Celtic Banter Archive September 05 2012

05 Sep 2012 23:07:44
I hear we have McFadden on trial? Any truth in it?
I have never been McFadden's biggest fan and in my opinion Commons is a far better player.
However, if Lenny thinks he's better than what we have already then I'll welcome him.
I trust the manager to do the right thing.

whatever_happened_to_momo_sylla

It's not about getting better than what we have outside of transfer windows also! McFadden is a free agent, not many about, also it's what Celtic can afford.... Sure there's better than Commons out there but can Celtic afford them? Also has commons spent 8 years in the SPL playing top teams week in week out.
It's Lenny's strategic plan let him get on with it.

First post should be EPL (for 8 years) not SPL. McFadden was in EPL.

05 Sep 2012 22:17:01
Was at a funeral today and there was a lot talk about the dark side losing some of there titles they won,some reckon there is a meeting being set up to determin if they loose them or not.just wondered how other hoops fans felt about it if we got them.im all for them losing them but not sure how I feel about us getting them because in any other sport if u cheat the runner up gets the win,athletics,cycling etc.

There has to be legitimate winners or else the integrity of the tournament is null and void in which case I'm suing SPL for my season ticket money back for each non tournament. This would be the right of every SPL supporter.

If Celtic do not get the titles then Celtic FC should sue the SPL. Celtic spent millions legitimately of their fans money plus all the honest hard work and effort to win those titles. Not to hand them over would be criminal. The Rangers minded will try everything to stop the rightful champions getting the 5 titles. Beware of Rankers fans pretending to be tic men saying they don't want tainted titles. It's their agenda. The titles are clean it's that old club that's tainted.

Absolutely. If its decided they cheated, every team moves up one spot, and bizzarely they end up where all those 3-0
Defeats would have led, but through their own actions, div 3. Justice should be pursued as ruthlessly as the perpetrator pursued the proceeds of the crime. Take the lot.

05 Sep 2012 21:11:42
Not an Old Firm fan? (From the blue pages.)

"i come on here now and again just to see the drivel that is posted 95 percent of the time. i do not support either of the old firm clubs. some people on here are bitter and twisted on both sides of the divide, of that there is no question. what really amazes me as an outsider looking in is the hate driven obsession with all things rangers from celtic fans. cant support their own team for worrying about rangers. and i think that hits the nail on the head, they ARE worried because they know that in a few years time rangers will come back bigger and stronger than ever. it will be the biggest comeback since lazarus and they know it. a few years away yet and already they are worried. its pathetic the way they turn their energy into hating all things rangers. no wonder society is in such a bad way.
big fella inverness."

Hmmm.

Wee Fella {Ed007's Note - Some people are just confused, sad and pathetic. If you ever deny the team you support, or pretend to support another team, for any reason then you don't deserve to call yourself a supporter of any team. No wonder society is in such a bad way indeed! Just ignore them and hopefully they will go away, or they might be lucky enough and finally get their Nat King.}

Is that u terry?
Cha67

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind 'rangers' will be back. You could say they are already are in everything except the league they play in. Is Ally McCoist doesn't win at least a 'Cup' as well as the lower division leagues I would demand a refund.

They have the wage bill & players of an SPL team, TV income, training facilities and ground.

In a way, they are actually flattered that they were the biggest football news of the past few months albeit for the wrong reason but hey ho.

Financially, it will be a very long time (if ever) before they are any bigger than Celtic ~ Mrs E

In fairness thou if you where a sevco fan would you have the bottle to admit it ??

Never read such a biased and untruthful post yet. Rangers are dead there will be no comeback and the newco at this rate will be in administration before end of the season. £7mill a year for a 4th tier team is unreal!! Keep hoping you lot win your fish supper cup while we are on the road again!!
Campsie Tim

Lol.
Could the same expectation and pressure be applied to CFC and NL if they fail to win the treble for the second year in a row? You know,considering how much better they are than everyone else? lol
P.O.B. {Ed007's Note - Us not winning the treble actually made Scottish football look better POB, 3 trophies, 3 different teams winning them. It shows that there was healthy competition last season even with McCoist making a meal of things. Why shouldn't the same thing happen. Wasn't it meant to be if CFC didn't win a trophy then it MUST be Rangers that won it, wasn't Scottish football always reported as a two horse race? Your team couldn't even make a final, it shows how poor Rangers final season as a club actually was, there is no point deductions in knockout competitions so no excuses there......}

Oh POB...our rookie manager is in the group stages of the Champions League. What has your's done, after all...he did have 6 years experience under Walter Smith. A luxury compared to Neil Lennon managerial experience.

