Celtic Banter Archive December 06 2018

06 Dec 2018 20:16:29
The number 7 is famous at Celtic for obvious reasons, with a suite at Celtic park named in its honour.
Players who have wore the number 8 have been very loyal to our club.
Paul McStay wore it since 1982 when selected. McStay was given 8 when squad numbers were introduced in 1992.
A couple of years after Paul retired, Alan Thompson was awarded the number 8 and when Thommo left Our captain Broony took on this well served number.
Its great to think of the honours won by these 3 players in the last 37 years.

06 Dec 2018 21:15:25
Don't know where you got your info for that but Mcstay was wearing the number 8 well before the 90s.
He wore it all during the centenary year.
He was wearing it long before numbers were put on our jersey, when we just had them on our shorts.

{Ed007's Note - Remember it was always just 1-11, Kev...

06 Dec 2018 21:28:19
In fact he was wearing number 8 around 83/ 84. Dave proven was wearing 7 back then.
Mcstay worn number 8 in both the 1984 and 1985 Scottish cup finals.

06 Dec 2018 21:41:49
I knew he did wear 7 early on ed but by time he made CM his own he wore the number 8 more than he didn't.

{Ed007's Note - I'm just meaning back then numbers were more about the players' position on the park than anything else.}

06 Dec 2018 21:45:12
Kev read my post again. I mention he wore 8 from 82 .
He wore 8 in his debut v Qots 4-0 in scottish cup.
A week later he scored his first goal away to Aberdeen in a 3-1 victory, wearing 8.
Since the squad numbers were introduced they are the only 3 players to wear that number for Celtic. McStay also made that number his own from 82 to 92 when selected.

06 Dec 2018 21:52:51
rubbish sorry Leon. Just realised you were talking about Mcstay wearing the 8 jersey and not the 7.
Didn't read your post right. Sorry.

06 Dec 2018 22:03:37
Ye ed. Sure it was 8 and 6 that were CM with 7 and 10 as wide men?

{Ed007's Note - The wingers were 7 & 11 in the old 4-4-2.}

06 Dec 2018 22:36:47
Didn't Burley wear No.8?

06 Dec 2018 23:06:47
Great shout malkybhoy.
I got my information from Celtic squad numbers transfer markt.
It gives all numbers and who played from 1992.
Number 8 caught my attention cos there was only 3 players listed.
There was a gap from 1997 to 2000 but they left out Burley.
I only noticed it cos i was listening to the phone in and they were looking for Celtic number 10 in the quiz, but Dembele left. Trick question.
I think you would be good at taking on the pundits.

07 Dec 2018 01:32:21
Number 7 used to be number of choice for me, but lately there has been a few horrors associated with it such as Ljungberg, Miku and Cifti.

07 Dec 2018 09:32:10
Numbers aren’t important it’s the wearing of the jersey 🍀.

07 Dec 2018 07:20:14
Really ed? Always thought it was other way about because burns worn 10.

{Ed007's Note - When I was younger the No.10 was your main playmaker and usually your star man before the likes of Larsson, Beckham and Ronaldo made No.7 so popular. Traditional No.10s mostly played between the midfield and attack but some were wingers or up front just off the main striker where 'second-striker' seems to be the modern term.
There's plenty more but some examples of classic No.10s are Maradona, Bergkamp, Baggio, Platini, Zidane, Gullit, Zico, Totti, Ronaldinho and Messi.}

07 Dec 2018 11:46:18
Burley was 8 as I stupidly had the name and number on my top when I was a kid until it got swiftly changed to Larsson.

07 Dec 2018 12:35:46
No7 was my 1st position inside right and that was early eighties.

07 Dec 2018 13:08:19
Would anyone give forrest the number 7?

07 Dec 2018 17:23:58
Welshy a always thought the old no8 was an inside right mate.

07 Dec 2018 19:31:34
No10 my number of choice baggio maradona matthaus all wore it struggling to name a right good Celtic no10 Lambert wore it I'm sure when he 1st signed and Andy Thom but can't recall many more except Darren Jackson i also loved no9 but was never a striker.

08 Dec 2018 01:48:24
Yes Cory, I would give no 7 to James Forrest.

06 Dec 2018 12:41:48
I think if you happen upon a formation or a system that works better than any other one, with certain players playing, you should keep playing it, I don't believe in squad rotation just for the sake of giving some players game time, in the olden days, these players would get their game time in the reserves, and be brought into the first team to replace a suspended or injured player, now you have wholesale changes, just sometimes, I think to show of, how strong your squad is.

06 Dec 2018 17:56:30
Strongest 11 everytime👍.

06 Dec 2018 20:15:33
I wouldn't criticise Rodgers too much for making changes. We had a big game in Norway last Thursday, then a cup final 3 days later, on top of that there was last nights game and the Kilmarnock match in quick succession, it's asking a lot to be playing an unchanged team in all these games.

