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The Board - general discussion (including Res 12); notes from the AGM
Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,865 Views)
SwavBhoy
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Aldo :potm: :theclap:
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Mackin
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aldo
26 Aug 2015, 10:50 PM
Like the Tories' approach to governing the country, Desmond-Lawwell have chosen to pursue an austerity agenda. The Tories claim they believe it's the best way to get Blighty out of recession, while Desmond-Lawwell claim it is because the huns' self destruction costs Celtic £10m a year. Both parties are bare faced, lying bastards, but while the economy really is in recession, this guff about the huns is bullsh it. It's an excuse to justify the prompt-as-possible sale of our best players while replacing them with cheaper, more risky signings, as we'll still win the league regardless.

For as long as I can remember, successive Celtic boards have never displayed any ambition greater than just being better than the old huns. Jock Stein knew what it meant to be not just better, but to batter the bastards into a distant second; that winning the greatest prize possible and setting a world record of titles brought Celtic not only honourable entries in the record books, but also an enduring, worldwide admiration that still wins us friends today. He achieved this in spite of a parsimonious board who would have bullied and stymied him like they did McGrory had he not stood up to them. Our current owner and his enforcer are equally unambitious. Rather than sieze the opportunity to cement Celtic as a powerhouse that lead the way in a new era of Scottish football, a new era that was cleansed of the poisoned old Rangers club and it's corrupt agents in the SFA, they just kept their heads down, refused to rock the boat and are counting the days until that new mob are promoted.

They have betrayed every decent Celtic fan who wants an honest game of football, and who wants to see out club be the best it can be.
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ChiliPepper
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This is all very well but I bet the fans will do eff all about it.
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If we don't invest this summer we are effed. Look at our saleable assets. Virgil is the last of the big money sales. Bitton will get us a decent wedge but nothing near what we have sold out best players for recently. Our policy is failing because Virgil was the last player brought in that we will be able to sell and he was bought two years ago. Since then we've squandered cash on failures and guys who'll do a job.
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Fans have accepted the team becoming some kind of finishing school for the epl. Player profit is talked about more than squad consistency.

That said, the board will (probably rightly) have felt that we had enough quality to get past Malmo.
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Neil Jung
27 Aug 2015, 09:40 AM
If we don't invest this summer we are effed. Look at our saleable assets. Virgil is the last of the big money sales. Bitton will get us a decent wedge but nothing near what we have sold out best players for recently. Our policy is failing because Virgil was the last player brought in that we will be able to sell and he was bought two years ago. Since then we've squandered cash on failures and guys who'll do a job.
The transfers this year have been shaped by failure to qualify in for the CL last year. So Allan, Janko, Ciftci* is what we get after missing out. Imagine what it's going to be like next year.

A couple might turn out to be good signings, but they're low cost gambles in based on hope rather than expectation.

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ChiliPepper
27 Aug 2015, 09:36 AM
This is all very well but I bet the fans will do eff all about it.
That's my fear too
There seems to be an acceptance of where we are now
The club also do their best to put the fear of god into us by telling us how we could end up going the way of the huns if we don't keep paying through the nose
Also seems as if it's harder to organise fans to do anything these days, should it not be easier with sites like this and twitter / facebook etc?
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ChiliPepper
27 Aug 2015, 09:36 AM
This is all very well but I bet the fans will do eff all about it.
You leading us off? :rocker:
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Mackin
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ChiliPepper
27 Aug 2015, 09:36 AM
This is all very well but I bet the fans will do eff all about it.
Same as last year.

A few folk will chant Lawwell GTF, some floof will respond to them saying 'Do you want to end up like the huns?' An argument will ensue, we'll win a few games and it will all be forgotten.
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Chronic town
27 Aug 2015, 09:43 AM
Fans have accepted the team becoming some kind of finishing school for the epl. Player profit is talked about more than squad consistency.

That said, the board will (probably rightly) have felt that we had enough quality to get past Malmo.
They did have enough quality to get past malmo,the board did spend enough to give us a tilt at the champions league. As others have said we did not invest wisely enough and combined with poor performances it has prevented us qualifying. The blame for that does not lie with the board,it lies with the management and whoever is signing the players.

Malmo,maccabi tel aviv and bate all qualified - how much did they invest i wonder ? We are doing something fundamentally wrong on the footballing side.
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aldo
26 Aug 2015, 10:50 PM
Like the Tories' approach to governing the country, Desmond-Lawwell have chosen to pursue an austerity agenda. The Tories claim they believe it's the best way to get Blighty out of recession, while Desmond-Lawwell claim it is because the huns' self destruction costs Celtic £10m a year. Both parties are bare faced, lying bastards, but while the economy really is in recession, this guff about the huns is bullsh it. It's an excuse to justify the prompt-as-possible sale of our best players while replacing them with cheaper, more risky signings, as we'll still win the league regardless.

For as long as I can remember, successive Celtic boards have never displayed any ambition greater than just being better than the old huns. Jock Stein knew what it meant to be not just better, but to batter the bastards into a distant second; that winning the greatest prize possible and setting a world record of titles brought Celtic not only honourable entries in the record books, but also an enduring, worldwide admiration that still wins us friends today. He achieved this in spite of a parsimonious board who would have bullied and stymied him like they did McGrory had he not stood up to them. Our current owner and his enforcer are equally unambitious. Rather than sieze the opportunity to cement Celtic as a powerhouse that lead the way in a new era of Scottish football, a new era that was cleansed of the poisoned old Rangers club and it's corrupt agents in the SFA, they just kept their heads down, refused to rock the boat and are counting the days until that new mob are promoted.

