It started off on twitter on Friday night and sparked lots of names and responces- who was the best Celtic prospect not to make it.
Instantly it can be split in two with some players not making it at any level while others moved off from the hoops and enjoyed a decent career or a good level of success elsewhere.
Back in the late sixties Celtic had the Quality Street Gang which produced some of the best talents of a generation while others fell by the wayside perhaps hindered by the burden of expectations.
There is no magic formula when you look at a team picture to determine which players will make the big time.
Kieran Tierney’s rise has been well documented but in all of those pictures of him growing up there are five or six team mates in the background that have fallen by the wayside.
Under Brendan Rodgers it seems that home-grown players are being given the strongest encouragement with Tierney, Callum McGregor and James Forrest an essential part of the first team squad with half a dozen led by Tony Ralston looking to follow their path.
For every Paul McStay that is produced there are much more John Sludden’s and Ronnie Coyle’s. For Aiden McGeady there is a Jim O’Brien with the big breakthrough all down to ability, circumstances and a dose of good fortune.
