Celtic Banter Archive January 29 2014

 

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29 Jan 2014 23:46:27
I wonder if all the people willing to give Leigh Griffiths a chance at Celtic would feel the same if it was Nacho Novo or would their bigotry not accept that?

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Can you please explain the question? You've totally lost me. Novo is pish surely that's the only reason

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{Ed007's Note - To be fair so is Griffiths!}

Interesting post from nameless person why would we sign nacho novo too old now but this is coming from I assume a newco fan who's oldco club had a non catholic signing policy took eggs benedict off there menu and banned green straws at the asbestos arena so where is your point in your totally clueless irrelevant moronic statement there

ab

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{Ed007's Note - I don't think you can blame Novo for any of that.}

True Ed. I don't want Griffiths he doesn't excite me but if we sign the boy I'll get behind him. I'd rather give Balde a run of games, the big man got in plenty of good positions tonight when he came on

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{Ed007's Note - What are you trying to say here, getting behind Griffiths would excite you?}

Haha poor word choice on my part

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{Ed007's Note - I was going to put you down for a Leigh Griffiths calendar.}

@Ed do you think Novo would score 20odd goals with hibs or any other spl club?, ., .kbarry

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{Ed007's Note - No and I don't think Griffiths would do it again either.}

No need Ed but thanks anyway, I've got 11 months left on the Lennon calendar.

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{Ed007's Note - Is that without counting pages that are stuck together?}

30 Jan 2014 07:04:41
Last a heard Novo was a catholic so what bigotry?
Why would the top team in the country sign a player that isn't getting a game anywhere let alone scoring goals anywhere . To compare the signing of Scotland's Poty to the signing of a guy who was trying to get a game with cambuslang rangers, laughable

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29 Jan 2014 23:37:01
Nearly choked there listening to Mourinho complaining about West Ham players time wasting and simulation.
He obviously has a selective memory and is only getting what he deserves
67Coatbridge

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29 Jan 2014 23:18:33
Ed or anyone else heard who we have bid for? Maybe £6m for messi

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{Ed007's Note - I'm trying to find out Daz.}

29 Jan 2014 22:28:03
Ed, any idea who the player is Lennon says they have bid for?

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{Ed007's Note - Sorry Tam I do not but I'm trying to find out.}

29 Jan 2014 22:14:54
4goals at home another clean sheet
Lennon must go he murder and we been lucky all season that's what we no doubt be hearing from a few on here eh
Hail hail
Andybhoy73

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29 Jan 2014 22:43:55
How dare you! You are everything that is wrong with our club, you must be a panty wetter, apologist for the board or something along those lines

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29 Jan 2014 22:45:16
I know andybhoy i'm fed up with all the negative p*** that's been kicking around, we are currently on one of our best runs for consecutive domestic results and clean sheets and the gloom merchants are still no happy. My theory is they are missing the deady bears . My dad who supported neither of old firm said to me years ago " I you make out you hate each other but you can't live without each other" I told him you're talking rubbish, but now I see where he was coming from. Although they won't admit it I think the doom and gloom merchants are pining for Sevco to be back in the league

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Yea that me monkeybhoy you got me to a tee just to be a jungle Bhoy but now a disgrace haha
Hail hail
Andybhoy73

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Get a grip Stevie. Just because some people are looking at things a bit different you come out with this gash. Read through the last few days on here and 99% of it is celtic fans talking about celtic, your the first person to mention Sevco for days. or are fans not allowd to talk about the club unless its all sweetness. there were fans that wanted nl binned before rangers went bust and there was fans who thought he should never have got the job in the first place. fans moaned about signings before rangers died, fans spoke about every aspect of the club before rangers died so don't give us this pish about celtic fans missing rangers. you brought them up are you missing them?

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@4 Steve is also entitled to his opinion and some do miss the competition.

Stevie, think you hit a nerve there!

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But he's not giving his opinion is he unless his opinion is that he misses rangers. unless he is a mind reader how does he know what other people are thinking. its one thing giving your own opinion but how can you give someone elses. the missing rangers pish is only spouted by fans making excuses for the board and the management.

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@6 some do miss it, so he's not reading minds.

