Celtic Supporters Thread (contains GB chat)

Why not say that then? Cause that is why they have been banned.

 

Also, why didn’t they ban them immediately after the so called reasons stated?

 

Who knows, we all know why and they know that as well. Probably at the least it’ll stop headlines running wild about the Gaza genocide currently taking place being a wee civil war debate between GB, Celtic Support and the board.

because they weren’t caring about it till the GB publicly announced they weren’t done yet.

Everyone knows what’s happened.

out of interest btw mate, what did you take that banner to mean?

 

Without getting into the should they or shouldn’t they have been banned debate, the pyro in Europe always drives me crazy. They know UEFA always fine for it, yet they do it every time. What does it actually bring? Yeah, it’s nice to look at sometimes, but that’s it. Our greatest European nights involved no pyro.

It’s being rebellious for the sake of it, and screams immaturity (again).

 

The banner along with the display in general I took as a show of support for Palestine. Do you think they were celebrating the murders?

The board should be saying exactly why they have banned them, the real reason. They can’t though as it would be an opinion rather than facts.

 

It takes some serious mental gymnastics to suggest that it wasn’t a banner in support of the attacks, given that it was raised on the day of the attacks, wasn’t simply a Palestine flag, and read “Victory to the resistance”. That combined with the lack of any condemnation for Hamas or clarity on the wording afterwards was damning.

It wasn’t preplanned, it was pulled together that morning as a “get it up ye”. We can pretend for as long as we want that it had nothing to do with the Hamas attacks, but then we’d be ignoring the blatant truth of it.

 

On that particular day, what would you take the resistance part to refer to?

 

The banner I felt gave them enough wiggle room to try and defend it but it was fairly obvious what it was meaning

 

It's a good point if but Celtic should have photoshopped the pyro

 

They actively don’t though, they market * out of the stuff GB do, happy to merchandise and profit off the back of them. From some of the same stuff they complain about

 

I'll be amazed if the groups are not banned for the CL game and it's quite sneaky how this being done (late announcements with unconvincing explanations).

Thinking about it, I can understand the board's position: it's their job to protect the value of the club as a business. I don't think they have much choice from their point of view, regardless of whether they disagree with the politics or not. We all saw the flak the BBC got for reporting that hospital blast as being the result of an Israeli missile (even though this was almost certainly correct). Imagine the GB had a banner about stopping the Israeli genocide, it would certainly have major repurcussions for the club. Israel's lobbying apparatus would put massive pressure on UEFA to hammer us like never before.

I hope there is such a display anyway. It's that important an issue. This is why eventually the club has to be fan owned. I don't want to downplay what a good job these business people on our board have mostly done; but at the moment, the club exists to serve the business by definition as long as we are a PLC, whereas the business should exist to serve the club.

 

This gets repeated a lot but where is the actual evidence of this?

We've been receiving fines for pyro and political messages/chanting for well over a decade now and yet still nothing further.

The Huns got a stand closure in 2019. That's despite them having no fines in Europe over the previous decade as they weren't in it. Yes, I know the Huns' was for racism rather than politics/pyro, but for a "first offence" in 10 years, that suggests there isn't a points system but simply a category of offence that is judged on its own merits rather than cumulatively.

Racism is the worst so it was right their stadium had a stand closed, but pyro or political messages are not going to be at the higher end of the disciplinary threshold. I think it'll always be token fines.

 

We are all part of celtic fc so who is marketing from who? The GB profit with extra tickets for big games? (Didn't used to mind missing out on ballot) have the standing section to themselves and get away with things the normal fan would be banned for...again if they went back to representing us properly would start backing them again but be honest the only interests interested in recently is there own...HH

 

Well for a start that Barca Tifo has made the club thousands with sales



As for getting away with things care to add on that


There’s been fans outwith the section banned

 

You've already made my point by saying there's been fans outside the section banned?? What more can I add?

 

If you actually think it’s just boys in the section been banned for pyro then I give up

 

There wouldnt be so many posts not just on this thread but others as well if there wasn't any issues with how GB being run? No wonder PL and board don't listen?

 

No wonder the board listen


They’ve had zero response from the club for a very long time


They’ve asked and been refused