If you were a professional football player, you would love to be in the Celtic dressing room tomorrow evening. You would have the perfect opportunity to challenge yourself; put in a big, meaningful performance. Record a bit of history and create a uniquely memorable victory.
There are some players who are fraught with anxiety on such occasions, but there are others who NEED these games, need an edge, to reach their peak. If we have a team full of the latter, Legia are in for a torrid night.
I’m doing my best to ignore the naked opportunism in our media this week. There is no point complaining about it, lose heavily and you become vulnerable to those who live to revel in a Celtic defeat. Don’t lose and you don’t give them (friends and foes alike) a chance.
We’ve been here before. Artmedia, Braga, Utrecht, Sion (despite the reprieve) and Karagandy all exposed an aching heart. European football is unforgiving, try to transition and you’ll find someone ready to exploit, but that doesn’t mean you are wrong to transition.
We might talk about this transition more later in the month but we have a game to win first. Can’t wait.
Check out the fantastic work by the cyclists who are taking part in the Paradise to Cardenden Cycle 2014 on 6 September. You can join them – all you need is a bike. Get involved, you’ll be delighted you did, I promise. Read about it here.
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Does anyone know of a street close to Murrayfield where I can park my car for tomorrow night’s game?
Re McIntosh and Ross. Their kids go to St.Aloysius’ College.
Del Amitri were a far better band than D.Blue!
(Some of the songs on JCurrie’s solo albums are brilliant.)
~SPF~
darwinsbeautifulidea
17:28 on
5 August, 2014
Tojo dont believe the yes sides propoganda,we are heavily subsidised by westminster,so far the fat granny shagger,has come up with no concrete figures,just pie in the skye
VOTE NO
Are you the guy on this at 20 seconds ?
WARNING: Contains sweary words and ugly people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGjiokfQ2A
Never thought that I would say such but really, miss Halfway…………. Even VP………
TBM
Auldheid
18:38 on
5 August, 2014
Paul67
For the structural reasons behind Celtic’s CL qualifying difficulties we are not alone…
http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/2152534-how-uefa-prize-money-is-destroying-smaller-national-leagues
UEFA are killing the game across Europe in smaller nations.
As I have previously posted. Never forget that one of the original, if not actually the original architect of the death of small nations in European football is sitting in a cushy football relaled job in the south side of Glasgow. Step for a hint. He was once the only RC at Ibrox
Joe Miller there on Clyde 1 saying that people he knows have turned down the Celtic job on the basis that they could not choose their own players. This policy is in line with what p67 has outlined so would those saying that the manager chooses the players care to consider this?
Transition , a word we seem to hear a lot these days, yes quite a lot, almost every season in fact. Forster, Matthews, Van Dyke, Efe, Commons Stokes and uncle Tom Cobbley and all being sought by other clubs. You really need great patience to be a Celtic supporter in recent years. Neil builds a team loses his best players and builds again and half of them are for the off, like shuffling shit up a ladder I think is the appropriate term.
Getting back to tomorrow night’s match. After such a successful run last season you would have put your house on Celtic’s settled team and particularly the back five to see us through against Legia and who could have seen such a collective off night by the team last week. We cannot be as bad again providing the team selection is right and our most experienced players are given the chance to put an average Polish side under pressure.
a goal each side of half time like the Karagandy game would be ideal.
mullet and co 2
19:14 on
5 August, 2014
Joe Miller there on Clyde 1 saying that people he knows have turned down the Celtic job on the basis that they could not choose their own players. This policy is in line with what p67 has outlined so would those saying that the manager chooses the players care to consider this?
I posted long ago that as far back as MON manger was not in full control of who we signed.
Hankray.
Hate to rain on your parade.
Stretching things to describe five defeats out of six a successful run.
jonny the tim @ 7.02
Yes mhate you are mixing up the two of them.
HH jamesgang
Auldheid 1838,
I read the article on Croatian football that you linked with interest. But I don`t think this tale explains or justifies our current predicament in terms of CL qualification.
We are seeded in the CL qualifiers to play against teams with smaller co-efficients and smaller budgets.This year we have been drawn against Legia Warsaw, currently ranked 108 by UEFA. Last year we were drawn against Shakhter Karagandy, ranked 236 by UEFA. We are ranked 55th.
We have a season ticket base of 36,500 and a turnover of £50 million in a Europa League year and £70 million in a Champions League year.
The cards to qualify for the CL are heavily stacked in our favour. We are not competing for qualification against clubs from the bigger and richer leagues. Instead we are competing against teams from Ireland, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
My eyes were drawn to this paragraph in the article:- “The opportunity to earn Champions League money presents a huge challenge for Dinamo. This summer, they already invested around €10 million in new signings.”
Can you imagine Celtic doing something similar? Spending 10 million Euros on new signings before the CL qualifiers begin in the hope of getting through to the CL? I for one can`t.
Wee Joe will have his Former Players Club looking for a new organiser
the glorious balance sheet
19:20 on
5 August, 2014
Auldheid 1838,
Spend £10,000,000 to qualify.
That would suggest ambition.
And PL and DD don’t do ambition.
Del Amitri good…
…Deacon Blue bad…
Imo, of course.
Which I am entitled to.
HH!!
big-cup-winners
19:10 on 5 August, 2014
darwinsbeautifulidea
17:28 on
5 August, 2014
Tojo dont believe the yes sides propoganda,we are heavily subsidised by westminster,so far the fat granny shagger,has come up with no concrete figures,just pie in the skye
VOTE NO
Are you the guy on this at 20 seconds ?
WARNING: Contains sweary words and ugly people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGjiokfQ2A
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In the name of balance you should keep on watching to see the guy in the England top.
Apparently The queen brings in £20m. Without it we’d all be living on £10 giros. And no such monarchy-based tourism income streams are to be found in Ireland.
Every day’s a school day!
RocketScientistsLoyalNo1
Nothing defiles them more than they defile themselves.
HH jamesgang
the glorious balance sheet- the PLC tell us every year that CL is imperative ,yet they won’t allow us the best chance of achieving this. Your moniker is looking more ironic by the day :)
Good night to all in G72…… and wherever else Tims are gathered………….. God Bless……….
TBM
Quonno:-
Can`
I fear we’d have to wait for 1930s style hyperinflation before we saw a €10M summer spend!
The kind that would see a loaf costing €7M!!!
HH jamesgang
Quonno
Can`t knock DD and PL for having no ambition re CL qualification – after all we`re now being told that it costs too much to qualify for CL and we barely break even from it!
Evening.
Gents is it true that the super duper rams dens game on telly tonight whilst the minor CL qualification game tomorrow isn’t??
Only in Scotland…….
TBM
take care..
Quonno @ 19.07
Of course I wasn’t referring to Europe but to our form in winning the Championship when Neil had to steady the ship again after losing his best players and had a settled team by the end of the season.
Quonno some of the pro board guff posted on this site is breathtaking. The happy clappers are all over the place and completely incoherent!!!
To turn down a job you have to have been offered one in the first place.
So how many people have been offered the Celtic job only to turn it down.
Genuine question
HT
I know what you meant, didn’t mean to sound as though I disagreed with you. As much as I back him, I’m a little worried he hadn’t spotted what worked before himself! He did say he would stick to what worked in the past at first.
HH
Sevco v Hibs on BBC Alba.
Good luck to Stubbsie.
More hope than confidence about tomorrow.
Don’t think Ronnie is man for the job….hope I am proved wrong !
HH
Will do BT, look forward to see you and yours soon……God Bless…
Good Night all………..
TBM
Bada Bing:-
To be fair to the PLC they also took the complete Michael in the years when we had automatically qualified for the CL. For example in 2008 we win the league on the last day of the season, the Orcs are getting stronger again and what do we do with our guaranteed Champions League money to keep ourselves ahead? Sign Crosas, Loovens, Samaras and Maloney for a total £5 million while £15 million is banked.
Meantime the Orcs re-arm their team at great cost. No surprise that we lost the league and got the wooden spoon in the CL despite having Aalborg in our group.
Beaton is MIB @ Poundland, was he not the guy who allowed the Albion Rovers GK to get bundled into the net last season?
zbyszek.
You have mail.
Gordybhoy64
Has Brad organised transport to the match tomorrow. I will be driving from work in Kilmarnock to Murrayfield. Could pick him up in Glasgow City centre and home to Clydebank after the game.
I know I shouldn’t but I can report that Kris Boyd would make Fatty Arbuckle look anorexic tonight…
He and Miller looking like the Mitchell brothers from eastenders.
Don’t look in if you haven’t eaten.
Lindsay sharp showing off her medal at the bigotdome, all the worst for the future doll !
How did you get on today oldtim?
Evening folks,
Off through to the game tomorrow afternoon from South Lanarkshire. It’s my great privilege to take my 10 year old Celtic mad Nephew and his pal to their first hoops game. Both from Edinburgh so taking a rare chance to take them for an outing to see the best team in the world.
Have to be honest, I think our chances are very slim to qualify, however if we keep a clean sheet, get an early goal anything is possible.
If you have a spare 10 minutes have a look at this video on you tube from Willie Collow. 1983, Celtic 5 – Sporting Lisbon 0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmS25xbk4xk
One of our best and perhaps unexpected European comebacks. Brings back great memories, some Celtic legends amongst that team.
Alas we have not got the same quality nowadays. We have a new manager at the start of a transitional period. However there is one constant tomorrow night and that’s our fabulous fans. So as I introduce a couple of new kids to the Celtic experience, I am sure as always the fans will show the way tomorrow night. And who knows, with the right selection from the manger, correct attitude from the players and of course lady luck on our side anything is possible. Not very probable, but possible.
So here’s to a great European comeback tomorrow night and hopefully an unforgettable experience for the two young fellas with me watching the hoops for the first time.
HH Dan
Dan,
Hope the kids enjoy the game and we turn the tie around.
hail hail
raberto67
Don’t think we’re in disagreement mate. I was as surprised as you obviously were at the team selection last week particularly when you take Ronny’s pre match comments into account that he wouldn’t be making drastic changes too quickly.
I think this is where an assistant manager needs to earn his corn.
Dan
Good stuff mate. Whatever happens, they’ll never forget it. :-)
HH