Same could be said of you assuming we all don't. There's a helluva lot of Celtic fans with different opinions on the subject, quite a lot are not vocal on social media so you can't just assume because you seen something on a forum, twitter etc that its the majority.

You and Stevie can hang about outside Celtic Park, then the gallowgate, then all over the world and ask folk!

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Why can't you ask down the gallowgate for us?

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@8, i'll get drunk and forget what I was told.

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30 Jan 2014 00:22:59
First of all if you're going to have a go at least leave a name, secondly I mentioned the deady bears because it's the only reason I can see for some of the p*** being spouted by some supporters i.e lack of competition. What exactly are you finding wrong with our club?

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30 Jan 2014 00:50:17
Meant to say thirdly what is wrong with the squad? Was sitting there tonight we've got big Fraz playing out of his skin keeping clean sheets, Izzi back to his best, Virgil immense as usual, young Fisher playing well, steady Joe M.O.M, Broonie leading by example, wee Jamesie running riot ( anyone who thinks we can do better than Forrest is sadly deluded) Charlie steady as ever, Commons top scorer (not at his best tonight) Pukki who has great workrate and sure will come good, then I looked at the bench, Johansen looked a player when he came on, Biton looks a talent every time I've seen him, Balde just play him more often and he'll score a barrowload, Boerrigter? Sami- get rid. Don't want Griffiths wouldn't get a game .

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I never said I thought there was anything wrong but if you pushed me on it I would say it's fans like you trying to tell other folk what to think or what they are thinking. so why has all the stuff like the manager and team, transfers and the board all been spoke about for years if it is only people who miss rangers that talk about it? were the fans who wanted rid of mowbray missing rangers or the fans who couldn't understand lassad signing missing rangers then there is the fans who were gutted keane or bellamy weren't signed maybe the fans who wanted rid of jock brown were missing them to. you have to see other folks point of view there was no need to bring them into it. it looks as if you are missing them and using them as the excuse for celtic fans questioning the club. you can call me snakehips if you ask nicely.

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30 Jan 2014 08:18:30
Right snakehips i'm no trying to tell anyone what to think, if you read my post again I clearly state it's "my "belief that I think the reason for the doom and gloom amongst supporters is the lack of competition I.e missing deadco. As for the rest of your post about Jock Brown, Mowbray etc is meaningless deadco were still with us back then.

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29 Jan 2014 22:11:05
Izzy has been one of our best players this season, one of the main attacking threats when it's not as easy as some games. Fisher has come in and been good, so another youngster would 've cover enough at left back

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29 Jan 2014 21:49:40
Another goal for amido what more does he have to do

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Delighted for him and hope he gets a run in the team soon, just watching, once £30m Andy Carroll on TV and he is shocking! Amido is much better.

JJ

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29 Jan 2014 18:16:29
Gents, we are currently 20 points clear in the league undefeated, and still in the scottish cup we have made a profit of over 20 million in the summer and have some very good young players who will eventually move on for big transfer fees, yes the manager has made some mistakes and sometimes his ego gets in the way also mr law ell and the board have also made mistakes but we are where we are recently all this forum has become is a soapbox to rant about how poor a manager / chairman we have how he didn't back the green brigade or didn't supply money for transfer fees. I don't understand what's going on at all . We are moaning while we are successful . go back 20 years gents when we had nothing, a relic of a stadium worn out squad miles behind the oldco, the butt of all jokes a board who run us into the ground . ok we are in a one sided league but by no fault of our own give it until the end of the season back the team.

Celtic always

Chalky bhoy a Celt 35 years man and bhoy!

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Totally agree CB. Think some people need to realise this is the good times. We can look back on this in years to come and say it was a great time to be a Celt. Or we can look back and say we spent our time picking faults with our manger our board or each other. I know how I would rather remember it. Kians Da

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Chalky b. I'm also an old time Celt. I always will follow the Hoops, but I don't need to like what I see. As always my main gripe is on how few kids make the grade. Darnell Fisher has given us an indication, that there are kids at Celtic, who can do well given a chance, but he was only given a chance because of not one, but two injuries. What incentive is there for kids to come to us? It appears better to go elsewhere, to get an early chance. This one sided league is perfect for blooding kids, but Lenny won't do it. Jonbhoy67

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Cb, obviously we are doing very, very well in the league right now & of course it feels good. let's not pretend that this is any great achievment given the current climate. We need to be looking at the bigger picture, success in the CL! These good young players you mentioned are not getting game time when the league is already won! Most of us want the club to move forward whilst giving the youth a chance when possible but it's just not happening.

