The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

Still is the Champions League.Stumbling into this year's group stages,luckily beating  teams most of us have never heard of is no commendation.

[From the Bunker]

Still is the Champions League.Stumbling into this year's group stages,luckily beating  teams most of us have never heard of is no commendation.

I'm afraid it's only a Qualification competition until the group stages! It's open to qualifying for the Europa League also! So you are not in the Champions League proper competition.

Now please go away and educate yourself on the structures and financial running's of football.

[T Fearon]

By winning any league,even the Irish League,you qualify for the Champions League competition.Apart from the financial benefits it is not particularly satisfying if you reach the group stages but are not competitive therein.

[charlieTully]

if you get a draw with the previous seasons semi finalists, and a draw away against a German side with a fantastic home crowd behind them one could argue that is being competitive?

[T Fearon]

No.2 points out of a possible 12 and a minus 9 goal difference,and all but out of the competition barring a miracle,after four games is conclusive evidence that we are not at all competitive.

[imtommygunn]

So would you sack him?

[T Fearon]

No point at this stage,allow him to finish the European campaign,but I'd put him on notice that his one year rolling contract will no longer roll beyond next summer

[From the Bunker]

Anyway lets get to the Crux of the Rogers era!

He's an average Manager.
He's only a couple of months at the Club.
He's with a decent Club, with often unreal expectations!
He has at best average to piss poor players.
It's hard for Celtic fans to get excited by any win in Scotland!
He has no money - in the European scheme of things.
One of his so called better players is Toure who has been past it a year or two plus by English Premier League standard.
Celtic are caught in no mans land - they are not a Big club financially and they are not small Club fan base wise!
Asking players to churn out decent results consistently in Europe against far superior opposition is unrealistic.
You will get a gem of a performance here and there, but realistically big clubs will learn how to beat you.
Expecting Celtic to rise their game in Europe is like expecting the Scottish teams to rise theirs against Celtic.

[bennydorano]

Less of the realism plz

[thebar]

Well done to the Celtic board who thankfully had the foresight to bring Brendan in when they did and send Deila on...another season of Deila was only going to spell more crap football for all the fans, great to be a Celtic fan at the moment!

[imtommygunn]

No point at this stage,allow him to finish the European campaign,but I'd put him on notice that his one year rolling contract will no longer roll beyond next summer

Do you think if that was done celtic fans would be happy?

[T Fearon]

There are already rumblings among discerning fans.Two resounding defeats in the last two group games,and the lowest ever points tally amassed by Celtic in the group stages of the Champions League is bound to intensify these rumblings.

[omaghjoe]

Dont follow soccer much apart from an occasional interest in Celtic, but HS I just looked at the SPL table there and after 11 games Celtic are 10pts clear with a game in hand... must be some sort of record?

Great achievement anyway and the new manager is some lad from Antrim apparently, fair play to him.

[T Fearon]

Let me fill in the gaps in your football knowledge.Celtic's budget,infrastructure,pedigree dwarves all their Scottish rivals,so being miles ahead of these same rivals in the league table is not worthy of credit nor hardly worthy of mention.

[yellowcard]

http://www.fitbastats.com/celtic/club_records_league_attendance.php

You will find all you need to know here in the average home league attendance. Up 11,000 from Deilas average home crowd last year. The average Celtic fans only concern about Rodgers is that he isn't yet locked down to a long term contract. The reality is that if Rodgers went next summer (which he could well do if he gets a big club in England) then the best they could hope to attract would be the likes of Paul Lambert, Roy Keane, Michael O'Neill or David Moyes. None of whom have stellar recent records in club management. Celtic have a lot of championship standard players but have a premier league coach