Mondays Meeting

We acknowledge our failure



but we’ll continue to do it regardless

 

This.

If they’d come out with a bunch of “We’re committed to improving this, we’re currently reviewing that” at least a portion of the fanbase would be split in wanting to see what comes out of it. But their seeming belligerence and refusal to take any meaningful responsibility whatsoever will do wonders in actually uniting opinion against them even further.

 

do the clueless * not realize that selling your best players and not replacing them is what negatively impacts the team on the field

 

With a ramp for accessibility

 

It's not a bad thing they've doubled down in hindsight.

They could have easily made bog standard promises that would have got them time until the end of January at least, made a few signings and the protests go away for a bit with very little change.

Instead they double down which in turn will massively keep up the pressure.

 

The frustrating thing for me is the European tax rule that says you have to wait until the last day of the transfer window to sign players even when they've already been available for months.

It's just so annoying how the specify that that this only applies to Celtic and no one else.

 

Is there no way to boo and show our discontent directly to the board members entering and leaving the stadium while cheering the players in? Assume lawwell etc all arrive at the same time usually. We do need to back the team when we are so poor currently but target these * in charge more directly. Obviously no physical stuff or any kind or personal insults as such.

 

Obviously, fans are seated all above and below them. Turning to face them and spouting abuse is easy enough.

 

If they really wanted to communicate and engage with the supporters THEN LIVE BROADCAST THE MEETING

No need for minutes, no need to release statements and everyone who wants to listen can watch along

You wont find any fan against this idea but you will not find a single board member willing to allow this ever to happen


And then you have to ask the question - why are they afraid ? exact same at the AGM,
they dont want to face hard questions let alone answer them, and want to hide behind group responsibility
and no accountability personally.

 

Once again showing themselves to be tone deaf, unable to read the room and ultimately unfit for the task of making this FOOTBALL CLUB the best it can be.

We are a business who has a football team, not a football club with ambition and a plan for continual development. That is the boards responsibility and they're failing, yet taking no accountability and trotting out weak excuses easily shown up as bollocks.

Imagine you work in a job, your customers all complain about you doing a shoddy half arsed job in an unprofessional way, that's publicly criticised and widely viewed as a shambles of an effort and just turning round and saying "ah but you don't really understand.. there's certain rules that stopped me getting it done properly so don't worry about it, the criticism is unjustified". * brass necked *.

 

that last paragraph could be any politician or government employee

 

If I wasn't so annoyed, I’d laugh at the irony of them pledging to improve communication while messing up the communication of that very message.

 

The fans forked out a fortune with Fergus to save the club only for it to somehow fall into the hands of vultures.

 

I still fell bad for being angry with Fergus for the sacking of Burns, and letting the huns outspend us.

He was proven right. Huns went bust, and no Jansen, no Henrik. He built us for long term success and I didn't appreciate him at the time. I would love someone like him right now.

 

Saying that the Rodgers thing was unsubstantiated is a slap in the face to Rodgers.
Rodgers said publicly that the leak should be sacked. So to come iut and say its closed and was nothing is disrespectful imo

 

What has come from the whole Summer fiasco and subsequent discussions of the board has been quite revealing.

It really looks to me now that the board run the club within the structure of a profit making plc. Somewhere along the line, maybe deliberately, maybe accidentally - the fortunes of Celtic the plc overtook the fortunes of the Celtic FC. It may have been born originally out of well intentioned desire to be financially sound and stable. But its been allowed to totally consume how the club is run. Finance first, football second.

Because there is little to no competition in Scotland and sevco were ran into the ground the board have been able to prioritise the plc over the football club without it unduly impacting the domestic dominance. But at the price of handicapping the football team with an artificially low ceiling. This is reflected in Europe, where we have become a complete also ran bar one or two seasons.

Rather than admit than Celtic PLC is the priority in how the club is now structured to operate - these meetings have produced a bunch of smoke screening and illiogical reasoning from the board.

I think whatever person or persons are actually dictating the strategy that the club are following need to be smoked out and removed. Otherwise changing personnel without changing our actual strategy will not have the desired effect.

It looks to me like Rodgers by way of conspicuously not naming Lawell in past interviews is revealing who he thinks is actually dictating this policy. Hes alluded to the football side of things needing to brought alongside the business. I think thats his way of saying that the football team needs to be given at least equal status to the plc. And hes also vouched to vary degrees for Nicholson, McKay and Desmond. But not Lawell. Maybe its just a personal dislike he has of Lawell but it could be that he sees him as the one who is running the strategy thats handicapping the football team. If the stories of Nicholson needing sign off from additional figures is true, then who else could that be really? And would Nicholson resigning really change much if the next guy in has to follow the strategy the club is pursuing?