Celtic Banter Archive September 24 2018

24 Sep 2018 23:05:06
Kris Boyd coming out and saying Celtic is predictable but Brendan Rodgers won't change it. The teams have us sussed out. I think that's probably the best thing to happen maybe Brendan needs to read what players in the league think of us (him) in order for us to change things. The tactics worked winning a double treble but it isn't anymore. Hopefully that article will humble him and we see a different approach from now onwards.

{Ed007's Note - So we're listening to Kris Boyd now? Maybe we should get him in as manager if he knows so much, maybe even just to coach the strikers eh?}

25 Sep 2018 09:14:13
Birds a fecking moron, whose got on the delusion train. The truth is simple. We are out of form all over the park. We have less options to change it after the window, but we still have enough to do it. All it needs is the players we have to step up to the plate. Take all the rubbish being written and spoken and yes that as motivation to ram it down their throats.

If they think it’s over they are even more gullible that I thought. And believe me that was total.

25 Sep 2018 11:07:57
Said it before it's the game plan, if money was no object say we signed wanyama and van dijk and lakaku probably cost us upwards of 170-180m do you think with the 70% of our possession pass pass pass rubbish sitting in our own defence these players would make a massive difference I'm not too sure they would in fact I'm positive they wouldn't, the players are paid enough they should be thrashing the rest of the spfl easy but they are not they turned Up against rangers though which tells me there may be issues within the squad and the manager that's what needs fixed and the tactics if they get fixed we will start smashing teams again when Brendan managed Swansea they played fast attacking football 433 formation really good to watch this is not how Brendan like to play its very strange.

25 Sep 2018 12:17:12
I read an article by a Darren Coney earlier about celtic. (I usually don't read the daily rectum but I was bored in the hospital ) . It's like a rangers fanzines article. These guys don't even try to hide what they are anymore. Celtic have hit a bad patch whilst rangers are winning and doing well for a few games and the world's great but when celtic are winning everything scottish footballs pish! We will get our act together and this blip will be forgotten when we win the league. Celtic have lost only 6 games in the league since Brendan took charge. We haven't lost any domestic cup games yet it's a crisis!

25 Sep 2018 13:28:48
Personally the players are where I’m pointing my finger .
The vast majority have been there long enough to know their role in the team . for me Brown, Teirney, Boyata, are among the very few pulling their weight .
The biggest culprits are simunovic and Sinclair who have gave very little return in over a season now . that’s too long to be called off form .

24 Sep 2018 19:13:53
I can't remember being in such a bad mood for ages. The family, the dog and anybody that looks at me the wrong way are getting pelters. Mon the hoops sort yourselves out and let me be nice to everyone again.

{Ed007's Note - Taking it out on the dog's going a bit far, Ged, he'll be feeling your pain too mate 🐶

24 Sep 2018 19:38:39
Bad crack with the Dug agreed Ed. 👍☘️.

{Ed007's Note - Wee Yoda knows when things aren't going well with the Hoops.}

24 Sep 2018 20:05:45
So does ma wee main man and Jack Russell oor Michael Ed 👍☘️.

{Ed007's Note - It's weird how they can sense your mood and act accordingly towards you.}

24 Sep 2018 20:13:56
Ed it’s absolutely amazing he knows what I’m thinking and when I’m not too great. I’d a stroke three years ago and ever since he licks my right side. I love him to bits and dread the day anything happens to him. Never trust a man that changes his football team or doesn’t love animals! 👍.

{Ed007's Note - Yoda likes to jump up on people's legs, it's as if he's going to hump their leg but all he does is cuddle it and I'm the only person he's never done it to, not once, You take care of yourself, JFP 🙏

24 Sep 2018 20:25:55
Hope you two don't fall asleep horny in front of your dugs and they sense that🙈.

{Ed007's Note - Ffs DRB, Yoda's only 6! Behave yourself ya freak! 😋

24 Sep 2018 20:52:40
Totally agree and think we are all on a downer these days, - wondering when the real Celtic will eventually turn up.
It's obvious we have been spoiled rotten for a while now and it's very unsettling and disappointing watching the way we have been playing (or not playing) with so many players well below par.
The biggest worry for me is the managers demeanor and apparent inability to motivate or rectify the most obvious of problems and his interview after the game was very matter of fact; almost defeatist and he seems to have lost his enthusiasm and appetite?
We all know that there was real friction between him and Lawell during the window and the after-shock from the CL exit and transfer window debacle has really rocked the club to the core.
We all hope we sort ourselves out, improve performances and get back to winning ways, but I feel we are currently missing the managers spark and confident swagger and it's filtering through.

