A Dermot Desmond interview! Remember him? It’s been a while since we’ve seen or heard from our major shareholder, so I am pleased STV got hold of him. His absence for so many years is not in itself an offence, but there has been no evidence he remains engaged with the club, and that’s not healthy.
His comments on Ronny Deila I agree with. Ronny is here because we think he can improve players and therefore improve the team. The evidence cited by Dermot Desmond (Nir Bitton, Tom Rogic), suggests he’s able to do this. There have been downsides of course. Ronny’s twice fallen in the Champions League to lesser-resourced (although decent) teams.
If we’re going to build a team we need to be patient enough to let the guy get on with the job.
The comments about a British league within 10 years are worth examining at a later date, but for brevity: this is no more than blue-sky thinking.
I agree in principle that technological changes are underway which will undermine the BSkyB business model. This model relies on the pull of English Premier League football to deliver high-value subscription rates from a huge portion of the UK population.
We talked in the summer about the switch to what the Americans call ‘cutting the cord’; moving away from expensive subscription TV to watching feeds streamed from foreign broadcasters, effectively free of charge. This is happening and its impact will only increase.
I know lots of CQNers are already consuming their English football in this manner, it works and it’s practically undetectable (i.e. it really is undetectable). But it’s not easy yet. You need to know what you are doing, and you need decent broadband. Products are improving all the time, as is broadband provision. Soon paying £100 per month for TV, as many do, will be a goodwill option.
Should there be even a modest shift in BSkyB’s ability to generate huge revenue from EPL football, the fallout in the English football bubble (it is a bubble) will be swift and structurally damaging.
Getting to the point. English football has a business model with risks which could bring it down. Technological changes are underway which undermine this model. Lots will happen in the next 10 years.
Let me share one of my favourite graphs………..
Kodak had a great marketing slogan, they called a great image a ‘Kodak moment’, when people would turn to their cameras to capture the memory on Kodak paper. The phrase was turned on its head in recent years when the realisation that Kodak’s entire business model was about to be destroyed by digital cameras.
The moment of realisation became the ultimate ‘Kodak moment’, it now meant a moment when you realise technology is about to wipe you out. Those who were saying this about Kodak 20 years ago were mocked. Some of us already think we’ve seen English football’s Kodak moment.
This is Kodak’s market capitalisation between 1989 and 2012, where was your Kodak moment?
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Canamalar on 30th September 2015 11:11 pm
First shares were £60 each, but then Celtic did a 100 for 1 issue and diluted them to 60p each to make the later share issues more attractive
Not sure what the other share issues were issued at but reckon a wee google would sort that.
HH
CRC
PANORAMA
tonight, quite outstanding , the refugees journey,
good and bad perspectives covered.
the poor kids.
the opportunist migrant men
maybe there are some ISIS
all in,
very human people being interviewed. some outstanding people helping as well.
still a hard watch.
Marspapa
Skill you say….anyone capable of getting into the team tomorrow night…..
Burnley78,
He knows all about Res12 so he knows all about it, his sentiment today does not bode well for res12
25 mill down and counting.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
GM
Tomorrow will be a huge test regardless. Please God they’re up to the challenge.
Burnley78
I think the reason is that for DD it’s all about the money and the prestige. He’ll get to sit in some far flung corner of the planet, quaffing Champagne with his entourage, watching Celtic v Monkeys, whilst celebrating his Thoy winning.
Meanwhile, here in Scotland or in Ireland, Celtic supporters are being stabbed in the streets.
That’s the reality.
St Sivs….
Very hard watch indeed….
Economic migrants most of them…..
Desperate migrants some of them……
Very difficult to watch
Burnley78,
“As I keep saying he may have been better saying nothing but as he did speak, and say what he did, I am hoping there was a reason.”
……………………………………………..
I’d like to think you are right about that but my head tells me that falls into the same category as the “Don’t interrupt your enemy when he’s destroying himself” guff.
We as a club have seen the chance to put the hun in their place come and go. Comments like this from this rich shareholder do not help endear me to his corporate vision of CFC.
I’d love a tour of your distilling facility and the chance to share a dram or twenty. Do you have any info links to the whisky’s you’re producing?
Are you by any chance one of those unscrupulous businessmen who would be in the business of selling the odd cask of new / maybe not so new spirit to some kindred spirits? I’ve sworn I’d bought my last cask but I might be up for one more. Just don’t tell CRC about it:_)
HH
Canamalar
Exactly!
