It will be off to Latvia to face Riga or, assuming they do not unexpectedly lose at home in the second round to Tre Fiori from San Marino. Riga lost their first round Champions League match away to Maccabi Tel-Aviv and went out at the same stage a year ago to Dundalk on penalties, before losing their Europa League play-off tie 3-2 on aggregate to Copenhagen, who went on to eliminate Celtic by a greater margin.
It is a tie we will win if we get everything right and will lose if there is anything remotely half-arsed going on. Riga are 17 games into their domestic season; be prepared, Celtic.
Watching the goals this morning from the 0-2 win at Ibrox a year ago today brought a reminder of where we were the morning of that game. Facing the perennial Summer Cup Champions [no, it’s not wartime] at their own place, having been turfed out of the Champions League by Cluj, we faced the longest odds for a league win in seven years.
That setup what may be become a fourth consecutive treble. Cluj hurt the bank balance but European credentials were restored with wins over Lazio and Rennes. We could do with a big game, a bit win, now.
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Bankiebhoy
Added Bonus for campaign to have Arab banned for next game is that particular involved
was the guy who had three or 4 through the back tackles on French Eddy and all he got was finger wagging
from Dallas.
Right enough from zombies point let him play and let ref do proper job and red card him.
Dilema
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:18 AM
Great to see some comments about Celtic as opposed to the political stuff, maybe these guys should start up another blog where they can bore each other and leave the rest of us alone…
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Or maybe you could start your own blog, then you could dictate what’s allowed.
Welcome Shane.
Now go get the “Rikers” in the SPFL.
(Old film joke).
Madmitch – your Darien project quip made me smile (which is possibly unpatriotic given its catastrophic impact)
It also reminded me of something I was told many years ago about consultancy.
“The less they understand it, the more they’ll be willing to pay for it”
🤔
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
ERNIE LYNCH on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:43 AM
Thanks for the advice pal, Celtic Quick News or “Let’s throw stones at each other’s political views”…..
Timaloy29,
Julien and Kris Ajer get unfairly criticized due to our fans’ bias for blood and thunder, tangible stuff. They are 2 good players and I’m pleased we have them. The crowd’s desire for blood and thunder has been answered in Duffy. Not sure it even begiuns to fix any of our main problems domestically beyond quality bodies in the squad (not saying he’s a bad player. He has some great strengths).
A system to play on the carpets is our achilles, not big bruising forwards.
Oh, and a Left back please :)
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:45 AM
I believe Shane Duffy encountered people with attitudes like yours when he tweeted about Martin McGuinness.
ERNIE LYNCH on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:49 AM
You have just made my point beautifully…
What is Duffy’s disciplinary record like, and is it about to get a lot worse?
ONIL @ 10.40
Your attitude is the reason PL is allowed to fail on a regular basis but still draw a wage.
Also the politics of a free lunch comes in to play — CQN is better for having the political debate.
We needed SD to gets us through the CL qualifiers — it would not have cost us any more money but we would have gotten more use out of his time with us.
It is called planning and preparation.
Do well in the CL = the SPL is a cakewalk.
Do badly in the CL = the SPL becomes a crapshoot and one we may not win.
I don’t want to win the “10” — I just want to win the league this year and grow as a club.
I do not want to win the league and see us diminish on the park.
I fear that is what is going to happen this year.
MADMITCH on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:53 AM
I totally get your point and I am no fan of the board or Pedro but for this season only I would throw the kitchen sink at the team to get the ten. I want success in Europe but this year is so important I’ll make an exception.
MADMITCH on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:53 AM
Political debate? Don’t make me laugh, wee boys calling each other names more like,,,
Just as a wee aside , if Edouard was our only match fit forward and Champions League qualification
was a priority, we would not have played him at Tannadice. Nor would we have sent Bayo out on loan
and nor would be signing players to play the rest of the season.
So really Champions league is just a hope of making some money not really in the plans apparently.
Also if United clogger has broken the protocols surely the game against the Hvns is off?
14 days an all that…
Welcome Mr Duffy; great addition to the depth/strength of our squad so we can more ably play horses for courses.
Awright so our leaders dropped the baw and our collective bundle with a miscalculated CL gamble. It failed.
But as others have said, v strong window to date, and onwards we go for a historic Sellik season!
Get Boli’s wages negated, get Gutman back from the US and start experimenting w Frimpong on the right.
We’d be good to go. HH
Sign up young Hickey and another right back and left winger ,then go with them ,which I’m sure will hopefully make us a force to be reckoned with Hail.Hail🧤🧤
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 11:01 AM
MADMITCH on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 10:53 AM
Political debate? Don’t make me laugh, wee boys calling each other names more like,,,
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This isn’t irony.
