Celtic Supporters Thread (contains GB chat)

Pity cos it would be quality.also think the cut out face of the taxman would be great

 

Loved their 'wave for the camera' and 'we pay for your camera' chants on Saturday

 

Anyone else think they have been pretty poor so far this season? Don't look like improving. Often wondered how foreign ultras manage to fill away stands full of ultras and it looks great in terms of participation but take tonight for example it doesn't look as if the Green Brigade are there.

 

They were lucky to keep their section this season so to say they don't look like improving and look pretty poor is to do with the club not giving them more sections to expand. As for your second point, the celtic away support is far too big for away ends to be full of ultras and do you really think the police would allow for drums flags tele poles etc to be taken into away grounds. The policing is way too strict to allow that to happen.

Btw the gb are there tonight and seem to be the only fans singing

 

see they are copying me with their tops off, i had mine off at ipox on sunday

 

You got copyright on that mate?
Seeing as you were the first fan to ever go topless at football.

 

A lot of folk struggled to get time off work to travel up to Dingwall, members of the Green Brigade would have been no exception.

 

Participation ,that may have something to do with it.Also asking does anyone think the GB have been poor this season so far ,sounds to me like yer waiting to be impressed.The Celtic crowd have been * poor for many a season,so i don`t think the GB have anything to answer for.:bbpd:.

I get quite emotional.

 

The green brigade are doing great i think but i think there ambitions are limited because really most celtic fans dont have an ultras mentality...to say there poor is ignorance best in britain by far and there section is the only section that creates a decent atmosphere at home games.

 

They are great, end of!

 

Nice to hear boovalogue getting an airing yesterday, looks like its starting to catch on, would look class if everyone done the backwards swaying to it

 

Without the Green Brigade, Celtic Park would be like a library most of the time. These guys have worked their * off ever since they were formed in 2006 to bring a better atmosphere to Paradise and have done an amazing job thus far. It's up to everyone else not in Section 111 to step up and join in.

 

Silly question perhaps, and probably a common one, but how does one become a member of the green brigade? And how many of them are there?

 

Do they still abuse people who want to sing Sean South?

 

Don't think that was ever the case tbh.

A few members of the group were against singing it I believe but they certainly never abused anyone who wanted to sing it.

 

As far as I know, you need to have a seat in 111 or the surrounding sections at that side of the stadium. They also have a forum, I'm sure they get asked on there all the time. Have a look around and you might find some answers.

 

If you have to ask, then you'll never know.

 

Banners and protest today?

Evening chaps,

I was listening on radio today as they were discussing a coordinated protest from celtic fans with various banners across the stadium? Does anyone have a link showing what was being flown so I can see what was going on, and would someone be kind enough to summarise what these were about?

Cheers

 

Green Brigades Statement on the protest.

As one of those banned from all Scottish football grounds I wasn't at the game today but I know the group were delighted with the backing we gotfrom the Celtic support. Here's our statement on today's protest

Today we held a silent and visual protest against the criminalisation of the Celtic support, both from the ‘Offensive Behaviour at Football...’ Bill and the disproportionate policing that we and the wider Celtic support currently face.

While the new legislation will likely have a direct effect on our group – particularly as the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland are demanding that it specifically refers to banners and displays – it extends beyond just us and all Celtic fans will be affected.

The proposed new legislation denies football fans the right to freedom of expression and treats us all completely differently from others in society. This is despite there being very little disorder at football matches – and certainly far less than at music concerts or at bars and clubs around the country.

It comes on the back of a season when our manager was attacked by bigots because he comes from an Irish nationalist background. The response of the politicians has been to draft a law that, according to Justice Committee chair Christine Graham, is designed to target the Celtic support for our Irish identity and for singing songs in support of Irish nationhood. It looks like the bigots have won.

The protest was a massive step for our group to take. We want nothing more than to back our team for 90 mins and give them our support, especially on the back of defeat at Ibrox last week. But we feel this issue goes far beyond one half of football and that if the Celtic support doesn’t begin to influence the debate around policing and the new law then we, like many other Celtic fans won’t be there to support the team – we’ll be banned and possibly jailed.

In many ways, though, this is already happening. We currently have three members awaiting trial for ‘offences’ committed at the first game of last season. Their alleged crime was holding a a banner that, days later, bigoted elements of the Scotland's Shame support complained about after seeing on the internet. The case has been doggedly pursued by the Procurator Fiscal, who has appointed a Fiscal more used to murder trials to take charge of the prosecution. We’ve also had members and others in section 111 arrested on made-up charges and instantly banned from every game in Scotland while their case drags on through the legal system - the police don’t even need to consult the courts to do this now.

At every match we’re filmed constantly and subjected to petty intimidation, like strange police officers greeting you by your first name. And it’s not just us - at every away match the police are filming fans coming off buses, in pubs and at stadiums and fans are given full-body searches at grounds. At the recent home game with Motherwell a fan was arrested and dragged out of the main stand by several police officers for singing ‘go home ya huns’. Fans arriving home from Sion in the early hours of the morning were greeted by a welcoming party from Strathclyde Police, there to say hello and take their pictures.

The time has now come for our club to stand up for our fans and use their considerable influence and voice to defend us from disproportionate policing and discriminatory new laws. It is also time for the support to come together and oppose policing and laws that seeks to silence us and treat us as part of a problem that, if it exists, is not of our making.

We won’t roll over to a political agenda that seeks to criminalise us and we call on all fans and fan organisations to join us and protest against the criminalisation of the Celtic support. <!-- google_ad_section_end -->