Let’s be honest with each other, there’s a bit of a leap between our European performances in recent seasons and the standards of Champions League football. My expectations for this season’s tournament hasn’t seen me check out accommodation options in Cardiff in May.
With that in mind, if we’re going to fall short, let’s do it against genuine quality opposition, some of the best players and tactically organised teams in the business. Barcelona, Manchester City (think Pep, but with more money) and Borussia Monchengladbach will bring this to Glasgow over the next few months.
Over our 15 year Champions League lifespan, Celtic surprise on the upside more often against better teams than against relative minnows. The biggest disappointments came in Scandinavia, not Iberia.
When the group stage finishes in December, we will faced enormous challenges. Players will have stretched themselves to lengths they didn’t know existed. What we know for sure, is that none of the other three teams in our group will have wanted Celtic from Pot 4. This is a hard draw for everyone.
Huge game tomorrow. Anything less than 100% and we’ll drop points. Enjoy it.
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Excitement in Glasgow as the draw for the champions league lets Rangers see who they will be able to rent their training ground too.
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Pun that sausage on the Cougar….!!!!
Braw…
BTW ,…no Cougars were pricked in the making of my last post!
Braw..
Cue bugle
Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Weefra.
Its going to be fitting that our recent spate of cqn’er birthday victories continues with the sheep getting humped just for you! :)
Bada,
Brilliant.
Getting nicked :)
HH
We need the youngsters pushing harder than ever to get in to this Celtic team.
Kieran Tierney
!!BADA BING!! on 26TH AUGUST 2016 5:32 PM
Excitement in Glasgow as the draw for the champions league lets Rangers see who they will be able to rent their training ground too.
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Hahahahaha! Brilliant mate! :-))))))))
Alsdair,
Not only the using of them (cliches) but those who do so seem to think they are being original, witty and entertaining !
Anyway, I am off for some Real Ale which is , apparently, Craft Ale now !
Cheerio,
JJ
Black Boots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3lSm9mmbFJWytR6gy6tS0QK/11-surprising-facts-that-show-how-scottish-football-has-changed-over-the-last-30-years?intc_type=singletheme&intc_location=bbconescotland&intc_campaign=scotlandsgame&intc_linkname=article_11changes_contentcard4
Over on the BBC sport pages just now is an item about Scotland’s Game. It lists 11 surprising facts. Fact 6 is that 5 clubs have entered administration and the exited while 2 clubs were liquidated: Gretna and Rangers.
Wonder if that fact will make the cut for next Thursday’s programme?
Canny wait!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTRF9Juw1pM&feature=youtu.be
Feliz Cumpleanos Weefra, and if you keep aff the fags you will have many more :-)
HH
JJ,
Sneaking suspicion you’re referring to me.
I’ve told you a million times; don’ t exagerate.
LUCKY CODY on 26TH AUGUST 2016 4:48 PM
Quonno,
Agree as we need more than one player announced by Lawwell.
Lawwell now suddenly has the urge to announce to all and sundry that he will limit Brendan to one player. I expected the two men to clash as Brendan will not tolerate interference from Lawwell.
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It’s a typical spin by the SMSM. Peter Lawwell actually said that ALL the money would be re-invested in the team and AT LEAST one player would be in by Wednesday. He didn’t say only one.
It’s also about setting expectations. He said at least one; if he had said “we are looking at 3 players” and only one comes in it’s a disappointment. Say “at least one” and we get 2 or 3, it’s a bonus!
KTF
Jj,
Sorry, that’s after one tin of Craft Stella.
Anyway, didn’t think you’ be into masonic beer.
Vfr,
True dat.
A bit like how he said ‘we could have lost up to 10m on the back of Rangers going down.’
The media and some fans changed that into him saying we are losing 10m a season.
HH
GEORDIE MUNRO on 26TH AUGUST 2016 5:51 PM
Yep; we will do the SMSM negative spin for them!
Anyhoo, off tae Coia’s fur ma tea!
