Celtic will face their first Champions League qualifying opponents on either 31 July or 1 August but heartbeats among the scouting staff will quicken tonight and tomorrow when every potential opponent will play in the second qualifying round.
A number of potential opponents from eastern and northern Europe are mid-season but all will benefit from successfully coming through two qualifying games before tackling seeded opponents two weeks from now.
It is crucially important that Celtic are ready for this tie.
The final qualifying round, scheduled to take place during the last two weeks in August, will offer a greater challenge on paper but European qualifying games in July are notorious for catching better teams unprepared.
After a credibly, though ultimately unsuccessful, Europa League group campaign last season Celtic’s domestic form clicked into place and we looked like a team capable of becoming champions. There was some regret that we didn’t hit form early enough to make the most of our European adventure. Neil Lennon will also be keen to avoid the anaemic performance against Sion, who beat Celtic on aggregate but were subsequently awarded two 3-0 defeats for failing to observe rules.
These Celtic players found hidden depths last season but they have a point to prove in Europe. There is also the nagging suspicion that this Celtic team is more talented that the two Gordon Strachan took to the later stages of the Champions League.
Bring it on.
Get your season ticket and saddle up for the ride.
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Just catching up with earlier posts and came across this gem from
The Battered Bunnet
“It’s steaming, and it’s contained in a crock.”
Quality mate , pure quality .
googybhoy ♥ Celtic on 17 July, 2012 at 17:35 said:
I wish I was I’m home in the valley with Baby Starry!!
Will post the updates from Twitter..
Jungle Jim
Re Novo
he has been shooting his mouth off on Twitter with silly comments putting down Celtic and and talking up our ex rivals.
WATP type stuff,he even called Celtic “The Peados” at one stage and went on about how he and his children were always threatened by Celtic fans and Celtic are a disgrace and Rangers are great etc.
All nonsense attention seeking
IPAD
I have played with several Ipad’s, however, in March I opted for the Asus Transformer Prime run on Andriod, this tablet is beyond awesome. You don’t have the same restrictions that Apple impose.
Thats a team to win a CL qualifier.
Does anyone else think we won’t see much transfer activity other than clearance of dead wood? I think that might be enough of a good transfer window post-oldco.
If nacho novo was really in receipt of death threats from Celtic fans he would go straight to the police, on the other hand if he was lying thru his teeth he would simply blab about it to hid old Scottish MSM contacts. We don’t need the bad publicity, someone from CFC should at least be monitoring what he’s saying, mud sticks.
What is the Stars
Thanks. His using the words ” The Peados” tells me all I need to know regarding the tone of his tweets. I would be embarrassed to be associated with him.
JJ
Ideally we get through the qualifier and save our money for a quality Player who wants CL Football.
BBC Chris McL on Twitter says:
Meeting between #SFA and #Rangers board continues at Hampden. They’ve now been talking for 4 hours.
Is today the day that we find out there won’t be ANY team fielded next season????
Och Chucky just who are you meeting in Zurich??’
Grant Russell @STVGrant
Both UEFA & FIFA tell STV they did not have scheduled meetings with Charles Green today. Could be a misunderstanding, but that’s our info.
And does he live in Monaco…
Naughty step for you Chas..
Last post lifted from an RTC poster
Glasgows Green & Whyte!
Jordan
Any idea who his auld man is?
https://twitter.com/GlasgowGandW/status/225258384163733505/photo/1
honeyishrunkthedad
Celtic should be looking into these remarks from Novo,the reputation of our club is being damage.We all know that a large number of people believe what they read in the press.Can you contact Celtic Paul 67.HH
ASonOfDan on 17 July, 2012 at 17:50 said:
Emmm eh emmm emmm ah eh emmm emm ah
The return of Our Hero..
starry plough on 17 July, 2012 at 17:48
I can picture him and our hero sipping champagne over lunch sayin NEARLY THERE, NEARLY THERE
STUPID STUPID DEADclub fans :))))))
startupthebulldozerscsc
This, from the Evening Times, made me smile:
“RANGERS are lining up a glamour pre-season friendly with Greek giants Olympiakos ahead of the Irn-Bru Third Division campaign.”
