Very pleased Peter Lawwell has opened up a bit today (in The Sun, I know…) on the workings of the club, I hope this is the start of a trend in more regular communication. If there’s logical explanations for Celtic’s actions, inactions, views and general strategy, we should be giving them far more often than we have.
On the club’s financial strategy, his comments were not far removed from yesterday’s blog, “if we take the club into £20m worth of debt, and [Champions League qualification] doesn’t happen, where does that leave us?
“For a Scottish club to owe that kind of money leads to trouble. You don’t have to look very far [Govan] to see the consequences [administration and/or liquidation]of people trying things which ‘might’ happen.”
We’re only a few years from that touchstone but the point still needs to be made.
On one point, there’s probably a bit of work to do: “You’ve got social media and the bloggers, posters and trolls who think they know what’s going on at the club. They don’t.
“They don’t have all the information. The reality is different from their perception and I need to deal with reality every day.”
Social media will never have all the information, but football clubs need to find out ways to harness what is still a new and emerging phenomenon. At the very least, they need to find ways to head off wildly inaccurate and damaging fantasies.
Everyone believes they deal with reality, not perception. I laugh when I see new posters here saying “I’ve no axe to grind, but…….” None of us believe we have an axe to grind, we all believe we bring reality to the debate.
Self-awareness in this respect is not part of the human condition. If people experience, see and read certain realities, perceptions consistent with those realities are perceived as reality.
The only way around this for the club is to ensure Celtic fans have access to sufficient verifiable realities to offset perceived realities. Let’s keep the verifiable realities coming, soon if possible.
Really hope Leigh is playing tonight, and he gets his 40th goal. It would be a fitting achievement for a thorough professional – who never lets an opportunity to show Celtic fans how genuine his delight to be here is.
There’s a Football Forum at The Iron Horse pub, West Nile St, tomorrow [Thursday] from 18:30 until 21:00. Three authors will talk about football within Scottish society.
Our own Alex Gordon, author or Winds of Change, Caesar & the Assassin, A Bhoy called Bertie, Celtic the Awakening and more, “will provide stories of and insights into the integrity of the Scottish football press and media”. Alex is a former editor of the Sunday Mail, so this one should be interesting.
Sandy Jamieson, author of Celtic Submari: a new model for football relationships, among others, will also be speaking. The third panelist is Alan Ness, author of the football novel, A Man’s Game.
There’s a £5 (to Dogs Trust charity or discount off a book) charge at the door, no tickets in advance. Introduce yourself to Alex, if you’re there.
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BRTH
So what Celtic said to the well know blogger(same initials as our CEO?) last Friday was that there was another meeting with the Resolutioners today and NOT that a statement would be issued today?
A statement was obviously discussed but we have been led to believe from numerous sources, including on here, that a joint statement from Celtic and the Resolutioners it was imminent.
The sooner the better, for a growing number of reasons!
Sorry if I have picked up wrongly
HH
TD
Citizen Smith has been a redundant metaphor since the show stopped being broadcast 30 years ago- please update your references..
HH
CB
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 11TH MAY 2016 2:55 PM
This is a bit of an aside but there is a rise among ‘leftists’ (for want of a better term) using the very same language that has historically been the reserve of the far-right, who clearly are antisemitic. So it’s very easy to cast those on the left as the same.
I don’t see why it’s so difficult for people to simple say “Israeli Govt” if that’s who they’re criticising.
“Zionist” is a genuinely ambiguous term and it can legitimately mean different things to different people. For that reason alone I’d be disinclined to use it.
It’s coming up to Eurovision time so please suggest a song as CQN’s entry.
Perhaps:
‘Puppet on a String’
‘Karma Chameleon’
or
‘I’ve Got a Secret’ (but I can’t possibly tell)
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 11th May 2016 2:55 pm
You said the “Zionists” get their money from the Saudis and because I didn’t respond to that, I’m “well and truly gubbed?”
ROTFLMAO!
