Rosenborg a shadow of former self

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Congratulations to Celtic, who last night became the first Scottish team to win a European tie since, Celtic, last season. While I am sure we would all have preferred to face Dundalk in the next Champions League qualifying round, a trip to Norway to face Rosenborg will be welcome by the club.

Rosenborg are not the same force we faced 16 years ago, and even that team was a shadow of the team who tested Real Madrid a few seasons earlier. The Norwegians succumbed to the inevitable forces of economic plunder, as clubs from richer leagues picked off their talent at increasingly earlier ages.

We should have more than enough in the tank for this one.

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  1. DAMO LENNON on 20TH JULY 2017 10:58 PM

     

     

    Would you ever stop this “Provisional”nonsense. There was only one IRA.

     

    “Provisional” denotes exactly what it means, temporary. The IRA’s General Army Council ratified the take over as soon as was practically possible.

  2. What is the Stars on

    Now that Salvador Dali has appeared it’s probably time for me to inform you all that Jonny hayes played his schoolboy football at left full

  3. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    DAMO LENNON on 20TH JULY 2017 10:58 PM

     

     

    Pal.

     

    Far too much common sense there .

     

    You won`t have to wait for your designation and your label .

  4. !!Bada Bing!! on

    BSR- Murphy was a strange one, never got a run in the team, yet looked really good at Ipswich, maybe like Harald, Club and expectations were too big for him.?

  5. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    !!BADA BING!! on 20TH JULY 2017 11:08 PM

     

    BSR- Murphy was a strange one, never got a run in the team, yet looked really good at Ipswich, maybe like Harald, Club and expectations were too big for him.?

     

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    Yes.

     

     

    Sadly , I remember CQN posters being particularly critical of him .

  6. Salt of the earth 1954.

     

     

    On one of the movie channels just now. Women’s picket line in some mining village , maybe Texas.

     

     

    Fascinated. Brave film for its time.

     

     

    The song is

     

     

    The union is our leader we shall not be moved

  7. Sionnach Abu on 20th July 2017 11:03 pm

     

     

    That’s a new one on me, but it makes no difference to my point.

     

     

    The IRA didn’t exist in Brother Walfrid’s time and we have no way of knowing what he’d have thought of them, either in 1920 or 2017.

     

     

    It doesn’t matter to UEFA either. Any political displays and they’ll punish us for it.

  8. !!Bada Bing!! on 20th July 2017 11:06 pm

     

     

    macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 20th July 2017 11:08 pm

     

     

    Cheers guys.

     

     

    I’m heading off now, so I’ll catch up with any brickbats tomorrow!

  9. DAMO LENNON on 20TH JULY 2017 11:13 PM

     

    It doesn’t matter to UEFA either. Any political displays and they’ll punish us for it.

     

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    That’s a fair enough point. Those are the rules of the competition.

     

    The gross over reaction to teenagers making banter will pass with a smack. Let’s not get carried away with it all.

  10. Bournesourecipe – 11.10pm

     

    Me thinks there is a very good chance that guy is a Hun..

     

    HH.

  11. With Jack Charlton’s side trailing, Cascarino was summoned from the bench with about fifteen minutes to go. As he unzipped his tracksuit top, he suddenly remembered something: he’d left his jersey hanging in the dressing-room. He looked down at his white cotton t-shirt and turned to face the music. Upon telling Charlton, the response was largely inevitable.

     

     

    “His face turned purple”, Cascarino later wrote in his autobiography Full-Time.

     

     

    “I thought he was going to have a heart attack. ‘You f****ng idiot!”

  12. Delaneys Dunky on

    WITS

     

    Dali loves weird fishes.

     

    Dig him up dna him then throw him in the sea.

     

    He would prefer that.

  13. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    BSR

     

     

    Artistic Licence, is that better than a UEFA B Licence:)

     

     

     

    HH

  14. !!BADA BING!! on 20TH JULY 2017 11:10 PM

     

    SIONNACH ABU- do you live in Ireland?

     

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    No disrespect, I’d prefer not to say.

  15. Damo Lennon at 10.58

     

     

    Excellent post, there will be a great many agreeing with you, me included.

     

     

    We go to games to support the Celtic.

     

     

    What that banner was supposed to add to that support, I’ve no idea.

  16. THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 20TH JULY 2017 11:23 PM

     

     

    Ok, that was funny :-)

     

     

    Not that your asking or care anyway but I worked hard to get the UEFA B License. Started of at E level and worked my way up culminating in a memorable week at Largs with Paddy Bonner. Robert Prytz (entertaining) and Jimmy Bone (inspirational). Oh aye, and Eric Black was …..Eric Black. A prick of a man.

  17. Wow I can’t believe that uefa, the sfa and the msm have got,you all fighting with yourselves.

     

     

    Celtic fans are,always wrong, even when they are right. The board love this. It’s a brilliant,squirrel to,distract you,from being cheated.

     

     

    Congrats fools.