Celtic Banter Archive December 15 2011

15 Dec 2011 23:50:28
Never been big Frazers first fan thought he could not dive low , but hopefully he has proved me wrong . And that was not a flash in the pan performance 2nite(had a really good game 2nite). Still think we need a really good gk and would still take craig gordan for free .Because I do not think luksa zuluzkis will sign a new contract at celtic(think it is the end of his contract). so we need at least two really good GK's . What do you think BOND .

TamBhoy1974 {Ed007's Note - If Forster performs like that consistently would we need or want Gordon?}

My point was we still need a second GK , rangers have it with Alexander .Celtic personally have had good GK's but we have never had good back up . I personally zaluskis is good GK but Neil Lennon does not rate him. So who do you think we should go for . {Ed007's Note - Alex Smithies.}

If Pardew has been watching him the past few games we might not afford him if he puts a funny money price tag on him.......DH {Ed007's Note - The price is part of the agreement as far as I know. Newcastle can't raise it.}

Ed , I have never seen Smithies to be honest , but i do rate Gordon , my point is i think we need two class keepers and if foster keeps up what he done 2nite . then we will only need one . we will still need another GK. {Ed007's Note - I've not seen much of him myself but there has been strong interest since last summer.}

If you have not seen him why recommend him. Atleast we know what gordon can do . do not what to argue with hoops fans . would just like know what would make my team stronger.

TamBhoy1974 {Ed007's Note - I have not seen much of him but he is highly rated in England and as I said, NL has a strong interest in him. Aston Villa looked at him before Given.}

15 Dec 2011 23:31:44
Hi ed just like to say well done to Lenny and the Bhoys for putting pride back in the jersey compared to last year getting thumped 4-0 by Urtreah (spelling). I will hold my hand up and say well done to big FF. He was Brilliant. I am very proud celt tonight. I think Lenny is making progress. Hail hail bhoys. Here comes the good times. Bigirishmac

15 Dec 2011 23:07:37
Ed - got a fair bit of stick from you earlier in the week for questioning FF.
Got to say tonight he was exceptional and kept us in with a chance of qualifying on numerous occasions throughout the game. In 2nd half, the shot stopping was immense and exactly what I was saying in what we require for our No 1.
Still think there are areas such as coming out for crosses that need improving but on reflection of your comments and a sterling performance tonight I'm big enough to admit that I may have been too critical.
It's all opinions at end of day, some people agreed with me, some didn't. As I say, respect where due and tonight the big man was superb.
Team I felt was wronged re pen and if Hooper had stuck away the shot before goal things may have been completely different. At 2-0 could they have got back - doubt it.
One final point - Samaras - 1st half superb - as with most euro games this season, if he played like that in SPL then he'd be one of first picks.
Steveo {Ed007's Note - No worries Steveo, and respect for manning up over it to come on and say that. Football is all about opinions and I respect others when they do have an argument or point (look at how I defend Brown). I'm not saying he is ideal but he's the best we have just now and at his age can only get better IMO. Hopefully some of his detractors will cut him some slack now and give him a chance until the end of the season.}

15 Dec 2011 22:59:05
I've got to say well done to entire Celtic tonight, thought they played fantastic as a team (u can't blame a single player for not giving their all ). Big Fraser was amazing best game for Celtic yet by miles! We can hold our heads high after a very hard Euro league. Well played bhoys keep it going.
A Happy Cb67 :)

15 Dec 2011 22:37:01
Just like to say what a performance from the bhoys tonight without passing blame on players like certain other people on here, the team wins as a team and loses as a team and I'll back them all the way.

Paddy

15 Dec 2011 22:20:11
Well done bhoys great performance a wee bit unlucky not to go through but hopefully we can start to turn the corner !

chalkybhoy!!
Hail! Hail!

15 Dec 2011 22:16:21
We lost fair enough.going from the sion game to tonight we have took a step in the right direction. We should have got a pen, they got a pen at parkhead could go on but that's football comes around goes around. Big Forster did well, as did Sami. Think that gets me is forrest is so greedy with the ball at his feet!

See at the end of the day we made money from Europa, hundreds of thousands? Maybe 2/3 million? Either way that's the difference rangers may or may not mock us going out of Europe but either way we made money that's in our pocket not theirs & that extra cash could be the thing that gets us a signing that rangers can't.

All the same well done hoops although would say we were unlucky.

Lenny

15 Dec 2011 22:09:34
What a terrific performance by the bhoys tonight. Couldn't have done anythin more. Hooper missed that great early chance and we rode our luck a bit, great game for the neutrals (and the bluenoses). The positive is we can now concentrate on the league.
A proud Kevbhoy

Thought the team were very good tonight against a top italian outfit and in tbeir own backyard. The big keeper seems to be proving people wrong at the moment ( including me ) so long may it continue.

Well done lads

a proud JGD

15 Dec 2011 22:04:49
if they are a top tally team,then italian footballs on a par with the spl.we should,ve beaten them.both times.why do we get all the a55hole refs in europe?tell you what though.we will definitely win the league.as long as we get rid of cha.f***ing donkey.big dan was superb.gutted.still,good performance.lets see how many of the other mob come on to gloat.who put them out of europe?man utd?man city?oh no.it was malmo.

I've already had 2 jokes on my facebook about Celtic going out.... :(

I'm staying off it the rest of the night or there will be trouble - Mrs E

I think we done the spl proud.we went away and played football.

