Celtic Banter Archive May 29 2019

29 May 2019 21:09:19
Serious question. Is lewis capaldi leigh griffiths love child? resemblance is uncannot.

30 May 2019 09:31:53
Poor Lewis Capaldi.

30 May 2019 11:04:25
Wee griff looking really chiselled gym work paying off.

29 May 2019 20:52:37
Europa league finals like watching a pre season friendly rotten game and no atmosphere.

29 May 2019 21:16:18
Campsie Bhoy whit happened tae yir post but looks like Ed liked it?

{Ed007's Note - Ya nosy bassa! 😂

29 May 2019 21:41:36
Ed Campsie Bhoys a good lad and if you agreed I thought his post should be shared with the wider Celtic family. An intrigued bassa ratter than a nosey bassa one would contend Ed 👍😂.

{Ed007's Note - It was just a personal note to me on something we had spoke about.... who's allowed season tickets for the live chat next year, I haven't got your application, the permission letter from your mum or cheque yet.}

29 May 2019 22:12:40
Ed you’ll be waiting a while for a donation from ma maw or da I’ve been an orphan for many many years. But name your charity of choice and I’ll send them a cheque tomorrow. You could sell tickets for the live chat and it gets better when you go to Mass on a Saturday night Ed. 👍😂.

{Ed007's Note - You do know I check it back and can hand out retrospective action?}

30 May 2019 07:33:05
It's a great laugh trying to slip a sweary word by 007. 😂😂.

{Ed007's Note - 😉

29 May 2019 19:24:56
I know you're not a NL fan ed but have you considered he might knock the job back.
Only trying to cheer you up😂😂.

{Ed007's Note - I can't see it but that's why we've got Novenas.}

29 May 2019 20:05:22
Pray all you want he will sign sooner or later 🙏🙏😂😂.

29 May 2019 21:27:09
What day are you on.

{Ed007's Note - Day 4 of the Mary Undoer of Knots Novena.}

29 May 2019 22:33:21
Compliments Ed I had never heard of this Novena during the first 30 years of my life (in Ireland) only since coming to Rome Never said it so don't know if its any good but one can hope.

{Ed007's Note - All my old aunts and my cousin The Priest swear by it.}

29 May 2019 15:56:08
Just got back to England after the weekend and must admit even in the tollbooth at Glasgow cross on Sunday the difference in opinion on Lennie getting the job was something else and even those who wanted him to get the job could not believe the timing and for Lawwell to say that nobody else was in contention for the job is staggering l as all our supporters will get behind Lennie but yet again it is Lawwell who has to deliver in the transfer market and back the manager but l worry that nothing has changed since Lennie was in charge before and from a position of strength that the board will sit twiddling their fingers when we should be showing our financial power to the rest of Scotland.

29 May 2019 17:18:19
I don't remember anybody complaining about due diligence or lack of an interview process when the club appointed BR.

29 May 2019 17:40:20
Thats because we showed serious ambition to get Rodgers, where's the ambition in this appointment? I said to my mates that last year I'd have been amazed if we didn't get 10 in a row, now I'll be amazed if we get it. The difference is lennon.

29 May 2019 17:53:36
The board have always backed our managers, it's just 7 out of 10 times our managers sign tom kite😂.

29 May 2019 18:05:00
Some fans bought into the bookies fantasy managers. There was no way we would have Benetiz. Jose. AVB etcRealistically I thought it was between Moyes Lennon or Clarke. Clarke had ruled himself out because of the baggage that comes with the job. Lennon is Mr Marmite at present but will have my backing 100%. Lawell better back Lennon like he backed Disco Lights and a fancy pitch.

29 May 2019 18:25:30
We need to get the new D O F right or the new head scout spot on as i think this is more important this year than any other year i can remember. We could need up to 8 players probably more like 5.
Don't get me wrong i am not overwhelmed with lennon but got to get on with it now and hope we can unearth some gems like van dyk, wanyama.
Lets hope we can hit ground running and win in style next year .
As i have said before, we can't re sign players like hooper, or extend contracts to lustig or this will be going backwards. c'mon celts 🍀.

