Celtic Banter Archive February 13 2016

13 Feb 2016 19:28:13
Win is a win!

But again that was an immense struggle to watch.

At times County passed and moved better than us and that just proves how much we are not progressing.

Seriously worried that this is going to be our level for many years to come.

13 Feb 2016 19:58:45
This will be our level as long as Ronnie is picking the team, why were'nt Allan and Christie not even on the bench.

13 Feb 2016 20:26:10
Good job it's not you either aindoh. Scott Allan with his 8 professional career goals. Would have had Ross County trembling.

13 Feb 2016 21:39:10
Dataset, magners both disappointing sponsors for us. Aindoh this will be our level!

13 Feb 2016 21:58:15
I would'nt want Allan or Christie to be in the team primarily as goalscorers, I would have them in the team to inject some creativity, but I don't think Ronnie will do so, his reputation for giving younger players a chance is exaggerated, maybe he had to do it at Stromsgodset, because they were starting from a low position, but here he is too conservative and afraid to drop the more established players.

13 Feb 2016 23:01:12
Of the two, I'd take Christie over Allan everyday of the week.

13 Feb 2016 23:02:43
Happy with the result but unroll after the 2nd goal the performance was hard to watch.

14 Feb 2016 05:08:52
I don't consider Allan as young to be honest aindoh. I also agree with you that I'd like to see Christie get game time. Definitely ahead of Allan for creativity, PP. But I really don't think you can go dropping too many established players. I'd actually say we need experienced players right now.

14 Feb 2016 09:43:57
Jim Tim if all you have in your team are youngsters then that's who you play. I watched the Posh v West Brom. It was a team full of youngsters but the manager was not giving them a game. That was his team. That's the players he has. It was the same for Stromgrast, Ronnie wasn't developing these players at the expense of dropping seasoned pros, that was his team. Christie, Allen, why did we even buy them? They are no better than we already have. Is the strategy to buy average Scottish players so other teams can't get them? Our recruitment is a joke.

14 Feb 2016 10:16:39
Allan is older than Neymar.

14 Feb 2016 10:48:41
Thats why we need a DoF johnny. Not a "head of youth develipment" masquerading as one.

14 Feb 2016 11:37:28
I would play Allan and Christie together, it's these 'established' players that have been responsible for some of the god awful performances this year, why do some players seem to be guarenteed a team place no matter how bad they're playing?

14 Feb 2016 12:27:12
Where aindoh? Allan is a CM. Regardless of form there's no way he's getting in there ahead of Brown or Bitton.

14 Feb 2016 13:22:15
As we all agree, it was a relief to get back to winning ways in the league and 3 points, plus a rare clean sheet was very important.
However, it is pretty obvious, we are clearly not playing as well as we should and there is a lack of confidence and assurance on and off the pitch these days and we need a spark from somewhere?

14 Feb 2016 18:43:27
It's so easy for any of us to say we would play any combination of attacking or whatever players, as at the end of the day you don't have to face the consequences of it not coming off . R D is in the real world he has to carefully access what he has and who to play to get him the right result . In fairness to RD after the unfortunate results against R C and Aberdeen he didn't lose his nerve and gamble on success, he did the right thing and stuck by with those he could trust . That's probably why he manages a team at the top of the SPL and the rest of us dream about it.

14 Feb 2016 19:12:18
Thats what's holding Ronnie back, Old Bhoy, fear of failure.

14 Feb 2016 19:24:25
Aindoh, desire to succeed, is also very valuable, anything is better than an idiot picking names out of the squad without fear or desire.

14 Feb 2016 20:29:53
Thats explains it better, Ronnies desire to succeed is in conflict with his fear of failure, I mean is constrained by his fear of failure, I mean, his desire to succeed is now irrelevant, I am afraid fear of failure rules all Ronnies team selections now.

