Celtic Banter Archive January 04 2019

04 Jan 2019 23:20:59
do you think after the buffulo being allowed to assault our players and hearing we are now asking questions that CELTIC should hire an ex referee from abroad ie italy or spain to give a totally unbiased published account of our games.

05 Jan 2019 00:03:10
The minute we pay them it isn't an unbiased opinion.

05 Jan 2019 00:21:26
if SFA really wanted to show openness they would already be doing this to remove any bias.
WE would still be seen to be paranoid and in control if WE did what you suggest.

05 Jan 2019 00:29:08
No that would be pointless.

04 Jan 2019 20:15:19
Great to see the statement made from Celtic but let's see if anything actually comes from this. Only Fergus mccann has had the cahones to stand up to that mob.

04 Jan 2019 23:00:37
I've got to say that statement looks as if it was drafted by a seven year old. We were beaten by a better team on the day but we'll always be better in EVERY way. Beatons number has allegedly surfaced in public and he's allegedly being threatened. Let's just get the head down and do our talking on the pitch.

05 Jan 2019 07:02:11
First and foremost we were absolutely rotten on the day and deserved nothing from that game. Secondly yes some of Newton’s decisions were baffling let’s say, especially towards Morelos and the fact he says he seen those 3/ 4 incidents and thought they were ok Is strange, especially the one on Ralston for me. If you look at that incident again Morelos clearly and intentionally stamps on Ralston and with replays from different angles, slowed down footage how Beaton can say that was a legit tackle etc is beyond me. Even the flick towards Christie, look at Morelos actions straight after it, he bows his head and turns away in the hope the ref didn’t act on it. Now while we can argue wether any of the incidents merited a red card, what we can say that on each of the incidents he could easily have seen yellow never mind another yellow for persistent fouling. That’s were I feel Beaton has let himself down and open to scrutiny. That said if reports are to be believed then the threatening behaviour towards him is out of order. I totally get peoples frustrations, anger even but to deliberately go out your way to threaten this guy is completely out of order and will make not a blind but of difference other than to get themselves punished. Let Celtic challenge the authorities and go down the proper channels. If those photos that were all over social media yesterday are legit and I say IF, then the man himself has put himself in a questionable position. To referee a Celtic v rangers game were your “ supposed to be fair to both sides” and hours later turn up in a pub full of rangers fans laughing joking etc etc is embarrassing not only for him but the SFA itself. Like I say that’s only IF those photos are credible.

05 Jan 2019 10:11:06
100% legit my sister and her husband were in the same pub The Crown in Bellshill and he was posing for pictures galore as well and I quote I wasn’t going to give those cuts anything today.

05 Jan 2019 10:49:14
Hear hear Garry.

04 Jan 2019 19:34:09
Beaton’s explanation that Morelos has no case to answer to is equivalent to an accused exonerating himself. This has got to be a deficit system that we have in place.

On another note, that dinasaur Archie Knox commented (& I think that he’s right) Jermaine Defoe, if he’s allowed to operate inside the box will be a real threat to any defence in the SPFL. Do not relax Celtic!

04 Jan 2019 17:00:14
At FEKIN LAST.
Celtic have released a statement over the Morelos whitewash and have asked for a meeting with Ian Maxwell and the head of the Referee Supervisors.

04 Jan 2019 17:07:47
Just saw that - good on them. Probably be totally robbed off, but at least they are trying.

04 Jan 2019 17:34:05
About time they stood up to that mob.

04 Jan 2019 17:37:08
Anyone that thinks Celtic don't work at these things behind the scenes are off their heed.

04 Jan 2019 17:52:45
Joe o'rourke of the csa has sent a strongly worded lettero Maxwell at the sfa if this is the standard then it's carte blance.

04 Jan 2019 18:09:09
Might want to concentrate of strengthening the squad. Priorities - we MUST strengthen.

04 Jan 2019 18:11:46
Guess I am off my head because I really was starting to think we were just going to let this go without getting an explanation at the least But I really hope they go for more.

04 Jan 2019 18:18:43
This reeks of a distraction effort. Possibly to divert attention from the fact very little reinforcementhas been lined up for the window other than a couple of ‘perhaps’ signings of unknowns.

As said above time to put energy into improving the squad instead of bleating about refs. The decision isn’t for going get overturned regardless, we’ve for years been given the brown end of the stick from the refs, why would it change now?

{Ed007's Note - 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

04 Jan 2019 18:32:07
Morelos should be on sex offenders register for Christie incident.

04 Jan 2019 18:56:24
NaeBaws! Are you being serious?

Honest tae god, fans moan because they don't think the board was doing enough regarding this situation and when they do, So called fans are then saying that they are only doing because we won't sign anyone.

