Since ending their league season on 23 December, Bodo/Glimt have played three friendlies: a draw with Dinamo Kiev, and wins over Denmark’s AGF and Sweden’s Elfdborg, all played in Spain, each opponent is also preseason. Their next two outings are against Celtic, both should be exhausting encounters for the Norwegians.
You and I have watched enough preseason European football to know what a task this will be for Bodo/Glimt. Take nothing for granted, though. Two years ago, after finishing top of our Europa League group, we faced preseason Copenhagen. A draw in the first leg in Denmark was not enough. The Danes, who should have ran out of juice before Celtic, scored twice in the closing minutes at Celtic Park to progress. Norwegian sides have done well over five visits to Celtic Park in the last six years, Rosenborg drew twice and lost twice, while Molde won.
Celtic fans are full of confidence right now. What we are missing is a test against non-Scottish opposition. Drubbing a limp Newco gave us hope that we are watching something special. Tomorrow night will give an indication as to whether that hope is valid. I expect a far tougher examination.
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no i mean it
he has lost the plot
Oooh I say
I saw them against Roma, impressive however they are in preseason mode and should be dealt with
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Heard an interview with a Scandinavian football writer/analyst, he said Bodo play the way Celtic do under Ange, ball on the deck quick passing playing at pace , should be an interesting and good match, they beat Roma 6.1 at home and drew 2.2 in Rome, certainly a test tomorrow night hopefully not spoiled by high winds.
The Vikings are running scared. We’ll sink them without trace.
I agree with DESSYBHOY (12:23) that based on their results against Roma, we are in for a test
We know how good they can be & we know how good we can be. The ‘fly in the ointment’ is that we also know how bad we can be at times – Ange says he’s working to find out why & won’t accept below-par performances.
In my opinion we have to wait & see if a fit & ready Bodo turns up…and what version of Celtic turns up. On our first-half displays against *Rangers & Motherwell, we can be fancied, if the ‘second-half’ team appears, we may very well struggle.
Hope springs, HH.
Roll on tomorrow.
Looking forward to it.
Re comparisons with Copenhagen …
They were caught cold in first half of first leg.
We should have won that game 0-3.
We high fived the scoring draw away from home.
Then our manager was tactically out thought at Celtic Park.
Result galvanised them.
(Think they reached the Quarter Finals before losing narrowly?)
Impact to our fixture schedule (as per Paul’s recent article) from Europa League progress needs to be considered.
We’ve definitely got a minimum 2 more games.
In my mind, realistically, we have a maximum of six.
The league is the priority.
The January newbies should be looking forward to this. Part of the season they signed up, I would imagine.
Still tickets available for the match. Probably due to the fact Celtic have over egged the prices a bit. Thirty quid for kids ! It’s Bodo/Glimt in the third tier Euro competition, not Manchester City in the Champions League. Thankfully.
I wish we could do without these Conference games. There is only one prize that matters.
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 16TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:09 PM
no i mean it
he has lost the plot
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How do you know that the bus is a “he”??
Is that not misogyny??
Asking for another bus. 👍
Spot on, Paul. Exactly what I said after we beat It’s-Definitely-Not-Rangers and all the ensuing hysteria that went with it.
Europe is where we should be measuring ourselves. Less-resourced teams than Celtic have been able to achieve more. A real failure of focus. Old firmery has held us back. Big change in mindset needed.
Random thought for the day when I should be working:
Refer to the Europa Conference league as the Cup Winners Cup just to piss off any nearby sevco fans who might be listening.
Not only I’m I hoping for a win tomorrow but I’m hoping for ko blow. Let’s put the tie to bed to allow us to leave some players behind next week.
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 16TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:09 PM
Spot on, Paul. Exactly what I said after we beat It’s-Definitely-Not-Rangers and all the ensuing hysteria that went with it.
Europe is where we should be measuring ourselves. Less-resourced teams than Celtic have been able to achieve more. A real failure of focus. Old firmery has held us back. Big change in mindset needed.
