Celtic Banter Archive September 03 2012
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03 Sep 2012 22:46:09
Hi edd do you not think its bad the amount of empty seat at parkhead on Saturday what happened to all the fans that were going on about getting the shame kicked out then not renewing there tickets
Spuggy {Ed007's Note - No I don't. I am an adult and if kids want to argue about attendances and bore the ar$e off people I will leave them to it, it just won't be on here. The Shame got themselves kicked out of Scottish football by not paying taxes, nobody else.}
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The Shame! Ed you are only fuelling more bitterness, you are better than that. {Ed007's Note - Well the OP used that term to describe his team, even their own fans are struggling to know what to call them going by his post.}
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You need to remember there was 55000 people forked out around £25-30 for tickets for the Copenhagen game then been asked to pay the same on sat. You can pick and choose the games this year. Cmac
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03 Sep 2012 22:12:28
Benfica have lost another one of their top players. Axel Witsel who had previously been linked with Man Utd has signed for Zenit St Pettersburg tonight. Can only be a good thing for or upcoming CL games
Gary {Ed007's Note - He is a fantastic player Gary. They will definitely be weaker without him.}
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03 Sep 2012 16:16:39
a champions league squad:
Lustig------Ambrose----Mulgrew------Izzzy
------------------Wanyama------------------
-----------kayal----------------Ledley--------
Forrest--------------Miku----------Samaras
For me it's kayal but Lennon will go for Brown. I would go for. Lustig as he is an international. Thoughts guys..
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You have to have hopper in, you can't just forget about what he has done and all the goals in him. Think we might be going with 2 strikers in cl and will see a new set up but when we face barca I'm sure it will be more defensive. Mathews has to go in to replace lustic cause he has more speed and works well with Forrest.
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Imo lustig is a better cb than he is a rb mate
gunniebhoy
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U have to be kidden? Dropping Mathews for lustig because he's an international? Mathews has been a fantastic signing.
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I agree with the OP post but also agree with the following posters.....Matthews has been amazing since he joined! Plus dropping Hooper is not for me. We haven't seen Miku or Lassad yet!
DazzaBhoy
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I despise Lustig, it's like Majstorovic re-incarnated, but when he's at his worst. Matthews every day, fantastic player/prospect. I would think Hooper would play, and IMO Celtic play a lot better when Brown is playing, so I would assume he would also play.
kev88
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I really dont like the word despise being used for someone wearing the hoops prefer maybe keep your negative vibes for facebook or bigbrother voting hail hail in lennon we trust
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How can you deapise him Kev. What exactly has he done wrong in your opinion ?? He hasn't come in and been a world beater but similarly he hasn't let us down (mistake at weekend obviously but chipped in with a good goal and a debateable second). Give the guy a break and get behind him mate, we might just need him in the upcoming fixtures
Gary
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Think your taking it a bit far with the despise word . You maybe not rate him as a player but despise . Novo , Hateley . Mcculloch ( I could go on ) but Lustig ?.......DH
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Hooper has been really bad these past couple of games looks dead on his feat and look chubby aswell miku is quality 12 goals in la liga is good 2 against Madrid he's a fantastic signing £9 million rated he will be much better than hooper
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Totally disagree with Hoopers been really bad the last couple of games . His work rate has been excellent and his best work has always been in the box where he's second to none in the goal scoring charts . Give him the ammunition in the penalty box and you'll see the best of Hoops........DH
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Brown would ALWAY's be in my team, without him we have no urgency.
Tambhoy ( original )
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03 Sep 2012 13:42:53
With Barca and Benfica topping their leagues it looks like we're gonna struggle against both. But Spartak have lost 3 out of 7 matches in Russia so far, plus we have beaten them before recently and NL presumably knowing everything about their assist leader Aiden McGeady, maybe i'm being naive but i reckon we have a chance in the CL, not expecting anything really and very proud we've made it this far but 3rd place Europa wouldnt be a miracle, we belong here! (PS. great site ED i was here every day during the window) Hail Hail MarkySparx
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03 Sep 2012 12:24:58
Rangers news :
Ally McCoist has admitted that midweek training was cut short
.. after one of the players kicked the ball into next door's garden. .H.
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03 Sep 2012 10:58:39
Tabloids today saying the football authorities set aside 2 days next week to deal with old Rangers, the one with the history, and stripping of titles.
Correctly asking why Green or McCoist would get involved in that? Not any of their business as they don't have anything to do with the old club.
My point is that the SPL is a race to be first after all games are played. In a horse race, if first is disqualified, then second gets the prize. In the Olympics, if a winning athlete is stripped of a title, then silver medalist gets gold. In fact this happens in every sport or competition I can think of. The SPL has a competition each year. A champion is required for each year. There is no good reason why when Rangers are stripped of 5 SPL titles, they are not awarded to second place. No reason whatsoever. Every sport does it.
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So you would happily accept the passing over of titles that your club weren't good enough to win?
TTG
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Put the dirty,tainted,worthless titles on the scrapheap where they belong,only leave an asterix denoting "title stripped from glasgow rangers for cheating" in the history books.seems fair enough to me
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TTG, I for one would just be delighted to see a cheating shamefull mob stripped of titles they had to cheat and manipulate to unfairly win against honest/decent teams.
Jungle Jim
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To ttg. celtic were good enough that`s why rangers had to cheat.
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Iv said before put them in the hampden museum engraved stripped from rangers for corruption and cheating showcase them and never let it be forgotten what that club done
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If Celtic were good enough how come a Rangers team that consisted of players like Marvin Andrews, Nacho Novo, Bob Malcolm, Chris Burke , Stevie Smith, Alex Rae, Thomas Buffel et al managed to win the league, if Celtic can't beat that team to title then that's Celtic's fault. Celtic were unbeaten against Rangers that season, so explain that?
The next season, Rangers had more or less the exact same team and finished third. It's not exactly cheating to gain an "unfare advantage" is it. Alex McLeish hardly spent a penny at Rangers and still managed to win the league, the players he signed were poor quality.
TTG
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Personally I would not take the titles (go with the above poster ) . Thinking my next job will be tattoo remover as I can see stars being removed .
TamBhoy1974
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TTG...if they are found guilty of having side letters (duel contracts), then the rules were broken. End of story. Keep the titles, strip them, I don't care. The black cloud of cheating will hang forever. Mrs E
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"It's not exactly cheating to gain an unfair advantage"? Are you for real?
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Dont want any tainted titles i just want justice done the rangurs fans are so deluded or even blinded by their bitterness they just cant understand that they cheated this is the same people that believed whyte now green how thick are these people hail hail
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How stupid can some people make themselves look"it's not exactly cheating to gain an unfair advantage" .... Well what is it then ? Back to school for you me thinks. Mind you , you would probably just copy somebodys exams but it's not exactly cheating is it . . Brings a new meaning to Scotlands shame
Gary
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Don't want tainted title's but show the world why they were stripped.
Tambhoy ( original )
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The titles themselves are not tainted nor dirty, it's the old cheating Rangers club that's tainted and dirty. Celtic won all 12 SPL titles and Rankers cheated in all 12 but managed to get 5. For the integrity of the competition and honouring all the players in all the SPL teams who played honestly, they should be awarded to the team who genuinely won them. Rangers didn't totally destroy the SPL in those years. Like was said there has to be a credible good reason for not awarding them to the real winners. The titles are clean.
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03 Sep 2012 10:01:39
Just copied this from Barcelona Official Web site , eeerrm Lol.
Celtic: the new king of Scotland
Although they have 11 fewer league titles than their eternal rivals Rangers, these are happy days for the green and white half of Scotland's biggest city. For economic reasons, their protestant rivals have been forced to disband and are now starting all over again in the Scottish Third Division. With Rangers out of the way for at least the next three years, Celtic look set to dominate the domestic championship like never before, which means manager Neil Lennon will be able to focus almost his entire attention on his club's European campaign. Applying their typically physical but direct approach, their strengths include Wanyama in midfield and Greek international Samaras up front.
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