I think if Clubs want a break in January then the season should either start earlier or finish later and spread the games out more. It just looks like they are cramming January's fixtures into December, which not only means a lot of extra expense for fans who aren't season ticket holders of their teams, but a lot of the time they are watching weakened teams so aren't getting value for money in the games they do go to.

When you look at the shambles of the scheduling of the 2 cup semi finals, the authorities need to plan the fixtures a lot better and try and ensure that fans can watch the best players more often than not.

06 Dec 2018 22:51:07
It wasn't the changes that cost us the game griff pen miss and the poor refereeing was the culprit.

06 Dec 2018 10:40:25
What I'd like for Xmas.
A young, physical rapid RB
A dominating CH to replace boyata
A new left winger
A physical target man to hold the ball up.

06 Dec 2018 11:13:46
Caught in two minds with the left winger situation. I think I'd like to see us get a striker in the mould of Dembele and see Edouard back in that wee gap between channels and lines on the leftvasking different questions. But then we have a situation where we have Sinclair as one of our highest earners pushed out the side.

06 Dec 2018 11:31:37
Defgo need a striker that can hold the ball up and bring others into play.

06 Dec 2018 15:14:04
A Danny McGrain, Billy McNeill, Bobby Lennox and big John Hartson will do Kmax.

06 Dec 2018 20:04:16
And a Lubo ged.

06 Dec 2018 22:39:17
Lubo was better than outstanding.

06 Dec 2018 23:13:26
I’d settle for getting rid of some of the deadwood this window, of which we have a lot. Including A few of our recent baffling signings, Izzy and Mulumbo.

07 Dec 2018 17:40:35
always liked the phrase celtic don`t buy stars they make them so in the january sales would like some exciting young potential preferably scottish.

06 Dec 2018 07:08:20
Let's hope the Jan window brings a striker that knows how to hold the ball up and keep possession. because the 2 we have just now can't, we lose it far to often dye to our strikers hold up play plus they are to inconsistent griff hasn't got going dye to injury and not looking for and eddy has been up and down.

06 Dec 2018 10:38:04
Outwith our current policy but Stephen fletcher offers exactly what I think we need, won't be popular but does anyone have a better option? Aus with a lot of the guys for Scotland too.

Don't want a loan that won't play in place of current strikers, no big money signing to halt progress of eddy, so an experienced striker who we can use away in Europe and against more physical team domestically would be ideal. Plus he's a celtic fan n why wouldn't he come to win trophies with us.

06 Dec 2018 11:32:54
His injury record is on a par with jozo.

06 Dec 2018 11:43:55
If we are signing Stephen Fletcher we might as well pack up and shut the doors.
The guy is a DUD he's always been a DUD.
His scoring record is shocking.

05 Dec 2018 23:51:12
Do you guys think that the changes tonight in particular Scott Brown being back in the team slowed down the attacking flare that has Been present in the last few weeks? Maybe time to bring the legend on from the bench.

06 Dec 2018 07:54:49
Think it’s too easy to question wether bringing brown back in contributed to our poor showing last night. Browns been a major player for us for 10 years now and in my opinion still has a lot to offer. Luckily for us that the injuries to brown and ntcham haven’t hampered us due to McGregor and Christie stepping up but even with the 7 changes last night we should still have had more than enough about us to have won that game. We can’t hold brown etc accountable for the constant poor distribution from Gordon or the constant passing the ball right across the back line to and fro inviting the opposition to come onto us. As Brendan said himself too many individual performances last night and not playing as a unit cost us big time, that plus missing the pen and having a perfectly good goal chalked off. That result last night feels like a defeat giving how late we lost that goal mixed with the score line fae Govan.

06 Dec 2018 12:50:20
Think I noticed when Brown was out and McGregor took that postion. McGregor didn't sit as deep as Brown. Brown goes back to the CH to collect ball so let's the opposition push up another 10/15 yards, making the midfielde more congested.

Thought Motherwell bullied our midfield last night which suprises me with Broony back.

06 Dec 2018 12:54:36
There were a few under par again last night and we have struggled to score goals in last five games (barring Hamilton away) - even when Sinclair and Eddy came on, they too were pretty awful to be honest.

One thing I don't like is that Broony does get involved in too much tippy-tappy passes along the back-line and several times we came unstuck with poor control and mistakes that would have been punished by a better team. OK we need to keep possession and look for space and forward runs, but we need to quicker and more positive like when McGregor was in that position and gave more of an attacking influence.

05 Dec 2018 23:46:25
I know the lads have been doing well the last few months but to say im frustrated with the result tonight is an understatement!
Not happy at all, its more the fact we should be finishing teams off. At 1 nil they always have a shout as it turned out. Also every time we make a lot of changed we drop points, yes we need fresh legs but 7 changes was extreme.
As i said need to start finishing teams off!