Celtic Banter Archive January 29 2013

29 Jan 2013 23:40:38
Anyone else think Tom rogic is going to be a massive player for us?

From what I've saw, and heard Aussie reports on him, he could be the stan petrov type mid,

Ska bhoy

Yep. He's already over 6 foot and still growing.

Melb Bhoy

Rogic was the second best player in the A-league this season after the magical Marco Rojas. Celtic are well aware of Rojas dubbed the Kiwi Messi. Rogic is a great player and could be a star.

Dont want to be a dampener, but what player really lives up to his billing of 'the african messi' rabiu ibrahim, and many other before him? answer not very many....celticbhoy

29 Jan 2013 19:28:23
Real Mallorca have announced that they thought they were signing a world class full back . Now it seems they just got Hutton dressed as Lahm........DH {Ed007's Note - That is La Liga just took a serious knock in the 'Best League in the World' stakes, how can it be with Hutton playing in it?}

Also seen ED that Balotelli has signed a deal worth £22 million . Think he's scored around 40 club goals since 2005 . The world really has gone mad .....DH {Ed007's Note - Hopefully he will soon fade into obscurity.}

Good god those poor forwards.They just don't know what they are in for!.........green jhedi

I actually remember him breaking his own leg trying to half a Player in two at Ibrox........DH

29 Jan 2013 17:54:32
Well lads and lassies I took the plunge into twitter yesterday and have been banned today after exchanging tweets with Neil Lennon

I said to him that the domestic form hadn't been food enough, apparent lack of passion in many games. I then pointed out we have dropped 28% of the points we have played for, drawn with Arbroath etc etc.

He dismissed this straight out, fair enough of course but when I mentioned that we had major chunks of luck in the champs league he told me I was talking nonsense.

Correct me if I'm wrong But we got two own goals, a penalty in dubious circumstances and were let through against barca and Moscow with schoolboy errors.

Factually speaking, is anything I've said wrong here? I'm now banned from twitter and feel more than a bit aggrieved as a result.

Jamie mac {Ed007's Note - Stay clear of Twatter Jamie or just use it to express your own thoughts and have a blether/banter. There is far too much brown-nosing and uber-fans waiting to patronise on it. You get dogs abuse if you actually express an original thought of your own.}

Spot on Ed as usaul and Lennon shouldn't be on twitter talking sh*te to fans. He should only talk as an official of our club should. There are some right warmers of Hoops fans on there.

Cheers for that folks, I was beginning to think I'd went crazy with the amount of zombie replies I got.

Info sourcing tool only now because that was crazy that episode earlier.

And it was predominantly facts I was tweeting.

Like I said to Lennon we are all supporters of the club first of all.

Jamie mac(farcical ed really was)

Jac who do you think you are? Ya your a fan just like all of us but and we don't like how many points dropped but that happens get over it. Good on him for blocking you, after all he has been thru don't you think he knows what he is soon, do you think he likes dropping points? He dosent need every fan to have a to when we don't win and you do insult him and the club by saying we were lucky. It is about time we had some luck don't you think? For I don't know how many times we were unlucky in cl and major games, he gives us the best team ion years and has done a major achievement which only 2 managers have made it to in cl besides him and you insult him and say it was all luck, I would be mad too. Relax he will sort things out, we are not going to win every game, how some people forget last year we dropped a lot and made that up by going on a long winning streak. Leave him to it he has enough persons having a go at him on the daily

There is truth in what you discussed but NL would never have agreed with you - even if he too believed it.
In a social network he has to toe the party line or look very foolish and put his own position in extreme jeopardy.
I was disappointed when I saw him on SLY today saying we had a psychological issue with Hampden?!
For a club and support that expects to regularly win trophies and play decisive games at Hampden; it sends out the wrong message to our players and raises a red flag to potential opponents about our apparent Mount Florida-phobia.
We have come up short on a good few occasions over the last 2 domestic campaigns however The Champions League run - lucky or not has papered over the cracks.

JJ

29 Jan 2013 21:35:11
I'm not too good at using with twitter Jamie but do look at it everyday.

I don't 'speak' to footballers or ask for an RT, not really sure what the asking for an RT is supposed to be anyhoo !