To answer your question though, if we had failed to get into the group stages of the CL and struggled this season then yes, I would be asking questions.

Back to you.. Mrs E

You can't make Scottish football look better ed! It's total dross has been for years and IMO is even weaker now. Of course this is entirely irrelevant to the RANGERS saga.
Hearts have offloaded Skacel,Templeton Black, Beattie and Suso.
Celtic fans thought Dundee Utd would roll over for a pittance of an offer for Mckay Steven and Russell.
All it has done is allow CFC to drop points left right and centre and still win the league by a country mile without spending any money, Does that make anyone else other than Celtic stronger?
Spare me the Scottish football is on the up propaganda Ed,we both know it's utter tosh mate. And i'm not buying the younger players getting a chance mojo either. England a country ten times our size aren't even producing the players they have done in the past. What chance does our country have of attracting massive tv deals with poorer quality players,sadly it is all about TV money,
sponsorship and shareholding.
Just look to Charles Greene and the Man Utd owners.
P.O.B. {Ed007's Note - I fail to see any comparison between Green and the Glazers at Man Utd. I'm not feeding you any propaganda POB, the propaganda is that Scottish football is a two horse race that needed Rangers. The team you have chosen to follow over the summer are in the Scottish fourth division, the team you followed last year ended their existence trophyless.
Last season the three trophies played for went to three different clubs. Rangers didn't make any finals, considering they still had the same squad throughout the administration process. How many trophies were Rangers eliminated from before administration and how many league points did they lose? The 15 point swing surely must still embarrass men sitting in pubs reminiscing about the club they used to support's demise and obliteration from the Scottish game.
Scottish football is on a downward spiral, I am not denying that. The thing is though that Rangers were major contributors to it, and its bastardised version has became irrelevant.
I am actually bored reading about your new team, they have no significance or power in Scottish football any more and obviously that must hurt. Now they have stooped to boring everyone to tears banging on about attendances and fake world records, it's laughable at best and pathetic at worst. CFC have a 125 year start on this abomination of a football club, the sooner the novelty wears off with the new club the better for everyone else and we can get back to playing football. The bottom rung of Scottish football holds no interest whatsoever to me and luckily I have no reason to watch any games they are involved in any more.
I told you months ago POB, your grandchildren will be CFC fans. What kid is going to want to watch your new team, the new club holds no attraction to the next generation of fans apart from their father drumming it into them. The majority of kids will follow a successful team that is winning things, that is human nature. What kid would prefer to go and watch The Rangers in the fourth division or CFC against a European team they have sat and seen on TV for years....Messi or McCulloch?
Stick to looking in the mirror for hidden messages POB, remember it was all just a big Timmy conspiracy, everything was, is and will be fine.}

You tell him ED {Ed007's Note - POB will have a comeback, I'll be disappointed if he doesn't.}

POB does it not excite you that we have got ridden of Suso, Skacel and co? Does it not excite you that Scotland is having to bring through it's own players? You poor wee Sevco fans seem to be the only folk going on about our football dying, the rest of scottish footba;ll fans are relishing seeing some youngsters come through.

So lets sit back and enjoy our kids coming through and enjoy the benefit the national team will from it......unless your a Sevco fan and you hate the world and want to boycott everyone assosciated with sport in this country

Well...That was a bit of a rant Ed!

Obviously "The Rangers" still being around has ruffled your feathers somewhat.
Never mind,hopefully you feel a bit better for getting rid of all that pent up emotion?
That's okay as this seems to be an ever increasing trend amongst CFC fans.