KTF
Vfr,
Enjoy. That’s me just checking out of Tenko for the week.
Buzzing now for tomorrow.
HH
The GB/TRUSS attempted to hijack the HBS home match, by far our most important of the year, by the advanced advertising of their orchestrated and wilful rule-breaking, flag-waving, demonstration. They duly carried it out in almost complete isolation.
When they realised that the vast majority of the support had rejected their invitation to directly damage Celtic FC – they deviously launched the Just Give web page under the ambiguous title ‘match the fine’
This is all they actually did – they did not raise money by an unselfish act, or get actively involved in fundraising, they simply got other people to donate money to cover their totally selfish act.
Now they are attempting to hijack tomorrow’s match, our first home fixture of our Premiership defence against our closest rivals. This time they look for the approval they couldn’t get from the majority of the support at the HBS game, by using that charlty donation as moral blackmail in order to get people to stand up at a particular juncture during the game.
I hope and expect the majority of the support ignores this blatant effort to exert power and influence over the club.
Given any encouragement from the wider support tomorrow, these people will interpret it as affirmation of their political agenda and consider it a ‘green light’ for any protest that suits that narrow agenda in future.
Don’t give this, or any, sub-group, the power to hold the club to ransom and manipulate it for political purpose – it is a slippery-slope that may lead to God knows where – IGNORE them tomorrow.
Jeez, i just went to have some dinner and I missed a golden opportunity for a cat/sausage pun fest…
We are indeed on the Road again
;)
An Tearmann.
L.D. has a choice of 3 clubs for a loan deal. Dundee Utd won’t be one of them.
My educated guess is he will plump for Alloa, that’s not confirmed, or at least it wasn’t 2 hours ago.
There is no way on gods earth that that man is not a plant in here.
Geordie Munro
1st visit of the season to Paradise for me tomorrow so your not the only one buzzing!!!
Cannae wait!!!
That pussy is lorning doon to sleep….so youve no chance of a link from that ….
Purrfect
Braw.
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 26TH AUGUST 2016 6:08 PM
well you are PAUL’S PAL so get something done. [PLEASE.
Question for all square-eyes. Which channels will show Celtic’s SPFL and Champ League games?
Askin’ for a friend…
Squerr cat eyes????
Braw
MATS NILLOC on 26TH AUGUST 2016 6:01 PM…
Have you not posted something similar about 10 times before?…
mon the good ghuys petec
NEUSTADT-BRAW on 26TH AUGUST 2016 6:18 PM
Squerr cat eyes????
Braw
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:-)))
Natknow
All CL games are exclusive to BT.
SPFL games are shared between BT and SKY.
Mats Pilloc
There was no direct damage done and the indirect contribution to Celtic’s global stature was immense.
Turn it up will ya?
Am feline a bit peckish…..anyone got a spare porker????
Braw
BILLY BHOY on 26TH AUGUST 2016 6:20 PM
Natknow
All CL games are exclusive to BT.
SPFL games are shared between BT and SKY.
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Cheers dude!
That awkward moment when you hear the Champions League music totally oblivious to
the fact its your phone thats ringing.
EuroChamps67?
Champions league
Out! from behind the couch, stop pacing the room, biting your nails, walking the dog or feeding the cat. The WHISTLE has went! The pounding hardcore heartbeat will fade, until the next time we want to visit the priest for confession.
We don’t do stoically heroically nothingness, we stare dotingly at glorious failure, crumble to embarrassment, or a firework defeat. Boring isnt us.
Credit card cleared, flight scanner booked-marked, conversations of a midday in Madrid, lounging in London, hosteling by the Rhine, an easy passage out the group, that we are dressed for the company that we are going to keep or at least have a demob suit to keep up appearances.
The lucky ones leave work, others listen in traffic jams, some sit at non descript desks facing bland screens, a break in boredom, pressing F5 over and over, then we scream
For f*cks sake, Barcelona……