Most Underrated Celtic Players Since 2000

Wasn't Brown also going through the thing with his sister at the time? But that midfield just clicked straight away.

That Dundee United game was definitely one of the most satisfying wins of my lifetime.

 

Aye he was mate, I’m sure he dropped out originally through suspension though. He was struggling but clearly and didn’t want to remove himself from the small bit we’ve heard off him and WGS about that time.

Broony’s story about getting flowers from Tommy, supporting him and his sister the morning Tommy died will always put a tear in my eye. Sums that man up more than anything else, on his deathbed from a * horrendous disease and he was making sure to take care of others as much as he could in the position he was in, knowing your going, and he was still going out his way for basically a boy he’d known for 8 months as his boss.

A special, special person. I’ve always thought Lennoxtown should be named the Tommy Burns Academy. It would be the most fitting tribute, and something that’d carry his name on after the guys that were lucky enough to be here when he was part of the club are long gone.

 

If a say Barry Robsons elbow and Christian Dailly’s head will it finish the job?

 

McDonald’s goal against Man Utd the 1-1 Giggs dived is the most underrated great goal we’ve ever had. It’s largely forgotten about, dismissed, not mentioned at all. And it was * quality.

 

I agree. He was always trying to improve his knowledge as well. I remember him mentioning visiting the Ajax Academy as manager, to try to improve the whole structure from youth upwards.

 

His gamestyle was probably about 15 years too early and I was only young but I can remember it being so attacking, thrilling skillfull football. When he moved on and Jansen came in with a more conservative style and approach, more solid and steel to it and picked the moments to attack up until it became the chance of actually winning over the course against Smiths 9 in a row team, I found it boring to watch at 9/10. Then I got what it was all about, as we closed in on the league. Some of the best memories of football round that time as well man, France 98 after stopping the ten which got me properly into football as a whole rather than Celtic with the family. Lubo being introduced shortly after, and being for me anyway, being more of a genius than Di Canio, who I’d already accepted that we wouldn’t see that natural brilliance again even if we got better players than him like Henrik. Then Lubo had that. Even Barnes start with Viduka and Larsson up top, Berkavic and Lubo behind them was * scintillating, destroyed teams. Then leg break and it fell apart and then O’Neill.

And that team, O’Neill’s I’ve always found it fitting that Tommy’s last signing at the club in Tommy Johnstone sealed the treble for us. Tommy’s fingerprints and legacy is all over the success we’ve had for a long time and sadly it’s now long enough for him to start becoming a memory. Not quite there yet, as long as Forrest and Calmac’s here but they’re the last that had his influence.

 

Momo sylla

 

Honestly Momo in the road to seville highlights is a level of performance and as useful a squad player than he ever was in my memories of that time. Eye opening about how unreliable your memories of 20 years ago are

 

I still have posters of him on my wall

 

Had a few beers so apologies if I’m reading this wrong, but Giggs dived in the 3-2 game at Old Trafford.

 

What was the 1-1 game? Was that not a controversial late one as well?

Broony also wound Ronaldo up that much he was out the game completely turned around and booted him, as clear a red as you’d see, and * all was done.

 

He is making more money out of football than you and I.

 

I took my George Cadette one down when he done the halftime draw and no longer had hair like spaghetti

 

I’m quite a lot of a negative balance out of football, but I won £750 on a coupon last week so that’s clawed it back by about 3%

 

Giggs scored but it was from a rebound. It was late on but can’t remember there being anything controversial about it.

 

When I searched to find the player you were quoting here, I’m quite outraged about the Hayes slander.

For one, us signing him stopped the * scoring screamers against us. Don’t know why he never once took a long shot for us, but scored a lot of them against us, but he scored at Ibrox and was useful as * to bring on to raise the intensity of the game.

Probably because he wasn’t the same quality as those around him, but he’d try harder and those around him would try harder to not be shown up by him.

In a squad I think guys like him can be essential, come on carry out what he’s been told to do, work his balls off, have that bit of quality sometimes that he did have on his left peg, and he’d demand * around him to work like tuck as well.


That’s the undefinable quality that comes under the label of mentality.

 

Might just be because we didn’t get through that year like the last two, memory and beer might be clouding different seasons together but that was the year we * it against Aalborg, but Broony scored a perfectly good goal against them that could have been the difference between Last 16 and bottom of the group?

Round about that time it was always like one of 6 different teams we’d be playing they all merge together. AC, Man Utd, Shaktar, Benfica, Barcelona, Villareal seemed to be the only teams in the CL.

 

Of course, but that doesn't mean he was good enough for Celtic.

It's all about opinions mate but I thought he was utter dung nearly every time he played. Folk criticised Maeda for his technical deficiencies, Hayes was 5 times worse. He tried hard but that's the absolute bare minimum for a pro player.

 

Ahh that’s an interesting one, because the examples of Hayes being far more technically efficient than Maeda was against us rather than for us. His volley in the Invincible final, and his screamer to break Forsters clean sheet record, I wouldn’t think Maeda technically capable of doing that.

But Maeda’s a good example of that mentality thing, has anyone else noticed how much nobody else is moving as much since he’s been out injured? It’s been a lot more static. I’m convinced when the guy next to you is Maeda putting that shift in, you’ll run more as well, because 1. You’ll look a lazy * if you don’t especially when the closest player is Maeda’s graft and 2. You don’t want to let teammates down and it’s contagious and 3. You need to move more covering the gaps or exploiting the spaces his constant running is making.

Abada unquestionably would score more than Maeda, assist more than Maeda, but Maeda has that quality that’s crucial for the team as a whole.

It’s the thing Scott Brown had in absolute droves, and it’s hard to nail down and gets called ‘undefinable quality’ or intangibles or any other phrase that people try to cover the fact guys like that improve the full team.

Hayes wasn’t that level of it, but I’d have a Hayes before a Toljan or Brafheeid, two players more technically gifted who played much higher levels thwn him