25 Sep 2018 09:17:50
Agreed about lovingyour animals. The older I get, my hatred of people who are cruel to them has become pathological.

24 Sep 2018 14:22:02
Not football related but any plumbers/ gas engineers etc I'm looking for some advice.
Looking at buying a house and seen one with warm air heating and water storage unit as opposed to modern combi boiler. I'm not sure how old the system and/ or house is exactly but just wondered if this should be avoided or if it's economical etc? Thanks Hail Hail.

{Ed007's Note - If it's what I'm thinking about my wee mate is in a private let across the road from me and his heating (is it storage heaters?) costs him a fortune to run.}

24 Sep 2018 14:44:40
No not electric storage heaters ed. It's warm air through vents throughout the house.

{Ed007's Note - 👍

24 Sep 2018 14:47:33
Some people like the warm air as it’s instant heat mate and the house is usually designed for warm air not so good if there is any rooms without a vent! Warm air units still get fitted mate and you can still get parts for them despite what the cowboys that are the gasboard will tell you! Warm air heats up fast mate but wouldn’t be as economical as a modern boiler.

24 Sep 2018 15:07:48
@henrik avoid any place with storage heaters as ED007 says, also with these older un renovated houses the amount of work needed doing is prohibitive, just installing central heating alone will cost upwards of £3k depending on size of house.
My advice is keep looking.

24 Sep 2018 15:20:34
Ed and Campsie Bhoy Keeping Fellow TIMS and Their Families Warm Cost Effectively! 👍😂☘️ PS: was down your neck of the woods for Mass yesterday CB.

24 Sep 2018 15:51:03
Cheers Bhoys. Like I say it's not storage heaters which cost a fortune to run, however its a water storage unit. I don't really understand all that and someone has told me it would be best to rip it out and replace with a water CH system with combi boiler. Which will obviously cost a few grand. Should I ask PL for a loan? Or Close Bros?

24 Sep 2018 15:55:19
If it is that type of system Henrik I would imagine that it airs/ serves the entire block? If there is no gas cooker in your kitchen you would need to check the property itself is served with gas or can be

As a Landlord your options could and will be limited if it serves more than one property mate.

24 Sep 2018 16:28:04
No its a detached house Jamie with a gas cooker. For some reason it's just not got gas CH so wondered if there are many drawbacks of warm air heating and water storage tank compared to a combi boiler.

24 Sep 2018 16:50:51
JFP a was there today for a wee wonder I will be there for next month on October day! It wouldn’t be cheap mate to put in a new wet system as you would need new radiators boiler and pipes. What did home report say about it mate did it say it was working?

24 Sep 2018 17:17:38
Very old heating idea. It's a dry warm air pushed through the house. No ideal if anyone has allergies.

Cheap to run would check you can still get components. As local authorities ripped them out and replaced with combi. Very few components in them .

If it was me buying house I would rip out and install a combi.

24 Sep 2018 17:24:39
CB I’ll be there in October too for the crowning Mass and I’ll identify myself! 😂👍☘️.

24 Sep 2018 19:05:50
Not a heating engineer bud but I’m a sparky. Anything that uses electricity for heating and hot water is going to cost more than gas. There are some really good warm air systems out there obv don’t know what you have. Storage heating is being faded out bhoys there are far better alternatives now such as intellirads that are oil filled and customise to the environment they are fitted.

24 Sep 2018 19:18:49
Just read you have gas in property no brainer central heating system n boiler bud.

{Ed007's Note - I remember when I was wee and we had to put an electric switch (called an emerger or something) on hours before we wanted a bath or that - it was caveman stuff in Fairhill back in the day 😁
Once there was a team of us dogging school in my mate's house with a carry-out to watch a bootleg copy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and the lecky boy came to read the meter and my mate's dad had a metal spike up through the meter to stop it turning, even the pub down the bottom of my street got done about 4/5 years ago for running their lecky off the street light supply, you'd make a fortune in my scheme Welshy lol

24 Sep 2018 19:36:23
Electric heating costs Approx 13-16 per kWh (unit) . Gas costs about 4.5p per kWh. Gas is about 4 times cheaper to run. A combination will pay for itself in about 2 3 years.

