Sustained football success is all about the money. Any team can do a St Johnstone, win three trophies in a decade to become Scotland’s second most decorated club in that era, but if you don’t have the income, you will revert to a lowly mean soon enough.
This season’s Champions League qualification ties, therefore, are vitally important in determining the structural advantage Celtic have over would-be rivals.
Newco opened strongly against Union Saint-Gilloise. The Belgians, playing in front of their home fans, clearly set out a stall to inhibit the visitors and play on the counter. This paid dividends 27 minutes in when calamitous defensive gaps allowed Union to score their first ever European goal (they lost both legs to Juventus 1-0 in their previous tie 58 years ago).
Union’s penalty clearly shocked Newco, not to mention their former players in the Premier Sports studio. That’s not the kind of decision that goes against this team in domestic football and they were not happy seeing “rules” catch them out, which an infuriated Kenny Miller bemoaned after the game.
Long before the second goal arrived, Newco were a diminished force. They have played only four games since last season, Union played twice as many. The contrasting fitness was clear as the game concluded with Union creating openings that could have put the tie to bed. This short Newco preseason looked like a potential mistake beforehand, four games is not enough to get a squad fully fit.
As it stands, Newco retain a fighting chance of qualifying for the play-off round. If they get there, they earn a €5m bonus, plus gate money. Failure against Union, and they go straight to the Europa League, no bonus payment and not even a play-off round to generate gate money. If Celtic are the only Scottish team to reach the CL Group Stage, they retain the entire Scottish TV pot, which would be worth an extra €3m to Celtic.
Make no mistake, we have a real and active interest in the Champions League qualifiers. These figures are huge factors in determining competitive outcomes in Scotland. There is a spreadsheet somewhere in Govan that no one will open today.
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Gary
Another oldie
John Greig has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert hall, Miller is very similar and Derek Parlane has no balls at all 😂🎼🎶🎹
JACKIEMAC, AN TEARMANN and CONEYBHOY
Using my BS generator on next call. Luckily my boss likes to play along.
Today I shall be dropping:
“professionally revolutionize bricks-and-clicks collaboration and idea-sharing”
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RON BACARDI
All the best.
St. Stiv’s
No matter how grand your qualifications are or how high up in the industry, your stature will pale into insignificance compared to CQN’s very own big swinging dick (sic) captain of industry, Goliath of planning, and Master of his own Universe of self delusion.
He can improve a team by having one unused sub better than another. He can develop players by taking them out of the Lowland League and putting them in the Juniors and closing the Glee club (music has a detrimental effect on performance, it seems). And he can build it so they will come… to B games and Women’s matches…..even as he refuses to go there himself along with his lengthy absence from CP
Some guy for one man.
As opposed to Kev J who is some guy for forty men.
AT- i hope the funeral party, drive up past the stadium.
SFTB
“Some guy for one man.
As opposed to Kev J who is some guy for forty men.”
Nice one :-))
I did also laugh at the forty men
Who’s winning the multi post contributor of the day?
HT? Welcome back
Good.
Or the Master Abbreviator?
Not good
Discuss.
Or don’t.
KTF
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks troll for making my gleaning point for me
You just don’t meet Celtic fans.
You were in Auto- making tea for which garage owner
My voting intention- not that fake pro capitalist party your an exponent of marketing of! A confused unionist.
You haven’t came across anyone with a city background have
your employed(if) as ???
Your board positions,company t/o.?
You don’t have any.envy reeking from you
But then again you could be anyone,not meeting anyone,and never having the intentions to,
Sliverous troll writhing in envy.
Most unCeltic troll,
if you want to know something stop gleaning and tell of yourself.
Are you afraid to do that as your a homer.
Nice wee housepoodle,just a pity so much farts out that thumb o yours, run along puppy
Tiny trots — don’t you just luv them.
All sweetness and light and then it starts …
The moon howling / the questions / the lack of answers / the insults.
No matter making plans for P/head in the near future.
Looking forward to meeting all the guys at CQN Corner.
Should be a blast.
Here we go again
Prestonpansbhoys
😂
Derek Johnstone is a ferry
….. the queen and the brigton derry
I have gone for the sea going vessel rather than the mythical being sometimes found atop a Christmas tree in the lyrics as I don’t want to be cancelled.
Gene
Don’t worry,not from my part,here to chew the cud with Celtic fans like yourself.
It will keep goading in its childish way,and its done with full knowledge of the House.sad but true
HH
Is Tiny Trot a compliment or an insult?
Rhetorical question.
Asking for a friend.
YNWA.
Mad Mitch is going to get one hell of shock if he ever meets up with Tiny Trot.
KevJungle lives rent free in sftb heid for £49 a night👍
grow the fk up CSC
Al/
Almore if it came from you Corkie or any Celtic fan I would suggest not.lol🤣
If its from a non attending,gleaning troll who does it persistently,,even tho moderators are in full knowledge of who the envy ridden cretin ,then no.
