The stage is set. Dundee United, the club who were last to beat Celtic, stand in the way of their treble ambitions, as the clubs meet on three consecutive occasions next month. The first game, a Scottish Cup quarter final at Tannadice, is the most crucial.
United lost their best two players last week but they remain they will know that beating Celtic at home will make them favourites for the Scottish Cup. They will be far less confident at the following week’s League Cup final, Dundee United expectations are always low at Hampden, but pressure will be on the club to win their home game.
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Jacki Mac….
My sincere condolences to you on the death of you Dad…
Rest In Peace
Ayrshire is Green and White
Europa League hardly works….Atlantic League is laughable…
I read that article last week re the guy assaulted outside the pub….quote from his wife it was Celtic supporters. Knew it looked fishy….!
Ayrshire is Green and White
CM
East Fife equalise at Cliftonhill. ;))
Coolmore Mafia………….agree who gives a shit
I wonder if Mhari Clark will be at Firhill tomorrow ? If she is could someone ask her why she hates Celtic & Celtic fans ? Seemingly a Thistle die-hard from that stronghold of Paisley.
Pity she’s the prospective SNP candidate for Paisley South !
Regrettably the Atlantic League is a non-starter. The Dutch signed a long-term TV deal with Murdoch`s Fox Sports stretching from 2013 to 2024. The deal totals 1 Billion Euros, averaging 80 Million Euros per season.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/462/netherlands/2012/08/08/3295244/fox-buys-eredivisie-broadcasting-rights-in-1bn-deal
Much better than the £12.5 million per season that Doncaster and co sell the SPFL for.
Don’t do that DD was worried about the Rovers dropping points there !
Micktt it would appear that the journalist was looking for an angle that wasn’t there , and plastered it on front page .. Irresponsible journalism
Hankray
Your Lustig typo is too funny! Enjoy your lust. :))
Strømsgodset get more TV money than Celtic.
KTF
Sorry. It’s true. 1-1
Is there anybody oot there gets less money than Celtic ?
2-1. Gerrard.
celticrollercoaster supporting shay,our bhoy wonder along the way
20:29 on 10 February, 2015
I got my Books two weeks ago from the Kano quiz night…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
itscalledmalvinas…100% agreed…shocking that she hasnt been pulled on that….and im a YES supporter…
Daryl Murphy and Tony Watt score tonight to keep up the ex-Celts scoring record.
Lennybhoy
Favouritism!!!! ;))
The bould Tony Watt opens his account at Charlton.
Re elp TV monies….
Someone mentioned earlier football in Scotland was not attractive to the world therefore our population percentage or subscription share doesn’t come into it so we couldn’t expect a much better deal than we have now.
Except…
The deal announced today was for domestic rights only. Following the referendum we’re now well informed that one country of the union constitutes 85% of the population. Clearly the EPL and the E Championship have a numbers appeal well beyond the attraction level of Scottish football.
But consider…
Scottish population is nearly 5.5m with 800k Scots living in other parts of the UK. So in simple terms Scots or Scots connection represent somewhere between 8.5 & 10% of the population.
There are 42 clubs in the top two English leagues, 12(+3 if you get my drift!) in the SPFL
I understand sky penetration is greater in Scotland than England per head of population.
£5bn…
Let’s take only the low 8% as population equivalent deal is = £400m
but 42 clubs v 15 clubs so roughly one third, now is = £133m
Sky Scots higher penetration factor?? Say +5% now is = £140m
Sky subs risk factor if Scot footie walks away say +5% now is = £147m
£147 m…
Over 3 years compared to £80m over 5 in current deal.
£49m per season compared to £16m per season
Commercial…
No doubt Sky would be able to talk down the lower level commercial and advertisers interest ( of course the useless promotion of the game makes this a self fulfilling prophecy) so allow a 20% grab back = £39.2m per season.
+150%…
Now no doubt I am commercially inept and negotiations would be much more complex and nuanced than my simplistic ball park imaginings but anything less than double the money (£32m) and its theft.
Real issue…
Scottish clubs just can’t invisage not having any sky money. Much has improved financially at many of our clubs as they strive to be self financing but its very early in the process of fiscal sanity but we’re getting there.
Funnily enough sky’s parsimony has been helpful in this regard and each year of the 5 year deal which has passed has resulted in marginal less dependency. That clubs as Hearts Aberdeen Dundee Utd and Dundee have sold record or near record ST sales even where prices have increased tell the story of greater worth of supporters direct contributions.
I have sky/bt sports via Virgin XL package but once this seasons gone so will the sports. I watch only a tiny portion of the total output (celtic and occassional epl) £5bn is too obscene for me. That is a JUDGEMENT I can make. What Scotland deserves is purely SUBJECTIVE on my part.
And that’s me not even getting started on the ‘National Broadcaster’.
Rant over.
HH
Delanys Dinky……………there done it again
keeping the faith
21:08 on 10 February, 2015
Don’t do that DD was worried about the Rovers dropping points there !
Micktt it would appear that the journalist was looking for an angle that wasn’t there , and plastered it on front page .. Irresponsible journalism
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Were the wife’s quotes actual or did the journalist make it up..?
I might just e mail the DR…
Ayrshire is Green and White
MattE
No probs. Its been an expensive night as I worked through the charity debtors list :-)
Are you going to Smashing Milk Bottles charity nite in March?
HH
CRC
Hankray
Haha. Who you been speaking to? ;))
The EPL have ended up the lucky recipient of a turf war between BT and sky
alfie boakes, you have a very open minded attitude for a celtic & labour man
alfie, my apologies, i pressed the b instead of n in my last post. sorry.
Charles,
Correct.
Sky couldn’t afford to lose it and the Cl.
Justafan 2115-
A very interesting post.
I think part of the trouble is that Scottish clubs are completely preoccupied with the idea that by being on Sky/ BT Sport they will get lots of exposure, thereby enabling them to sell more stadium advertising, get more lucrative shirt sponsorship deals etc.
On that basis they sell the TV rights to Sky/ BT at a rate that favours the broadcaster. The clubs are just glad to have a UK-wide platform and the broadcasters know it and can play hardball.
This is why we have idiotic situations where Doncaster pays the broadcasters £800,000 a year to go to the trouble of broadcasting Sevco games from Brechin, Stirling, Montrose etc.
I don`t subscribe to Sky but I am thoroughly sickened with the way in which the EPL is being rammed down our throats. Nowadays people seem to want to talk more about English football than Scottish football. Walkaway Sevcophants account for some of this, but I think there genuinely is now a huge proportion of Scottish people that care more for Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd etc than they do for any Scottish club. And its all Sky`s fault.
bournesouprecipe
20:32 on
10 February, 2015
Ole Norah Batty used to have the status quo bra.
Everytime she took it off, out popped to hairy ole has beens
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BSR….Too much info /0(
Any word on a venue for the EGM yet?
CRC
Yes will be at SMB’s night, catch up with you there
Boro heading to the top of the championship??
Some difference in them this season.
hankray
Lustig will miss Inter game.
Thats why we shld have signed Ryan Mc Gowan to cover us in that area!!
Jude,
I’d rather play Fisher.
Ryan McGowan is no better than Matthews, Fisher or Efe.
SNP lackies
Good grief.
Jimbo67
Would the Sky money increase to the SPFL if the Gets arose and appeared to many in the Premier Lge
Ttr,
Agreed.
Also Lustigs is just a kiddy on injury. He’ll be back before the 2nd leg :)