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The Board - general discussion (including Res 12); notes from the AGM
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Quiet Assasin
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11 May 2016, 01:01 PM
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..for the maintenance of dinner tables for the children and the unemployed
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- remy mcswain
- 11 May 2016, 11:04 AM
The whole interview is reminiscent of a David Murray succulent lamb era piece.
I think it is more reminiscent of one of those political interviews you read and think this guy has really lost touch with the voters (and reality) and his party will have the knives out shortly, or the voters will. Unfortunately the "party" here is a party of one; DD. And as the "voters" we don't have an upcoming election...unless of course you count the season ticket renewals deadline This is perhaps Liz Kendall's pitch for the Labour leadership...to the Daily Mail.
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11 May 2016, 01:06 PM
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James Forrest / Celtic Blog
Lawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
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11 May 2016, 01:20 PM
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- 11 May 2016, 01:06 PM
James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures. What is the viable financial alternative to the current business strategy?
Celtic are downsizing not through political desire to do so but a reflection of the financial contraints that we operate within.
Does Peter get paid a lot? Yes. Does he do a perfect job? No.
These are different issues from whether the current business model sustainable and sensible going forward.
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11 May 2016, 01:25 PM
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James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
What is the viable financial alternative to the current business strategy? Celtic are downsizing not through political desire to do so but a reflection of the financial contraints that we operate within. Does Peter get paid a lot? Yes. Does he do a perfect job? No. These are different issues from whether the current business model sustainable and sensible going forward. No, they're not. The CEO is incentivised to buy players to sell on for profit. No coincidence then that he's been filling the team with projects in the hope he can do another Wanyama.
His remuneration package is in conflict with our primary purpose, to build a team.
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11 May 2016, 01:41 PM
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The Greek Finance Minister
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He's a complete egotist. He thinks he is indispensable.
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11 May 2016, 01:44 PM
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- 11 May 2016, 01:06 PM
James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
What is the viable financial alternative to the current business strategy? Celtic are downsizing not through political desire to do so but a reflection of the financial contraints that we operate within. Does Peter get paid a lot? Yes. Does he do a perfect job? No. These are different issues from whether the current business model sustainable and sensible going forward.
No, they're not. The CEO is incentivised to buy players to sell on for profit. No coincidence then that he's been filling the team with projects in the hope he can do another Wanyama. His remuneration package is in conflict with our primary purpose, to build a team. The financial performance of the club will always be how anyone in his positions performance will be measured. No?
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11 May 2016, 01:51 PM
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
No, they're not. The CEO is incentivised to buy players to sell on for profit. No coincidence then that he's been filling the team with projects in the hope he can do another Wanyama. His remuneration package is in conflict with our primary purpose, to build a team.
The financial performance of the club will always be how anyone in his positions performance will be measured. No? No.
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11 May 2016, 01:54 PM
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James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
What is the viable financial alternative to the current business strategy? Celtic are downsizing not through political desire to do so but a reflection of the financial contraints that we operate within. Does Peter get paid a lot? Yes. Does he do a perfect job? No. These are different issues from whether the current business model sustainable and sensible going forward.
Happy clapper time.
Not even a suggestion that mistakes have been made. And happy enough to tell us to be realistic about the finances while stll drawing a ridiculous wage himself.
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11 May 2016, 01:55 PM
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
The financial performance of the club will always be how anyone in his positions performance will be measured. No?
No. You sure about that are you?
What parameters do you think his job are measured by since you disagree?
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11 May 2016, 01:56 PM
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
No, they're not. The CEO is incentivised to buy players to sell on for profit. No coincidence then that he's been filling the team with projects in the hope he can do another Wanyama. His remuneration package is in conflict with our primary purpose, to build a team.
The financial performance of the club will always be how anyone in his positions performance will be measured. No? Not at all. Because he might think so, purely due to how he achieves his bonus, doe snot make it so.
