The board

Get every single one of these charlatans to *. We haven’t been able to compete in europe under this regime, they ban the hardcore support who follow us home and away and we lost 10iar under these * and we still don’t build from a position of strength this season.

 

They're nothing but vultures
Next season they'll want another £600+ for season tickets, somewhere around £180 fir cl match packages if we make it and another 4 kits at £65 a go fir a total of £260 if anyone is dumb enough to buy all 4.

Then they'll give themselves another payrise while we get stuck with transfer fees for new players from 20 years ago paying wages from 20 years ago.

But hey beating sevco is all that matters so the happy clappers will follow along as always giving them £1000 a season for them to line their own pockets

 

I honestly haven't a clue what we can do about them. The only thing that matters to them is money but fans won't stop buying merchandise or tickets. The money / business side is all that matters..the team are a really distant 2nd.

 

In before the fellas that want Celtic to be around for another 100 years, and what way to ensure that by hoarding a figure on a spreadsheet and doing hee haw with it, and the lads that appreciate the sustainable model we operate with that rewards majority shareholders with dividends.

Can’t beat it.

 

careful you'll have the board sympathizers coming for you.

btw the way Celtic fans are treated by the police abroad is brutal and in Scotland . Absolutely nothing from these spineless * to come out and back us or get anything sorted. It's an absolute disgrace but as long as they all get a nice bonus that's all that matters.

 

This is a business at the end of the day, like a car dealership or a takeaway. Do a tiny bit to keep people happy (and let's be honest, simpletons in our support lap it up) and make more on the back end because the general population think that the club care about their needs. Fans aren't loud enough. Small time thinking. We should be calling out boards and managers in publix for euro results , not just poor domestic form.

 

They do a wonderfully good job

 

How do you show your disgust at the board without shunning the team with a boycott?
The board’s contempt for the fans is disgusting.

 

Show yer anger on social media and fan sites

 

Change is long overdue.

 

It’s the arrogance and delusion that gets to me more than anything.

They all think they’re doing a splendid job. Patting each others backs whilst we get routinely humiliated on the regular.

 

All I'm gonna say is, it's very convenient that the GB are banned, given how they're always the first to call them to account in the stadium when they short change the fans and the underfund the manager.

I've zero doubt in my mind if they hadn't have been banned, banners and messages about their mismanagement would have been front and centre in the curve.

I wouldn't put a * foot past them to kill two birds with one by shutting them down.

 

£70 million just sitting in the bank is just bad and lazy business. In a bank, it's just a number on a spreadsheet, completely useless.

I think we need to be demonstrating around the clock. Before they arrive for games, during games and until they leave. Completely boycott the Celtic shop and Celtic merch sold elsewhere. Also, finding actions fans can do to * off club sponsors because, if they are upset, they go to the club and give them a headache.

 

They need chased.

 

Male, pale and stale. The plan is very simple from the Boards point of view- stay ahead of Sevco. They dont give a flying * about Europe. And lets be honest beat Sevco at the end of December and the Celtic das and happy clappers will be content enough.

 

This is the problem, Celtic Football Club is not car dealership but it is being run like one.

A car dealerships only interest is in making profits, which it has to keep going by making sales or cutting costs.

A football clubs only interest should be in playing the best football that they can, with the finances organised in order to facilitate that.

Desmond/Lawwell are running the club like a branch of Arnold Clark or a chippy, prioritising profits instead of the football.

This is why we constantly struggle in Europe. It's why we've let a 10 year old club catch up with us. It's why more effort goes into making Christmas ads and shutting down match streams than identifying players and managers.

It's why our club hierarchy is a cabal of tories and bank managers. We won't ever fulfil our potential until we're shot of them.

 

I'm so fed up with this board I made a draft of a statement which could be spread on social media to incite a financial boycott of the club.

Spoiler: Statement

It is that time of the year again. Celtic are out of Europe, with yet another page to add to an already abysmal record. Before the campaign, supposed ambitions in Europe were stated. However, the team had not been strengthened, as per tradition.

Excuses vary. When Celtic had to qualify for Champions League through several rounds of qualifiers, the stated reason for the lack of signings that could make us competitive was “that we wouldn’t know if we would qualify for Champions League or not”. There would also be mentions of how “the market was difficult”. Once we had direct qualification, the main excuse became that “better players want to weigh their options”.

