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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,701 Views) | |
| frankebhoy | 5 Apr 2016, 11:07 PM Post #6421 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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The board get an easy ride and supporters vent their spleen at the hapless ronnie who shouldn't be here . Carlton Cole sums up the way we are being run by this board .this is the limit of our forward planning , Carlton effin Cole , if we get beat off rangers , Lawwell and the rest of the sponging bloodsucking incompetent imposters are finished . |
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| Wee Ed KTF | 5 Apr 2016, 11:20 PM Post #6422 |
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Considering retirement
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Dermot Desmond will be at Augusta. He probably doesn't even know tonight's Celtic score. Frankly, he doesn't give an eff. He'll be more concerned that his wine is served at the correct temperature Celtic became a failed investment to DD when he couldn't get us into the EPL. Celtic are now little more than an after-dinner topic for him and his fat cat chums. Lawwell will be planning his spin with Iain Jamieson and Paul 67 should Celtic suffer the absolute humiliation of failing to win a one-horse race and a defeat to Sevco. Lawwell is the worst thing to sit the Celtic Boardroom since the Old Custodians |
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| paulfg42 | 5 Apr 2016, 11:23 PM Post #6423 |
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Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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I'm not talking about the absentee landlord, I'm talking about all the other feckers on the board. Do they all swallow Lawwell's bullshampoo? |
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| In The Heat of Lisbon | 5 Apr 2016, 11:24 PM Post #6424 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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Why the feck does DD even bother to keep up the pretence that he has any interest in Celtic? Nobody that gave a feck would have stood by and watched what has gone on the last few years. I know he is not the owner or even in any executive position, but he must still have some sway as majority shareholder. |
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| Wanyerma | 5 Apr 2016, 11:35 PM Post #6425 |
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Considering retirement
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They have a cosy gig and they're keeping it. That's how board slots work. Not how they're supposed to of course. |
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| Wanyerma | 5 Apr 2016, 11:38 PM Post #6426 |
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Considering retirement
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Saw a fan arguing on twitter today that Celtic do't recognise the OF tag any more as we are just saying "derby", and that Lawwell et al don't think they are the same club. Lawwell just needs another 30k that stupid. I think he'll get them. |
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| Wee Ed KTF | 5 Apr 2016, 11:45 PM Post #6427 |
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Considering retirement
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Desmond is the power. Lawwell is his henchman. No-one else is of consequence. The rest - PLC Board and Football Board - are just parasites. Worthless, impotent parasites. |
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| Wanyerma | 5 Apr 2016, 11:50 PM Post #6428 |
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Considering retirement
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They're supposed to have a purpose though. Corporate governance. |
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| Marado | 6 Apr 2016, 06:40 AM Post #6429 |
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I'll give you a war you won't believe.
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DD treats Celtic with utter contempt - filling the CEO position with an overpaid fat charlatan who has an inflated opinion of himself and is really just playing Football Manager in real life as a job. The rest of the positions he staffs with second prize merchants - handing out cushy jobs like baubles to business contacts and political contacts that could or have proved useful to the investments he actually takes seriously. Edited by Marado, 6 Apr 2016, 06:40 AM.
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| jpgrab | 6 Apr 2016, 07:05 AM Post #6430 |
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Occasional Substitute
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Tend to disagree. If the Board think that fans will continue to come and watch the dross currently being served up by the current manager and team even with that other crowd being promoted then they are living in cloud cuckoo land |
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| georgiesleftpeg | 6 Apr 2016, 07:46 AM Post #6431 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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Michael Macdonald and John/Mark Keane are definitely big Celtic supporters, but unfortunately for them (and us) the football club board is effectively neutered under the structure of our clumpany |
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| ronny_is_not_da_man | 6 Apr 2016, 09:17 AM Post #6432 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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In any other walk of life someone in a company is held accountable for piss poor decisions that cost the company big style. Amazes me that no one is held accountable for the raft of pish we have bought over the last few years. Start with the scout. If he thinks a certain player is good enough but they consistently turn out to be utter pish sack the scout. Or the idiot that scouted them. If the buyers in my work buy pish memory chips or PCB to make the companies memory,and they constantly fail in our end clients systems, the buyer gets sacked for being pish and has probably cost tens of millions of quid in lost business. Absolutely no accountability in anyway shape or form. We should be in a position where we are only adding a few finishing touches and looking the part. We need to buold it again from scratch. Accounting for 2 years olds. Fannies Edited by ronny_is_not_da_man, 6 Apr 2016, 09:18 AM.
