Celtic Banter Archive September 27 2018

27 Sep 2018 20:45:56
Have Police Scotland not thought this through?
With both games being on same day and both Celtic and Sevco fans travelling fom England and Northern Ireland, the fans will probably be staying in SAME hotels overnight, and travelling on the SAME ferries over from Ulster.
There is the potential for mass brawls all over Glasgow and on the ferries.
I hope I am wrong but I fear the worst.

27 Sep 2018 21:24:29
I posted last night that both semi finals would be played at Hampden with a lunchtime and evening kick-off. oldkilly.

27 Sep 2018 21:41:45
I know this is probably too simple but why didn’t they just move it to a weekend when there’s no EL games?

27 Sep 2018 22:19:51
Timalloy both sets travel from those places if we play them so I don't really see a problem there. Ma problem is it's bad enough playing on a Sunday after a Saturday game on that cow field, how bad is it going to be with just a couple of hours for the groundsmen to do what they can. Our only hope is for a dry week before it or it will be almost impossible to play decent football.

28 Sep 2018 00:03:01
I’d wager there’s a fair chance a number of our fans will head for the bars in and around Hampden before the game and there could be significant numbers of ‘the people’ who have gone to the same bars after their game. What could possibly go wrong?

{Ed007's Note - What if the first game goes to extra time?}

28 Sep 2018 00:25:00
That would obviously make it a lot worse. There could be carnage in that event.

{Ed007's Note - It would be a logistical nightmare.}

28 Sep 2018 10:20:30
I'm sure the officials have been told to make sure Sevco get through in 90 mins lol.

28 Sep 2018 08:30:24
Now Ed, I am sure that the authorities have thought this one out and taken all possibilities into account. There will not be extra time as they have already decided on the match officials.

28 Sep 2018 12:57:12
I am not worried about the football fans as much as I am about the Orange Lodge having a parade the same day . This could lead to tiredness and emotion amongst serving members of Scottish police force . This in turn could lead to strange and wondrous decisions by the coppers and then past experience would indicate a lack understanding for fans wearing Green We could have trouble.

27 Sep 2018 19:10:23
Looks like both games on same day us a 7.45 ko the park will be like a paddy field by then.

27 Sep 2018 19:33:55
Yeah I was thinking the same the pitch will be in some mess.

27 Sep 2018 18:20:41
Evening folks. going to be in Paphos for the Salzburg game and was wondering if anyone knew of a decent bar to go watch it in? Cheers Bhoys and Ghirls.

27 Sep 2018 18:51:29
Buzz bar home of paphos csc.

27 Sep 2018 23:14:02
Five minutes walk from my wee gaff over there.

27 Sep 2018 15:29:38
Hard to believe just read SPFL are seriously considering playing both semi finals on the same day. Yeah let's do that and watch carnage unfold lol.

27 Sep 2018 16:08:30
I read one at Hampden and one at Murryfield.

27 Sep 2018 17:17:58
If folks can't behave themselves its hardly the authorities fault. Every other sport can play double headers. Why not football.

27 Sep 2018 12:00:27
It appears we were very lucky last night after the game.
As all the headlines state "Celtic avoid Sevco"
Yes we were all running scared of meeting a team we have humped umpteen times already in past 3 seasons lol.

27 Sep 2018 13:28:30
It would have been good to get them in the semi's as they won't have a recognised ST available☘HH.

27 Sep 2018 13:31:46
Its always going to be the same Timalloy. Realisticaly we are the best team they have faced and we were all over them. Villareal are a shadow of their former selfs but can see them hammering sevco next tie.

A lot of media seem to forget in league a few teams have a great start then come November they start to fade away. We are weaker than last season but still stronger than rest of league.

27 Sep 2018 23:16:13
'Headlines' and foolish bravado based on lies and delusion, by the hun-press is ideal fuel for Brendan and the Bhoys - as if we needed any more motivation to know what has to be done.
It will take a lot more than the establishment, biased, bigoted media, fake news and fixture jiggery pokery to get in our way.

27 Sep 2018 07:16:47
Right if they switch one of the games to murryfield then it will be ours.

My reasoning behind this is that there is No way they want hearts, Aberdeen and The Rangers fans all hitting the train stations in Edinburgh and Glasgow at the same times.

It's a certainty we will be the ones shafted in this.

27 Sep 2018 08:25:30
How is playing at murrayfield being shafted? Better stadium and better transport links.

27 Sep 2018 08:32:19
100% kev. As soon as l heard it l thought lovely that's Celtic off to murrayfield. Typical anything to try stop Celtic win.

27 Sep 2018 08:44:09
It would make absolute sense for us to go to Murrayfield it's a unique situation that has developed. We shouldn't be moaning about 1 trip to capital when all other clubs travel to Glasgow every year. It's going to be more interesting to see if powers in charge have the balls to make the sensible choice bearing in mind they've only just shunned Murrayfield.

27 Sep 2018 10:28:41
Because hearts have been using murryfield quite a bit in recent years so not years.

27 Sep 2018 10:57:07
kev when was the last time a semi final was played at murrayfield? Dry your eyes and see it's a logical move not bias if it happens. It's not fair to play a match on Saturday for Celtic or rangers so why make 3 sets of fans travel when it's better and more logical to make 2 sets of fans travel?

27 Sep 2018 11:13:18
Jim what has when a semi final was last played there got to do with it?
Hearts played home games there untill November last year.

27 Sep 2018 11:17:22
Careful jim1972, common sense is frowned upon on here ☘HH.

27 Sep 2018 11:35:14
Why take hearts fans out of edinburgh and put rangers and aberdeen fans in edinburgh where they will all meet on transport links getting in and out of edinburgh 🙃. Would it not make sense to keep hearts in edinburgh and rangers in glasgow, that way its only us and aberdeen that travel. Surely that's a victory for common sense 👍☘HH.

27 Sep 2018 11:52:11
Kev did you complain when Celtic rented Hampden years ago and semi/ finals were still played there? Would you complain if Celtic drew Queens park in a semi final? Like I've said it's the logical solution but sadly some like yourself clearly can't see it. What would your solution be as one League match is already being postponed just cancel another match and cause chaos to fans all over the country?

27 Sep 2018 15:56:12
cancelling scheduled games should never be taken lightly. There are supporters who plan holidays etc. with games in mind as well as other family commitments etc.
Some supporters save for years to make that one big trip to watch their team play.

27 Sep 2018 22:39:18
A don't think anyone planned a semi final years in advance when they don't know if we'll even get there let alone the opposition we'll face. I do understand your point but these are exceptional circumstances since a 6 year old club have made the europa league group stages 😀.