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I feel we should all go to the doctors and get checked for infection, seems as if one or more of us has been bitten by a daywalker and it's spreading I've been guilty of it as well, seems over the past few months we seem to have turned against our own team, manager, board and a certain section of the support.
Lets hope the closing of the transfer window acts as some sort of antidote and we can all get back to backing the team, things could be worse let's leave the bickering and in fighting to the zombies so we can all enjoy our deserved dominance
HH
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@3)fair comment mate I was actually referring to van djik Matthews and Forster but you are right about our youth especially fisher watt Henderson and the young lad who has impressed at notts county, I would welcome griffiths to celtic park any player who has something different are welcome through our gates as far as I'm concerned give him a chance he might surprise a few!

chalky bhoy

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We'll said chalky bhoy fed up with all the negative crap people are spouting
FAITHFUL THREW AND THREW

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To be fair, a lot of the constant negativity does bother me too. Just get quite wound up about the amount of young players not getting game time. Especially when it's quite clear the board are not willing to spend millions on the finished article!

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29 Jan 2014 17:55:28
Tick tock, tick tock.
and yet again we are leaving transfers until the last day. I suspect little if anything will happen and the club will come out saying, "We tried to bring players in but we couldn't get them over the line."
Expect us to make a bid for a decent player at five minutes to midnight tomorrow then say that time had beaten us and we did everything possible to make it happen.
Ho hum, nothing changes at Paradise!

Hail Hail
ChrisBhoy

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The manger was on TV at the start of the window flashing the £6M he had to spend on a striker; so every club put their price up and we started to panic.
There is a whisper going around that NL has fallen out with Lawell and he will be off in the summer anyway.
Whatever the case we don't do transfer windows very well, do we?

JJ

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Totally agree Chrisbhoy, they should just make a recording of their pathecic excuses and play it over and over, we tried but! Try harder for **** sake

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29 Jan 2014 16:48:16
Ed, on the 11th December you fired up the following poll:

Is Neil Lennon the man to lead Celtic 2014/15 and beyond?

The results up to now are as follows:

Yes (48% / 104 votes)

No (52% / 113 votes)

Total Votes: 217

We've seen some pretty dismal performances, persistance to play the same players, low/no transfer ambitions, penny pinching, dwindling attendances, lack of atmosphere, split in the support and remarks made about fans and expectations.

It would be interesting to see if folk would vote in support of the current regime, support of the manager but not the board, support of the board but not the manager or not in support of either?

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{Ed007's Note - I'll get that set up at some point this evening.}

HB, I quite appreciate your remarks and don't deny all of the above happen but we can't constantly just focus on the negatives.

If you don't like the current Manager - why and who would you like to see replace him, what are their qualities?

You don't like seeing the same players even though they are the highest paid - who do you want to see, what position do they play and what are their qualities?

Low/no transfer ambition - who at the Club benefits from this and why?

Pretty dismal performances - agreed this season and very complacent domestically but we were in the last 16 of the CL last season, is that just so last season and irrelevant?

Penny pinching - what would you like to see bearing in mind Martin O'Neill was criticised for leaving behind an aging squad on a hefty wage bill. How would you stop this happening but still replace like for like in the squad he had?

Some have issues with the PLC - give me an alternative that guarantee we stay competitive and don't fall further behind Europes's bigger leagues?

Games were changed yesterday for TV and fans are moaning but where do a lot of 'big' Clubs generate cash from?

I just feel moaning for the sake of moaning gets us all nowhere and I'm not really into negativity. When we were leaving the St Mirren game the other week, do you know what song St Mirren played out - 'Always look on the bright side of life'. I thought it was aimed at their own supporters but now I think it might have been our support.

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HB, perhaps peter L thinks NL might be off this summer. If true then maybe he's keeping cash for the next manager, rather than chasing players for inflated fees now. Just a conspiracy theory.