Res 12
As Johnny rotten once famously said at the end of the last ever sex pistols concert in San Francisco
“ever get the feeling youve been cheated?”
Before the Politically Correct mob bang on again ad nauseum….yawn yawn yawn
The number 1 name registered for newborns in UK….2014
Mohammed……………….seriously
Just as we sow we shall reap
Don’t tell CRC what :-)
Good ACGR you nutcase
HH
CRC
Mags…,
We can still ask the City of London Police to investigate there is evidence that would concern them so it not hopeless yet, oh and that also the reason it wasn’t dismissed immediately by the board :)
Rudi..,
Don’t you like that name ?
CRC, are you making the BV tomorrow? I’ll tell you then………………………honest.
I will:_)
In the late 19th and early 20th century, there were a lot of scare stories doing the rounds about the number of babies being born with names like Patrick, Constantine and Seamus.
Must be the years following Liverpool and Villa instead of the tic that leads to us losing that handed-down memory.
Or maybe its a Russell Group thing, hmmm!
Rudi
There’s an Irish Republican parade in Liverpool this weekend :-)
I remember watching some tv expose on the Amish and their beliefs….
Anyway the Amish kid tells his dad he’s learnt at the ‘English” school that the earth is round, he’s read it in books and seen it on film too……the dad slaps him right in the face…..the Amish and their world goes on uninterrupted.
Does our host have a deal flying Celtic supporters to the away game v Fenerbache? These Turkish airline adverts are doing my nut in.
the turkish airlines adverts are for refugees who got to greenock, and now want to go home
My confirmation name is Paul, Achmed, Mohammed, zucha, binzammen, Hiafa. My maw and da were a crazy pair.
Imagine if the most popular name was Hector I think I’d like that :)
There’d be huns complaining about HMRC and we whistle the Hectors House theme aye next year I want the most popular name to be Hector.
St Stiv’s do they fly to Alicante or Corvera?
Reap reap reap reap,
Is that how you do. It Rudi reap reap reap
Acgr
I tend to use my phone when accessing CQN and thankfully have been untroubled by the problems some posters have had
That was until last night when I couldn’t sleep and came on for a look. I was constantly bombarded with adverts. Then tonight, like Sipsini, I was met with the visage of Joanna Lumley!
Still, at least it wasn’t Delaney’s :-)
Night all, up the Celts!
Sow sow sow Hector Hector sow sow sow
Hector sow sow sow
Hector reap reap reap sow sow sow
Canamalar, I worked with a guy years ago called Richard Whittindon. He got lifted on a chrismas night out for D & D and was beaten black and blue by scotlands finest for giving a false name. They thought he was taking the piss during panto season. The guy was a mess.
What about barbarpapa will he no have something to say about that
Then I doubt there be many in Scotland would have a problem with Ali as long as it was spelled right eh
Hamilton Tim….
I will be in Malmaison Liverpool on Saturday and Sunday
Come have a beer?
HT, it could be a hell of a lot worse. Imagine if Joanna Lumley logged on and got bombarded wi images of Sipsini’s coupon.
Poor wummin.
The Green Man…CelticPark will sell out should the huns ever darkenen our doorstep..
…..IMO.I’d bet on it….so is DD
AGCR,
Heard a similar one about a Scouser had the same name as one of their famous player of the time got shit kicked out of him, polis wouldn’t believe him thought he was rippin the pish.
Thank god Phil McCrackin couldn’t be misconstrued or I’d be deed.
dernet desnond
is the new arthur conan doyle.
trying to contact spirits at the end of his garden
Anyroadup,
It’s getting a wee bit late so I’ll bid you all goodnight it’s bawbaws time.
Night night n hail hail timdom.
You all know my feelings on Desmond . I watched us interview today , would have made you puke . Had he been a celtic man , he wouldn’t have sat back and watched the SFA keep them afloat . And make no mistake had it not been for ogilvie . And his sidekicks they would have been gone . And in doing so they have rendered Scottish football a joke . I suppose we could have had the likes of King , green, and whyte . But the club , could have had a real celtic man in charge too .
Regardless of who owns,or has the major shareholding,in us…..
Delia is a feckin DUD
24 carat DUD
The ROAR is embarrassing
DeadRangers got dicked by Malmo and Maribor too
Spooky…,