Celtic Banter Archive August 27 2013

27 Aug 2013 23:12:30
Evening Ed hope your Well? its been a while I've been busy getting married been checking in every night but not posted in a while.
Can you just Set me straight our number one Striker target now seems to be The lad Pukki but let me get this right if we qualify for the group stages tomorrow he won't be able to play for us as he is cup tied having played for his old team in the qualifing rounds and they have qualified tonight? Seems bizarre to me! {Ed007's Note - Congratulations Gaz, I think that might be our first wedding, we've had a few kids born but no wedding. I'm not sure Pukki is/was the main target but as you say it is a strange one considering Europe. He wouldn't be eligible for the EL group stages either.}

Congratulations Gaz. Wishing you a long and happy married life. Julieghirl

27 Aug 2013 21:55:23
So based on who's went through so far Celtic are guaranteed Pot 4 if we go through, which means we could end up wi a group like.

Bayern, Atletico, Juve;

Or. Bar�a, Shakhtar, Man City;

Or. Chelsea, Schalke, Ajax;

Or even. Real, Marseille, Dortmund lol!

HamiltonBhoy

The seeding is a disgrace dortmund beaten finalists in pot 3. We r league champions, reached the last 16 last season and end up in pot 4

GunnieBhoy

Seeding aids those consistantly qualify and consistantly reach latter rounds. Sadly. One hit wonders need to prove themselves over a few years and consistantly reach latter rounds before earning the right to be seeded higher {Ed007's Note - Man $hitty shoots that argument to smithereens somewhat old chap, wouldn't you agree?}

The coefficients are based on your last 5 years in Europe - however where Man City benefit is the higher your countries coefficient, the higher the pts you get for a win, draw, etc.

HamiltonBhoy

27 Aug 2013 20:16:32
I wonder if all the players we are linked with are stipulating that Champs Lge football will seal the deal.

Thus the reason for new signings being made as yet.

The team tomorrow under no circumstances can have Samaras as the lone striker, its a waste of his talent and of course a tactic that simply has not worked against Aberdeen or against the Sheep Slayers.

Hopefully come the weekend we have new players in and the season can then finally take off, after we get a respectable Champs Lge draw that is.

27 Aug 2013 20:02:32
right lads, here's my team for the morra


forster

ambrose - van dijk - izzy

matthews - brown - ledley - mulgrew - sami

commons

stokes

subs - zaluska - lustig - rogic - balde - watt - mcgeouch - forrest


3-5-2 with commons just in behind the striker. shaktar ain't going to play two up, so there's no need for a flat back four ( matthews can always drop back to RB when needs be, with ambrose going to CB ).

matthews is the key tomorrow I reckon. great engine, and probably the best crosser of a ball we have. i've got a feeling sami could get a few chances ghosting in to the back post if his deliveries are good.

lenny will have them raring to go tomorrow and an early goal would settle the fans right down.

looking forward to it, but shi**ing myself at the same time!

souljacker

27 Aug 2013 19:44:35
~Seamus~ you going to give us any info on the supposed Finnbogason deal? lol

MikeyBhoy88

I now scroll past anything with that name at the end of the post.

MgC

27 Aug 2013 18:42:19
Thought NL was very tense and edgy at the press conference and hope this is not transferred to the players. You always get wind-ups and 'lost in translation' comments and questions from foreign managers and journalists and I remember WGS taking the rise out of them plenty of times.
Maybe he could get Billy Connolly or Kevin Bridges to sit in and field a few to lift the mood and boost The Bhoys

JJ

27 Aug 2013 18:03:41
Would you start Forrest tomorrow? I haven't seen a lot of him granted, but he hasn't done much whenever I have. I go to every Scotland game (home and away) and whenever he has played he has struggled big time. Particularly against England, he was dreadful. Also when I have seen him play for Celtic he has flattered to deceive just as much. I am not doubting that the guy has talent, but surely it's time he had an end product and showed it consistently? He's not exactly a kid anymore. Also, what has happened to Tony Watt?

I'm a James Forrest fan but if he's carrying an injury then I would not play him tomorrow night.

I posted my team the other day and would play with 3 Centre Backs - Lustig, Ambrose and Mulgrew. As well as needing 3 goals, we cannot concede. I think this will give Izzy and Matthews more chance to get forward, give us more attacking options whilst keeping it tight at the back.

