Celtic’s Annual General Meeting, held at Celtic Park today, was a livelier event than usual. The board received a hostile response to their refusal to back a resolution to provide all staff with at least the Living Wage. Several impassioned points were made from the floor, which convinced chairman, Ian Bankier, to dispense with his prepared response and provide answers to specific questions.
The vote went against the resolution based on the proxy votes cast by the chairman but the board have never lost the floor so convincingly on any prior issue.
Resolution 12, encouraging the club to purse the game’s authorities on matters relating to the governance of liquidated Rangers was adjourned indefinitely by the requisitioners. On proposing the adjournment, a spokesman for the requisitioners (our own Morrissey23) explained that they had met the club and received information not previously known, and that further meetings were planned.
Fergus McCann made an unexpected contribution to the AGM by email through the chairman, extoling the virtues of financial director, Eric Riley, who he commended for 19 years’ service in pursuing Celtic’s interests. Fergus asked for, and got, an applause for Eric Riley, which resulted in the first unanimous show of hands to re-elect a director I have seen at a Celtic AGM.
AGM questions can be a tortuous affair but they were on the money this year. We had poetry, questions about financial governance including a question as to whether the club owns all of it’s perceived property assets. Ian Bankier confirmed it did, before planting his tongue in his cheek to insist “I’m not going to show you the deeds”.
When one shareholder expressed frustration that a new Scottish club is pretending to be a now liquidated club, chief executive, Peter Lawwell, retorted, “Rory Bremner can pretend to be Tony Blair”.
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Justafan
Correct. Cyber beer my friend.
IKi- through the Celtic Trust site
Was Coisty cookin the books with Craigy?
djbee
20:49 on 15 November, 2013
Q2. What were the dimensions of the cell that the manager of the new club was squeezed in to in Govan?
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Should that not be cells…?
darwinsbeautifulidea
20:56 on
15 November, 2013
see the huns have reported pete to the sfa what a bunch of fannies
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Smashin, let’s see where the SFA take that one
67Heaven
I got on a train from Dalmuir to Partick last week. Wee Hugh got on and sat opposite me. He clocked my Celtic holdall. I have never seen a more paranoid looking guy since the mushy days of yore. He has sold his soul, and he knows we know it!
Justafan
I posted that as I wanted one of CQNs finest to see it. I know he’s hurting a wee bit tonight . I wanted to remind him of a hero in the hoops. Mind you, he knows that already.
Seriously, the huns are complaining about a Lawell joke about the liquidation event?
The last time we saw this kind of self deception was when mass hsyteria followed the death of a womb who was once married to a member of the Engish aristocracy…
t and t
Thanks.
That’s interesting.
Usually a ‘witness’ would be interviewed by the police at his home or place of employment. If he was seen at Govan Cop Shop it’s not as if plod would have had to go far to get the cheeky chunkster on his kit kat break.
The fact he was invited to attend the police station is curious. Wonder if he was interviewed on tape or under caution or with his lawyer present to ensure fair play? We may never know.
There are double standards at play in the reporting of this all , of course.
Super fat boy is heroically doing all he can to bring the real villains in the Rangers Comic Opera to book, being obviously very, very, very innocent. And ruggedly handsome.
Meanwhile, naturally those well known international terrorists masquerading as the Celtic away support are deservedly languishing in Dutch custody being plainly horribly, horribly guilty of recklessly striking hard working police on the truncheon with their faces.
I think this little sub plot is well worth keeping an eye on.
…and a living wage is impossible because?
darwinsbeautifulidea
20:56 on 15 November, 2013
see the huns have reported pete to the sfa what a bunch of fannies
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Even funnier when you consider we were trying to Pete t report THEM to the SFA…hahahaha
Twisty
No idea because I gave been told that he only played one or maybe two games in his 14 years at Celtic playing in front of the best supporters in the world.
Stairheedrammy
21:03 on
15 November, 2013
IKi- through the Celtic Trust site
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Thanks.
Will do.
Ps it is iki :)
McGeady scores for Republic/ Now 2 nil.
To all involved,
well done with the resolution
It’s human nature to want all of this out in the open, but it’s got to be recognised that some of the material, if openly aired, would only damage our chances of success. I’m happy to see where we go with this approach.
iKi- sorry that’s the Catholic schools fault for making me start a name with a capital letter- I just cant let it go!
Good cop: Ally, ah pure love you by the way, you scored some belters by the way an I mind you scored one wance that wiz ootside the six yerdboax, who was that against?
I think you may be referring to the one at St J when I managed to get a hand to it from a corner, 85 I think it wiz.
Bad Cop: Cheers Sir and thank you for coming, we are the PPL by the way.
McGeadovich – 2-0
Irish crowd doing the huddle.
T n T
Wish it was only a cyber thirst!
Sweden are giving it all they’ve got…..Lustig BRILLIANT
I heard some reporter asking PL earlier about his Rory Bremner remark, he brushed it off as banter.
So I doubt the sfa will do sfa.
Nothing will happen.
Let them fry their remaining brain cells, hell mend the lot of them.
HH
BT
Haha…. 192 appearances. 74 more than Ronnie Simpson.
67 Heaven
He’s nothing if not subtle , our Pedro.
Maybe, just maybe, he was the one board member who really supported resolution 12.
Maybe he felt that the naked injustice of it all was crying out for a referral to the authorities.
Maybe he said to himself ‘If only there was a way to ensure I was given a platform in a public situation to say what I really think about all of this’.
And then the Huns blunder in ……..
Ah, he’s the fly one! ( I bet a hun reads this and thinks it’s true)
Lustig having a great game. Bfdj still looking out for Zlatan Ivanicevic.
Ronaldo head-butts Lustig…..
Justafan
Cyber bottle of scotch on its way and a packet of cyber paracetamols too :-))
Budding guitarists,
learn this, and you’re halfway there
Segovia – El Noi de la Mare (Catalan Folk Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrdpmM-dI3g
Oh… and when you get “there”, you’ll realise you’re only halfway to “There”
blindlemonchitlin
21:15 on 15 November, 2013
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
TnT
Didn’t know that.
Every one a proud moment.
Compare and contrast-
Huns “manager” interviewed by police.
His endless list of masters trot out the “no surrender” bollix
They don’t know who owns their club.
They don’t know who owns “ra deeds”
PL has a throwaway line ,the Laptop Loyal and 2 guys who own some buses complain.
What is the main story?
BTW-That was only this week’s titbits.
THIS ALL HAPPENED THIS WEEK
Cheers bhoys – trying to prise laptop from little Jackie’s fingers to test the music out
Whittaker, International player???
Rep of Ireland now 3 up. Good start for Martin & Roy.
BT
When I was a kid I used to go to bed dreaming of running out at Paradise. Just once would have been enough. Then I hoped one of my sons would. Now I hope one of my grandsons will live the dream. Sadly, for most of us it remains a dream only. To do it 192 times? Must be a lot of jealous bhoys out there:-)
Doubtless the SFA will be too busy investigating the huns songbook at the Kilmarnock game from 2 years ago..
..you’re still the same club? Right??
Sammi + the bhoys 3-1 up
By the way if BRTH could play up front we would not need a striker.