Celtic have received some clarity concerning their first Champions League qualifying round opponents after this week’s first leg results in qualifying round two. The five matches that could provide an opponent for Celtic all produced hot favourites to progress.
Sheriff Tiraspol, who won away in Armenia, are 22 games into their league campaign and top the Moldovan table. HJK Helsinki, who won 7-0 on Tuesday night’s Champions League qualifier, are joint top in Finland after 17 games.
All other expected opponents won 3-0 at home in the first leg. Neftchi Baku are top of the Azerbaijan league after 16 games. Molde are two points off the pace in Norway after 15 games. AEL Limassol are Celtic’s only potential opponents who have yet to start their campaign.
If Celtic are to progress to the group stage they will have to overcome stiffer opposition than any of these teams in the final qualifying round, so we should look forward to a stiff test.
Loved the We are Celtic Supporters video from Celtic TV (below). Great quotes from Jimmy McGrory, Tommy Burns, Billy McNeill, Paul McStay, Jock Stein and the original “<insert name> is more than a football club” from Sir Robert Kelly, a few decades before it was picked up in Catelonia.
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Stop press
Celtic buy center half
Club then placed in administration.
Jackey from the park standing on the steps of Celtic park ( ala John brown)
All because Celtic had no center half and they dared to buy one
Wish we had listened to foxy :(
I had a text this morning from a good friend who said that newcomers with an 1888 suffix are not to be trusted.
Only bent on noising up the rest of us.
I see what he meant-I seem to remember a few months back the suggestion that a blatantly TIMMY name followed by 1888 was usually a sign of the hunterlouper (was it VMHAN? Dunno)and this accurate point lead to the creation of the hallowed DECLAN.
So,FOXY1888,keep up the good work,but don’t cross the line to the point where you can no longer be parodied….
SofTunis -Kitty also did a version of Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’ wih the ole Allman Brothers.
Excellent tribute to her on last night’s Bob Harris country show.
If the Sleekits are the aforementioned ‘false flags’, then Jim and his cohorts are the the flagpole…………
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 20 July, 2012
masochist!
Estadio Nacional on 20 July, 2012 at 09:26 said:
Too late for that kind os sense Mate the panic has already started and the misquoting knife sharpeners are out..
I have a sneaking feeling that the following is going to happen. Others have postulated the theory before me, but I am thinking that it is looking likely:
Newco will, for whatever reason not be playing football next season – inability to get registered as a team, buy a team, whatever – green will be looking for an excuse and someone else to blame, in the same way that no one wanted to pull the plug and put them in liquidation, there will be prevarication up until the last possible moment.
Spartans will be given their place.
Newco will buy Cowdenbeath. No need to recruit team or staff.
Cowdenbeath will move to Ibrox and be renamed The Rangers FC.
Stories about the SFL looking to sell TV rights for D3 games are being bigged up to once more distract and comfort the hoardes.
I think that is very funny. Cowdenbeath will become the new establishment club. Now, just to work out is this Greens cunning plan or was it Cowdenbeaths ruthless evil genius?
I am 90% sure this will happen. As usual, I have no sources, I am just taking facts in to account. I cannot see how Newco can be granted an SFA license. They look very likely in the present state to be unable to fulfill fixtures, they have a myriad of legal problems, player recruitment and above all no obvious source of income to finance what they would like to do as Sevco.
It’s worth restating this simple fact: Rangers are dead and gone, no more, kaput, currently residing with beelzebul making good on the contract they signed with him many moons ago.
How is sell out saturday going?
Foxy more chance to find one if our manager is given a few million, at the moment he has zero
You are
Is it just me or does anyone else find themselves grinning like a village idiot every time they pass someone wearing an Oldco top?
Foxy_1888 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:28 said:
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 20 July, 2012
masochist!
I know i know,,,im a glutton for punishment,,,have to say that Traynor and co are so out of touch with not only the Celtic fans but all football fans in Scotland,,,according to him and his chums the Titles should not be stripped from the huns??
HH
starry plough @9:23
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I’m not a football manager/scout/CEO.
But, what I do see is – Neil trying to curry favour with the support in his utterings about – trophie’s being retained etc…
What I would like to see is – Neil showing some balls and, demanding QUALITY players are recruited to the team by the supports money as, afterall, the support are the MAIN financial contributers to the club. imo.
