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The Board - general discussion (including Res 12); notes from the AGM
Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,415,016 Views)
hazy
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antrimkev
28 Jul 2014, 02:53 AM
do you ever get the feeling that we as football fans talk too much about the board???

any conversation i have in work about Celtic always end up with Utd or Liverpool fans talking about how tight our board is etc etc, they never talk about the debt etc they are in

we must be the only supporters that every conversation turns to how the board is doing/debt management etc/cant spend too much or we will end up like them etc etc

ffs theres even 9 pages on her about it (more than if we win a game)
Yes indeed. I mean Man utd's Glazer takeover and Liverpools Hicks and Gillet reign hardly went by without a murmur did it..?

The level of interest shown in the boards activities will always be increased when it's having a noticeable effect at team level. Nothing unordinary there. I am sick to death at having to talk about it though.

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Luca
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Am I happy with the board?

Right now? No.

Six weeks from now when we qualify for CL and spend £6m on a striker and attacking mid whilst ensuring FF and VVD are handed contract extensions? Aye.
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Luca
28 Jul 2014, 10:41 AM
Six weeks from now when we qualify for CL and spend £6m on a striker and attacking mid whilst ensuring FF and VVD are handed contract extensions? Aye.
What about when you wake up in the next 20 minutes? :lol:
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28 Jul 2014, 10:48 AM
Luca
28 Jul 2014, 10:41 AM
Six weeks from now when we qualify for CL and spend £6m on a striker and attacking mid whilst ensuring FF and VVD are handed contract extensions? Aye.
What about when you wake up in the next 20 minutes? :lol:
let me dream :arrr:
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Lets wait and see what happens when Ronnie has the balls to name his first signing targets, and whether the board has the balls to sanction them.
Board does reasonably well but bonuses should be visibly aligned more to footballing achievement.
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Absolute zero ambition. It's impossible to see how we can improve with the current mentality of the board. Depressing times
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Fiscal straitjacket.

There is a lack of money out there, the spl and the Scottish game is not value for money, and the season ticket sales prove that fact, Celtic need a talisman or two that get arses on seats, obviously within reason..

This Aquino idea on loan is shambolic, and I mean no disrespect to Vilareal here, but unless there is a clause to buy then forget it.

There has been talk of keeping our cash until they come back, utter mince, they will take years to challenge for the league under mccoists plan to sign players at the arse end of their limited careers.

The whole wait till we qualify till we spend is pretty damn frustrating and kinda tells it's own story, hell were looking to sell Watt now..is it a wonder fans are a bit annoyed / pissed off?
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Big_Bobo_Balde
28 Jul 2014, 12:49 PM
Fiscal straitjacket.

There is a lack of money out there, the spl and the Scottish game is not value for money, and the season ticket sales prove that fact, Celtic need a talisman or two that get arses on seats, obviously within reason..

This Aquino idea on loan is shambolic, and I mean no disrespect to Vilareal here, but unless there is a clause to buy then forget it.

There has been talk of keeping our cash until they come back, utter mince, they will take years to challenge for the league under mccoists plan to sign players at the arse end of their limited careers.

The whole wait till we qualify till we spend is pretty damn frustrating and kinda tells it's own story, hell were looking to sell Watt now..is it a wonder fans are a bit annoyed / pissed off?
If I wanted a return on my money I will invest in an ISA. Lawell and co forget why we put our money in which is to see progress ON THE PARK.

Commercially, we're run brilliantly but we're treated like fools when it comes to investing in the squad.

I'd bet Lawell won't be downsizing his bonus when it comes around.
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I think the fact that Lawwell will get a bigger bonus dependant on profit and loss sheets,
while dictating who we can or can't have on the pitch should be enough to suggest
that the game is a bogey.

Lawwell is essentially the Celtic manager.

Lenny and Deila were/are coaches who just do more interviews.

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Kingslim
28 Jul 2014, 02:54 PM
Big_Bobo_Balde
28 Jul 2014, 12:49 PM
Fiscal straitjacket.

There is a lack of money out there, the spl and the Scottish game is not value for money, and the season ticket sales prove that fact, Celtic need a talisman or two that get arses on seats, obviously within reason..

This Aquino idea on loan is shambolic, and I mean no disrespect to Vilareal here, but unless there is a clause to buy then forget it.

There has been talk of keeping our cash until they come back, utter mince, they will take years to challenge for the league under mccoists plan to sign players at the arse end of their limited careers.

