It was nothing more than a pre-season warm up. Even if we had lost it wouldn't send shivers through the support. You need to see the team in competitive football to make a judgement. Your comment is like me saying "I think Man Utd have lost the Premiership already cos they didn't look too special in keepy-uppy.
Posted on Jul 10, 2000, 6:39 PM from IP address 194.106.64.127
Hey Paul - I think you Celtic supporters are a bunch o' wankers. You're gonna be slaughtered again next year by the Glorious boys in blue. No matter which players you buy we still have the best team in Scotland.
Posted on Jul 8, 2000, 11:47 AM from IP address 194.106.64.166
You and all your sad mates in The North of Ireland (Where don't belong) are just the same !!! Your cheap comments and actions will get you nowhere !! You bowler hatted orange arseholes !!!!
Nothing more than a bunch of clowns !!!
Posted on Jul 11, 2000, 3:53 PM from IP address 212.161.40.2
as you know its getting closer to the start of the new season,and i dont know about you but im scared as we havent got 1 change to the team.WLL WE EVEN BEAT BRAY THIS WEEK?
Posted on Jul 7, 2000, 12:06 AM from IP address 62.252.136.243
how many times do we call the daily record a hun newspaper then believe everything they say.
the anti dalglish campaign was disgraceful and we are applauding them every time we criticise kenny.
kenny dalglish is known for buying the league with
blackburn but ferguson didn't buy the league with man utd or neither did smith or advocaat at ibrox.
kenny spent 27.5m at blackburn over a few seasons
against top opposition and is accused of buying the league. dick advocaat spent more in his first season and is hailed as a hero.
who do you believe the daily record or me.
don't be naive and just think about the agenda, i crave for celtic to be successful and dignified.
is the daily record upset because celtic are not winning.
i will finish with some facts .
kenny dalglish - managerial career
club - end of season - premier position
l'pool - 85/86 - first
l'pool - 86/87 - second
l'pool - 87/88 - first
l'pool - 88/89 - second
l'pool - 89/90 - first
b'burn - 91/92 - promoted via play-offs
b'burn - 92/93 - fourth
b'burn - 93/94 - second
b'burn - 94/95 - first
n'castle - 96/97 - second
if a celtic man was getting beat up at bridgeton cross by thugs and the thugs said to you it was the celtic fans fault would you help them beat him up further. no because you wouldn't trust them.
then why when the daily record (hun paper) attacks a celtic man like kenny do we jump on the daily record bandwaggon and believe kenny gets paid to play golf.
if anyone out there believes the plc board would let kenny play golf for £600,000 a year then we really are in trouble.
p.s. sorry the message is lengthy but i had to make the point
Posted on Jul 6, 2000, 11:32 PM from IP address 194.117.134.67
Being stuck down in Brighton the only real Tim coverage I get is through the Daily Ranger and I think the term take it with a pinch of salt would describe my approach to their 'reporting'. Ok, KD made some mistakes over his year back at the club but who wanted him, who howled for his appointment - us the fans.
The appointment of Barnes was an error and I can't believe some people posting on various message forums actually believe that KD deliberatley set out to fuck the club up. It was an experiment that went wrong. Kenny had a proven track record as a coach, his response to pressure was always the big question mark.
Tony has listed his achievements and I for one agree him, you can't call the record a hun paper one minute and then believe everything it has to say the next. I will always believe in Kenny Dalglish the Celtic legend my family told me all about and not the golf playing parasite the record would have me believe.
Posted on Jul 7, 2000, 4:16 PM from IP address 194.83.240.17
it sells papers. If fans a gullable enough to believe everything that is written in every newspaper then no one is safe from the snipers.
I believe Kenny is Celtic through and through. He just got it wrong this time. Like he said (In the Record) "You can take Dalglish out of Celtic but you can't take Celtic out of Dalglish.
To be perfectly honest I think Dalglish got a raw deal from the supporters. They were looking for a scapegoat and Kenny was it, as Barnes was before and Fergus before him. I think Barnes is not a bad coach but he still has a lot to learn. Kenny on the other hand is experienced and I think if he had been given some support and some real cash he would have turned things around for us. It all comes down to cash in the end. Rangers have plenty and are not afraid to spend it whilst we are playing catch up in both the football department and in the financial department.
