Celtic Banter Archive December 19 2017

19 Dec 2017 20:31:20
Saturday's result was coming and is now over. The second last place I'd have wanted our unbeaten run to end. But yesterday's history. Let's get on with winning back to back trebles and giving the Huns a miserable New Year on the 30 December 2017. And if possible signing James McLean who I think could do us a job and as has been said would put a bit of pressure on Sinclair to keep his place. 👍☘️.

19 Dec 2017 22:39:30
Thumb's doon-whits yir point caller? ☘️.

19 Dec 2017 19:43:46
See Celtics charity wing have announced they've raised 230,000 quid for Xmas charities well done all concerned great effort.

19 Dec 2017 16:25:24
So only a matter of weeks ago BR said that January would be an important window for the club and we will look to strengthen. Today Chris Davies says he doesn't expect the club to be busy during the January window. Wtf is going on. Are Brendan and the board in completely different pages?

19 Dec 2017 17:18:10
Unbelievable! Rodgers said January would be our main window in terms of strengthening for the CL qualifiers in the summer.

Why does our board always fail to strengthen from a position of power.

Our transfer business since Rodgers arrival has been border line rubbish. Yes, Sinclair and Demebele have been great but he is mainly working with the squad he inherited. Questions marks still over his other signings; DDV, Gamboa, Hayes, Benyu, Eboue - mainly because he rarely plays them!

When is this board going to repay the fans and manager with some decent investment! I hope they prove me wrong soon!

19 Dec 2017 17:31:36
Just wait and see what happens, window hasn't even opened yet.

19 Dec 2017 18:46:55
The starting price for a young yet experienced footballer who wishes to enter the British market and eventually EPL is now in excess of £10 m . Anything less and unless for the odd individual player we would really not be improving on what we have .

19 Dec 2017 19:26:28
He also said we'd recruit where necessary. Why people are going mad is beyond me. Not even Xmas yet and people have wrote of this transfer window and using half a quote to slang the board and manager.

19 Dec 2017 20:59:50
losing last Sunday has whetted the appetites of those who couldn''t find reason to complain during the 69 match unlosing run . They now have their abuse all stored up and ready to go.

19 Dec 2017 23:20:28
Chris

Got to disagree with you on that. I think for one thing the issues with the lack of defenders BR trusts to play at centre half has been obvious since pre-season. This has been compounded by injuries and poor form of the guys who currently have the jersey. I would replace both for the next game but with who?

Also we get a lot of mixed messages from BR and especially Big Pete. Ed will join me in the “£6 million pound player” nonsense he used to spout every window and then we would end up with the cheap option. BR told us there was no point in a 3rd striker and then Eduard arrives a few weeks later. We were told last winter window we would build for the champions league qualifiers and we only brought in Eboue. Now people are saying that Davies is contradicting BR by saying this will be a quiet window. I don’t expect BR to be right every time but mixed messages at a time where we can all the see the team struggling is going to be annoying especially when it is as plain as the nose on Johnny Hayes face that we need to invest in a decent goalkeeper and a few defenders.

20 Dec 2017 09:57:44
NiallH again you are o my focusing on half of what Davis actually said.
He also said we'd recruit where necessary.
Seems to me he means this squad doesn't need an overhall just a few positions need strengthened.
Which is true.

21 Dec 2017 23:25:23
Niall Just to please u Celtic should have paid £6 m for Compper and then u would have been pleased with B R &P L.

19 Dec 2017 11:36:08
I always enjoy reading the various opinions on this site, but I can't help thinking that some of the reaction to Sundays defeat is a bit over the top.
I've read from some posts that Gordon, Lusting, Boyata, Jozo, Armstrong, Dembele, and even Tierney are not good enough and should be sold on, it almost feels that we are in a relegation battle rather than having just come off a 69 match unbeaten run.
Getting beat was always going to happen at some point, teams that aren't as good as us will always try to find flaws in our game. Hearts pressed us high up the pitch and forced us into making mistakes, it's an area where teams are targeting us lately, but that is what all good teams have to put up with, it doesn't make us a bad team.
Man City are playing some great football at the moment, but I bet that next season teams will have figured out a way to reduce their effectiveness, it won't make Man City a bad team, it's just that teams who can't compete with them for ability will find ways not to be overrun by them.
There is no doubt that we could do with being strengthened in certain areas, you always have to try and keep improving, but I think the magnitude of a 69 match unbeaten run should be considered before ripping apart the team that achieved the feat,

19 Dec 2017 16:06:50
Totally agree with that. We didn't play well and had a bad day at the office. Also thought that the players didn't handle the pitch well as it looked soft and slippy. Nobody would have thought we could achieve a record run like that and four trophies as well as two five one victories against the new Rangers.
We should all get a grip and stop complaining .

19 Dec 2017 17:35:27
The defeat was coming for weeks. The players looked jaded and out of sorts. Some of them have played the 6 qualifiers and a few International games but tiredness is no excuse as we should have had decent cover to rest a few of them. Eric and a few others will be going in January and at the end of the season. A few defenders and a good keeper to challenge CG for the long-term.

19 Dec 2017 18:54:08
To overcome the down turn in our recent form we must return to our high level of pressing all over pitch, from start to finish .
We have missed about 30 days when we could have done intense training, or practised new tactics . Ten and more games played August to December results in 30 lost days. We can't get those back, and so we must do our work on the actual pitch during game .