I don’t get the flares thing. It’s not a part of my going-to-see-Celtic tradition. But if it was my thing, I’d have the courage of my convictions, I wouldn’t hide the fact.
There are consequences of bringing flares to football games, always has been. By not having the courage to openly ignite them, those consequences are not personalised to the individuals who regard this as an integral part of what they do at a football game, they are visited upon everyone in the vicinity, as well as the club.
The problem with flares at Celtic games is those who bring them hide the fact – as they clearly know there are consequences, and presumably aren’t too interested in taking responsibility for them. ‘Keen on flares, not keen enough to stand up for them’, is why the issue persists.
I get the attraction to bright, shiny, things, but this isn’t a campaign to bring the vote to disenfranchised people against a force who will execute the offender on sight. It’s about bringing a flare to a football game. If it’s so important, do it openly. If you think Health and Safety are simply wrong, find the evidence and use it in court. Have the courage to change something. I know lots of Celtic fans who have had the courage to put their name to something they believed in, in recent years. It’s seldom easy, but it has been done.
But in the years of this debate no one has ever pointed to evidence that igniting flares in a football ground is a clever thing to do. It’s just a ‘look at me’ exercise, ‘But don’t look at my face’, of course.
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Episode 5 of ‘A Celtic State of Mind’ finds Paul John Dykes and Kevin Graham discussing a variety of topical subjects concerning Celtic Football Club, including:
* What now for the Green Brigade?
* Dedryck Boyata – Are reinforcements on route?
* Virgil van Dijk – The windfall cometh;
* Emilio Izaguirre – Moving on.
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Looks like A Tim just got shot in the Philipines. I hope that he recovers but can imagine some on here blaming the Green Brigade for the shooting.
Well done Jordan, showed guts n class.
Left bs = left full back
Dallas
Don’t believe everything you read if you did, we’d be outa job :-)
Gerry ,I’m assuming the Rosenburg team will be full of strong sturdy players so I expect Moussa , if fit , to be start .
We will have to be patient on Wednesday night but as the t shirt says persistence beats resistence .
Broony was playing very deep against Linfield and I think he might do the same this Wednesday depending if Brendan goes with 3 or 4 at the back.
Gerry, the organisations listed on that article are loathed by fans of the G51 club so i’m suspicious of those behind the campaign.
Dallas
Rosenberg have Nicolas Bendtner up front, Ronny D was on Sportsound today saying “we” are big favourites but need to respect the Norwegian champions, he said Brendan will know how Rosenberg will play … guy interviewing Ronny was trying to say Ronny must be proud of KT as KT has mentioned Ronny helped him, Ronnys response “we could try and help him but it’s all down to Kieran”
Rosenberg if atypical Scandinavian team will be strong and organised.
If we play a fast mobile game we will unsettle.
Off the ball movement is key.
This has been improving under Brendan so i expect us to win.
Fan…
Aye aptly named, how sad that in 2017 we are talking like this.
HH
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Dallas
If that is a Tim and it prob is, even sadder that they are posting that pure pish, we have our fair share of them on here as well so anything is possible, education, education, education, Oh how I value that I had one.
HH
https://thecelticblog.com/2017/07/blogs/the-disband-the-green-brigade-campaign-is-an-anti-celtc-sham-all-our-fans-should-ignore/
Dallas
As good an example as ever I’ve seen of SMSM finding something on social media to create fake news.
JF – correct……………huns at it.
Jimmy Cricket trolls with a shameful and sad routine.
Disband the Green Brigade
Signed
Macjay
Tony Donnelly 67
Peter Lawell
Orange Order
DUP
SNP
Scottish Tories and Unionists
Scottish Labour
UDA
UVF
The Queen
Stuart Regan
Hugh Dallas
Dave Cunningham King
Sevco Ultras
ICF
By the end of the week SMSM will have a follow up story to say:
A) Paddy Roberts wanted to come back to Celtic but TGB ruined it
B) Brendan considers his future because of TGB
C) Stuart Armstrong’s mind was made up to leave after TGB display last Wednesday
Yada Yada Yada csc
” We at the Daily Rectum can exclusively reveal that controversial Irish money-man Desmond McDermott was due to announce incredible plans extend the seating capacity at the East End ground to 100,000 until the recent deplorable actions of the proscribed para-military organisation the Green BRigade. Gerry Adams has so far refused to respond to our legitimate questions….”
Moonbeams
I find that post very offensive
But please don’t let it be deleted
Know your enemy :-)
I passed where the GB enter the ground at 7.25pm. There were 2 guys holding the white sticks which would hold the banners. There were no banners attached. Por cierto.
………………………….Celtic jersey shrinks due to TGB banner
evening times
Sad that Tims fight while panto “turns” get the odd nod…………..
Must be the drink.
My point being that with the sticks going in the stewards and the security must have known that banners were to be displayed. What did the GB show them? Por cierto
Evening Celts
Some right sneaky-snide hun posters lobbing their hatred on CQN.
Confront them, call them out.
