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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Gutenberg
Haha Good man. Enjoy the tallybrew.
I am on a milder Belhaven Best tonight. :)
SOAL: Fans’ Café beside the Superstore at 10.30am?
Bee Gees – To Love Somebody
https://youtu.be/QHtGu0OGEpc
Nitti gritty dirt band
Catfish john
https://youtu.be/0GfYV3db0aM
Almore
Is it selling bevy ?
The Killers -All These Things That I’ve Done
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTpLvsYYHw
Kirsty MacColl With Billy Bragg – A New England
https://youtu.be/-v4a6NaU5Rg
TSOAL
It disnae exist. So how could it be selling bevvy?
Where you want to meet pre match?
TH
Now you are moving the goal posts.
I used them as an example of how not to run a football club, their income has been hundreds of millions, they get relegated, that’s the bottom line, they have wasted hundreds of millions, all I said was that I wished we had some of the money clubs like them had wasted, read back and you will see that’s what I said, then you came on and challenged me.
At the end of the day, they are crap at running a football club, they are in debt, they have wasted hundreds of millions, they have pish players, they have been relegated again.
Thems are the facts, anything else is pish.
DD
Blane Valley 11 bells?
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DD/SOAL: Next you’ll be telling me Paddy hasn’t returned from Citeh:-)
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 10:50 pm
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Id agree with that but you said theyd wasted £500mill when in fact they’d actually ran at a profit, no matter the owners that robbed them blind behind the scenes.
TSOAL
It’s a date big yin.
HH
DD
I will be wearing a red carnation
love
Paolo Nutini – 10/10 / Candy / Pencil Full of Lead
https://youtu.be/JqJs2vGt0Lg
Blondie – Dreaming
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyCAdIn_eo
TH
FFS, their income for the past ten years has been 750 mill +, that’s well over 500 mill that I first said.
That imo has been wasted on pish managers and pish players, that’s my argument, I wished we had that money to spend.
One of my drinking buddies is from Hull and has been telling me all about the winkers that run the club he loves, at the end of the day they should have stuck to chicken farming in Asia was his parting words to me.
I reckon he knows what he is talking about.
Enjoyed the fun’n games at the irish rover. Honestly, police scotland is that it?
I stand 100% with Legia Warsaw fans tonight and I’d like to think that SFSA will do the same.
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 4TH AUGUST 2017 10:24 PM
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.
*think basterton is a fifer, his protege though was a former Tradamus Lampada who hail hailed from the Peoples Republic of Brucehill. He’s the only one punished being banned for life from banking and fined half a million.
Bitterest Pill
https://youtu.be/Aw7kvqk-v4s
Almore
Sorry but true.
Also Celtic’s best PR truth in 5 years was uttered by a gallus wee Hibee fae Leith.
“Your team’s deid mate. Beat it!
THE EXILED TIM on 4th August 2017 11:00 pm
TH
FFS, their income for the past ten years has been 750 mill +, that’s well over 500 mill that I first said.
That imo has been wasted on pish managers and pish players, that’s my argument, I wished we had that money to spend.
One of my drinking buddies is from Hull and has been telling me all about the winkers that run the club he loves, at the end of the day they should have stuck to chicken farming in Asia was his parting words to me.
I reckon he knows what he is talking about.
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They wanted to change them to the tigers :O) I’m sure this mob the owner is in prison and the son took over but doesn’t give a F about the club. I think these are the folks we want involved in Celtic :O)
Kris Kristofferson – Loving Her Was Easier
https://youtu.be/HCgnbRWVvU8
Young American
https://youtu.be/ydLcs4VrjZQ
DD: Enjoy tomorrow. Still haven’t planned any trips yet. Return to the Emerald Isle on Tuesday so will look at possibilities then. Hope your Mum is ok.
Gonna see this guy in a few weeks in London
Nick Cave – Into My Arms
https://youtu.be/FG0-cncMpt8
Delaneys mate Mick Jones
https://youtu.be/BD2kWCfTcaU
Almore
Let me know when.
HH
Three dog night
Momma told me not to come
https://youtu.be/rKaQzQAlNn4
Gordybhoy64
That reminds me of how I felt when Weller pissed off and formed The Style Council. Still feel he didn’t treat the other two properly.
Yer clubs deid mate, beat it.
For DD
Taking some “erb” might make this sound even ,.better
Hope this version is ok
https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk
Gordy
Thanks mate. Met him after a BAD gig in Derby. My hoops attracted him to me for a chat about Celtic and Irish politics.
Mick JonesCSC
When you were good you were the best we had
The Wire Jimmy McNulty’s Wake!!!!
https://youtu.be/EVEwpYt0EwE
One more from the Paisley Bhoy
https://youtu.be/kzRYhYWoveE
THETIMREAPER
That’s the Griff’s patter?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 4TH AUGUST 2017 11:20 PM
Been saying that for years pal :))
Marspapa
Thanks mate for posting the CQN non sweary version of Creep. Thom Yorke would have been deleted from here had you posted the real version.
HH