Regarding the presumably (tongue in cheek) reference to grandchildren etc following CFC,can i just point out that having attended the home matches this season i have seen more kids at the games than in previous years,so the future looks bright on that front.
While a 4th division club continues to attract nearly 50,000 at their home games it would appear that the "successful team's" attendances are dwindling.
Perhaps their fans are a tad upset with being charged increased season ticket prices only to see a lesser product on the park as no significant money was made available to the manager to bolster the CL campaign? Despite the consistent pleas from many fans and your good self for a quality cb and striker.
A club is defined by it's followers or affiliated membership so the proof is there in the attendance figures at our club's games that we are still very much alive and a force to be reckoned as everyone knows the power of an effective fan base.
Everybody knows who we are,some are more upset about that than others.
As Abraham Lincoln once said "You can't please all of the people all of the time".
How true!
P.O.B.
p.s. Sorry about baling out last night,had a family emergency to deal with,thankfully all is well in the POB household. {Ed007's Note - I hope your family are OK POB, sorry to hear that. Why are you comparing your new club with a club that has 125 years of unbroken history, I would think you should be looking at Airdrie United, another new club for a better comparison or even business model.
If The Rangers want to see the downfall of the SPL why are they still obsessed with it and rabidly ranting about when they will make their debut in it? It's like Fleetwood Town fans trying to slag off Man Utd.
I am surprised to see you are towing the pathetic party line about attendances, I thought you would have been more mature than that but you do realise have the largest travelling support in Scotland and will have for the foreseeable future, we are taking thousands of fans to away games (home and abroad) and have the largest attendance in Scotland every two weeks, see how sad that sounds?
Although I must say I am glad you are seeing more kids at your home games, hopefully that means the atmosphere at the new club's games are more family friendly than the club that previously played at Ibrox, that has got to be a good thing and better for Scottish society as a whole IMO. It means kids can get used to watching football at a young age in the lower leagues without the intense rivalry involved at the business end of the game where trophies are up for grabs.
I actually still go to the odd Accies game to this day simply because when I was younger I wasn't allowed to travel into Glasgow myself if my dad or uncles weren't going to Celtic Park. It's good to hear of kids supporting smaller teams.
When a brand new show starts on TV everybody tunes in at first to see what it is like, after a while the viewing figures will drop and even out to a steady level, The Rangers are just like that, a brand new show that people want to see, once the novelty wears off the programme finds it level.
Is it set as a straw a month you are all clutching at or is it just when ever some super-lager soaked stoater can come up with something new?
BTW, I can exclusively reveal that an undercover reporter has been to both stadiums and secretly filmed the queues and compared prices for a pie.....hold the back page and get on the phone ins, this could be massive!
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.}

Totally agree Ed, when the novelty wears off will we still hear from POB and co.....

DazzaBhoy

Very good Ed. Lol.
DBhoy. What is this novelty you speak of?
I have supported my club for 35 years and will continue to do so. Therefore i assume you are talking about CFC winning a few trophies when devoid of any competition?
Yeah i can see your point.
P.O.B.

05 Sep 2012 00:57:05
Ed is it true that James McFadden is training with/ on trial with Celtic , think he would do a job for us in the cl he looked the part in epl {Ed007's Note - It depends what part it was he looked, I would let him sell programmes in a heartbeat. His 11 league appearances (a massive 13 overall) and single league cup goal in two full seasons says CL level could prove problematic, he is without a club for a reason.}

He is a terrible player... has lived on his Scotland goal for the last 5 years or so. He isn't even good enough for Everton now, the guy should drop a level, would be a great signing for the jags

He's been hawked on trial aroung every club in the uk, i have too disagree with you on this one ed sorry but selling our programmes is far too good for him send him too the burger van and sell the burgers.

I read that the Champions League deadline for players was Monday night so he would be ineligible.

He would probably do a turn in the SPL , but not on the money he's used to , worth taking a look at .

Faddy is not a terrible player on his day the boy could skip past any defender or 2 but sadly he is well past his best thru injury laziness and believing his own hype which I personally think is a shame as could have been a Scotland great......wait a minute he is remember France holland and many more I'm sure he's still our top goal scorer,wot a pity hail hail
Cha67