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| Stringer Bell | 6 Apr 2016, 10:05 AM Post #6433 |
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Getting on a bit
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The board have always been culpable for not building from a position of strength, summer 2003 and winter 2008 being the obvious examples. Since football's explosion and us being left on the outside, desperately trying to peak over the fence, we've, on the whole, managed it pretty well. MON was given money, which was spent well but was never going to last forever. WGS was also backed, with transfer fees if not wages, and did a good job in maintaining standards. Mowbray was terrible, but you can't get them all right. He was a popular choice, was backed pretty well but it didn't happen. We acted quickly, realised the standards were slipping too far and binned him. Lennon done a great job rebuilding that mess. He was given most, if not all of, the McGeady money to build his squad. We seemed to have a broad, imaginative scouting network that gave us more hits than misses. He seen the icebergs as players were sold under his feet and adequate replacements weren't being made available to him. Basically, how did we get to this point? In the space of a few years we've went from a midfield of Wanyama, Ledley, Ki, Kayal, a fit Commons and even McCourt, who would contribute, to the absolute nonsense we have now. We've made massive profits from player sales over the last few years. When did it become acceptable for us not to spend all the money we make from player sales? PL has hoodwinked the entire Celtic support into thinking these CL qualifiers are landmines to be negotiated with caution, when the reality is we're playing very average teams. We should be banking on CL money and going and spending it in June to absolutely make sure we get there. If we don't make it, fair enough, we've spent money and might make a fist of the Europa. He's conning people. Constantly referring to the huns and what might happen if we dream too big and lowering our standards to the point people think it's acceptable that Leigh effing Griffiths is our first choice striker. Ronny will go in the summer because he's hopeless, but until people in the boardroom are held accountable for the crap on the park we'll be in the same position we are now; watching absolute dross whilst lambasting the manager because he's not put Scott effing Allan on the bench. This is a big summer for Celtic. They've taken advantage of the supports loyalty for too long. I can handle Celtic getting beat, but I find it really difficult to stomach being horrific to watch and churning out any old diddy in the hoops on top of getting beat. If there's no ambition shown this summer, I think I'll be done. |
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| JOE-BHOI-89 | 8 Apr 2016, 12:51 PM Post #6434 |
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2012
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Just came across this online... bit suspicious asking for documents to be destroyed containing your appointment/resignation now? Spoiler: click to toggle
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| harryhoodshatrick | 8 Apr 2016, 01:25 PM Post #6435 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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At one time under MON we had 52000 season ticket holders and a 10000 waiting list.We were competing in Europe and dominating in Scotland.Now we have about 42000 season ticket holders(?) 1/3 of whom don't go to the games.We are an embarrassment in Europe and win the league in Scotland only because the standard is so bad.You would maybe have 2 of today's team that would get into MON's team.Unfortunately to the board of directors the MON era was unsuccessful because we were losing money and the Ronnie era is successful because we aren't making a loss.We are a business to the board and making a profit is the be all and end all to the directors regardless how unsuccessful the team is. |
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| fatboab | 8 Apr 2016, 01:26 PM Post #6436 |
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Just before the Dawn
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you don't actually believe that ,do you? |
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| Mubo Loravcik | 8 Apr 2016, 01:26 PM Post #6437 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Surprise surprise. |
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| Big_Bobo_Balde | 8 Apr 2016, 01:33 PM Post #6438 |
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Lizzie's Lothario
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Think the only time there was a waiting list is when the ground was being redeveloped, even then it was no where near that number.. |
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| wigwam | 8 Apr 2016, 01:36 PM Post #6439 |
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Older than dirt
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No idea if waiting list is true but we were discussing in pub Tuesday night before game, how any spare season ticket at that time for ANY game had a waiting list waiting to pay cash for a shot of it. Now you can't give it away for nothing. There was definitely a lot of folk wanting to get to the games that couldn't get tickets. Just glad I was there during those years, looks like will go down as 'the best years ' of my Celtic supporting life. After the grim 90s the hunger was there, then MON delivered the feast. Happy effin days they were. and
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| harryhoodshatrick | 8 Apr 2016, 02:10 PM Post #6440 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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I don't know but I do know that for leagues games against killie or st Johnstone I don't remember many empty seats.The point I was making though was for the money men at celtic we're more successful now than under MON because profits are bigger now ,regardless how poor we are on the pitch. |
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