TheGreenMonster Posted August 29, 2014 Author Share Posted August 29, 2014 Ach FC Salzburg are rubbish - Celtic should beat them. *should* Won 6 out of 6 in the group last season and then easily beat Ajax home and away in the next round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Looking at the other groups Celtic have got very, very lucky. Incredible - yet again. Though it is moot I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris. Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Salzburg & Dinamo are at least on par with Legia. Both are undeniably better than Maribor as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenMonster Posted August 29, 2014 Author Share Posted August 29, 2014 Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb and FC Astra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Darkest Timeline Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 No Legia, boo! A decent group for Celtic to get in comparison to some of the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoy who invented weetabix Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Good luck selling tickets for that Peter ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Salzburg & Dinamo are at least on par with Legia. Both are undeniably better than Maribor as well. Salzburg are easily the weakest of the top seeds though, Malmo stuffed them 3-0 through the week. Dinamo one of the weakest of the third seeds as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Zagreb away would be a tremendous match for the fans. Croatian women and Croatian beer are both phenomenal. Just noticed that Astra put Lyon out in the last round. Maybe not to be under estimated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavieCFC Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb and FC Astra Fixed* Happy enought, if we get our act together, theres a good chance we can progress. No pushovers though, Astra the mob no c**t will have heard off, put out Lyon last round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris. Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Salzburg are easily the weakest of the top seeds though, Malmo stuffed them 3-0 through the week. Dinamo one of the weakest of the third seeds as well. Oh, absolutely. Neither side are great by any means and it's probably a decent draw over the piece for Celtic, but if they're getting pumped by Legia and Maribor, then they'll struggle against this lot as well. You've only got to look at Wolfsburg who were in Celtic's pot to see how difficult it could have been for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I'm loving the in-depth knowledge of the Austrian, Croatian and Romanian leagues and their Champions' respective quality compared to sides from other leagues in Europe. Presumably if we got Lyon rather than Astra we would have a harder group, because they're fae France and we've all heard of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 What a draw, big names, big ties, full houses, the glory night are back at Darkheid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham89 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I appear to be the only one who thinks Celtic might struggle here. Salzburg and Zagreb are both good teams. Never heard of the Romanian lot bit given the teams they have come up against, they can't be discounted. Celtic are poor right now, we can't judge them on performances of 10 years ago (or even last year for that matter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Agree to an extent, there should be something in place that means a % of any European prize money is given to the FA for general development of the game in the domestic country. This is the case already - the SPFL and SFA receive some money and had Celtic reached the CL groups every other Premiership club would have received £110k or something similar. Problem is that while the money is nice to have it's fairly trifling compared to the sums the CL clubs get. But that's UEFA's decision, ultimately. I disagree that they buy up half decent players from Scotland. Celtic at least, haven't done that for quite some time. The biggest problem with Scottish football is the constant comparisons with the English game, despite there being very little basis for any comparison ever being favourable on Scotland. We are a 10th of the size of England, of course we are going to have less. Perhaps if the media hadn't bought into David Murray's "10er for every 5er" spending policy and put pressure on other teams to do the same, it might not have hit the levels it did a few years ago. Despite this years European results, the domestic game is healthier than it has been for a while. Agreed. As for Celtic's draw: it's a decent draw, although it won't excite the fans to turn-out, and if they can get themselves organised they can definetely aim to progress given 2 of 4 do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parscelona Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 You would have thought Celtic fans would have showed some humility by this stage, after all saying this is a relatively straightforward draw worked out so well for them in the CL qualifiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 How boring is the Group Stages of both competitions these days. Outrageously dull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Legia blaming Celtic for a mistake they made which brought a decision from Uefa to expel them is tear-stained, clutching at straws behaviour. Both from officials of the club and their fans. If it winds up a few of the scheme goblins among the Celtic support, though, then I'm all for it. They weren't expelled fwiw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I'm loving the in-depth knowledge of the Austrian, Croatian and Romanian leagues and their Champions' respective quality compared to sides from other leagues in Europe. Presumably if we got Lyon rather than Astra we would have a harder group, because they're fae France and we've all heard of them? No, I think everyone knows that no matter who Celtic drew they will manage to humiliate themselves under their comical management team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLip69 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I disagree that they buy up half decent players from Scotland. Celtic at least, haven't done that for quite some time. They haven't done it since the last time a team looked like threatening the top two, and wont do it till it happens again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 They haven't done it since the last time a team looked like threatening the top two, and wont do it till it happens again. Who was the last player we signed for the sole purpose of weakening another team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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