I reckoned Champions League participation was worth circa £22m to Celtic. By contrast, Europa League football will be worth less than a quarter of that. Ancillary income, such as retail and kiosk sales, will also suffer.
The challenge now is to improve the team without that income. This should not be impossible. Malmo managed it, and we’re not in a situation where the bank is hammering at the door. But what should be clear, is that the next five days represent the best chance to strengthen the team for next August’s qualifiers. There’s a notion that the biggest games of our season come early, but we’ve 11 months to plan for 2016’s biggest games.
Three things to remind you about:
Golfers: buy a raffle ticket for £1 to win a round of golf FOR FOUR PEOPLE at the magnificent Aberdour course in Fife. Competition ends on Saturday, get your tickets here!!! It’s offered by Taggsybhoy, in support of the Foundation.
There’s a Mary’s Meals collection from 1pm on the Celtic Way ahead of the game on Saturday. Ideally we’re looking for backpacks, but handtowels (the school kitchens you paid for have handwashing facilities and each child is given their own handtowel), pencils, rulers, etc.
If the kids got new kit for starting school last week, dig out the old stuff and bring it along.
Magners have kindly donated two Premium Seats in the Jock Stein Stand for Saturday’s games. You can win the tickets by answering this question:
Who is Celtic’s top scorer this season?
Player’s surname in the SUBJECT line of your email to celticquicknews@gmail.com . Competition closes at 22:00 TONIGHT, so not a lot of time to enter.
No call today for a donation, go stick a £1 in Taggsy’s raffle instead. Thanks.
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Justafan
“The truly woeful, insiped and gutless performance.”
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For me,the responsibility for that lies firmly at the door of the coach.
Lyndsay Sharp getting papped oot of the Athletics the day. Shame that.
Best inane troll contribution in a long time.
Dreadful.
Rudi
More Clash and less pash please!
Liverpool and Villa, eh? Whit ur they like? Safe supporting choices for an Ulster says No man to make as their favourite homeland team.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 28TH AUGUST 2015 12:24 AM
Can’t agrre with you there entirely. It wasn’t Ronny running about the midfield like a headless chicken Tuesday night.
The players would have had their brief before the game. They hid.
Having said that a few would find their erchies on the bench the next few league games.
Pair wee millionare souls.
SAN DIEGO BHOY on 28TH AUGUST 2015 12:31 AM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 28TH AUGUST 2015 12:24 AM
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The loss of Denayer was a major blow for us and apparently beyond our control.
This affected imho the performance of the much criticised V.V.D.
Those two had a very effective double act which would have been very hard to reconstruct at short notice.
Apart from that factor,I wouldn`t blame the performance of the players at all.
Ronny.
I had severe doubts about his ability very soon after his arrival.His body language suggests he shares my doubts.The “Ronny Roar” underlines his feelings of self doubt.
When you`ve “got it “,you don`t need public shows of hubris.
His team selections have been mystifying.His substitutions equally so.
I fear he will leave at some point this season or soon after under a cloud.
Fervently hope I`m wrong.
Nice talking to you.
San Diego lovely town.Particularly Old Town.
Viva Mexico.
Gorrago.
RUDICANTFAIL on 28TH AUGUST 2015 12:15 AM
Worst Celtic team in a very long time
Dreadful
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No seen much then….!!
Ayrshire is Green and White
Shutup ryecatcher ya Hun-loving prick; infesting the blog since Tuesday with yer lame alter-ego and anti-Celtic pish.
Anyone who knows football will have raised an eyerow tonight at the Southampton result. No solace for us but confirmation that a well-organised professional side with a fearles sattitude can turn the odds.
Those damn Scandinavian sides – Swedish and Danish champions performing well above expectations.
Now we need to offload VVD as quickly as possible. Completely stunne dme with his lapses in both Malmo games. No argument can justify his extant presence at CP; unable to marshall his defence/command his area and lost 3 vital identikit goals from corners – why on earth would we want to keep any wantaway centre half under these damning stats let alone have the chance to offload him for £10 million. Bite the hand off the English mugs.
