Brendan Rodgers reclaimed some of his territory disputed by conspiracy theorists at yesterday’s AGM. The manager explained how transfers worked at Celtic, insisting, “it’s really no different here to most clubs.”
The coaches identify the profile of players required, the scouts create a shortlist, and the manager makes the final decision. Notions than Brendan would take a job under any other circumstances are for the fairies.
Refereeing standards are often raised at these occasions and yesterday was no different. Michael Nicholson explained the club are in regular contact with the SFA over the issue and that there is a meeting today on the subject.
The biggest reveal of the day was from Ross Desmond, director and son of major shareholder, Dermot, who said, “My father grew up a huge Celtic fan. We don’t consider ourselves as shareholders, we are custodians. In his lifetime and mine, we will not sell the club.”
We have never heard this intention before. Dermot has been a major investor in the club for 29 years. Now in his 70s, some of us wondered what his exit strategy would be. I know there are some who would like to see him sell up, but honestly, the potential outcomes there are unedifying. God save us from the ‘All we need to do is invest properly’, the debating society revolutionaries, or the ‘I can bring the club into the 21st century’ types.
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Off tomorrow to Rome. Still waiting for my ticket to turn up. Are others in the same boat? Having paid £132 for a ticket I do not want to miss out and not get to the game.
Just read details issued about how to get to the game. These QR codes are they on the match ticket. Hopeless with all this modern stuff. But at 84 years old it is perhaps to be expected.
Connairre
Had e tickets for athletico game. One printed on paper, another on a phone.
They just used a scanner on the tickets and we got in no problem.
Hope you have a good trip and enjoy the game.
BOGNORBHOY on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 2:30 PM
Many thanks ….
Garygillespieshamstring, thanks for your help. I will try my best to enjoy Rome.
I have been to Rome once. Place was in ruins.
Paul67
The big reveal was the Grey Brigade backing the Green Brigade.
We could have got wee Ross Desmond to explain how him and his Celtic Da plan to make their share holding bigger so they could run the club ?
Oh Wait CSC
SAINT STIVS on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 3:47 PM
I have been to Rome once. Place was in ruins.
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Sacked by the Huns?
Personally, I would just love for us to adopt the German model of fans owning 50% plus 1 person of the club.
It works very well over there, and could easily do so here I feel.
But, money talks, eh
KINGLubO
Stuck record – the “ordinary fan shareholder” bloc needs to grow.
If that is The Celtic Trust then so be it.
(Don’t think who matters too much).
But a group representing e.g. 10% for starters and growing … might bring balance to the force.
SFTB
The mists of time and all that, 60 years is a long time for endless conspiracy theories and yes it turned into an industry. Oliver Stone gave a thrashing to the lone gunman theory but the movie went for the Hollywood effect. Executive Action – Burt Lancaster 1973 was a lower budget, good effort.
I think LHO was a Patsy, ( his word ) there is simply no way he fired three shots,in that timeframe, the last one being a bullseye.
We’ll never know the truth which was just another casualty
As for the reception and performance of the board at the AGM and generally?
I’m relatively comfortable with how things are done.
(I’d prefer fewer projects and more Champions League points … but that is hardly an original view)
Regardless of my opinion, we have a simmering disconnect between some fans and the board.
Banners, Pyros and behaviours are the current cause of tension but I think this is also fuelled by a few legacy issues such as
– treatment of fans by OBFA
– title stripping of the liquidated RFC
I’ve never suffered from the first
I’m well over the second
Not so for others.
Perhaps time for a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at Celtic?
This role is becoming more prominent in companies, particularly in the digital age.
Board level rep with the juice to get engagement and customer experience improved.
Takes the load away from the CEO, Chairman, and the unfailingly polite (but not empowered) JPT.
If you look very closely at the Zapruder film you will (just about) see a dark box like image in the background through some trees, some foliage.
Therein the second shooter was waiting….
SAINT STIVS on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 3:47 PM
I have been to Rome once. Place was in ruins
True story…..in the Roman Forum many moons ago and a Yank behind me said “gee wiz wonder who built all of this” 🙃🫠
I was listening to Brian Mclair’s podcast
Recent one was with Only an Excuse Oldco fan and writer. Well worth a listen.
