Celtic Banter Archive March 07 2017

07 Mar 2017 21:45:11
Arsenal proving tonight the EPL is the best league in the world 😂😂😂, when will they realise just because you spend the most money on transfers doesn't mean you are the best league, im sure nobody sees China as a top league just because they spend loads, champions league is just a money maker for uefa, I look back through the history and all those teams that used to be big clubs in Europe marred coz money is unevenly spread between the leagues, I still can't understand why a fourth placed team has any right to be in the competition unless they won it the previous year so they can try retain it, should simply be winner of each league in Europe, the only time the completion is exciting is the group stage, always an upset to occur, when you get to knock out stages it's always the same rich clubs, ground hog day, rant over.

07 Mar 2017 22:47:44
Said before, the CL will soon have the same attraction as a preseason tournament, the general public will soon get bored ( I already am, unless we are involved) then the advertisers will cut it loose. Time for fans of other clubs to boycott it and speed up the process. It can't even loosely, be called a competition any more. Time for an alternative competition in the true sense.

08 Mar 2017 07:51:05
Didnt even watch last night same teams year after year boring.

08 Mar 2017 09:59:22
The EPL is just the best advertised league in the world they build up games for a week or 2 and it's all you hear about then when the game comes it's dire Barry Hearn made some great points when talking about our game and advertising.

08 Mar 2017 10:01:50
Also on sky and EPL how are Man City, Stoke allowed to play and be on sky the same night as the champs league? Thought that was a No, No.

08 Mar 2017 22:15:33
think the arrogant EPL clubs just pay the fine campsie mate.

07 Mar 2017 21:21:39
Things that really grind my gears about football and all that surrounds football. What gets on your goat?

- players diving, or going down after taking a slight knick on the shin and holding their face.
- players claiming for throw ins, corners etc even when it is blatantly obvious they just booted the ball out the park.
- goalkeepers who cannot defend their near post.
- goalkeepers who come for crosses and flail, claim a foul and usually get it given.
- Players being allowed to take throw ins 20 yards from where the ball went out.
- people who think they are great and write long as hell posts on forums.
- Corners that don't beat the first man.
- referees. just referees, nuff said
- people saying things like "i could of been a player, i was good" . aye ye wur!
- Players wages
- folk droning on about the provisional armies and lodges and religion in sport etc etc
- FOCUS and the OBFA
- bias commentators, esp English ones when England are playing
- Pundits and players who dismiss opinion because you weren't a pro
- Journalists who dismiss opinions because you aren't a journalist
- Phil Mac Macgiolla Bhain.
- The same club myth
- Football authorities. see referees.
- Folk who are 'in the know' who quite obviously are not.
- Folk doing lists and who use the terms 'on your goat' and 'grinds my gears'
- Folk going on about the good old days where a challenge was a challenge and men were real men.
- Park the bus tactics
- The amount of players and coaches in Scotland who do not want to progress the game at all but maintain the status quo.
- Fully artificial pitches.
- Radio phone ins where the topics of discussion are the same things year in year out.
- Transfer deadline day
- The transfer market in general.
- Sly spurts
- That groan noise at home when a pass goes astray!
- That guy who sits a few seats away that has been going to games for years but doesn't get the offside rule. or any rules for that matter.

there are many more but i shall stop there.

07 Mar 2017 21:30:04
Evinguu - is there anything that does not piss you off? 😂👍🍀.

07 Mar 2017 22:11:17
ev take a lie down mate you must be knackered lol.

07 Mar 2017 22:23:42
- people who write long as hell posts on forums 😉

08 Mar 2017 04:16:19
- people who say "It's not Soccer, it's Football"

08 Mar 2017 07:16:12
- internationals
- international qualifiers
- when a manager gets sacked and all off a sudden the team start winning again.

08 Mar 2017 07:33:20
Op people that start lists then don't finish them.

08 Mar 2017 07:52:08
Sevco.

08 Mar 2017 15:25:00
The best of all, people who really should not write lists. Thank goodness Ev was in a good mood when the list was written. 👍.

07 Mar 2017 19:27:24
On Sunday St Mirren came up with a system that troubled us for quite a while and our own team selection helped the Saints also.
Firstly to the good planning by the Paisley team in making Celtic play from the back using Boyata to distribute the ball, as we all know Boyata could not hit a barn door with the ball two feet away.
Secondly playing GMS ahead of Roberts was a huge mistake by Rodgers, GMS has neither the skill nor the heart to play in our first team.
So on Sunday surely the distribution must come from Biton or Armstrong, I know Biton slows play down but he is surely a better passer of a ball. I think it is clear also that Roberts MUST play ahead of GMS we look better when he plays. The third thing we must change for Sunday, which I think it will, is our attitude, against St Mirren we disrespected them and thought we just had to turn up to win.
Make these 3 changes and we will run all over the top of the tribute act.

07 Mar 2017 19:50:28
Think gms started due to paddy havin been out with the injury. and hell start for sure on sun . But think the big decision is whether to play griff and leave Bitton on bench.

07 Mar 2017 20:24:42
I think a combination of our tempo (or lack there of) and slackness made St Mirren look a bit better than they were - even early on.

Let's not GMS missed a sitter and Biton should have been one on one if not for dodgy offside call.

Point is we were getting in behind before they scored (from an admittedly well worked set piece, it happens) and continued to do so after the goal: dembele missed a sitter, and gms again when two on one picked wrong option.

07 Mar 2017 16:02:25
Right, need a wee bit of help here. My next door neighbour hung her husbands sevco strip out on the washing line and some tit has stolen the clothes pegs off it.

07 Mar 2017 17:06:30
She really loved those pegs.

07 Mar 2017 17:08:42
Tiny: it's cheaper to replace the Sevco strip than get new pegs, so go online and get it sent to your neighbours house. Lol.

07 Mar 2017 12:59:27
Silly statement from Macca in the gutter press.
8-0 now if we don't hit 8 we will be slagged off and give the smsm the excuse to water down our victory.


https://goo.gl/abjKyn

07 Mar 2017 17:16:44
Over our last six games (what a lot of form tables are based on) we've averaged nearly four goals a game. Not bad considering we've supposedly been a bit flat. I've already gone with Celtic -2 on my coupon. There's a sense of optomism coming from the Klan, and I think it's a false one. One good, and quite fortunate, result against Hamilton at home has them thinking that coming to Celtic Park playing an unbeaten side nationally is going to be a similar sort of animal. We'll be a shock to the system, they haven't played a side in their own back yard anything like us since, well, since we knocked five past them. Comfortable win for me, hopefully on the back of an Aberdeen loss.

07 Mar 2017 18:32:11
Jim Tim i am betting on 3-0, 4-0, 5-1. I will also have a Celtic -2 bet just to cover the coupon. We will horse them. Just about how many. They are not appointing any manager till end of season. Bring him in now get beat 3 or 4 times till end of season and season tickets drop through the floor so they will wait and hope new manager sells tickets for next season. Otherwise they will go into admin again.

07 Mar 2017 19:58:18
I'd love for one of those to come in Johnny 👍. I wouldn't go as far as 8, but can really see us winning by three or four.