15 Feb 2016 01:24:02
Aindoh, that seems to me to be pure stupid . R D definitely still has the desire to win and that is why he chooses the team he considers will give him his best option. If fear or desire to please were his foremost thoughts he would opt for a stupid untried inexperience set - up like Allen and Christie and play Robert as well.
Instead he makes the brave decision to pick the players he knows will do the best job for him.

15 Feb 2016 17:09:29
Its all there in front of our eyes Oldbhoy, the East Kilbride game was the perfect oppurtunity to give some of the 'untried' players a full game, but Ronnies fear of failure, meant he could't risk non first team regulars to beat a team of part timers, even though they are not first team regulars, they are highly paid professional footballers, if that's not fear on Ronnies part I don't know what you call it.

16 Feb 2016 00:36:00
Aindoh, I your wee world of hatred of R D, I am not surprised by u not having an alternative to what you say he has .
I think he showed concern for the future of his young stars by not exposing them to play against an experience team of cloggers on a very dangerous artifical pitch.
He had and the youngsters had very little to gain from playing against East Kilbride . If he played them and Celtic won by a few goals, he would have been told, nothing gained as they would be expected to beat E K, but if one or two suffered injury R D would have been correctly slated.

13 Feb 2016 17:37:20
Good win today, can kick on from this with almost everyone fit. let's see what the SMSM spin on this result will be and how the Alloa result is reported on. (I. e. Will it be ignored? ) Watch this space!

13 Feb 2016 18:05:58
Think there was a flurry of snow at Alloa`s goal.SMSM no doubt carry a headline. Warbs. worried that playing games during snow flurry could lead to players suffering from snow blindness in there later years.

13 Feb 2016 18:24:12
They will probably put a picture of the guy who made the decision to narrow the park on the front page of the red tops, no doubt with horns, tail and trident photo shopped on. Would not be surprised to see his address printed as well.

13 Feb 2016 15:50:59
Get in there! c'mon the hoops.

13 Feb 2016 14:46:56
Awryt ed. is ther ah prob wif robocop for celtic game today? . tried clickn into it but says error? . i don't have twatter to ask the bhoy either lol

HH

chris1888.

{Ed007's Note - I think he chucked it because it wasn't worth the hassle.}

13 Feb 2016 14:54:19
No probs ed. is ther another link u use maye with quality pic? . i usually find it on frontrow but poor pic.

HH

Chris1888.

{Ed007's Note - I've no idea what I'm doing now lol I've got it but don't know where it's from.}

13 Feb 2016 15:01:05
U need tae tell me QUICK! Lol am getn diff matches on celtic links!

HH

Chris1888.

{Ed007's Note - I'm just watching it on my laptop now.}

13 Feb 2016 15:52:26
Ah managed to get it ed. still poor pic but itl do. fank fek. any chance of gtn this bhoy back on robocop or him giving u the details to do it. i kno u lyk ah bit of confrontation when people moan when stuff doesn't go ryt. soonds perfect 4 u lol

HH

Chris188i.

{Ed007's Note - Hopefully he'll start doing it again when things calm down.}

13 Feb 2016 16:24:19
What wis the problem wif him ed? . people moanin aboot celtic games? .

HH

Chris1888.

{Ed007's Note - It's not just him there's a lot of the add-on developers getting pi$$ed off with people moaning but especially with other developers stealing their work to make £ out of folk.}

13 Feb 2016 18:45:23
I know it is a bit late but you an also get it on p2p4u. net.

13 Feb 2016
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13 Feb 2016 09:41:57
Celtic roundabout.
before end of summer transfer window. RD "we'l bring in players who r better than wat we got". end of transfer window. 1 player out of 5 hold down a 1st team place and "ah we'l get a better quality in JANUARY! window"because"we can't compete with english market". january tranfer window "ah its a hard window to deal with . no1 wants 2 lose best players" we'l do it in the summer! ""we can't compete with english market". deja vu anyone?