The whole wait till we qualify till we spend is pretty damn frustrating and kinda tells it's own story, hell were looking to sell Watt now..is it a wonder fans are a bit annoyed / pissed off?
If I wanted a return on my money I will invest in an ISA. Lawell and co forget why we put our money in which is to see progress ON THE PARK.

Commercially, we're run brilliantly but we're treated like fools when it comes to investing in the squad.

I'd bet Lawell won't be downsizing his bonus when it comes around.
If crowds dwindle further then I don't think he should be worried about a bonus.....
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Big_Bobo_Balde
28 Jul 2014, 12:49 PM
Fiscal straitjacket.

There is a lack of money out there, the spl and the Scottish game is not value for money, and the season ticket sales prove that fact, Celtic need a talisman or two that get arses on seats, obviously within reason..

This Aquino idea on loan is shambolic, and I mean no disrespect to Vilareal here, but unless there is a clause to buy then forget it.

There has been talk of keeping our cash until they come back, utter mince, they will take years to challenge for the league under mccoists plan to sign players at the arse end of their limited careers.

The whole wait till we qualify till we spend is pretty damn frustrating and kinda tells it's own story, hell were looking to sell Watt now..is it a wonder fans are a bit annoyed / pissed off?
Frankly, I find this notion that "It'll take them years to challenge for the League again" quite baffling. People are treating this as if it were the likes of Forfar who'd climbed into the top level after successive promotions. They can't afford not to almost immediately challenge, and the domestic "cultural" setup will all but ensure that they do, even if it means running on a rolling phantom deficit for a year or two.

Plus, the level of competition from everybody else is such that they'll ease in no bother. I'd be absolutely stunned if they finished more than say twelve points behind, not to mention elsewhere than second place.
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Big_Bobo_Balde
28 Jul 2014, 03:53 PM
Kingslim
28 Jul 2014, 02:54 PM
Big_Bobo_Balde
28 Jul 2014, 12:49 PM
Fiscal straitjacket.

There is a lack of money out there, the spl and the Scottish game is not value for money, and the season ticket sales prove that fact, Celtic need a talisman or two that get arses on seats, obviously within reason..

This Aquino idea on loan is shambolic, and I mean no disrespect to Vilareal here, but unless there is a clause to buy then forget it.

There has been talk of keeping our cash until they come back, utter mince, they will take years to challenge for the league under mccoists plan to sign players at the arse end of their limited careers.

The whole wait till we qualify till we spend is pretty damn frustrating and kinda tells it's own story, hell were looking to sell Watt now..is it a wonder fans are a bit annoyed / pissed off?
If I wanted a return on my money I will invest in an ISA. Lawell and co forget why we put our money in which is to see progress ON THE PARK.

Commercially, we're run brilliantly but we're treated like fools when it comes to investing in the squad.

I'd bet Lawell won't be downsizing his bonus when it comes around.
If crowds dwindle further then I don't think he should be worried about a bonus.....
If, and it's a big if, crowds dwindle perilously close to a certain critical floor level, and the "where has the transfer money gone" fails to accordingly offset the turnstiles losses, then we might see a few signings "magically" pop up; my own worry is that we might then be proper prey for over-the-hill "name recognition" additions to the squad, a la Ljungberg or Wright, in order to prop up attendances by a few thousand.
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Once Forster & VVD leave, that's pretty much the last of our big guns left to flog. What then?

Porto & Ajax are always pointed out as the examples, but they know what they are doing to replace the players they are selling. We just seem to be punting to the highest bidder & hoping everything pans out. This can't continue as the quality is now reaching dross levels.

I don't have a problem in our best players coming & going after a couple of seasons, but we can't simply put nothing back into the first team.

It's a bizarre state of affairs we are putting ourselves into.
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dr mueller
28 Jul 2014, 04:22 PM
Big_Bobo_Balde
28 Jul 2014, 12:49 PM
Fiscal straitjacket.

There is a lack of money out there, the spl and the Scottish game is not value for money, and the season ticket sales prove that fact, Celtic need a talisman or two that get arses on seats, obviously within reason..

This Aquino idea on loan is shambolic, and I mean no disrespect to Vilareal here, but unless there is a clause to buy then forget it.

There has been talk of keeping our cash until they come back, utter mince, they will take years to challenge for the league under mccoists plan to sign players at the arse end of their limited careers.