I read it as suggesting there won`t be much glamour in Div 3! Even so, I will be surprised if the ” Greek giants” play at Ibrox.
leftclicktic on 17 July, 2012 at 17:52 said:
HAd I known in advance I could have zoomed over there and got a few shotz to sell to the MSM, chance missed Starry!
CHARLES GREEN SAID HE MOVING FROM SAFE HOUSE TO SAFE HOUSE IN GLASGOW THIS WAS HUN ANSWER ON SEVCO MEDIA -Its hilarious how sensationally Sky Sports News twisted that into something its not. He said that he’d finally got a flat in Glasgow and now wouldn’t have to jump “from safe house to safe house” i.e. he now has a permanent home in Glasgow and doesn’t have to keep shifting about aimlessly.
The way Sky Sports News portrayed was as if there were Rangers fans hunting for him. Ludicrous.
DELUDED CSC
Sevco looking to the Greeks for financial help FFS there some mob
Richie on 17 July, 2012 at 16:32
rare find from ff.
unless I’m very much mistaken that post included common sense?
Jesus wept, there was even a hint of der hunne taking responsibility for their own actions.
would be in total shock if those remarks werent met with the usual sectarian bile in reply
I was wondering if anyone could post a link to some pictures of the surrounding areas at Celtic Park,the new road/the velodrome etc????
Hail hail
Gotta Go
Seeya, Folks.
Kojo
Still, Laughin’…and… Why, Bliddy No?
Greeks bail out cheats
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles on 17 July, 2012 at 16:47 said:
>>>>>
Thanks to you and everyone else re. Ch67 on iPad.
I look forward to sitting in my scratcher watching games from midnight onwards. Seriously. No way are Sky & ESPN ever getting a penny from me again. For good,or evil,we live in ‘rip-off Britain’ and I’m sick of it…..and having to endure the likes of über-dog-gob Burley at those rates is a step too far.
Besides paying Ch67 contributes to our club and that’s okay with me.
And ,no way do I wsh to subsidise the epl…..a bubble just waitin’ to burst.
Nacho Novo is a wee prick!
Nacho is a nonentity
leftclicktic on 17 July, 2012 at 17:52 said:
starry plough on 17 July, 2012 at 17:48
I can picture him and our hero sipping champagne over lunch sayin NEARLY THERE, NEARLY THERE
STUPID STUPID DEADclub fans :))))))
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utterly gobsmacked to find that some folk on here think that chas hasn’t gone to ask uefa to renegotiate the £3M debt owed to other football clubs! Of course he has!
He certainly hasn’t gone there to meet up with the other half of the chucle bros and laugh his ar5e off at the gormless nerks who think that they’ll see a sevco XI at the crumbledome this coming season!
Following the money when the sevco die!
Big Mike on 17 July, 2012 at 18:01 said:
Hopefully that is factually true rather than bad language.
:>}
Man City v Dresden on ESPN. If anyone interested.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS – Just a tad disappointed that you missed my post around half five this morning.
Please accept my apology, my dear friend in Celtic.
I did seem to sense a disturbance in the force around that time this morning, but I put it down to a blot of mustard or an undigested particle of swan, and continued darkly dreaming of sugarplums.
Should you give it a butcher’s,I know you’ll agree it was disingenious and filled with inaccurate comparisons.
I shan’t agree to any such thing.
Such as privatisation,when I clearly referred to compulsory tendering,or suggesting that I said Mrs T was reponsible for the welfare state when I equally clearly said that she was responsible for introducing policies which led to long-term unemployment and the dreaded benefit culture.
Are you sure you aren’t trying to have your cake and eat it?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Not much point in having cake just to look at it.
Anyway, yes, I see the distinctions you draw, I think we broadly agree on government procurement at least.
