Celtic have played four games against Polish opposition, losing to Legia Warsaw and Wisla Crakow in 2006 friendlies, drawing thanks to a very late Kenny Dalglish goal against Wislaw, before losing the return game. We’re going to need to break new ground if we’re to reach the Champions League play-off round.
As I predicted, you can ignore the 1-1 draw with St Pat’s last week, Legia are a far better team than that result suggested and it now looks like they have thrown off their summer slumber.
Time to hit form, Celtic.
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Sydney Tim ………….. greetings my friend , was just wondering if I could tempt you into a wee charity bet ( the winners choice ) that Teemu Pukki Will score 25 or more this season …….. Say £100 ……. you interested …… ? HH
The Honest Cover-up
12:13 on
24 July, 2014
Sydneytim
The policy of RCs in Royal family is expected to change. Indeed, Lizzie and the new Pope are understood to have had many positive discussions about the future of their churches working together.
*Not just the new Holy Father but also JPII and Benedict. The Royal Family in no way reflect the “walkers”…white trash. I believe that the head goatshaggers’ wife and younger son are converts.
Over here at one time a Catholic could not be mayor or chief of police in the country’s largest city….not so now as the country has moved on….so should we Scots.
If God had wanted us to keep looking back he would have put eyes on the back of our heads.
Joe McHugh @videocelts · 3m
Any Celts up in the far north east? Turriff United v Celtic Development side on Saturday 3pm kick off
darwinsbeautifulidea
13:49 on 24 July, 2014
Could be Delia,s last game in charge if were knocked out,we have brought in no new players
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Will he jump or will he be pushed?!!
it doesnt seem so long ago that Roni was saying that a cluub like celtic were too big for the qualifying rounds
so what has happened now… I hope this is not an excercise in expectation management it looks a bit like getting our excuses in early. We are either a CL group stages team or we are not.
I will be sorely disappointed if we dont qualify, especially after reading about how we are going to be so much fitter and faster and furiouser
Football has no gaurantees. If LW are better they go through to the next round and we go out of the CL and try our luck in the EL for this season.
Blaming the CEO. manager, Murrayfield or anything else is a bit embarrassing. I don’t think the LW squad have the European experience or the caps our players have so I would like to think our players will have the experience to take them over the two legs. The panic on here is similar to last season after we lost an away leg in Khazakstan against a very organised ordinary team.
Don’t panic and get behind the Bhoys please.
LB
Tamrabam
14:37 on 24 July, 2014
it doesnt seem so long ago that Roni was saying that a cluub like celtic were too big for the qualifying rounds
so what has happened now… I hope this is not an excercise in expectation management it looks a bit like getting our excuses in early. We are either a CL group stages team or we are not.
I will be sorely disappointed if we dont qualify, especially after reading about how we are going to be so much fitter and faster and furiouser
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What has Ronnie said that makes you think he’s getting his excuses in early? I don’t think I’ve read any quote from him that suggests that?
Since getting KO’d from the CL last season we have lost Samaras, Ledley and brought in Griffiths, Johansen and Gordon.
Stronger, weaker or no change?
In terms of CL then we’re probably slightly weaker (based on experience as much as anything) but not significantly so that we should be getting KO’d in the qualifiers this season.
tamrabam
“then we read we cant expect to beat a polish side (despite the financial advantage we have over them)”
I think its a question of words and their meanings.
Nobody has stated that you cannot “expect” to beat Legia, in fact those neutrals, the bookies, will have us as strong-ish favourites.
What is evident is that you cannot “guarantee” a win over Legia. The teams we meet at this level are teams who, if we played them over 10 games, might sneak a win or two and would definitely not suffer 10 straight defeats. Legia is a more highly rated team, from amongst the group we could have got, and would be highly likely to get 2 wins and a couple of draws in any 10 game run with us. If they were in the SPFL, they would finish well ahead of Aberdeen, United, St. Johnstone or Motherwell.
Therefore, the prospect of a shock defeat is very much there. It would stll be an upset and a shock but it would not be beyond our reckoning. In the CL qualifiers we are playing against hungry ambitious clubs. If we are 10% off our game or 10% unprepared, or they play 20% above their average, we can encounter trouble.
The great thing is that, despite regular and undiscouraged warnings about our likely qualifying failures, we have managed to do so recently with admirable regularity. However, we are still just a lowly pot 4 team, and our absence from the CL would just be the absence of another pot 4 team i.e. no biggie and easily replaced, in the eyes of UEFA and most football fans.
That is what we are up against.
Ah what a magnificent job of expectation management celtic have done on us. We now have expectations that are so low that people are almost praising celtic for not buying anyone.
We pay the season ticket money and they dont spend it! We are told we need that money just to keep the lights on (Kojo). Its nonsense.
The only reason why we are fearful of Legia, despite being massively wealthier than them, we dont ultilise our wealth because for some reason we are saving up………
I wonder why……..