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11 May 2016, 01:57 PM
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James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
What is the viable financial alternative to the current business strategy? Celtic are downsizing not through political desire to do so but a reflection of the financial contraints that we operate within. Does Peter get paid a lot? Yes. Does he do a perfect job? No. These are different issues from whether the current business model sustainable and sensible going forward. Happy clapper time. Not even a suggestion that mistakes have been made. And happy enough to tell us to be realistic about the finances while stll drawing a ridiculous wage himself. Exactly.
Celtic turnover about, what, £40-50 million a year? That's probably the same as 2 or 3 big supermarket stores. Do you think an area manager at Tesco is on a million effing pounds a year?
The man is a complete buffoon.
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11 May 2016, 02:05 PM
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
No.
You sure about that are you? What parameters do you think his job are measured by since you disagree? Absolutely sure about that, aye.
A CEO will have responsibility for operational targets, health & safety targets, employee targets, customer ST targets, loads of things. And there'll be different measures applicable in dealing with different groups of (sorry) stakeholders.
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11 May 2016, 02:17 PM
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So,PL welcomes the challenge and vows to meet this challenge,but with the same strategy that has brought him nothing but riches and apathy and a lot of dross on the pitch.
Am I missing something?
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11 May 2016, 02:18 PM
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what's the first rule of fight club???
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
You sure about that are you? What parameters do you think his job are measured by since you disagree?
Absolutely sure about that, aye. A CEO will have responsibility for operational targets, health & safety targets, employee targets, customer ST targets, loads of things. And there'll be different measures applicable in dealing with different groups of (sorry) stakeholders. Any CEO will have KPIs which have to achieved in order to receive a performance related bonus......
He is falling if crowds are dropping. He will rightly be able to offset some of that on the absence of whichever incarnation of the Huns is in SPFL. As unpalatable as lots of us find it a lot of our fans are relishing them being in the same league as us. He needs to ensure something is on the park this year to ensure crowds are up. That interview reminded me of the puff pieces the press pack did for Murray, all that was missing was a succulent lamb reference
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11 May 2016, 02:21 PM
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Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
You sure about that are you? What parameters do you think his job are measured by since you disagree?
Absolutely sure about that, aye. A CEO will have responsibility for operational targets, health & safety targets, employee targets, customer ST targets, loads of things. And there'll be different measures applicable in dealing with different groups of (sorry) stakeholders. Don't worry. Ben the Tory doesn't see past the money
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11 May 2016, 02:24 PM
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Something doesn't add up with the interview for me. DD is going to be doing the hiring this time. We are looking at managers that are going to want a fair whack as a wage and a hefty transfer budget so that contradicts what PL is saying in terms of no extra money.
I doubt DD is going to waste his time going through a charade to hire a cheap option just to make it look like we tried. Is PL working his ticket to get a payoff and then join Sunderland as rumoured? Does DD know about the interview and its content? There's also the inconsiderate timing and who he did it with.
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11 May 2016, 02:34 PM
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- 11 May 2016, 02:21 PM
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- 11 May 2016, 01:55 PM
Quoting limited to 3 levels deep James Forrest / Celtic BlogLawwell To The Celtic Fans: Eat A Bag Of Dirt It didn’t take long for the optimism to end. For hopes that we were looking at a revolution at Parkhead to be dashed.
Those who were waiting, breathlessly, on Word From On High got it last night when our club’s CEO finally broke his media silence by giving an interview to the rag which lied for 27 years about the Hillsborough dead.
Just days after those people were honoured at Celtic Park, Peter Lawwell chose to give that newspaper a sit-down interview about his “vision” for the club.
You know what it amounted to?
Celtic fans, eat a bag of dirt.
If you’ve yet to purchase your season ticket because you were waiting on answers you’ve got them now.
The Strategy which got us here will continue. The downsizing will go on. The new manager will have to assemble a squad to qualify for the Champions League with shirt buttons rather than serious cash. Any talk of the club “meeting us in the middle” – which I suggested yesterday – has been rejected out of hand.