Opinions vary on Forrest but I would not leave him out of the Scotland squad. ~ Mrs E

27 Aug 2013 19:06:23
@Dreamteam, sorry mate but I cannot take you seriously as a "genuine" Sevco fan on for some banter, yet quick to stick the boot into our young players.
Perhaps also you should be worrying about your club as it seems more staff are being made redundant while your board and your hero Sally rake in big fat bonuses with no thoughts for others.
But in the interests of "banter" dreamteam maybe like in Dallas you will wake up and your own teams demise and liquidation will all be a "bad dream" Timalloy

To put it bluntly Forrest is gash! He's not had a decent game for long enough, time for a spell on the bench and give the jersey to a player who deserves it.

Briggs

@2 it can't be anything like Dallas! As Bobby was in the shower! And let's face it, the chance that they catch a sevco fan in the shower (or bath) are very very slim!

No, Mathews for me in that position with lustig behind him,

Ska bhoy

The Dream Team
We are singing from the same hymn sheet on this one. Forrest has had every chance to turn into the player his early displays suggested he could be. But he hasn't taken the next step up to doing more of it and doing it more often. I think he's something of a liabilty and there are many games where we may as well be playing with 10 men when he's in the team. Some fans seem happy to dwell on his 1 or 2 really good performances every now and then but they also seem happy to forget the 10 or 15 games at a stretch where he does nothing, and I mean nothing.
If he were playing for your team many of us would be laughing at him and calling him useless but sometimes loyalty is blind. Take you for example! lol (now don't be getting annoyed, that was a joke!)
If I were the boss he wouldn't be in my team at all. I'd punt him out elsewhere.

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy

27 Aug 2013 17:22:32
I am very quietly confident for tomorrow night. The only issue I have surround 1 player. Kris Commons. On his day, he is fantastic, but if we are chasing the game tomorrow, and need a goal in the last 10 mins, rather than play the through ball or set somebody up, he will go for glory from 30 yards. as most people in the celtic and rangers end can verify, 9 times out of ten, the ball usually ends up beside them. He needs to stop being greedy, and look up and find a Celt. I do know that this will probably come back and bite me in the backside, but hey ho

Samson

Coulnt agree more, ., .kbarry

Samson I will agree there are time's when Common's trie's strange thing's but he is our only creative player, just my opinion people, the one I am wary about, if he play's is Stokes, now there is a guy that need's to open his eye's and play like a team player, I know some will say he's a natural goal scorer but there should be more to his game, remember Henke
Tambhoy

27 Aug 2013 16:11:39
Evening folks, Rangers fan here in peace!

Just wondering how confident you all are for tomorrow night? Do you fancy turning it around?

Also, if you manage to, who would you like in the draw on Thursday? I know whenever Rangers were in the draws I always wanted the best team from pot one and then the closer teams from the other two pots, where there wasn't too much travel involved.

It's tough to call although we have beaten much better teams many times. We need ALL the players to focus tomorrow and above all keep a clean sheet - which we are finding difficult to do - and a good referee is important (not a fuss pot who stops the game every ten seconds or who is 'all cards and no common sense').
We must start very well as the crowd/ atmosphere will unsettle them and an early goal for us will be ideal.
Am getting 'the buzz' already!

Jungle Jim

If we get through, I would hope to avoid AC Milan, Barca, Spartak, Benfica, Shakhtar. the usual suspects. I'd rather teams that we haven't seen. Bring on Madrid, Dortmund, Ajax etc. Something different

Samson

I don't have an opinion on your question. I was just replying to commend you on having a fantastic sense of humour.
For a fan of The Rangers Sevco 5088 Ltd. to have the wit to use a name like The Dream Team is really something quite special.
It reminds me of my time as a schoolboy. We had 2 particular boys in our class. The first was as timid as a mouse and we called him Fierce. The other was as slow as a slow thing and we referred to him as Lightning. You clearly have the same sense of humour that we had back then!

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy

27 Aug 2013 17:05:49
Well you won't have worry about that anymore will you. besides you lot should be used to long distance travel by now . brechin. stranraer . etc
The Bazman el FooF

Thanks to Jungle Jim & Samson for the sensible replies that actually answered my question.

