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The Board - general discussion (including Res 12); notes from the AGM
Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,642 Views)
Mickeybhoy84
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I'm sure I seen something the other day that said Desmond is personally paying a large percentage of Rodgers wage in a similar setup to when we got Robbie Keane. How did the Keane deal actually work? Did Spurs carry on paying his wage but have a seperate sponsorship deal with one of DDs companies that just so happened to be worth the exact same amount as Keane wage?
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I hope that DD story is true.

If they made him angry enough to spend money then he's going to trample all over them.

I'd pay to see that.
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CMC88
22 May 2016, 04:23 PM
I hope that DD story is true.

If they made him angry enough to spend money then he's going to trample all over them.

I'd pay to see that.
I wonder if this is where the Resolution 12 rumours are coming from.
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georgiesleftpeg
22 May 2016, 03:55 PM
this...

'if you're reading this Dermot, let this be just the start'.

'top manager but it needs to be supplemented with decent quality players'

'DD has responded which is great but my plea to him would be to get hands on'

'let's not forget the Board... eventually downsized the Club so badly that the apathy and malaise around the place meant their previous Aces used in the past to get the Support to part with their cash were no longer going to work'

with hope (in yer heart) onwards and upwards :rocker:
Great Post :rocker:
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pauldg1
22 May 2016, 12:53 AM
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22 May 2016, 12:47 AM
Interesting take indeed.

If you're reading this Dermot, I like you a lot right now. Get those mutants pumped. :) :thumbsup:
There's a story about DD and the rest reads like one of their fanzines. Let's hope it's rather our clueless performances than the antics of a few guys who happened to wear suits that drove the decision.
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22 May 2016, 05:07 PM
pauldg1
22 May 2016, 12:53 AM
Wanyerma
22 May 2016, 12:47 AM
Interesting take indeed.

If you're reading this Dermot, I like you a lot right now. Get those mutants pumped. :) :thumbsup:
There's a story about DD and the rest reads like one of their fanzines. Let's hope it's rather our clueless performances than the antics of a few guys who happened to wear suits that drove the decision.
Either way, it shows that he does actually GAF about what happens to Celtic. I must admit, I was convinced that--after many years of healthy annual dividends--Desmond wouldn't be that bothered if our downward spiral continued; and that, even if he did, he wouldn't know what to do about it.

Happy to be proved wrong on both counts. Official letter of apology being posted to DD c/o Pebble Beach Golf Club!
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pauldg1
22 May 2016, 12:53 AM
There's a story about DD and the rest reads like one of their fanzines. Let's hope it's rather our clueless performances than the antics of a few guys who happened to wear suits that drove the decision.
Either way, it shows that he does actually GAF about what happens to Celtic. I must admit, I was convinced that--after many years of healthy annual dividends--Desmond wouldn't be that bothered if our downward spiral continued; and that, even if he did, he wouldn't know what to do about it.

Happy to be proved wrong on both counts. Official letter of apology being posted to DD c/o Pebble Beach Golf Club!
Desmond is an actual billionaire. The measly dividends he gets on his Celtic shares won't be on his radar.
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Mickeybhoy84
22 May 2016, 04:12 PM
I'm sure I seen something the other day that said Desmond is personally paying a large percentage of Rodgers wage in a similar setup to when we got Robbie Keane. How did the Keane deal actually work? Did Spurs carry on paying his wage but have a seperate sponsorship deal with one of DDs companies that just so happened to be worth the exact same amount as Keane wage?
Just give him a wee side letter, it's totally fine.
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The golf courses of Dublin are sharing the same story. Now where's my spiky shoes...
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Either way, it shows that he does actually GAF about what happens to Celtic. I must admit, I was convinced that--after many years of healthy annual dividends--Desmond wouldn't be that bothered if our downward spiral continued; and that, even if he did, he wouldn't know what to do about it.