As some on here have already indicated, it seems possible that Peter Lawwell is in the midst of engineering his exit strategy.
WITS
NorthKorean Quick News..
Sniggered at that …very good .
I liked that a lot
By the way, that part about the club being run exactky the same way by the next CEO?
Hmmmmm
Try telling that to the next guy who sits in the seat!
As I have said before, a new CEO comes in fresh and research tends to show an improvement as a result.
Hopefully, if Peter L does move on, wherever he goes to he will make an impact and not run whatever new company he is involved in just the way it was before?
ERNIE LYNCH on 11TH MAY 2016 2:29 PM
It is not I who have an issue with a particular set of people.
I’m the one calling for peace for all sides.
No imbalance there.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 11TH MAY 2016 2:56 PM
“Zionists are not all Jews even”
Ahh, so it’s only the non Jewish “Zionists” you have an issue with?
Jewish “Zionists” have a right to a homeland?
Fair enough, I had you wrong *Thumbs-up*
You are talking mince as usual.
You are probably a sun reader, and think you are really clever.
You would get more sense from a pile of sawdust.
If pl said his head was made of plastic, you would believe him.
Gullible to the extreme, and then some
JohnBhoy
No offence intended mate! I hadn’t seen you post before, so, as a fellow Canuck, I was just extending the traditional CQN greeting to what I thought was a new and fellow Canadian poster. But apologies if you aren’t a new poster, and my poor attempt at humor didn’t come across.
HH
Good luck to the Celts tonight, I expect us to carry on the good form from the great week-end showing. Radio only for me.
It would be deserved reward for Leigh Griffiths to reach forty in his break-out season with us (I’d even let him have a go at any penalty awarded on this one-off occasion). Those thirty nine goals to date, brought the flag to us.
Haven’t heard anything about Tony Ralston before. We seem more vulnerable at corners and free-kicks whenever Mickael Lustig is substituted, so presumably he’s a tall kid. Stand your ground and hit them hard.
As to the CEO’s contribution today, how low will you go, Peter Lawwell?
interview said nothing about the things that matter..SFA corruption. Stolen titles OLD CLUB MYTH. Cheating refs… These are thing s that matter no one asked for millions to be spent… We want justice…. Celtic are dead unless this is cleared up… Imagine mandela got out of change said we have won then said to all the whites you can carry on as before and we will be your servants.. that’s what has happened. here.. We won? no we have confirmed ourselves as second class citizens forever. Scared to stand up for ourselves All for a crumb from the big hoose table.. or a job in SFA.
I think some fellow bloggers are voting with their feet here.
Peter Lawwell has done nothing to stop the negativity and instead has thrown oil on the flames.
Last night we had Winning Captains berating neganon for doubting the club and for his criticism of the use of the Sun.
It’s utterly contemptable to give the Sun an exclusive and Lawwell had nothing worthy on Resolution 12.
The Whites and the Kelly’s where also Celtic supporters.
weeminger on 11th May 2016 3:07 pm
Good post. I’d add that some on the left *are* anti-Semitic.
I wish PL had named the trolls…..
DAMO LENNON on 11TH MAY 2016 3:00 PM
I Agree. New Club must be universally accepted before our game can even think about moving on.
Get lawwell out.he is a stone cold idiot.
Who is advising him….David Cameron
Rarely have I see such blatant stupidity,…to actually do an interview with the sun after commemorating the 96…..is crass.
He hasn’t got a clue.
Paul 67 isn’t much better.
Well done….you have managed to upset people in Liverpool with your unbelievable insensitivity.
Shocking
SofTunis- daly that was the night ole Dick Byrne got himself locked in the ladies torlet [agane!].
The band, of course, played on.
ELLBOY on 11TH MAY 2016 3:11 PM
ERNIE LYNCH on 11TH MAY 2016 2:29 PM
‘It is not I who have an issue with a particular set of people.’
##
You have an issue with jihadists, unless I’ve misunderstood your posts.
You have an issue with anti Semites.