29 May 2019 18:30:53
Time to move on folks this has been done to death he's here let's get on with it.

29 May 2019 20:04:51
I get that Steph but I keep hearing about how negligent it is for a club of our size to not interview multiple candidates etc. but in reality they couldn't care less about that - they just didn't want Lennon.

30 May 2019 07:37:41
Im not in the anyone but lennon camp cos that's just stupid, but I wanted us to get the best manager possible and u can't do that if u don't even look at anyone else. If it turned out lennon was the best candidate then fair enough but they didn't know he was cos they never checked.

29 May 2019 13:03:18
Looking to next season and strengthening in the summer, not to sound too optimistic its not as bad as its made out.
If we get Benkovic back on loan, we would maybe only need 3 or 4 decent signings to really kick on for next season
Goalkeeper isn't an issue.
RB we've Lustig (if he stays) and Ralston, so could do with strengthening there.
CB could be less of a priority if Benkovic stays another season.
Its safe to say Hayes is a decent stand in for KT, but would be good to have another option, or a more natural defender.
Midfield is strong - Broonie, Ntcham, Calmac, Rogic, Forrest, Sinclair, Johnston, Dembele, Hendo, Arzani and Shved.
With Griff and Bayo coming back for this season it looks a lot better than is made out. HH.

29 May 2019 13:48:47
Think another midfielder is needed rogic usually out for his 3 to 4 months so can't be relied on and although I like ntcham there's doubts about him.

29 May 2019 14:12:12
And Dembele, Arzani and Shved look promising but whether they will be knocking on 1st team door is not yet known. Bayo is a prime example, £2m and apparently miles off it, even in training .

29 May 2019 14:27:38
100% agree with both of you . Its just there's a bit of depth and promise there, but like you said i can't see some of the younger lads being starters just yet. I think 3 good players ready to start through the spine of the team should be enough to see us step up a level . but then its all depending on what players we lose players throughout the window.

29 May 2019 14:28:30
Just to clear up, i wasnt saying we didn't need anyone in those positions, just that we have options there.

29 May 2019 22:39:20
Any manager that signs 8 first team players in the close season is inevitably looking for a job himself before Easter . Bringing 8 new players into dressing room inevitably leads to serious difficulty in team building.

29 May 2019 12:27:00
MRS T HAS GIVEN ME A WARNING

If you have ex bear pals like me you probably have had them in your face laughing at Lennon's appointment. They really believe Stevie Gee will turnover Lennon and are openly boasting about winning the title next season.
My two ex bear pals and of course The Suit have money to burn (they claim they all won more than they lost to me in the game at Ibrox which was a FAIR AMOUNT) I have already been offered silly amount bets from all 3.
But the voice of reason Mrs T has told me to limit any bets I take on and on no account will she and the girls bankroll me, despite our holiday being paid solely from winning bets from the 3 stooges.
I have been told, nay ORDERED, to save up my money and ONLY my money, to gamble with.
I keep trying to tell the good lady that they keep betting with their heart and believe all the hype dished out by a pro sevconian press, which is why I have been so successful, but she is not for turning (just like a certain other Mrs T lol)
But I WILL take them on and will raise the stake, I just hope the pawnbrokers except old watches. and hope i am lucky to qualify for a "provi cheque" (younger posters ask your dad lol)

29 May 2019 13:28:38
They can scoff at lennys appointment Tim but the reality is he's achieved more in management in 3 months than slippy did all year but they are deluded they think they've had a great season and won nothing and the points gap was the same as last year as well.

29 May 2019 21:40:17
They could put could coco the clown as manager and against our rubbishty appointment would stand a chance, and I don't use the word rubbishty lightly I can't understand why anyone would see this is anyway positive move failure at Bolton and hibs yet such a talented individual that they didn't even speak / interview anyone else because obviously as Lennon made that much of a superb job with team playing brilliant football that board couldn't possibly upset him and let the next Guardiola leave our club for having the audacity to speak to better coaches. I mean already it's bringing so much negativity to us the Sevco must be howling just now.

29 May 2019 22:47:12
K72, in the last 3 days since you started posting on here, you’ve just been trying too hard. Away back to your own site and dream about Steve Davis and Jermaine Defoe and all the other duffers you’ve signed that give you the false hope that you and you’re mates cling to season after season after season. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

29 May 2019 22:54:10
K72 . I hope you enjoy your football next season . With thoughts like yours it's hardly likely to be at Celtic Park .
I think your post is rubbish . I don't use the term rubbish lightly.

