John Kennedy wants to see Celtic’s u-20 side return to winning ways when they face St Mirren tonight at Cappielow, kick off 7pm.
A six match winning run- without losing a goal- came to a halt when the hoops lost 1-0 to Hibs last week leaving them in joint top place alongside Sevco on 44 points with ten games left to play.
Two derby matches with the Ibrox club will have a major bearing on the destiny of the title but a win tonight against St Mirren is essential to maintain the momentum built up since the turn of the year.
“The pressure is on everyone if they want to win the league,” Kennedy said looking at the title run in. “They know that the they weren’t at the races in the first half against Hibs.
“The fight and urgency in their play after the interval was better and it’s important that they take that forward. Losing was a sore one to take and we need to make sure that we are on the ball against St Mirren and play for the full 90 minutes.
“In the second half against Hibs we had enough chances to get at least a point, even after we went down to ten men when Darnell Fisher got set off.
“The first half was disappointing, we never put Hibs under any real pressure, they never really threatened us but took their chance and scored.
“We just couldn’t put away our own chances, a few efforts were blocked, there was enough there to get a goal and I think that if we had scored we could have gone on to win it.
“It was disappointing to lose after being on a good run but the top of the table is very tight, all that we can do is win our next match and take it from there.”
Still hurts me to think of John Kennedy’s career ending like it did, what a mainstay in defence he would have been, for Celtic & Scotland!
God bless & good luck to you John Kennedy!
Young Henderson,getting a first team debut,can only inspire the young Hoops.They have a great teacher in John
Kennedy.I like listening to him, when he
talks about the game.
I am sure John is destined,to be part of the first team coaching set up soon.
Morning Peter,
If John hadn’t received that ‘assault’ by that Romanian Prick, big John would be the Celtic & Scotland captain, a huge loss m8!
I totally agreed with your posts guys, he also gave the gate money for the legends nite to charity. Very frustrating we lost a potential all time great so young. Whether we win the league at that level isn’t the be all or end all. I’m my opinion, it’s about bringing in future stars to our first team, which he certainly appears to be doing very successfully. He hope he goes on to have a successful career, hopefully with us.
Well said Wullz!
Sorry for the mistake at the end, had not long woke up, was nightshift last nite lol