The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[omagh_gael]

I see Rosenberg beat Ajax 1-0 in Holland last night. Makes Celtic's progress look all the more impressive.

[Applesisapples]

Stevie G said on BT Sport that Brendan shared the tactics with him before hand and that was how it worked out.

[ned]

The point is football is like that. A lot of goals can be attributed to a deflection, an opponent's mistake, a poor referee decision. Only one goal, Griffiths', was due to luck.

[Hectic]

I do think Astana are a better team that what the score line suggests and I reckon you will see them pull some decent results in the Europa League (please god).

[illdecide]

Armstrong signs a new deal...Brendy showed him who is boss...Sign or take your face for one.

Roberts on his way too next week on another 12 month loan deal and with Nitcham looking good that's a few good signings, please give us a good draw in CL and hopefully we can at least get 3rd with a possibility of 2nd (who knows). Was reading today but can't remember where that Celtic have a decent chance of going into bowl 3 for the CL draw (depends on another teams result who are trailing 2-1, think it's HNK Rejeka who play Olympicos)

[ned]

Armstrong signs a new deal...Brendy showed him who is boss...Sign or take your face for one.

Roberts on his way too next week on another 12 month loan deal and with Nitcham looking good that's a few good signings, please give us a good draw in CL and hopefully we can at least get 3rd with a possibility of 2nd (who knows). Was reading today but can't remember where that Celtic have a decent chance of going into bowl 3 for the CL draw (depends on another teams result who are trailing 2-1, think it's HNK Rejeka who play Olympicos)

It's any one of four teams. Sevilla, Napoli, Liverpool as well as Olimpiakos. Liverpool could struggle yet. Pot 3 doesn't guarantee easy forth team unfortunately.

[Milltown Row2]

At what point can Celtic's grading (for the want of a better word) be increased?

[illdecide]

At what point can Celtic's grading (for the want of a better word) be increased?

Points make prizes...the more they win CL and qualify for group stages the more their coefficient goes up and then they go up in the seedings...(i think)

[ned]

If any of the present pot3 teams lose in the qualifiers Celtic automatically go into Pot3.

[Hectic]

Celtic could potentially boost their coefficient more by finishing a strong 3rd in their group then knocking off a few rounds in Europa League though a strong 2nd and last 16 would be a good return.

Have been handicapped by non existent performances by their Scottish counterparts in that the country element of the coefficient is all points gained factored by number of participants.

I actually think pretty soon there is a change where a clubs points is heavier weighted than their country element so that could help at group stage. Starting point in terms of qualifying round will still be determined by country ranking though.

[Main Street]

There is a change coming into force next season in the Uefa club ranking criteria for clubs and afaics the change will benefit Celtic. Clubs will now gain no benefit from their country's coefficient.  And seeing as Celtic are about the only SPL club earning points, this change should benefit Celtic's ranking.

Celtic are currently 50th in the UEFA 5-year Club Ranking 2018 (for next season's CL) and this despite the rich pickings of 2012/13 dropping out of the calculation. Celtic  will probably end up in the mid 40's once the group stage points are tallied.
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/trank2018.html

Under the old system, Celtic would have lost ground in the rankings and dropped down to around 60th for 2018.
In 2016/17  group stage draw, Celtic were the top 4th pot seed.

[Targetman]

Brendan speaking highly of the green brigade today, hope all the negative stuff is behind us we can look forward to something special in the champions league, great banner on Wednesday night, Roberts coming for another year loan deal, another plus.

[T Fearon]

The Green Brigade must not allow themselves to be provoked by Sevco or the likes of Linfield/Hearts.Keep it like last Wednesday night,a real Credit to the Club.

[StGallsGAA]

The Green Brigade must not allow themselves to be provoked by Sevco or the likes of Linfield/Hearts.Keep it like last Wednesday night,a real Credit to the Club.

The Green Brigade could do with a lesson or two in Irish history, socialism and the international brigade!

[T Fearon]

Alternatively they could avoid all political issues and concentrate on supporting the team.