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To be honest if I was Lennon I would prob go as I have never known so many Celtic fans to turn against their own when we are winning Ffs big take it on the chin Mowbray got a easier ride and who is going to come in and do any better no top coach is going to go to Celtic it is a no win situation just have to see the stick Lennon getting I know he not the best but he getting better and he deserves more respect in my mind
Andybhoy73

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A lot of them haven't Andy, I wouldn't take it too seriously.

Scottish football is not the best and this is the biggest problem.

This with the youth, they played last night and struggled against a 10 man St Johnstone so not sure what some are expecting? You have to earn the right to start in the first team, I'm in 2 minds if we should be advertising that our league is that bad we can play a weakened team in January. Bad enough trying to attract players without them thinking they won't get a regular game after Christmas.

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I agree mrs E it alright saying give youth a chance and as we all love a player who ones through the ranks growing up mcstay was my hero but the players in the 1st team do not deserve to be dropped with the run they on t the moment
Andybhoy73

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There's not a McStay in the squad unfortunately or you can bet your last quid Neil Lennon would play him.

I love seeing the young players come through and watch their development but to say Neil Lennon doesn't play them hmmm. One example - Champions League against Barca last season, an 18 year old scores our 2nd goal?

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29 Jan 2014 16:30:29
It would appear that this window, for us, is nothing more than a dry hump, gets you all excited, let's you think you could get somewhere, then leaves you frustrated and disappointed.

chasaboy

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Oh for a dry hump! Sopotcelt.

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1) I didn't say I didn't like the current manager, I said it'd be interesting to see how folk vote - after all the couple hundred fans who voted on here were in favour of Lennon leaving at the end of the season as the poll above shows.

2) Samaras and Ledley wouldn't even be in my 18 man squad tbh, both are as good as fine in my opinion now they're in the last 6 months of their contracts, give fringe or youth players a chance. I also don't rate Mulgrew in midfield - take Ambrose out at CB for him. There's 3 midfield places up for grabs. I'd also like Balde to get game time.

3) The PLC quite clearly benefit from player sales and the money generating interest in an account somewhere - then PL gets his whafty big bonus for the financial health of the club.

4) I'm unsure what you mean? How can last seasons CL form be as irrelevant as this year?

5) I would like to see one or two marquee signings, either this month or the summer given the crazy amount of money the board raked in over the summer selling our best defender, best midfielder and best forward without replacing them - Virgil was intended to play alongside Wilson, not replace him.

6) I didn't go through Uni to get degrees and don't get paid millions to make business decisions - but it's quite clear whoever is in charge of this area has failed as we went from CL Last 16 to struggling past a Kazakhstani team in qualifying then being handed our all time record defeat in Europe in 12 months.

7) Games were changed yesterday for TV and fans are moaning but where do a lot of 'big' Clubs generate cash from? Celtic also complained to the SPFL about the St Mirren @ home game being changed as it's an inconvenience to fans.

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Theres no money HB. The board has bought gold bars and has a vault under paradise they call it the GB. No not the Green Brigade but the Golden Buscuit-tin. Some of them do have a sense of humour you know! Sopotcelt.

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29 Jan 2014 16:14:26
I see that both our new players Johansen and Fridjonsen played for the under 20 team yesterday, Celtic won 1-0 with Johansen scoring, he only played first half so maybe see him tonight at some stage. As for Fridjonsen he played full game so doubt he will even feature on bench, but reports say he had a decent game so hope there is a lot more to come. Timalloy

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29 Jan 2014 15:50:54
Reading our manager had big Virgil down as a good one first time he saw him in training. Wish he'd update us on his opinion of the others who can't get a game. Jonbhoy67

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29 Jan 2014 15:47:06
I've said it before and I' ll say it again.
At the start of every transfer window, NL says "I want to get players in early". And every transfer window, its the same, last minute rush. Whether we agree about Leigh Griffiths, coming or not, once again we are offering insulting offers.If you want a decent player, pay a decent price. During the week NL said that Wolves were hard to deal with as regards Kevin Doyle. Why were Wolves hard to deal with?. Because Celtic wanted him on the cheap.

