Positives for falling into the Europa League

there's a lot of doom and gloom within the ranks. which is understandable as Rangers are in the Champions League and we're not. we have only have ourselves to blame for not winning the league last year. simple as.

we'd all obviously prefer to be in the Champions League, but this thread is for fans to show some positivity towards our future European campaign.

positives for me...
- we have more chance to go further in the UEFA cup than Champions League.
- if we go far in the UEFA cup, it'll raise our co-efficiency for future European campaigns.
- as Rangers are playing a higher calibre of teams, they will undoubtedly get sidetracked physically and mentally.
- at least we're still in Europe (remember Bratislava).
- it's a new format for the UEFA cup and bigger teams in it this year due to changes in the Champions League qualifying system, so should be more exciting.

 

The one major postive is that we have seen what we need to do to reach the next level.

Obviously we have a better chance of progression in the Europa than the CL

 

I'm happy about it. This is a League we can genuniely have a shot at. Can't wait!!!

 

We gotta be happy there still going to be european football at parkhead. So we didnt make it to champs league it happens. We will be back, now its time to show europe were a decent side once more.

 

In a second tier cup ,not good enough .

 

Im sure we will still be in europe when rangers are dumped from cl.So im happy with this.

 

As ive said before

Celtic FC, Inaugural Champions of the UEFA Europa League

You saw it here first

 

I'm just glad we've got European football to look forward to..Yeah i know it's not the Champions League but if we can get through a few rounds it'll mean some much needed revenue.
It looks like it'll be a good competition with teams like Aston Villa, Everton, Villareal, Valencia,AS Roma, Ajax...need i go on!!
Let's enjoy it and win the league this year and try and get our Champions League entry back on track next season!

C'mon the Hoops!

 

It's more our level of football atm I'm afraid.

 

But a level a lot of clubs would LOVE to be at.

We will be a CL side again next year, lets focus on the Europa League this season.

 

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thank ghod!

hopefully, we will actually get a decision go for us this year!

 

I think this is fantastic news. with Blatters refusal to consider TV evidence then is got to be the next best thing.

We could of done with that last night right enough

 

The Europa is all we deserve after the performances we put in over the last 6 months of the season. Its our level at the moment and I'm happy enough that were still gonna have European nights at Celtic Park.

 

True.

 

chance to play new sides for a change

 

I think we could really do well in the europa league this season. Just had a look through the possible teams in it and i would fancy our chances against anyone. Obviously we don't know what teams are going to drop out of their Champions League group in 3rd place so there could still be a few top class teams you would need to add to that list but looking at the stand out ones:

Shakhtar Donetsk
AS Roma
FC Basel
PSV Eindhoven
Hamburg SV
Villarreal CF
Aston Villa
FC Twente
AEK Athens
Fenerbahce
Ajax
Lazio
Galatasaray
Benfica
Werder Bremen
Everton
Fulham
Valencia
Zenit

All these teams have not definately qualified yet but these are probably the best we could come up against. We've beaten better!!!:icon_mrgreen:

But there is still some top teams in there so i don't think it's the diddy cup anymore.

 

Yeah I am disappionted as we all are but we move on and we give it the best crack we can

 

Europa league will be a good experience for this team. Obviously, we are still far from likes of Arsenal. On the other hand, with a bit of luck, in Europa league we can accomplish the latter stages.