I’m led to believe that Neil wanted Mills from Liecester City.
Are we being told that, the Celtic support DON’T deserve to see players from Leicester City ???
After a long night on the opium pipe:
“McCOIST WINS TROPHIES FIGHT
CHARLES GREEN was on the brink surrendering to Celtic and handing over titles and trophies in a desperate bid to get a licence to play from the Scottish Football Association.
For right now Charles Green is under mounting pressure from his investors as he fails to deliver on the promises he made to them about making money out of Rangers in a get-rich-quick scheme.
But Ally McCoist was the man who stepped forward to defend the honour and integrity of Rangers silverware seasons.
It is manager McCoist who has been inside Hampden over the last few days playing hardball with the SFA as Rangers bid to have their membership of the governing body and with it, their licence to play, transferred from the Oldco to the NewCo.
It has been a combination of performing a high wire act without the balancing pole or safety net for McCoist and Stewart Regan…and all above thin ice.
So far McCoist has not blinked and he has been doing a wonderful job for Rangers. A job he has been able to do, thanks to the absence of Charles Green who has disappeared into thin air for the last few days.
Time will tell where Charles Green actually has been and what lies he may have told about his whereabouts.
However, I can also reveal that as far as those trophies are concerned, there does not appear to be any appetite within the Scottish Football Association to pursue a vendetta against Rangers and strip them of Scottish Cups they have won.
But Regan refused to blink either when McCoist suggested Rangers would accept the transfer embargo if it was suspended for five years, pointing out that any infringement of the SFA rules during that time would see the year-long-transfer embargo applied immediately.
Regan dismissed that offer.
However, it now appears that the SFA and especially chief executive Stewart Regan, have to be given some wriggle room by Rangers.
McCoist has already won a famous victory in making it clear there is no way he will have anything to do with Rangers rolling over and agreeing to be robbed of trophies they have won fair and square.
That is a lot more than Charles Green intended to do. He was all for surrendering. Simply because he is under increasing pressure from his backers to make sure they can make their quick buck profit from Rangers.
McCoist is divorced from that mucky money making scheme, which is the only reason why Charles Green and his mysterious investors have hijacked Rangers. McCoist’s only motivation is Rangers.
But now, in the interest of Rangers, perhaps it is the right time for the Rangers manager to give serious consideration to taking a step back and negotiating with Stewart Regan is good faith.
From what I have been hearing from a number of extremely well informed sources, McCoist may find he can cut a deal with Regan.
With the clock ticking it is perhaps the time for principles to make way for pragmatism.
For the alternative may be that Charles Green gets back in there with Regan and undoes all McCoist’s good work, leaving Rangers and their silverware at the mercy of their enemies.
And there are enough of them out there who have been shouting their message of hate from the rooftops. Tom Boyd. Neil Lennon. I wonder who wrote the hymn sheet they are singing from?
Peter Lawwell?
Rangers supporters should be grateful they have a man of McCoist’s mettle fighting the club’s corner so well, even as he is stabbed in the back from the enemy within Ibrox, chief executive Charles Green.
For I can reveal that Charles Green did not consult with McCoist or even inform his football manager of the role new investor Craig Mather will play, particularly in relation to the club’s young prospects.
On the official Rangers web site Mather spoke out strongly about what his role will be, making it clear he intends to have a hands-on role regarding young players and be a high profile presence inside the Rangers training complex in Milngavie.
Of course Craig Mather is managing director of Simply Sports Management, a fancy name for a company whose business is being football agents and he is obviously only in for the money too, with the special privileged access his status will give him to the Rangers youth stars, a sure fire cash cow for Craig Mather and his Nottingham based Simply Sports Management.
Many shrewd observers see the recruitment of Mather, plus the disappearance of Charles Green to goodness knows where over the last few days, as last desperate throws of the dice for the increasingly discredited and more and more harassed looking Charles Green.
While McCoist remains on the home front, fighting the good fight on behalf of Rangers. Just as Rangers supporters would expect a true Ranger to do.
posted by leggoland @ 08:00”
So Rogne, Wilson, Mulgrew and Wanyama is not enough at CH to see us past teams from the likes of Moldova, Cyprus and Azerbaijan.
Might as well cancel the season ticket just now.
I love how numpties who dont put a penny into Celtic love telling the club how to spend its money.