Re: long term unemployment or the culture thereof. That was already a thing before Mrs Thatcher came to power. A while ago I saw a documentary made in 1979 which explored this very issue, interviewing people on the dole who explained why the benefits system meant it really wasn’t worth their while going to work. Governments of both political persuasions have tinkered endlessly with the system since 1979, but the fundamentals of the benefits trap and its effects on human behaviour have remained constant.
Sure, unemployment got worse under Mrs T’s government, and arguably she can be blamed – along with all post-war governments, for not fixing the benefits system while she was in office. I just don’t think she can be blamed for creating the benefits culture.
It seems to me that the 13 years of Labour government we recently enjoyed (not to mention the brokeback coalition we are blessed with today) were more relevant to the benefits culture in Britain today than anything Mrs T did in the 1980’s. So if we’re looking to assign culpability, the Prime Minister who left office 22 years ago wouldn’t be the first person I’d look to.
If you’re interested in my pet theory, it’s that a benefits culture is inevitable under the sort of system we have in this country and things would have come to this pass anyway with or without Mrs Thatcher’s supply-side revolution.
The first generation or so to grow up with the welfare state felt an enormous social stigma attached to being on the dole, so they largely resisted dependency. However, many of their children and grandchildren grew up seeing benefits as their right.
We know this about human behaviour: people respond to incentives. So, given that we incentivise poverty and dependency, not to mention all the related social and health problems, it shouldn’t shock us when we get more of the very things we subsidise. (thumbsup)
5 a side
My Mates bhoy phones the big hoose.
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ on 17 July, 2012 at 18:04 said:
Grant Russell @STVGrant
Both UEFA & FIFA tell STV they did not have scheduled meetings with Charles Green today. Could be a misunderstanding, but that’s our info.
This had something to do with our wee conspiracy theory..
BMCUWP, DBBIA,
Bonaparte was NOT elected, democratically or otherwise: he came to power thro’ his control of the Army. He was a very clever man & a great general (who eventually met his match in Wellington, an Irishman like many of his army). I can’t see much good in an egomaniac who tried to force his will on all of Europe – and Haiti. He was defeated because, like Hitler, he made too many enemies: there’s a very interesting book which points out the parallels between the two dictators/conquerors – unfortunately, I can’t give you the name until I get home & check with my youngest son.
Bonaparte was a disaster for France, notwithstanding his legal legacy. He managed to kill many more Frenchmen than Hitler & left the French saddled with delusions from which they’ve never escaped.
Paul 67 has a point. This team is not any worse than the Strachan team that qualified for the Champs League 16, however they do lack experience. It’s a young team we have and is capable of performing as woefully as we can good. If James Forrest can perform like Kenny Miller did for us in that campaign- that would give us the pace we presently lack up front to run defences ragged.
We need to hope our luck is in on the draw. Given our past record, surely it’s our turn for a rub of the green?
Let’s hope so. Sadly if we come up against anyone half decent at this stage of the season I fear the worst.
nacho novo….small case..small man….striikes me as a severely damaged individual with some very serious psychological issues that can only be resolved with years of intensive psychoanalyisis. For a start,I would think he has a serious eating disorder…this would account for his ghoulish,skull like visage.
As for the rest of his obvious maladies,well…they will cost him an arm and a leg to remedy. Perhaps this is why he’s courting reaction,in order to engage in litigation to pay for an expensive psychiatrist,say,in Switzerland or Monaco?
I can save him all that trouble. This is my analysis.
nacho? You’re a nasty wee psycho with a suicidal gob on you. Goodbye.
LOL just read Nacho Nonewco’s rant. Is every former Rangers(IL) player an idiot?
I would say that the overwhelming evidence would point to this being an incontrovertible fact. Let’s all reflect on some of the the lunatics who have recently been giving us so much pleasure with the odd rant or 2.
Nacho” i was Celtics no1 transfer target” Nonewco
Mark “new signing” Hatelie
Bomber “the stadium my father used to wear” Brown
Ally “who are these people” McMoist
Sandy ‘you’re all goin’get it” Jarofdimes
Billy “a big boy did it and ran away” Doddie
Andy “of course I have a gun I’m a terrorist” Goredham