Celtic Rumours Archive November 04 2012

04 Nov 2012 20:45:36
Is there a certain reason why we are playing at 3pm next Sunday or am I just being a wee bit cynical .........DH

European Game on wednesday.

St Mikey

What are you getting at mate?
,.,.kbarry

The zombies are playing on Saturday so we got moved

To give us time to sober up after playing Barca.

Why should it be a sunday after weds euro game? no need.
also, shouldnt we, as the SPL side, have the first option on saturday fixtures?
Not eveyrone can make a sun game.
Stevo Dundee

It's as a previous poster says its due to them playing on the sat not enough police to play both games at the same time. Think they've had a few moved now, it happens.

Why should a 4th tier game take precedent over the Champions of Scotland ........DH

Just because you are an spl team doesnt give you the god given right to play on a saturday.

Not just an SPL team but the Champions of Scotland playing in the top league in Scotland . Compare to a newco getting preferential treatment . Only in this country . Nothing new......DH

Zombies dont do sundays so they are gettin a wee day out on the saturday

04 Nov 2012 19:50:44
hope rumours are true celtic will go it alone in the sponership on the shirts next season no need to have joint venture with Newco as they are 4th tier team and no value in deal as Old Firm is now dead remember that the Oldco went with McEwans when Souness arrived left us with CR Smith so despite MSM going on about joint deal is needed we need to be firm and go alone any opinions on this

Might sound like a daft question but what does MSM actually stand for. pat-c {Ed007's Note - It stands for the 'Mainstream Media'.}

04 Nov 2012 18:12:27

Green Brigade: Important Info re: 125th anniversary display

On the 7th of November, 125 years and one day from Celtic's founding meeting in St Mary's in the Calton, we take on Barcelona in the Champions League.

With brilliant financial backing from the Celtic support, we have organised a fantastic full-stadium display to mark the occasion and celebrate our incredible history and we need EVERY fan to play their part in making it a success. For that to happen, we need everyone to make a big effort to get in early and to follow these instructions.

Do NOT raise the material at your seat during You'll Never Walk Alone. Instead, wait for the cue from the Green Brigade corner at section 111 to do so before the teams come out. With your continued support we can, 125 years on from the founding of our club, continue to show the world just what the great Celtic support can do.

Green Brigade

I am sure yous will get full support bhoys. .H.

Can't wait to see it! As you guys are doing a great job, I just hope ppl are there early because I think it is an early kick off so it might be hard and was worried that a lot will be missing for the first 10min or so. But it is barca so and cl so maybe ppl will make the extra effort. Can't wait to see the place rocking and showing the world just what paradise is about!

Look forward to being part of that !

04 Nov 2012 15:21:06
What a calamitous end to what should have been a very tough dug-deep victory.
Broony was knackered around 60 mins (which seems more and more predictable these days) so although 2 defensive subs were necessary early on I think Kayal should have been on for Brown to protect the lead.
That said I haven't seen Dundee Utd play with such energy and fight for weeks and I know they all raise their game against the Champions but we should be able to hold a 2 goal lead so late in the game.
Finally 5 Celtic players booked by William of Collum while Flood and Dillon to name but 2, were unpunished for bad tackles etc. The wee nyaff is as predictable as ma next jobbie. (However why Watt went into the crowd when Miko had been booked was just daft).
Anyway played well for most of the game but lapses again costing us in the SPL; where 6 wins from 11 games is not great in my opinion and all this 'CL distraction' excuses just doesn't cut it for me.
We have the biggest and best squad in the league and so far are too inconsistent for my liking.
We need to be much tighter and sharper on Wed if we want a sniff at a decent result against Barcelona.

Jungle Jim

The only booking that was unlucky to receive was izzys.

Foolish of watt and miku did. They know you get booked for going to the crowd

I know Miku and Watt were daft but can anyone of us really say we wouldn't have done the same especially for Watt who's a young boy and a Celtic man. (Still raging with dropping points) MurphyBhoy

I think it was the case of went two up, job done and players switched off, bad luck for ambrose own goal , broony is f****d with hip which is why he hardly plays spl football.diff game on wed night but if we show same kind of performance for 90 instead of 80 mins we should be ok................. bhoywonder

It is still stupidty - not passion. He is well aware of the rules, regardless if he is a celtic man or not

Miku went into crowd fair enough but watt kinda backed off,.,.kbarry

Show the same kind of performance on wednesday, wether it be 80 mins or 90 mins, bhoywonder then celtic are in the big trouble, united had more than a few chances to take the lead, if barcas defence is allegedly dodgy, whats celtics? - john

John, Good enough to be top of the SPL.
Tambhoy

Tambhoy, if rangers were still in spl, then fans would be questioning neil lennon, and the champions league, should have beat benfica at home but got a win in moscow, that cancelled the poor performance at parkhead out. - john

04 Nov 2012 14:50:04
The change was brown for kayal, not mcourt gave the first goal away, brown was done after 60 mins no legs. The second goal the ref had watched flood push brown down how is that not a free kick and he booked izzy for Russell running into him. Column is a Tosser. Cmac.