The whole wait till we qualify till we spend is pretty damn frustrating and kinda tells it's own story, hell were looking to sell Watt now..is it a wonder fans are a bit annoyed / pissed off?
Frankly, I find this notion that "It'll take them years to challenge for the League again" quite baffling. People are treating this as if it were the likes of Forfar who'd climbed into the top level after successive promotions. They can't afford not to almost immediately challenge, and the domestic "cultural" setup will all but ensure that they do, even if it means running on a rolling phantom deficit for a year or two.

Plus, the level of competition from everybody else is such that they'll ease in no bother. I'd be absolutely stunned if they finished more than say twelve points behind, not to mention elsewhere than second place.
Your easily baffled then.
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dr mueller
28 Jul 2014, 04:22 PM
Frankly, I find this notion that "It'll take them years to challenge for the League again" quite baffling. People are treating this as if it were the likes of Forfar who'd climbed into the top level after successive promotions. They can't afford not to almost immediately challenge, and the domestic "cultural" setup will all but ensure that they do, even if it means running on a rolling phantom deficit for a year or two.
Mate, Dundee United have shagged them twice in as many years. Utd are guff. They couldn't manage to finish above Motherwell ffs. They'll kill themselves trying to reach the level we're at. eff, I think they'll be dead before they even reach the dizzy heights if the SPFL.
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28 Jul 2014, 05:03 PM
dr mueller
28 Jul 2014, 04:22 PM
Frankly, I find this notion that "It'll take them years to challenge for the League again" quite baffling. People are treating this as if it were the likes of Forfar who'd climbed into the top level after successive promotions. They can't afford not to almost immediately challenge, and the domestic "cultural" setup will all but ensure that they do, even if it means running on a rolling phantom deficit for a year or two.
Mate, Dundee United have shagged them twice in as many years. Utd are guff. They couldn't manage to finish above Motherwell ffs. They'll kill themselves trying to reach the level we're at. eff, I think they'll be dead before they even reach the dizzy heights if the SPFL.
Single games as a definite example don't make an entire season, though.

And how do you reconcile this "they'll kill themselves trying to reach our level" with a near-unanimous consensus that our own level of quality has gone dramatically down in the past few years ?

That's precisely my point: they'll be no great shakes, but it seems neither will we.

Who here honestly believes that they'll be "allowed" to rot mid-table for years on end? Too much at stake for too many people.

Oh, and BTW, the above doesn't mean we can't claim a further three or four consecutive Leagues.
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Dannybhoy95
28 Jul 2014, 05:03 PM
dr mueller
28 Jul 2014, 04:22 PM
Frankly, I find this notion that "It'll take them years to challenge for the League again" quite baffling. People are treating this as if it were the likes of Forfar who'd climbed into the top level after successive promotions. They can't afford not to almost immediately challenge, and the domestic "cultural" setup will all but ensure that they do, even if it means running on a rolling phantom deficit for a year or two.
Mate, Dundee United have shagged them twice in as many years. Utd are guff. They couldn't manage to finish above Motherwell ffs. They'll kill themselves trying to reach the level we're at. eff, I think they'll be dead before they even reach the dizzy heights if the SPFL.
Problem is that we are heading down to their level. That continuation would be scandalous
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Wee Red
28 Jul 2014, 06:17 PM
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28 Jul 2014, 05:03 PM
dr mueller
28 Jul 2014, 04:22 PM
Frankly, I find this notion that "It'll take them years to challenge for the League again" quite baffling. People are treating this as if it were the likes of Forfar who'd climbed into the top level after successive promotions. They can't afford not to almost immediately challenge, and the domestic "cultural" setup will all but ensure that they do, even if it means running on a rolling phantom deficit for a year or two.
Mate, Dundee United have shagged them twice in as many years. Utd are guff. They couldn't manage to finish above Motherwell ffs. They'll kill themselves trying to reach the level we're at. eff, I think they'll be dead before they even reach the dizzy heights if the SPFL.
Problem is that we are heading down to their level. That continuation would be scandalous
We are nowhere near their level.
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28 Jul 2014, 06:18 PM
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28 Jul 2014, 06:17 PM
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28 Jul 2014, 05:03 PM

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Problem is that we are heading down to their level. That continuation would be scandalous
We are nowhere near their level.
Yeah but they're more likely to close the gap than us to pull away. We are the champions of failing to act when it counts.
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28 Jul 2014, 06:23 PM
remy mcswain
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Wee Red
28 Jul 2014, 06:17 PM

Quoting limited to 3 levels deepnot
We are nowhere near their level.
Yeah but they're more likely to close the gap than us to pull away. We are the champions of failing to act when it counts.
I can't see them getting near us for a long time.
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