Hapoel Beer-Shiva delivered Olympiakos first defeat in a Champions League qualifying match in six years. The Greeks have competed in the group stage every season since, holding their own throughout the period, so getting knocked out by Hapoel was the equivalent of losing a Scottish Cup semi-final to a lower-league club.
Hapoel are not better than Olympiakos, not nearly so, but they were good enough to progress when they got the breaks. Anyone who thinks we’ll easy past them into the group stage is being ridiculously complacent.
I’m trying to avoid the nonsense coming out of Ibrox while we have more important things going on, but good grief! Please, please, have them follow through on the nonsense of ditching their legally contracted Puma strips to wear something else.
That stadium seems to be a beacon attracting stupid people doing stupid things.
You’ll note the INDEPENDENT SFA report on crowd at the Scottish Cup final recorded no assaults whatsoever on Newco players. This clearly caused some dissonance at the media organisations who reported utter fabrications after the game.
Never mind, Newco is in the same good hands which were on the tiller when their disastrous EBT plan was enacted, and the players who benefited from EBTs are front and central of Newco media coverage.
If you can’t see how this story ends, you’re not looking.
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BIGCHIPSUK – 10 IN A ROW (2001-2010) on 6TH AUGUST 2016 10:08 PM
To those who complained that Sevco had been given an easy start to their first ever SPL campaign… you were wrong.
After today’s curtain raiser against Donati’s dynamos, they next have to play away to the current SPL leaders, then they host the current third placed team.
That’s actually quite a tough opening sequence.
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They’d have a tough opener no matter which teams the played in whatever sequence – because they’re pish! :-)
However, I’m sure whoever put the fixtures together thought they’d at least be able to beat the team that are favourites for relegation at home on the first day of the season.
Bet they never expected to lose Waghorn Pen on the first day either. Still, according to Dave King this is all preparation for challenging in Europe next season…
Never like to see a good pro get a bad injury wouldn’t gloat over someone’s livelihood being threatened.
What’s that you say the hun wagster has done his hamstring.
Haw haw
https://mobile.twitter.com/DAVIDC0E/status/762002235551342592/video/1
Klopp tells the Sun to fk off
Patrick27 on 6th August 2016 7:45 pm
Whoever the BBC had watching Barton must have been away at the pie stall when Ali Crawford nutmegged him and left him for dead in the middle of the pitch.
Otherwise they’d have included that in their report I’m sure…
Love yer man Klopp giving it to the Sun journalist, in a nice way of course.
Bada superb stuff by Klopp. He just made himself a Mersey hero.
Jmccormick
I know exactly what you mean, thankfully Miss GFTB is more adventurous than her father, she refuses to eat from the kids menu at home or abroad, the staff in the restaurants thought this was great, also better table manners than most adults I know……by the way the Atlantic chippy has a great reputation but nowhere near my scheme so not for me :-)
Really looking forward to the morra the champions on the box and Mrs GFTB has the homemade steakpie on the go……I more or less made it as I had to top the stew & links sausages up with water all day while she was out doing the garden (I was ironing about 3 cases of holiday clothes at the same time) who says we can’t multitask
Good night and God bless fellow Celtic fans…….
G64 -media savvy, i think Brendan is switched on too
G64-Bada
Football has changed so much, it’s a case of trying to break down ten men behind the ball most games in the spl.
Last season many complained that RD only played one up front, no he didn’t, some games there was seven up front, and at times there was all of our out field players within a few yards of the oppos box.
The fact that the system is called a 4231 means feck all in reality, apart from a stick to beat the coach with when we don’t win.
Brendan will play different systems depending on the oppo, tomorrow I reckon he will go with a set up that can be changed as and when required, something that RD coudny master, but the illusion that we only play one striker is just that.
HH
Damo
Aye, hardly surprising though don’t want any negative press for the big box office signing of the summer. Ha. Hahaha.
Good evning friends.
Our first game of the season is at, in my opinion, our 2nd most difficult away venue after Pittodrie. On paper our easiest game of the season should be our home one against Hamilton. Just sayin, like….
When we finally vist Ibrox both teams will have played 19 games. I’ll be absolutely astonished if, by then, we are not already 15 points ahead of them. Just sayin’ like….
TET -agree up to a point amigo,2 natural strikers will pose more threat to opposition, Sinclair and Roberts from wide,LG and Dembele through middle…..100 goals plus…
Matidas 2 Germany 1
Half time.
Bada I think Klopp is sympatico with the supporters of his team and is voicing their views. In this era a manager is expected to be beholden to his employers and it takes a big personality to go off message. Well done Jurgen. Brendan take note. Tell it like you you see it Brendan.
We haven’t yet played a domestic competitive game under Brendan. Would be good to think that our attitude to all domestic games will be “2 up front”. At least….
Gordon64 –
The last 2 press interviews with our man players have been with Brendan and Broonie. Both of them excelled in their answers. I hope that this is a sign that the times they are a changin’
B.B the family are sitting at the bakery
Below Jinkys ,the weather here is 27degrees
after eating the7 of us are heading for a kip
H.H. The green team
Tet If we played 2 strikers I would expect a minimum of 50 goals between them. Who was our second highest scorers last season. ? HH
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Danny
LovehimCSC
You can tell it’s holiday time when CQNers on here ask ” anyone know a bar in xxxxxxxx showing the game?”.
Well I know it’s over a week away but I’ll be in Barcelona on 16/08 and I know the two Celtic pubs are Flahertys and Michael Collins.
If anyone else is there then I’m buying.
Gordon64,
I am hoping BR was being deliberate in his choice of words when he spoke of
The Rangers coming into the league,no mention of returning or getting back into the top division
G64-Bada
I see you are both missing what I am saying :-)
We will have to agree to disagree me thinks.
HH
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What a chance you had but let’s hope you have an off-day tomorrow…
HH
GORDON64 on 6TH AUGUST 2016 10:48 PM
Bada I think Klopp is sympatico with the supporters of his team and is voicing their views. In this era a manager is expected to be beholden to his employers and it takes a big personality to go off message. Well done Jurgen. Brendan take note. Tell it like you you see it Brendan.
Totally , you called it bang on G.
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Kenny
HH
Roy Croppie –
Born a few years either way and my answer may be different but for this 1962 Bhoy Daniel Fergus is #1 (closely followed by Larsson and Lennox).
CHALLENGING THE LIE….
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TET- i think we want to play 2 strikers every week in domestic football HH
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Frankie Bhoy and the Maestro
HH
Jobo Baldie
I’m the same mhate my top 3. Would loved to have seen Bobby Murdoch.
HH
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The old place
HH
GFTB
Homemade steak pie ?
Whit’s your hoose number ?
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Even our shadows were cool…
HH
Roy Croppie after reading your post amigo you are literally the heart and soul of Celtic. HH pal
Bada
If we played with two strikers as such, it would take a middy away, no matter who we are up against, we have to match up in the middy or we lose the control of the game, that is a simple fact, the players we have are not good enough to compensate for a man short in the middle of the park, esp if we play with two wingers, we would be overrun and we often were, I well remember on here Lenny getting slagged big time for this.
This is why systems are devised to allow for the team to control as much as poss the middle of the pitch and still pose an attacking threat.
Why do you think very few teams play a 442 ? it’s cos it disny work in the main against a 4231 or a 433 or even a 352.
HH
Sleep well Timland
Gordon64 – seen quite a few references to this. Any chance of a copy and paste or a hint as to where Roy’s post may be viewed?