Give it a rest for god sake.

04 Jan 2019 19:21:46
You mean like when King releases financial figures 5 mins before kick off😆.

04 Jan 2019 19:52:27
I can't see the benefit of making the statement at all: it can't compel any action, and is destined to be ignored. However, if they are going to make do so they should at least hire someone who can write sharply and think clearly.

{Ed007's Note - I think you're getting a bit confused between the Celtic statement and some letter that somebody wrote - you do know the Celtic statement will have been checked by the Club lawyers etc before publishing it?}

04 Jan 2019 20:55:20
Bang on jonbhoy. This board really can't win no matter what they do.
The are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

{Ed007's Note - Classic, Kev!!

04 Jan 2019 22:46:37
Another line I stole fae my old man but he's usually about no being able to do anything right for my ma😂😂.

05 Jan 2019 00:43:31
Hardly think it's a distraction away from transfer speculation.
There has been a groundswell of debate and comment since the referee report proved Beaton failed to do his job and intentionally favoured one side over another and even Sevco TV Sport showed the multiple assaults by Morelos in slow motion with the person looking on.
The statement from Celtic is well timed and totally justified and I hope the photos of Beaton celebrating in a Sevco Pub after the game is also a catalyst for his demise and one less bigot in black.

05 Jan 2019 00:42:11
In this day and age if Christie did report him AM would end up on it after the courts dealt with him. Ryan won't have the cajones to do it tho! 😱.

05 Jan 2019 00:00:17
I was going on the one on the official club website, Ed. If they want to publish something to that effect, I reckon there's 5 or 6 lads on here could make a better fist of it. There's certainly nothing in the statement to risk legal jeopardy. I guess my gripe is that it is as close to a non statement as I could be contrived.

04 Jan 2019 14:50:35
Ed,

Any reason my posts aren't getting put up?

{Ed007's Note - This and one about Morelos (that's on the TRIFC page) are the only 2 we've received from you since the 2nd of January mate.....

04 Jan 2019 16:17:18
I have had same issue downunderbhoy. Not sure if it's my incompetence or some kind of censorship. hopefully it's a down to me.

04 Jan 2019 18:37:05
How are you all getting on downunderbhoy? I hope you are bearing up as well as humanly possible.

05 Jan 2019 01:34:01
Hi Andy, still no funeral yet, local community has raised well over 25000 dollars for the family.
My boy is holding up thank you and thank you for your kind words, means a lot.
God Bless.

05 Jan 2019 01:32:03
Ah apologies ED, I didn't realise some posts got flicked onto tge the TRIFC page, checked and answered the replies on there thank you.

{Ed007's Note - 👍

04 Jan 2019 13:24:46
Have to laugh at some of the drivel posted on here. During the summer all that you could read was “we need sign players to take us the next level in Europe” now it’s “we need sign players as the huns are making statements of intent” all utter pish. Any signings we make need to improve our squad no doubt about that. I really can’t see us not hitting the ground running after the break and blowing the rest away. We are far and away the best team in Scotland and I for one can’t wait till cup final day to celebrate our treble treble HH.

04 Jan 2019 14:19:27
Spot on Welshy, some of the moonhowling on here is unreal, sometimes I think some people are deliberately posting nonsense as it would be impossible for someone to form half the opinions and beliefs on here👍.

04 Jan 2019 14:44:02
Welshy we have one striker whose inexperience is showing and what do we look like bringing In so far. two with even less experience . I know its only the start of this window so let's wait and see . but we can't gamble on Them not improving or killie and the sheep for the matter . we've been inconsistent this season . can we afford to sit back and say it'll be alright after the break?

04 Jan 2019 14:58:25
How have you managed to come to the conclusion that our poor performances are down to Edouards inexperience? So if Edouard was 35 we’d be in a much better position?

I don’t get to what the obsession with experience is, as I said in another post, any player with “experience” who is actually any good will be outwith our price range. Yes we need improvements in some areas but we also need to consider the future of the club and loaning in 36 year old experienced yet average players is a short term fix.

04 Jan 2019 16:51:04
Where did I say eddys
inexperience is causing the teams poor performances . I also never said the team was having poor performances. experience is an essential part of growing learning and improving whether as a football player tradesman or just life on general . but I'm not obsessed with it .

04 Jan 2019 17:53:36
No one will argue about taking in 36 year olds on loan, the experience their is experienced players playing in sfl2 but no quality, Experience is over rated means very little seen a very experienced player mess up a league title before lol! We know who, it's quality that matters and their is quality at all ages we just need to find it that's the job of the scouts, squad is huge no need to strengthen that, it's the first 11 we need to strengthen not for Europe or spfl but for our club to become better because that's what you do.