This is a lack of self awareness.
I get the gut-feeling that the signing of Shane Duffy is a game-changer for Celtic.
He may be as influential a figure as Neil was when Martin signed him.
Only pity is that, if he is only here for a year, he probably won’t experience the full Celtic Park atmosphere – really can’t see any meaningful return this season.
Still I look forward to seeing him on my VST & Sky throughout the next nine months – he may be the jigsaw-piece that ensures a Quadruple Treble.
If signed a bit earlier, we may still be in the CL.
If we keep Eddy & sign a left-back, we’ll be in shape – expect to see Rogic, Boli & Ntcham go, & Griffiths to be moved somewhere, or, other.
Although I’ve been critical of Neil Lennon in recent weeks, I’m sure he was pivotal in bringing Shane in – HH.
ERNIE LYNCH on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 11:05 AM
What’s the point?
Over and out…
Nothing to do with the Taxi Driver up at Dundee being a Hun,Mark Connelly like a lot of players think they can do what they like ,so to make ignorant comments about a man doing his job ,and being abused by Connelly ,no doubt Celtic employ a character who thinks he can do and say what he likes,
Dear Celtic,
Don’t sell Ntcham. Play him.
Regards
Big Wavy
Fraid its International Week.
There will be political talk to fill the gaps and Music paoted and talk about dugs.
If you want to change the direction of whatever talk is dominating the blog, just post something interesting and , hey ho……
Meanwhile people will talk about what’s on their minds.
AND……. Politics is a lot more important than Love Island.
Welcome to Big Shane
“A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. “
To Mr James Forrest
There is no coherent economic case for independence, if there was the nationalists would be shouting it from the rooftops & plastering on every billboard with a skim from the billions given to them to fight Covid.
SNP balls-up everything they touch, whether it is worst for deaths in the UK, second worse in Europe, or, by far the worst of any country in the world c5million population. on Covid, or, ferries, or, opening & running safe hospitals, or education, where we are nearer the bottom in all the world’s league tables, largest percentage of care home deaths in Europe, teaching LGBT & porn in schools – highest drug deaths in the WORLD due to year upon year cuts by SNP.
Catholic education? Right now in Edinburgh & Perth & Kinross, representatives of Catholic schools are being excluded from council education committees. Do you think that the party who brought in the OB act, the Named Person Act, teaching porn to primary pupils and the current Hate Speech Bill, would flinch from dispensing from doing away with Catholic Education? The grounds used would be the cost of running a dual education system in a new & cash-strapped country. The same grounds that have already been used to abolish local police & fire authorities in favour of centralised & politically controlled entities. Local councils have been neutered and need to go “cap in hand’ to Holyrood for funding – if they don’t ‘toe the line’, they get cut…ask Cosla.
A new country, outside its main market the UK, bankrupt & unable to get into Europe for ten years – with a £30bn (15%+) annual revenue deficit, shouldering its £100bn share of UK debt, with no currency, no central bank & having to set-up & run all the new departments of government including many powers that even now the SNP have shunned because they don’t have the nous to handle them.
Ten years of austerity is a very conservative estimate of the pain of ordinary people. Capital & business will have flown to England – for God”s sake think it through.
Our ‘kind’ have millions of friends in the UK – far far more than we could ever have in Scotland.
new article posted.
SFTB,
How many folk did that political talk involve and how many were utterly bored by it? The few involved are not going to change one another’s beliefs and nobody else is interested. (And I don’t mean that politics isn’t important: imo, CQN isn’t the place.)
Shane Duffy, Former Brighton Player Of The Year and a big player in their drive to the EPL in recent years and a big favourite with Brighton fans. This can only be described as a stunning signing by Celtic to get a player in his prime. Big welcome Shane to paradise.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:00 PM
100%. This is about Celtic not the SNP or Tory party.
Ernie.
sorry for my memory.this deficit budgeting can you point me to when it has not been thus.the cheek of any unionist 11 fingered counter complaining
this deficit budgeting was it as bad as Labour’s capitulation to capital under Denis Healey in 1976,little wonder your war criminal adopted and kept to monetarily policies while inviting his hero Thatcher…i suppose that what middle class getters bhoys do.
or is it Gordon and Alistair as you do right now- deny the impact the Dyscalcic idiots neglect hence nationalization of banking debt.
it is funny watching how you are all fact based about what to do with figures.pity such insight was not showing while in power….
hh
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Ma Wee Brother was so dedicated.
I set records @ St Pats.
Unfortunately Aitchy was against James.
Aitchy wisnae a Chris Buchanan frae Aberdeen doing his best in St Patricks High School.
David Elliot went All in too Early in the 800 metres. He made the wrong choice.