Cant give the ref the full blame for conceeding two goals in the last 60seconds. 1 win in 4 games... Any other season we would call for a new gaffer

There was a handball right in front of the ref for a united penalty the ref never gave either

Far too many players of the same style in the team today. mulgrew should`ve been centre half instead of rogne and this would`ve left a space for miku to start up front with watt leaving commons to play just behind the front 2. team selection by the manager was far too rigid and when miku came on and mulgrew dropped back that is when celtic began to create.

I agree, brown should have went off cause it looked like he was hurting. Not sure what that means for cl cause I thought he would be rested for it, seems a waste of a spot if we could only get 50min from him for cl although he would give his all for it and put in a good shift. Maybe put him in as a late sub to give a little grit then speed in the last part of the game.
Hope today's injuries are not bad and this was a good kick in the behind to wake the guys up and play thier best for barca.

To all of the above,get real,I trust Lennys judgement about players and formations more than yours, To the OP spot on re Collum how can anyone watching that see no bookings for Dundee and 5 for Celtic

Come on guy's if you expect anything from these Referee's your living in cloud cuckoo land.Especially Mr Collum.
Tambhoy

04 Nov 2012 14:48:14
Who said spl would be boring! A great match today,thought both teams done well.Watt is goin to be some player,well already is me thinks. deebhoy

The SPL is an exciting competitively fought league. Thrilling roller coaster of ups and downs. Entertaining value for money. Much better now than the previous 12 years of performance financial doping by Old historical Rangers.

"The SPL is an exciting competitively fought league"




HAH

Hilarious mate :D

04 Nov 2012 13:20:15
If its true that we are likely to lose Hooper in Jan or the summer then wouldn't Watt and Russell make a good partnership ? Both young with great sell on value if they click and perform well.

Would like to see an all Scottish attack at the club , would also help the national squad ( as long as Levein aint in charge )

Who gives a to$$ about the national squad!!

I care about my national team. And i am sure every player who stars for their national team are proud. People who claim players dont like internationals are from nations who are cr*p. ask the spanish team if they are proud to play for their country

If you are Scottish and dont care about your national football team there is more of a problem with you than the national team !!
A Scottish attack sounds good to me {Ed007's Note - Why must there be a problem with anyone who doesn't care about their national team? I have no interest in Scotland at all or any other international football team for that matter.
I watch matches/tournaments as a neutral and would prefer to see Germany or Argentina win than anyone else.
International football is getting progressively worse every tournament and it can all be traced back to Diana Ross fluffing her 'penalty kick' at the opening ceremony of the USA94 World Cup.
If people don't care about their national team then that is really up to them, wouldn't you agree?}

The thing is though mate our nation is cr*p your contradicting yourself there and 2. Russell to replace hooper c'mon, ,.,.kbarry

I would like to see a scottish manager in charge of scotland it takes time to build a team and a squad an other blunder by the sfa 700 000 pay off then to replace him and a new contract for new replacement ok the results were not good this takes time questions have to be asked billy stark seems to be doing a good job at under 21 the minute they become full caps it all goes wrong we have some good players but we dont seem to gel as a national team

04 Nov 2012 01:00:25
i have heard wes hoolahan has turned down norwich's latest contract offer.

how much do you think he would be on a week and would we be able to get him?

i think he is the type of player we are missing, someone that plays in the hole, is creative and can play a killer pass.

thoughts?

You mean like Kris Commons? The inform player in Scotland just now. Hoolahan is a handy player mind you, I'll give you that.

Agree with ^^^^ kris commons better than hoolahan IMO but still could defo do a job in the spl, champions league totally different story

deccy67

NO,.,.kbarry

Should have had the bhoy before he went down south as glimpses of ability were on show for Livingston.

Rather have big Holt
Tambhoy

Sounds like a whole lotta hoolahan to me ;p

and for that reason alone, although petty, i dont want him

i much prefer kris commons who is scottish
couldnt help but notice we only started 2 scots against barca
i wish we had more but then again who do u drop