Celtic Banter Archive August 01 2014

01 Aug 2014 22:32:30
Quite Optimistic we can still qualify mid-week, early goal and it`s game on.

However if we don't, going to have very pissed off supporters, turning up at Celtic Park on opening day venting their anger towards the board.

Even though, he will know its not aimed at him, it will be the second time Fergus has had to unfurl the league flag to the sound of booing around the stadium.

After what the man did for us ferguson deserves better than that and any person who boos should be ashamed. This should be a celebration not hijacked as a publicity stunt. We should acknowledge the team success last year and applaud the forethought that wee fergus had to save and improve the club. There are plenty of other occasions to indicate any negative feelings towards the current board.
Hail Hail

Is this the same Fergus mcann that gave tommy burns an avg of 4m a season transfer kitty then told him if he wanted more players he'd have to go into his own pockets, then after rangers equalling 9 and going for 10, in the season when he was selling up and issuing shares he was able to give wim 10 mill approx in transfer money, we stop ten people think that's great he walks away with millions,, or am I being too cynical?

TinyTim, your easily pleased if you think winning the league should be acknowledged as a successful season, IMO the team delivered the bare minimum required.
Still annoys me how easy it was for Aberdeen to knock us out the cup.

I have no doubt when Fergus unfurls the league flag that he and the team will be loudly applauded and rightly so.

I also have no doubt, if Ian Bankier, or P Lawell take the mike and deliver the usual patronizing guff, best fans/team blah blah, they won`t be heard due to a large majority of fans booing, and rightly so.

the clubs standard is falling at an alarming rate, it`s as if Peters starting to believe his new best friends at the SFA, that the championship is the place to be.

This incoming season I think we will be delighted to win the league .

01 Aug 2014 21:25:28
Can anyone tell me who our possible opponents would be in the play off rounds of the champions or Europa league?

01 Aug 2014 18:39:31
So there is only FOUR senior travelling to play Spurs Craig Gordon won't play, Efe Ambrose cannot play on Wednesday! Presume PUKKI is going to the finnish/Helsinki factor, Is Amidp going to get game time to gear up for weds? or being discounted, your thoughts folks?

More importantly why bother even having the game?
What will we gain from a playing perspective?
Oh forgot, must be a little money in it for mr commonwealth

Totally agree m8, why the hell would celtic want to play spurs in Helsinki in the first place? I know it's obviously to do with the money but surely we're not talking mega bucks here. Would suit RD and JC to be out on the training pitch with what will be his starting 11 against legia and make sure in no uncertain terms that the team play to his instructions that way there can be no excuses no confusion as to what's expected. Oh I and most importantly, remind them how to keep weans out a close, the defending last week was atrocious!

R D has spent the day training the first team .

01 Aug 2014 15:10:59
Firstly delighted to see JungleJim and Timaloy comments today I am also still raw from the events of the other night

I would like to offer up this as to where a think it started to go wrong the other night a think a said at the time Mulgrew had his worst game in a Celtic jersey and a stick by it but at the end of this am going to stick up for him because a hate when we turn on anybody but especially someone who is a Celtic fan by childhood, A think Mulgrew is someone in that dressing room until now who has has to big a say he was NL favourite, he was NL first signing a don't have much to say bad about NL but 1 of the 2 things that irked me (you could even hear him shout it on the telly mics ffs) was CHARLLLLEEEE CHARLLLEEEEEE he was giving him the instructions for others IMO, as Mrs E has pointed out we don't have many leaders as a few of the others who are also on here daily or bi-daily we lost a leader when we lost Joe Ledley! Our Leader Scott Brown is not the most articulate, nor vocal, in actual fact he likes a niggle but he is our captain

The point am trying to get too again as most of the reg contributors even Ed himself cannot figure is where Mulgrew (even Commons!) fits into this system of 4-3-3 a also think MULGREW HIMSELF must realise this too! he is in most of our opinions (a think) a great utility / squad player he is great with a dead ball situ!

The other night he lost us three goals and a pen (at least if a remember) it was his slack backpass that led to Efe getting sent off also! when it went wrong for him on a personal basis it went wrong with the influence he has/wields over the entire team! after all he was the leader the other night

However, having said this I think he will / he should get the chance to play on Wednesday night simply for this reason alone he IS a celtic supporter folks! and he will be hurting like hell for causing that escapade!

Much has been made about the connection to WGS and the Brataslavia game that is just garbage IMO a think we all now realise WGS was better than he got credit for but that game sadly lives well in my memory too that night our defence consisted of a goalie in Marshall (who knew Boruc was on the bench) Pau Telfer who had met up with the squad for that game and had been signed 48hrs earlier and made his own way there, Big Bobo who had never trained who had been negating his exit OUT of Celtic (remember he never had an agent) and a certain other new player Mo Camara! enough said

This thing with RD he has waxed lyrical about Commons and Mulgrew pre season and yet we cannot get the best player like Lubo ( a said like meaning nearest) to a new contract despite the fact that he has a desire to stay yet we can hand new contracts to Lustig & Izzy MINUS a manager?

