Celtic Statement

That club statement is worse than anyone could imagine.

No reference to the undeniable poor execution of recent windows, especially this one.
Lies about being limited by fair play - we are a million miles away from breaking rules.
No reference to not meeting managers ambition for first team.
No reference around reviewing our effectiveness or competence on the recruitment and sporting side - that Rogers called out in previous windows.
Worst of all, zero transparency now and in future.

So what exactly were the 'lessons learned' the board were so keen to consider? - none according that statement.

It's straight brick wall to the open letter, what I'd expect from an under siege eastern european government.
No recognition, no contrition, no olive branch.

For the first time ever for me, self sabotage came to mind. Deliberately keep us small, easy to control and not to have to work too hard.
I sincerely hope it's 'only' rank incompetence.

These are the final days of this board.

 

Sadly the statements only achievement was to tell us what we already know, we have an incompetent board and there is no justification for the farcical transfer non-strategy currently being adopted. Smoke and mirror operation designed to cover their own misgivings.
Let's park all the BS. The simple truth is the fans, manager and players want quick effective recruitment, quality over quantity aimed at improving the starting 11. There is no doubt this can be achieved within the clubs budget and while operating a player trading model. There is also no doubt that the current board are incapable of doing this and are thus unfit for purpose and should be removed from their position.

 

The Europa League absolutely should be boycotted mate. I will be disappointed in ST holders who take them if I’m honest. League games where the money is already in, then that is the time to go and protest outside whilst supporting the team on the park. Anyone who is prepared to pump more money in buying Europa League packages given what’s gone on, coupled with that utter drivel of a statement, then I would view these fans are part of the problem if I’m honest.

 

Hopefully people don't buy them I wouldn't hold my breath tho

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"Throwing money" .. did ye aye .. there was a good protest I think in Germany where the fans threw loads of fake notes on the pitch ... we should do that

 

Yet if we beat the goat farmers and performed identicaly in the transfer window, you wouldn't be disappointed in them buying the champions league tickets? If folk want to buy them, they can. Hate * who've not even got a ticket themselves being "disapointed"

Keyboard warriors. Easy to say when its no the champions league.

Then if we start actually making the quarters and semis you'd all be back screaming for a ticket.

I believe in personal choice. I'd rather back the team while making it uncomfortable for the board every single game. We dont buy tickets, all they'll do is lower player spend to compensate anyway.

 

Nah not for me mate..

If I thought a boycott would do any good, I'd be all for it, but it won't. Unless it can be organised properly, with all groups behind it.

The majority of those tickets will be taken up by people who will happy to be there. A demo or some sort if action by fans who are really disgruntled during a European match, would hit harder I believe.

Are any of the Ultras planning a boycott do we know?

We have a couple of season tickets and are in the HCTS and plan to take the Europa tickets, but I definitely dont see us part of the problem.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but is sustainability responsibilities not worked out based on how much money you bring in in terms of sales, sponsorship, merchandise, ticket sales etc?

We don't even spend as much as we bring in and haven't over last number of windows. So are they just taking this years £13m profit and throwing on to the pile that uefa won't let them use?

Given these cash reserves the last thing we need is more rainy day money. At the very least we should be spending what we bring in in sales and realistically a bit more on top of that.

Nothing in that bullshit statement justifies the pathetic low ball offers we've made all summer nor does it explain the refusal to answer phone calls from buying clubs.

There stories of us acting unprofessionally aren't coming from the big bad media, they are literally coming out the mouths of other CEOs.

 

Nah


Said earlier in the thread they’ll get about 40k for the games

 

I’ve got a season ticket myself and I'm refusing them Monday. My bus as a group have all committed to not buying them. It seems we’re not alone. There has to be a point when enough is enough. We are * surely at that point.

I’ve refused to buy tickets in the past when this has happened. Have I then at any point in that campaign been screaming for a ticket? No. The one that stands out the most was the year we were dumped out by Maribor. I refused EL package, we made it through and got Inter Milan. Did I then take up my chance of a ticket for that game? No.

Not buying tickets won’t lower spend. We don’t * spend anyway. Funnily enough, I’m surprised they never put that in the statement about lowering spend if we don’t take EL package. It was about the only thing missing from the pack of lies and they have produced.

 

I’m not too clued up on the AGM voting process I know it won’t happen as there’s too many * lickers for the board , but what happens if Nicholson , lawell and DD are not voted back on at the AGM ? What percentage of votes do they need not to be voted back on ?

 

Always the same mate. “This won’t work. That won’t work.” It certainly won’t if we just continue to act like we always do. You won’t know if a boycott will do any good if everyone just done what you are going to and buy the tickets.

 

Not possible, the boards effectively votes for itself using proxy methods for the investors - the decisions are made prior to the AGM ever starting and are then rubber-stamped

 

Swear to * that this statement was written all or in part by Chat GPT. It has an "en dash" or a "chatgpt hyphen" as the kids call it, this one: –

Its a give away because GPT always uses it but people usually use the one on a standard keyboard ("-")

Other fingerprints of gpt are the equal weighting and construction of almost every sentence. Maybe someone less lazy than me can stick the whole thing through an AI detector but im pretty sure its a product of chatgpt, which just adds another layer to the contempt that the statement conveys

 

They’ve got a meeting with the CSA today apparently


Wonder if we’ll see anything come out of that from the tea biscuits

 

Continued tickets.

 

Someone already did. It came out as an 88% Match I think it was. There's a tweet about on here somewhere

https://x.com/yogijunior3/status/1964431891123294433?t=SiVYvBINxCmTFG9RHFoLGQ&s=19

 

Counted tickets


Free tea and biscuits


Free seats in the box


The usual

 

Treating the fans like they are stupid. We’re not asking the club to jeopardise the long term stability of the club. We are asking them to sign players to so as we don’t come out each of a last several windows weaker than we went into them.

How are we one of the only clubs to make a profit window by window and not strengthen. Look at Brugge, Feyernord, etc etc

 

So reading between the lines of that statement. “Shut up the lot of you, we’re doing a great job. Nobody will be losing their job, now back in your box and don’t dare question us again”.