Celtic Supporters Thread (contains GB chat)

I get where you're coming from, it's a catch 22...

Starve them money we will get a * football team and hand the huns the champions league cash end if season..

Don't starve them we will get treated with same contempt like we have for years but we will still probably get a * football team..

Problem is the board and Desmond in particular thinks they are doing a great job..its mind boggling arrogance

Judging by this forum and others alot of people won't be stumping up a penny till they are gone.. they ain't leaving.. worrying times to be honest

 

Presumably they would hold their stock as they're already exposed for an 8-figure sum. Doubling down and buying up Dermot's stock in the event that the share price is tumbling down would be a bold move, particularly against a backdrop of a mass supporter boycott.

Fergus got the supporters onside after his takeover because he was a fan himself and was honest from the outset that he was going to leave with money but that the trade-off would be a club on a sounder footing, no longer at the mercy of a small group of investors. There wouldn't be anywhere near the same enthusiasm for a Lindsell Train takeover who are on record that they don't care about short-term football results on the pitch.

No shares sales need to happen to bring about change. A boycott would have to be met with action by the current board, either by a significant change in attitude or tendered resignations.

 

We were a private company in 93, a lot easier to force change amongst a small family holding who had lost the faith of their cash cow. Now we are are a multinational national company who live by their share price.

A boycott will affect the share price. I’m not a stock broker but even I can see the upside of buying someone’s shares when their customers have lost faith in them.


Maybe it’s just me but I would rather our support were in a position to buy Desmond’s shares when we were forcing him out. What is the point otherwise?

 

Mike Ashley has made a fortune by hoovering up companies that lost the faith of their customer base.

* having that fat * hovering around us because we want to make a point without having the capital to actually affect the change we desire.

 

Everyone is full of ideas about boycotts, not buying merch, not buying tickets, starving the board.

Does anyone know the endgame?

 

Only if you have confidence you can restore faith with the customer, which would be very presumptuous given they've already stated their primary motives for being involved are to make money and they basically think what happens on the park is an irrelevance.

I'd rather that too but it's not happening in the near future so that's off the table.

Desmond doesn't need to be forced out in the short-term to bring about change. The removal of Bankier, Wilson, Brown and Chris McKay etc. and a strong message to Dominic that the fans are not there solely to be milked for the benefit of the PLC, could bring about a change in direction.

 

Mate if Desmond sold up to Lindsell Train tomorrow, Celtic cyberspace would be dancing a jig. We would sell STs, merch and the share price would rocket, even if it was only temporary.

It won’t help us as a fan base though.

 

I'm not so sure about that at all. Their views on what they see Celtic as are hardly hidden.

 

I don’t think enough people know what they are about. Most would just see the removal of Desmond.

Let’s hope it never comes to that.

I’ve enjoyed this debate. I would sell my share to you mate

 

This board have already ensured that we are getting embarrassed on the European stage, and now a domestic stage as well. Look at the standard of player we have just now, and that is with every season ticket being sold, and we had two years of Champions League money not so long ago under Rodgers as well.

We had banners on the top tier because a section of our support abandoned the club purely because “Rangers” weren’t in the league. Now that was people who didn’t have the clubs best interests at heart for sure. There was no appetite for the board to be chased out the door. We were still winning leagues. They made cut backs on the coaching and playing staff. Peter Lawwell’s bonus still topped his wage up to near enough a million pound though.

This board are not capable of taking us forward. We have just went from the strongest advantage anybody has had over their rivals in Scottish football history, and we have seen it not only caught up with, but overtook in the space of 8 years. This was done with the fans giving full financial support to this board.

This is just the footballing reasons for wanting shot of them, we could also talk about how much out of touch they are with the ethos of Celtic Football Club as well.

I 100% have the clubs best interests at heart. That means doing what I think is necessary to remove this board, because there is nobody can convince me that this board have got the clubs best interests at heart.

 

"In the meantime, we'd encourage all in the North Curve to hold off renewing their season ticket."
Anyone know how this panned out did GB renew or still holding off

 

Talk of full capacity by 10th August

 

Believe it was all discussed on the Ncc meeting which was held
The other day.

Renew your season ticket if you can afford to, club would be more than happy to see the back off us so we aren’t going to give them that satisfaction. It’s also much easier to protest inside the grounds and it protects your away records.

 

Got to say it's worrying that we are so desperate to get rid of this board we seem blind to what that would expose us to. Starving the club, driving share prices down to get rid of board members will result in a severely hamstrung product on the park in the immediate future and probable hun dominance for a long time to come not only that off the park we will be exposed to all the corporate charlatans & sharks looking to make a quick buck. The majority fan owned utopia is a long way off. Back the team, sack the board.

 

If we took that attitude the Kelly's and the whites would be still running Celtic and we starved them of money that we finally got rid of them and Fergus came in .
It's looking we might have to do it again as the club is going backwards at a alarming rate and our major shareholder doesn't give a * what's happening on the park anymore and only a united Celtic support can provide change like we did in the past and get rid of this board and bring in people with ambition for the club .

 

The lads have been busy....* superb.

 

I wish they were far busier with calling the club out for the shambolic start to the transfer window instead of playing with spray paint like daft wee 12 year olds

 

Are Celtic a publicly listed company (with shares available for purchase by anyone)? Not sure about Scottish law but deliberate negative action to affect a share price (especially if you then buy the shares yourself) is a serious offence in many places.

That said. * the board.