Laying commercial roots in Australia

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This morning, Celtic announced an Academy link with a Sydney-based organisation to deliver a youth tournament ahead of the club’s visit there in November. Since the Ange Coming Home Tour deal was signed, the club have been looking at ways to broaden our footprint in Australia. Where you see ‘youth football tournament’, I am inclined to read, ‘laying down commercial roots’.

Our domestic market is fixed and, if anything, is likely to be butchered with young eyeballs migrating to the English Premier League. The great waves of Scottish migration to Australia and North America have been little more than trickle for decades. There is just not the same number of ex-pats there to sustain valuable streams.

Ignore these demographic trends and Celtic will shrink. It is difficult to swim against the EPL tide, but whatever we can do to irrigate new territories is worth trying. The more obvious question is what to do about Japan? I don’t see encouraging signs of building a Celtic oasis there. Pity.

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  1. Tom McLaughlin on 24th September 2022 9:47 pm

     

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    Sorry Tom, but I used to like you.

     

     

    HH

  2. BTW – are Celtic a Scottish club with Irish links or an Irish club stuck in a shitty little unionist outpost?

     

     

    Discuss.

  3. Yorkbhoy,

     

     

    Nah,sorry mate,not having it.Plenty of colours to choose.A Tricolour strip tonight,white with the green and orange,not that H.un special

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  5. Tom McLaughlin on 24th September 2022 9:47 pm

     

     

    £10 on Scotland to win 2-1 @ 8/1. £90 return. I’m a happy Scottish bhoy.

     

     

    Well done Scotland.

     

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    I always love the Bookies being bashed.

     

     

    Unbeatable Banzookie.

     

     

    It was evident the Ange effect.

     

     

    Celtic

     

     

    CELTIC

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  7. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 24th September 2022 9:52 pm

     

     

    I see two former Celts, John Collins and Peter Grant were debating the McGinn to Celtic transfer failure and opined that Brendan Rodgers probably didn’t fancy him enough.

     

     

    If two guys with recent close contacts in CP are guessing, I guess the rest of us have no real info either.

     

     

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    The 1 thing I know, and its Nailed on, I know Nothing.

     

     

    I’m mega excited about this Celtic Team.

  8. SFTB

     

     

    Peter Grant certainly was guessing. He used the words ‘maybe’ and ‘perhaps’ in the same sentence. Total speculation.

  9. SCULLYBHOY on 24TH SEPTEMBER 2022 9:41 PM

     

     

    Hateful country.

     

     

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

     

     

    Thanks for roscommon stuff,a friend in,was discussing with a friend in Galway thro week,and it was from the media hoo ha over stuff he had me in fits telling of events that occurred every Sunday,just lamenting how wi social media these things are hoo ha’d and outraged before the game ends.changin times.

     

     

    HH

  10. For as long as you have non-supporting Celtic supporters, you are all fecked – not that it really matters to me. I only care about Celtic football club and politics are quite secondary. Watching this site has only taught me how the Weast Brits are scary people – very like Trump supporters – mind control; at all costs, It is only a Celtic blog discussing Celtic?????????????????????????????

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    Look it up EL and deal with your anger management issues.

     

    Celtic will bring you joy.

     

     

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  13. An Tearmann on 24th September 2022 10:09 pm

     

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    I would love to meet you in person sometime. You seem to be an n old style Celtic supporter. I wish you well, my friend. The type of person that makes me proud to be part of the Celtic family.

     

     

    HH

  14. Turkeybhoy on 24th September 2022 9:57 pm

     

     

    Scullybhoy,

     

    Unionist outpost ?????????.

     

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    I apologize if that offended you, but I think that for as long as you have, EL ? MM spouting their mind control, the best you can hope for is a Glasgow Hibernian.

     

     

    Anyway – off to bed, very unhappy that Ireland lost and angry at players that I love aaaaghh.

  15. Great game between Scotland and the Republic – the ROI really wanted the win but Scotland were superb in the second half.

     

     

    You have to wonder why anyone would have a problem with the ROI playing in Orange, it’s on their flag!!

     

     

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN @ 10:07 PM

     

     

    SFTB @ 10:15 PM

     

     

    Agreed Tom,

     

     

    You’d have to ignore the fact that Brendan Rodgers made it clear he wanted John McGinn from the start of the 2018 summer transfer window right until before before he signed for Aston Villa.

     

     

    https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/16339778.brendan-rodgers-reveals-john-mcginn-set-sign-celtic-scott-allan-off-hibs/

     

     

    “He is a player that we clearly wanted to bring here,” he said Rodgers. “I was really interested in bringing him in from a few months back.

     

     

    “We haven’t been able to complete a deal and of course when you don’t complete a deal on a player it always opens the door for other teams – a club like Aston Villa, who have clearly interest in him, who have a big history of their own, a great club with excellent facilities and now financial backing.

     

     

    “So we have to wait and see on that one.”

     

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45102192

     

     

    Nonsense to suggest otherwise.

     

     

    Hail Hail

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  17. scullybhoy on 24th September 2022 10:30 pm

     

     

    An Tearmann on 24th September 2022 10:09 pm

     

     

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    I would love to meet you in person sometime. You seem to be an n old style Celtic supporter. I wish you well, my friend. The type of person that makes me proud to be part of the Celtic family.

     

     

    HH

     

     

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    The Wee Man is Massive.:))

     

     

    Always thinking about JamesGang with his Norwegian head attire.

     

     

    Magical.

     

     

    RonnyD.CSC

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  19. garygillespieshamstring on

    PETEC

     

     

    A bird watching oasis

     

     

    I was expecting to see a wummin at a gig by the Gallagher brothers.😃

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  21. garygillespieshamstring on 24th September 2022 10:44 pm

     

     

    PETEC

     

     

    A bird watching oasis

     

     

    I was expecting to see a wummin at a gig by the Gallagher brothers.😃

     

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    The amount of different birds is off the scale when you go to Ardmore. :))

     

     

    I’m always wary about going over the train tracks. tis weird.

  22. scullybhoy on 24th September 2022 10:40 pm

     

     

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    Fair enough mate. I do respect some real old time Celts on here.

     

     

    I feel humble in their presence. It’s all about something mystical that we call,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Celtic.

     

     

    HH

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