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That's the nature of transfer windows. The agents won't sign up until they've pimped their clients as far as they can. The fact is other clubs watch celtic closely in this area because of the recent bargains they've found. I don't understand the obsession with transfers. Why do celtic need more players right now?

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29 Jan 2014 14:26:01
anyone got any more news on our signings. I think griffiths deal will eventualy go through but any other big news or is griffiths going to be only one.

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{Ed007's Note - I'd say Griffiths will be the only one after Rhys Williams' injury last night.}

29 Jan 2014 16:19:15
ED007 surely we must have other defensive players targeted, we need cover for Ambrose and Virgil with Mouakolo (spelling) not yet fit.
As for Griffiths, decent player, but I am in the no camp, if we want a good Scottish player then May is my choice. Timalloy

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{Ed007's Note - It will depend on who is available and can be signed in the time scale of the next couple of days. I'd say Williams would have been signed if he hadn't been injured and his injury will have put a spanner in the works regarding signing a defender.}

29 Jan 2014 17:02:06
Can we not use the youth and Mulgrew as cover for CHalves, perfect opertunity

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29 Jan 2014 14:11:37
Well bhoys & Ghirls, remember when the powers to be tried to parachute Newco/Sevco into the top flight and the fans organised their "no to Newco" campaign and all the club chairmen were forced to sit up and take stock of the consequences, well let's do the same with the Celtic board.

The Board said we could spend £6m on a player yet they put in derisory bids for Griffiths. Why do they think we can command top dollar for Hooper and big Vic yet offer peanuts for griffiths. I'm not slating griffiths before he kicks a ball in anger, I'll give the lad a chance if Lennon gives him a game. Ask Balde & Rogic about game time opportunities under NL!

My two campains would be "give youth a chance" and "no to mediocrity".

But then again I want better and as a consequence I'm not a real fan!

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29 Jan 2014 17:07:52
Wouldn't say u weren't a fan m8 your entitled to your opinion doesn't meen everybody has to agree with you. A to would love to sign big money players and give youth a chance but if it doesn't happen am not gony through ma toys out the pram.
But am an apologist for the board and what's wrong with our great club today lol

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29 Jan 2014 14:10:07
Ed is this NL shop a wind up? Surely the Celtic manager cannot be involved in this enterprise. Its a sad sorry day if it is true. Sopotcelt.

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{Ed007's Note - It's 100% true, cringey doesn't even cover it mate.}

Its totally out of order. There are about a million other reasons this is a bad idea apart from the taste issue. The guy should resign immediately. This is beyond the pale. Sopotcelt.

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Twitter and now this. Wow major ego alert here! Ed I trust you don't want his gift vouchers off Santa!

Step too far in my humble opinion.

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{Ed007's Note - I told my family, including my mammy if they bought me anything from it for Christmas I would punch them in the mouth!}

Ed its obvious I have strong opinions about this but given your last comment I hope your Mrs doesny oversalt the broth! Soupotcelt.

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{Ed007's Note - She knows better than that :)

Has anybody seen any of the products on it or the embarrasing calendar? . Not so Pretty Green . DH

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Who the fluck would wear one of these items, agree fully with above post cringe worthy at best, lenny ratings going down in my opinion, don't have but does anybody know if he getting any stick online about this. Goreybhoy

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29 Jan 2014 17:10:03
What's this edd a NL shop lol, if that's true a hold ma hands up that worse than a book

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{Ed007's Note - It's his online shop MB, it's been going for a while so I thought you knew all about it. That's where the calendar originated:

www.neillennon.com/shop/

29 Jan 2014 17:34:31
No a just assumed it was a callender done for Xmas

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{Ed007's Note - No lol If it had just been a calendar I would have just seen it as funny/embarrassing and if it was for charity I would have happily bought a few of them myself.}

29 Jan 2014 17:54:18
As a say ma bad

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{Ed007's Note - Now don't ever doubt me again! :)

HOLY BEJAYSUS!!
I DON'T FEKKIN BELIEVE IT!
Just had a wee peek at the website and the whole idea is as cringey/cheesy/tacky as it possibly could be.
Guess who loves himself?
MESSAGE TO LENNY: You're doing OK in your job (in some areas but not all) but your head is a tad too big for Glasgow. Catch yerself on and focus on our team, not your fekkin bank balance and self-worship.
I'm still in shock bhoys!