Happy to be proved wrong on both counts. Official letter of apology being posted to DD c/o Pebble Beach Golf Club!
Desmond is an actual billionaire. The measly dividends he gets on his Celtic shares won't be on his radar.
We're just a side-bet to him, of course. But he wouldn't like to be seen losing money on such a high profile side-bet. In that sense, the investment in Celtic was already successful for him before Ronny took over and... you know.
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22 May 2016, 05:07 PM
Either way, it shows that he does actually GAF about what happens to Celtic. I must admit, I was convinced that--after many years of healthy annual dividends--Desmond wouldn't be that bothered if our downward spiral continued; and that, even if he did, he wouldn't know what to do about it.

Happy to be proved wrong on both counts. Official letter of apology being posted to DD c/o Pebble Beach Golf Club!
Desmond is an actual billionaire. The measly dividends he gets on his Celtic shares won't be on his radar.
Advice to the tax evader and clowns on their Board: "don't annoy someone whose wealth is actually off the radar."
Edited by paranoid_and_proud, 24 May 2016, 01:02 AM.
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aldo
22 May 2016, 08:09 AM
I wouldn't be at all surprised. One of their director's, one of the Rrrrrreal Rrrrrainjurs Men - Gilligan? - was quoted after their flag day giving it the 'revenge over those who did us down we have long memories' guff. Not some obscure, back room type, this was a major shareholder and one of the movers in the hostile takeover, trash talking like an ignoramous, coming across as the thickest manifestation of Copeland Road Man, all Daily Record logic with the ever present undercurrent of violence. Was he willfully ignoring the facts and playing to the gallery, or just so blinded with the bile that characterises them he had lost any capacity for reason? Either way, no excuse.

They're old skool Huns, two-bob chancers without an ounce of class between them.
As others have said, if a wee bit of that story is true (the name on the by-line does make me sceptical), it'd be hilarious.

As for Desmond reading internet forums? Doubtful. Golf doesn't play itself, you know ;)
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How can DD legally pay BR's wage? Doesn't it infringe on FFP? In my mind, we have always had enough money to afford 45k a week on one man, and we are now going with it.

50k season ticket sales and CL TV money, participation money and gate receipts, and subsequent merchandising from the feel good factor, will sort us out anyby.
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Firstly, Peter Lawwell is an arrogant carrot. Some of the questions yesterday reflected supporter sentiment IMO and as normal he treated them with an "I'm more important than you so I won't answer that" attitude. The sooner this carrot leaves the club the better. I was always ambivalent to the man himself and focussed more on his failings/successes as CE but icing on the cake would be him leaving.

Secondly, despite the hilarious factor of the Huns making DD so angry he's decided to bankroll Celtic FC Super club, should we not be asking why the eff he allowed us to get into that situation in the fist place. What that story shows, if true, is that DD will only give a eff if things are so bad that they affect him personally. He couldn't give a flying eff that many of our support have to put up with rabid Huns on a daily basis and have been paying very hard earned cash to watch shampooe these past few years.

Our club is at worst a plaything to these ***** and at best a business and we are their customers.

The only silver lining maybe is that after yesterday they'll realise that if you should ambition you can milk the customer for even more money. At least then the customer might get entertained in the process.

Edited by Hagi Bhoy, 24 May 2016, 06:42 AM.
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Not sure I buy the DD story at all. Huns in being huns shocker, surely he isn't that naive.
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Sounds like a planted story tbh. We all know Desmond left before the end of the game and whilst, the Sevco directors may have acted like Huns during the game, my understanding was Desmond was more upset at the way we were playing than anything else. Maybe that's the wake up call for change. Andrew Smith was the boy who Lawwell went to to write his puff piece on how he was so misunderstood, so taking it with a bag of salt.

Anyway, the effect is the same, we have a high calibre manager in now.
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23 May 2016, 10:05 AM
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22 May 2016, 05:07 PM
Either way, it shows that he does actually GAF about what happens to Celtic. I must admit, I was convinced that--after many years of healthy annual dividends--Desmond wouldn't be that bothered if our downward spiral continued; and that, even if he did, he wouldn't know what to do about it.

