THE Celtic View has been looking at our 21 greatest goalscorers, and now we come to No.21 - our current No.9, Leigh Griffiths, who has already hit 115 goals for Celtic, and will be looking to add to that tally when the football resumes.

Leigh Griffiths

Appearances: 233
Goals: 115
Debut: Celtic 1-2 Aberdeen; 08/02/2014

And so we come to the only current Celt in our top 21 and a lethal striker who is sure to rise up the historic rankings. Indeed if this season were played to its scheduled and hoped-for end and Leigh Griffiths merely maintained his record average of scoring a goal every two games, he would be firmly embedded in the top 20.

To put it mildly, after bravely battling depression to return to the Celtic side, his scoring record since the turn of the year, that includes a hat-trick in Celtic’s most recent outing, suggests he's gunning for even more goals.

The fact that only six Celts in the scoring top 20 have played fewer games than Griffiths, including such luminaries as Brian McClair, Dixie Deans and Willie Wallace, shows how deadly he is in front of goal, and the burgeoning twin-spearhead partnership with Odsonne Edouard can only add more goals to the tally for all concerned.

That aforementioned game against St Mirren was the fifth time in the Hoops he has gone home with the match ball after rippling the net three times, with the first few of those helping Griffiths become the first Celt to reach 100 goals since John Hartson did likewise 13 years earlier.

The fact that he scored 40 goals during season 2015/16 also catapulted the striker towards that accolade of being a Century Bhoy.

The best of all though, is, unlike the top 20 Celtic strikers who have gone before him – we still have more to come and many future goals in the Hoops from Leigh Griffiths.

Celtic View celebrates our greatest goalscorers - Leigh Griffiths