ChrisBhoy, I wasn't even going to bother replying to that pathetic comment, but I will clear it up for you. The reason my name is The Dream Team is because that is my fantasy football team name, simple as that.

Yourself and "Bazman" are part of the reason I don't often come on this page. I don't mind banter re. rangers & celtic when it is relevant, but I should be able to post a question to the CFC fans with a bit of a brain (the majority that is) without being subjected to the usual boring "patter" from people like yourselves. Therefore I will no longer respond to you, because you clearly don't fall under the "having a brain" category!

Good luck tomorrow!

I got to agree with the rangers fan there. Show a bit of class guys.

Darrenbhoy

Thats a lot if mention's about brains not having a wee cravin are we my zombie friend it's a banter site and that's exactly what the guys where trying to have but I think they forgot in sevconia, any one with any sense of humour will not be tollarated anyway if you don't like the replies you could always pop back to your own page and leave a post regarding the chip shop cup
HH
Thommyj

@ Thommyj

At least yours was a bit funny lol. Chip shop cup, I liked that!

Agreed Thommyj. Thank you.
And thank you Darrenbhoy for your tremendous support and your confirmation that it isn't only Sevco fans who have sense of humour bypass.

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy

No probs chris bhoy there's enough divisions in the ranks just now with regards to the board and signings this is a banter site and if you can't have a lught hearted dig at the less fortunate then what's the point glad to see you you entering into the spirit of things aswell op (sorry still canny take your tag seriously knowing where you hail from)
HH
Thommyj

Thommyj,

I have no problem with the Celtic/Rangers banter and can certainly take it. Why else would I come on a site like this?

My problem is when I post a perfectly valid question just looking for an answer from a Celtic fan's point of view and certain posters on here, who it has to be said have a track record of turning everything on to Rangers, start that nonsense. ChrisBhoy seems like the kind of "Celtic fan" who will phone up SuperScoreboard tomorrow night before Celtic's CL qualifier but to talk about Rangers lol. That I can not understand nor can I stand it.

The Dream Team (dammit l'm STILL laughing at that name! lol), l can assure you, l have NO INTEREST whatsoever in what happens to The Rangers Sevco 5088 Ltd.
You can also find comfort in the knowledge that l will NEVER phone any radio station to discuss your club.
By the way, you are the one coming to OUR site, l don't go to yours.
But more importantly, l was just having a wee innocent poke at you earlier. There was no malice intended. I feel l need to apologise to you for your lack of a sense of humour.

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy .

You don't come on the Rangers page? Haha alrighty then! As for the comment about having no interest in Rangers, you really are a comedian! You talk more about Rangers than Celtic, that is a fact which was proven long ago. Also proven by your original reply to my post that had zero to do with Rangers. It's actually embarrassing how much you talk about Rangers. I bet you actually wake up each morning and try to convince yourself just that, that you don't care about Rangers, when the reality is that you can't stop!

The Dream Team
If you think I'm going to embroil myself in your tittle tattle then you are almost as delusional as Sally McMoist, Chuckie The Green One and Craig The Shyte One.
I refuse to get involved in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent so I suggest you run along, there's a good boy, but don't stay up too late.

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy

Chris,

Classic signs of a guy who knows he can't win. You had no possible way of answering my perfectly valid points, so you act like a little child yet again. You NEED to stop with the comedian act, it doesn't suit you one bit given that you are not at all funny.

27 Aug 2013 12:54:49
Clutching at straws but does anyone think the time difference might have an effect on Shaktar?

They only arrived on Monday and they are 5 hours ahead which is the equivalent of the game kicking off at 00.45 their time.

It might if they turn up 5 hours late then don't we get awarded a 3-0 victory ;)

Was thinking that too. Especially second half, their body clocks will be around 2am. Nil Nil at halftime might not be too bad, the gaps may appear late on.

Joeshmo1888

We had the same problem when we played there with time difference and it can be a factor. Another handicap was the absence of Celtic fans in numbers and I am hoping that on Wed this will give us a huge lift?

JJ

I travel back and forth to east coast usa 5 hrs ahead of us and jet lag is worse coming back here usually takes me a couple of days to get back to normal so fingers crossed their sleep is disrupted maybe the fire alarms at their hotel going off in the middle of the night might help us ;o)

OP here.

