Some Fringe Players Were In The Celtic Squad At Perth, But Their Time Is Up.

There will be no third chances. There will be no shock reprieves.

Two of the Lost Bhoys, Barkas and the elusive Bolingoli, made the squad in Perth and the big keeper started the game, but these guys had their chance earlier in the season and they flogged it.

This was not rehabilitation. It was necessity.

They were at Perth because, to be frank, we were all out of options.

I don’t expect we’ll ever see either of them in a Celtic team again.

I wanted them both to succeed. I defended both of them on this blog.

I was defending Barkas when nobody else did. But he had his chance to show us what he could do. Ange gave everyone a clean bill of health and a fresh start and neither of these guys was up to it.

They will never get another one, and it’s a great shame.

They should have been huge successes at our club.

They cost us enough, they and the other great failure of Lennon’s second tenure, Albian Ajeti. And to think one prominent Celtic blogger promoted Lennon’s hiring with the words “he knows how to spend your money.”

Yeah, on second rate junk.

I cannot remember ever being quite so frustrated at Celtic players than I am about those three, and you have to think Ajeti doesn’t have much longer at Parkhead either. He has shown little flashes of something but nowhere enough to justify keeping him.

You get the feeling that his own chance was the one he just had, and which ended in his injury.

Ange has clearly planned ahead here.

He’s bringing in a left back and a striker; that spells the end for two out of the three.

He gave new contracts to Bain and to Hazard.

That spells the end for the keeper, and there’s no way we can afford to have a £6 million international sitting on the bench every week and never seeing game time, even if he was capable of being the understudy to Joe Hart which he shows no signs that he is.

Sometimes it doesn’t work out for players at certain clubs.

Sometimes the pressure of it kills them.

I think of the three Bolingoli has been most ill-used, but that argument would be easier to stand up if he hadn’t also acted like the biggest fool. Ajeti has had the most chances to impress and still hasn’t looked as if he’s got that much to offer.

I have very reluctantly let these guys go.

I have very reluctantly come to the conclusion that their time is up.

A lot of fans arrived there a lot quicker.

Ange wanted to see what they had before he passed judgement, and he’s more qualified than any of us.

I have no doubt that he’s made his decision.

They took their final bow as Celtic players at Perth.

If we hadn’t been so short they wouldn’t even have gotten that.

For these three expensive flops, it was last orders at the bar a while back.