Never mind that other clubs do bring in players while we wait, and that the board like to boast with great finances at every AGM. This year, they had a special report even, to inform us of the financial situation being better than projected.

So why then, are the club officials constantly pointing to the collapse of the old Rangers FC, or recently - at Everton’s troubles? These things do not concern us- we have a healthy bank balance that is constantly improving, enabling bigger wages and transfer fees to be paid.

The board, despite having no excuses, have decided consciously to not approve of any signings that would be considered star players, unless they had been signed on a loan the year prior. The cautious approach has only resulted in anguish for the fans, who are trying to help the club’s footballing side grow with every kit bought, every season ticket purchased or renewed, etc. Instead, only the bank balance grows, looking like a layer of blubber for some theoretical crisis that won’t come.

Enough is enough.

If the board prioritize money over footballing success, then they should be punished in a way that hurts their self-selected priorities.

We invite all Celtic fans to withhold any further spending regarding the club as a corporate entity. Cancel season tickets and Celtic TV subscriptions, stop buying merchandise from the club store, do not attend games, and most importantly, use social media to proudly state you’re part of this initiative. Spread the word of your discontent with the current situation, and help this protest reach both critical mass and media coverage.

If you are too attached to the team on the pitch and thus cannot stomach the thought of non-attendance, vocally express dissatisfaction with the board during home games. They will hear the boos, the mocking, and will hate it. The focus of the media will be on them.

As it should.

The players duly come out every week, alongside the manager, and perform what they are paid to. With more or less success, but they do their job. Including press conferences - the eye of the media is always upon them.

Meanwhile, at the Annual General Meeting, the majority shareholder is always absent- never present to clarify his plans on how should the club progress or answer questions. Whenever the club win (domestic) silverware, Dermot Desmond and the board are there to take the plaudits. But when failure occurs, they are silent, and have never implemented radical changes to ensure improvement beyond the usual goal of domestic domination, yet continue to be paid on the level of CEO-s of clubs with much more financial muscle, despite the player wages cap being unaffected by inflation.

Our patience with them has finally run out.

We, the fans of Celtic FC, demand that the current and any future manager be backed with sufficient funds at his disposal ( without having to rely on player sales) in terms of both wages and transfer fees, in order to be able to rectify the problem positions in the squad, starting from the coming January. Furthermore, additional staff should be recruited to overhaul training and reduce the number of injuries to first team players, as well as improve the defensive and set piece aspects of the game.
Lastly, appropriate changes to the board structure should be considered, so that a fans’ representative could participate in the management of the club as a whole.

Until these demands are met, the corporate entity should be treated as an enemy by the fans, and financial expenses withdrawn from it, or at the very least, the presence of board members at Celtic Park should elicit the same response as the presence of Rangers fans - boos and jeers. We are fans of the club founded on the idea of Brother Walfrid, and hold loyalty to it alone. The board must earn our trust, by following through with our explicit wish that the club do better in Europe.

If the board yield, and spend the money we have thus far invested in the club with an aim to improve the club’s footballing side- the primary one, we fans will gladly open the possibility of further investment in the club from our side.

Should they insist in their cloudy and finance-centered stewardship of the club, they shall see the profits decrease, and will have to look at numbers not so pretty at the next AGM, in front of displeased shareholders. In seeking ultimate profit, they shall reap losses.

We have the power to make them choose.

Let the people sing!

 

I'd recommend a small edit and insert a paragragh about how playing 90s hoofball is the way to take the club forward.

Seriously mate, points for effort taking the time to type all that out, but the reality is as long as we're winning domestically you're not going to get a significant number of people boycotting anything, there will be more people cancelling their season tickets now purely based on cost of living, rather than any sort of protest, but still more than enough on the waiting list to pick them straight up.

 

The board know and they are not daft if we keep ahead of sevco and win the league and the odd cup a season then most fans are happy.
It's only if we lose the league a couple of seasons then discontent would set in .
So even 40 per cent of the fans boycotted there's fans waiting in the wings to take their place and we need a united front against the board but can't see it if we are winning the league season after season.

 

If they aren't gonna spend the money we put in to the club and the bulk of the fans won't do * about the lack of ambition from the board, then * it, keep racking up the fines until that £70m is back down to zero.

How many fines will it take from UEFA or the spfl before we get stadium closures? Then who will that hurt more, us or the boards balance sheet?

* that they are.


They need * chased, have done for a decade or more now.



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