30 May 2019 00:08:24
Never mind Mrs T there's a few in here wanting in on these bets Tim we'll start a syndicate to bank roll you if need be mate 😂😂.

30 May 2019 06:25:19
Listen coybig and old man Chris I'm 47 my dad took me to my first game when I was 6 months old against Clyde Bank as I was told which he got a rollicking from my mum but believe me I love celtic but never posted anything on these forums but have read them for years for any transfer gossip so believe what you want but please never say I'm follower of Satan's select, just honesty think we have made a major boo boo with Lennon and I pray that I'm wrong because there won't be anybody happier if he proves me wrong but fear he hasn't the ability my friends, Sevco are a bad lot but we are getting dragged down to their level, the positivity like signing the belgian atalanta full back for 9m which won't happen now as they have qualified for champions league to looks like old man Lustig to me has disappeared. But make this crystal my friends I'm no follower of that sectarian supporting Satan's select, Sevco or whatever scumbag name we want to call them just a very worried jungle Jim 🍀.

30 May 2019 10:09:22
Rubishty Ed lol.

{Ed007's Note - That's an auto filter that does that.}

29 May 2019 10:51:15
What's your thoughts on Garry Parker Ed? If you have any that is.

{Ed007's Note - After the last couple of days on here probably best I keep them to myself. I'm sure there's plenty of posters who will tell you how good a coach & tactician he is, I mean he's worked beside Lennon for years so he's learnt from one of the best. Getting Bolton relegated and getting Hibs to the dizzy heights of 8th in the SPFL is quite a CV.}

29 May 2019 11:17:23
Haha that's what I thought. Surely there's some masterplan still to come out. Right?

{Ed007's Note - The thought of Lennon & his agent on holiday with Kris Commons is giving me the fear. Fingers crossed they were just at the same birthday celebrations and there's nothing more sinister afoot.}

29 May 2019 11:49:34
I heard Lisa Commons is coming in as head of club relations.

{Ed007's Note -

via GIPHY

29 May 2019 11:59:26
Just think though ed. Mrs commons will be back on the supporters buses.

29 May 2019 12:52:21
Hopefully it's not an old pals act with Lennon trying to talk Commons out of retirement. Sentiment gets you nowhere in football. See Izzy was offered another deal and Lustig likely will be too. Hooper and Stokes to spearhead the attack next season.

29 May 2019 12:53:34
I read she had her vagina tightened recently. Shame they couldn't do anything with her gob.

{Ed007's Note - What?}

29 May 2019 14:33:52
Brilliant JimTim, Brilliant lol.

29 May 2019 23:04:48
Everytime we get a new Manager we have problems . With B R it was his teeth whitening and with Lennon its him going on holiday with the woman who occupies Kris Commons bed when she isn't with S. Gerrard.

29 May 2019 23:55:57
Lennon and Commons have the same agent and were on a 50th weekend together, that's all that was going on.

30 May 2019 09:30:56
😂 vagina surgery Ed. Tightens it. Just google 'Lisa Hague Vagina' and it'll pop up. Delete your search history though before the Mrs gets on 😂.

30 May 2019 09:37:38
He lead hibs to there highest points tally ever in the league ED. why can't you point out the positives of Lennon always negative stuff about him and ignore his achievements. Clarke has been praised as a great manager for getting kilmarnock there highest point tally ever and getting them into Europe. Which Neil Lennon did with hibs in his first season back up with them after he got them up from championship first time of asking yet use call his time at hibs terrible. Lennon lost his full midfeild in the summer there and had to rebuild yes they did not have a great season this year not his whole time at hibs as you're making out. So why do you not point out all this. It's just he got hibs 8th.

29 May 2019 09:02:52
I'm not going to moan about Lennon appointment anymore. Think I bought into my in-laws bull crap and really believed we were going for a Bielsa type. I study tactics, systems, training methods in my spare time and the thought of having someone like that at my club got my pants wet 🤷🏻‍♂️

And see this crap about not wanting to play out grom the back! So you'd want to just have the keeper punt the ball up now? Name me one good team who play like that? 3year ago we started playing out from the back and keeping possession, guess what?! We done 3trebles playing like that! If you think that's a coincidence you really don't know much about football tbh.