This one is still up there with Stephen Coogan getting two rebel classics aired live on TV as classic comedy moments for me
https://youtu.be/a5zkjM5HUX4?si=ZFfMuXzbQHEfAZCN
EKBhoy: if you will be near La Zenia, Paddy’s Point is a great place to watch the game.
EKBHOY
Favour , steer needed.
First time trip to Alicante coming up , any tips on where to catch the game in the pub.
I would suggest at a table under the TV.
I was waiting with some mates to get into St Thenogs Primary School in Garthamlock, for football training.
A few minutes before 7:30pm a mate called Roddy Sutherland turned up and told us Kennedy had been assassinated.
Wonder where Roddy is now?
My first Celtic game was on Saturday 16th December 1961 v Hibernian. I had just turned 8.
I was at the front of the enclosure below the main stand. I remember being in tears at half-time because Celtic were 1-2 behind. My dad assured me Celtic would win.
He wasn’t wrong. Celtic won 4-3. Johnny Divers got a hat-trick.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Agree re Oswald the patsy.
The only evidence needed was the fact that Oswald himself was killed 48 hours after the President.
I thought my first game was at Rugby Park in 1969, we scored six. Then looked at the stats and realised it had to be 1968 🫣🙄.
Wee bhoy with red hair was a riot didn’t think he made it 🙃
Celtic football no doubt has enjoyed incredible success for many years now and for this we owe a lot to Dermot Desmond even though at times i think he can even do better but that’s human to strive for even more success. Over here in the green and misty isle the Limerick hurling team were nobodys in the GAA world until billionaire JP McManus renouned race horse owner cam,e on board to finance operations and now the team are practically unbeatable going for five titles on the trot, a big mate incidently of DD.
Hearing that Neil Lennon one of the favs for the ROI job and possibly Damian Duff also part of the Irish setup. No doubt they will be glad to have new recruit Mikey Johnston in the squad. Mikey fairly sparkled a couple of nights ago in the Aviva deservedly winning MOM.
Mikey has been a revelation since declaring for ROI due to grand parents connection. I know Duffer was a big fan and offers some badly needed flair to the attack , hopefully he stays clear of injury.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 5:49 PM
EKBHOY
Favour , steer needed.
First time trip to Alicante coming up , any tips on where to catch the game in the pub.
I would suggest at a table under the TV.
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Maybe under the table (if there’s no couch) . -)))
https://www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/natgeo/jfk-one-day-in-america/videos/jfk-one-oda-watchnow-affiliates-uk-jfk-one-day-in-america
A new series….with some of the witnesses
TOM MCLAUGHLIN
Haven’t checked it lately and don’t know if it was my very first but I saw Celtic beat Eyemouth Utd in a Scottish Cup game at Parkhead. I also saw us verse Third Lanark in an early game complete with the old jungle curved roof, it might have been a defeat 3-4 or thereabouts. Pre Stein and Celtic were rotten.
Been to Berlin to sample where JFK delivered his famous speech, mate has been to Dealy Plaza, lucky sod.
BSR
I was also at that Eyemouth game which I think we won 3-0 . My father took me to reserve games at CP when I was a nipper , first big game was (I think) a cup semi at Ibrox v Killie (63 or 64) which we lost and precipitated a bit of a riot . I think Celtic fans had enough of the doldrum years .
JFK …how we could do with him these days ..often wonder if he had survived what would the world have been like ..a better place for sure …verdict murdered by his own countrymen …Warren Commission findings …one word LIES…shame on them …and all the rest of the American establishment ..who know and would rather take it to the grave …than tell the truth
LARKIN1907 on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 4:58 PM
I was listening to Brian Mclair’s podcast
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Earlier this month i had a week out of work to do up a bedroom.
I had listened to a few LIFE WITH BRIAN before, but spent this time doing the whole back catelogue.