You probably have issues with any number of particular sets of people.
Whether they are justified or not is a separate issue.
BRT&H @ 3:10PM,
Yes, I thought that was an interesting statement from PL.
I thought it could mean, I’ve got my instructions, I have to run the Club in a very specific way. The next person who takes my place will be working under the same instructions and will have to run the Club in the same way. So nuffins going to change.
Hail Hail
Meanwhile, in North Korea…
They are reporting that Maurice Johnston will shortly be unveiled as the next Celtic manager.
*Shakes head in disbelief while pulling out clumps of hair and screaming NAWWWW!*
HH!!
Just oot of ma scratcher.
Read PL’s Sun article from a second hand source three times.
Conjured up images through out of Ian Bankier telling AGM attendees to behave.
Frankly it smacks of arrogance: “Ah ken what I’m doing and the rest of you are peasants”.
Did he share any new information that a person with half a brain didn’t know already?
Choosing the Sun to disseminate the information: PR cataclysm.
Overriding sentiment: renewed and continuing apathy. Can’t even be arsed to get annoyed anymore.
Ach. What’s the point.
Aff oot hill walking in the awe inspiring Red Rock National Monument.
ernie lynch on 11th May 2016 3:23 pm
You’re undecided on the acceptability of jihadism and anti-Semitism?
On the club’s financial strategy, his comments were not far removed from yesterday’s blog, “if we take the club into £20m worth of debt, and [Champions League qualification] doesn’t happen, where does that leave us?
And where has not spending left us?
Bereft of Champions League money.
“For a Scottish club to owe that kind of money leads to trouble. You don’t have to look very far [Govan] to see the consequences [administration and/or liquidation]of people trying things which ‘might’ happen.”
As is fashionable in today’s politics. Project Fear.
In relation to the above. Perhaps an explanation of why, with all our resources, have we not swept all before us in THEIR absence.
On one point, there’s probably a bit of work to do: “You’ve got social media and the bloggers, posters and trolls who think they know what’s going on at the club. They don’t.
Social media will never have all the information, but football clubs need to find out ways to harness what is still a new and emerging phenomenon. At the very least, they need to find ways to head off wildly inaccurate and damaging fantasies.
Perhaps a bit of openness (not via rags like the Sun with which most of us would not wipe our backsides) on things like why did a relatively successful manager, NL, just upsticks and walk. Or why was there a perception that the guy who succeeded NL as manager was originally lined up a an assistant manager.
ERNIE LYNCH on 11TH MAY 2016 3:23 PM
Do you not take issue with jihadists & Anti-Semites.
Sorry I don’t view either set of people as being rational human beings.
It would be imbalanced of me to think that they were.
Brief chat with my grumpy old man –
” The Sun ? Wouldn’t wipe my arse with that rag – it would end up dirtier than it started “
DAMO LENNON on 11TH MAY 2016 3:29 PM
Careful,l EL is a demon for a semantic argument.
I can feel a pitch for a student of the game coach rather than a bums on seats EPL failure coming any day soon from the blog leader.
The press have got it wrong it was always going to be blah who might not have done well at such and such but he’s a moneyball manager.
We can’t risk 20 million but will risk more than that on cumulative Duds from Dudu Dahan and Man City?
Headtheball
“Myth Unites”.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 11TH MAY 2016 2:54 PM
Johnbhoy58
There might be Celtic fans on cqn
But its a hun site.
Huns and hun ads all over it.
Its all about money and board lies.
Nothing is sacred….everything for sale.
Poor, pathetic excuse for a site.
No truth….only deflection for money
I was looking for a new jacket online last night. Guess what ads are all over CQN today. Yep, John Lewis jackets.
Whether you like it or not that’s how these ad sites work, so someone was researching Rangers or Rangers related material on your computer. Are you seriously suggesting that Paul and his colleagues are advertising Rangers specifically on this site?
Headtheball
For my reaction at seeing PL had given an Interview to the Sun
Smokey Robinson’s ‘tears of a clown ