Celtic Supporters Thread (contains GB chat)

CELTIC Football Club today announced that it is carrying out a full investigation into last night’s events at St Mirren Park in an attempt to identify those who are responsible. The club will take the strongest action possible should it be able to identify anyone involved.

Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell said: “Last night’s incident was completely unacceptable and not something we ever want to see repeated. The safety of everyone in football - players, fans, staff, and officials - should always be our priority and, collectively, we need to do all we can to ensure this remains the case.

“There have a been a number of incidents across many clubs this season, with a range of items, including pyrotechnics, being thrown on to pitches. We need to do all we can to remove this from our game.

"From a Celtic perspective, the club does not want it, our players do not want it, our manager does not want it and our supporters do not want it.

“There are serious safety concerns associated with such behaviour, and regardless of the obvious reputational damage which this kind of behaviour has on the club, there are numerous potential repercussions which could have hugely detrimental consequences for the club and our supporters.

“Our supporters are fantastic and we greatly value their contribution. It is the positive support of our fans this season which has helped us deliver one trophy this season and a 13-point lead in the Scottish Premiership. We achieved another excellent away win last night and our on-field success should be the real talking point.

“This kind of behaviour, indeed any form of unacceptable conduct, only serves to tarnish the reputation of the club and our own fans. We need to all work together to make sure this stops now. Brits out."

 

I think they have every right to approach the subject defensively. While they aren't angels (who was when going to the game?) they have been treated appallingly at times, basically monitored like suspected terrorists.

They are right though, they can only do so much, if some roaster blags his way into the standing section with his stone Island jacket and ultras scarf and acts the * then that is on stewards/security.

 

Hopefully they mean that (italics).

Spot on with the rest. Like or not there has been a rise of anti social behaviour at grounds this season. Dafties need chased.

 

There was a guy on my current work course claiming to know 2 guys that are GB founders and claims there is now a casual element that have latched on to them, is this true? I always thought casuals were discouraged among celtic supporters.

 

Did ye aye?

 

Personally i felt the guy was talking bollocks.

 

I'm sure you did.

I don't think he was talking bollocks. I don't think he was telling the truth. I don't think he was a he tbh.

 

Well thats where you are wrong, this guy actually said it, but i think he was talking bs thats why i brought it up, see if anyone would back his story.

 

I hope they find the culprits and ban them for life .
The pyro brigade have been getting out of hand over the course of the last few seasons and it is a matter of time before somebody gets hurt and. I hope last nights stupid incident will bring things to a head and the pyro brigade stop their stupidity.

 

I'm never wrong.

I might not be what you know to be right but I'm never wrong.

You enjoy a wee dig at the GB.

 

This current crop of wee bams throwing stuff, letting off smoke bombs and running on the pitch are just the latest example of a tiny minority of roasters attaching themselves to Celtic. It reminds me of when the football casual thing was in full force in the 80s. The vast majority of Celtic fans wanted nothing to do with them. We had our own traditions and didn't need to jump on any trendy bandwagons. How did the song go: "It's magic you know, Celtic and casuals don't go".

 

Just because someone is a * doesn’t mean they’re not a true Celtic fan, whatever that means

 

A true Celtic fan is someone who supports the team through thick and thin and puts the good of the club before their own selfish interests. Brendan Rodgers was a Celtic fan. But he wasn't a true Celtic fan.

 

I couldnt really care about the gb i dont sit ther.

 

Guess I'm not a true Celtic fan because I was a * toerag when I went to the games. I sang songs about Mrs Tebbitt that would blow your windaes out.

 

It wasn't really defensive though, at best it was more a scattergun approach. As I said they just needed to condemn the arseholes who are doing it while making it clear it wasn't them, job done then.

If we are to stop this then we can't just leave the responsibility to the stewards/plod, by letting them hide amongst us after they throw/set off these things, as fans we can point the * out before this gets out of hand and we all suffer because of a few fuds.

 

You know as well as me that the young team aren't going to be grassing due to a deep mistrust of plod. It's just not the done thing.

How come a concert venue can control a crowd of standing punters but Celtic Park can't control a crowd of similar numbers and stop people getting in?

What about a different coloured stamp every week. Want a * you get your hand stamped. Quick check going back in. Done.

 

All that would do is put the fuds in question on the defensive and risk losing any influence the GB might have with young dafties who might have been impressed with said fuds.
The authorities will throw the book at the culprits, the GB don't need to get involved in that.

I think it's a good statement in that the GB does impress some of the daft young boys in our support and it makes it clear to them that this kind of dangerous lunacy is not big or clever without alienating them or giving the (false) impression that the GB are against pyro per se.

 

Well its like this something has to give as its not going to be tolerated much longer before Clubs (all clubs but primarily I only worried about my Club) and us fans get punished because of the actions of a few selfish arseholes.

I don't think taking pyro (* I hate that * word) to concerts is that popular is it ? So not sure of the connection you are making here. Regardless US, as fans simply blaming it on stewards/security for failing to catch them on the way in is a bit of a cop out imo, especially if we won't point them out after they have let it off - flare/banger (whatever it is) At the end of the day it's us who will suffer the most when the blanket punishments get handed out because the individuals are not identified.

Hopefully the authorities can throw the book at them, assuming they can identify them now that is.
And that's part of the problem with the GB statement, they believe in the use of pyro, so they cant really lecture/tell anyone no, yet the majority of fans don't appear to agree on their use and more to the point the Club is against it, as is the league etc etc
Honestly, imo, it's only a matter of time before someone decides to fire a proper flare or set of a rocket as it seems to be a case of these 'dafties', you talk about, are trying to outdo each other now.