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The momentum for a confederated regional league in Eastern Europe continues to gather pace with clubs from Belarus keen to join.  With a population of around 10m, Belarus is sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states, but their league has been rendered uncompetitive by the domination of Bate Borisov, who are on their way to eight-in-a-row titles.

Bate, who are now Champions League regulars, have no opportunity to progress while the rest of the league do not have the resources to compete with them.  A regional league would solve all their problems.

Russian and Ukrainian clubs are aiming to have a confederated league in place by the start of 2014, with sponsors thought to be keen to step forward and underwrite whatever is necessary to smooth the way, but the Ukrainian FA suggest 2016 is a more viable date.

Scottish football stands to gain more from regionalisation than anywhere else on the planet. We need to have this debate before blindly stumbling into another Management of Decline while legislators in Minsk leave us behind!

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  3. fanadpatriot on

    Hutchybhoy

     

    You should get a good deal in the Carlton Hotel,a bit out of town,but walking distance,about 8 euros for taxi.Munros is an ok pub for music also An Pucan .Dont know about clubs,not my scene.

  4. Folly Folly on

    Paul

     

     

    My guess is that, for the Scots, approaching the EPL would be a waste of time: they have no need for us: as the world’s wealthiest league, they’ll think they don’t need to take part in any regionalisation and – for the timebeing, at least – would see such as being a dilution of their brand.

     

     

    The SPL joining forces with other Celtic nations might be a go-er, but the market is fairly small and could have practical/political difficulties.

     

     

    Personally, I would be interested in exploring the possibility of a combined league involving the top sides from Scandanavian and Benelux leagues.

     

     

    Portugal, too, would be interesting, though I imagine they would be more interested in catching a ride with the Spanish.

     

     

    FF

  5. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Rioskorrie-The Parlour is West 86th at Broadway i think ! Subway station across the road from it.

  7. Ntassoolla on

    philvisreturns they made me sit behind one many years ago and ever since then I’ve wanted to set about them with an angle grinder.

     

    A friend of mine who’s an engineer tells me it’s not that big a job to remove them.

     

    Same guy once gave me a wee tour of the holding cells at Parkhead. Not a lot of people have seen those.

     

    Such is the impeccable behaviour of us Celtic fans.

  8. Snake Plissken on

    TBB

     

     

    You’d be better combining Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary.

     

     

    Austria and Switzerland are too rich for the others.

  9. petec on

    Get all this current crop of referees out of the system and promote real referees, ones that don’t have an agenda. Let it be known that there will be a serious clampdown on any foul play an watch Scottish Football rise high again.

     

     

    We have the talented players coming through, not just at Celtic but the small ones are unlikely to make it. That is just so wrong. These small lads, usually have the ability to be a number 10 or a 7, however we have been thinking we need a bigger version of those numbers than before.

     

     

    Time for more Dylan Mc.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sYIIjS-cQ

  12. Kilbowie Kelt on

    Hutchybhoy

     

     

    13:25 on 18 December, 201___

     

     

    Galway is incredible for lively pubs.

     

    The Weigh Inn is central, friendly & had a good bit of singing any time I was in it.

     

     

    You will enjoy what is a great town.

  16. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Tallybhoy-I think if you look at the advertising Paul 67 has on the site now,it might be possible to attract advertisers to a TV Channel.

  22. philvisreturns on

    Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon – What’s wrong with worshipping trees? At least trees exist.

     

     

    Did you even read my zinger about Wiccans?

     

     

    I’m not prejudiced against morbidly obese perma-virgins, but let’s not encourage them.

     

     

    I quite like trees and animals, but man is clearly the best lifeform on the planet. Animals are food and/or sport and trees don’t even have brains.

     

     

    So if we’re going to worship terrestrial life, it makes sense to worship man. And we should worship the best of men, which would be me.

     

     

    You see what you’ve done? Philvis is your god now! Ahahahahahahaha! And I will smite ye with thumbsup.

     

     

    CE = common era. BCE = before common era. Makes more sense than AD/ BC since no one actually knows when Jesus was born.

     

     

    Since they use the same numbers I conclude there is no such thing as a “common era”, it’s just the gay version of BC and AD after all.

     

     

    Atheists should man up and use the French Revolutionary Calendar and not a disguised Gregorian one. I blame that Dawkins fellow. He looks and acts like an old woman having hot flushes.

     

     

    It used to be that atheists needed testicular fortitude and awesome beards but now they’re mainly peevish Guardian reading milksops of both sexes who buy fair trade handmade vegan tampons and worship the cult of climate change in place of Christianity. The only well-known God-botherer-botherer with a bit of swagger was Christopher Hitchens, and he probably doesn’t need a coat where he is now.

     

     

    And a joyous Winter Solstice to you too!

     

     

    For Odin! For Asgard! (thumbsup)

  23. Tallybhoy on

    Bada Bing

     

     

    I am convinced that there would be a queue of companies prepared to advertise on a Celtic TV channel broadcasting on the Sky or other platform.

     

     

    Local, national and multi-national ones.

     

     

    HH!!

  25. South Of Tunis on

    Ntassoola

     

     

    ” that making it up look ”

     

     

    I’ve lived in Sicily for 12 years and still find myself going wow ——

     

     

    Big media fuss recently re thousands of unemployed teachers being forced to sit an online examination re a few soon come vacancies in the school system . News reader casually mentioned that @ 40 % of Sicilian teachers were appointed by ” recommendation “.

  26. Ntassoolla on

    Tallybhoy @13:47 “I am convinced that there would be a queue of companies prepared to advertise on a Celtic TV channel ”

     

     

    Without wishing to put you on the spot, could you name a few? In your opinion.

  27. Auldheid on

    TBB

     

     

    And similarly, Scotland with Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. That federation would represent the highest per capita GDP media market in Europe.

     

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    I forget the figures but Norwegians are big TV watchers of the EPL so giving them an alternative with a home flavour is a chalenge that makes sense. If the budget airlines were to get in on the act then other SPL clubs on the east coast might want to involved too.

     

     

    Makes a lot of sense and those countries are more likely to look at the idea than England.

     

     

    Summer fitbaw could be a welcome by product for East Kilbriders.

  29. Ntassoolla on

    South of Tunis I’ll tel you a wheeze that’s being used on Johny foreigner.

     

     

    Someone blocks you into your parking space.

     

    Touch the offending vehicle and the police are on you like a shot.

     

    Phone the police and they’re looking for 100 Euros to fill out a report.

  30. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    I agree!

     

     

    aw, hang on… I’m an atheist, or a virgin, or sumthin

     

     

    I blame my neebor Kenny’s festive homebrew, which he labels his “Christmas Cracker”, and which he insisted we sample last night. So noxious is this concoction that America has threatened to invade him several times.

     

     

    We wiz fools, and went for it like lovestruck loons.

     

     

    The ole rubber plant got laldy in the middle of the night… again

  31. johann murdoch on

    Ntassoolla…Those “degrading?” stanchions are holding the roof on and tying the structure together…maybe skyhooks instead ?..Hh

  32. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Switched to ITV London News at 1.50,first item was the Gt Ormond St theft,report said “anonymous benefactor” replaced the presents.STV had nothing….

  33. Kilbowie Kelt on

    Ntassoolla

     

     

    13:56 on 18 December, 2012

     

     

    Tallybhoy @13:47 “I am convinced that there would be a queue of companies prepared to advertise on a Celtic TV channel ”

     

     

    Without wishing to put you on the spot, could you name a few? In your opinion.

     

    _____________________

     

     

    There you are, Tallybhoy.

     

    Get started & write a list of all the companies that MIGHT want to advertise on Celtic TV.

     

     

    In your own time.

     

     

    :¬)))

  34. Mort on

    Tallybhoy and others

     

     

    re. Celtic TV

     

     

    back in the not too recent past when Setanta had the rights to scottish games, Celtic TV was broadcast on both Sky and NTL/Virgin. The costs to run these channels is a lot for the club to undertake. it was ok when Setanta did it as they could combine it with their regular subscriptions.

     

     

    Liverpool, as far as I know, are the only UK team with a free to air dedicated TV channel. Even Man United have to charge for MUTV to make it worthwhile.

     

     

    I think it is something we should be looking at but with CelticTV (online) we can still get access to anything we want at a time of our own choosing. Dedicated TV schedules are on the way out as people subscribe to the likes of Netflix and the BBC iplayer becomes more popular.

     

     

    IPTV (ie tv on internet) broadcast on a TV is the way forward and I would like to see Celtic link up with Virgin or Sky to get onto their “on-demand” platforms even if we did have to pay a subscription, it might generate enough funds to make it worthwhile.

     

     

    Content, however is king and while Sky/ESPN have a monoploy on games at very low money, its unlikely we will see CelticTV taking off on a big scale. If we could, however, negotiate a way out of the TV deal and sell our own games, then it would be a winner as I think people would be willing to pay Celtic extra than they would pay Sky for the privelege.

     

     

    Mort

  35. Ntassoolla on

    johann murdoch points out @14:01 “Ntassoolla…Those “degrading?” stanchions are holding the roof on and tying the structure together…maybe skyhooks instead ?..Hh”

     

     

    Johann I was a dab hand with Lego AND Mecano way back.

     

    I’m prepared to dust down the manuals and give it my best shot.

     

    If you like you can join me. It’ll be a great laugh.

     

    Perhaps we could don the bio-hazard suits for a practice run at Ibrox.

  37. Jonny the Tim on

    rioskorrie @ 12.12

     

     

    Try Rocky Sullivan’s on 28th Avenue/Lexington, watched us beat the now defunct “thems” 1-0 (Henrik) in the Scottish Cup in there. Unbeknowns to me at the time, Rod Stewart was also there. (Was 7.00 am local time, and I was still wasted from the night before).

     

     

    Happy Celticing!

     

    HH

  38. Tallybhoy on

    Ntassoolla

     

    13:56 on

     

    18 December, 2012

     

    Tallybhoy @13:47 “I am convinced that there would be a queue of companies prepared to advertise on a Celtic TV channel ”

     

     

    Without wishing to put you on the spot, could you name a few? In your opinion.

     

     

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

     

     

    What about these ones?

     

     

    They are all sponsors of CFC:

     

     

    Nike, Thomas Cook, Coca-Cola, MBNA, ESPN, Sky, Ladbrokes, Betdaq…

     

     

    Imo of course – although I am not involved in the TV advertising industry.

     

     

    HH!!

  41. danso_1888 on

    £162,000 now invested in http://www.BuyRangers.org

     

     

    Get in before the deadline if you wish to invest in the Community Share Scheme organised by the Rangers Supporters Trust –

     

     

    should we be worried ? that was an e mail i got today,

     

    overwhelming is it not.

  42. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    Paddy Turner

     

     

    I’ve only seen Bo’ness mentioned once on the CQN mailing list.

     

     

    I’ll let you read mine when I’m finished with it.

     

     

    Hope you and yours are well!

     

     

    Merry Christmas!

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