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. An Tearmann on 24th September 2022 4:31 pm

     

     

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  6. AN TEARMANN on 24TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:56 PM

     

     

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    He also dropped me a text earlier this evening, glad he is feeling a bit better.

     

     

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    A Campeltown Malt! Lovely and enjoy my friend!

     

     

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