I was thinking about the old fire alarm trick or even a wee queue at the gates causing the kick off to be put back 15 to 20 minutes. As someone else said their body clocks will be way off especially as they have left it so late to travel over.

27 Aug 2013 12:18:41
Everyone blaming pl as to no signings.
Jock brown all over again.
PMSL
The player I.e target.his family his agent all have to agree aswell.
Players Will wait till tomoz before considering us.
Get used to it.

27 Aug 2013 09:13:19
Anyone know what the expected crowd is for Wed?

Sell out mate

My mate bought five tkts at 11am today so not sold out yet, L1888

27 Aug 2013 01:12:55
Another deadline passes(albeit Lennon saying well have a few signings in the next couple of days). Well where are they?
Alfie
Billy Sharpe
Pikku

My god it's got to the point where even Kevin Doyle would get me excited {Ed007's Note - There are six days to go in the transfer window, have we not brought anyone in? People think transfers are easy to do, we have spent more money than Man Utd and Arsenal so far this summer. What if NL thinks we have youth players ready to step up, or would you moan about that because no money is getting spent? As for your Doyle remark are you saying the club should sign players for the sake of of, just to appease fickle fans like you? I genuinely worry about certain sections of our support, they seem to think we are on a par with Real Madrid when it comes to signing players.}

Right on Ed! Tired of all this moaning, we did bring in players and can't wait to see the Dutch winger, looks good.

What deadline r u talking abt as ed says window doesn't shut till 2nd sept
ramie1963

LOL either Celtic fans have become the most fickle fans going or we are getting a lot of the deady bears on here stirring

So many moaners I am getting sick listening to them, look at the pluses, we are well run, we have signed players and are still looking to sign more, out manager and scouting staff have spotted some gems and I have no doubt will bring in more, no debt to speak off and we will hump the sheep killers by 3 or 4

Dannybhoy

Dannybhoy

Get real ed no one has ever thought we should be like Real Madrid at signings but we do expect signing when the spine of a team has been taken away and not replaced as yet with players who are ready for champions league qualifiers. It wasn't me or you who said he expects players on before elfsborg or shakhter it was Lenny!it was Lenny who said he expects one or two players in by midweek and was meeting an agent on Monday past. We can all get restless and grumble like only west of Scotland people can but come 7.45 tomorrow night we stand shoulder to shoulder and pump shakhter 4-0 then hopefully sign a couple of decent players.

Jim {Ed007's Note - Read through posts on here (mostly anonymous) that think all it should take is for NL to pick a player, tell PL to phone up, pay whatever transfer fee and wages is asked for and the player will crawl/swim to Glasgow just because it is CFC that are in for them. Transfers are always long drawn out affairs these days, and that is for every team. Certain players were offered a substantial bonus to sign for CFC before this round of CL qualifiers and turned it down, is that PL or the club's fault?}

Sometime's I have a quiet chuckle to myself, listening to poster's coming on here and crying about the loss of our spine' it's not that long ago they were slating Hooper and Wilson and saying they would drive them down to wherever they were going, no use coming on here now and moaning
Tambhoy {Ed007's Note - Are you suggesting a level of fickleness Tam? ;-)

@5 Just a little ED
Tambhoy

26 Aug 2013 23:46:14
Ed- I know a lot of Celtic fans feeling let down by the board, but putting a post up bud cause we all need to stick together this week, I know your well respected & liked on this forum & hopefully you agree & give a shout out we all need to stick by Lenny & the bhoys for Wednesday, I know we been poor so far but if we do this Wednesday our season will kick on from there, keep the faith hail hail, Chris30 {Ed007's Note - Thanks Chris, I'm nearly blushing here! I will always urge fans to get behind the team, there is plenty of time to mump and moan after the match but I'm hoping for 90/120 mins on Wednesday that the crowd really get behind the team. CP on big European nights is by far THE best atmosphere I have ever experienced anywhere, if the players, NL and the fans all do their jobs I think we will go through, they really weren't all that in the first leg. I have no doubt in my mind if Commons' shot had went in instead of hitting the bar we would be looking at a comfortable passage into the group stages.}