But to play Commons through the middle RD is suppose to be an attacking coach he has assessed him over TWO months ffs! how on earth did he get deployed there? how on earth could he did not change we all know Commons is a spent force round about the 70 min mark but he is worth it!he was spent the other night in that role after 20 mins and a blind man could see it!

A hope we win a really do, to those who have faith a will side with you but having given up a great asset in that arena, to borrow a phrase "are we going to get the thunder" at murrayfield?

sorry for my rumble Ed had to get it off my chest but maybe that last line above about Murrayfield is our next poll mate?

ATVB JB7

{Ed007's Note - I've passed that poll onto Ed001 for his Poll of the Day.}

Ed as ever much obliged ;-)

{Ed007's Note - No worries.}

I agree with most of what ATVB JB7 has to say apart from his idea of playing Mulgrew next Wednesday night because he is a Celtic fan . There are many Celtic fans never get a game without playing someone who had a complete nightmare .

If mulgrew is dropped, which I personally don't see happening, who do u want playing and in which positions? Personally I know he had an absolute shocker but there was a good few others who were nil and void on the night. For me mulgrew has to drop in beside VVD in place of ambrose. We don't have another player in my opinion that's decent enough to play there. Keep lustig out on the right, izzy on the left and for god sake play players in they're natural positions and play the 4-4-2. Forget that big Norwegian signing and get griffiths up top. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea right now but he's probably the most natural finisher at the club and at the end of the day it's goals next midweek that we desperately need!

I'm a Celtic supporter should I be getting a game? Your post is ridiculous. Mulgrew has had one great season at CB and that is it, he's matured into a mediocre player and simply isn't good enough for us. He should never have been given captaincy and shouldn't be any where near the first team. And for those saying he should be a squad member? So paying a below average player to sit on the bench just in case is acceptable?

Definitely Garry we do need to keep it simple on Wednesday and play to the players strengths, any formation experiments need to be kept until Ronny has a team that can play that way.

A 4-1 defeat speaks much louder than any talk straight out of a football manager manual ever will.

Can't see Mulgrew getting dropped.

Well a nice narrow minded response from Toprig would have typed/suggested that they could call upon all of us to play not just YOU, point a was trying to make was like him or not give him the chance to rectify it! as I think I aired HE IS the voice in that squad, to suggest our VICE captain is not good enough to be a squad player? teeters into the realms of a retort as to who is being ridiculous now? atb jb7

01 Aug 2014 13:34:26
After the cold light of day, I don't feel much better about my team our new boss and the season ahead.
If the return leg was at Celtic Park, I would gee myself up as we always do and hope for a huge performance - but it's at Murrayfield and we do not look capable of keeping a clean sheet - in fact the manager does not seem to know our best defensive formation or tactics and the players are showing this lack of confidence/leadership in their performances.
Like last season Efe has come back off an International tournament really out of sorts and like last season we have failed miserably to invest in the squad while our top players are being touted to imminently leave and further diminish the squad.
I know this is still our pre-season, but we should have learned from last seasons stuttering start - especially with a brand new manger/back-up staff.

When WGS took over, there was the culture shock of transition and the nightmare in Bratislava; but Strachan had much more experience and savvy than Ronny appears to have and it worries me.
Years of successive cuts in quality and class have finally caught up with us, to be perfectly honest and it guts me to admit, this group of players do not belong anywhere near the Champions League.

It wasn't that long ago where we could expect some promising activity in the windows and could attract the makings of a very promising team; featuring in a lot of speculation and anticipation - that has all but vanished as we have become a quick-buck boutique for lower EPL teams, while we struggle to attract or sign anyone of real significance for our own fans.
It's become a vicious circle as in all honesty we are not the attractive proposition we should be.
Who's to blame?.

I totally blame Peter Lawell for reducing Celtic to this shambles and I know all about balancing the books and budgets etc etc; but Celtic means a hell of a lot to many, many people and that's the bottom line.
There is a limit to how much you can dilute a product before it turns into cheap imitation.

JJ

Good post mate completly agree!

Hail Hail

The lack of spending by the board is one thing but I am not sure it explains the abysmal display on Wednesday night . Too many players had rotten performances and we didn't play as a team, nor had we sufficient players in certain areas of the field .

Fed up hearing on several occasions about it being our pre-season. It ain't, ps means before competitive action commences. We've known since last yr when fixtures start. No excuses, look at the facts from the top, we're on a downward spiral n I just wonder about lawell in all this. Instead of being light yrs away from sevco, perceived competition is his aim, keep us just slightly ahead but enough to drag back the missing fans.
Question that should be asked of him is why the business side of club can't facilitate the football on park.

01 Aug 2014 10:53:06
I like the poll of the day today not the subject just the relevance! I voted yes we better hope young Leo fasan can step up once Gordon gets crocked and zaluska just being rubbish also gets dropped