Celtic earned lots of credit for their 3-0 first leg Champions League qualifier win over LASK, but Hibernian’s 0-0 draw away to Gent in the Conference’ playoff was in its own way equally impressive. There remains a lot of work to do in the return leg next week, and it is Hibs after all, but at least two Scottish clubs have reasons to be hopeful for European group stage football this season.
Motherwell had by far the toughest opponent and went down to a predictable loss. At least they were able to enjoy the opening goal against the side who reached the Europa League final last term.
Hearts found Austrian opposition trickier than Celtic. Their 2-2 home draw and a performance which was clearly below Rapid’s standard suggests they may have another crack at Celtic this season without having to worry about too many midweek games.
What can we say about Newco? I’m of the view that despite the early signs, the league season has not yet caught hold and we cannot discount either of the two clubs who pushed us all the way last time. If Celtic are in Champions League duty until late January, while Newco and Hearts have clear midweeks, they have a material advantage over us.
We can enjoy the laughs when they continually fail, but I am not convinced it serves our purpose for them to have a free run at the domestic trophies. It would also suit our purpose if Hibs, Hearts and Newco could all pick up more coefficient points.
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“if you grow up in Ireland you’re either a Manchester United fan or a Liverpool fan”
Danny O’Donoghue blending football and music
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What do our fantastic Irish support feel about Dannys Man Utd
Lyall Thomas@SkySportsLyall
Matt O’Riley has suitors including #Lyon with nine days of the window left. He won’t be in the #Brighton squad today. He is back fit after an illness this summer but missed some of Fabian Hurzeler’s pre-season preparations #bhafc http://SkySports.com/transfer-centre
I was and have not wavered from being a big fan of Matt O’Riley, IMO MO’N and Shaun could revitalise Matt O’Riley
If the deal is possible I hope Celtic get it done
Chairboy Wow !
A new low for you today quoting Greene’s vile, contradictory and discredited wee ‘power rules’ booklet on here.
Let it go. You really will make yourself ill. Your personal crusade and issues are not healthy.
Celtic has won 14/15 leagues and is working as a club and despite your negative pronouncement’s as to its leadership for 20 years on here it actually has won 17 out of 21 leagues and enjoyed a robust level of financial success in that time.
For a club outside of the top 5 leagues and with its limitations (due to playing in our domestic backwater) its performance is staggering on and off the park.
This robust performance and backdrop, plus a bit of good fortune, has allowed it to survive and hopefully thrive through the adversity of COVID, constant negative MSM, the growing disparity of wealth distribution in global football (TV revenue etc) and of course a resurgent domestic rival revival.
The club made some smart moves. Rightsizing when the situation demanded it in 2004 and 2012 and then investing and upgrading in 2016 (binging in BR 1). It addressed things well post COVID and although Ange departure was premature and it made a panicked mistake with BR 2 but more trophies were added without a treble. Ange’s legacy squad continued on and having enough in the bank literally will ensure we can bounce back well now. Last year’s mess will give great memories ultimately but was not good.
We are moving forward positively and constructively on the field and will address the issues off the field over the coming months also.
I think you probably are a Celtic supporter but whatever personal issues you have, my guess it is with Peter L (whose dog might have shat on your front lawn or something worse), I suggest (in the best mindfulness tradition) you ‘let it go’.
He will always be a CEO and Chair who navigated Celtic through its most successful period of domestic dominance ever and more importantly from a humble background he brought up a decent family. I don’t know what purpose you spouting your negative stuff really serves. It doesn’t advance Celtic that is clear. Especially when you are quoting that pathetic piece of work by Greene on here.
Some dog walk that was by PL to let his dog shit on CBs lawn, round trip over 600 miles, cap doffed
Chairbhoy
Good post as per, tickling the groupies tail.
Never judge a transfer window till it closes ( SFTB )
We awaken to our cornflakes in our ‘sad wee lives’ Check the internet to see where our club stands in the window, and take pelters in our abject misery 🤣🤣
“ Sack the board idiots” or “ Sack the board sh@te “ – are they waiting in the wings all safely renewed up? with the rest of the Celtic support. Maybe the “ parasites ” and “ the pond life “ ( that’s some of the milder names ) will go away this season, to think Paul67 used to declare defiantly ‘this is a Celtic site?’
Who knew, that Celtic board would waken up this summer after last years catalogue of disfunction, not even the uber SKY supporters doon the pub wi their ahem mates, thought we’d ‘spend’ as much.
Fair play to the Celtic supporters that called them out, fair play to Brendan ( he had to go ) Rodgers demanding the quality MON seems to be getting, and last but not least fair play to the board that listened to reason, and commentary.
They’ve reviewed the recruitment system not only disposed of an HFO but dropped the position, and gone back to anonymity in recruiting, the same as other big clubs. Let’s pray they go the all the way and the names in the mix come to Parkhead.
Communications and fan representation was a problem long before the current board took shape, at least now there has been a communication channel established?
The club belongs to the supporters, we are paying for it receiving a bare minimum in return, just wouldn’t do.
Hail Hail
runny eggs
https://x.com/Grouse_Beater/status/2091453754205769955?s=20
OUR COLONIAL PRESS
Selling us dross while Scotland burns
(Thanks due to Alastair Morgan)
Redtop rags concentrating front pages on the Royals, have Scottish in the title but, printed and edited in England
There are many books which explain this abuse of press power
Hack attack by Nick Davies well worth a read
aff oot
What could be worse than a dog shiteing on your lawn?
And btw…the irony of telling Chairbhoy to ‘let it go’…
Take yer pick, Soapy. At least some of us didn’t try to bring Celtic down and happy to throw the season so we could say “I told you so”. What you and yer chums tried to pull off is unforgivable.