Things will go on as before.
The interview contained not one single fact that would inspire any supporter; instead we got his usual protestations and sickening tripe about how he “loves the club” and doesn’t stay here for the money. An easy thing to say when you earned north of £1 million last year.
Indeed, for much of the piece he wallows in self pity. It reads a lot like “poor misunderstood me … how hard my life is. But I get on with it. Somehow.”
The money helps. Obviously.
There’s no sign that he accepts an iota of responsibility for the car-crash season we’ve just had, or the disastrous managerial appointment that cost us millions in lost revenues from our Champions League failures.
He says he’s had the chance to go elsewhere and make even more money; what did I tell you when those stories broke about Sunderland’s interest in the run-up to the cup game? This was Peter getting his excuse in, so he could tell us all he stayed when he had a better offer.
He might have got away with it too, except some of us saw it coming a mile off.
It’s not that I don’t believe there was a concrete offer on the table for his services; I actually do. It’s just that it came from “an unknown agent, from an unknown club, from another universe.” If you get my drift.
Regardless of how he’s feted in the Scottish press most people south of the border realise we’re not heading in a positive direction; we’re surviving.
That’s about the best that can be said for us.
There’s no innovation, no original thinking.
The club only makes a profit at all when it can punt a top player every year.
There’s no genius to that. He’s not special. He’s a bog standard CEO with good PR skills and far too much influence at the club. Stripped of my attempt at humour, I don’t believe he’s worth his current salary and I don’t believe any other club would pay him it.
His interview today could only have come from someone of the utmost arrogance, completely divorced from the views in the stands.
In spite of suggestions in some quarters that this would be a ground-breaking announcement, which would give the fans hope, including on issues peripheral to the football side, like SFA governance and Resolution 12, the interview contained none of that at all.
Instead we got total silence on issues that matter, along with the absolute refusal to change course, the insult to many people of giving an interview to a discredited rag that lied about the Hillsborough dead, the appeal to respect him because he hasn’t left for more cash, the refusal to acknowledge mistakes or apologise, the promises of jam tomorrow, but not a lot.
If you were swithering, don’t be any longer.
You wanted answers, and you’ve got them.
Your choice is now pretty clear. Back the strategy and help him upgrade his indoor swimming pool, but know as you do that we’re hanging another manager out to dry before his feet are even under the table. No chance of proper money to spend. No changes to the structure. No difference in approach. Every mistake we’ve made thus far we’re going to continue to make into the future. At least we know now. At least it’s been spelled out to us.
If it looks like it and smells like it you surely don’t need to open your mouth and cram it in there to know what it is.
Peter’s message to Celtic fans is pretty clear; this is what’s on the menu.
Eat it or leave it.
No wonder he’s laughing in so many of the pictures.
Absolutely sure about that, aye. A CEO will have responsibility for operational targets, health & safety targets, employee targets, customer ST targets, loads of things. And there'll be different measures applicable in dealing with different groups of (sorry) stakeholders.
Don't worry. Ben the Tory doesn't see past the money Indeed.
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11 May 2016, 02:34 PM
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- 11 May 2016, 01:20 PM
going forward.
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11 May 2016, 02:35 PM
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My only worry about the board is that they will be too complacent about Sevco. With honest mistakes etc, it will definitely be them 2nd next year imo. My worry is that the board could actually entertain the idea that a close title race would be good for business. Too cynical I hope.
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11 May 2016, 02:41 PM
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Where are these fans that Lawwell & Collins refer to? I don't see anyone demanding we compete with the EPL clubs or get ourselves into debt chasing the dream.
What I do see are fans who simply want us to appoint a sound manager, let him manage & for us to stop wasting what we do have as a result of Lawwell meddling. Expecting us to make the CL is not unrealistic - smaller clubs with lesser budgets manage it every season.
He's so out of touch with reality now it's not real. Giving that interview to the Sun is also a clear GIRFUY to us fans who know nothing.
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