The board are taking us for fools

I dont give a * what people coming on think. even if their not celtic fans. and for your information this is NOT a knee * reaction. EVERY Big game that Lennon has been in charge of we have FAILED. He`s Bought more bad buys than good. We dont have players who can step up to the plate and deliver. it`s ok fine and dandy when were 2 or 3 up and yes we all want to touch the ball...when the chips are down the players are hiding...Lennon bought them so he`s accountable for them !!!

 

I'll just repeat my first sentence again:
Do the 2-0, 3-0, 1-0 wins over the huns last season count for nothing? And, we actually did beat Braga and Utrecht last season in Europe, as well.

 

Of course Rangers won 3 in a row by their own merit. But we have watched them overtake us, and spent nothing to try and regain the league! (in net terms). The board take for granted that each year they will make so many million in silly pre-season tours, get 50,000 people turning up every week, as well as celtic tv, strip sales, etc, etc. I dont how people will continue to support celtic to that extent when no money is being spent on the team, we are in seriously danger of losing 4 in a row to an awful rangers side, and we cant even qualify for the europa cup anymore barring legal hearings!

 

A Braga side who actually turned out to be a cracking team at that!

 

That would be the SAME Utrecht side who pumped us 4-0 then ? And we still lost the league as well if i'm correct

 

The league wins count for 3 points. Simple as that. As delightful it is to beat them, they still proved themselves over the course of a season and we didnt. And as much as we beat Braga and Utrecht last season those also counted for zero as we didnt beat them over 2 legs. Had it not been for a court hearing we would no longer be in Europe this year.

As Ive said, no league in 3, european flops for several years, and no net spending whatsoever. I find it hard to believe. What other club in europe would get 50,000 every week paying £25-30 a ticket to watch a team half filled with free transfers? Celtic fans give great support but I believe the time in coming where many will just stop going.

 

The board can stick 2 season tickets up there * if this incompetance continues

 

Lennon should be away for telling us the 'punters' commons was injured yesterday then commons tells us he isn't!

 

a fire sale of players,,new management and further reductions in quality on the park.a huge re structuring due to the massive shortfall in revenue.* doomsday.

 

And if I'm correct, you said Lennon has lost every "big game". I merely informed you otherwise, because what you were saying was untrue.

 

For all those defending the board; a serious question:

At what point do you change to challenge the way the board is running the club, if ever?

We have gone from a uefa cup final team/last 16 champions league/league winners, to losing 3 in a row, currently 4 points off top, disgraced in europe 2 years running, and zero net spending over the last 3 years.

Genuine question. When do you start to object to what is happening?

 

I reckon the board will be getting itchy feet if we lose anymore points between now and christmas and lets be honest here, who more liable to drop points between now and then it`s us. They took the easy option appointing Lennon. so they better pray were still in touching distance tho with this bunch of shirkers nothing is guaranteed.

 

think if we dont spend a bit of money in the january transfer window then i think it will be time to dust down the sack the board banners .

 

Who was given money to bring in that little higher quality of player. Smith in Scotland has always been given more money net than any manager he has opposed.

Thats harsh mate. You're only really saying they were big games because we lost. We have beaten the huns 3 times (when it mattered), won the cup, and won a game in Europe. They were big games at the times they were played.

Thats a strange, and worrying, one that is.

If you were in charge of a company and overseen your income falling through negligence, I doubt you would be in charge of said company for too long. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, it seems that as long as we balance the books, no matter how its done, then it is acceptable to those that run the place. They should have the foresight to realise that the fans will not tolerate this for too much longer. Running a business, especially a football club, is not a 6 monthly or yearly challenge. It must be looked at over a longer period of time and the lack of investment we have witnessed recently is costing us in Europe, which makes the big money harder to get.

 

FFS I thought it was Rangers in crises. You need to reserve judgement until we have played them at Parkhead. I think the Euro run will hurt us, just like it has done for much of the recent past but we have to show a bit more fight when we come off a midweek game.
I think the team has too many lightweights and a good few Gers fans I know pointed that out before the game. They were very confident of the win. I don't think it is time to bash the board just yet, you need to get behind the team.

 

The fans were behind them all 7000 and were treated to a shocking display and a manager who watched it and did nothing about it.

 

Think that is a bit harsh, if they could have defended a little better the might have sneaked it. Bottom line is the team that wants it more usually wins the OF games. think that's is the difference between the two teams.
Rangers appear to have more diehards in their team which is give g them an edge. That is why I think Celtic need to invest in more winners who will fight and instil confidence in the others.

 

Ive thought since lennon took over that the boards main focus isnt on winning the league. Its about keeping the debt down. our signing policy over the last 3 transfer windows on the whole has been to buy cheap young players put them in the shop window and hopefully sell them for a big profit when the time is right. I think we did really well with the signings we made at the start of last season, Kayal,Ledley,izzy,hooper,stokes all had good seasons add to that ki,brown and the addition of commons in january and over all i thought with what lennon said in the press towards the end of the season that he wanted 3/4 quality signings. I thought it was going to be our year but as the transfer window closed and i saw what we had brought in wanyama, bangura and mathews young, un known, inexperienced kids. a young inexperienced goalkeeper in forster. a centrehalf from the championship , a miget for a left back and the relisation that lenny and the board hadnt fixed the obvious problems in our team eg i was gona have to watch celtic playing loovens or big maj at centrehalf or that waste of space samaras up front. its a * joke im sick to death of putting thousands of pounds into celtic and having to watch the same players letting us down week in week out its pretty obvious our board and manager dont have a clue otherwise why is samaras, loovens or big maj still anywhere near the team. we had a great chance this close season to buy a desent experienced goalkeeper, a good jelavic type striker and a couple of experienced centrehalfs and i believe we would have * this league. for * sake rangers spend 700,000 quid on that goian and bocanegra and got bartley on loan and look a million times better in defence than us its a * joke. I honestly beleive that as things stand we as fans better get used to finishing second in the spl. the whole club is stale we need a change from top to bottom . lennon isnt the man to manage our club he made so many basic mistakes on sunday its laughable i mean ally mccoist out smarted him for * sake. The thing that worries me the most is that lennon continues to ignore or not see what we as fans see just how bad some of his players are and he continues to play them. they are costing us week in week out and ultimately those players will cost him his job. its still early on in the season but im not overly optomistic. hope they get their fingers out their *.

 

sounds about right.

 

With respect, your post doesn't actually make sense to me.

You say you don't give a toss about balance sheets. But the whole point of your post is that you feel the board aren't spending enough on players. So basically you start a thread about money, and then say you don't care about money.

If you feel the board is taking plenty of money in from fans, but not spending enough on players, explain where you think this excess money is being spent? Where do you want them to cut back on their spending, to make these extra funds appear in the transfer budget?