Celtic Banter Archive March 30 2019
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30 Mar 2019 21:54:04
I've been wound up all day waiting for tomorrow for revenge just as a fan. God knows how the players are feeling. Think tomorrow. The most important thing is players keep their discipline.
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30 Mar 2019 23:41:26
The Ibrox no-show was embarrasing for all concerned. It's not about revenge, however, it's not about revenge; It's about preparation, focus and total professionalism and everything else will take care of itself - even Madhun.
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31 Mar 2019 16:34:02
The most embarassing thing that day was Beaton's reluctance to do his job properly and as a result we got booted up and down the park.
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30 Mar 2019 21:26:41
23 years today we got Jorge Cadette. He got 38 goals in 47 matches in a brilliant team which boasted the three amigos. Probably the best team not to have won the league. If the ball hits the net and it's not Jorge Cadette its Di Canio đ¶ if he's hung like a horse and it's not Morten Weighorst it's Di Caniooooooođ”đ¶.
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30 Mar 2019 17:34:32
I haven't felt as confident as I do going into a game against that mob for a while. I think we'll absolutely do them.
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30 Mar 2019 19:16:42
Team rumoured to be, Bain, Lustig, KT, Boyata, Ajer, Brown, Ncham, Forrest, McGregor, Hayes and Eddy.
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30 Mar 2019 19:20:56
I hope youâre right HT. Neil, if youâre reading this letâs ram it right up Slippy G String tomorrow!
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30 Mar 2019 19:22:52
I hope your right but for some reason I'm never confident going into these games even though I know if we play to our ability we'll wipe the floor with them and there's nothing they can do to prevent it.
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30 Mar 2019 20:55:43
I would settle for that team Tam. A matter of how many.
I have also seen that team on social media.
If it is the line up, Lenny must wonder how his team selection got leaked out.
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30 Mar 2019 21:56:26
That's the team I was sent too. I'd have sinky on for hayes and ntcham wouldn't be in ma team, too soon.
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30 Mar 2019 22:11:06
Hope we are aggressive from the start and don't allow them any press whatsoever. Hope karma follows Halliday. 2 nil the hoops.
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30 Mar 2019 22:35:47
Hayes starting over sinky?
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31 Mar 2019 09:02:36
If Sinky doesn't start I'd love to see Eddy on the left with Weah or Burke up top.
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30 Mar 2019 15:02:28
I see some pundits are tipping Izagurre to replace Teirney if that happens we will be Gubbed its got to be Johnny Hayes to secure 8 n a row Hh.
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30 Mar 2019 18:07:50
Though I'd prefer Hayes we will not be gubbed if Izzy plays.
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30 Mar 2019 20:41:42
IT really reflects very badly on a squad if one player is picked ahead of another means we will be gunned . It doesn't say much for a manager if he could make such a poor choice . Above al it says very little for fan who has so little respect for Celtic1st team and manager.
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30 Mar 2019 11:53:02
So what's the prediction for tomorrow? Was the last game at the Bronx just a one off or has the gap narrowed? Are they capable of coming and taking something away from Celtic Park apart from the ceiling tiles in the toilets? I think they are deluded enough and believe they are better than they are and will come and have a go as apparently we don't like a team pressing us high. That should leave space at the back and suit us. A game then for Big OIllie Lugs for me he's got pace to burn plus the physicality for the game. PS: could do without that walloper BR wishing us well that just brought the trauma all back and upset me.
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30 Mar 2019 13:20:40
I think they are better than they were under agents Pedro and Murty but Iâm hopeful we can do the business tomorrow. As for the walloper, he really doesnât get it. He thinks weâre all going to think, âOh thatâs nice, Brendanâs wishing us wellâ. Well we donât, Brendan and we never will! Just you concentrate on your Mickey Mouse pub team and your bank balance and stay well away from us.
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30 Mar 2019 13:59:45
I personally haven't got a problem with Rodgers wishing us well. I am in no way sticking up for him or the way he left us but I'd far rather an ex employee saying something positive about us than listening to ex players who made their names with us then run us into the ground.
The media is filled with ex sevco players, in England as well as Scotland, who constantly talk up Sevco and criticize us, so if anybody wants to say anything positive about us then I don't care.
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30 Mar 2019 14:13:39
If we lose kt and it's looking likely and if lustig doesn't make it then it'll be a makeshift lb and an untried rb so that's a worry the boy kent is quick and has a trick so tohjlan better be ready. but from Midfield up we are superior and that should win the game đ€đ€.
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30 Mar 2019 14:16:31
I still feel a bit 'raw' regarding BR; but I get what you're saying Gerry. SLY are full of ex-Celts who are a disgrace to the club that paid their wages and gave them success, medals and fame.
On the subject of Sevco, there's no doubt they are better than 'Muttley's' team of last year, but they are still full of rejects, journeymen and nobody's - and as long as we are near top form, we should have no trouble opening up a 13 point gap.
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30 Mar 2019 14:23:40
I have a problem with the **** bag Rodgers wishing us good luck .
B R is a complete hyprocrite, from the hour he came, he told us he bled green and white since he was a child . Insets he couldn't wait to become a blue top.
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30 Mar 2019 14:57:17
And leave for the mighty Leicester.
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30 Mar 2019 15:04:36
I have not got a problem with Brendan, he done a brilliant job, I wish him well and we as a club move on.
Tomorrow will be a tough game because slippy has built a decent team.
Celtic will still win and I am expecting a good hard match.
Even with a makeshift team I still expect us to be too strong.
3-1 Celtic McGregor, Sinclair and Tim Weah.
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30 Mar 2019 15:55:40
Chris and Mally. I don't know if Rodgers is a Celtic fan or not, but it is naive to think that players and managers won't chase the money. There are no end of players at lots of clubs who kiss the badge and pledge allegiance to their teams then move on at the first sniff of more money. you just have to take all of it with a pinch of salt.
The way Rodgers left us at a vital part of the season was why we all felt so betrayed, but if he had waited until the end of the season would we have have felt any less betrayed? .
Players and managers saying they are fans and have been all their lives is not the same as committing themselves to that club forever. I find it's better to assume everybody in football is just out for themselves, that way it doesn't come as such a big disappointment when it proves correct.
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30 Mar 2019 16:54:31
Iâm with COYBIG BR please donât patronise us. Youâre baw is well burst in Glasgow and your best wishes arenât welcomed. Heâs a walloper and always was a walloper that pledged false allegiance and fooled us. I personal was taken in and their is nothing worse and he will always be a remembered as a walloper. Heâd been in England sine he was 16 and he longer than he was in the North of Ireland. As an Irish friend said that makes him more âWest Britâ than âEast Antrimâ. The fond memories expressed about him make me sick. A rodent with snake like qualities. Brendan you shat all over your legacy on the way out the door.
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30 Mar 2019 17:52:09
Gerry, youâre entitled to your opinion just like the rest of us but I do have one question âWhat can Rogers buy now that he couldnât afford when he was in his âdream jobâ? Unfortunately, Rogers is the only one that can answer that.
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30 Mar 2019 18:22:56
Not any excuses for that game at ipox but for fact we had half our first team squad out injured and some that played that day had a sickness bug We still don't have nearly a full squad to choose from for this game but I am confident we have enough to get us a win IN THE LIONS DEN.
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30 Mar 2019 19:28:56
JFP. thatâs an absolute insult to the Bronx and the CSC bhoys in the whistlin donkey tomorrow. Itâs a huge step up from that place!
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30 Mar 2019 19:31:40
COYBIG. I am not saying he's gone to a bigger club, he hasn't. But I've no doubt he'll be on a higher salary there than he was here, that unfortunately is the motivation in football these days.
I am in no way sticking up for Rodgers, He's given up winning trophies and possibly Champions league football, not to mention 60.000 crowds in return for mid table mediocrity at a far smaller club than us.
My point is though that money is the motivating factor in football, look at the teams in England who put out weakened teams in cup ties, they give up the chance of silverware in the hope that they might finish ninth instead of eleventh and all because of money.