29 May 2019 10:38:27
Playing out from the back is the modern game and is fine, what we need to cut out is the passing around at the back. When the defenders get the ball players further forward need to make sure they are available rather than passing around between the back 4 and keeper till 1 of the make a mistake.

{Ed007's Note - It's not the defence that are slowing the game down it's Scott Brown. When he gets the ball he should be getting his head up and moving the play forward and getting the team on the front foot, he doesn't do that and ends up just passing it back to the defence or it's a short sideways pass that usually just comes back to him. Our main playmaker can't do the job he's being asked to do and it's as plain as the nose on your face, throw in Rogic and the 2 main creative positions are not up to scratch, nowhere near it.}

29 May 2019 10:38:45
He said he wanted to cut down on the amount of touches we have because unless you've got some sort of memory loss we were conceding goals and giving away possession too easy. and btw this was being said on here when st Brendan was coach.

{Ed007's Note - Since January we've played 23 domestic games (league and cup) and lost one game, we kept 17 clean sheets while conceding 7 goals so I don't see how you can say we were conceding goals.}

29 May 2019 10:41:08
Every good team plays out from the back to ensure possession, but it's what happens with that possession that was really matters.
Players need to be comfortable on the ball - especially under pressure - and be able to find space and pick the right pass at the right time, with quick movement and pace - creating chances.
The team are certainly very good at retaining possession, but some opponents were wise to our style of play and kept us at bay more and more, as we became predictable and our build up was slow; as after the invincible season, we lacked that bit of drive, flair and slick passing-interchanges to overcome stuffy defenses.
Playing without a recognized number 9 and lacking creativity in midfield contributed to some below par performances recently - as did the injury crisis and change of management.
It's been pointed out we lack a plan B when we struggle to break teams down or can't create enough chances; so there is work to do in the personnel and tactical department before next season.

29 May 2019 11:37:47
@Mally. Memory is bang on bud. I’m talking about fans wanting to stop playing from the back. Not going to criticise Lennon anymore until see what way he has us playing next season. As a player I loved Lennon. I was there when he got booed at home playing Stuttgart because he passed the ball backwards.

Have to agree with EDS regarding brown slowing the play down. He lacks the passing ability and vision, wee Callum in there always has the head up looking forward for quick pass. Rogic is a burst ball for me I’d punt him in a heartbeat. Surely we can get better in there.

The potential at our club has is huge.

29 May 2019 12:35:49
Your right ed we haven't conceded many goals apart from Europe when we can't keep possession. usually after big Gordon skims one out to lustigs head. but we were commenting on here at the time that we were over doing it in some games. I am all for it but you need good players to play this way especially against better teams. salzburg comes to mind.

{Ed007's Note - Celtic in Europe is like an inexperienced prostitute, we just need to try and protect ourselves against getting pumped rotten. The quicker the breakaway league happens the better.}

29 May 2019 12:57:59
There's very little movement off the ball most the team stand and want the ball played to them when man marked. Teams know if they press us we'll lose the ball at the back and that's where we lose too many silly goals. Especially in Europe it's embarrassing some of the errors that cost us goals.

29 May 2019 13:24:52
Yet right ed cringe when we try and match better teams instead of shutting up shop and nicking something.

{Ed007's Note - At European matches there's teams that we should be dominating, teams we should be cautious about and teams we just need to keep the scoreline respectable. We seem to go from one extreme to the other and play within ourselves - when we seem to inevitably shoot ourselves in the foot - against teams we can compete against and then we try and go toe to toe with your Barcas and PSGs.}

29 May 2019 23:18:05
I am not sure any of us knows how to play Scot Brown's role any better than himself. We are all brilliant at telling the Board, CEO, Manager and individual players who make up the team how to do the their job . It's surprising we have all been overlooked for all the jobs.

29 May 2019 23:54:10
Playing out from the back is good, but playing out from the back, then playing along the back line then passing back to the goalie then playing out from the back, ad nauseam, is bad, you need someone with the confidence and ability to pass forward or go round the opponent, when put under pressure,