Celtic Banter Archive August 04 2014

04 Aug 2014 18:31:47
Ed do you know of any of our transfer targets?

{Ed007's Note - I've got nothing mate, sorry. I'm just catching up with today, I had a family emergency to deal with.}

Hope everything works out for you ED and for your family .

{Ed007's Note - Cheers, mate, appreciated. My mother-in-law took a wee bad turn and has ended up in hospital.}

Hope your mother in law is ok mate. Thanks for getting back to me any way.

{Ed007's Note - Cheers buddy.}

Family first Ed. Hope everything is ok.

{Ed007's Note - Cheers.}

All the very best to the M I L Ed

{Ed007's Note - Thanks, Jamie.}

Likewise from the SW: best of hope & health for your kin, Ed007

{Ed007's Note - Thanks.}

04 Aug 2014 15:27:26
Craig Gordon brought in to replace Fraser Forster? Don't think so, especially after his performance(?) against Tottenham Hotspur between the sticks . 6-goal howlers are definitely not the standard required for a Celtic No.1!!!

The Sno Man

Sadly, I am starting to think so.

04 Aug 2014 21:20:23
Wouldn't say they where howlers mate give him time to get match fit and been a keeper myself confidence and games are key to performance he's a class keeper

{Ed007's Note - How can you justify saying he's a class keeper, what are you basing that on? Saturday was his first full 90 mins in THREE years and he let 6 get past him.
Any class Gordon had was lost in those three years he spent trying to get fit, it's only this calendar year he has been fit enough to do any proper GK training and that started off as a very slow process to protect himself from further injury.
Gordon will never get back to the level he was at before his injury problems, if you've been a keeper yourself you'll know how tough the mental, as well as physical, challenges he'll face in every match will be. It will always be preying on his mind that one awkward fall or heavy knock could potentially cripple him, you don't have injuries as severe as his without them taking a mental toll on you.}

Too much of a coincedence he was brought in at a time there is speculation about forster

I agree with you Ed no matter how good form he appears to be in, I think the Physicality and the Mentality will both present major problems for the goalkeeper trying to restart a career after so long on the sidelines .

04 Aug 2014 23:27:05
That could just be the final straw for me if we go into the season wae gordon as out top keeper. don't think he'll last till xmas.

He had a team of kids in front of him, plus Efe against a very strong Spurs team! Forster let in 6 against Barca last season. It happens. I think Gordon, if he stays fit, can be a very good keeper for us and I don't understand all the negativity, it was the same with Griffiths on this site. If you think it's a cheap option then have a pop at PL but I support any player who signs for Celtic.

{Ed007's Note - There is nothing to point towards Gordon being a success, people are thinking of Gordon from 6/7 years ago, he has a worse injury record than either Owen Hargreaves or John Kennedy. The last time Gordon was fully fit was the year Kennedy was finally forced to retire.
It's nothing to do with the cheap option, it's the glass knees and arms option that worries me, if Forster goes and Gordon is made No.1 I expect Zaluska to look for an exit, then where are we if Gordon gets injured, which by the law of averages is highly likely. If Gordon is our No.1 it will cost us this season, hopefully the Spurs game has shown the management that he is too big a risk, he's going on about being able to kick the ball up the park when the manager is talking about playing from the back, it shows how out of step he is with the modern game. Not many teams play Route One from the GK to the CF with one kick these days.
Griffiths has done exactly what I thought he would - not a lot. Hopefully he is moved on this summer, I doubt anyone would be too upset or even notice, and we can draw a veil over what can only be described as a verging on lunacy episode on Pedro's part.}

If/when Forster gets sold and we do not buy a replacement then I just hope fasan is a cracking keeper because it's inevitable that Gordon's going to get crocked! And zaluska is just not good enough! Let's just hope that we get in the CL group stage and either keep/replace Forster.

SOS BHOY KEV BHOY & ED too all make great points here IMO I was a keeper and believe me it will be on his mind about the injury! Look @ Peter Cech and that "tea cosy" and a believe that is why they are bringing in Courtois, but CG is being judged by one man here, one of the most trusted people at CP & that is Stevie Woods folks it was him that decided not PL or RD, Before we hada manager! a trust his judgement to have introduced yoga to Gkeeping is clever! So CG will get a chance IMO but as a posted really excited about Fasan never seen a keeper with that much AGILITY a suspect being young, supple, the yoga is/has worked well for him atvb

Ed reading those comments makes me think if my granny had balls she would be my grandad ( if Forster leaves ) ( if Gordon gets no1 ) ( zaluska might look elsewhere ) nothing has happened YET! And if it does what's to say we don't go out and get another keeper who turns out to be as good as the big man or that Gordon surprises you and has a really good season u never know mate!

{Ed007's Note - If I was you I'd prepare for disappointment.}

05 Aug 2014 12:58:16
Yeah I'm with ed on this one to, ed Said last year that the board were gojng to pull stuff like this and myself and a few other argued till we were blue in the face with him, but the dude was right. I'll take this opportunity to apologize for it ed. As for gordon unless he is going to be lucaz's replacement so he can take over the number 1 Jersey then that makes a bit more sense. He cannot replace Fraser though! If he does then we will all know exactly what the board are doing! We will become just another small club at this rate.

{Ed007's Note - No need to apologise to me, Darren, I'd have much rather been proven wrong :(