Samaras can do it on his day.  A good squad player

Samaras was the man who turned the seson around at Ibrox last new year with a magnificent performance, when we were going through a very poor patch, he's frustrating but the manager rates him, so back him when he's on.

Stokesy flying lets hope he keeps it up and becomes the player evrybody at Aresenal thought he was going to be, It's in his own hands. (what a chance he has been given and he knows it)

Hooper's still young too, a victim of the parkhead hype mob, he still has an important part to play.

We've needed a centre half since BACK TO Martin O'Neil's (legend) later days in charge.

Big Mick played his joker for a few years and scored some important goals too, but was never the answer.

We must look to not embarrass ourseves in Europe at least.

Hail Hail

all valid points he's so frustrating, but i'd always play him against them

I just think he is the one player rangers management and players would be delighted not to see on the team sheet, he's capable of ripping them apart singlehandedly when it all clicks, apart from the derry pele, we have nobody else with that in their locker.

Der (h)un have started a similar thread, but I am in no way suggesting you should gatecrash
it and noise 'em up

Looking forward to going to the John Thomson story at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow early September. Should be good on the eightieth anniversary  of his sad death of the young goalie aged only 22.

that john thomson story at Kings should be great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tOjIFICHWY

First Celtic song i learned, along with some folk numbers sean south, we're all off to Dublin, great memories.

The greatest club in the world.

Good decision by the club to include the Sion game with your season ticket,big crowd vital on European nights,its our 12th man at home in these games.

As i previously posted mac most infuriating player i have watched in recent times at Celtic park.

Agreed malay,but the good games are few and far between for his wages and length of contract he is on now.

could not agree more malay,seen him play for Greece a few times and looked very very good.Remember him playing a unreal pass splitting the defense for the winning goal to get Greece in the World cup.

mac3333 - "There will be nothing easy about playing sion. We have a bad record against swiss teams. Didnt they knock us out of europe before. I would have preferred to play them away first. As said before samaras peno miss cost us the league, 3 goals for the season & rangers had worked him out after the new years game. It's not hard to work him out. Beat him to every 50/50 ball & he will stand there with his hands up & let the player who beat him run past. He should never be played again."

Pure p1sh I'm afraid
The Samaras missed penalty alone did not cost Celtic the league, and it is quite ludicrous to make this assertion.
Celtic's 5 SPL games prior to the New Year match at Castle Greyskull were as follows:

Dundee Utd at home: drew 1-1 after the arabs scored in the 3rd minute of added time.

Inverness at home: drew 2-2 after being 2-0 in front.

Kilmarnock at home: drew 1-1 requiring a late equaliser.

St Johnstone at home: won 2-0 but only taking the lead in the 91st minute, and scoring again with last kick.

Motherwell at home: won 1-0 with the skipper sent off in last minute and suspended for ibrox game 4 days later.

So, 5 home games with 15 points obviously on offer, and Celtic managed to take 9 - this can logically be argued to have had a hugely more significant impact on Celtic winning the title or not, surely??
Celtic went to mordor on the back of this disappointing tally from the home games, and if you recall, very few people fancied them to get anything at New Year.
Samaras was absolutely pivotal in the gaining of 3 points this day, and actually put Celtic in the driving seat for the Championship, as the confidence gained here, carried forward into the next batch of quick-fire Celtic v Derhun games.
Fast forward to Inverness, when a win would have made Celtic long odds-on chances to be Champions; Inverness somehow managed to lose their flymo in the run up to the game, and Butcher had his team of hammer throwers fired up. Celtic on the other hand turned up seemingly expecting to win; Incredibly went with a 4 man mid which included 2 lightweights in Commons and Maloney, leaving Ki on the bench, and as a unit had a complete bottle crash, thereby gifting the advantage to rainjurz, who under the Cardigan, were most unlikely to let this chance slip, which they evidently did not.

There you have it, several plausible explanations as to why Celtic did not win the title last season, and not one mention of a missed penalty anywhere to be seen.

How anyone who watches Celtic games can defend samaras is beyond belief. How could anyone offers a striker who scores 3 goals a year, a 4 year contract is beyond belief. That penalty miss was the turning point of the season. If he had scored it the league was wrapped up. Fact. He scored a goal a few years ago against Moscow & said dont call me a hero. He is no hero, he is a joke.

If you are referring to me, then I have not made any rigorous defence of Samaras, and I was not involved in the negotiations that resulted in him being offered a contract extension.
I merely pointed out that his contribution to Celtic winning the game at new year, was absolutely critical, and whether you love or loathe the guy, this is utterly irrefutable.
All the dropped points at Celtic Park prior to this game, added to the woeful performances in the "in your face" games Celtic lost at Motherwell and Inverness, are unquestionably a massive contribution towards their inability to take the championship last season.
At this point it should be pointed out that rainjurz found a consistency after snatching the League Cup, and allied to Smith's nous at getting his team over the line, Celtic were in the end undone by a helluva lot more than just a missed penalty.
If Samaras had scored the penalty that day, how can you say with 100% certainty that Celtic might not have contrived to concede a late equalizer in any case?
Many factors combined to determined the outcome of the title race, and to blame it all on one man's penalty miss, is palpable nonsense.

good start to the thread Bhoys the secret to keeping it going as zipi said is to blank out completely  any abusive interruptions take on board what constructive critics may have to say and to totally ignore the likes of IT67

Here here luna.ITS SIMPLY A GRAND OLD TEAM TO PLAY FOR.Hail Hail.

Mohammadou Idrissou is on his way, fair enough if he costs nothing and can be used as another option to throw high crosses into on bobbly pitches. Not sure where this leaves Murphy.

going as well bly.250 miles round trip for me but would not miss any euro games at home.Been to every one for over a decade.Hail Hail.

fair play briggie, snake get yersel there. thunder reqd

A proper thread talking about a proper team. Thursday should be good if Hooper is 100% and Celtic play to their potential great things should come out of this season. Hail, Hail

Superduper,i must have travelled hundred thousand miles following Celtic the last 30 years.Seen them all over Europe,Australia,north America.A 250 round trip Thursday is not too bad.Could write a book on my adventures following by beloved Celtic.Hail Hail.