As for getting a striker in – lmao; any striker RD desires has to be superman. I always though Scepovic could be a star in the Sutton mould if paired up, but RD will not play a striking partnership; seems antithetical to his footballing ‘philosophy’ to go with 2 up front. If we’d gone 4-4-2 at 2-0 v Malmo we’d have murdered them. But we play percentages, becasue that’s the one-trick-pony way.
We’ve all watched this ‘dynamic’ tactic for a year now, we’ve condemned then admired it when it worked. But how often HAS it worked? In crucial games, I mean? Good sides are taking a look at us close-up in the first encounter then nullifying us and picking us off next meeting. We seem all fur coat and no nickers.
I was after RD’s head on here after Maribor; all I saw there was Tony Mowbray blind optimism and no pragmatism. I am still willing to eat my words and let him roll on if he can just get over himself a little; the Ronny roar needs binned and the Ronnyknow-how needs displayed more. There MUST be more to him, and Celtic, than this one-dimensional relentless-runaround hopeful open football. Where’s the guile and the savvy?
Show us something, Ronny, or it’ll be more than just me asking if the wannabe emperor’s actually got his breeks on.
Corkcelt
Are you part of the pedants revolt?
:o)
Celtic
Paul67. How can you give a CEO with a history of not planning for CL another 12 months ?
He won’t start this August planning
The only way forward is to have a campaign to remove him starting now
Regards
Colin
Bought the sun and daily rangers today, I know I shouldn’t but just wanted to read what crap the jurnos were spouting. I know we’ve said this all before but this is my opinion for what its worth
1. How can we be competitive in Europe when we have to continually play most weeks against poor opposition in spfl.
2. How is it that when the other Scottish clubs get pumped out of Europe by minnows they get praise for being in Europe in the first place.
This is just a small number of questions that I will be emailing both these rags. I’m really hoping for a so called football jouno to reply then I will really get stuck in.
Will post comments if they’re man enough to tell the truth.
Swayno
Stop blaming Celtics defeat on the league, our problem only.
Swayno
It’s not the spfl’s fault that Celtic are woeful in European qualifiers.
Bate borisov do not play against world beaters in Belarus. Each year they enter CL qualifiers at qualifying round 2 and each year they make the group stages. 5 times out of the last 6 years they’ve qualified.
Playing in a poor league is no hindrance to them.
And the lack of quality in the SPFL means we can rest a whole team as we did on Saturday for the CL and still win. We need to look inward for answers on why Tuesday happened not look to blame others
Just a general answer to the lacking ambition charge made in response to what I consider a realistic post.
Ambition has to be balanced by the ability to meet it.
A 5ft 1 guy might have the ambition to play for Boston Celtics but it would be foolish in extreme to ignore the gap between his ambition and the ability to achieve it.
Things are what they are. Things change but only over time. Patience is not a lack of ambition it the art of ENJOYING what is. The key word being joy.
Some folk don’t seem to want to be joyful. It is an ambition I would encourage in them although I fear some lack the natural ability.
This will be essential reading for me as he keeps posting.
Celtic were very poor on Tuesday.
Time is up for Commons, Mulgrew, Stokes and even Broonie, IMO.
Too many times, even in just ‘Domestic’ games these guys have been poor in games that would’ve lead to Silverware, everyone knows what the CL means to Celtic.
Tuesday night was different though, it shouldn’t have happened but somehow it did.
Anyway, laters and Praying for TCR.
I noticed WITS had mentioned a fund, has one been setup yet?
Some interesting big clubs in the Europa. A few even bigger former Euro cup winning clubs didn’t even make it this year.
Dortmund, Monaco and Rosenburg might be and interesting group ?
Spurs, Rapid and Partisan similar.
Always excited before a euro draw.
It looks a tougher competition than last year ?
Sporting Lisbon, Skenderbau and Rapid might be a good mix of box office and possible advancement.
Sion, Legia and Spurs for me wold have a bit of spice and interest.
Burnley78 on 28th August 2015 3:38 am
Good man.
Let`s look forward ,not back.
“I’m all off to Dubbellin in the bus, Mc.Ginley’s bus,……”
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I Want Dortmund as I have Bet them in Bundasligue this Year..