04 Jan 2019 20:30:22
Okay well how is his inexperience showing?

05 Jan 2019 00:22:39
I will be celebrating all of the above and getting rid of DDV. Scott Alan. Hendry. Gamboa. Commper. Mulumbu.

05 Jan 2019 00:31:12
I can see both sides of the argument Andy with regards to cost of experience, if we could be sure of bringing in the standard of young players like red bull, then fine but recently our scouting department either misses the boat on these or they are already out of our price range. The other side would be that if Defoe does go on to score goals and they manage to win the league there will be an awful lot of people on here asking why we never took the option of signing a proven goal scorer on loan, instead of a 6 month loan of a lad that’s played a handful of games for PSG .

04 Jan 2019
New image uploaded to the
Celtic Player Sightings page entitled, Preparing for Glasgow Derby 2019 at the Humming (sick) Centre

04 Jan 2019 00:24:49
happy new year ed007 and all posters, just summarising in my mind exactly where we are at this point in the season, and yes on paper we are top of the league with game in hand, league cup in the bag and next round of europe so there can be no complaints in that respect.

looking individually at performances over the past few months though and i feel we should be a lot further ahead of the rest than we are currently, take the people for example they completely re-built in the summer and have managed to reign in the points difference and even recently beat us albeit not our first 11 and some impartial refereeing, now looks as though they are going to strengthen again, in january which leaves me fearing a repeat of our summer window.

we all know what is needed to improve our team and have done since brendan came in, and truthfully even though all our success we have only once went out and laid out a big fee for a player, i think the club really need to get the finger out over the next month and improve our starting 11 as well as offload as much rubbish as possible.

as it stands on our day we are still the best in the country but i feel we have let the rest get a lot closer than they ever should have been and in turn building confidence in their followers which filters down from the stands, i hope and pray come feb 1st we have done what is needed to cement our authority for the remainder of the season and beyond, i know they had to win at some point but it doesn't make it any easier to take and in all honesty they should never have had the chance to be that close✌️🇮🇪.

04 Jan 2019 09:44:53
I think a lot of people need a bit of a reality check.
Last season at Christmas Sevco got a 0-0 draw at Celtic park and the media went into overdrive about how they were going to knock us off our perch. Look what happened in the next three games against them, 3-2, 4-0, and 5-0.
It appears now that Sevco signing a 36 year old who hasn't scored since March is now going to win the title for them.
I for one would not have been happy if we had signed Defoe, so I am quite happy for Sevco to have him. If that is what they are reduced to then we should be fine.
We have won 7 trophies in a row, we are still in Europe, and we are top of the league with a game in hand yet to listen to some we are in crisis.
We lost a game on Saturday which was disappointing but we have bounced back from poor league results before, I'm sure we will do so again because when we are on our game we are streets ahead of everyone in Scotland.

04 Jan 2019 10:27:53
Gerry your facts are bang on we’ve won 7 trophies in succession and are top of the league with a game in hand. Other facts which are concerning is that the team has regressed and they have improved. Facts are we have one striker who couldn’t play 90 minutes at Ibronx where we used to have three due to sale of Dembelle and unfortunate situation with Griffiths. Our best centre half is on loan and next best Boyata given he’s started ahead of Ajer is to be sold in due course. Our left back and potentially our best player wasn’t fit to play at Ibronx and our right back whose been a great servant is nearing the end of his career. Our captain is considering his options which would leave us with a team who have never experienced a title challenge. I’m all for dealing with facts the last presentation of which was at Ibronx where we were outplayed and out-fought by the successors of Rangers and where Brendan Rodgers was out-thought by Stevie G. It’s a fact they are on our coat tails after half a season having gubbed us to end it and are strengthening while we have yet to do so therefore there is nothing to suggest they won’t be ahead of or closely behind us at the end of the season. The biggest concern for me isn’t that the Board or Peter Lawwell will not back Brendan Rodgers financially t’s whether Brendan Rodgers is capable of spending the funds wisely which previous factual evidence doesn't suggest is certain.

04 Jan 2019 10:48:04
Great post jfp a know it's a bit doon and gloom but they're no going away and the 2bd half of the season they look stronger than the 1st half so go figure.

04 Jan 2019 10:49:00
We have been unlucky this season with a poor summer transfer window and injuries. The media convientiently have omitted these crucial facts when glorifying that mob. They are rotten and for us having a weaker team it was hardly an epic victory. Mcgregors goal was barely offside, they were very lucky with us having disallowed goal. They are really bad and no matter who they sign, we will increase gap at top.

I’ve got faith things will be put right this month by signing a few players who will change our fortunes.