Hail ail
ChrisBhoy

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This is a serious issue which has gone under the radar. NL will not be with the club forever and possibly he will be on his way in the summer.
My question would be what gives him the right to have the clubs colours and CL Manager plastered all over his clothing range thereby using CFC as a springboard or even the basis for his enterprise. Who gave him permission or let it happen? what's next NL training kit? NL footballs. NL Agent?
I dislike the way the club is going regarding big biz as it usually leads to scandal and shall we say questionable practices but this has genuinely shocked me and how on earth this has been allowed goodness knows! sopotcelt.

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A never knew about this either aw joking aside has any other manager done anything like this its embarrassing and makes Lennon look like an ego maniac surely as manager of celtic or any club for that matter you shouldn't be doing this

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29 Jan 2014 13:34:48
Hi Ed. How ya keeping buddy? It's been a disappointing window so far as regards of a striker. I thought we would push the boat out and get a good standard CL striker. Round the 5million mark. I can not see the strikers we have at the minute scoring goals in Europe unless we make Kris Commons a striker. If you were given 5-6 million what striker would u get? HH Bigirishmac.

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{Ed007's Note - For that kind of money it has to be Finnbogason or maybe in the summer try for Nelson Oliveira from Benfica who is on loan at Rennes for the season. Then there is John Guidetti if he can prove his fitness at Stoke or even Tim Matavz from PSV. I'm not saying that they would all be available or happy to come but that is the calibre of player we should be looking at.}

29 Jan 2014 13:34:41
I think a lot of celtic fans need a reality check Leigh Griffith wouldn't be my first pick of signings but clearly no decent player is willing to come to celtic whilst we are a one team league. It could also be said many celtic fans aren't coming to see celtic whilst it's a one team league might be wrong but I doubt we will get 30k turning up tonight. That said if we can't get decent foreigners anymore then don't just shop in Scandinavia or Israel take the best home grown players that we can as they are as good as balde pukki bangura etc . Just now we have 3 players Forster Ledley and Sammy who don't really want to be here we've had disciplinary problems with watt Forrest and stokes so perhaps we should lay off THE THUMB as some like to refer to him and judge him on his ability on the park.
Ps if we could start getting 50k at matches every home game maybe some better players will say ok I want to come or stay as they always get big crowds not jus cl nights

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It's a vicious circle as supporters want to see better players than we have at the moment, playing with the style, flair and class we have been used to - and have rarely reproduced this season.
Obviously we cannot attract these top players to a one-horse league and the awful CL campaign made things worse, but we need to improve the squad and not keep diluting it.
Replacing our better players with poor imitations has left us in this mess and even romping the SPL does not convince the support to turn up as most of the games are dire.
Lennon was boasting at the start of this window that we could buy a £6m player and he now looks foolish as we haggle in hundreds of pounds for LG.
If a cut of the money from Hooper, Vic and the CL bonus was spent on 2 or 3 quality players we could have been looking at a very different story.

JJ

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I agree Jim, well said. martyc1888

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29 Jan 2014 04:37:58
Ed have you heard the rumour that Celtic are doing everything they can to move Amido Balde out either on loan or if possible on a permanent basis?

I just read this in a national daily newspaper. This would be really dissapointing as NL has continually said he is raw but will come good with time.

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{Ed007's Note - I haven't heard that Stu but nothing at the club just now would surprise me.}

Haven't heard this but agree with Ed; The lad has had a very 'raw' deal and must be totally miffed coming on for 5 minutes here and there going into Feb 15 points clear and can't get a start!
The club are making some strange decisions and causing a lot of upset and head scratching from the support and transfer windows are a joke.
Maybe something will 'give' towards the end of the season and there may be some major changes ahead?

JJ

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Hi Ed,

I saw it online in the daily express in with a story about Griffiths. Hopefully paper talk or we would look pretty stupid. (even more than we already do)

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Read the same thing last night on the Express website! Surely has to be paper talk as NL stated a couple of weeks ago (not long after turkey). That big Amido would be figuring in his plans much more for the second half of the season. (Saying that, NL says a lot of things these days that turn out to be utter pish!)

