Peter Lawwell - Is It Time For him To Go?

Because, and you should know the answer to this, it impacts on his remit - the cash.
He wants us to be happy Irish - Guinness hats, fake ginger beards, luck o' the Irish t-shirts for the Yanks to buy into. It's a fine line he wants to tread - yes to Fields... but no to Roll of Honour.
I understand exactly the way he thinks and acts, i'm neither condoning nor condemning him but I understand.

Yawn.
Read my post again you numpty. So many people on this site are completely overcome with emotion. Are you a 14 year old girl? It doesn't have to be all us vs them, board vs gb, rebel vs police etc you know.
I'm not attacking or defending Lawwell, i'm showing you why it's overly simplistic and easy to just say "Liewll gtf" - okay that's fine if it's your opinion, but back it up.

We get rid of him, and then what? He's merely one of a hundred or so. You'd have to kick out every other "prawn sandwich" money-motivated Celtic fan. But deep down you don't want that. Just like deep down we didn't really want Rangers to die. Without the baddies how do you know you're the goodie?

If you view PL as an evil figure, then fair enough. I'm not going to argue otherwise or change your opinion. But I think you should at least accept that Lawell is a necessary evil.

 

Exactly mate. Will never forget how he wouldn't pay a reasonable amount for Steven Fletcher while he was pleading hibs to accept his * offer. Obviously the huns signed players and went onto win the league.

 

I never said he was.

I stand by my point though, he does take a more active and public role than other footballing CEO's.

Can you name any other Chief Executives that are as active in the media?

He doesn't have to stick up for the Green Brigade, nor the fans. His job is to oversee the running of Celtic as a 'business'.

 

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It gets worse and worse! I can tell you coming from someone who isn't a Liverpool supporter, I would never have the huns back.

Without the baddies, there is no innocents to be stabbed and subject to their hunnish behaviour.

 

But why does he need to be in the media surely he should be doing his job in the background that he is handsomely paid for,and as for your questions about other CEO's at other clubs I couldn't give a * not when ours is banning large groups of our fellow fans,that and bending over and taking it tight off UEFA

 

Sigh. You are one of the many who simply cannot chill out and look at something rationally. Calm down, and look at the reality.

Yes, in a perfect world we all want our CEO to be as passionate as the most hardcore fan, we want him to be a genius businessman and also sympathetic to the everyday man.

But slap yourself in the face, wake up and realise that it's not a perfect world, at all. As I said people are slating Lawwell for stuff that he either shouldn't, or simply cannot do anything about.
"we were set up as a charity...." blah blah blah. Wake up and find yourself in 2013. For better or worse, this is real life. Deal with it and stop * *.

 

He doesn't have to be obviosuly. He could refrain from media interviews and palm them off with a spokesperson.

How do you know what Peter has and has not said in private with Uefa?

People on here whinging that Peter should be out saying this, that and the next thing are delusional.

He is wrong to ban huge swathes of fans, however he is under no obligation to justify their actions, nor does he have to believe in their cause.

 

Don't you get it?

The things you are claiming he has no control over, he is actually taking an active role in. The only problem is he is taking the stance which is against his own club and support.

Peter Lawwell SFA member is now part of the establishment and is trying to turn us into the establishment club by eradicating the very things which make this club as special as it is.

By a pure coincidence it's also the things the establishment have been trying to eradicate from our club for decades.

They are now on the inside doing their work.

 

*?:smiley-laughing002: Who is the 14 year old girl now? You may not have principles regarding how he handles such matters, and merely see him as a businessman we just have to put up with, but slap yourself in the face, times are changing, fans who would usually have their head in the sands are waking up and seeing him for what he really is. Not just regarding fans behaviour, but his reluctance to spend money on players who can at least lace the boots of ones we lose.

But as you where, head in the sand.

 

Lol. Oh dear. I'm sorry mate I didn't know you were a 15 year old keyboard liberal. You're going to bring down those nasty police, politicians and the evil corporations. You're going to somehow bring about socialist revolution and let us all live in utopia forever more.
Then you wake up and see the real world.