It’s sanctioned abuse from house puppy.
Corkcelt
It won’t meet Corkie,it revels in its anonymity.
It’s a troll,
A gleaning troll,not a good one tho.
Big Jimmy
Cheers for heads up on DU v Alkmaar game and will
drop you a text if yon AIPPLE is on the tare :-)))
HH
It’s £52….💣
HahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Sftb
+41
👍
HH
!!BADA BING!! on 4TH AUGUST 2022 4:08 PM
AT- i hope the funeral party, drive up past the stadium.
I hope so too BB,hopefully as the week goes on the cortege route will be published by the family or the club.
Free then so hope to go along and pay my respects
HH
!!BADA BING!! on 4TH AUGUST 2022 5:45 PM
It’s £52….💣
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It is now, in 2016 when the sell out was ushered in under the “Brendan Bounce” it was a retained, renewed, same club lie price = £49.
Kev has a strange narrative on here. He bangs on about the Post 2012 era and Celtic’s (and their supporters) response to it.
But it made no difference to him/her/ them because he stopped going much earlier when Celtic stopped buying big money centre forwards for him/her/them.
A confused and confusing Celtic supporter (and socialist) but, at least, he/she/they is/are/were definitely Celtic supporters in some mythicised past.
Repetition has rendered him mostly wearisome and self-satirising, apart from an occasional delve into racist Q Anon territory.
It would be grossly unfair to charge any level of rent for that
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 4TH AUGUST 2022 6:00 PM
Kev has a strange narrative on here. He bangs on about the Post 2012 era and Celtic’s (and their supporters) response to it.
But it made no difference to him/her/ them because he stopped going much earlier when Celtic stopped buying big money centre forwards for him/her/them.
A confused and confusing Celtic supporter (and socialist) but, at least, he/she/they is/are/were definitely Celtic supporters in some mythicised past.
Repetition has rendered him mostly wearisome and self-satirising, apart from an occasional delve into racist Q Anon territory.
It would be grossly unfair to charge any level of rent for that
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I would love to meet KevJungle.
However it/they/them(my woke isn’t very good) entity most certainly has your #number
Jimdom @ 3:00pm – Lol
Celtic40me @ 3:34pm – interesting. Thank you
Re Beam back ….
Way back in the day I think i recall the NFL having a rule.
All games were televised and shown live.
Except in the local area (either that state or, for bigger states an X miles radius).
If the game sold out (might have been 95%) 72 hours before kick off – it could then be shown live in the local area.
Could something similar be available for us?
STV sports, no mention of the dundee united game. Yet they show their obligatory Sevco section, speaking to their new Turkish signing. Pathetic.
RON BACARDI on 3RD AUGUST 2022 9:52 PM
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Just catching up…..
I was called for a test last week and to be honest I very nearly didn’t go…. Ostrich head in the sand and all that. Then I recalled your experiences and summoned up the courage to go ahead with it. So glad I did, B. Nothing to report. Mighty relieved. Thanks again. And All The Best.
Stv are another media partner, officially have been for several years unofficially add any amount of years you chose.
Wee Tune
The person operating the multiple avatars on the site, go forth and multiply, then go forth and multiply and when you get there, go forth and multiply again. You won’t like the song the moon gets a mention
https://youtu.be/oEJP8zFaqME
Kev J
“However it/they/them(my woke isn’t very good) entity most certainly has your #number”
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Eat why you were drawn out twice by my posts?
Is the number 49?
Many thanks to all for your kind words and support onmy continuing treatment. My next assessment is four weeks from now.
In meantime COYBIG.
Ron,the best of luck HH
Huns new superstar signing Yilmaz,said at his first press conference today,that he wants to play at a bigger club 😃😃😃
Yilmaz makes our full backs look like Andre the Giant.
No idea if he’s any good. Height don’t matter. Every team in Scotland will now punt high balls to the orcs left back area just as they do to us to little or no effect.
Seriously though he’s tiny and is yet to have been introduced the the bespoke Sevco body building regime. Ahem.
Ron Bacardi 🙏🍀
Who would win a fight between a Tiny Tot and a Tiny Trot?
BTW are Tiny Trots not a wee sweet from my childhood?
https://www.chobbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Tiny-Tots.jpg
Aye the truth hurts
https://i.imgur.com/u6JJhk7.jpg
SB @ 7.02
Who would win that fight — Tot vs Trot — the Stalinists.
They would co-op any part of the Capitalist system to keep their socialism in one country afloat and hobble their great rival and his acolytes..
Wise words and advice to all from Keiran Tierney
Nice one KT.Talk to your friends.
https://twitter.com/TheShamrock1888/status/1555234310369730561?t=V34REWewZZRcB-HFD2VUXg&s=19
HH