They have betrayed every decent Celtic fan who wants an honest game of football, and who wants to see out club be the best it can be.
That, my friend, is excellent.

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27 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM
They did have enough quality to get past malmo,the board did spend enough to give us a tilt at the champions league. As others have said we did not invest wisely enough and combined with poor performances it has prevented us qualifying. The blame for that does not lie with the board,it lies with the management and whoever is signing the players.
Sorry but I don't agree with this

The board didn't sanction the signing of players to make our team better, they followed their usual strategy of signing (mostly) cheap players that they hoped we could turn around for a profit and keep us at pretty much the same level as we have been for the last few years
This is on top of them letting what was a great squad a few years back dwindle in quality when what they should have been doing was at the very least maintaining the standard of the team to give us half a chance at CL qualification
There was no need to spend crazy money to do this either but in their infinite wisdom they decided we only needed to be slightly better than the rest in the SPL and crossed their fingers that we would get lucky in Europe
They're using the big money flying about down south as an excuse for going after "prospects" as "it's the market we're in now"
Our strategy is quite clear
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henrikisgod
27 Aug 2015, 10:26 AM
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27 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM
They did have enough quality to get past malmo,the board did spend enough to give us a tilt at the champions league. As others have said we did not invest wisely enough and combined with poor performances it has prevented us qualifying. The blame for that does not lie with the board,it lies with the management and whoever is signing the players.
Sorry but I don't agree with this

The board didn't sanction the signing of players to make our team better, they followed their usual strategy of signing (mostly) cheap players that they hoped we could turn around for a profit and keep us at pretty much the same level as we have been for the last few years
This is on top of them letting what was a great squad a few years back dwindle in quality when what they should have been doing was at the very least maintaining the standard of the team to give us half a chance at CL qualification
There was no need to spend crazy money to do this either but in their infinite wisdom they decided we only needed to be slightly better than the rest in the SPL and crossed their fingers that we would get lucky in Europe
They're using the big money flying about down south as an excuse for going after "prospects" as "it's the market we're in now"
Our strategy is quite clear
The board are responsible for many many things which are wrong with the club. However, the manager inherited a squad which had played in the group stages in the CL. From that he lost Forster and was handed Gordon. He also lost Samaras. New signings notwithstanding, we had and have a squad who are capable of qualifying for the CL. It's not the board's fault that the team failed.
Edited by idyllwild, 27 Aug 2015, 10:30 AM.
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wilbur67
26 Aug 2015, 01:11 PM
westendtim
26 Aug 2015, 12:20 PM
Boycott a club that's on its way to 10 in a row :cuckoo: . disappointing night last night granted but let down by players not performing on the night not by the board members ! IMO
Celtic won't get ten in a row.

Regardless, it's not going to need a boycott, people are already staying away. If we can't fill the stadium with a' winning' team , then it does not bode well imo.
Sunday games due to playing in the Europa definitely definitely have an impact on this.
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We have a board of tories running the club like you'd expect tories to. Everything for sale, downsize at a dramatic rate and reward those at the top handsomely for doing it.

effing sick of it and them. What will it take for the support to do something?
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I want Lawwell to go now. However it won't have any effect unless there is a change in business policy from the board of shareholders. And that won't happen.
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idyllwild
27 Aug 2015, 10:30 AM
henrikisgod
27 Aug 2015, 10:26 AM
MILLIGANS ISLAND
27 Aug 2015, 10:00 AM
They did have enough quality to get past malmo,the board did spend enough to give us a tilt at the champions league. As others have said we did not invest wisely enough and combined with poor performances it has prevented us qualifying. The blame for that does not lie with the board,it lies with the management and whoever is signing the players.
Sorry but I don't agree with this

The board didn't sanction the signing of players to make our team better, they followed their usual strategy of signing (mostly) cheap players that they hoped we could turn around for a profit and keep us at pretty much the same level as we have been for the last few years
This is on top of them letting what was a great squad a few years back dwindle in quality when what they should have been doing was at the very least maintaining the standard of the team to give us half a chance at CL qualification
There was no need to spend crazy money to do this either but in their infinite wisdom they decided we only needed to be slightly better than the rest in the SPL and crossed their fingers that we would get lucky in Europe
They're using the big money flying about down south as an excuse for going after "prospects" as "it's the market we're in now"
Our strategy is quite clear
The board are responsible for many many things which are wrong with the club. However, the manager inherited a squad which had played in the group stages in the CL. From that he lost Forster and was handed Gordon. He also lost Samaras. New signings notwithstanding, we had and have a squad who are capable of qualifying for the CL. It's not the board's fault that the team failed.
You do remember how badly that CL squad got spanked out the competition at their previous attempt after scraping by a bunch of no marks from Kazakstan to qualify? The manager inherited a squad who couldn't cut it at that level, we still can't - nothing has changed in 2 seasons.
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CaltonBhoy1967
27 Aug 2015, 09:49 AM
ChiliPepper
27 Aug 2015, 09:36 AM
This is all very well but I bet the fans will do eff all about it.
You leading us off? :rocker:
I'm itching to tip a few motors outside the main stand. :arrr:
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ChiliPepper
27 Aug 2015, 11:12 AM
CaltonBhoy1967
27 Aug 2015, 09:49 AM
ChiliPepper
27 Aug 2015, 09:36 AM
This is all very well but I bet the fans will do eff all about it.
You leading us off? :rocker:
I'm itching to tip a few motors outside the main stand. :arrr:
:rocker:
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Theyre doing a helluva job of ruining good football teams we have by selling the best players on and then not using the money wisely to strengthen. Expect Peter to have his state of the nation address soon and all be rosy again
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