Happy to be proved wrong on both counts. Official letter of apology being posted to DD c/o Pebble Beach Golf Club!
Desmond is an actual billionaire. The measly dividends he gets on his Celtic shares won't be on his radar.
Billionaire....Radar...Dividends you say


:tgef2: :lolhuns: :chuckles: :hahaleft: :carrot: :haharight: :inbedwithcharlie: :zombie:

:worthy: :el-loco-blanco: :worthy:
Edited by Lewis Hamilton's Biggest Fan, 24 May 2016, 07:52 AM.
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24 May 2016, 07:26 AM
Not sure I buy the DD story at all. Huns in being huns shocker, surely he isn't that naive.
Guys like Desmond dont anger that easily that they just go and chuck their hard earned about. Im honestly more leaning to the thoughts some had about waiting till the year they came back to start putting some money about again to flex our muscle. I know with Europe being such a miserable failure we shouod have done so long before now but if they have looked at it and said the accounts can take a beating this year with the aim of bringing more fans and european money in then great.

Heres hoping whatever the reason they continue building.
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24 May 2016, 06:40 AM
Firstly, Peter Lawwell is an arrogant carrot. Some of the questions yesterday reflected supporter sentiment IMO and as normal he treated them with an "I'm more important than you so I won't answer that" attitude. The sooner this carrot leaves the club the better. I was always ambivalent to the man himself and focussed more on his failings/successes as CE but icing on the cake would be him leaving.

Secondly, despite the hilarious factor of the Huns making DD so angry he's decided to bankroll Celtic FC Super club, should we not be asking why the eff he allowed us to get into that situation in the fist place. What that story shows, if true, is that DD will only give a eff if things are so bad that they affect him personally. He couldn't give a flying eff that many of our support have to put up with rabid Huns on a daily basis and have been paying very hard earned cash to watch shampooe these past few years.

Our club is at worst a plaything to these ***** and at best a business and we are their customers.

The only silver lining maybe is that after yesterday they'll realise that if you should ambition you can milk the customer for even more money. At least then the customer might get entertained in the process.

You're right in what you say, with one proviso.

There are guid Celtic men(c)sevco, on the board of the football club, albeit with little real power.

I'm talkin about J.Keane and more so now, his son, M.Keane. And M.Macdonald deserves a shout out, I suppose.
These guys were the type that were at Forfar away in the cup, whilst the EBT's drove the huns to NIAR.

Maybe, just maybe, if the stories of DD's son are in any way true, these guys are starting to hold a bit of sway in the forward thinking. They will be (M.Keane more-so) similar ages to DD's son and maybe whats happened with Brendinho is a good sign of this shift.

Splobs face certainly told a story at the presser, that's for sure :)
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Don Vincenzo in True Romance would have had a field day at the press conference yesterday.

If I was a gambling man (I only bet on the near sure thing that the manky mob have become in the past four years) I'd say Lawwell will be here for one last bonus payment.

He's already started to drive the narrative with his various addresses at the end of the season. I think those were the equivalent to an open letter to other owners down south. Rodgers mentioned Desmond time after time yesterday so I think we know who drove this process.

Last time round Lawwell was dead set against Keane and look what we got. He certainly wouldn't have done a worse job than Ronny.

We'll see with Rodgers appointment that it will pay for itself in season book sales. Reasonable investment in players will do the same through increased merchandising plus more folk at the stadium buying food, drinks, lottery tickets, betting.

We also have back the alleged £10m lost revenue now that the bony hand of the zombie has burst into the top division. There's no excuse for buying proven donkeys and expecting a manage to magic them into football players.

It's all well and good taking a punt on a player with potential or giving a good player a clean slate after a bad fit at another club, but the scattergun approach to signing forwards has to end. The only reason we had a 40 goal striker on the books is because we couldn't palm him off to the first division.

Rodgers has to stand or fall on his own merits. He has to be given full support to succeed and not be hampered the way many of his predecessors were. If that happens, the fans will be back and the place will be bouncing.

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