The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[From the Bunker]

Some things are bigger than football and appointing Robbie Keane is just that.

Same as the Ireland v Israel game.  Dont play it and take the consequences

I would look for our International team to play Israel, encourage it to be a sell-out with cheaper tickets and give them the biggest hostile reception one could give a team representing that country - without being anti-sematic, racist, etc. Bring plenty of colour and Palestinian flags. And aim to give them a good hiding. That is the way to deal with this - not by hiding behind the couch and saying we won't play them.

[An Watcher]

Disagree, I dont think that would make news.  Not playing them would be more newsworthy and it could lead to others doing the same.  No one should play them

[tonto1888]

McKenna apparently got £10m for getting Ipswich back to PL, no chance he'll be coming to Celtic. Our only opportunity was him failing to get Ipswich promoted, the other names on list are not very inspiring tbh.
Give me your honest opinion on Keane and his time in Isreal...Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune) but where do we draw the line regarding abusing anyone that has some sort of affiliation with Israel. If Ireland play them in the fixture coming up in qualifers and fly their flag and play their national anthem in Aviva stadium will the Country go into meltdown?. Like are we still buying foods or anything connected with them feckers from Supermarkets etc, I just think we're selecting certain things to suit us...should be all in or nothing.

Think we should all be doing what we can. They've been committing war crimes against Palestinians long before they opened the gates for Hamas in 2023.

Some of the players would have done service in Gaza and been party to war crimes. He was stupid to have gone to Israel in the first place.

Was Biton ever in the IDF

[No1]

They've only had 6 months to sort a new manager and the Chief Executive is currently on holiday so make of that what you will.

The fact that the only two candidates are Keane and O'Neill says a lot.  It is difficult enough to attract talented managers (or players) to Scotland without introducing the clown show that is Celtic FC governed totally by the majority shareholder.  You can replace the Board members with whoever you like, until Desmond is gone nothing changes.

Soul destroying and they didn't deserve Martin O'Neill rescuing the season just gone. 

[bennydorano]

McKenna apparently got £10m for getting Ipswich back to PL, no chance he'll be coming to Celtic. Our only opportunity was him failing to get Ipswich promoted, the other names on list are not very inspiring tbh.
Give me your honest opinion on Keane and his time in Isreal...Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune) but where do we draw the line regarding abusing anyone that has some sort of affiliation with Israel. If Ireland play them in the fixture coming up in qualifers and fly their flag and play their national anthem in Aviva stadium will the Country go into meltdown?. Like are we still buying foods or anything connected with them feckers from Supermarkets etc, I just think we're selecting certain things to suit us...should be all in or nothing.

Think we should all be doing what we can. They've been committing war crimes against Palestinians long before they opened the gates for Hamas in 2023.

Some of the players would have done service in Gaza and been party to war crimes. He was stupid to have gone to Israel in the first place.

Was Biton ever in the IDF

Bitton and Eyal Berkovic both did National Service in the IDF, not everyone does army stuff tho, no idea if they were active soldiers, likely were.

[tonto1888]

McKenna apparently got £10m for getting Ipswich back to PL, no chance he'll be coming to Celtic. Our only opportunity was him failing to get Ipswich promoted, the other names on list are not very inspiring tbh.
Give me your honest opinion on Keane and his time in Isreal...Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune) but where do we draw the line regarding abusing anyone that has some sort of affiliation with Israel. If Ireland play them in the fixture coming up in qualifers and fly their flag and play their national anthem in Aviva stadium will the Country go into meltdown?. Like are we still buying foods or anything connected with them feckers from Supermarkets etc, I just think we're selecting certain things to suit us...should be all in or nothing.

Think we should all be doing what we can. They've been committing war crimes against Palestinians long before they opened the gates for Hamas in 2023.

Some of the players would have done service in Gaza and been party to war crimes. He was stupid to have gone to Israel in the first place.

Was Biton ever in the IDF

Bitton and Eyal Berkovic both did National Service in the IDF, not everyone does army stuff tho, no idea if they were active soldiers, likely were.

The fans got over that so will get over it if Keane is appointed

[Snapchap]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

[Main Street]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

Israel and the USA, and without the full backing of the USA,  Israel alone could not have done it. But we don't question anybody who has worked in the USA and has not condemned the USA gov.
To my mind it's not that Robbie went to work in Israel  pre Hamas massacre and Gaza genocide but that he was with the most despicable club in Israel, a rabid out loud racist zionist supported club, it would have been impossible for Robbie to stick his head in the sand and say 'I see nothing, I'm a neutral here'.

[illdecide]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

I knew someone would come out with this hence why i said "kicked off". I know it started like 1948 or something like that, I was talking about the recent escalation a few years back and you know it, you're just trying to be pedantic. Get a life...

[Snapchap]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

I knew someone would come out with this hence why i said "kicked off". I know it started like 1948 or something like that, I was talking about the recent escalation a few years back and you know it, you're just trying to be pedantic. Get a life...

And I'm not trying to personally attack you. And this isn't a case of being pedantic.

You offered up the fact that he joined an Israeli club before Oct 7th as some sort a mitigating factor, and as a reason why perhaps Keane doesn't deserve the level of abuse he has been getting. When you make that argument, then it's absolutely appropriate to point out that, in reality, the date of Oct 7th is completely irrelvant here. Israel has been indiscriminately slaughtering Gazan civilians and stealing Palestinian land long before Robbie Keane decided to go. It was only a few years previous that Israel slaughtered 3,200 Gazans in a six week indiscriminate bombing campaign. He knew exactly what sort of country Israel was/is and still decided that when there was a few quid in it for him, then their repeated crimes against humanity wasn't an issue. He's a c**t.