I read last week that Jimmy McGrory turned down a move to Arsenal and was rewarded by Celtic cutting his salary by a tenth. His reaction was along the lines of "putting on an Arsenal shirt wouldn't have been the same as pulling on the hoops".
I'd love it if players and managers had the same attitude today, but they haven't, and Brendan Rodgers isn't the first and won't be the last person to put personal gain ahead of devotion to a club.
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30 Mar 2019 20:50:33
Gerryc I am sure there is one flaw in your argument . When a gentleman of his own free -. will signs a fixed term contract to do a job . He may be able to satisfy himself that some people feels he can go else where and sign a new contact but surely he can't remai a gentleman . There are probably a dozen of our better players who could earn better money, if they turned their back on us and went to England . However they are decent honest footballer's who pledged their future to us &? are prepared by and large to do so . Even if their manager who they should look up to doesn't process necessary honesty and decency.
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30 Mar 2019 22:58:55
Gerry, I get what youâre saying and I donât disagree with you. My point though is that there is no logical thinking that says âI will give up my âdream jobâ and prostitute myself because I need more than ÂŁ3M a yearâ.
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31 Mar 2019 16:21:54
They have improved but if we perform to our capabilities we will pump them.
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31 Mar 2019 16:29:13
Hard to disagree with anything on this thread as there are moments when I'm still raw and others when I think ok he's gone, good riddance and let's get on with winning the treble. When I think of his hypocricy though for me it is not so much Lifelong fan walking away as much as how he treated others. Being an irish catholic I was brought with the saying "do onto others what you would like them to do onto you" He blocked a move for Boyata (Im glad as he has been professional and served us this year) which means that now when he goes Celtic won't get a penny and also would love to know what went on with Dembele as something tells me he may have been promised a move and then BResxit tried to go back on his word etc. He was a good manager who brought us a lot of success and I wish him success wherever he is but I will never believe another word that comes out of his mouth (including his wishing us good luck)
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30 Mar 2019 11:03:10
Watching the germans dismantle the Dutch in the first half recently I think we could copy the formation they played. I think we have the players to do it. Back 3, box in midfield and 3 up.
Bain
Ajer Boyata Benk
Brown calmac
Toljan Hayes
Burke/ forrest Sinky
Eddie
High attacking press from toljan and hayes. Sinky and Burke or Forrest playing behind Eddie, going either way- inside or out. That should give us 90 mins on front foot.
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30 Mar 2019 14:27:19
For this to work, it has to be used in training for a long time . The eve of a match is not the time to come up with new dangled ideas.
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30 Mar 2019 10:23:47
Robert Mueller for Director of Football
Jimmy McNulty for Manager.
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30 Mar 2019 09:12:41
My team for sunday;
Bain
Lustig benkovic ajer hayes
Brown calmac
Burke forrest french eddi
Bayo.
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30 Mar 2019 09:44:14
No chance is bayo starting mate! And boyata will be in before Benkovic.
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30 Mar 2019 14:29:54
How could anyone think of starting player that may or may not have touched a ball playing for us and is now injured . Eddie is a class player, if we give him the support he deserves.
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30 Mar 2019 06:27:19
I have been giving some thought too next season and the squad.
These ae my thoughts
Goalkeepers Bain, Hazard, Doohan
RB Ralston, Perez
LB Teirney, Gutman
CB Ajer, Sinamovic, {Hendry/ Lusnig? } A. N Other
Midfield Brown, Biton, Macgregor, Christie, Rogic, Henderson, Ntcham? Kouassi?
Wingers Forrest, Sinclair, Svhad, Arazani, Johnston, Hayes? Morgan?
Forward Griffiths, Edouard, Bayo, A N Other.
This means spending money on only 2 players
Loans possible for Burke and Weah with options to buy
Those with question marks are potential leavers and those missing I think may have left.
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30 Mar 2019 08:13:18
Jon there's a kid in the reserves Daniel church who's highly rated we might see him at some point he's a left back.
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30 Mar 2019 08:34:10
I would like to see Deas, Mcinroy, Hill, Hendry, Aitchison, Savoury, Welsh, and Matiz given some game time next season even if it is just coming off the bench. If Ntcham goes I would like to see Henderson back.
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