The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Targetman]

We all know the competition's not great but thats still a serious achievement, congrats Celtic, all the sweeter when you see the mess thats taking place over ibrox way, long may it continue!!

[screenexile]

Disgusting dive and red card it has to be said!!

[charlieTully]

Disgusting dive and red card it has to be said!!

Hard to disagree. Although the lad got away with a shocking tackle on dembele in the first half. Things even themselves out sometimes.

[ned]

Disgusting dive and red card it has to be said!!

Not a blatant penalty. The Motherwell defender still impeded Sinclair who was in control. If he hadn't tugged at him Sinclair would have gone straight through. Red was harsh but I think that is the law. Justice for his horrible tackle in first few minutes on Dembele.
First Celtic manager to win his first four competitions. BR reigns.

[longballin]

Rodgers has the easiest job in football. Money for old rope. Cork City would beat the other teams in that league...

[From the Bunker]

Rodgers has the easiest job in football. Money for old rope. Cork City would beat the other teams in that league...

Yes and No! It is expected now for them to win everything domestically. The unbeaten run has probably added extra pressure of keeping it going. The Champions league is all about coming 3rd and maybe getting through a round or two in the Europa League depending on the luck of the draw. Scotland with a population of 5 Million of which a half a million live in Edinburgh and 1.2 Million live in Glasgow. There's just not the population for to support other Clubs outside these two cities.

[T Fearon]

Substantial fan base of Celtic and Rangers in towns and cities all over Scotland.I remember being at a Deacon Blue gig on a Sunday night 20 years ago.Rikki Ross is a big Dundee Utd fan and he0 referred to his glee at  both Celtic and Rangers both being "gubbed" as he put it earlier on that day,and the number of buses leaving Dundee every weekend to follow the Old Firm instead of supporting their home town teams.

[StGallsGAA]

I was at Deacon Blue in the Ulster Hall and he made a point of saying that he was going down the Sandy Row for fish and chips, so I assumed he was a Rangers man.  Thanks for clarifying.

[T Fearon]

I drove down Sandy Row on Saturday,but I don't see how you could deduce a Rangers connection from simply visiting a Chip shop there?

[ned]

Rodgers has the easiest job in football. Money for old rope. Cork City would beat the other teams in that league...

Yes and No! It is expected now for them to win everything domestically. The unbeaten run has probably added extra pressure of keeping it going. The Champions league is all about coming 3rd and maybe getting through a round or two in the Europa League depending on the luck of the draw. Scotland with a population of 5 Million of which a half a million live in Edinburgh and 1.2 Million live in Glasgow. There's just not the population for to support other Clubs outside these two cities.

Pep Guardiola or Unai Emery have much easier jobs. "Here boss, we could do with a new striker." "Will £200m be enough? ".
BR's time at Celtic will be judged on progression, of style, of players, in Europe and at home. Europe is the only question mark but we will get there.

[Milltown Row2]

Rodgers has the easiest job in football. Money for old rope. Cork City would beat the other teams in that league...

Yes and No! It is expected now for them to win everything domestically. The unbeaten run has probably added extra pressure of keeping it going. The Champions league is all about coming 3rd and maybe getting through a round or two in the Europa League depending on the luck of the draw. Scotland with a population of 5 Million of which a half a million live in Edinburgh and 1.2 Million live in Glasgow. There's just not the population for to support other Clubs outside these two cities.

Pep Guardiola or Unai Emery have much easier jobs. "Here boss, we could do with a new striker." "Will £200m be enough? ".
BR's time at Celtic will be judged on progression, of style, of players, in Europe and at home. Europe is the only question mark but we will get there.

Get where? Knockout stages?

[ned]

Rodgers has the easiest job in football. Money for old rope. Cork City would beat the other teams in that league...

Yes and No! It is expected now for them to win everything domestically. The unbeaten run has probably added extra pressure of keeping it going. The Champions league is all about coming 3rd and maybe getting through a round or two in the Europa League depending on the luck of the draw. Scotland with a population of 5 Million of which a half a million live in Edinburgh and 1.2 Million live in Glasgow. There's just not the population for to support other Clubs outside these two cities.

Pep Guardiola or Unai Emery have much easier jobs. "Here boss, we could do with a new striker." "Will £200m be enough? ".
BR's time at Celtic will be judged on progression, of style, of players, in Europe and at home. Europe is the only question mark but we will get there.

Get where? Knockout stages?

Eventually, that is expected. At the moment I would hope for a run in the Europa League. Next year CL knockout stages would be great. That will depend on the group. If it's like the past 2 years, then EL is okay with me. If we get an easier group,  like say Liverpool or Man Utd have had this year, then CL knockout stages is the hope. If we are repeating the same performances and scorelines in the next 2 or 3 years then that would count as stagnation and no amount of success domestically will suffice.

[Milltown Row2]

You need the money to compete with the bigger teams, its not a fair playing field and thats just that, getting to the knockout stages is getting harder and harder every year for the likes of Celtic, the gulf between the bigger teams is widening. One off wins against a big team needs to backed up with winning the other games or drawing a few with the odd win..

PSG would not have been an issue 10 years ago, you'd have backed Celtic to beat them, not now or ever if things continue to grow at that club

[ned]

You need the money to compete with the bigger teams, its not a fair playing field and thats just that, getting to the knockout stages is getting harder and harder every year for the likes of Celtic, the gulf between the bigger teams is widening. One off wins against a big team needs to backed up with winning the other games or drawing a few with the odd win..

PSG would not have been an issue 10 years ago, you'd have backed Celtic to beat them, not now or ever if things continue to grow at that club

This is what BR is trying to achieve. No point abandoning your philosophy to get the odd big win.

[illdecide]

I'm a bit split on things...I want Celtic to win in Europe and compete with the best but don't want Celtic to become a commercialism hobby for some rich Arab to invest heavily, the risk is someday they'll get bored and walk away and it takes away the ethos of why Celtic were formed in the first place but it does hurt like hell watching your great team getting humped 7-1. The rich getting richer is the case and UEFA could certainly take a leaf out of the NFL's book on how they ensure the big teams success in the NFL are reduced capping their spending and buying allowing the the teams finishing lower in the leagues to spend more and have their pick of the top players.

Of course you can say this should be the case domestically too but when i think back of the baron years watching the dead club winning all around them and Celtic sometimes not even finishing 2nd and going near a decade without a trophy it's certainly pay back time and i'm loving the success we're having in Scotland. I believe BR is the man to lead us but the only thing i'm not sure on is his approach when playing the big guns, I know he said last week that people don't know anything about football when criticizing his tactics but surely you have to adopt different tactics for different teams...Look don't like saying much about BR as he's doing a great job, it's just in Europe where i think we need a slightly different approach but at least you'll always get action when Celtic are involved...HH