Celtic Supporters Thread (contains GB chat)

Pretty much sums up my feelings on it too, I like the pyro and the atmosphere it brings but if it's gonna cause so much * they need to drop it, there are better (and more important) issues to make a stand over. I do like the GB and what they bring to matchdays but they are * in the wind with the pyro issue imo.

 

This is about more than pyro imo, and you have * going on about fines whilst the * in charge pockets over £3 million. That’s whilst he’s overseen the failure to reach Europe’s premier tournament 2 years running. Aye but * the GB eh!

 

The board's hypocrisy and incompetence at times does not give the Green Brigade carte blanche to run up fines.

Both parties have been guilty of acting recklessly, and hurting the club's finances.

 

How can it be 500,000 when the fines are usually about 10 or 12 grand each?

What's the actual figure...

 

Why do supporters have to be on one side or the other?

Both the board and the Green Brigade have been guilty of squandering the money that supporters have invested in the club. Neither party can be excused by pointing to the other's recklessness.

 

£12,700 - chant (up the ra in Celtic Symphony) - Rennes (h) 2011
£21,000 - Banner (* uefa)/pyro - udinese (a) 2011
£4,200 - Pyro (bangers) - clifonville (h) 2013
£42,189 - Bobby Sands banner - Milan (h) 2013
£16,000 - Palestine flegs - Rejkjavik (h) 2014
£7,400 - pyro/fighting polis - Dinamo Zagreb (a) 2014
£3,650 - pyro - Inter (a) 2015
£8,600 - Palestine flegs - Be’er sheva (h) 2016
£16,000 - pyro/disorder - Man City (a) 2016
£20,500 - banners - linfield (h) 2017
£11,000 - pyro - aik (a) 2019
£10,400 - pyro - cluj (h) 2019
£12,800 - banner/chant - lazio (h) 2019

 

Just look through the comments in this thread, there’s plenty who are loving this. And I don’t need to back the GB to show my disdain for our current custodians.

 

The fact we got done for chanting up the ra at home to Rennes but never got anything for chanting at home to Linfield tells me what I already thought....and that's that they pick and choose/are selective in what they can be arsed doing..

Is it coming from our own grassing? Whether it's more noticeable singing the Celtic symphony than broad back brimmer? Is it for bigger game's it's highlighted? Does a uefa nonce sit writing down what's going on in the stands?

Would be interesting to hear how they operate and come to their sanctions and if it's as rigorous across the board..

 

All depends on what the match delegate reports which is why its so inaccurate across the board.

 

Plenty of people who have defended the Green Brigade's right to political expression in the past, myself included, are just fed up with their *-you-I-won't-do-what-you-tell-me attitude to pyrotechnics.

The prohibition of pyrotechnics in stadia is hardly a civil rights issue; it is perfectly sensible. They have continued to incur significant sanctions for the club because '* you, that's why'.

It shows a blatant disregard, bordering on contempt, for their fellow supporters, who inevitably foot the bill.

The notion that they are entitled to run up fines because the club sells t-shirts with their song lyrics on it, or whatever, is absurd.

(I have criticised the board, to a much great degree, in other threads. This thread is specifically about Celtic supporters.)

 

Exactly..

So you've got some fat * sitting in Naples or Istanbul one week night getting fed biscuits and wine all expenses paid saying what chants or pyro..

It definitely doesn't seem like it's quite the same for every club at every match....which is 100% wrong..

 

And those fellow supporters have been banned by our own board not UEFA, so excuse me for not sticking to the specifics of the thread. As I said I believe this is about more than pyro for Lawwell and Co, why else would he have Lennon say that cost him a player?

 

UEFA are notoriously inconsistent in their application of the rules, although, to be honest, that is a blessing and a curse for us (political expression).

 

Think we can all agree the * uefa banner was worth it

 

Question the board's decision to pre-empt UEFA's ruling, by all means, but people are entitled to criticise the Green Brigade's recent behaviour.

 

The fines over 5 years have cost us a player!

how many players have the boards bonuses cost us?

 

I never said they weren’t my point is there are certain posters who seem to be enjoying this.

 

Can only see it as a curse..

Can barely fart and we've got another sanction..

I'm no having it that we're far 'worse' than Italian, Turkish, Serbian, Dutch, English and plenty more for pyro, violence and politics....yet we're seemingly never missed..

I could be wrong as I said before but it doesn't feel like these countries club's get anywhere near what we're pulled for..

 

The board is hypocritical. We already knew that.

The Green Brigade have still cost us a significant amount of money. The vast majority of us would defend their right to political expression, particularly when the issues are pertinent, but no one can reasonably defend their use of pyrotechnics.

If someone repeatedly invaded the pitch at European games, incurring UEFA sanctions, just because they got a kick out of it, would any of us question the board's decision to ban them?