The other night, Celtic TV committed a massive faux pas by delaying the transmission of the Qarabag game until 9pm. And those who waited to see it got a half time interview with Ronny Deila reflecting on the game.<\/p>\n
Badly put together would be an understatement. And if you logged in later to watch, the score was on the home page.<\/p>\n
According to various posts I’ve read on forums and so on.<\/p>\n
The plan to encourage people to go to the game, and prevent them from watching illegal streams appears to have backfired, as a number of overseas fans, who may have had to take an extra hour off work had they wanted to go to the game, couldn’t get the service they’d paid for. Often a full years subscription.<\/p>\n
Leaving aside the somewhat petulant stance of depriving genuine paying customers to prevent lollygaggers from viewing, the club also denied access to Azeri TV, who would have paid for it, and thus anyone watching their stream is watching something that has made the club money.<\/p>\n
A difficult to support argument, but a fact nonetheless. Most supporters would prefer a high quality Celtic TV, with the money going directly to the club.<\/p>\n
It wouldn’t have been so bad had the club been honest about it. but, on Tuesday, they had tweeted;<\/p>\n
Celtic TV @CelticTV<\/em> Of course, if that were to be believed, it would negate the statement in bold within the email received by overseas subscribers when they complained about lack of coverage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We understand your frustration with this.<\/em><\/p>\n Celtic TV is a service provided by Celtic FC to its fans and we are proud that the channel enables thousands of fans around the world to keep in close contact with the club that we all love.<\/em> That difficult decision has been made only after assessing all of the information at our disposal. However, it has become apparent that there is a lot of misleading information and conjecture circulating online and the club is keen to inform fans accurately on why Celtic TV will broadcast a delayed transmission of this evening\u2019s game from 9pm.<\/em><\/p>\n Celtic FC does have the right to broadcast tonight\u2019s game against Qarabag FK<\/strong> but on this occasion didn\u2019t feel it was in the best interest of the club due to increased security threats posed from internet hackers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The club\u2019s multimedia department have had sustained attacks on\u00a0Celticfc.tv<\/span>\u00a0in the last seven days. In addition we have intelligence that the attacks would have been greater if the game was broadcast live. This would have resulted in the quality of the service being frequently compromised mid-broadcast by attacks on our site.<\/em><\/p>\n This match is not being broadcast anywhere out with the stadium, Celtic TV subscribers will be the first people able to watch this game.<\/em><\/p>\n We are committed to providing the best possible service to all subscribers to Celtic TV. In showing the game as live as a delayed broadcast, we are able to manage out the risks highlighted while still providing subscribers with the full game this evening. Our commitment to all Celtic fans is that we are deploying all necessary resources to protect the Celtic TV service from future attacks and disruption.-\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In the best interests of the club ?<\/p>\n What about the best interests of the fans ?<\/p>\n Overseas fans -and those who live outwith an hour of Celtic Park are a dedicated bunch. That goes without saying.<\/p>\n All over the world they meet up , they watch games, they buy merchandise, often in more abundance than the locals, though i must stress it’s not a competition.<\/p>\n They host players and officials when they travel abroad to conventions-a nice wee perk for everyone.<\/p>\n Yet providing them with no coverage of an extremely important game on a service they have paid for is nit in the best interests of the club ?<\/p>\n Should Hollywood stop making films, in case somehow gets hold of a dodgy stream or dvd ?<\/p>\n No, they adapt. They sell on quality, on the experience of the cinema.<\/p>\n The music business has adapted, by incorporating high quality streams into the business.<\/p>\n To add to the pain, the club then put the whole game on the free to view You tube channel, thus kicking out any teeth the ex Pats had left.<\/p>\n Someone somewhere isn’t very good at his job. In fact, this whole thing stinks.<\/p>\n The attitude shown by the club to the world wide support is shameful. not only in their actions, but by lying about the reasons. If the service\/site is at risk from overloading, then install proper security.<\/p>\n Showing it later to solve the problem ? That would only be a solution if the hackers had to go to bed because it wa a school night.<\/p>\n Looking ahead, perhaps this debacle can be turned into something positive.<\/p>\n Clear the whole thing out. Start again with a professional company covering the games, and a professional company organising the site.<\/p>\n Celtic fans will pay for anything Celtic, especially if the money is going more or less straight into the club.<\/p>\n But we demand quality.<\/p>\n Thats why we don’t buy fake replica tops.<\/p>\n It’s why we prefer to have officially sanctioned t shirts, hats, scarves etc, as long as the club isn’t being too over the top in pricing.<\/p>\n The quality is usually better, if you don’t count New Balance, and there is the knowledge that the club is geting the money.<\/p>\n Speaking of New Balance.<\/p>\n I was contacted on here by the chap in charge of New Balance in Canada. He referred the customer Services manager in Britain to me, so i can’t thank him enough for doing his best to try to sort out the many issues that supporters have with the new kit.<\/p>\n I also contacted John Paul Taylor to ask for a contact to the man who secured the deal with the kit comapny. He didn’t give them to me, but agreed to pass on my request for his comments.<\/p>\n Neither has replied.<\/p>\n Am I to assume that the season book money is in now, and the shirts have been sold, therefore, \u00a0we, as supporters can all go fuck ourselves ?<\/p>\n Sorry if you expected a laugh this morning, but sometimes Celtic, like any close friend or family member, can really piss me off.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other night, Celtic TV committed a massive faux pas by delaying the transmission of the Qarabag game until 9pm. 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\nWe are still working on rights for tomorrow’s #UCL game for ex UK & Ireland subscribers, we hope to announce full details later today. (NM)<\/em>
\n3:10 PM – 28 Jul 2015<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNaturally, the desire to see Celtic play is heightened on an occasion like this evening\u2019s UEFA Champions League 3rd round qualifier against Qarabag FK of Azerbaijan. However, the club has taken a decision on this occasion not to provide live coverage in the best interests of Celtic FC.<\/em><\/p>\n