"Don’t anybody start talking about morals, because we don’t have any in football" - the rolling Scottish football thread, season 2014/15

That's that for the season then, all that's left is working out what round of the cups we'll fuck up in. See yous next year.

Sorry for undoing all Aberdeen & St Johnstone's hard work in doing good things for the coefficient :-(

We've been here before, remember Strachan/ Artmedia? Still it's no fun being back there. Lustig is shite, Ambrose is not so much an accident waiting to happen as an accident that did happen right in front of your astonished eyes etcetera etcetera.

Lustig and Ambrose have been two of our better/less shite players recently, which makes this all even more alarming.

you had me until Ambrose

Ach, he's been not bad, high-profile Euro fuck-ups notwithstanding.

Since day one he's been the "I can take the ball out of defence" guy who can't take the ball out of defence. He's surely lost the ball in his own half more than anyone who's ever played a decent number of games for us.

^ sounds like Ambrose to me... but only for Celtic, not for Nigeria. I admit however that last season was the least number of Celtic games I've watched in a season ever, so fair enough

Well, that was rotten tonight. Trnava a decent side, not amazing but you'd regularly see worse in the SPFLP. Their theatrics were embarrassing, though.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/troubled-former-scotland-star-garry-3677989

http://i4.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article3666033.ece/alternates/264x400/Garry-OConnor.jpg

A £1.3M house being sold for £70k sounds like a pile of pish to me.

Pile of pish/shady insolvency scam - pick one.

Enough money left for pies though amirite?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/04/steven-naismith-everton-tickets-liverpool-unemployed

What's that niceness doing on a thread about lack of morals in football, eh?

I am going out tomorrow night and completely forgot Celtic were playing. That's how much I don't give a shit this year already.

You'll miss the 3-1 victory.

Thanks to dropping down a league we have managed to create a different opportunity to be out of a competition before the league starts.

But same old way, eh? (Sevco are struggling, opposition mysteriously find themselves down to ten men when everyone expects nothing more than a yellow card).

/paranoia

We scored a goal, at least.

basically it feels like it'll come down to whether the total fucking ineptness of sally is enough to counteract the >10 penos they'll get at home

i didn't see the game, but it sounded like hibs were trying to play good football?

Feels like it. A bit of huffing and puffing in the first half but plenty of good chances spurned int he second and the game should never have gone to extra time. Keeper error for Rangers' first and poor defending for the second mean it's going to be a long season though.

Keeper error from Hibs? Surely not, etc.

Plus ca change.

I knew that the Rovers weren't going to defend the trophy. Going out to Dunfermline is a bit galling though.

The better half is keen to go to watch Barry Ferguson's return to Ibrox in the next round now. Me, not so much.

Training games have taken place at Riccarton involving ten men versus 11 to work on playing with a disadvantage. Neilson is coaching his team on how to cope in that situation and has given his squad information on how to adapt and what formation to take up should it happen this weekend.

“We’ve been working on ten versus 11 because we know what it’s like when we go there – the atmosphere, with referees, and you never know what’s going to happen,” said Neilson.

^ kens the score

Okay we have a left back at left back and a right back at right back - that's good, right?

Oh, and we've also got a right back at centre hoff and a former left back (or whatever he is) in central midfield...

Berget dropped, Griffiths dropped, Pukki dropped, Stokes not dropped.

Legia chewing up time at every opportunity and looking more than capable on the break, again.

Nothing has happened.

Something has happened :(

CelticTV: ‘due to to the overwhelming demand for this game we have had to suspend the comments wall’

aye ok

Something else has happened :(

We need a try and a conversion.

Can't believe I sat through that.

Worst thing is this won't highlight a need for investment (well it will but it will be ignored) - the fall in income will prompt further dismantling of what's left of the team to make up the shortfall. Neil Lennon (who looks like a fucking GENIUS at this point btw) got out at the right time.

If Aberdeen and Motherwell are as good as last season they'll run us close.

Lawell out. Deila out. Stokes out. Izaguirre out. Every cunt out.

Except Commons. He can stay. Except he's in his last season and yet to sign a new contract.

Was wondering the streets last night cursing London for not having any pubs showing the game, so glad I didn't find one.

Except Commons. He can stay. Except he's in his last season and yet to sign a new contract.

For a club intent on wringing every last penny out of everything, this seems to happen quite often, people getting to go away for nothing (hi dere Samaras, Ledley, etc)

Samaras, Ledley, etc

Don't forget Steven Mouyokolo!

Comeback is on!

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-could-handed-champions-league-4021809

CELTIC could be handed a Champions League reprieve after UEFA began a probe into the eligibility of Legia Warsaw player Bartosz Bereszynskiego.

Celtic got some weird lifeline back into Europe a few years ago didn't they?

Oh yeah, Sion, as it says in that article. Would feel a bit sorry for Legia Warsaw if they got kicked out for this - seems like the flimsiest of technicalities.

Yes, Sion ignored a signing ban and fielded players they shouldn't have bought.

xp

I would feel sorry for them too except I'm shameless.

Me an' all. Also would welcome a further opportunity to look completely fucking rubbish in Europe.

We don't have any morals in football anyway.

Anyway, if this random message board dude is right, looks like we're still in it. Mon the coefficient! We're getting good at these 3-0 wins (aiui, we get a 3-0 win for last night's game, putting us through on away goals).

http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=13088777&t=9131505

haha Celtic officially back in

LOL

Well done to Callum McGregor with the crucial away goal.

fuck uefa man, this is some shameful shit

otoh prescient thread title tbf

If this would've happened to Barca or Arsenal, I'm quite sure they'd just fine the team or something. Feel bad for Legia. Anyway, wb Celtic.

Barca or Arsenal wouldn't be stupid enough to field a suspended player in the first place.

Henning Berg has a lot of explaining to do. This is a shameful decision in the light of the precedents though. Two minutes of play in a 6-1 aggregate win.