What league phase European football could do for Hibs after third place clinched
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00:00So on the whole cheering Celticon thing is this is the time of year when strange
00:04bedfellows are created. It was last weekend or on the Friday last week my son who's a season ticket
00:11holder and has been since he was about seven years old he's like we need Rangers to win tomorrow
00:16anyway. Come on Rangers. Oh that felt weird. I'll never say that again. So you're looking for
00:25results elsewhere. Yeah the European thing listen let's be under no illusions as well
00:29it's it's a double-edged sword right because teams that have competed in Europe tend to struggle at
00:34the start of the season at times. It's a big strain on a squad Thursday Sunday Thursday Sunday
00:42and you're doing a lot of extra games in there and the traveling and it's it can be a grind it can be
00:51a strain on players it can be a strain on you know even the fact that you have you may have to make
00:57four changes from one game to the next no coach really wants to do that four changes is a lot
01:02out of here you know 40 percent of your outfield it's like it can disrupt things regardless of how
01:08good those players are you know it just the little understandings don't develop as quickly and
01:15he won't be bringing in masses of players this summer I wouldn't think
01:19that's that's the other thing I mean last year was 12 in in the summer window which was when you think
01:25about it insane but it is the Europa conference league league stage just in the Europa conference
01:30league right proper if you get in there now there is more money because it for a while there if you
01:35were playing early qualifiers and everything it was it was almost a taking money out of clubs
01:41their travel and their accommodation so it's much easier now there will be money coming around
01:46so I would say five million is a good place to estimate I can't remember exactly the prize money I'm
01:50sure the prize money before you've kicked the ball is two million or something and you get x amount
01:56of point plus you've got the gate money you know there's there's in the hospitality and everything and
02:02this easter road will be absolutely bouncing if they get to that if you know if Celtic do the business
02:10with their A team like their B team did last night you'll get these European nights and I think you're
02:17before we came on air you were talking about you know Brentford and um which would be an absolute
02:23root and teams in Spain and Italy or teams that literally I I was joking about it there could be
02:29teams that I wouldn't be sure existed if you showed me their name I'd be like is that real or was that
02:36in the right of the Rovers because because there's been so many in the last 25 30 years since the break of
02:44Soviet Union so many new nations and then they changed the names of the teams as well because
02:48they might have had the Russian name for a while or the Soviet name and now they've got their Azerbaijani
02:52or their whatever and there's new teams popping up and it just that'll be fun that'll be fun if you
02:58get I suppose that's the mix you want isn't it you want a bit of glamour you're an English team for a
03:04battle of Britain thing although that can be quite difficult given the goal between the Premier League