Celtic Rumours Archive June 23 2012

23 Jun 2012 23:27:04
I for one think that all Celtic supporter should boycott all Scottish cup and league cup games home and away if newco get put in division 1 people will say why boycott home games as Celtic will suffer but if we boycott games but Celtic supporters should boycott anything run by the SFA . To be honest all SPL clubs should

I think you should grow up and support Celtic and I for 1 don't care about the newco we are Celtic supports let's not forget that, we have Europen football and you are still obsessed with a newco! Starting to sound like a broken record!

Bishypaul

I'm sick and tired of calls for boycotts by Celtic / rangers/ newco fans can we not just get bak to football. If all these boycotts take effect we would b as well closing down Scottish football for good. FFs I couldn't care less bout this newco let's just get bak to supporting our own teams

I go against everything you say we are the biggest and best supported team this land ,im from england by the way, this season what ever happens we the celtic family should bring record crowds away as this will show when the chips are down and all is looking bad the answer is celtic ,hail hail

Bishypaul ... if your happy to go and watch a game of corrupt football then thats your choice but others will find it hard to get motivated or feel any real achievement in winning a league that has been exposed as a pure and utter cheating corrupt financial pantomime

I support my team not the sfa/spl or the newco so i really dont care what they do anymore. also long as celtic are alive i will be happy. and just so you know every football league and team has done something wrong in its life time. time to move on and support your team

Can't see what any boycott will achieve, to take away our support especially in away games would only be punishing our players, could you imagine walking out at a away game as a player with no celtic fans in the ground? Lets be honest, we never get a home tie in the cup but our fans make it like a home tie and to take that away from our players is only really punishing ourselves. Boycotts will only prove all these theories that clubs will go bust without the dead club, we should proving them wrong. johnbhoy79

Get a grip. I have an opinion on the newco situation but will never not support Celtic or follow them because of any reason. Quite pathetic

Skooter

I'm getting fed up hearing that we should boycott away games.

If we're cheated along the way to winning the SPL then it tastes a lot sweeter.

Yes it's utterly wrong if they end up in Div 1 but should they return to the SPL then days of Hunskelping will be back.

Big fan of the site Ed, keep up the good work

Richybhoy

IMO i think that put out of the SPL for at least one season is punishment enough. It will prove we can live without them and they will get punished more by less gate money and probably the loss of half their team and who will join them then except probably journeymen at end of careers. HH

In case you never knew:
The word 'fan' is taken from the word 'fanatic' or 'fanatical'.
We support OUR team, no matter what - good and bad times.
Personally, I remember (old)Rangers 9 in a row years all to painfully. Going through high-school, EVERYONE seemed to support (old)Rangers as they were winning. WE were lucky to finish 4th. My extended family were all (old)Rangers fans and the 'banter' I went through constantly, about the state of Celtic (biscuit tin etc) from ALL angles galvanised my love for MY team.
The Martin O'neill/Larsson and into the Strachan years, were the cherry on the icing on the cake. Vindication almost.
Boycotting home games will KILL OUR CLUB. All Celtic fans should stop this nonsense. I will go to MORE games this season. Newco will drop out the SPL for 1 season minimum and be handicapped for at least 5 years. All the football authorities are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Lets not cut our nose off to spite our face.
WE will build a dynasty under Lennon. I am looking forward to a potential Champions League campaign. I am looking forward to potential new signings. And I am most looking forward to a period of dominance to make up for my heartbreaking formative years!.........hail!hail!................kbt1978

I also getting fed up with all this newco rubbish, lets get back to supporting our team and look forward to next season with or without the rankers.
New season books bought for the 10th yr for me and the misses and i will be travelling to all the home matches to support our team.

Hail Hail

Well we've been "happy to watch games of corrupt football" for the past 10/20/30/40/50/60/70 years so why stop now?

TRP.

