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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Deliberately taking the food off the poorest in society’s plate to fill their own pockets aye a noble business plan.
My Kodak moment was over in a flash…..
I couldn’t bear to tell you lot about it…
Wish I was there …but I need to be here..
COYBIG SING LOUD TONIGHT
HH
Gearoid 1998 @9:19
Exactly. We keep hearing about the need for ‘competition’ .
But taking part in one that is predicated on a massive lie is pointless.
Without honesty, fairness and sporting integrity it is meaningless.
The football ‘authorities’ in Scotland have already shown that they are prepared to bend, break and create rules to suit one club, even to the extent that they couldn’t act on proven cheating as they weren’t aware of it at the time it was happening!
Bet serial killers would love the CPS to adopt that kind of Sandyinwonderland logic!
‘Yeah, we know you killed all those people back in the day, we have the DNA proof, but, as we didn’t know about it at that time, be off with you, you rascal.”
Sevco in top tier, for the first time, it’s about as genuine a competition as WWE.
Simply repeating what I said about him last night.
A TOTAL GOBSHITE.
It’s hard to believe that this is the first time Celtic have ever been drawn against a Turkish opponent for tonight’s match against Fenerbahce.
Are there any other European countries’ teams that we have not met yet? Moldova? Belarus?
What part of the “I’m not looking for a return with this investment” DD said do people not get,?
Lennoxtown is an excellent training facility,but a ‘conveyor belt'(sic),of bhoys ready for the first team is questionable.Seemingly ,there is around 35 coaches at Lennoxtown,for various age groups.Add the general upkeep,that is a lot of money spent,without a lot of return.It’s an old chestnut on here,and not sure what the answer is
MoonbeamsWD
Ssshhhh! Don’t gie him any ideas!
I love to see him take his fecking money and clear off….to ipox. He knows nothing about Celtic or Celtic supporters. – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/dermots-return-to-the-fray-kodak-moment/comment-page-14/#comment-2689187
And you do?
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MWD said AYE
‘Mon The Mighty Hoops tonight!
Very well done to the Celtic under 19s on their 5-0 demolition of HJK Helsinki yesterday in the first leg of the UEFA Youth Cup qualifier in Finland.
Special mention for hat-trick hero Aiden Nesbitt. Outstanding apparently.
The bhoy will go far.
Ye listening Ronny?!
HH!!
TD67
I think Celtic fans would rather DD took his “investment” elsewhere…..maybe Ibrox.
Now..I cannot imagine any Celtic supporter being in agreement with what he says about the Huns.
Tony….surely you don’t agree with his views?
HH
Jimbo67,
Hopefully your heavy heart finds relief soon.
While I agree with your opinion on Lennoxtown i think there is a more basic reason for the lack of young players coming through, that being the raw materials, the demands on young players today are far higher than pre-80’s, skill levels though not that much different require far higher fitness levels and Scotland does not appear to be producing youngsters with the application, there is however a problem in selection regimes that discard youngsters too soon due to their stature, ignoring the fact that young men don’t stop growing until they are 21, therefore late spurts in growth could bring a youngster up to their height requirements but too late, many youngsters chuck it when they are dropped for reasons like this for fear of missing out on other opportunities to making a living.
If he’s good enough he’s big enough should be used more often.
TD67
Yeah….ive been supporting Celtic for nearly half a century, so, I believe I do know more about Celtic and Celtic supporters than DD.
That wouldn’t be difficult.
I don’t say this just for the sake of argument…..but if DD has so much praise for the cheats and bigots at ibrox, maybe he should invest there.
He doesn’t speak for Celtic supporters, he speaks for himself.
HH
I see MrHanky is back championing the stupid and ignorant.
As those who pay attention to anything I post will know, I’m a big fan of “tricks and flicks”. However, the English meeja are going overboard in the reporting of the flick from Mata the led to the winning goal for Manu. Yes it was good, but it was no more than a hopeful flick.
If Smalling had conformed to his defensive duties he would have been running back to the half way line. The keeper would have waltzed out and picked the ball up and the fans would have moaned and groaned about the stupidity of the flick.
And that’s my point of this post. Tricks and flicks are rarely the source of a goal directly. Sure, when it does happen that way it is good to see. But it’s the ones that don’t come off that are equally important. They keep the defenders thinking and put them off guard. Which may lead to a goal through the old tried and tested method BECAUSE the last flick didn’t work.
So, if you sit near me during a game, you will understand why I applaud and provide positive comment on most tricks and flicks whilst those around me hold their heads in despair.
The green man
The guy put his money where his mouth is, and is entitled to an opinion like the rest of us, do I agree? As far as I’m concerned DD has never put CFC in danger and was there with the money was asked for, what did he do, or done to harm CFC ?
Others may through accusations at him and others on the board,.
Now as ar as I’m concerned, they are harming my club, and playing right into the hands of the Scottish media, but? That’s my opinion, like you have, and DD has too.
Lurking Huns GIRFUYs.
TD67
The overwhelming response to DD from Celtic fans, has been GTF.
I cannot see how you can possibly support his comments….they were an insult to Celtic supporters.
And a extreme minority view at that.
