Celtic will face Kazakhstan Champions, Astana in the Champions League play-off round later this month, with the first leg at home. The teams faced in the same qualifying competition last season, with Celtic progressing, winning the second leg 2-1 after a 1-1 draw in Kazakhstan.
Astana eliminated Legia Warsaw in the last round, securing a 3-1 victory in the first leg, before holding on for a 1-0 defeat in Warsaw after 8 minutes of added time.
Although Brendan Rodgers will know what to expect, the enormous journey, the heat and the fact that Astana are 21 games into their league season, will give him cause for concern.
On the positive side, our man in Warsaw tells me there is a new pitch at the Astana Arena, which Legia report was excellent and a near-grass experience. He also tells me Legia should have done better in this tie, were the better team home and away, but were caught by Astana’s counter-attack.
They “parked the bus” in Warsaw and showed signs of indiscipline against Legia, which Celtic may be able to exploit.
Strikers Kwumasi and Kabananga, and midfielder, Maevski, are their danger players, while their keeper is “awful”.
It’s there for you, Celtic.
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They always said that Sir Bradley Wiggins was special, I suppose they are ignoring the fact he is a drug cheat, I can name many brits who were drug cheats and are still the bogs dollix, Farah will just be another.
TET
Agree. My Godson knows him well. He is a shy complex character. He would thrive in La Liga.
Nottingham is better than Ibrox though. He can play his rebel tunes in his car again. :)
good night all
thank you for being here
especially the roasters:))))))))))
Spencer Davis Group -Keep On Runnin’
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TyZrK9meebo
Night all
Gene
Great song!
Delaneys
Anywhere is better than the bigot dome.
I hope he plays them loud :-)
HH
TET
Gazza n Gough? Ching count?
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 9:48 pm
THE_HUDDLE
It’s over 500 mill in reality what they have wasted, I was being conservative, fire away if you can enlighten the blog where I am wrong.
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If we go back to 2010/11 when they released JVOH for free, Hull’s transfer spend is £119mill. When you consider how much they’ve made from EPL money and parachute money that’s not to bad.
Led Zeppelin – Your Time Is Gonna Come
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fssblRRCgmg
Gordon Lightfoot
Sundown
https://youtu.be/s8rR7E6NfY4
The best 10K Ive ever witnessed. Might morph into Mojo Baldie…
Friday reflection.
Result in Rosenberg was fantastic in lots of ways, none more so than we looked as though we knew we could do it. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt that we had that belief.
Draw was not the worst we could have got and I’m sure we’ve improved more than Astana over the past 12 months.
Marspapa – ta for the tunes last week. Went to see the Absolute Jam at The Ferry last Saturday. Was like a wee boy again for a couple of hours, albeit a drunk one. Blonde tribute band backing them brought even more adolescent memories.
Big Jimmy – sounds like you live not that far from the city centre. We have the occasional day out in The Tolbooth, I’ll post next time we’re going and I’d happily buy you a few beers. Just to hear about your exploits…
Lastly, can’t wait until tomorrow. Disappointed though that we don’t have the GB to complete the full house.
Love a moan me…….
Why, when I’m booking my Tickets for Kilmarnock (also for Rosenberg game) when it’s me doing all the clicking on my computer, at the end I get charged £1.50 per ticket, irrespective to number purchased. What a frigging rip-off…….
Who gets this money & what is the supposed cost???
Gutenberg
We played in Trondheim against Rosenborg.
Sorry for pedantic post. :))
Oasis -The Masterplan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5wldpChd-o
the_huddle on 4th August 2017 9:59 pm
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 9:48 pm
It’s over 500 mill in reality what they have wasted, I was being conservative, fire away if you can enlighten the blog where I am wrong.
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If we go back to 2010/11 when they released JVOH for free, Hull’s transfer spend is £119mill. When you consider how much they’ve made from EPL money and parachute money that’s not to bad.
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That’s NET spend just to give the clear picture.
They sold £32mill players this summer and bought £8mill
They also received £47m in parachute payment with a further £38m if they don’t come back up
THE_HUDDLE
You have just made my point for me, they spent £119 mill on transfers alone and are still pish, that was back a few years, they have wasted much more in the past few years trying to stay in the epl, crap managers buying crap players and paying them fortunes.
Hull are in serious debt btw, I think they were a very good example.
As I said, feel free to enlighten the blog where i am wrong.
HH
Johnny Nash – There Are More Questions Than Answers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DDTvLldOgZs
Flag Day tomorrow – first one I miss in about six years.
Best of luck to the Kano Foundation with their collection tomorrow.
Anybody know if the Fans’ Café beside the Superstore opens tomorrow?
Bob Marley &The Wailers – Stir It Up
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4TpGryolFKM
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 10:11 pm
THE_HUDDLE
You have just made my point for me, they spent £119 mill on transfers alone and are still pish, that was back a few years, they have wasted much more in the past few years trying to stay in the epl, crap managers buying crap players and paying them fortunes.