Please stop this nonsense about boycotting games, leave that crap to the shame.
can you imagine celtic going to tynecastle or pittodrie or wherever with no fans to spur the team on, in what are normally difficult games? yeah, that'll help!

we are celtic supporters, faithful through and through (supposed to be).....back the team regardless of what goes on elsewhere. if you want to boycott games, don't even bother turning up at paradise, cos there's plenty of people waiting in the wings that will support the team no matter what


taco

This nonsense has to stop, they will struggle in div1, they dont have a team, could be many years (if ever) before rangers are competing for anything. support the hoops and stop the cr@p. jj

They have been cheating for 20 year and if we dont stamp it out now they will cheat for another 20 all those saying move on i hope you dont come back with complaints if the newco picks up the title because you would have been apart of it

23 Jun 2012 21:17:57
spl release statement confirming last nights meeting took place ... pure and utter corruption

Yep corruption it is.
What happens to the promoted team from Div 2 if "newco" are allowed into Div 1?

Can you tell me where you heard this mate? I was hoping it wasn't true.

Spl web its a joint statement from spl sfa and sfl

Dundee or dunfermline will take newco slot leaving room for promoted div 2 team

Newcos games will still be shown on sly my guess would be the incentive to 1st division clubs would be the injection of the newcos share in the spl tv deal into the 1st division to pave the vote {Ed007's Note - So nobody will subscribe to watch the SPL without Zombie Rangers but will rush to sign up to watch them in the SFL? I'm sure the English are already queuing round the block to watch it.}

Lets just play by the rules and everybody will be happy. then again maybe not.

Sorry if this upsets you mate but the english don't even que up to watch the spl with rangers and celtic in it you's are no beter than the irish league face the facts even they do better in europe than the old firm

If a proper "Pyramid" is introduced at the same time as league reconstruction should the Newco not start at the bottom of the Deep Fry Pizza league Div 3 West?

Ed am sure thats the picture their trying to paint but i would think its more of a financial bribe to clear a path to allow the ghosts into the 1st

This is to the poster that the english dont watch the spl im from cambs and most of the pubs that watch football obviously watch epl over any other game but celtic or rangers if on will allways be shown so dont know were ya get this imformation lets face it celtic are the biggest supported team in the world and im on about real fans not some bloke in china that buys a man utd top so he becomes a fan ,real fans that support watch and read all they can on the club ,sorry about rangers i meen use to watch them

I dont believe sly pay 80 million over five year to get english fans to watch the spl its more the complete opposite to get scottish fans to watch the epl look at the setup the epl has 2 packages on sports one and two in scotland the only way you get spl on 4 is by subscribing to both epl packages on one and two and get spl on four for free they dont pay for the rights to spl they buy our fans to watch epl

Dont talk pish m8t Celtic have a decent record against English clubs over the last few years , without the riches of the EPL .

23 Jun 2012 19:48:49
if celtic do the correct thing and vote no to the newco. i hope fans
will turn up every week in good numbers no matter if we are well in
front. this is about doing the honour able thing.. i am planning to start
going to away games for first time in a few years just to show we can
survive as a league without the newco

Great point.i will also be trying to get to all away fixtures for the first time in years.Normally i can only manage 6 or 7...........green jhedi

Expect the money men to cash in and offload a lot of players so dont expect it to be that easy these guys have never missed a trick when it comes to raking in a few quid they wont fork out any more than they need to

And "these guys" as you put it should do what? Fork out more than they need to? I hope CFC do cash in but if you know anything about the policy every penny that gets generated by the club is reinvested in the club and squad.Sopot Celt AKA Aiden

AKA Aiden if thats your attitude then dont complain when they get gubbed out of europe because they sold the players and if you believe every penny thats generated at celtic is invested on players then you live on cucoo land or you need a new calculator

AKA Aiden how much " these guys " need to fork out depends on what these guys want to achieve at a time when we should be looking to progress and bring champions league football back to parkhead we should be bringing in a couple of players flogging the ones we got because the spl will be a walk over is not what " US GUYS " deserve

There have been occasions when the league has been sewn up early and attendances have dropped off so I see exactly where GJ is coming from. If we can make the group stages of the CL for the next three years that would be a 45 million head start on "The Rangers" with the added bonus of being able to attract a higher standard of player. It will be crucial this season to have attendances as high as posssible for this to come to fruition.