He thinks he is Pablo Escobar….maybe the problem, is that Celtic fans have contempt for the man, which he is well deserving of.
He should go watch sevco, he has more praise for thems, than he as for the best supporters in the world.
Doesn’t seem like much of a Celtic man to me.
HH
Tallybhoy,
I’m pretty sure Ronny knows all about young Nesbitt. Seeing as it was Ronny who gave him his first first team appearance.
Quick question.
Has Dermot Desmond ever claimed to speak for the Celtic supporters?
TD67
I would have been surprised if you had supported his views.
And you are right, its his opinion, and that’s fine.
However, I don’t think he should be able to misrepresent Celtic.
Who made him the spokesman of Celtic fans….ffs he doesn’t have a good word to say about us, but waxes lyrical about the Huns.
Excuse me….but something isn’t right there.
And didn’t the smarmy hun on the BBC just
love it…..while thousands of Celtic supporters are shouting GTF at the telly.
DD speaks for himself…..Not for Celtic.
HH
And who is saying he speaks for CFC?
CANAMALAR
Thanks for the kind words
There is of course much true in what you say- I cannot disagree with what you have added. It is not easy to nurture and develop players but still operating the same way we did in forty years ago albeit in new surroundings just seems a dereliction of duty. There is quite a good article by Tim’o’ouse in the latest NTV that articulates my thoughts rather better than I do.
Hope you and all here are well
Jimbo67
TONYDONNELLY67 on 1ST OCTOBER 2015 10:09 AM
What part of the “I’m not looking for a return with this investment” DD said do people not get,?
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Would he get a return on his investment if The Old Firm join the EPL?
WEEMINGER
That’s the problem….he thinks he is Celtic.
He should take his money elsewhere.
We don’t need people like that….Hun apologists.
And that’s all DD is.
HH
This is where some Celtic supporters, in my opinion, fall into the SMSM trap, they lead a story on DD opinions, and then the lets just call them the ones who don’t agree with DD get all dafty and bite the hook, yes they may disagree and never will agree with DD and that’s there prerogative, and he has his.
the old firm doesnt exist, literally because when it did exist they were old, now theres only one old one……if you know your history h h
A lot on here today querying about tickets for tonight, this game you have to pay for, and the other two european games coming up, you should have a paper ticket either from the ticket office, or sent through the post.contact the Ticket office and book your ticket for tonight,and join the queue that will be at the ticket office.
The green man
You know what he thinks too?…..wow.
Its a pity DD cant tell the fecking truth instead of backing them up like a diehard Hun.
Its unacceptable.
Promote bigotry for money.
Shameful.
If money is your god….your humanity is lost.
Id rather be skint and tell the truth.
HH
He would get a return with or without them, as we all would? If we where in the EPL.
TD67
On this issue, you are a lone voice.
The vast majority of posters on CQN, have roundly condemned DD.
What don’t you understand about that?
You are in the minority….as usual.
Lets keep it civil…..opinions, remember.
HH
Die hard Hun, shameful, unacceptable, Wow! A lot of hate there for one man who has an opinion?
tonydonnelly67 on 1st October 2015 10:50 am
The views that The Great Desmondo has expressed about the huns have been as consistently supportive as they have been unnecessary. He has no need to speak of them at all.
He has his opinion and, other than maybe Laurie in Dennistoun, the Celtic support have their’s.
Unfortunately for us The Great Desmondo is the de facto owner of the Club. He dictates policy and the support have no say, however much they disagree. Their only recourse is to stay away.
One thing I have noticed is that at least this time is that no one is seriously trying to excuse or justify the comments by saying that he is being disingenuous to protect the Celtic support from physical violence from the huns. That at least is progress.
By the way, I asked you before, and you never answered, when was the last time The Great Desmondo attended a Celtic match?
ERNIE LYNCH
Barcelona 2012?
The Green Man on 1st October 2015 10:46 am
Does he? I’m not sure.
As I keep saying. He looks at Celtic purely as a business. When you caveat his statements with that it’s a lot easier not to get hysterical about them.
I’d be very wary of stating the a majority of Celtic fans don’t want to see us playing RIFC in the league. I don’t necessarily think users of message boards accurately reflect the fan base as a whole it may do. I might be wrong but it’s not as clear cut as many seem to think. Judging by what I’ve heard in the ground at any rate.
I’ve always maintained that for me RIFC league games will have no special meaning. I’ll go if I can but I’ll not be shifting engagements the way I would have for OF games.
I’m not wholly sure I understand the point of boycotting the games should they arise. If it’s a protest that they shouldn’t have been allowed by SFA/SPL/SFL to circumvent the correct process in getting league status, surely the time to do that would have been when they were allowed into the league set-up in the first place. Doing it five years down the line seems a bit pointless.
THE GREEN MAN on 1ST OCTOBER 2015 10:56 AM
TD67
On this issue, you are a lone voice.
The vast majority of posters on CQN, have roundly condemned DD.
What don’t you understand about that?
You are in the minority….as usual.
Lets keep it civil…..opinions, remember.
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I’m civil, it’s just our opinions differ, calm down calm down.
Your never going to change my mind, nor I yours,
If I’m a lone voice, fine, if I’m in the minority, fine, and you are assuming a lot, AS USUAL