All is well again...the jokes are getting slaughtered - Mrs E

15 Dec 2011 21:03:37
Honestly if we had even an average defence, instead of this totally woeful shambles of an excuse for one, we'd be a decent team, in fact we'd be a good team and would win this game. why? why? why? can't anyone at Celtic see this and sort it out, it really is baffling me

Only minus in defence for me was cha.get him out

Lost a very poor goal,browns passing at times is shocking,cha not good enough,ki too slow,big danny dodgy....forster superb tonite,moved the ball too slow at times but they hung in there,just need a bit more belief in europe...very unlucky not to progress from a very hard group.

I actually think they didn't have a half bad game tonight. Conceding a single goal, albeit a sloppy one, to the joint league leaders of Serie A at home. Take in to account that they are unbeaten at home in the league and the Europa League, and our shocking away record in Europe then the whole team gave a good account of themselves. I had it down for us to ship 2 or 3 at least.
It would have been nice to get to the later stages but thats a luxury we don't have time for at the moment while we're behind in the league and still in two cups. Blessing in disguise. Bring on the 28th and ugly blue crew, we've got them beat ;)
Dunc

15 Dec 2011 20:15:50
Mon the hoops!

Read a few days back that this ref average is about 6 yellow cards per game in europa so could maybe see a red at some point.

Ps how bad is the camera ? Too far away

Lenny

15 Dec 2011 18:44:17
so sion are booted out officially by uefa,and told to pay costs.not been worth the bother then,has it?

15 Dec 2011 15:00:15
hope we r in 4 scott allan great young player

15 Dec 2011 09:28:50
Mrs E saw your post earlier about new sectarian laws, as we are decent fans we support any law that stamps out sectarianism, but what I am worried about is it seems like a way to lump us together with the shame's fans. We have already seen senior policemen target the Green Brigade, and then Celtic by reporting us to UEFA. My question to police is this, are they targeting the rangers blue order for their chants? Are the senior police at Ipox reporting their fans sectarian singing. All we want is fairness, all we will get is us being tagged more closely with the shame's fans and to try and destroy our Celtic fans good name. Timalloy

Tim, there is Senior Police at every matchthe old firm play in. Dont try and bring our fans into thisyour fans got punished and about time to. We got punished last year and rightly so i'm all for it. Hopefully the minority will think twice now if they see that action is getting taken against the clubs. There is always a crowd of police round at the blue order section and at a Rangers and Kilmarnock game earlier in the season several fans were ejected during there protest against the SNP. So if there is any sectarian singing at Ibrox i'm sure they would report it.

Billyboy1

I think Tim just means Eddie Smith has reported us twice now..once to UEFA & the other to the SFA against Hibs. His point is, there is no way Celtic are the only club in the SPL who sing 'inappropriately' - Mrs E

True Mrs E just like gers fans were the only ones that seemed to be getting targetted all we were told by other supposrters was "shut it and behave yourselves then" ...... and u know what, they were right ! celtic and the green brigade should take the medicine they deserve just like the gers fans had to

Germinator

Germ...as I said in an earlier post, I didn't just mean Rangers ! I see one of the 'banned songs' listed today belongs to Kilmarnock fans.. I don't just mean the fines from UEFA, Celtic had the hulabaloo with the SFA for reports of this singing against Hibs. I just hope the other teams outwith the Old Firm are warned as well. I mean singing about the Ibrox disaster has to be up there as one of the most shameful acts ever in Scottish football - Mrs E

I know what you mean Mrs E we as Old Firm fans always get the finger of blame when it comes to the inappropraite (spelling lol) songs but there are other clubs in the SPL also who need to cut it out.

Billyboy1

Well mrs E im sure all they will get to the rest of the teams in due course we just have to accept that wre both the biggest teams, biggest following and strongest media links (and we were defo both worse than the other spl altho emphasis on "were")
therefore were the best group to make an example of and make it knwon that no prisoners will be taken sorta thing. I seen the list you were referring to .... christ that only took them what two years to release !! bloody joke and let me tell u there is worse iv heard from all sides tbh. and to giv ur fans a lil credit iv never actually heard the ibrox disaster song sung by celtic fans (im sure a tiny brainless element have sung it) but i for one have never heard any mass group of tic fans sing that, Aberdeen fans pffft heard it EVERY time we have played them every single time that and the durrant song you will hear these two sung and every single gers aberdeen game bar bar none !

Germinator

15 Dec 2011 01:51:35
Wait until you read about Stoke v Besiktas game,
(Ed and myself were discussing this earlier on this week,as i'm sure most people know about the Turkish "fans" and their actions to visiting teams).
The Turkish so called "fans" who are basically fkn thugs (of the worst kind possible) were racially abusing the stoke players,on top of this missiles were being thrown at their players when they were taking corner kicks! This is certainly not the first time and I bet you it won't be the last! So lets see what the Mighty Fifa / Uefa do about this, as this is ridiculous.
When players are actually fearing for their own safety something "HUGE" has to be done to punish this scum.
Once and for all stamp this out as Turkey is well known for this kind of behavior, this calls for more than a fine for sure. IMO the only recourse has to be to kick them out of European football for atleast a season or two at the very,very least, compare this to some song's being sung? C'mon get a bloody grip!
CB67

Well said. I think there was a mass brawl when Switzerland (who are not my favourite team) had the temerity to draw or beat Turkey in a qualifier a few years ago in Turkey again I am not sure but I think it was the final game.Ed will know better than me and may be able to confirm. The Turkish players basically started to randomly attack the Swiss guys as they ran into the tunnel at full time. An absolute disgrace! Can you imagine if our little Nation tried that one. Not that we ever would as our boys are brought up with some respect for other Nations and other sports people. A lot has been said about the chanting (some of it complete twaddle from the authorities) but as usual there seem to be rules for some and rules for others. Might on many ocassions appears to be better than right!