Celtic Banter Archive February 09 2017

09 Feb 2017 20:47:47
What about this wee guy Biily Gilmour? He appears to be trapped on the wrong side of Glasgow and the 'hot prospect' is now considering a move to Chelsea. I know nothing about the bhoy but is he worth a look with a view to bringing him home? 🍀.

09 Feb 2017 21:24:02
Apparently he's a good tim, I say bring him in. Let them have nothing and make sure they know their place.

09 Feb 2017 22:03:47
he can't be that good a tim going to them, i wouldn't even put that jersey on for charity.

10 Feb 2017 10:40:02
Pal of mine taught him and ran his school team says he's a smashing player. celtuc had him and his whole family guests at Barcelona game earlier this season says his mothers a massive celtic fan and by all accounts the dad doesn't bother too much.

10 Feb 2017 13:46:13
Can you imagine the wee guys life if he made that switch? that would push a few zombies over the edge.

10 Feb 2017 17:25:51
Get him signed up then lol.

10 Feb 2017 22:00:15
Can u imagine what would happen to him and his family. He's their shining light, their only hope, just think of how much hatred it would generate if he signed for us. He'd need to live underground.

09 Feb 2017 13:13:21
Who'd have thunk it wee Roger Mitchell the ex spl supremo a self confesed celtic fan, in the rags today waxing lyrical about our Peter saying he's the best chief executive in Europe and after the figures the other day who can argue HH.

09 Feb 2017 16:11:59
I'm sure he does well to meet his targets set out for him but it could be argued he hasn't protected Fans and Shareholders interests with respect to resolution 12.

09 Feb 2017 16:53:19
He's been a grand financier, broker, negotiator and arbitrator. He's somebody I'm really comfortable with at the thought of him being our rep in any boardroom, fighting our corner. However from a football perspective, he hasn't had us looking as good as we could have been for several seasons up until the recent rocket up the rear. Now we have a proper manager in place, PL can stick to what he does best. Not football, business.

09 Feb 2017 17:02:16
Just want to add I'm not trying to be negative and from speaking with Friends and Family not all fans are too bothered by things like resolution 12, not as much as me anyway. I'm just reluctant to celebrate things that come from the people who run/ ran the game, I'm sure Lawwell isn't compromised in any way but remember it wasn't too long back Scottish football had the world's best administrator.

09 Feb 2017 17:23:47
I'd accept he does a good job but you could argue that his penny pinching has cost us serious money . Employing Ronnie as a cheap project cost us massively in Europe. We only have to look at the turnover we have just had to see the difference it made. I know we won two league titles under him but let's be realistic to say that probably most of the managers in the league would have won the league if they were in charge of us the past couple of seasons. If we had pushed the boat out more the previous seasons and qualified our turnover would be massive over the last few years.

09 Feb 2017 19:01:56
Ronnie wasn't took on as a cheap project, Ronnie was employed because he was a young forward looking, modern, innovative, inspiring, successful manager, but as it turned out, he couldn't manage at all. the Celtic board had the right idea, but were let down by Ronnie's ineptitude.

09 Feb 2017 22:32:06
I agree with you aindoh we took a gamble with RD and the intentions were in the right place.

But as many have pointed out would BR be so successful at celtic if it wasn't for the previous gaffer's groundwork.

09 Feb 2017 22:06:35
I agree, but Ronnie was there when a few of our best players now were signed. But, we have always had a tendency to be scared of really having a go.

Hopefully we get off our knees and start moving in a direction that sees teams truthfully fear us, as opposed to the pat on the head shite they all troll out.

I think we have and will.

09 Feb 2017 22:10:07
Ronnie was an experiment they knew they would still win the league and a cup but what backfired was CL the fact they had malmo beat at PH and went on to blow it was bad management imo they were well capable of getting there.

09 Feb 2017 23:02:58
Ronnie was the cheap option. He was a gamble that scraped bye by winning the league. He wouldn't have gotten near the job if sevco were in the league. He was a good guy who couldn't turn the job down but he was a mediocre manager at best.

Mr Lawwell gave him the gig as he knew even John Barnes would've won us the league then so gamble paid off. Just. Ok, I ripped it a bit with the John Barnes bit but you get my point!

10 Feb 2017 11:10:57
Rodgers has came out and said we should strengthen from a position of dominance so that will do for me. As long as we see continuous improvement in the team.

10 Feb 2017 11:47:29
marco that's definitely the key. Strengthen from a position of dominance, move so far ahead of the competition that it takes them a lifetime to catch up. HH.

09 Feb 2017 07:33:32
See the debate about reforms are gathering strength, this is somrthing that i have wanted for decades. When BMG had 2 very good goals chopped off at RM for offside in a European Cup Semi.
My ideas for reform is this

1) Video refs to aid in refereeing desisions and give teams chance to refer controversal calls one or two per half or three in a game


2) You would only be offside should there be clear space between you and the last defender, should any part of your torso be level you would be onside. Linesmen would give benifit of the doubt to the attacker and only if a goal is scored would it be checked by the officals for confirmation

3) Yellow cards 10 min sinbin and all cards approved by video ref.

4) Temporary subs for blood injuries team not charged for this substituion.

5) Time keeping kept by the video ref and a stadium clock to show how much time is passed. A seven second time limit to restart play on the field when play has stopped ( free kicks, corners, throw ins, goal kicks) clock stopped after seven seconds and only restarted when play resumes so stopping time wasting. Similar time limit for opponents to retreat to required distance or for goalkeeper to play when ball in hand, use of TV to show 10yd circle that opponents must be outside, failure results in yellow card.

All of these would speed up play and expand the field, defenders would not wish to be caught offside.

09 Feb 2017 13:42:37
Apart from the offside you've pretty much described everything the have in rugby mate.