Are Celtic good enough for premiership?

[Anonymous]

Should Celtic play in the Premiership?

[Anonymous]

Should Rangers be in the Premiership?

[Anonymous]

Financially there is no contest. They will bring in millions of £'s to the English game and the fans would love it. So in theory yes.......

BUT.....

I personally think no. To invite two Scottish clubs to play in the English Premiership will mean that necessarily two English clubs will have to be relegated. Remember these clubs have earned their right in the league whereas the Old Firm presumably would not.

Also they are Scottish and essentially on principle they should not be allowed in the English League.

[Anonymous]

It would bankcrupt Scottish football

[NUTTAS@RMGS]

THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH BUT U NEED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE GEOLOGICAL FACTORS AS WELL AS THE PRICE OF THEIR FANS TRAVELLING AS FAR AFIELD AS SOUTHAMPTON. ALSO THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION IN SCOTLAND WILL JUS MAKE IT EVEN HARDER.


PREDICTED PLACING FOR CELTIC: 8TH

[Anonymous]

As a Celtic fan I'd love to see us play in the premiership but I can't see it happening in the near future. However I'm astonished that it is even being questioned if we are good enough. Celtic are a champion league side and are 2 places off going into the draw in pot 2. There are five big teams in the premiership. The rest of them Celtic would wipe the floor with.

I reckon last years Celtic team would have finished 4th in the premiership and taking into account the millions extra £££ we'd receive down south, I firmly beleiev we'd win it within five years.

Rant over

[Anonymous]

I don't think so. I am a die hard motherwell fan and we sold Adams who i don't like much but when he is not in the team we miss him and now Lasley is going to join hibs reject bobby williamson at plymouth.

[nick hill]

i think persona;y celtic woulld finish mid table cos larrson couldent score as many goals in the prem prem defences r alot better in the pre3m harder to break down and if they did scottish football will go bankrupt plus to english sideds who earnd there right inleague would have too go down so nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooo

[Anonymous]

I think as soon as celtic joined the premiership there would be a massive spending spree. Due to the financial benefits of playing in the premiership celtic would be able to win it within 3 yrs, and also become one of the best teams in europe. The potential at celtic is almost unmatched and with the lure of the premiership and Martin O,Neill we could become awesome!

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

GO ON THE RANGERS. CELTIC WILL WIN NOTHING NEXT SEASON

[VillaKilla]

who are celtic replacing Larsson with next season?

[Anonymous]

Rangers and Celtic are both quite easily good enough for the Premiership.. Our SPL is an absolute farce we are destroying teams week in week out. As a Rangers fan we had a very poor season still finished 19 pts above the 3rd team. Celtic were 80 pts ahead of the bottom team. The scottish league i feel would be better off without the old firm. And no European league is the solution with team from Portugal and Norway etc it cant work. only solution old firm down south. Rangers n Celtic no lower than 8th

[homer timpson]

"BUT U NEED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE GEOLOGICAL FACTORS" ??

Newcastle and Boro manage to make it to Southampton year on year - and Newcastle is under 2 hours from Glasgow - so travelling will NOT be an issue. (Especially as so many home fans will want to see the 'Tic that the away allocation will be reduced anyway!!)

Could they attract 'big names'?

Absolutely. (Well, after Chelski and Utd - but what's new)

Would we do well?

Considering that only 3 teams have ever won the Premiership, I'd imagine any top 10 finish for the Old Firm would be deemed a success initially.

And don't forget the most important point - no English manager has ever won the Premiership in 12 attempts - only the Scots and a Frenchman have claimed that prize.
(And since We have Martin and They have Big Eck - that would put the Old Firm at an immediate advantage over the rest!!)

Regards

Homer

[madnad5]

USE ENGLISH TEAMS ARE SCARED OF CELTIC COMIN DOWN AND WINNING URE LEAGUE,MARTIN O'NEIL IS THE BEST MANAGER IN BRITAIN BY FAR. HE TOOK AN AVERAGE BUNCH OFF PLAYERS TO ALL THE WAY IN THE UEFA CUP AND WITH A BIT OFF MONEY AND THE BACKIN OF THE BEST SUPPORTERS IN THE WORLD WHO KNOWS HOW FAR HE WOULD TAKE CELTIC!

[Celticfan]

Both the Old Firm teams would easily be able to survive in the Premiership. I reckon they would both be mid to high placed teams in the League. It would be fantastic to have such great clubs with great supporters playing in the worlds greatest league.

However we need to consider the effects this would have on the Scottish League. We would not have any teams of champions league standard....yet. Many youngsters such as the lads at Hibs who are going to be fantsatic players would be trying to get out of the SPL as soon as they could. Also the Old Firm may loose parts of their massive fan base as people would not be able to get to Southampton, London etc every few weekends. Also it would mean that Celtic and Rangers may have to start in one of the lower leagues and work their way up to the premiership or it would mean 5 teams getting relegated or only one promoted the season before they joined, which ofcourse is unfair to the clubs concerned as they have earned their place in the premiership.

[Angel]

celtic and rangers shouldn't come in the premierleague cuz then the glasgow teams from scotland will have to come to england neally every week or somthin same wid da english sides goin to scotland. Its too far and nackering for dem, except for newcastle.

[marapets]

I think as soon as celtic joined the premiership there would be a massive spending spree. Due to the financial benefits of playing in the premiership celtic would be able to win it within 3 yrs, and also become one of the best teams in europe. The potential at celtic is almost unmatched and with the lure of the premiership and Martin O,Neill we could become awesome!
Hmm we seem to have forgotten chelski, any player celtic would ever seek would be happily bought by mr abramovich. Plus theres also the fact that the scots hate the english:croc: