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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50 in a row’
Jimbo67
I am very much looking for a good display from the team when we play inter . The team are playing some nice football , only down side for me is that celtic aren’t finishing teams off , they aren’t scoring the goals there football play merits .
As an aside .havent read back .but see some reference to eddieinkirkmichael . Has the police made any moves to find these morons .
GORDON J
I understand that,but it doesn’t alter the fact that our game is valued by them at 1% of the value they put on the EPL.
MARS rely on sales of Mars bars,but they don’t sell Snickers for a penny a time.
jimbo67,
He’s probably right – about £100M against £2M.
roy croppie
Is that a recent quote from Rob Roy McGregor??
Jungle Jim Hot Smoked
10:19 on 11 February, 2015
The supremacist stance of supporters of the deid club is more akin to the attitude of the White Trash folk in America. ie they don`t really believe it.
JJ
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“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”
:-)
Richie,
Thanks. I have just e-mailed the Ticket Office.
JJ
Its time somebody.or someone .asked questions regarding Sky TV.regarding pay per view.I reckon at the end of the day if you want to watch all sports .then you will have to pay.and to me that’s not right.for all the money that the ordinary fan puts into watching there sport.sky comes and takes a slice of the cake.Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood to there credit said it wasn’t right that the fans who couldn’t afford to watch the Open .Westwood said it is a disgrace.that sky have the TV rights to broadcast the open.time for some of these well paid footballer’s and tennis players stood up for the ordinary fan to.as for the BBC they just seem to let sky takeover with nobody challengeng them .how many people pay for there TV licence in this country.surely the BBC can compete with sky.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS,
Our game has a very low commercial value. Sad but true. I don’t see any other broadcasters willing to pay bigger sums than Sky.
I’m sure there are a few here who work in advertising. Wonder what it costs to get your company’s name on Sky’s EPL coverage compared to their Sottish football? To place a half time ad in games? I’ve no idea of the answer but I’d bet there is a very large difference.
The obscene EPL deal just means more exorbitant transfer fees for mediocre players as the clubs scramble to buy what little English talent there is. Financial Fair Play rules are likely to be passed by using whatever underhand means possible and foreign stars will always be attracted by the massive pay days on offer.
Every time the Sky contracts come up for renewal we specualte that the bubble will burst and every time the price is driven even higher.
No one at Sky gives a flying fig about Scottish football nor is there any real reason why they should. Most dishes are probably bought by people who prefer to watch EPL than SPFL football anyway. When I was back in Troon a couple of years ago, there were morenpeople in the pub to watch Man Utd vs Chelsea than a Celtic game.
Richie.
You have mail.
In the last season of the 8 season (5+3) deal (2019/20), SKY will pay Scottish football the £12.5M for the season.
That’s the equivalent of 112 mins and 30s of EPL football. Sky also have the right to break the deal and not take up the 3 year option, not Scottish football. However when they come to the table what sort of product are we selling? The poor governance of our game has put us this position when we don’t even ask Oliver Twistesque for ‘some more’ it’s more like please give us something.
Anyone know the figures for the Rugby super league deal?
NatKnow 0:-)
Who said it?
JJ
Traditionalist88
For other reasons I hope those 2 clubs get promoted but I would like to think that at least one of them wont just be there to challemge for a top 4 place. Edinburgh has undersupported its clubs for decaded – even the fine Hibs side of 71 to 75 or the Hearts team of just over a decade later averaged over 20000 for home games. But in the early 60s they had bigger crowds than we often got.
Its the out of cobtrol juggernaut next door that worries me
Jimbo67
starry plough
This morning’s Herald mate.
HH
Nat
It`s OK. I googled.
JJ
21-05-1979
Cheers.
I’m going to the game early so I’ll get one I’m sure.
Thanks for the tips!
~SPF~
roy croppie
Well said that man:))
A wee bit of momentum is needed to get the root and branch clear out on the go, without it I fear our game is dead..
turkeybhoy
10:35 on 11 February, 2015
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Only thing is i believe inter liverpool spurs players have all been doing this high level training for years.
Like most iv noticed a big improvement in our fitness but its going to take alot longer than 6/7 months of eating the right things and top fitness training to match the top teams.
Hopefully in the summer we can bring in another couple of ready made fit quality players and with another strong pre season under our belts we should notice even more of an improvement this time next season.
Money .
Current owner of Serie A TV rights (Infront )
have sold those rights to a Chinese Company – Wanda Group for 1 billion euros.
South Of Tunis
That’s a lot of record tokens:))
I would endorse most of the sentiment on here regarding eddieinkirkmichael and am concerened to note that this morning he QUOTE “still have my faults, hopefully now that I recognise them I am able to correct them.”
Please don’t use spellcheck eddie, as you are the only poster on here whose spelling is worserer… er… poorer than mine!
H.H.
P.S. Goes without saying that anything I can help with….
Ticket prices for League Cup Final: £28 for East/west/North stands, £35 for south stand. Kids west/East stands £12. Wheelchair £5-£20
Eddiekirkmichael
Keep on keepin on and dont let the barstewards get you down.
You have what they can only dream of,
“When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit-
It’s when things go wrong that you must not quit”.
Sign of the times-
Italian Plod have announced that they busted 28 illegal football streams in January.
Winning Captains
Not sure if by design but if on http://www.cqnmagazine.com/ and click link to CQN BOOKSTORE on link banner at top it takes you to bookstore – Ok but if you then click on “CQN Magazine” link in the bookstore links banner top of page it tries to take you to http://www.calameo.com/read/0003901718cdc4362fa2e?view=book instead of the http://www.cqnmagazine.com
SPFL @spfl 3m3 minutes ago
League Cup | Ticket details for @dundeeunitedfc v @celticfc on March 15 #SPFL
http://spfl.co/finaltickets
Do SKY, BT, Virgin etc. get a direct rake-off from gambling links on mobile devices if it’s their content and/or device that is the subject of the bet?
Genuine question – just trying to get my head round what other factors might drive the pricing of £10Milliom+ per game.
South Of Tunis
I saw as well that one of the top torrent sites just moved their operation from Italy to Switzerland, it’s still fairly tolerated here to download stuff..
starry plough.
Guy in Jamaica I buy choons from tells me that there are now no vinyl pressing businesses in Jamaica.Sad times.!
Thank you for your support – Inter now sold out
By: Newsroom Staff on 11 Feb, 2015 11:17
A Celtic spokesperson said: “The club would like to thank our fans for their magnificent support. European nights in Paradise are something special and we’ve shown before that with 60,000 fans behind us we can achieve great things.
Celtic will possibly make as much or more out of this one match as they will for winning the SPFL Premiership – food for thought
South Of Tunis
11:40 on 11 February, 2015
Sign of the times-
Italian Plod have announced that they busted 28 illegal football streams in January.
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I take it then that crime in Italy must be under control for such action?
A bit like in this country (Scot) where all sorts of scarce police resources are allocated to prosecute wee boys singing ROH ect, and Social Security fraud while banksters and tax frauds like Rangers boss Murray are ignored.
Fancy a brick anyone….
“MAKE your love last forever this Valentine’s day with a Rangers stadium brick, for only £50 you can have a brick engraved with your own personalised inscription and placed at the stadium for generations to come.
Bricks can be purchased using the following options – Online from http://www.rangerslotto.co.uk; by calling the stadium bricks hotline on 0141 427 4914; by texting ‘Rangers’ to 67766 (texts cost standard network rate) or in person from our office in Broomloan House, Ibrox Stadium.
Upon placing your order you will be given the opportunity to choose whether you would like a wall brick to be placed on the Fernando Ricksen panel or a paving brick to be placed on the Jorg Albertz walk of fame panel both of which are situated in the Sandy Jardine stand. After your selection you will be asked what special message you would like to personalise your brick with, A maximum of 2 lines of 15 characters is allowed with any spaces or punctuation marks being counted as 1 character each. You will receive an official certificate confirming your inscription within 5 working days and bricks will be placed within an 8 – 10 week timescale (weather dependant).
Please Note: Buying a Stadium Brick does not transfer ownership of that brick to the purchaser. At all times, Stadium Bricks remain the property of The Rangers Football Club”
Sounds like a bargain!
jimbo67
I don’t see how the EPL can sustain the current model – I know, we keep saying it but eventually the bubble has to burst… when the first £1m a week player appears? When the average wage is 100k?!
Debt levels of a number of clubs are at serious levels and any clubs falling out the top tier not promoted soon after will face the very real threat of going out of business – Blackburn and Leeds are two recent examples of clubs struggling after over exerting.
Ok if Hearts or Hibs hit average crowds of 20k its not massive in comparison to us or the dead club from Govan – however, many clubs in the mystical land the of the EPL survive on those sorts of crowds.
Who’d have ever thought Swansea or Hull would be in an enviable position financially?!
HH
Chinese TV moguls- a Dish called Wanda
Be interesting to see how Inter react to a full house .Inter fans of my acquaintance think 2 things are possible – it will freak them out / it will wake them up.
Roy FFin’ MacGregor:
“Ross county need to realise that they can’t keep living off the back of [Sevco].”
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“This coming from the man whose club ‘forgot’ to remember Remembrance Day.
No prizes for guessing which club they hosted that afternoon.”
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“Scottish teams should learn to live within their means and not rely on [Sevco] all the time”
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“‘Poor behaviour’???
Wait?? What the **** is that stTement all about??”
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“A point that is often overlooked or misunderstood and it is important.
They never voted us into the 4th division in Scottish Football.
They voted us out of Scottish Football.”
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“This needs to get repeated time and time again.
The amount of bears who don’t know what went on is shocking.
What they did was the worst punishment ever given to a club in world football.
Made even worse by the fact that they were given evidence beforehand that there was a likely possibility of deliberate criminal actions by Whyte.
In a hundred years from now every bear should know the names of every club that inflicted this injustice on us.”
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“It would appear they are trying to airbrush this from history.
The Scottish media is in complete denial over it.
When we get our club back I would hope questions are asked and answers demanded over that Summer of hatred.”
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“just a pity he didn’t think about that when he gleefully put the boot into us. Get tae f*** teuchter g*t.”
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“The guy is a hypocrate”
Delighted game is sold out. Felt sad watching the other games with TT shut. These full stadiums on Euro nights are our best hope of reminding Europe we remain a big club.