You ran around for most of last season calling anyone who wasn’t up for a witch-hunt a Quisling.
Who turned out to be the Quisling, eh?
Retroactive bandwagoning / Late-adopter fawning: Refers specifically to jumping on a trend or idea late, then overcompensating with effusive praise to hide the fact that they were originally skeptical or opposed.
Revisionist flatterer: Captures the mix of rewriting history (gaslighting) with excessive, sycophantic praise to secure social alignment.
Backpedaling sycophant: Combines physical retreat from a previous stance with overly obsequious behavior toward the winning side.
Gaslighting: actively trying to make you doubt your memory by insisting they always supported the position, they are using gaslighting to cover their tracks.
Fair-weather supporter: Highlights the loyalty flip—they only praise an idea once it is safe, successful, or popular to do so.
Zeal of the convert: A classic phrase for someone who adopts a new view and immediately becomes its most intense, vocal advocate, often to prove their own allegiance.
C’mon Blogger…you need to let it go…
Boring
Reading about a few ex Celts online and in papers this morning….
As the old saying goes …” The grass is always greener”
Suppose the extra dosh might help a bit though ! 🥴
Lord Haughey, the Maestro etc, etc where for art thou, mmmmm por cierto.
https://x.com/StefSimanowitz/status/2091442694769770589?s=20
“If ‘beyond doubt’ was not established in the intelligence does it then follow – yes or no – that Tony Blair misled parliament?”
In Feb 2010 – 7 years after the start of the invasion of Iraq – Andrew Marr confronts Alaistair Campbell with undeniable facts
Alastair Campbell defending war crimes based on a lie
How is he defending the lie, he accuses the people of settling scores, of false judgement comparing the dossier with subsequent evidence as vilification, Campbell then puts them all in an imaginary group, typical tactic from a political strategist to attack those who are demanding the truth and accountability over a large human loss of life…………….I’m sure you will find that tactic in a book 😜
https://x.com/UpTheCeltsHH/status/2091371451295129739?s=20
What a guy 💚
Love this with MO’N talking about that last memorable 7 mins at paradise, his emotions and thoughts
You just had to be there, what an explosion of Joy
Thanks MO’N 🍀
theras a whole lot of AI going on…
and a bigger amount of hallucinating…
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcWwhDjyvMV/?igsi=YTF1ZThkMTJwMHd1
Paul Lennon RIP, I hope the club have a tribute to his work on the big screens on Saturday
Jim Orr is on
Live
https://www.youtube.com/live/KP8y56xhBuw?is=rTZJb54CUL_LUkvL
Bada
Thanks for that,
Heartbreaking.
One team for me…Celtic.Not an interest in any other football team.My son,and his three bhoys.All my family (brothers sisters and their offspring ..Celtic.
Victories for Hull City and Brentford remind us that football is both a team game and an athletic contest.
Opponents complete with shiny new bling
… didn’t function as effectively as a single unit,
… nor did they run hard without thinking to their individual detriment but the group’s overall benefit.
Borgo67 / B78 re rugby yesterday – cheers
For 60 minutes the All Blacks were battered everywhere …
… except the scoreboard !
Took everything South Africa threw at them (which was A LOT), stuck to their game, played as smart as they did tough.
Brilliant.
Takes guts.
B78 – to your recollection of your son’s tour of South Africa …
… I’d forfeit rather than face them.
Huge human beings and brutal to boot.
Didn’t bring enough smarts yesterday.
(I thought their scrum half was poor)
PS – Ardie Savea ?
What a player !!
BTB – The result yesterday was surprising on the basis the All Blacks’ set piece (scrum and line out) was absolutely destroyed. However, their work rate and aggression at the breakdown was exceptional. From my uneducated eye, the Boks seemed very disjointed and ‘clunky’, probably as a result of chopping and changing their team in the test matches leading up to yesterday’s – too much experimentation and no cohesion?
The result sets things up nicely for next week. Unfortunately the second test clashes with our game against Falkirk. Hopefully I can avoid seeing the score and catch a replay.
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM
Someone is bound to tell you the Celtic score.😂
LR67, thanks for the link its brilliant.
Jeez, that was quite a shunt for Verstappen.
These guys have balls of steel.
Vale Bhoy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Brilliant reply.
VALE BHOY on 23RD AUGUST 2026 2:07 PM
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM
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👏 played
Khun also now up for sale 13 months after his 17m transfer to Como I wonder if we had sell on clauses for him and O’ Riley.
🏉🥱
You might earn more money but you will never play for a better team, fans, organisation as the American’s call us when it’s united and pushing as one in one direction. Players and agents rarely settle for that though.
CCV has been with us five years now , one of which was a loan.
I know he’s had injuries but fair play to him as I’m sure he could have agitated for move.
Shh from what iv’e seen plenty EPL teams need a CH
I watched the 1st 60 mins of the West Ham game yy to see how Arne got on.
Neat n tidy
Hardly wasted a pass
Played deeper than with us
Quite passive
Needs to show a bit more arrogance
Watched Ipswich highlights
Daezan busy but not on the ball much.
Ange now has 3 wins in 3 in Saudi
Don’t know how Brendan’s doing tbh
Borgo67
I love CameronCV
I think he’s quite a thoughtful dude and realises he’s at the best club he could be at.
He’ll look back on his career and maybe regret he never made it to the big leagues.
But he’ll retire with £15m in pocket, a bag full of medals and he’ll be a Celtic legend.
If he was 2 inches taller he’d be a superstar in the English prem.
DESSYBHOY
Any EPL scouts looking in, CCV is far far far far too slow to play there. 🤫
LAXALT
I Love him too. Genuinely like getting a new signing when he came back
Maestro….I would 100pc say we have 10% sell on clause for Matt and Nicholas.
Some ye win.
I wouldn’t take either back imho.