Celtic Banter Archive July 15 2014

15 Jul 2014 22:31:49
Stokes body language would suggest he ain't happy! never fancied the graft, poor attitude/time keeper, had to work his way back in to NL's good books cannot see RD/JC standing for it IMO! atb

{Ed007's Note - Did Stokes have to work his way back into Mjallby and Thompson's good books as well?}

15 Jul 2014 22:51:11
Honestly Ed a don't know and a don't care!

CL Qualifer and upon stage exit his attitude STANK!

Quite sure new broom will not tolerate that , atb

{Ed007's Note - Collins is now the most important assistant manager in the history of football, he's even helping out with discipline now. Is there no end to the man's talents?}

15 Jul 2014 22:51:30
Although pukki missed that chance I feel he offers more in the middle than stokes does and even then that's not a great lot cause I think the right wing role would maybe suit him more

Stokes I think has got very lazy under Lennon knowing he was first choice every week and I really hope this year we will add a "proper centre forward"

Stokes is not good enough. Approx 19/20 european games played in his career with 2 goals. Should never have been offered new contract last time around

It's back to the same old debate, stokes can't play up top alone which was proven in the first half of last year but play him with a strike partner then he is much better as is our displays. If ronny wants to play one up top then please sign a striker who can do that. Ps please stop going on about balde clearly ronny thinks as much of him as Lenny did(not a lot)

16 Jul 2014 10:45:32
Hi Ed , JC will be fine if they have a BIG JUMBO mirror for himself @ parkhead other than that as you know a never wanted JC atb

15 Jul 2014 22:03:02
Loads of good points, but we really need a striker of some substance all our forwards are very similar . formation will take a bit of time to get used to hopefully get biton into the team sooner than later!

Chalky bhoy

15 Jul 2014 20:57:08
Pre-season or not that was a pee-poor first half. There is no flair, power or pace from Celtic and apart from a couple of decent shots from Commons, we have not threatened - in fact the only time we hit the by-line and got in a decent cross took 42 minutes when Lustig made a run. I expected us to dominate as we have done but we need more urgency and purpose.
This is a pub team we are playing and our goalie has been the busier for goodness sake.
Stokes and Griffiths have been ineffective in the roles they have been given and with a second leg at Murrayfield! to ponder, we need to do a job here.

JJ

Not great, liked the passing from the back but the ambro (very)early slack pass could of been a goal against at a higher level. Chis has clearly been on the treadmill and looked sharp. They are defending bravely. Let some subs do some work to break it up
Rglen8

Subs comment flawed. Sorry. Pukki miss.reaching for the asprin

We were never pressed once in our own half. Not even in the first 3rd. Our front three have been playing far to wide apart. They are an amateur team remember. Above everthing i'm glad henderon got our goal tonight. He has been positive throughout pre season.

15 Jul 2014 21:59:31
second half a lot lot better. derk looked good when he came on and mc gregor certainly kicked on as the game went on. never looked out of place

looking forward to see what way we line up in second game

Did you actually watch the game?

15 Jul 2014 22:17:10
Mcgregor even who I thot played ok . It was our first game with a lot of passing not a lot of penetration but that should come with sharpness.pretty boring game over all but we got the result hail hail

Oohh christ and st paul an a tanden. I was in the pi$$er for the goal. Flat eruption. We had the songs on as well. Shame on me :0

"The bhoy that would be king " has been put on.((one of the) post match dvds(you know who you are :) ) the lubo one skips abit, the barras wrapper a tad frayed ).regretting having the "14 hoops lauch party. By the time the bird. Visits the flat on Friday . It has has to be tidier than what I *seen tonight.

15 Jul 2014 16:34:43
To Hamiltonbhoy and DN30 re. loans you both make very good points but it is just my opinion that we or any big club for that matter should not deal in loan signings. I don't see the long term benefit.Although fair enough if the boy comes in and does a job great but what then he goes back to his parent club or his price inflates and weare back where we started. Anyway that's my opinion and you know the old saying their just like persons everybody has one. Sorry for the late reply haven't been on for while.

Davie c

I can understand your point of view and where you're coming from, the way to avoid that is putting an option to buy, fixed fee or even first refusal clause in on the loan deal which avoids that situation.

We all know PL is a man who doesn't like to part with money, so you could bet your bottom dollar that he'd have something written in to any loan moves.

Anyway, hopefully we can take a few off this mob tonight with a few different faces in the squad rather than the usual suspects of last season. COYBIG!

What about Fraser Forster good loan with view to permanent signing, well done celtic. West brom weren't complaining with lukaku nor Everton.it all depends on wether they are going to be squad players or guaranteed starters as too them being good for us as we don't need any more squad players we need starters.

{Ed007's Note - Apart from Forster, what about loans like Kamenar, Fedor, El Kaddourri, Brozek, Lassad, Miku and Gershon? Millions of £s in loan fees, agent fees, wages, insurance, housing etc all down the drain.}

As I said squad players don't work if their not better than what you have don't take them. If the manager isn't going to give them a proper run of games then why did we sign them?

15 Jul 2014 22:26:42
I don't see the probs with loaning a player although the loan to buy is the way to go as you can pull out if in the end he's pish . As an Everton/ Celtic fan we did some good business in the loan market. Lukaku, Barry and Delefou. They can make your season while youth progress, and if you have agreed a fee you can buy. It seems Mc Gregor has benefitted from his loan.

15 Jul 2014 10:26:30
Looks as though from today's pics that commons has lost a bit of weight through the summer, any idea Ed why he has not been dealt a new contract especially as he appears so keen to commit?

Given izzy and lustig were signed up minus a new man in charge seems odd that we would not want to sign up our POTY, Scotland's POTY, and top goal scorer? atb jb7

Apparently he's next in line and has said in the paper today he wants to commit his future to Celtic, so hopefully see somthing on this soon

Jamiebhoy how do we know that Commons hasn't been offered a deal,
Maybe Commons is more difficult to please than Izzy and Efe . The Celtic Board remains confidential in all transfer dealings and so we don't know the Celtic side of the story .

{Ed007's Note - Commons has said himself there's been no talks. When I said about Leicester's interest at the start of June I was told he had turned down the initial offer from CFC. Remember what happened with Samaras.}