A while back I posted on here, that Celtic /Ajax where getting heads together about coefficients, and it should be based on the club not the league,means we suffer because the rest here are not qualifying! hhIt's a good thing no doubt. Coefficients are nonsense anyway but is this as a result of our recent wins in Europa and perhaps the rangers results also?
Don't know how they can say that because no team has qualified for next seasons CL so they can't work out the seeds. They know that the teams from the (big) leagues have got most of the group places sown up and final qualifying places. They can't seed other teams until they know who has qualifiedVideo celts forum tonight ,saying the bhoys WILLbe seeded throughout the qualifying rounds,!!!if we get number8,which we will!!!!,if true hope that is a benefit ,and we take advantage, has to be an incentive surely ,hh
Don't know how they can say that because no team has qualified for next seasons CL so they can't work out the seeds. They know that the teams from the (big) leagues have got most of the group places sown up and final qualifying places. They can't seed other teams until they know who has qualified
http://www.spiegel.de/international...ng-shadow-firms-to-flout-rules-a-1255796.htmlIt's based on the fact that there only 5 nations (amounting to 7 teams) who could have their champions ranked ahead of us. So 4 of these 5 champions would have to win their league and make the playoff for us to be unseeded in that final round.
One is Salzburg, who will more likely than not qualify directly for the group stage. Another is Basel, who are 21pts back in Switzerland. Olympiakos are 10pts back in Greece. Plzen are 9pts back in Czech Republic. Only PSV/Ajax are in a good place to be ranked ahead of us.
Of course we still need to win our own league, then reach the playoff ourselves.
Too true Ray the rest of the league clubs have let the Scottish coefficient down so badly in recent years and nothing is said of it until Celtic suddenly enter the cl at same time as the Welsh TNS etc then it's our fault for not progressing through a champions league group.A while back I posted on here, that Celtic /Ajax where getting heads together about coefficients, and it should be based on the club not the league,means we suffer because the rest here are not qualifying! hh
Cheers buddyIt's based on the fact that there only 5 nations (amounting to 7 teams) who could have their champions ranked ahead of us. So 4 of these 5 champions would have to win their league and make the playoff for us to be unseeded in that final round.
One is Salzburg, who will more likely than not qualify directly for the group stage. Another is Basel, who are 21pts back in Switzerland. Olympiakos are 10pts back in Greece. Plzen are 9pts back in Czech Republic. Only PSV/Ajax are in a good place to be ranked ahead of us.
Of course we still need to win our own league, then reach the playoff ourselves.