Last Six Competitive Games have Scored..
4..5..4..4..4 and 7..
Not a Bad Start to a Season..
They Took 11 off last team in Europa..
They might take 20 off the Celtic defence on Tuesday Night minus Virgil..【ツ】
Summa
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 28TH AUGUST 2015 6:05 AM
“I’m all off to Dubbellin in the bus, Mc.Ginley’s bus,……”
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That`s all very well.
However,is your helmet glistening in the sun………………???
As stipulated by the sages.
Enjoy the craic,Thom.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34079489
Oh,yeah ????
MACJAY
When in Dublin,it is no longer acceptable for your helmet to glisten in the sun. In much the same way,in Holland it is no longer acceptable to put your finger in a dyke.
Keep Ronny,sack the bean-counters.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a damp underfoot but dry overhead East Kilbride.
Hoping for an exciting Europa League group draw to give us all even more to look forward to between now and (at least) Christmas.
Wonderful attempts at obfuscation , denial and acceptance on here
We have been stuffed in Europe by three teams with inferior budgets ..ergo ..not all about budgets …obviously
Notwithstanding that we have the PL praetorian guard chuntering on ad nauseam …a few pointers ..we are not near bankruptcy ..we are never going to emulate Sevco …our squad has been denuded of all quality and is virtually worthless in the big transfer market …we sign way too many duds chasing another Wanyama rainbow …our manager is a novice who hasn’t improved this season…our turnover is falling as are our attendances…our lack of desire to stand up for the support is a disgrace
Notwithstanding all of the above …PL and co are doing a great job…sorry not for me …we have a strange set up at CFC ..the very nature of the business is secondary to the business itself
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 28TH AUGUST 2015 6:39 AM
MACJAY
When in Dublin,it is no longer acceptable for your helmet to glisten in the sun. In much the same way,in Holland it is no longer acceptable to put your finger in a dyke.
Keep Ronny,sack the bean-counters.
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Unless ,I take it, you`re another dyke?
Theoretically speaking,of course.
I used to climb on the dykes in the back courts of tenements in Merryhull ,Thomthethim territory,when we were fellow attendees of St.Columba`s.
Ronny? I hope you`re right.
I fear we must demand better.
MACJAY
How about we just agree to sack the bean-counters anyway?
Bassas ruin nearly every business they get their hands on. Even accountancy companies!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 28TH AUGUST 2015 7:03 AM
MACJAY
How about we just agree to sack the bean-counters anyway?
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Mate.
I really am not well enough informed about the “Celtic business model.”
I really am not in a position to judge.
I imagine (am I naive?) that our Board stewards ( no puns please ) have the best interests of Celtic at heart.
As long as the mistakes which they have made have been made with the best of intentions ,then that is something which is acceptable.
To the extent that they are responsible for the decision to appoint a “rookie” coach, who has been a very expensive failure, then they must accept the rap.
However……..the first.the most important move is………….
Move Ronny on….or
Move him sideways.
We Celtic are a global organisation,a global entity.
We cannot accept mediocrity. Being also rans.
Never.
If our Board do not act to change what must be changed,then I`ll be in your court.
Having said that……………..Do you fancy a large one ???
:-)
BMCUWP
CQN ‘s resident accountant Blantyrekev openly stated that companies shouldn’t have accountants running every aspect of the business
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Accountants..
My Accountant is Jewish and a Gunner Supporter..Ha..
Summa of SamuelGoldbergCSC
PFAYR
Forget bean counters .
They don`t stick the ball in the net.
Give us a winning team where it matters.
No. Not at Hampden.
In Europe.
Bean counters importance to Celtic is only relevant when the bickies are coming in.
AND the bickies ain`t coming in.
FIXIT,Celtic.
Otherwise the bean counters will be out of a job.
That won`t please the Celtic Trust.
Or will it?
