JACK HENDRY made his debut for Melbourne City earlier this morning and played the 90 minutes in a goalless draw. Hendry travelled to Australia last weekend to complete his loan move from Celtic, where he is not part of Neil Lennon’s plans.
He’s down in Melbourne to play for City in the Australian A-League for a six month loan and you never know he might end up making the move permanent.
It’s unlikely to say the least that the Brendan Rodgers signing is going to have any chance to resurrect his career at Celtic who in the same week that they allowed the former Dundee man to go out on loan, also recalled young Stephen Welsh from his loan spell at Morton to provide first team cover at the Treble Treble winners.
The Morton manager yesterday explained that Celtic had been watching Welsh star in the Championship for the Greenock side and have been impressed by his development and performances.
Helping keep a clean sheet is a perfect way for Jack Hendry to start his time Down Under and there’s every chance that he’ll do very well down there now that he’s away from the intense pressure and scrutiny he was always under at Celtic.
To me he always played – unlike some, eh Dedryck? – and was given too many opportunities too soon so that it ended up doing him more harm than good in a Celtic jersey. However he is probably also the poster Bhoy for the proof that as far as scouting and signing players goes Brendan Rodgers is well below standard.
Indeed it’s remarkable to note that Jack Hendry was actually far from the worst defender that Brendan Rodgers signed for Celtic. Marvin Compper anyone?
My favourite Jack Hendry moment in the Hoops involves Alfredo Morelos and took place at in March 2018 when the ten men of Celtic were 3-2 ahead after twice coming back to level the scores. Odsonne Edouard scored an absolutely Beautiful Sunday goal to give Celtic the lead for the first Tim in the game and that happened after Jozo Simunovic saw ‘RED, RED.”
The Rangers were pushing hard for an equaliser and Scott Bain – making his Celtic debut saved an effort but pushed the ball to Morelos a yard from the open goal. Somehow he managed to make a complete mess of the tap in and with his teammate standing hands on head in the goals and Scott Bain on the ground holding the ball the bold Hendry looks over Kris Ajer’s shoulder and has a brilliant “how the hell did you miss that’ look on his face.
Priceless as they say. And Morelos still hasn’t scored against Celtic.
Today is the Chinese New Year and it this is the beginning of the Year of the Rat, as Celtic noted yesterday.
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