Mac

(The real Samaras fan, tactic geek Mac, I have noticed a doppelganger on here recently. p.s. hows Ed007 doing? I hope your leg is improving?) {Ed007's Note - I'm doing well Mac. Getting there slowly but surely. If you want to 'claim' your name leave a tag in the e-mail field and it will be unique to you, leave the tag every time you post or it will be deleted.}

Nice too see some Celtic fans are going to TRY and go to all away games from now on. I have been going to ALL Celtic games for approx 25 years. I do not care about any other clubs, having a winning team or playing 'the Celtic way'. I just support the team I love year in year out with no strings attached. Hbhoy.

No problem Ed, glad to hear you are on the mend. Are we to expect an appearance on the wing from a mercurial trequarista with 007 on his shirt at Parkhead next season?

Mac {Ed007's Note - I am hoping Henriksen will be wearing it.}

Henrikson looks like one hell of a player. Are we still in pole position now that Werder are in the mix?

Mac

Im from the midlands england and i am gona try to get some away games and as i said the other day these clubs that vote for a no to them should give celtic more tickets as this season is gona be one big party and me for one wants to see as much of it as possible,jodrok

23 Jun 2012 17:59:16
Motherwell will be plunged into administration if Rangers are not in the SPL- statement released today!

They'll be In administration either way then because newco fc in means travelling fans from other clubs won't go there.
Dannybhoy

It's also going around that Aberdeen might be going into Administration aswell

Wisen up Dannybhoy, you just know the majority of fans won`t boycott away games.

All the smaller clubs should advise their fans how much they will lose and perhaps ask if the supporters can help by increasing season ticket sales to make up the diffrence possibly giving more of a discount on kids tickets when bought with an adult one

bigD

Utter rubbish. Motherwell have no debt and are currently one of the few SPL clubs operating at a profit.

If you're going to choose a club to lie about at least choose one that actually has some debt! Idiot.

Okay, read the Motherwell statement and they are only pointing out a possible worst case scenario.

I doubt that they, or any other SPL club, will make a £1.5m loss just because Zombie Rangers aren't around.

All they're telling their fans is that there is a possibility of loss of revenue if the newco are voted out. The management need to give the fans the full picture so that they can make an educated decision on their ballot.

I also heard the world will end. I think that one was in the record. The propaganda that is coming out just now for Rangers would embarrass North Korea's government minister for bullsh*t!

23 Jun 2012 17:13:03
Celtic are in talks with Fabrizio Miccoli's agent about a possible Bosman deal, he'll be 33 next week

Raff

The guy is 5"6 and looks like he is over weight, not what we need.

One of the best forwards in Europe. In terms of physical attributes and playing style then no, he's 'not what we need'; but in terms of quality, he's head and shoulders above what is already there. Just hope you're right.

I would be amazed, hes got a dodgy knee and sits under a glass pyramid saying ohmmm in his down time. Sopot Celt {Ed007's Note - Are you watching me?}

Ditto...Sopot Celt

He's visiting this week, getting a tour of the stadium and lennoxtown, hotel and all that's booked!

23 Jun 2012 15:45:18
Ed, just seen on the zombie page a rumour that newco will be taking a year out to sort everything out which you have suggested previously. Just a thought tho, if the place in the leagues vacated by rangers is taken by spartans or whoever else then surely there'll be no room for them to come back next year knocking at the door?

MikeyBhoy

On twatter that senior non playing staff at Ibrox have been prepared for a year out of competitive football.

