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Celtic signing 35 year olds.
Perhaps now the stupid Dad's Army comments will stop. |
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Two players at CP, nine at Rangers, with two more to come.
So Celtic are going to win the SPL and domestic cups and compete in Europe with almost the same team that flopped miserably in Europe, won one of three domestic trophies, and got knocked out of the cups by Rangers and Ross County. And the two new boys are 19 and 35, young untested lad and an aging defender. Whereas Rangers and other SPL teams are buying a cross-age and cross-experience range of players. Rangers new signings have an average age of 27. Five of Rangers nine new players are under 25 (Crooks, Windass, Rossiter, Dodoo and Hodson). |
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#7803 |
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The Gibraltar result means hew haw. We still qualified so it doesn't matter.
Come on here when Rangers get beat in Europe next season. Look after yourselves? Last time in Europe you lost to Malmo. |
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Dalglish.
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Dalglish.
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Don't get carried away because a small team in a crap euros tournament got through. France thrashed them 5 going on 10, something England would have done if they had a decent manager. Any good Icelandic player leaves that frozen rock and moves abroad, and they still don't have any 'world class' players, just players that sit deep and break on the counter.
Scotland beat Iceland home and away last time they played. All 3 teams that qualified from Scotland's group also got out of their group at the euros so Scotland were in a tough group. Get in a decent manager and Scotland will qualify, don't and they won't. The wee nation excuse is one at least 30 years out of date. Scotland at club and int level in results and standards is being shown up BOTH by similar sized nations and now countries smaller, far smaller, than us. |
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Don't get carried away because a small team in a crap euros tournament got through. France thrashed them 5 going on 10, something England would have done if they had a decent manager. Any good Icelandic player leaves that frozen rock and moves abroad, and they still don't have any 'world class' players, just players that sit deep and break on the counter.
Scotland beat Iceland home and away last time they played. All 3 teams that qualified from Scotland's group also got out of their group at the euros so Scotland were in a tough group. Get in a decent manager and Scotland will qualify, don't and they won't. This is scapegoating the manager again, the players are simply not good enough. Like every WC and EC, the English media overhypes the players because they come from the 'best league in the world'. Which is another myth. |
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Rangers will get humped next season in Europe.
Come back on here when Rangers get in Champions League or Europa League group stages. They won't. Your gloating will come back to haunt you. Yes, we will. If we get into either group stage, I will be reposting this. And will you come back and admit humble pie if we do?. |
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For goodness sake multi-quote.
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Cooper, McStay, Durrant? Mojo?.
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No, they wont. The manager is building and will build a team playing excellent football which imo next season will be able to at least compete in the group stages of the EL, possibly the CL. We have a strong, solid and skilful team this season, with flair from the likes of Kranjcar and McKay and Rangers irrespective of this season would strengthen next year.
Yes, we will. If we get into either group stage, I will be reposting this. And will you come back and admit humble pie if we do?. Your defence is still dodgy. Play that defence in Europe and you will concede goals. |
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Last time in Europe, You LOST to Malmo.
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Our last game in Europe, we actually won 3-0 against Gibraltar, do keep up......
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Two players at CP, nine at Rangers, with two more to come.
So Celtic are going to win the SPL and domestic cups and compete in Europe with almost the same team that flopped miserably in Europe, won one of three domestic trophies, and got knocked out of the cups by Rangers and Ross County. And the two new boys are 19 and 35, young untested lad and an aging defender. Whereas Rangers and other SPL teams are buying a cross-age and cross-experience range of players. Rangers new signings have an average age of 27. Five of Rangers nine new players are under 25 (Crooks, Windass, Rossiter, Dodoo and Hodson). |
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Good players but not world class. Dalglish was the last genuine player who was world class for Scotland.
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He also thinks that if Toure comes in he'll be our second signing for the new season.
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Yes, they were. Cooper was world class, a genius. McStay at his peak was. Durrant pre-injury was an amazing player at 18/19. And one could make a claim for Mojo, esp around the late 80s.
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So who else?. Who have I missed?.
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Good players but not world class. Dalglish was the last genuine player who was world class for Scotland.
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Rangers will have the same problem as Celtic as the qualifiers come too early. You may also play against teams on plastic pitches which will be difficult to play good football on it. Playing in Europe is a huge step up from Championship level.
Your defence is still dodgy. Play that defence in Europe and you will concede goals. Perhaps Celtic fans should worry a little bit more about their own defence. After all, it was taken apart last year by 36 yr olds, small Irish wingers and journeymen from Ross County domestically. Humiliated in Europe, and has just conceded a goal to a part time bobby. |
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Nonsense. Cooper was not world class. If he was he wouldn't have gone to Motherwell. He was a good player but didn't turn it on enough for Rangers.,McStay was very good but even I would admit he wasn't quite world class.
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Crossan from Dunferlmine and Ajer.
I am surprised you didn't have at least six coming in. You are far too top heavy, you need to sell/let a few go. IMO Celtic haven't strengthened enough for this season. Too much starry eyed hype about Brenda. The man can only work with what hes got. |
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I assume you were actually born in 1987, so I will excuse your nonsense about Cooper. The man was a genius. The last one Scottish football has created. You clearly weren't old enough to see him in his prime. And would have walked into any side. As for his Well move, the man was 33 when he moved. To suggest that move means he wasn't world class is utter nonsense. The man is in Gullit's XI of all time. The likes of Law, Souness, Ferguson and Celts like McGrain, McStay and McNeill regard him as world class.
Ask me, if Cooper was world class, how come Motherwell signed him? Surely a world class club would sign him? No world class team wanted him at his peak did they? It's very easy to say a player is world class when they play in Scotland. Again, he wasn't world class in my view. Very good player, but world class? No. |
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Nonsense. Cooper was not world class. If he was he wouldn't have gone to Motherwell. He was a good player but didn't turn it on enough for Rangers.,McStay was very good but even I would admit he wasn't quite world class.
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Difference is that Rangers had to get 9 players in to challenge Celtic. Celtic's squad is still good enough to win SPFL. With a few recruits in already, Celtic have enough to win domestically. In Europe it's a different task, as our squad isn't good enough to get in Champions League.
IMO your team/squad wasn't particularly impressive last year and exposed badly at times by teams like Aberdeen and ourselves. Not to mention Ross County. 2-0 vs East Kilbride, not exactly stellar stuff. TBH, you weren't massively superior to Hearts or the Dons, but stronger overall. And a bigger squad. If you think that team is going to win this year against a much stronger Rangers and Aberdeen, Hearts as well, you are in for a shock. Celtic will need to play a lot better than last year. With us in the Champ, and Aberdeen falling away, you still managed to win just one of the three available trophies (in fact no treble since the Rangers troubles of 2012, Rangers still the last to win one). 'enough' may not be good enough. |
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