{Ed007's Note - Big Benny touting for business on here instead of pestering folk on the phone.....

24 Sep 2018 19:43:22
Ed it was an immercor which was shorthand for immersion heater I had wan tae 👍😂☘️.

{Ed007's Note - They were brutal man 😂

24 Sep 2018 19:45:25
thats ancient heating the warm air units. i thought they where all condemned. it il cost a few bucks to put a new central heating system in.

24 Sep 2018 19:46:32
Haha my uncle stayed in possil and sussed our if you put nail varnish remover over the old cards covers the 3 holes the meter stamped on them made aright few quid between that and ripping the copper out of empty closes 😂.

{Ed007's Note - 😂😂

24 Sep 2018 20:13:33
My Granda used to use an auld photograph negative in the side of the meter and it slowed the cycle of the wheel in the meter right down 😝 if the leccy man ever chapped the door the dug would go tonto and tell him he needed to put the dug away for his protection gave him plenty of time to get the negative out from the side of the meter 😂😂👍.

{Ed007's Note - My dad would have been all over anything like that and probably knew all the dodges but there's no way my mum would ever have let him do anything dodgy in the house. I've heard stories of people using a lollipop stick as well, and a magnet.}

24 Sep 2018 20:40:54
used be able turn gas meters round get free gas but yu need know what your doing lol.

{Ed007's Note - On my second day as an engineer an old boy showed me the exact steel and machining to make 'fake' pound coins that worked in cigarette and vending machines, sadly not puggies though. A Friday night at Hamilton Palace stocked me up for fags all week 😎
Are you still in Egypt? Why the name change?}

24 Sep 2018 21:16:12
We don't need heating in ma hoose the way celtic are playing the now there's constantly steam coming out ma ears.

{Ed007's Note - That's just the steam from the pish that comes out your mouth escaping.

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24 Sep 2018 21:23:59
Gas heating installer to trade . Very old system by the sounds of it and honestly would benift from a new install . Save money in the long run.

24 Sep 2018 21:31:28
Still in Egypt bud back sat night so miss the sheep game 😬
Name change was while back couldn’t log on for some reason.

{Ed007's Note - Now it's back to your normal name!!

24 Sep 2018 21:32:35
Haha I’ve just seen it’s pickimg me up as both logins lol so who knows what going on 😂.

{Ed007's Note -

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25 Sep 2018 07:56:46
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24 Sep 2018 12:50:16
All 9 out of contract in summer. what to do . imo
De vries. let go
Lustig. replacement needed but if he agreed give another short contract as cover
Boyata. let go
Gamboa. let go
Izzy . let go
Forrest . keep
Allen . let go
Brown. keep
Christie. keep
Also who would you let/ like to join them . imo
Hendry
Commper
Simunovic
Kouassi
Sinclair
Rogic
Hayes
Benyu
Ntcham. only because I think his head isn't set on being here long term . particularly after seeing his pal dembele getting big money move
Left out biton as injured.
I know that's most of our squad but it leaves room to fill in quality replace ment where we know for years have been needed
Gk. Gordon
Rb. newbie
C/ def Ajer.
C/ see newbie
Lb. tierney
Forrest
McGregor
Brown
Morgan
Odds on
Gruff
Squad. Bain lustig Arzani Johnstone mulumba Christie
Not really a lot needed just strengthen rb. c/ def×2 playmaker but would we buy the quality needed?
Anyway that killed a boring start to Monday morning for me.

24 Sep 2018 14:01:59
Add Peter Lawell to the top of that list.

24 Sep 2018 19:04:31
We have more than good enough players to win the SPL, but is that our manager's primary objective, it seems to me he wants more respect from P L and maybe even
D D . In my humble opinion a string of wins using players he and Congerton have signed will win him all the respect he yearns for.