Smashy
Drove by Burgau other day, you not a bit old for aw that surfing mularky?
Napoli based media outlets continue to claim that the owner of Napoli FC , Aurelio De Laurentiis is interested in purchasing Rangers Glasgow [ known as i defunti ].
Stated motivation is that having turned a bankrupt Napoli around he now wants to have a go at doing it somewhere else . .
De Laurentiis isn’t known to be tolerant of media guff .. He is fond of litigation .
An interesting man ——– he hates The Italian FA / UEFA and SKY..
Might be guff -who knows ?
MONAGHAN 1900
Glad you sourced that article-I was about to phone Jabba to complain!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERSn 20 July, 2012 at 09:27
Interesting text of solace that.
If things rest easier with your conscience any, go for it.
whomever they are, wherever they are, I’m having a go at so called fans, some of whom are dedicated CQN’rs, whom, despite having the financial means to do so, dont buy a season ticket through choice.
Celtic have too many fans and not enough supporters.
It’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXjlRCePvUU
KevJungle – Murdo..10 men Championees..1979 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:34 said:
Where would you like to see Neil do this demanding, in the Daily Record?
“Lennon demands quality players as friction with Lawwell threatens to wreck Celtic Unity”
“Lennon demands quality players or he WALKS”
Matt Mills chose to go somewhere else, players do Kev and every player that we fail to sign is not always down to incompetence from the club.
Just for the record I would like to see the club bring in quality players but I don’t feel the need at every opportunity or transfer window to bash the club about past mistakes, the club have made mistakes no doubt about that but right now today we are Champions and going into the Champions League draw, with or without new recruits I will be supporting Celtic and will studiously avoid twisting Neil Lennons words to suit my own wee gripe against the club.
You don’t have a season ticket do you?
And you don’t live in Scotland… do you?
This notion that Leggo is running with, that McCoist has won some concession from the SFA not to strip any Scottish Cups won “fairly and squarely” on the field of play, just will not wash.
If they fielded players on “sneaky payments” then those cups were not won “fairly and squarely” and must be removed from the record alongside the tainted titles.
FOXY1888 0941
Text of solace?
What are you wittering on about now,for goodness sake?
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:32
is the sidelined dumb feck hoping to provoke a reaction?
ST- I think you will have to reluctantly accept the manager has already had a few million to spend and he wisely spent it on a fine young goalkeeper.
£2m + 4 year contract- an investment of £5-6 million?
We need to sell before we can invest further sums like this.
We have a hun trying to get name checks and cause division. Who is paying the Media House bills now?
Those paid huns on here… perchance are they too enjoying the benifits of EBT’s?
Foxy_1888 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:45 said:
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:32
is the sidelined dumb feck hoping to provoke a reaction?
I guess so??
HH
Hun in my work just said there if he could get another 20 year of trophys and then it came out they’d cheated he’d do it all again over and over .sums them up !
FOXY1888 0945
Why not? You’ve managed one,after all…….
starry plough @9:44
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Each to their own m8.
I’ll choose NOT to be hood-winked by a bunch of charlatan’s who, like Fergus before them…continue to treat the Celtic support as – CUSTOMER’S!!!
Ole Wickerman Festival this weekend.
Shangri-La will be Village Idiot Central.
KITALBA 0946
His superior attitude reminds me of another who used to post here but just,erm,gave up.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 20 July, 2012 at 09:45
Jesus wept, stop your nitpicking. Are you in or out?
goldstar10 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:46 said:
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No offence M8 but, thats a pile of old knickers. imo.
KEV 0948
Enough,old bean.
You’ve gone too far.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 20 July, 2012 at 09:52 said:
KEV 0948
Enough,old bean.
You’ve gone too far.
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Oh, yeah ?
Kevjungle- no offence taken, but that is the reality, learn to live with it, I have.
Players out or CL Group stages needed.
Midfield Maestro
who said anythin aboot surfin?
no’ fur me. just a pleasant stroll and lager consumption from Luz to Burgau
P.s if that diddy 31003 posts any pash aboot me later then scroll on by…..which you’ve probably done wae this post inaw…..sniff
ibleedgreenandwhite1 on 20 July, 2012 at 09:46
Dont encourage them, just ignore :-)
Jabba and co are doing everything within their power to keep their back pockets loaded at that feeble excuse for a newspaper.
C’mon the draw. Let’s see who we get