[Armagh18]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

I knew someone would come out with this hence why i said "kicked off". I know it started like 1948 or something like that, I was talking about the recent escalation a few years back and you know it, you're just trying to be pedantic. Get a life...

And I'm not trying to personally attack you. And this isn't a case of being pedantic.

You offered up the fact that he joined an Israeli club before Oct 7th as some sort a mitigating factor, and as a reason why perhaps Keane doesn't deserve the level of abuse he has been getting. When you make that argument, then it's absolutely appropriate to point out that, in reality, the date of Oct 7th is completely irrelvant here. Israel has been indiscriminately slaughtering Gazan civilians and stealing Palestinian land long before Robbie Keane decided to go. It was only a few years previous that Israel slaughtered 3,200 Gazans in a six week indiscriminate bombing campaign. He knew exactly what sort of country Israel was/is and still decided that when there was a few quid in it for him, then their repeated crimes against humanity wasn't an issue. He's a c**t.

100% agree Snapchap. Do you ever post on non political issues out of interest?

[Snapchap]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

I knew someone would come out with this hence why i said "kicked off". I know it started like 1948 or something like that, I was talking about the recent escalation a few years back and you know it, you're just trying to be pedantic. Get a life...

And I'm not trying to personally attack you. And this isn't a case of being pedantic.

You offered up the fact that he joined an Israeli club before Oct 7th as some sort a mitigating factor, and as a reason why perhaps Keane doesn't deserve the level of abuse he has been getting. When you make that argument, then it's absolutely appropriate to point out that, in reality, the date of Oct 7th is completely irrelvant here. Israel has been indiscriminately slaughtering Gazan civilians and stealing Palestinian land long before Robbie Keane decided to go. It was only a few years previous that Israel slaughtered 3,200 Gazans in a six week indiscriminate bombing campaign. He knew exactly what sort of country Israel was/is and still decided that when there was a few quid in it for him, then their repeated crimes against humanity wasn't an issue. He's a c**t.

100% agree Snapchap. Do you ever post on non political issues out of interest?

That's a very politically charged question. Deserves a new thread where we can debate it and fall out over it.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Well I for one can't wait

[Armagh18]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

I knew someone would come out with this hence why i said "kicked off". I know it started like 1948 or something like that, I was talking about the recent escalation a few years back and you know it, you're just trying to be pedantic. Get a life...

And I'm not trying to personally attack you. And this isn't a case of being pedantic.

You offered up the fact that he joined an Israeli club before Oct 7th as some sort a mitigating factor, and as a reason why perhaps Keane doesn't deserve the level of abuse he has been getting. When you make that argument, then it's absolutely appropriate to point out that, in reality, the date of Oct 7th is completely irrelvant here. Israel has been indiscriminately slaughtering Gazan civilians and stealing Palestinian land long before Robbie Keane decided to go. It was only a few years previous that Israel slaughtered 3,200 Gazans in a six week indiscriminate bombing campaign. He knew exactly what sort of country Israel was/is and still decided that when there was a few quid in it for him, then their repeated crimes against humanity wasn't an issue. He's a c**t.

100% agree Snapchap. Do you ever post on non political issues out of interest?

That's a very politically charged question. Deserves a new thread where we can debate it and fall out over it.

Anyway, have you any predictions for the round 2a and 2b games

[Snapchap]

Before you all blast me i'm 100% behind the Palestine and what Isreal are doing is beyound belief but is the abuse RK getting for working there for 6 months warranted?. Genuine question...Don't quote me on this but I'm led to believe he started there before this whole kicked off and obvioulsy didn't hang around too long afterwards and I doubt very much he was singing or dancing around in support of Israel (if there is evidence of this I'd certainly change my tune)

Are you living under the impression that Israel only started oppressing Palestinians in October 2023?

I knew someone would come out with this hence why i said "kicked off". I know it started like 1948 or something like that, I was talking about the recent escalation a few years back and you know it, you're just trying to be pedantic. Get a life...

And I'm not trying to personally attack you. And this isn't a case of being pedantic.

You offered up the fact that he joined an Israeli club before Oct 7th as some sort a mitigating factor, and as a reason why perhaps Keane doesn't deserve the level of abuse he has been getting. When you make that argument, then it's absolutely appropriate to point out that, in reality, the date of Oct 7th is completely irrelvant here. Israel has been indiscriminately slaughtering Gazan civilians and stealing Palestinian land long before Robbie Keane decided to go. It was only a few years previous that Israel slaughtered 3,200 Gazans in a six week indiscriminate bombing campaign. He knew exactly what sort of country Israel was/is and still decided that when there was a few quid in it for him, then their repeated crimes against humanity wasn't an issue. He's a c**t.

100% agree Snapchap. Do you ever post on non political issues out of interest?

That's a very politically charged question. Deserves a new thread where we can debate it and fall out over it.

Anyway, have you any predictions for the round 2a and 2b games

Six away wins. You heard it here first.

Round 2A
Donegal v Cork
Louth v Armagh
Galway v Westmeath
Tyrone v Mayo

Round 2B
Monaghan v Roscommon
Kildare v Kerry
Derry v Meath
Cavan v Dublin