You can't knock Dalglish for spending money at Blackburn or Dick Eggnog for doing the same at Rangers. Money does buy success these days as most class players will go where the money is and then move on to where there's more money.
In the days of Jock Stein Celtic players were paid a very modest basic wage but they had decent win bonuses and they played their hearts out for Celtic. Now with all the foreigners around not many of them realise what it is to be a Celt and that's how it is these days.
It's a case of "No pay, no play."
Posted on Jul 7, 2000, 6:32 PM from IP address 194.106.64.121
now that the papers have got rid of barnes and dalglish their next target is mcdonald.
this man is well qualified in the business world and is celtic through and through (as was frank o'callaghan, something not right there).
the reason for getting rid of him is because he appointed dalglish who appointed barnes.
pathetic, short sighted and conned if you swallow that one.
if you get sacked at your work will your boss get sacked and his boss and his boss etc till you reach the top.
if all the fans get behind mcdonald it will be hard for him to be sacked as the plc will not want to upset the fans as it affects the share price. (this is the reason barnes was sacked)
mcdonald, apart from sorting mccann's mistakes ,
has delivered in the area the fans ask and that is money.
for the first time in over thirteen years, last season saw celtic spend more money than rangers
and this season will be the same.
rangers money spent on squad players will be surpassed.
Posted on Jul 7, 2000, 7:39 PM from IP address 213.48.34.155
But he still went to the press to complain about playing a position for Celtic which he was happy to play in (& tried harder in) for Scotland, so I don't know how he can say he'll sue Barnes (how much that's the last we hear of it going to court).
We got one great season out of Burley, but after that the effort levels went right down.
The thing that KD & JB did wrong was they didn't denounce him as one of the main causes of trouble in the dressing room at the time.
Stubbs can go as well, he's another who appears in the papers every time he's playing well & makes more demands - O'Neill will soon sort him out.
Posted on Jul 6, 2000, 11:09 AM from IP address 194.247.67.205
On an investors website one of the people writing to the CFC bulletin board suggested putting down a few of your favorite memories of watching the Bhoys, his were:
1) Celtic 5 Sporting Lisbon 0 What a night
2) Terry Butcher with a beautifully directed bullet header.
3) Away in Amsterdam
Mine were:
Some of Many Great Moments -
1 - Centenary Season - All of it - it was a fantastic year to be a Bhoy. (Particular highlight - 2-1 v the manky mob at castle greyskull, Rogan heads for corner flag, Walker chests it into the net - you knew the league was ours).
2 - The last game of the 98/99 season away to Dundee Utd - the humour of the Celtic fans (& the 1/2 dozen Partick fans) after a really crap year was brilliant - so good that Dykstra ran to us instead of his home fans in his last game for Utd. This is part of what it means to be one of the faithful.
3 - The 2 games v Liverpool in the Cheerio to 10 in a row season, these games were the inspiration for the league win that year I'm sure. Noise so loud that the stands were shaking, showing the Kop what real noisy supporters are, gut-wrenching passion flowing from the fans & the players responding. This is another part of what it means to support Celtic.
Lets hear any others, & remind ourselves what we support the Tic for!!
Posted on Jul 5, 2000, 3:01 PM from IP address 194.247.67.205
Another reply from the investor's forum ... brilliant
by Rod Copeland
Trying to pick Three is so difficult but going from matches that I attended it would have to be.
In reverse order, obviously.........
3. The 5-1 game under the Venglos team of two season ago.
Apparently, well according to the Scottish media!, we were going to get an absolute hiding from Rangers that day.
As it happens, we absolutely trounced them 5-1 when it should really have been 7, what a great score that is :>))
The sight of 53,000 Tims walking down the Gallowgate to get pished (Scottish word for pissed!) with flags out of people's windows, car horns blaring and people partying all over the place, it was a wonderful day and night.
2. The 2-2 game against Liverpool at Parkhead.
I have been to better games but one of the main reasons for picking this match was the wonderful sight of both sets of fans singing "Walk On" before, during and after the match.
In these days of football violence, it was wonderful to see two sets of opposing fans raising their Green & White and Red & White scarfs proudly above their heads and belting out a song that means so much, not just as supporters of our respective clubs, but to many of us who grew up listening to sadly departed parents teaching us this wonderful football anthem.
There was many a tear shed at this match.
Btw the match wasn't too bad either :>))
1. The day we beat St Johnstone 2-0 at Paradise to win the League and stop the ugly mob from breaking our Nine-In-A-Row record.