That's right, if there were no huns then there would be literally NO violence whatsoever in Glasgow
We paint ourselves as the good guys, and quite rightly in most cases in my opinion, but how the * would we know we were "good" without something resembling "bad" to compare ourselves to?

Answer me this without * your pants, ranting and raving about some immature *, and i'll give you a brownie point.

 

Spot on great post

 

Don't you get it, though? The anti-Lawell gang are giving him too much credit in all honesty. He's not actually the evil reptilian overlord who is holding us poor innocent souls back from salvation. He is the reasonably powerful head of a reasonably powerful institution. Please take note of the italics.

He is only a tiny, ultimately unimportant part of the establishment. He's one of the members of a footballing board in a country of 5 million people, not the * head of Apple corporation!

I am against fan criminalisation, against the fining by UEFA and banning by the club of the GB. Against a great many aspects of modern football, policing and governance. But i'm not going to sit in my bedroom in my ebay che guevara top and cry myself to sleep about it.

There is NOTHING Lawwell can really practically do about pretty much all the issues you want him to resolve. That's the truth. He could let the GB back in, say sorry to them, allow them to display any banners they want. They'll still be victimised, profiled and arrested by the police. Whether PL sucks Salmond's * or whether he's a mad tim rebel is irrelevant and that's the massive point everyone keeps missing. He can't change the entire system, and sadly the majority of neutrals (non footy fans) agree entirely with governmental and police practices.
Lawwell isn't Hitler, solely altering the whole country for the worse and locking people up * nilly - and even Hitler wasn't on his own.

 

I have looked at the reality and have offered many examples of his failings in this thread. None of which you seem to be able to counter. Instead you would rather try and patronise, which you are not even close to being intelligent enough to do, and dismiss.

He is there to represent the fans whether he likes it or not. At the moment, he clearly doesn't like it. If not, he can leave. He even tried to dissuade shareholders from calling from an investigation into the awarding of a licence to and the process of putting a new club into the league then tried to trivialise it with a joke.

To trot out a much used cliche, the fans are the club.

 

The only one here ranting raving * here is you. Would you listen to yourself? Just to how ridiculous you sound. From that quote I am a 15 year old keyboard liberal about to bring along a revolution? Do you speak like that in real life when you talk about the fitbaw

You sound like someone who has not been a Celtic fan for all too long, cause I can tell you, 99.9% of Celtic supporters don't need the huns back up ( something bad) to see that we are something good!

Cheers for the laugh though. The * you are spouting is priceless.

 

Now he is on the HFA gravy train he wont say a word about the corruption of Ogilvie.

 

Maybe he might get a 2nd contract

 

I'm glad to see the poll seems to be displaying a reasonable result thus far.

 

That * * me off as well.

A group of working class left wing lads are fair game, but actually speaking up about the true injustice of Scottish Football, the thing that drove it to the sorry mess you see today...? Not a dickie bird, the people responsible are free to carry on picking up bloated salaries and making rules and regulations up to help one club and hinder another.

Spineless *.

 

Yawn. All those smileys doing a good job of showing how big and mature you are mate. Once again you're reading what you want to and not what is in front of you.
Not once have I talked about bringing the huns "back", I found it hilarious that they died. I'm saying in the very origin we both used each other to back up our own ideas of ourselves as distinct groups.

Celtic fans needed them for identity purposes, just as they needed us. They are bad, we are good. They are blue, we are green. They are sectarian, we are not. They are British, we are Irish. You can deny this if you want but it would be futile because it is the truth and every single human being knows it. It's pretty obvious sociology.

Head in the sand is precisely what you bhoys are. The elephant in the room will one day fart on you and cover you in huge truth-turds.

Wrong again.
The fans are absolutely not the club, as the Rangers case shows explicitly.
Lawwell and Desmond, for example, could Green and Whyte us and we would be able to do literally * all about it. Just like Lawwell can ultimately do * all about Celtic fans being criminalised by media and popularily-supported government legislation.