13 Feb 2016 11:11:12
Same season on season mate. Quality over quantity and that. I honestly can't see why the board don't see sense in spending 6m on one player as oppsed to 6m on 3-4 players. Throw wages into the equation and it probably makes it even worse. NL said the same. I think the head coach gets stringed along just as much as us you know. PL said himself if the club sees value in a 7-8m player we'll do it. Now those in the recruitment side of things clarly aren't fit for purpose as plenty of other clubs can find value for that much.

13 Feb 2016 11:19:06
Belfast Celt or anyone. Can you name a signing under rd that's been a success. I genuinely can't think of one.

13 Feb 2016 11:24:50
I don't mind the 2-4 million mark being spent on players because there are plenty good players to be found at that price but I do think they need to raise the wage cap to attract these players.

13 Feb 2016 13:27:22
No not 1 signing for me buddy! The man is out of his depth but the main proplem is dd and the board. it almost as if they are trying to hold us back on purpose so when that team rangers come up, it will be competitve and we won't be 2 far infront of them so the can make more money of the back of it.

13 Feb 2016 13:37:55
Gary, why mention RD and signings?

13 Feb 2016 17:08:22
Because the original post mentioned rd and transfer window and it was a genuine question to see if anyone could name one. Even if you feel it's not relevant to the original post I would still be interested to see if anyone could name one successful signing since rd took over.

13 Feb 2016 18:28:46
Just Denayer really lol. The rest still have a lot to prove. Are you suggesting RD picks and sanctions the signings? Not sure what your angle was that's all.

13 Feb 2016 18:55:42
Not suggesting that at all. Was a genuine question as he came in late last summer so starting from last Jan he's had 3 full Windows and a lot of players have been signed and I can't honestly think of one succes. Denayer was a good signing had forgotten about him there is one good signing. Anyone else. It's not a direct dig at rd it's a genuine concern as to what is happening. I'm not a rd fan but he is clearly lawells puppet and we need to start signing quality players instead of spouting money on constant failures.

13 Feb 2016 20:23:53
Well we're just signing projects aren't we. The ones that do turn out to develop are replaced by other projects. The whole system is flawed. How can you progress like that? It doesn't matter who the head coach is when that's the way we operate. Utterly pointless.

Didn't mean to come across so defensive but to answer your question properly. Not many at all. But with timing of things etc there's a few signings under RD still have a lot to show. Janko has potential, Simunovic needs to stay fit, Christie looks talented. Just hypothetical ifs and buts though.

13 Feb 2016 20:59:56
It is just that mate. A guy posted yesterday his and his
Mates ideal starting 11. It
Consisted of a new gk. Simo jankco christie Allan and Roberts. That's how far back we have fallen. Clutching at straws that the guys who haven't been found out yet will be the answer. I'm not suggesting these guys will be found out but as you say we are reduced to clutching at straws. I wasn't having a direct pop at rd I just could not name one succes I had forgotten about Jason so I will give the club that one for now. But how far back must we fall before something changes. And in my eyes that has to be the manager as well. He is just a cheap option like almost all of our signings.

13 Feb 2016 21:05:52
When kids from Man City come in and improve us, and from what I've seen of Roberts he will do too, it says it all.

13 Feb 2016 22:55:50
Boyata guidetti lol.

14 Feb 2016 10:12:29
The whole financial model is killing the club. Why buy Allen and Christie anyway. They won't improve the team. Then we play 1 up front so no striker apart from Griffiths gets a game. So we will never develop another striker because we play Griffiths every game. No one signed last season or this season has made an impact. That's about 20 players in, that's 2 teams of outfield players and not 1 has impressed. You couldn't make it up!

14 Feb 2016 19:00:40
If Allan and Christie develop, they will improve the team as it is the quality of the attacking mid field players that support the one attacker that is very important.

13 Feb 2016 08:07:59
Just bought one of those android boxes and still trying to figure out the best links to watch footy, movies etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Time to cancel sly!

{Ed001's Note - Kodi is the first thing you should download, there is a thread halfway (or a bit further) down on the android site we have with instructions to add the Wookie add on to it and that will give you pretty much everything you need.}