When we signed Rafeal Scheidt with JB and KD in charge we wasted £5 million as was a complete imposter for a football player, useless , agreed. Now in 2013 we sign the hospital case Derk Boerigter for 2 to 3 million pounds, a football player with ability but injury prone beyond belief and the heart of a mouse. Who actually scouted and sanctioned these 2 signings should be sacked if there is any connection, unfit for purpose applies to both the players and the scouts and those that agreed to sign them. Ajax even said he was injury prone and yet we took him , not at a knockdown price but for full value. Shocking waste of money and how with his record did he ever pass our medical, god knows. Now i know that every signing won’t be a world beater but our failure rate of late for strikers is abysmal imo, somebody has to be held to account, millions wasted and holding us back. rant over. HH
SUMMA OF SAMMI…. on 28TH AUGUST 2015 7:38 AM
I wonder if he`s related to a guy I worked with in Glasgow.
Goldberg`s an unusual name.Yeah?
:-)
Hope you`re well,pal.
SPIRITOF67 on 28TH AUGUST 2015 7:41 AM
You sound as frustrated as I feel , pal.
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Yea but asking 4 Strangers to Zonal Mark is…..?
Former Celtic ace Kennedy defends Hoops’ set-play tactics in Malmo defeat
THE zonal marking system which spectacularly failed Celtic in the Champions League is here to stay.
Former Hoops defender John Kennedy is adamant the errors that cost the Hoops dearly in their 4-3 aggregate loss to Malmo were down to individual mistakes.
Ronny Deila’s side shipped three goals from basic corners over the two legs – much to the dismay of Kennedy who takes responsibility for Celtic’s set-up at set-pieces.
But he maintains the plan works when players are switched on, and that’s the issue that needs to be addressed as the Bhoys await today’s Europa League draw.
Kennedy said: “I have to take as much responsibility as anyone for set-plays and being ready for them. I shoulder the blame for part of that.
“As we move on we’ll look to tweak things and improve. But it’s something that’s stood us in good stead in the past and we’ll make sure if there are any problems we’ll fix them.
“When you concede with zonal marking, the debate starts. But when you concede from man-marking no one bats an eyelid.
“We worked on zonal marking, we firmly believe in it, the players we have we think are suited to it.
“In one game it’s not worked for us. Yet, over the course of last season I think domestically we conceded about two goals from set-pieces.
“But against Malmo we’ve conceded three over two ties. That’s obviously disappointing.
“For me when you man-mark – for instance if we put Virgil van Dijk on someone – he can take him out to the back area where it’s not a danger.
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“But that also means you can be isolated in other areas of the box, so we put our big guys in the areas we think are the most dangerous.
“It’s worked in the past, although I accept it didn’t on Tuesday night. But it’s not just down solely to zonal marking. You look at the whole performance and it just wasn’t good enough.”
The two killer goals in Malmo – the first from Markus Rosenberg and the second an own-goal by Dedryk Boyata both came from regular set-pieces.
Celtic have conceded 28 goals in 20 Euro ties, which Kennedy admits must change before the Europa League starts.
He added: “In Europe we have been careless with our defending at times. You look back at some of the goals we have conceded and they have been poor.
“It has cost us dearly at this stage which is disappointing. We need to make sure it is fixed for the next time around in Europe.”
Hoops boss Deila held talks with staff and players at Lennoxtown yesterday as he picked through the debris of Tuesday’s performance.
Kennedy added: “We discuss things, we look at the facts and we will look at the videos and ask questions.
“As a group there is no one pointing fingers. Players, staff, we are all in it together and we know that the other night just wasn’t good enough.”
Celtic are in pot two of the Europa League draw which takes place in Monaco at lunchtime today, while on the domestic front they will kick off the defence of the League Cup with a home clash with Raith Rovers next month.
Summa
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MacJay..
Doubt it He’s a Fair Dinkum Auccie..;-)
Ps..l see You have Developed a Slighter Strain of SydneyTims RPCS ..(Repetitive Post Content Syndrome)..Ha
Pps..What do You think of Ronnie..;-)))))))
Summa of SimilarSyndromesCSC
SUMMA OF SAMMI…. on 28TH AUGUST 2015 7:54 AM
Thanks,Owen.
We need our mates to set us straight.
I shall now endeavour to belt up.
It`s the passion that gets to me.