NA
SFTB – are celtic not a hungry ambitious club?
Actually I think the some total of our ambition is to make money…….
Played 12, Won 10, Drew 1, Lost 1, For 21 Against 3
Our record in CL qualifying to date since 2012
It s a GREAT IDEA…
Whit Is?
Fur us tae Play… St. Pauli nThe Tots.. within days o’ such Important Qualifiers..
Why is it?
Doncha Know that the Mair Games ye Play, the Fitter Ye Get?
Well. Ye dae.
n…that takes us tae Celtic’s Perennial Problem..
A Problem ,which We face Every time we Compete in the C.L. Qualifiers..
We are usually faced by a Team who have already Started thur Season.
the Result?
Well. We Hiv a Big Disadvantage tae Over Come..
Simply, because.. Oor Lads Ur still trying tae reach Top fitness..
This is A Big Deal,by the Way.
The Gandy Dancers.. Nearly did Us in…if. Ye remember?
Yes, Celtic Wlll Thrive by Playing those extra games.
Noo Ye Know.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Any news yet of the away leg being televised??
Legia = Aberdeen/Dundee United.
Eminently beatable but handle with caution and absolutely 100% focus.
Phils latest………….
@Pmacgiollabhain: http://t.co/I59EUEfdtZ
Bringing the bitterness of Fleg futility to modern Glasgow would simply be another PR own goal by The People.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
neganon2
Much more a case of not knowing who to buy. We still have potentially three
‘big’ signing fails who may not feature much next season, and the thrifty board
won’t want burned again. Not until they can give Ronny Deila the chance and choice.
As soon as NFL was gone, so was any chance of new signings.
archdeaconsbench
Surely it will be on Celtic TV.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Parkheadcumsalford
I hope your geographical knowledge of Salford does justice to your monicker because your knowledge of the Parkheid boundry, in parts, is, at best, scanty. I grew up where the Veledrome now is and definitely lived in Parkhead Rebel country. Extending down Kinnear Rd to the park, along Bogside St and bounding the Clyde back up Springfield Rd, past Riverside School and ‘the Strathies’, then right along London Rd prob as far as the Bowling Club before becoming Lillybank.
NegAnon2
14:50 on 24 July, 2014
Ah what a magnificent job of expectation management celtic have done on us. We now have expectations that are so low that people are almost praising celtic for not buying anyone
Surely waiting for a Wanyama or a VVD is more important than buying players..
BigJoethinksWaitingisWiser
NegAnon2
Are we saving up, you may be correct. I don’t know.
If so, you again ask why? could it be for playing in a bigger stage. Again I don’t know.
But what is increasingly obvious is that PL & the board need to outline our future strategy.
Apologies for sounding like a long playing record but this issue just will not go away. I cannot, and refuse to believe at this moment that our future strategy is plod on until a reincarnated ” Rangers” arrive for normal service.
If last night demonstrated anything, it is that from a Celtic perspective we do not need the “Old Firm”; we are a progressive modern team that has evolved with the times. We remember our history with pride but are not shackled to historic dividedness.
We epitomise much that is good about Glasgow and must look forward. Not backwards.
HH to you.
We should have enough to see off Legia but will have to be at our best.
We certainly need our best 11 out there which means telling Southampton, Sunderland and the rest that FF and VVD are going nowhere at the moment.
WeefratheTim
Good read that…
Bom dia,
Well San Lorenzo absolutely tawed Bolivar last night, 5-0. So that’s them pretty much ensured a place in the final.
Dunno what happened to Bolivar’s usually solid “boxy” defending, but they were just tore apart last night. Chief architect being veteran Pipi Romagnoli who seemed to be involved in everything.
Atletico-MG (the Galo) were taken to extra time by Lanus last night before they managed to lift the South American SuperCup in a close 4-3 match. Galo are the current Libertadores holders.
Elsewhere, in the madness that is Brasileirão Serie A, out of the 20 clubs in the league. Ten are now on their second manager this season. And we’re only at Round 10 of the championship.
However, not to be outdone by that – with the announcement of Wanderly Luxemburgo’s appointment yesterday, Flamengo are now on their third manager this season. Luxemburgo has managed over 30 clubs, in his 20 year career, including two previous stints at Flamengo.
If ever there was a good example of the lack of foresight in Brasilian fitba……….
The thing that concerns me is the lack of knowledge we have on Ronnies tactics away from home in a nick out round.
Will he still adopt the same attacking policy or go for caution. Hopefully he doesn’t think this squad are capable of going to Warsaw and coming back with a win with an all out attacking pressing approach.
I don’t think we will see Forster or van dyke sold until after this round as the sides interested in both are not involved in European competition.
NegAnon
Pal.. Ye jis hit the JackPot!
Yes.. You are Perfectly Correct..
The Celtic Boards’ Main Aim ..is tae,,, Make Money.