Hull are in serious debt btw, I think they were a very good example.
As I said, feel free to enlighten the blog where i am wron
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I’ve enlighten the blog that Hull haven’t spent no where close to £500 mill, you challenged and I proved you wrong.
I said NET spend previously but actaully the £119mill was spent and didn’t include their sales which are huge (they sold super star Harry Maguire for £17mill this summer).
Delaney’s , sorry for not replying sooner to your post at 7.02.
I’m not sure where Gavin Masterton originates from , probably hell going by all the dodgy business practices in tow with Scotland’s greatest ever entreprenur , but another banker who should have done time.
I’m looking forward to our first Saturday league game of the season, getting the first not the view of the new season and most importantly making a donation to the wonderful Kano Foundation.
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B
https://youtu.be/1iAYhQsQhSY
The trouble with transfer fees is that when someone pays over the odds it drags everyone else up and they are forced to pay over the odds. When Man Utd payed £89m for Pogba all of a sudden there was 50/60/70 million getting thrown about across Europe. The knock on effect is that £10m players become £30m players and so on. I dread to think what the Neymar transfer will do to the market.
thetimreaper on 4th August 2017 10:26 pm
The trouble with transfer fees is that when someone pays over the odds it drags everyone else up and they are forced to pay over the odds. When Man Utd payed £89m for Pogba all of a sudden there was 50/60/70 million getting thrown about across Europe. The knock on effect is that £10m players become £30m players and so on. I dread to think what the Neymar transfer will do to the market.
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Jose the prick has already raised that point, Neymar is worth the money problem is shite is now worth more :O)
“Expensive are the ones who get into a certain level without a certain quality. For £200m, I don’t think [Neymar] is expensive.
“I think he’s expensive in the fact that now you are going to have more players at £100m, you are going have more players at £80m and more players at £60m. And I think that’s the problem.”
THE_HUDDLE
Ok, so wages are not included then ?
Transfer spend has feck all to do with things, it’s all about what they take in and what goes out, the huns know a thing or two about that.
Amazing how they can have an income of hundreds of millions, it’s well over 100 mill a season and get relegated and be in debt, but according to you make money and are a bad example, bottom line is they have spent hundreds of millions, they are in debt, they were relegated, you can dress that up any way you want, it’s a plain fact, they are crap at managing a football club.
You obviously know better than me, so I won’t bother you any more.
Meanwhile in our own little world, we are sitting on some money and could probably pay upwards of £5m and maybe up to £10m for a really special talent. That said i think we are consciously not doing that. Celtic are known as a Club that buys players for 2 or 3 million. If we start paying 7/8/9 then other Clubs will want us to pay that for players that we want to buy and look to drive up the cost of transfers. We are in a market within and market. When we do cash in on Moussa it will be interesting to see how we manage that as Clubs will now we are sitting on money. As we have seen elsewhere high transfer fees have been redistributed quickly and the knock on effect is there for all to see.
INXS – Beautiful Girl
https://youtu.be/aH986VE47M8
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 10:29 pm
THE_HUDDLE
Ok, so wages are not included then ?
Transfer spend has feck all to do with things, it’s all about what they take in and what goes out, the huns know a thing or two about that.
Amazing how they can have an income of hundreds of millions, it’s well over 100 mill a season and get relegated and be in debt, but according to you make money and are a bad example, bottom line is they have spent hundreds of millions, they are in debt, they were relegated, you can dress that up any way you want, it’s a plain fact, they are crap at managing a football club.
You obviously know better than me, so I won’t bother you any more.
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Jesus, you could’ve used Aston Villa as your example and it would’ve made sense, you picked the wrong club because if you knew stuff you’d know that Hull spend no money. Boo hoo Im the bad guy for proving you wrong
Pulp – Cocaine Socialism (Proper Version)
https://youtu.be/7b7DgOeMnW4
Evening Dudes
Anybody going for a early swally tomorrow ?
Love
Dallas
Remember the auld Whitecrook worthie raging about the mention of Masterton on the tv news in Chandlers. Reckoned GM was a masonic crook fae Vale of Leven. Tried to kill us in 1994.
Led Zeppelin -How Many More Times? (live, 1969, Denmark, PLC’s dream audience).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wEPog_WdPE4
DD – pedantic’s fine by me, I’m one myself but not after Mr Peroni kicks in :)
They are in debt, their income over the past ten seasons has amounted to nigh on 750 million +.
I fail to see how that proves me wrong, but you carry on believing that you are right and I am wrong.
TSOAL
Where you headin for a pre match swally?
Interested. :)
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 10:40 pm
They are in debt, their income over the past ten seasons has amounted to nigh on 750 million +.
I fail to see how that proves me wrong, but you carry on believing that you are right and I am wrong.
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What’s the current debt? What does it matter how much they’ve earned, they’ve earned hundreds of millions. As long as the plus column is bigger than the minus