I'm not sure what you mean about luck in the CL though or the schoolboy errors. I've been quite pleased with Celtic's performance in the CL ~ Mrs E

If your tweets to Neil Lennon were anything like your usual posts on here, no wonder you're barred!
I wonder if you would have chastised our manager had you bumped into him in public?
We have had exchanges before Jamie Mac, but to be honest - I don't quite know what to make of your post. Are you pissed off you are barred from personter? Or just boastful you chinned our Manager? Or are you just taking things a bit too serious now?
Regardless, its obvious to me that even winning the Champions League will not satisfy you.
Lighten up............kbt1978

30 Jan 2013 09:58:41
Mate the simple fact is its NL's job to know how many games we have failed to win and just about every other stat under the sun. So why when he's on a social media site for a bit of banter would he want some smart arse giving him a headache about how his teams performing. Do you think that's what twitter is for? So you can give him the mastermind treatment after we get beat?

I have to ask the same question as the other post does...who do you think you are? Was it lucky for Celtic when Barca scored with about 10 seconds left of injury time in the nou camp? It's not luck that has got us into the last 16, we deserve to be there. I'm as unhappy as anyone about the result on Sunday believe me but I'm not arrogant enough to think I deserve my own personal Q&A with the manager to air my grievances about it and not expect him to block me.

I see where you are coming from. I am far from happy with what has happy this season. Yes we beat Barca and Lennon has taken credit for that, but he is quick to deflect the blame onto the players when we lose. If he takes credit for wins, he has to be there to be blamed for losses. 2 trophies out of a possible 12 so far, isn't good enough

Samson

@8) Talking nonsense mate, every single time we get beat he says blame me, I can handle the flak. Done it again on Sunday after the game.

@9. Not talking nonsense at all.

This was Lennon anfter sundays game

Celtic manager Neil Lennon believes the Scottish League Cup semi-final defeat by St Mirren is one of the worst of his tenure.

Despite levelling the scores at 1-1, Celtic missed a second-half penalty and the Buddies' 3-2 win secured a final against Hearts.

"That was as poor as we've played this season, " he said. "We were soulless.

"We were poor defensively, half-hearted in midfield, and apart from Gary Hooper going forward, we were tepid."

Esmael Goncalves grabbed the opening goal for St Mirren and Hooper levelled on the stroke of half-time.

Charlie Mulgrew saw his penalty saved and the Paisely outfit capitalised at Hampden.

Continue reading the main story
I'm fed up with the penalties we miss
�

Neil Lennon

Celtic manager
Paul McGowan subsequently netted from the spot and and Steven Thompson netted a volley, with Mulgrew's late strike scant consolation for Lennon.

"There was no leadership and I'm not pointing the finger at Scott Brown for that at all, " said Lennon.

"St Mirren played the way I expected them to. I got a response from the players at half-time, but the turning point was the two penalties - I didn't think either of them were.

"At the end of the day, we missed ours and Paul McGowan scored theirs and we ended up chasing the game. The third goal was awful and there was no reaction - the players were playing their own game and I'm bitterly disappointed with them today."

Lennon was critical of Mulgrew's spot-kick miss and said it proved to be a key factor in the defeat.

"As soon as we missed the penalty, we lost our way again, " said Lennon. "We got a break with the penalty and we missed it.

"I'm fed up with the penalties we miss: Mulgrew, who is one of the best dead ball players in Britain, decided to side-foot it and I expected him to whip it low and hard into the corner.

"Maybe it's playing here (at Hampden), maybe we'll just not bother getting to semi-finals or finals if that's the way they want to play, because they've blown it - we've blown it.

"We had a great opportunity to get to a final again, and that's as bad as we've played for a long time under me; I'm struggling to find the answers

Samson

Well played there Samson, too many think they can get away with saying what they want without substantiating it.

P, s glad someone else is near to my wavelength

Jamie mac

Samson what another joker to go with jam, when did Lennon every say give me all the praise?? He always says that the players played thier hearts out and showed thier class. Stop with your hate with nl maybe yous are rankers in disguise, for nl is a players manager if you don't know just like mo was, stop saying he takes all the credit and never the blame. And you go and paste lines from the media to back you up, that's even more pathetic for if yous are a true fan you know how they act twords him, just like you didn't post what he said about his thoughts you guys are jokes as fans. . Hey off his back and check your head

So your blocked from tw@@ter, wish you were blocked from here.
Tambhoy

Ha Ha - so f@%*king true!. . . . . . kbt1978

29 Jan 2013 17:23:11
Here's a quote from the STV website Football Talk . " Let's just nail our colours to the mast from the off . Football talk doesn't believe it to be the full truth, but the STV sport team doesn't contain a single supporter of Scotland's biggest side or that other lot in the east end of Glasgow . One team member did a secret fist pump when Kilmarnock won the cup last year . Another did "the Beattie" as he came into the office today after another victorious cup semi final win for his side " . Sounds like a great place to work . Wonder if Big Raman runs their supporters bus........DH

Don't even know where to start with this one.

Infact, who cares...F*ck STV

Well im..im. shocked! Rangers media partners are anti Celtic? I also heard bears sh*t in the woods and the Pope may be a catholic!.............green jhedi

The various STV studios are always blue lit. The text on their website is always pro rangers spin.

This is common knowledge and you can tell by many things like the running order of football reports, the tone of voice variation, the content of story, the refusal to admit 'Rangers' are DEAD; Oh and the way Rahman Badsash says Selteeek!

JJ

The world really is against celtic... isn't it time for the paranoia to stop?

BigBear

Fraser wishart, derek johnstone,
gordon dalziel, ian mccoll.derek ferguson, craig paterson, neil mccann,
billy dodds, etc all on radio and tv as pundits, throw in (blue tie)john mackay, raman bardwash, rob mclean
david tanner and jim white, says it all
dosen, t it and before those on the other side come back with davie provan, andy walker, murdo mcleod,
craig burley, they are far from complimentary towards celtic always, in my opinion, putting us down.and I forgot to mention the biggest wee (p---k) of them all pat nevin.jimbhoy

29 Jan 2013 16:40:28
does anyone know were forrest is? is he injured or what?

Hamstring went again after he scored after coming off the bench against Ross County on the 22nd of December.

He will be out for another month maybe more.

29 Jan 2013 14:42:33
Still see Celtic Fans posting to DR hotline, when are they going to realize that they will print any rubbish that goes against our club. They have an agenda don't give them fuel.

29 Jan 2013 14:05:33
Ed I'am getting the feeling we are going to loose wanyama and hooper with no replacements because lawell selling and the board see the last 16 as a bonus and getting through to the last 8 would be good but they aren't bothered as they see the squad as good enough to win the league without these two

Says who?Everytime I read a quote from Lenny he's saying they don't want to sell but every player has a price.To me that isn't a guarantee one or both will be going now.If the bids come in then they have a decision to make but until they do I will stay relaxed.We have a good record of finding gems at the moment so i'm sure John Park has been working wonders over the last few months and we will have players lined up just in case.I have trust in Lawwell, Lenny and most of all our scouting system.

Jungle Bhoy.

29 Jan 2013 02:47:32
Hello ed I've not posted for a while but I totally enjoy your work big guy keep it up!.Just on the playing front I've been concerned for some time now that we don't have a genuine "game changer" along the lines of a lubo moravcik someone to open up teams when all else seems lost.I just wonder if maybe Tomas rogic could be that guy?.ive heard he's burnin up the training games. any thoughts pal?

stef67 {Ed007's Note - Hi Stef, nice to hear from you and thanks. I am in total agreement about the type of player we are needing, we lack a creative spark in the middle of the park going into the final third. I don't want to say Rogic is the answer after being burned by the stories about Ibrahim.}

29 Jan 2013 10:41:36
Happy birthday Davie Hay.
65 today.

Jungle Bhoy.

Exactly the type of player we need at the moment! I remember the Silent Assassin, what a tackler. When Davie hit anyone they stayed hit..........green jhedi

Great memories of watching davie. I saw a picture tonight taken after we beat rangers in 71 cup final replay. amazing team. 6 lions, mcneil, craig, johnstone, wallace, lennox and murdoch. others were, dalglish, hay, mcgrain, quinn, connolly, macari, hood and williams. a year after they had been in ec final and within 3 years they would reach 2 semis. losing on penalties once and being kicked off the park in the other. only wallace, williams and hood were bought in, wow. davie hay was a big part of that fantastic team.
yorkiebhoy.

Forgot jim brogan, unlike everyone he ever tackled.
yorkiebhoy.

29 Jan 2013 08:50:08
Anyone know what's happening with rogic? Not hear much from him

I would think the boy is going through the Sports science thing just now.He has only been here five minutes.........green jhedi

He's been here 5mins. didn't have a work permit until the cup game if i'm not mistaken. And I sure as heck would be pee'd off if I lost my place in a semi final to a player that's just signed.

Give it time.

MgC

Never mind rogic what the hell has happened to tony watt he, s barely been sighted since the barcelona game is he injured or fallen out of favour.jimbhoy.