Spurs v Celtic

[saltkjelen]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-kids-sent-face-spurs-3951056?

This is a pointless "big" preseasonmatch Celtic's sesong team and the first lost 1-4 Against Legia Warzaw. I'm not sure wether we will be ready when the season starts after only playing one strong team in Schalke. We also got a lot of key members of the squad returning late from WC and as usual won't Sign our targets before the season has started

 

[Strikeb4ck]

Nice footage of Capoue picking his nose on SpursTV.

 

[paulcumpstone]

looks a real poor choice of fixture, knowing ages ago celtic would be between CL matches.

 

[sloth]

That will likely happen in the Schalke match. Poch still won't be using the WC players other than Bentaleb apparently.

Surely Vorm should start?

 

[diamond lights]

No sign of Chiriches anyone?

 

[sloth]

looks a real poor choice of fixture, knowing ages ago celtic would be between CL matches.

Just seems weird all round, flying all the way to Finland for a match the Finnish don't give a shit about, to play a team who don't give a shit about it, when to be frank we don't give a shit about it either! Can't imagine there's any money in it so why not just stay at home and play a local team and try and get fit and ready for the start of the season?

 

[Sweech]

Surely Vorm should start?

In theory because he played so few games, but I'm not even sure if he traveled with the team. McGee traveled with the team, so it will likely be Friedel+McGee again.

 

[Wellspurs]

Yep.

Seems to kick off at 2:30pm, is that correct? I had 4pm in my head for some reason.

Maybe because it will be 4:30 local time?

 

[FinnYid]

Reckon attendance will be somewhere round 20k at best, would probably have been more with much better media exposure here if there wasn't Barca friendly here in less than a week. Guess that will be sold out.

 

[sloth]

Reckon attendance will be somewhere round 20k at best, would probably have been more with much better media exposure here if there wasn't Barca friendly here in less than a week. Guess that will be sold out.

So why do you think we're there?

 

[antti19]

If this is a promo tour...to get people know Spurs. Now in Helsinki ready for game.

And btw, this match is organized by Estonians.

 

[FinnYid]

So why do you think we're there?

Why are we generally anywhere globally playing pre-season friendlies, why are Barcelona here, same reason. Arsenal - City sold out last season and got big media exposure here, reckon media exposure would've been somewhat smaller if either of them had been playing against Celtic (1st team or not). Guess even some Championship would've been better draws than Celtic, but generally either against HJK (well they're playing the Barcelona friendly) or some PL side (or some European side from big leagues). Game is being organized by Estonian side, guess they calculated Celtic pull power rather badly and didn't know that Barcelona would be here in less than week at that point. Take those out and it might have easily been sold out.

 

[sloth]

If this is a promo tour...to get people know Spurs. Now in Helsinki ready for game.

And btw, this match is organized by Estonians.

Why are we generally anywhere globally playing pre-season friendlies, why are Barcelona here, same reason. Arsenal - City sold out last season and got big media exposure here, reckon media exposure would've been somewhat smaller if either of them had been playing against Celtic (1st team or not). Guess even some Championship would've been better draws than Celtic, but generally either against HJK (well they're playing the Barcelona friendly) or some PL side (or some European side from big leagues). Game is being organized by Estonian side, guess they calculated Celtic pull power rather badly and didn't know that Barcelona would be here in less than week at that point. Take those out and it might have easily been sold out.

But no one in Finland gives a shit!

[Edit] Gotcha, just a shit bit of miscalculating by the club then! Whoever did it should get a rollicking though...

 

[FinnYid]

But no one in Finland gives a shit!

So why is there still some 20k tickets sold despite the circumstances (HJK CL -games, HJK - Barcelona, some biggish events outside football this weekend, Celtic being Celtic)?

 

[Grapo2001]

The World Cup has made this match difficult for Poch IMO. I would have liked him to start forming the basis of his best 11, but now he needs to give the World Cup players some game time.

 

[sloth]

Why are we generally anywhere globally playing pre-season friendlies, why are Barcelona here, same reason. Arsenal - City sold out last season and got big media exposure here, reckon media exposure would've been somewhat smaller if either of them had been playing against Celtic (1st team or not). Guess even some Championship would've been better draws than Celtic, but generally either against HJK (well they're playing the Barcelona friendly) or some PL side (or some European side from big leagues). Game is being organized by Estonian side, guess they calculated Celtic pull power rather badly and didn't know that Barcelona would be here in less than week at that point. Take those out and it might have easily been sold out.

So why is there still some 20k tickets sold despite the circumstances (HJK CL -games, HJK - Barcelona, some biggish events outside football this weekend, Celtic being Celtic)?

20k is pathetic, who cares about 20k, we could fly anywhere in the world pretty much and guarantee more than that, better to stay at home and play Brighton or someone, we'd get more of a game and not have the disruption of having to travel hundreds of miles.

 

[rabbikeane]

The organizers will have paid us good money to go there and play a game.
That's just how it work these days.
Annoyed that Celtic come with a second team though, hope we don't hold back and go all out on them.

 

[FinnYid]

20k is pathetic, who cares about 20k, we could fly anywhere in the world pretty much and guarantee more than that, better to stay at home and play Brighton or someone, we'd get more of a game and not have the disruption of having to travel hundreds of miles.

Guess it takes some 2 and a half hour on private plane.

 

[eddiebailey]

In terms of the amount of travel, the paucity of games, and the lack of quality and motivation in the opposition, this has been a potentially disastrous pre-season. Hopefully Schalke will be a bit more challenging, but even so West Ham are likely to come as as shock to the system.

You build the brand by being successful on the pitch; if commercially driven tours are detracting from our chances of doing that, are they really such good business?

 

[FinnYid]

In terms of the amount of travel, the paucity of games, and the lack of quality and motivation in the opposition, this has been a potentially disastrous pre-season. Hopefully Schalke will be a bit more challenging, but even so West Ham are likely to come as as shock to the system.

West Ham that played Wellington Phoenix and Sydney FC on Wellington and Auckland on front of under 20k (at least on other)?