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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danso…,
time to move forward, if they want to stay satic in history let them.
dont encourage them, the death of capitalism, innit :o)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on,
well its the death of somthing
I can just see the scenario unfold:
BDO move in. Take one look at the asset sale and say, “Nope. That’s not on. We’ll have those assets back thank you very much. Mr Green here is your 5.5mil…” providing he did actually pay the money that is.
Then Mr Green will squeal, “but what about all the money I spent since acquiring the assets?”
To which BDO reply, “Oh, that’s between you and the Administrators.”
I hope you’re a good singer Mr Green, ‘cos that’s the only way you’ll get your money back….
Asset strippers trying to make a quick buck over the death of TFOD might just have to think twice. I think it might be a rather hot-potato, not to be handled.
Has to be said…
Considering the features Neil [Butch] Doncaster was………………
hindered with,
the guy is one smooth, calm , cucumbered , ……..ratfaced , dykey, masonic , scrote of a man that will brassneck the most blatent of ‘My Takes’
SPL …………………Its down to you
Regan……….We ALL want you to go…
Ogilvile……………………………………….Well…..You are one piece of shitey work you.
We are a–comin
seriously its hard not to gloat after all they arra the people, aren’t they?
You see…..I cannot bring myself to sign up to FF….I pray for the souls of Tims who do…to me (and I do know I’m not the full ticket) it’s a mortal sin….and much though I want to laugh at the horrific ramblings of the bams,my brain just won’t let me go there.
I admire anyone’s courage in ‘bearding the lion’,but in the end I find nothing really funny at all about the murdering scumbags.
I wish their rotten outlets for their vile bigotry absolute obliteration.
HH!
huns in work
Mr………………. Murray
Mr……………….Whyte
Mr…………………. Green
Who ….?
Ole Minty? Craigy? Ole Chico?…..Mr …..So Formal
miki 67
Ma dear ole Faither–in–law, [anoter wan thats,… some man]
“He’s no’ the full bob that yin”
Cracks me up everytime
miki67,
you are right but temptation is a hard thing to avoid and its kinda good helping them
along in their merry way of delusion, i know i am bad bhoy but i cannot help it.
Mea Culpa on 18 July, 2012 at 02:14 said:
>>>>>
He has not handed over one single groat of readies…..these kinda financial wizards have their own mystical potato head kinda promissory notes….nothing is real and it’s all jam tomorrow with their neverending shell games. Yet somehow,hard ash always seems to be available to THEM for assorted beanfeasts. Funny old world…..
HH!
miki67 on 18 July, 2012 at 01:01 said:
“into the twilight zone at the speed of light!”
That will be this twilight zone then…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXXhlZl8Ofc&feature=related
:-)
Right….time to sleep.
I look forward to the hun coupons *~* as they get the message officially tomorrow morning…..this morning?
HH!
ffs, ah just gave you a 10 year license to gloat, and yer greetin it no enough, aweright, really, when do you propose we stop gloatin.
We both know thats how the bike makes us work, coasting is between heavy peddlin,
I prefer coastin, heavy peddlin’s shite.
more flies with sugar than shite.
hail hail
miki67
Seriously…Hear Hear
Ive dipped in once or thrice to the Sevco media….and the time the barriers were down on Folgen Folgen, I admit I went in there.
I justified it by geting to know the enemy…..but hey,..It takesa strong gut to get among that shower of Toxic Soup,…where only the Scummiest of the Scum rrrrrrrrrrrrrrises to the top .
Hell WILL mend the FOCkers
Larrybhoy on 18 July, 2012 at 02:23 said:
>>>>
Ok……I have to watch that……I saw them in 197? with Lynyrd Skynyrd as support(!). Some eejits walked out after Skynrd and missed an incredibe band!
Cheers for the memories!
HH!
Remember what happened to Frodo when he wore the ring? Tis a heavy burden to carry….entering the abodes tfod.
Now….if I don’t get some sleep I’ll start talkin’ $h¥#=, and you know I’d never do that…..
: > )
miki67 on 18 July, 2012 at 02:21
Aye….Jist like Ole Moonbeams himself….
Who’da thunk he never even put one thin dime into the Darnel from the GETGO…
A £6M loan and Fannys yer Auntie.
Miki67
See,…..I knew ye wurr Some Man. I’d have given my left peg to see that band in their glory.
God Bless em.
Ronnie’s bro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysP_X_CmE_s
Get tae bed…..FFS
Theres ayeways the morra !
Hail Hail good Sir. [ One trillion times more deserved than Minty]
I’m not entirely nuts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31906.htm
We’ve no thought of a back out plan, normalisation process, or have we :o)
stop the bike, help me push it up the hill and we’ll be coasting to the next hill, it must be easier than joustin surley.
krishna\siva thing I suppose, if yer no a desciple of the CHRIST innit.
Ole Willie Powell wasn’t too bad on the ole Ivories either Miki…….!
RIP JOHN AND BILL
Oh yeah. and this needs to be watched by everyone….
Class !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-tQaFxxItY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLA9A38C1BBAFB71E8
Larrybhoy,
they were shite years ago, guess what :oD)))))
Larrybhoy
New to me Larry. Good stuff.
Hail hail
Law & Philosophy@mdkster
@AllanRennie1 @the_tbk Important to get language right. Those are not “sanctions”. Stripping titles equivalent to return of stolen property.
:o)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 18 July, 2012 at 02:47 said:
They’re no shite now ! :-)
The bould bhoys….. Tá ár lá anois on 18 July, 2012 at 02:49 said:
Cheers !
good night one and all – another happy day for the good guys :-)
canamalar
Someone [?]has already portrayed that analogy of a the thief…. The family of said thief pertaining the stolen goods. Think it was Henry Clarkson….
Spot on….
Soz….Can’t find the link.
Larrybhoy
Second time round……Im now a fan….. Tonight, I will be mostly listening to GE.
aaaah Nae Skool the morra.,,…
Hail hail
This deserves the hits follow the link bhoys
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/9406620/Rangers-should-be-stripped-of-their-titles-if-found-guilty-of-using-EBTs-says-former-Celtic-captain-Tom-Boyd.html
“Fifteen in a row?” he grinned. “I’d still be playing! If they have got these players illegally then it’s certainly the case that they should be stripped of those titles. “Whether you give it to the team who finished second or whatever will be for them to decide.”
Larry
She Flies On Strange Wings
Wow.
Tom Boyd
CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN
Whats all this about Alfredo Phuckedifahknow?
I dont gettit?
Rock on Tommy
As I said last night keep focused. Tory miscreants and o cum all ye faithful are obfuscating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYTcQUKTVY
mags,
the throwback, is that no one of the funniest books you’ve ever read, lockheart flawes
Mags 0310
If only it were on Edmiston Drive.
That would maybe go somewhere near ‘my wildest dreams’……to see that place demolished.
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