He is fantastically articulate, clever, witty, sardonic, cutting sometimes, and hos choice of guests a myriad of football supporting celebs, with dimilar politics to Choccy.
much of the stories he tells he repeats often, but they are genuinely funny.
he loved tommy burns, no dounbt about it. and billy, and in awe of Fergie.
highly recommend.
someone mentioned john colquon recently, that one is a belter, best pals by the way, because at celtic they were “different”
St Stivs
Brian is a legend in our family
Next door neighbour connection
Old league trophy ran round Darroch Way in Cumbernauld with my brothers and their fellow Tims cos of the man
reading the first games has me looking at the celticwiki for the individual games, really interesting press clippings.
those kids, are talked up by kelly as “going to be great someday” , but very seldom do you get a mcgrory comment printed.
beating the original rangers in glasgow cup and league cup (ay snake muntain) one month , then losing 5-1 at celtic park.
huge high scoring wins or defeats, 5-4s, 4-3s, 3-2s. or big wins , or big losses.
the scourge of inconsistency, as they learn their trade.
kelly in turn never mentions that stein was already working his magic with them back when he took the “reserves”
1960-08-09: Green and Whites 4-0 Whites, Friendly
https://wikifoundryimages.s3.amazonaws.com/m6xNZapEptrBEwsH9dZ3yg281986
I can’t remember who we were playing in my first game at Celtic Park. I was only about 4 (I think) and everybody was shouting for the wee barra. I kept looking for a wee barrow. Couldn’t see one, of course. The wee barra was Bobby Collins. I was being passed from Dad to my Uncles’ shoulders. This was in the Hayshed, as my Dad always called it.
A couple of years later, I graduated to sitting up on the wall at the back of the Jungle. It was a great view but you had to be careful coming down, to avoid the urine……I certainly sat there for about 3 or 4 years and occasionally was joined by another young lhad.
and here’s Mr Coogan
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=313133632683668
I used to go to most of the reserve games, when the floodlights were installed. They were usually on a Friday evening. Some great players like Alex Byrne. You could wander around Celtic Park easily then.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 7:14 PM
in the future AI/VR/AR tech world of the future, i am convinced there will be a virtual product offering you the consumer to go back to a match and witness it from your favourite position in the ground, or indeed a wander around the stadium.
when people get asked, what match would you have liked to have seen from the past ………… you will be able to do it.
same as virtual season tickets, soon you will watch football live from your home, be in your headset you will be at the ground.
i want to go see michael davitt lay the sod.
Any need for the ‘save us from’ comments in todays blog? I’ve long proclaimed my desire to see a more supporter focused, owned and led football club. There is certainly more than one way to run a club successfully. That’s what us ‘debating society revolutionaries’ (don’t think there was any need for those comments to be honest) might be getting at.
I can’t say celtic are not well run, they clearly are given the numbers in the accounts and the trophies in the record books. But placing our faith in conservative (small c) business men who are part of a system that people like them have ruined asxa long-term guarantee of success is questionable.
We’re all entitled to our views. Lack of respect for that is increasingly the culture in here and maybe our host(s) might reflect on how the lead blogs contribute to that one-way or another?
My first game was March 24th 1962. We beat Aberdeen 2-0, I don’t remember a lot about the game as I was four.
My uncle had promised to take me to see Celtic when I was four, my fourth birthday was in February and this was his first chance. I remember more about the bus journey, my first trip with Greenock Celtic , an exciting outing for a wee Bhoy.
From Celtic Wiki
A fairly even first half with both sides having chances and the Celtic right side particularly dominant. The goal when it came was finished by Brogan from a Crerand free kick. At the start of the second half Aberdeen switched their players around to no real avail. Brogan got a second again from a Crerand pass.
Teams
Celtic: Haffey; MacKay, O’Neill; Crerand, McNeill, Clark; Brogan, Chalmers, Hughes, Divers, Byrne. Scorers: Brogan 2 (42, 59)
SAINT STIVS on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 7:21 PM
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 23RD NOVEMBER 2023 7:14 PM
in the future AI/VR/AR tech world of the future, i am convinced there will be a virtual product offering you the consumer to go back to a match and witness it from your favourite position in the ground, or indeed a wander around the stadium.
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I wonder if the smell of cigarette smoke, alcohol and the horrors of the toilets will be part of that immersive experience?
Good evening all from the Vicky Bar.