Celtic Banter Archive August 04 2013

04 Aug 2013 23:03:24
Ed have you heard anything about ibrox getting shut because they have not been allocated a safety certificate due to the very poor state of the stadium? {Ed007's Note - They have a current safety certificate, it was issued a while back.}

05 Aug 2013 11:41:45
A currant license maybe? The same they seem to get for, hmm - everything?! pea

ED007: Seems that the council have been informed that a problem has been discovered by a contractor.I would guess under duty of care they would have to tell H&S and on it went to the council.You had a sniff?. green jhedi {Ed007's Note - The contractor would have to approach the person who signed off the company's H&S policy, (it is usually signed by the most senior member of staff), they would have to carry out a Risk Assessment, it all gets a bit bogged down in paperwork after this.
If a 'whistleblower' tips of the HSE, they would arrive on the company's doorstep themselves and unannounced to investigate the complaint and carry out their own Risk Assessment.
I don't know why the council would be involved in anything other than providing the actual certificate. HSE has more power than the council in such matters. Failure to adhere to HSE regs. can lead to criminal charges.}

04 Aug 2013 21:01:44
Went on to the official tribute act rangers site last night when I was at work to see the McMoist rant and the highlights of the mighty forfars goals. But before you could watch any video there was an advert to watch first and as you would expect it was another own goal. the advert was for a video game where it showed a load of orcs smashing up everything pure comedy gold considering the site I was on

04 Aug 2013 19:49:59
It seems that there is more sevco related problems due to leak out in the next week or so. This will leave all Celtic fans with a huge problem.Choices will have to be made.Big decisions will need to be formulated and acted on. We have faced this challenge before, but I don't think any of us were prepared for it to come around again so soon. Just what flavour of jelly and ice cream is the best for phase two (snigger) of the sevco implosion!. green jhedi

Even the misses smiled at that 1 and that sayin something
Cha67

Ben and jerry sales are gonnae be off the charts! Gandalf the green

04 Aug 2013 13:45:12
This is our city. These are our colours!

Loved that banner yesterday/ Julieghirl

04 Aug 2013 10:51:47
See tbh Ed I think celtic shoulda signed mcfadden or boyd just to use in the SPL and would also wind the people up if we got boyd! What do you think? Stevo 1888

Reading Provans nonsense were we?. green jhedi

04 Aug 2013 12:59:08
Take it youve been reading davie provans colum

Celtic are a massive well funded international club.
Why we would be interested in Boyd is beyond most.

Boyd no

McFadden . he clearly has something and has played at the top level. Can conjure goals out of nothing against the top defences (france for example). does he still have it? Might have been worth a gamble

05 Aug 2013 09:33:38
mcfaddens goal against france was a hit and hope from about 40 yards!

no defence would have stopped him, forfar or france, it was a good strike, but no matter who the defence were it didn't matte,

so let's put all of this "faddy tore the french to bits" garbage to bed,

mcfadden is no better than commons and or stokes in my opinion

AdelanteBhoy

04 Aug 2013 12:10:35
We have known for ages that Wanyama and Hooper would be leaving, yet we haven't got any replacements in. Yesterdays game was screaming out for a Striker that was good in and around the box. If we had one of these then we'd have been out of sight after an hour. Better get people in quick, or are we waiting to see if we qualify for group stages to make us look more appealing to players?

Samson

I know we need another striker but I thought we were a bit unlucky yesterday. Commons, Mulgrew both hit the woodwork and Stokes could have had 4 goals, not counting our new signings (Derk) chances in the first half hour. Am more worried about Ambrose who seems to panic a bit.

Vambo

04 Aug 2013 10:57:20
Stokes got 2 goals today. playing right up front he will score more than Hooper. Hooper got nothing but praise but Stokes was putting the ball on his toe half the time. Just look at Hoopers drought after January last season until who came back from injury? Stokes. People should support our players.

People keep saying tony stokes scored 2 goals he is the man give him a break every person on this site knows he is a gr8 spfl player get u 20+ goals a season but he isn't good enough for champions league and we all know it I love the guy he bleeds green blood but need a real finisher in ASAP

04 Aug 2013 09:38:47
Well pleased to get all three points yesterday after a sluggish start.While realising the Ross County goal changed our starting tempo a bit I felt we pretty much controlled the rest of the game, and got stronger as the game went on.

At their goal I felt that Forster might have been at fault, but not having seen any TV on it I will reserve judgement. Having said that he did give it a right lash.so I am probably wrong. Where I am right however is the Stokes penalty call.Stonewaller for me.He was beyond the defender who barged into his back with wee Willie three yards from it.There was also a Commons off side call that was wrong, he had timed his run to perfection, that seems to have been missed.

Ambrose continues to be a worry.In pretty much every game he will give the opposing team at least one chance to hurt us.This needs to be addressed quickly as on the Swedes artificial pitch he could damage us beyond repair.I also thought Broony and Ledley were terrific.Grafted the whole game and always looked to drive us on.Stokes done okay.Very alert for the first goal and showed at the second what he is capable of, despite Guidi claiming it was a 'scrambled' shot.I thought he made space really well and fired it where the keeper would struggle deliberately!

Then there was big Derk.Started really brightly and could, maybe even should, have had a couple of goals he looks very pacey and direct and whipped in a couple of great crosses, which if Hooper had been there would have been goals ironically.The fact he slipped in to the central striking position a couple of times also impressed me.We might have a good one there. green jhedi

GJ . My main worry is the left back position . Izzy just can't defend . He actually lost a 50/50 tackle that led to their goal . He really needs competition for his place . You mentioned Ambrose but I felt a lot safer with Charlie playing alongside him as I think that Wilson is another accident waiting to happen . He is the only centre half I've seen in 43 years watching Celtic who doesn't go up for a corner . DH

Aye totally agree, big deek looks like a real quality signing. Can't wait to see him play a full 90 mins so we can all get a right good look at the bhoy.

Darrenbhoy

@DH: Good point mate.Izzy has become a weak link and teams know this, as they mostly try to work our left when they break.I find it strange we don't have cover there when we need to defend as his natural game is to go and get involved.Maybe if big Derk kicks on he might not have to go so far up the pitch. green jhedi