The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Main Street]

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Very tough draw for Celtic but sure that's why we're in it...to play the best and we can beat anyone in a one off game at Celtic Pk, it has happened before and it will happen again, being realistic a home win with the Germans and maybe a draw with City in Glasgow to give us a respectable 4pts is the best we'd hope for.

West Ham beat last night at home against Astana (2 years in a row) compare their budgets and try and understand how a team from no-where can come to London and beat a team that if they were to finish bottom of the Premiership will still receive £100 million.

Close,
Astana got through beating Bate, it was Astra, a middling Romanian club who deservedly knocked out West Ham. Commentator said the Astra goalie (who pulled off some good saves) was the son of the Romanian goalie from 1990 WC,   which means he was their goalie from the famous penalty shoot out.

[AZOffaly]

Sylviu Lung if I remember correctly. He seemed to have a nervous twitch with his head which indicated which way he was diving

[Main Street]

 
that's a good leg puller

I heard an interview with Packie Bonner some time ago and part of it was about that penalty shoot out and he was asked how did he prepare and how did he guess right.
Packie said it was simple, it was down to body language that he and the goalie coach worked out together, the taker would usually strike the ball opposite to the angle of his approach.
Ever since that's all I just happen to watch out for.
Of course the art of the penalty specialist is much more involved than that, but in a penalty shoot out, that clue would  give a goalie a good chance to save a middlin' penalty from an inexperienced penalty taker. There was a shootout the other day  and in only one of 10 penalties did the taker shoot along with the angle of his approach.

[Applesisapples]

If Rogers delivers Europa league football in January he will deserve double his current GUBU salary.

[Nigel White]

He already deserves that

[T Fearon]

While I'm nothing other than realistic,I don't expect us to get a single point,I do expect our super salaried manager to do basic things he hasn't done to date like displaying
tactical nous,selecting the  right players and team formations to restrict our opponents and achieve a creditable result in every one of the six games.

[winghalfback]

While I'm nothing other than realistic,I don't expect us to get a single point,I do expect our super salaried manager to do basic things he hasn't done to date like displaying
tactical nous,selecting the  right players and team formations to restrict our opponents and achieve a creditable result in every one of the six games.

Who would you have got as manager tony

[T Fearon]

Michael O'Neill was born for the job.

[Main Street]

If Rogers delivers Europa league football in January he will deserve double his current GUBU salary.

I suspect that Celtic will have to get to the CL knockout stages, either this season or the next season, in order to hang on to the seeded status in the champion side of the qualifier/play off draw. The rich coefficient bounty gained in 2012/13  will still factor in next season but then drop out of the calculation for 2018/ 19
Possibly Celtic will have to pay Brendan more in order to achieve that,  supposedly the more money you pay the better the result 

This prize money is huge by Celtic's standards but just not that vital to an epl club, it would just pay for a player like Johnny Evans. Probably that's why the moneyed clubs want to shut the CL shop in order to prevent the prize money filtering down to the plebs.

[winghalfback]

Michael O'Neill was born for the job.

What makes you think that? Shamrock rovers and Brechin are hardly bastions of association football surely you can't be looking at one run in an international campaign with the occupied 6.

Compare that to managing and working with the top players and coaches in the premier league. Do you forget he was all but a slip away from leading Liverpool to an league title a few years ago. Granted his next season was not as successful but I think those experiences will stand to Rodgers who I think has already shown some astute awareness on and off the field since joining Celtic.

[T Fearon]

O'Neill took Rovers into Europa League against all the odds,N I to Euro Finals against all the odds.He is on an upward trajectory of success and consistency,not stop start like Rodgers,is educated with a stable family life and has lived in Scotland for years.Perfect choice on and off the field.

[heganboy]

s educated with a stable family life and has lived in Scotland for years

Irrelevant moralizing bullshit.

[Nigel White]

Sorry folks but I have to agree with Tony on this one.  I think the stats below clearly demonstrate that Michael O'Neill is on an upward trajectory of success:

Team.               From.                     To                                                   Record
                                                                                              G   W   D   L   Win %
Brechin City          4 April 2006           15 December 2008        197   78   57   62   39.59
Shamrock Rovers 15 December 2008   28 December 2011      124   66   31   27   53.23
Northern Ireland   28 December 2011   Present                        40   11   14   15   27.50
Total                                                                                      361   155   102   104   42.94

[heffo]

I heard Jock Stein had a Phd

[T Fearon]

Main points of career to date.Against all odds took Shamrock Rovers into group stages of Europa League and N Ireland to Euro Finals where they performed creditably in every single game.Proven achiever,shrewd tactician,gets the best out of players,all qualities that can not be attributed to the current Celtic manager