Same as You!
Na..?
Your Main Aim In Life ..is NO… tae Mak Money?
Ye Don’ Say..
Hmmmmmmmmm
Remember, that Auld Saying..??
Which Wan?
This Wan..
It’s a Chinese wan..so. Perhaps ye Hivnae Hoid It..
Here it is..
“No Money?.. No Laundry.”
Noo, That could Be a Tragedy.. No Clean .. Semit or Boxers.. or.. Ankle Soaks.
When ye hiv that big Date ,the Night..
Whit tae Dae.. fur.. Ye Might Get Lucky…
Right??
Fur Ma Mammy alwiz Told Me..
“Alwiz wear A Clean Pair o Boxers.. fur ye Might be in an Accident.”
( Ma Mammy ,wiz too Much of A Lady tae talk Aboot.. ” Gettin’ Lucky!”
Pal..
Nae matter whit ye say..
Everybuddy, Needs Money..
The Maist Embarrassing things kin Happen tae ye..if ..
Ye ur Caught Short.. Need a Penny fur the Public Cludjie..
N.. well..
He Don’t hiv Wan!
Kojo
Still,Laughin
Greenpinta
” plod on until a reincarnated ” Rangers” arrive for normal service.”
“We epitomise much that is good about Glasgow and must look forward. Not backwards.”
I know you continually try to convert people to the lie, but it doesn’t work on me they are NOT re-incarnated, they are a NEW club, there will be no normal service to be resumed, if and when they enter the Premiership, they will be doing so for the first time.
You continually look backwards while telling everyone else we should not, very strange….por cierto
starry plough
I thought so too. :-)))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
tontine tim
If God had wanted us to keep looking back he would have put eyes on the back of our heads.
Well put. I’m by no means a royalist and actually find the idea of an unelected Head of State in the twenty first century bizarre. I also find the notion that someone is born intrinsically superior to others silly. But in terms of the current Queen I see her as a decent enough woman in her 80’s and have no gripes with her personally.
How anyone can think last night’s events at Celtic Park were a “stain” on our history because of her attendance is beyond me.
Her recent visit to Ireland doesn’t stop some unthinking people yelling “f@@ the queen” after a few shandies. Ask then their particular grievances about the Queen and they usually go quiet.
Ole Winnie pops up with a winner!
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
Janefield Street
It runs from 180 Stamfor Street to Springfield Road and is named after Jean Holmes, the wife of Robert McNair who owned land in the area, that later became Janefield Cemetery. The west part of the street was originally known as Porter Street and may have been named after John Porter, a local brickmaker and tenement builder. At number 80 stood the Mountainblue Cooperage, premises of Thomas Stevenson, coopers. It later became the Camlachie Cooperage.
WeefratheTim
Would find it inconceivable if its not BBC or ANother….
HH
G67- same as this time last season,needing a striker and a creative midfielder.HH
Kerrydale Street
Cul-de-sac off 1135 London Road and at number 95 is the location of Celtic Park, home of Celtic Football Club, founded in 1888. In 1967 they became the first British team to win the European Cup.
Kinnear Road
Originally ran alongside the railway line off London Road. It no longer exists and the site is occupied by the Velodrome for the Commonwealth Games.
Aberdeen home game on 13th Sept now 12.45 ko……and it begins…
Legia seems like a difficult tie for us, albeit one we ought to see out provided we turn up with the right approach.
We often hark back to former days in European competition, and UEFA would do well to remember that in 95/96, the quarter finalists included Ajax, Panathinaikos, Nantes, Spartak Moscow and Legia, with no German, Spanish or English teams making the semi final stage. 20 years on, such a situation would seem at the “forget it” end of unlikely. Nevertheless, Legia have history, and I’m quite sure they look upon matters in the same way as many of the bigger clubs from peripheral Europe.
Last season Legia did creditably in the qualifying phase. They beat New Saints 4-1 on aggregate, then put out Molde on away goals; 0-0 in the 2nd leg at home enough after a 1-1 away.
They were unseeded in the play-off, drawing Steaua. The first leg in Bucharest ended 1-1, a good result for Legia, but in the 2nd leg they lost 2 goals in the first 9 minutes, and although they got it back to 2-2, went out on the away goals rule.
Their Europa League campaign was a disaster though, with 5 straight defeats before a final game win away to Apollon.
They won their league last season by 10 points from Lech Posnan, winning 20 and losing 7 games along the way. Decent.
They have a very experienced squad, with 11 players having more than 20 European matches under their belt, and 3 with in excess of 50 European games. The players are drawn from many Eastern and South Eastern countries.
They are no mugs, irrespective of finances or fame.
Celtic to win, but it’ll be uncomfortable at times.
Kojo 14.28
Like St Pats will beat Legia (:-)
TT
CultsBhoy
13:19 on 24 July, 2014
Might be worth deleting your post as reports are coming in that the plane has crashed