HH
TET I am that the feckin moron yo write about, didn’t buy my ticket for Wednesday so will have to get down to the ticket office pre-match.
Gerry , Brendan wont allow any complacency for Wednesday and it would be good if we take any chances we get . I expect Sinky and Tom will be doubled up on , possibly trebled up on .
Junior is going to the rear bit of the standing section on Wednesday , a pal of his pal has a season ticket for there and is on holiday , so Junior is taking it.
POR CIERTO
The poles or not to sound racist, sticks, are banned from entering the ground, the polis and stewards know this, so why did they let them in is what I would be asking.
HH
BCW
How do you work that out ?
I haven’t seen you calling any poster a moron, B78 comes on and spouts corporate pish, he goads posters who he imo feels superior to, as I said there is another club who welcomes supporter who have this superior trait, it’s not welcome at Celtic IMO.
But I am a caveman so.
HH
Bit of Dublin history
https://comeheretome.com/2017/07/13/phil-shanahans-monto-pub/
We shouldnt allow these characters the room to abuse Celtic supporters on CQN.
Shut them down.
Look at the words used to describe Celtic supporters.
Where is the moderator now?
HH
While Scottish football ignores the verdict of the Supreme Court and remains a hot bed of cheating and bias there is always going to be justification for protest groups at Celtic Park.
Industrial scale, sectarian cheating is ignored by many supporters and yet a couple of banners can provoke all kinds of nonsense including reminders about what the ‘mainstream were going to do to the casuals at
Easter Road’ and now a Level 5 type Twitter campaign.
This is a unwelcome distraction at arguably our most important point in the season.
Some of the things written on here by alleged Celtic supporters have been shocking and Level5 like.
I am not aware of any occasion when the GB have criticised any Celtic supporter or have engaged in any violence. They have followed Celtic throughout Europe and kept Celtic Park going during the periods of closed stands and the mausoleum like atmosphere.
Celtic Plc and the GB walked into a Hun trap on Wednesday.
In an attempt to curry favour with UEFA and show leadership (and possibly conceal their own culpability) the Plc have exacerbated the situation and alienated at least 900 supporters and they now have to placate a divided support.
The consistent failures of the Plc and Mr Lawwell are the real problem, not 100 or so (ex) students. If they can’t communicate with or manage them effectively it’s no wonder they haven’t called out the lies of Sevco, the SFA and SPFL.
Dallas 7.31pm
I am bit more confident now that Dallas Junior will be in attendance :-) that bhoy has some Record hope it lasts a long long time….
Saw Whitegodhunch post about Ekeren on Friday, my one and only away trip, my sister had bought me £100 in shares with Manweb in 1991 (privatisation) fir the Tories, I cashed them on for £97.50 … Phil Coles bus £55 (including ticket) with £42,50 to spend …… what a trip !
Oh Mikey, Mikey, Mikey…. Mikey, Mikey Galloway !!!!!
The Exiled Tim , the person (s) running the disband the Green Brigade sounds like someone who has a lot of time on their hands .
Mr Moderator.
Id be obliged if you would prevent certain posters from abusing Celtic supporters.
‘Parasites’, a Cancer’
These are just some of the terms used.
Its not acceptable.
Bourne , the SMSM will be in overdrive again , hunfortunately .
Jabba will be blubbering about getting his media chums to concentrate on us even more now for some ‘unknown reason’ .
Hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic.
Screeds and screeds of bull by MSM about 2 banners by the G.B. but hey we will ignore 14 years of cheating.
Even better some clown sets up a wind up disband the Green Brigade Twitter and they run with it. A person with multiple accounts one which ends in 1690,and no doubt still lives with his maw,and the MSM run with it, what a joke.
Hail Hail
Clogher
Pretty much sums it up imo, well said.
“The consistent failures of the Plc and Mr Lawwell are the real problem, not 100 or so (ex) students. If they can’t communicate with or manage them effectively it’s no wonder they haven’t called out the lies of Sevco, the SFA and SPFL.”
HH
TGM. 7.51
Cowards and knuckledraggers too.
Hail Hail
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 23RD JULY 2017 10:58 AM
My God.
The arrogance.
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In light of this, and of the condemnation of banners and songs from Wednesday, we refuse to allow a discredited and corrupt organisation like UEFA or a board which has welcomed war criminals and Tory Lords to dictate our moral compass.
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So sod off and impose your moral compass elsewhere.
Come on now , Peter.
Get this sorted , so we can all get back to Brendan and FOOTBALL .
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Says the man that sung all the IRA songs of the day when he was young and actually supported the club?
It would seem hypocrisy gets more refined with age but just as ugly.
JNP
Im sure the PLC will be delighted by that campaign.
Its open season on Celtic supporters.
Even on CQN.
HH
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/no-alarms-and-no-surprises/
We ready to talk football again? Appreciate this is not cool or trendy! Ntcham debut, Sinclair magic, unbalaned Celtic – it’s all here. HH
Jimmynotpaul, how are you ? I hope you have been attack free for a while.