The nerves, the emotion, the heartaches and the joy all in one wonderful day. Things on a footballing & personal front just don't get much better than this.
I remember how the entire working week prior to the Saturday match was just a way of killing time before the big event!
I kept looking at my watch non-stop and counting down the minutes to the game. It's amazing how many other Tims felt the exact same way that week!
Then on the Friday night, after drinking half a dozen beers to help calm the nerves and get me to sleep, I eventually went to bed at 3.00am
Thinking that I'd had a great nights sleep, I awoke only to find that it was 6.00am and I had slept for the grand sum of THREE hours! Oh Nooooo.
I decide to put on the centenary video and after watching it for little more than ten minutes, I hear the patter of tiny feet and my 2 and a half year old son comes down the stairs to join his Dad in watching the Celts.
The morning dragged on and eventually after what felt like a year of waiting, it was 3.00pm and the match kicked off.
2 mins past 3 and the great Swede Henrik Larsson had calmed the nerves for all of ten minutes by scoring a wonderful goal. The next seventy minutes were a time of nail bitting, knuckle biting after the nails had been chewn away and profuse sweating as we knew that if the Saints scored then our dreams would be shattered.
Suddenly a quick break up the right from Boyd who chips a lovely ball to McNamara who then runs a further 20 yards down the right flank before sending over a wonderful pass to our Norwegian hero (He is a long story!) Harald Brattbakk who calmly slots the ball home to make it 2-0 and the League title is ours.
I remember hugging my mate for about two minutes with both of us yelling, we're the champions now, they'll (Rangers) never take away our record.
Tears were flowing around the stadium and the place was a buzz of all that is wonderful in life. The songs were sung louder than ever before and the stadium was a sea of Green & White bedlam as everyone was partying as if this was the last day of their lives.
The night is but a blur but I do remember waking up the next day and finding a large piece of the pitch in my back pocket, oh yes, and finding a Celtic scarf tied round my dogs neck :>))))
Sweet bliss.
Eddie
Posted on Jul 6, 2000, 11:21 AM from IP address 194.247.67.205
i think celtic should get a move on and buy new players like the huns have,they have bought 6 new guys within a month and celtic took over a month to get a new manager!whats going on?WE dont want to be stuck with the same team that failed last year!
Posted on Jul 4, 2000, 12:25 AM from IP address 62.253.8.108
Not because they're crap (we've all got a few ideas on that).
Because the players seem to think they're in charge. Story told in a pub in the Algarve is that the whole team were singing 'If you hate John Barnes clap your hands' while on the mid-season break. Maybe the Caley result wasn't an accident?
O'Neill may find he needs to get rid of players who are seen to be popular (like the Burley situation), I just hope he does it quicker, better & lets everyone know what they've been up to.
Posted on Jun 28, 2000, 3:39 PM from IP address 194.247.67.205
Hi Paul and all fellow Celts.
Poor old Viduka, £24000 odd grand a week and can't cope with the climate... just as well he's moved to tropical yorkshire.
Sod off ya sad bastard !!!!
We need a home based player, or at least someone
who will, for once TRULY commit himself to the contract he signs, and not want to leave because it gets a tad cold or some other feeble excuse !!!
Posted on Jun 28, 2000, 3:24 PM from IP address 212.161.40.2
Nice to meet you in Malta. Sorry I had such little time to talk but maybe when I'm back in Scotland we'll have a few pints.
Ryans is a cunt of a yard when it's busy and there's no chance of having a quiet beer. So maybe I'll meet you at Bairds or the Hoops or my favourite the Cavendish on a Friday night. (If it's still there)
Posted on Jun 27, 2000, 3:00 AM from IP address 194.106.64.121
anyone going to athenrye festival in ireland, it is on july 14 (fri to sun).
also heard of idea for song at away matches next year.
irish soldier laddie "as we march with o'neill
to an irish battlefield"
but another request for first game of the new season would be to start with a ten minute rendition of cheerio to ten in a row as this is not just a song for one season but for keeps.
lets make sure the manky mob don't forget that there 9 in a row meant nothing unless they got ten
"what's all the fuss, we done it first
what's all the fuss, we done it first
what's all the fuss, we done it first
say cheerio to ten in a row"
Posted on Jun 23, 2000, 7:42 PM from IP address 194.117.134.67