K-Dot.

23 Jun 2012 16:04:27
I just hope that if the ludicrous idea of Newco Rangers entering Div 1 next season is going to be considered then it will the the Div 1 clubs that vote on it and not the grey suits at Hampden that give them automatic entry.

Whilst Div 3 clubs might welcome Newco more readily, I think it will be a somewhat different reaction from Div 1 clubs.

There are several Div 1 clubs that will look beyond the two home games against Newco and look at the bigger picture of them getting promotion to the SPL. They will see Rangers as a threat to preventing this.

Falkirk FC and the fans of Partick Thistle are alreday making noises of objection. Good on them.

It would say a lot for Scottish football if the Div 1 clubs rejected Newco from entry to their league.

For the sake of the integrity of the Scottish game, this yet to be born football club should do the decent thing and apply for Div 3 membership. However, I don't think this is in Charles Green's plans - sadly.

K-Dot.

I honestly feel league does need changing, but they will never have any changes in place before end of season, I dont see sevco being able to field a team next year in any league and if they can get a team together why not start in div 1 with say 20 teams in each league?jj

23 Jun 2012 14:27:58
So according to a certain rag, if newco are allowed to join the first division it would bring back the oldest surviving fixture in scottish football league history as dumbarton are in that league. Now I find this very confusing as i was under the impression that when this newco is granted entry into the scottish football league system then their opening round of fixtures would create the newest fixtures in Scottish football league history.....

MikeyBhoy

Its all to perpetuate the myth that this newco are rangers.Every tabloid still refers to them as rangers! It is ridiculous........green jhedi

Well said Mikey Bhoy.

K-Dot.

They are DEID! Got it?! Yes! That's the Halloween costumes sorted for evermore!

TRP.

They are still trying to polish the turd, the press need to take off their red white & blue glass's

23 Jun 2012 09:41:52
See Daily R saying rangers [who are they ?]
will they say thank you ?..or You done
that because you need us we are scottish
football..answers on a postcard please ...col 3rd division now !

23 Jun 2012 10:18:08
Modern day footballers look like it's a day job, big sammy is one of the very few that wears his heart on his sleeve, I'm fed up of the stick the big yin gets, he carried the team from November last year, sure he doesn't score enough, but his sheer presence and willingness to play the game fills me with joy.... Big sammy my friends is the man.....bhrydo BHoy

I am also a big Samaras fan, the sheer work he puts in for the team. He tries a flick here and there and when they come off its great but if it didn't that's when the fans have a go at him. It's the same as Captain Broony because he isn't a flair player he dosn't get the credit at times both these players are the first in my team sheet. I would also have Chris Commons in there too. Hail Hail

I was a bit surprised at the celebrations no one seemed to go near him

23 Jun 2012 02:22:38

Saw this on the shames page and thought it should be posted

22 Jun 2012 21:16:23

Ok folks here is a call to arms for us all I have donated and I hope some of you can (Admins Please post this) instead of us bitching about football lets show the world how great the Scottish Football fans are, please repost it on your facebook and spread the word. Lets get little Olivia home to Fraserburgh

http://news.stv.tv/north/107353-family-appeals-to-get-cancer-stricken-daughter-home-from-mexico/

{Ed007's Note - I'm more than happy to post anything like that. But 'the Shame' when it is a good cause mate?????... no shame in helping others. Cheers for passing it on though.}

70070 text OLIV95 and amount from £1-£10 . agreed 007 no shame there sent my donation , lets hope god is'nt in too much of a hurry for another angel ..bb

Well said Ed, no shame in helping others
DG81

Saw this on news last night, I hope her parents can raise enough to fly little girl home to her family, let's all say a wee prayer for her. Timalloy

Just donated to this appeal heartbreaking story .puts things in perspective c'mon bhoys lets get behind this ..geo

Just donated c,mon BHOYS lets make this little girls family happy for a short while tk67