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“Ange ball” has got us into what is in effect, the Euro 3rd level competition, and as you say yourself its not as if we’re not well resourced, and I would add that we haven’t played any so called box office names, so far, so it could be a turning point game were Celtic utterly blossom and post a few half decent results in a European campaign, certainly since NFL won a Euro group for the 1st time, so we don’t have to look back very far for inspiration, I wish Ange and the bhoy’s the very best of luck, and I’ll also worry for Ange and the bhoy’s if we face a “parked bus” which seems be a difficult task for Ange to negotiate. Fingers crossed. 👍 🍀
I’m looking forward to this. Our last two performances in Europe suggested that the better the opposition, the better we play, and we’re playing some great football in bursts at the moment. We’ve progressed significantly since then both in terms of performances and personnel. We’re defending much better than we did back then – we’re far more able to absorb the sort of pressure that always comes against decent teams in Europe
Bodo are weakened from the Roma game. They’ve sold their main CB, CM and striker. We simply have to get through this tie.
Agree with ERNIE LYNCH @ 12:59 & 70 CAPS @ 1:02, the league IS the priority and dwarfs everything else. However we are where we are, and ‘other’ games must be played. Personally I can’t see Ange ‘soft-peddling’, he wants the team to reflect him, and be all it can be.
We’ve had enough meddling with the squad due to injury & other things this season, I prefer our best squad ‘on duty’ from hereon in.
JHB on 16TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:07 PM
Agree with ERNIE LYNCH @ 12:59 & 70 CAPS @ 1:02, the league IS the priority and dwarfs everything else. However we are where we are, and ‘other’ games must be played. Personally I can’t see Ange ‘soft-peddling’, he wants the team to reflect him, and be all it can be.
We’ve had enough meddling with the squad due to injury & other things this season, I prefer our best squad ‘on duty’ from hereon in.
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Spot on, yip and Ernie is also correct, even though your both saying different things.
Confusing?? You bet lol 👍 😕
hah
has anyone heard from ……………………
Talking of better teams we’ve played, both Betis and Leverkusen won at the weekend to cement their places in third place. BL are a mile ahead of fourth.
Easy to forget how close we were to beating both in our last two group games.
Should be an exciting game whatever
“look at me”
Not a breath of wind in Bo’ness……………..yet.
How is it in Glasgow?
re thems making the decision to give us a ticket allocation for the Glasgow derby that suits thems , imo give thems nothing , we don’t need them.
Bada in the North of Glasgow we are currently in the eye of the storm, was very calm and sun out.
Let everyone in the work away at 2pm to try and make it home safely.
Wind getting up again here now at 2.40pm. After a terrible morning in the North if Glasgow.
D :)
Sorry Philbhoy not Bada.
My apologies to both.
D :)
PE report on the 20 year saga of the PO IT SNAFU — horrible reading / brings back a few memories.
The power of centralised bureaucracies to crush the little guy.
Not the story you want to hear if you champion public sector provision of services.
Appears that LT was onto something with all his chat about the need for “permanent revolution”.
Just reading the story about the “back door” in the system to add transactions onto the branch log remotely / from the centre should have had alarm bells ringing at all levels — at some point these actions would have to be visible and be accounted for by someone.
And then you have the situation where people / branches with discrepancies keep getting more and they get bigger …
Interesting !!!???!!!
Plus you have the issue of action and reaction.
If there are deficits would there not be surpluses somewhere else in the system?
Would they not be noticed in the fullness of time?
Or did the elves / gremlins tidy it up before it would get noticed?
Can of worms — no wonder heads went into the sand and hoped it would go away.
Big Auto BOM work …
A missing part stopped the line in an instant.
An additional part never got noticed until someone fell over the ensuing pile of unwanted items.
Hair splitting — PO Horizon is not the biggest civilian IT failure in Europe.
It actually comes second to “Everest” but the bills were paid out in Dearborn so it probably doesn’t count as European even when it was led from Essex — and that has a hard stop failure / totally dumped where it was launched and the struggle to make it work lasted a couple of years before the original system was put back into the front line.