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29 Jan 2014 12:22:55
I see we won't be signing the Aussie boy Williams possible snapped Achilles out for 6 months misses world cup. I'd rather not sign anybody give what we have a chance? Bed them in and relaxed playing in front of an expecting crowd? The potential is there in the squad it's whether NL wants to release the potential and let it blossom.

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29 Jan 2014 08:32:56
hi ed do think celtic will put a 3rd bid for leigh griffiths

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{Ed007's Note - Yes.

Hope it's $200,000.

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29 Jan 2014 11:20:23
just a thought, not a rumour as such. but I was just thinking that . liverpool to go for sami? as I say just a thought.

ledley to stay (hopefully) griffiths a smokescreen (hopefully) kayal away (hopefully) bangura offski (hopefully) watt recalled and screwing the nut (hopefuly) johanson, biton, fisher, fridjohnson, boerrigter, balde, pukki, henderson, chalmers get a right good run of games and turning out to be right good players (hopefully)

so what do you chaps think we really need this transfer window? left back cover? penalty box assassin?

personally I would be looking for a good young centre back, and a good keeper (cause fraser's gone after the world cup -lets hope hart gets a sudden allergic reaction to his head and shoulders shampoo and his face balloons up like a marshmallow. fraser has to play the whole whole world cup, plays a fecking blinder, getting england single-handedly to the final. honduras unfortunately beat them 7-6 on penalties, with izzy scoring the last one).

looking (hopefully) towards the next couple of days.

enjoy the game tonight, this team could make a wee bit of history if things go well this season.

hopefully.

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That's an awful lot of hoping mate. I hope you're right though. Hopefully!

Hal Hail
ChrisBhoy

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"If Liverpool go for sammi." Priceless! Only if Carlsberg did transfer windows, you made my day with that one lol

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Lets be clear we are not good enough for CL We need a back up goalie, Chalmers does not track back or defend well enough like Emilo. We need a very good central defender to help Van Dijk, A replacement for Wanayma Biton does not tackle watch the first half against Hibs he does not make one tackle. Boericter is injury prone as is Forrest. Stokes, Pukki, and Balde cannot cut the mustard. Quality forwards are essential Clear out the dross and build on youth and quality then we can compete on a fair footing in Europe

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29 Jan 2014 13:00:52
dear ed, i'd just like to comment, that i'm the op on the first comment. i'd signed in but my user name didn't come up on my comment. I don't know if it will this time, as this happens to my comments quite alot. so i'll put it here, in this comment, just incase it doesn't.
would you care to comment on this?

souljacker

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{Ed007's Note - I'm sorry but comment on what?}

No comment!

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29 Jan 2014 10:44:43
Wolves reject a 2nd bid for griffiths

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29 Jan 2014 08:35:22
Sevco have rejected Nottm Forest's £900k bid for Lee Wallace and told them they value the LB at £1.4m - I'm not even kidding, but I'd bite their hand off for him. Especially at that price!

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Lee Wallace is a player I actually quite like and he’s their best player by a Country mile.

Different positions I know, but I’d prefer Lee Wallace to Leigh Griffiths

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29 Jan 2014 10:59:25
i would hope notts forest don't put in another bid for him now although I do feel he is worth more but they aren't in the position to be rejecting money if all is to be believed

when I heard before january that "we are looking into british players" I was rather happy at that as instantly I thought gauld, gms, armstrong, taylor sinclair but instead its a bid for griffiths and strongly rumoured interest in williams of middlesbro

would rather the window shut now if that's our ambition although if griffiths does sign I hope this can be a new start for him. I was hoping the last half of the season would see more of balde and pukki but looks like baldes usual 3 minutes could be cut down more now

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28 Jan 2014 22:37:24
Been a while since I've posted Ed, hope all is good. How many players do you think we will sign between now and Friday? I'd be happy with just a striker but a left-back would also be nice. No idea why Griffiths has been met with such a negative reaction, its not like our strikers are banging them in domestically

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{Ed007's Note - All good here mate thanks. To be honest I am hoping that there are no more signings this window when I see who is realistically possible. I think that the Griffiths deal will happen if he puts a written transfer request in and maybe one more, likely to be a defender.}

 
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