. They were all round the ground.

Barcelona is in Catalunya, it's a bit like asking a Scotland supporter to stop waving the lion rampant.

Apartheid does not have the ambiguity of the Israeli/Palestine conflict, it was very simple case of 'it's wrong'.
They're totally disparate situations really.