1960’s IBM won out over 2000’s Oracle — who would have thunk it?
C40 @ 2.19
We had a CL level group this season in the EuL.
So much for all the chat about this being our level.
With our luck — not a hope.
Impressive that BL are still in 3rd — what they lack in talent they must be making up with organisation and grit.
PHILBHOY on 16TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:28 PM
Not a breath of wind in Bo’ness……………..yet.
How is it in Glasgow?
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No idea Philbhoy, but if it’s not windy yet it soon will be as the storm is tracking west to east. It has been blowing a hooley here in Donegal since early this morning, once the heavy rain stopped about 11 it got windier still!
Watched the Djokovic interview on BBC. I can’t make my mind up if he is sincere, or, just being contrary. As a big tennis-fan, I admire him as a wonderful player & a truly great champion…and I believe had he played in the AO, he’d have won it, and be the GOAT right now.
Some saying that missing Australia and being willing to forego other competitions shows his determination – well maybe so. All I will say is that Jehovah Witnesses’ are determined in their opposition to blood-transfusion, to the detriment of the health of many of their sick members…..doesn’t make them right.
N.B. The JW’s policy on transfusion didn’t come from the Bible as they claim – but was handed down by a committee in Brooklyn in 1945…..just a snippet.
Against better teams , the game is more open which suits us …. Norwegian teams traditionally are a bit turgid maybe this lot have a bit more flair ….
If we keep the ball moving we’ll be OK
B/G are there for the taking.
They have a puncher’s chance but we should prevail.
We are miles ahead of them in talent but the squad is still finding its feet and we have a glass jaw.
Sir Savile Starmer is a dangerous, deceitful, apartheid puppet, plant, photo shopping big bad peaceful, Jeremy Corbyn, a lover of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the oppressed, the low paid, etc, etc, photo shopped out of a picture full of deluded folk. Deary me. Shakes head. 😧
Maybe the media will ask Sir Savile Starmer, why could Jeremy Corbyn leave £13+ million in Labour Party bank accounts less than two 2 years ago, and now its all gone, where has it gone??, why have 600,000+ Labour members personal private security details been stolen during a data breach?? and why is the Labour Party on the verge of being liquidated££££ ?? Then again, the same media closed ranks and refused to report the data theft to the public, why?? Also then again, the media will carry on with their attempted coup of, Bojo, and try their damndest to over turn Brexit, because Brexit sticks it right up the media, and Sir Savile Starmer, who as Labour Party Brexit secretary, tried on 47 seperate occasions to overturn Brexit, Corbyn should’ve been sacked, for not sacking SSS, eye he should’ve been, but the party was/is 100% swamp without Corbyn, what a mess, anyway Brexit sticks it right up the bankers who want a one world govt, controlled by bankers, fk that!! all of this palaver because the poor, forgotten, citizens of the north of England and elsewhere, 1 million people in Scotland voted for Brexit which don’t hear a peep about?? the poor said “fk it” and voted for Brexit to escape the unelected banking cartel in EU, gig economy bullsh*t, never ending invasion of refugees from countries that big peaceful nato has just obliterated, and stolen all of the money, Afghanistan being the recent example, those who control the banks, control everything else on the planet, viva la France wants to “Frexit” to escape all of the EU palavir, try selling indy2 on the door step when EU is almost a concentration camp imagine that!! when EU countries have been forced to, tool up and nationalize their respective areas to avoid the nato fallout invasions, a lifetime of rigged elections, etc, etc. Starmer, and other assholes want to return to EU?? I see a war on the streets of UK, Scotland, six counties, etc. What is the way out of this disaster??
If the keys of the kingdom fall into the hands of this guy 👇 you can put the lights out.
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has anyone heard from the Park The Blooter into the Special Seville Citizen, he has been awfy quiet lately
63% of French people want “Frexit”. good for them!! 👍
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MADMITCH on 16TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:00 PM
We don’t have a glass jaw – the only team to beat us in the last 32 games is clear in third in the Bundesliga