Dermot Desmond

They all badly need hunted..

Lennon got it and rightly so but they're the one's who've massively failed us by hiring him and letting it drag on..

This season can never be forgotten whilst this mob are still here..

Edit:
The recruitment in place
Our lack of scout's
The failure to press ahead with key signings and penny pinch
The disdain for our support
The whole old firm brand
The fact we sit back and take the decisions that go against us and how some official's are laughably allowed to do our game's with their history

You could go on and on..

They disgust me..

 

"Decision-making in football is not an exact science and I accept without qualification that we have made some wrong calls. We will endeavour to learn from those. However, the conjecture coming from some journalists, commentators and pundits that they foresaw the outcome of this season is entirely disingenuous in my opinion."

Green Brigade in August 2019...




People have been warning against complacency for years. They didn't heed those warnings.

 

Damning..

 

Mad coincidence that I'm hearing this in Lennon/Kennedy's voice.

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I haven’t read DD’s interview in full, but was shaking my head as a I read that line.

Business, organisations, football clubs - you name it - can all be successful while continuously doing the wrong things provided their financial muscle and infrastructure is well ahead of the competition.

That one line tells me that the changes and modernisation that we all hope to see isn’t likely to be as drastic as we would like. Why change the operating model when it was supposedly impossible to foresee the events of this season? It’s a blip to DD, rather than evidence that we’ve been operating poorly for a while now, despite
the success.

 

"that we give that manager the time to implement their own plans"........

He hasn't got time, we need the league back at Parkhead next year for automatic qualification...

DD told us * all

 

* joke.

 

Is he still bribing Taoiseachs and other Fianna Fail members? This * is unfit to run our club. * thinks he knows it all because he's rich but only got there because of some shady deals. He can * off right away.

 

Few things to take out if this "interview".

1. * him. And the horse he rode in on.

2. He slithered out from under his pile of golden nuggets for ONE reason only. To try to put and end to the noise of fan ownership. "My shares are not for sale" is the modus operandi of this garbage. If push comes to shove, and mismanagement continues, we will get you out. FACT.

3. Despite claiming to be a supporter, it's incredible how out of touch with supporters he really is. Daring to mention Bankier and "fortunate to have him" in the same breath is demonstrative of this. As is his side stepping a * apology for * up our biggest season in decades.

4. His refusal to disclose type of manager HE wants is very telling. He obviously doesn't want to put himself in a box. He's refusing to do this so that in the event he fluffs this appointment and hires a * he can justify it later.

5. You might say I'm bring a tad melodramatic but human nature is as transparent as crystal. When tyrannical regimes sense a threat to their rule they do one of three things. They invent a foreign threat or outside danger, they spread misinformation and present lies as truth, or they oppress the dissent through force. We've seen all three this season. DD is no fool, and clever enough to separate fact from fiction. The assertion that "no one saw this coming" is a bare faced * lie. Everyone did. His proclamation that this was always going to be a "transitional year" is also bollocks. If we hadn't have completely collapsed, or if sevco would've imploded like he and many others on the board I suspect were counting on, it would have been business as usual.
If there was a single iota of truth in that statement of transition then Neil Lennon wouldn't have been kept as manager right up until the * end of February. LIES. The club, under his BOARDS directive also empowered the police on numerous occasions this season to put a stop to protests, harass dissenting supporters, and vilify the GB at any given opportunity. *.

6. The * brass neck to assert that Lawell is leading the manager hunt is another slap in the face. Transitional year my *.


If Desmond had have released a statent along the lines of "We're sorry. We became complacent, lost sight of our responsibilities as managers, treated the fans with nonchalance and we apologise. We will do better. Just give us time to get it right."... no probs. Get to work. Fix our club.

But no. An arrogant, self serving performance parroting the club line of "look at our past success you ingrates" and a tirade if fictions presented as realities. He and his board must be sacrificing lambs at the altar of Covid 19 because not * one of his straw men on the board would have survived a game at Paradise. Mars bars all around.

As far as I'm concerned, he's done.

I want him, Bankier, Lawell, ALL OF THEM out.

They're a disgrace to our club.

 

@LectersLuncheon all of what you've said is easier said than done in terms of trying to get rid. The bottom line is he owns a majority and controlling share of the club, and that is not going to change until he decides he is prepared to sell a significant number of shares within his portfolio that it dips below the 50.1%, and even then it would be far from straight forward to accomplish.

But that is all moot anyhow, so long as he remains intent on retaining his majority shareholding and controlling interest.

 

I'm not 100% certain on this but I don't think Desmond owns anywhere near the 50% controlling share in the club. I think his shares are somewhere in the early 20% of available shares. He is the majority shareholder but doesn't have a controlling interest

 

My mistake, you are right. I was confusing his shareholding with McCann's prior to his sale wayyy back when and just assumed DD had purchased all of McCann's 50.3% that he had at the time, which I remembered from when wrote about McCann, the rebels and that whole era.

Even still though, it would not be an easy thing to accomplish to oust him as majority shareholder against his will.

 

He was doing so well to take responsibility till the bolded part.

Not for the first time (PL after Dubai) they fail to understand this is NOT about the * media and journalists. This is OUR fans saying the same * thing.
When Celtic fans are agreeing with Andy * Walker, you know the issues is well beyond the biased pundit nature of Sky and the rest!



I can only assume this is the attempt to try and swing back the uber fans and the always faithful through and through to the company side, in pretending the disdain is only from the media and everything else is fine...honest we are fine....

 

He MUST get the time.
This constant demand of instant success is part of the reason we go for the proposed "safe hands" that "knows the city"


We want full scale changes in all aspects of the footballing side of the club? We want a young minded, modern approach to coaching? We are going to need to give this time to settle in. This is to be BIG changes, not instant success changes.

By no means do I say we stick with a manager absolutely out his depth, again, but we do need to be less demanding if we want to see actual change take place.

 

100%

Most of the opinion pieces in the Scottish Football media will be written after the person has come on the likes of here, KDS and Twitter.

Healthy organisations understand the power of constructive criticism and welcome it as a way to improve. Celtic PLC does the opposite, it shuts out the supporters from the conversation and then does the Donald Trump tactic of calling 'Fake News' at any criticism that comes from the media.

It might fool some like you say but I can feel the tides turning and more people realising what the board are.

 

As long as private equity investors don't come sniffing about.. then we will have a problem.

 

For sure @Seán Mac D for sure. Even look at the leaked kit - if that is true it will * pain me not to buy it, but I simply refuse to put more money in to this club till the club starts to listen to the fans and deliver something better than the endless dross we get served with no future planning, no structure, no ambitions.

I don't need a big name manager, I just want the right one, or at least do your (board) job properly to try and get the right one and support him with all the tools needed for a modern club.

Even if we failed next season, but we have laid down a full infrastructure, I will be more than happy as the club works towards greater success. But I still fear this penny pinching attitude, that we are going to announce a DoF and a Head Coach, but that is it.