24 Sep 2018 10:48:51
Well I thought I’d leave posting until I calmed down from yesterday lol. yesterday was like watchn a repeat of mostly every game we have played this season, Hamilton hearts Killie st Mirren suduva Rosenborg. we have become so predictable and clueless it’s actually scary! The transfer window was a disaster and it cost us the CL, as did players throwing toys out the pram and it not getting dealt with in the correct manner! Our whole squad has went stale and a blind man could see it need freshening up in the summer. the most worrying thing to me over all is that Brendan doesn’t seem to have that spark that was there before and to me looks and sounds like a guy who’s is totally scunnered! There is time to turn this round and like ED said on the live chat it’s only September lol. but i’ll Be honest and say I had major worries before the season started about the direction our clubs going and what’s happened since only confirms that. if there’s ever a time to put a winning run of games together it’s now, starting on Wednesday in the cup! If not then this will very quickly become a crisis! Really hope I’m way off and we get our season back on track with a convincing victory on Wednesday!

24 Sep 2018 12:40:19
We have all been waiting for that spark and jolt back to the form and performance we know they are capable of, but the disruption and disharmony of the last three months seems to have affected everyone.
There were glimpses of improvement before the International break, but that seems to have affected/ hampered some players even more.
Thankfully, it is still very early in the season and a couple of good results and performances will boost confidence and trigger recovery.

24 Sep 2018 19:51:07
Don't allow sentimentality and the feel good factor from previous seasons stand in the way of this season's success . We cannot win SPL in September/ October but we can certainly lose it and that is looking increasingly possible . To lose a goal to an average SPL game in the 93rd min and when that goal uses the match. Leaves us with no option but to think our players re not properly motivated .

24 Sep 2018 07:48:30
After another mediocre performance yesterday there's a few things for me that needs addressed. Firstly ( and I'm not trying to single out one player) but what has happened to Sinclair? That guy has went from a player of the year 2 seasons ago to a player I don't think even rodgers recognises. Secondly, Brendan now after most games this season talks about no tempo, too many passes across the park, no intensity to our play etc etc. this is happened every game so far this season other than the Sevco game so why if rodgers continually speaks of this does it continue to happen? Thirdly sitting looking at our squad of players last night, de vries, gamboa, hendry, jozo, ( boyata wants out) , lustig, benyu, Hayes, kouassi, Christie, Morgan, comper, Allan, Sinclair, to name but a few should all be told to find new clubs. Easier said than done I know but we need a massive clear out and the guys I've mentioned bring nothing to the team. There's guys I've mentioned been at the club 2/ 3 years and done nothing and clearly aren't fancied so we must get rid. Our wage bill is near on £60 million, by getting rid of the names I've mentioned we massively reduce our squad and reduce the wage bill slowing us to bring in this QUALITY NOT QUANTITY that Brendan bangs in about.

24 Sep 2018 10:05:41
The squad 'maintenance and control' has gone to pot in the past two years with far too many players that are not up to it, or not trusted to be given a run, while some of our better players have been sold without being replaced with similar or better standard.
The majority of that list above would not be missed tomorrow, while unfortunately other regular first team players have, so far performed way below what they can.
Some have said complacency had set-in after the 'Invincible', then double-treble seasons and I can understand that to a point, but I can't understand the persistence with the sideways passing, slow play and lack of urgency and tempo - every single game - giving opponents encouragement, time and space to nullify our attack.
BR (like the rest of us) was obviously disappointed after the 'window' and the CL exit; but he has seemed to have also lost a lot of the enthusiasm and motivation that got us this far?
However, absolutely no point dwelling on somethings that can't be reversed, addressed, or improved until the new year.
I have mentioned before, the staleness in tactics, the playing of off-form players and our very poor dead-ball choices and delivery and these things should be hammered home in training as clearly the back-room staff and players need to get back to basics, fast.
The confidence and consistency will only return with hard work.

24 Sep 2018 10:11:58
Morgan's only just signed! I'm not happy how things are going but give players a chance at least.

24 Sep 2018 11:06:02
Morgan may have just signed fair enough, is he a player that can drive us on? I’m no sure but your right he deserves a chance. That’s one player out the list I’ve mentioned. The point I’m making is we’re definitely short in certain areas which everyone including Brendan knows but the amount of dead wood at the club right now is frightening and we cannot continue to stock pile players that aren’t fit to wear the jersey. The majority of that list I posted above need shipped out.