Seeded<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n Viktoria Plzen, Salzburg, Celtic, APOEL, Legia Warsaw<\/em><\/p>\n Unseeded<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n Dinamo Zagreb, Ludogorets, FC Copenhagen, Hapoel Beer-Shiva, Dudalk \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Look out for us in the draw..<\/p>\n If i’m honest, I’m not that bothered who it is, as long as its not Dundalk. I like the idea of a team called Beer, though, and wonder what the connection is…<\/p>\n Never one to miss a trick, the club warned fans that they could miss the game…<\/p>\n The only way to guarantee a ticket for next part of the Hoops\u2019 European adventure is with a 2016\/17 Season Ticket.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A Season Ticket guarantees your right to buy for all European home games at Celtic Park and will ensure your seat for the UEFA Champions League play-off later this month.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The play-off matches will take place on August 16\/17 and August 23\/24 and regardless of the opposition, a full-house in Paradise will make a huge difference.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s not too late to pick up your Season Ticket for 2016\/17 with some fantastic seats still available and there are a number of easy ways to buy:<\/em><\/p>\n This desperate lunge towards our wallets, where I keep a picture of my wife and children to remind me why its empty, means we must be about to sign someone, and with Gary Mackay Steven, oh the stories i could tell, about to embark on the road back to Dundee united or up to Ross County on loan, maybe Scott Sinclair, horrified at the thought of playing alongside Ross McCormack next season, could finally be on his way to Glasgow.<\/p>\n We do need a bit of cover on the flanks, so to speak, as Patrick Roberts looks set to miss the next three weeks or so with his hamstring injury picked up against Astana, if only to quell talk of a return for aiden McGeady, who has lost his way of late, which is a shame. He would have been the creative midfielder we need had he still been any good, especially as he is now available on a free.<\/p>\n But, there’s a clue as to what he’s worth these days in that price tag.<\/p>\n Yet i’d take him, and get him in intensive training, ready for the second half of the season. Form and foitness are temporary. class is permanent.<\/p>\n As the dust settle after the european game, Eoghan O’connell has spoken about the influence of Kolo Toure..<\/p>\n \u201cKolo has been amazing with me already,\u201d said O\u2019Connell. \u201cAs soon as the teams were known to us on Wednesday morning he came over to me and told me to keep it simple.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe told me not to be overwhelmed by the occasion, or to let the noise of the crowd or anything get to me \u2013 just to\u00a0relax and do the simple thing every time.<\/em><\/p>\n Sounds like he’s merely stating the obvious, but its the way he tells them, to coin a phrase, and with Toure, who cannot be blamed for the goal the other night, merely the timing of the change, looks like he’s taken on the task of making us a couple of central defenders, so don’t expect to see any new ones signed.<\/p>\n If there’s influence from one Celtic defender, there’s inspiration from another, as O’Connell knows..<\/p>\n \u201cLook at Kieran [Tierney]. He got his chance last season and he took it to the extent that he is seen as one of the key players. It is about taking the chance when you get it and hopefully I have done something to show that I am a player the manager can trust.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n There has been a little bit of niggle-can i say that word ?- between Scott Brown and Kenny Miller this week. The former team mates disagreed on who will provide the biggest challenge to Celtic. Brown reckons it will be aberdeen, and Miller, the voice of alzheimers, seems to think it won’t be.<\/p>\n Hey, Mr. Tangerine man, play a song for us… with old jingle jangle backing you up in print.<\/p>\n Older readers may remember that dirge from the sixties or seventies.<\/p>\n Can’t remember the name of the band, but their other tune was a winner;<\/p>\n Miller seems to think that his side will leap straight into the role of title challengers, but one wonders of all the bluster coming from and around Ibrox is merely to deflect attention away from the issues they are having over their kit. You see, ashley is going to sell them in his stores anyway, safe in the knowledge the club has to buy back any that are unsold as per the terms of the deal signed with Charles Green, who knows a thing or two about contracts. Except those held by employees, obviously.<\/p>\n Remarkably, the daft bastards \u00a0on the south side of the river are threatening to ditch the kit deal with Puma, and sign upo with someone else. Presumably they’ll be queueing up to do business with the offshoot of a club that stiffs nearly everyone they do business with.<\/p>\n And then there’s John Brown out whipping up the troops…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CpFZQOjXYAA5B64.jpg\")
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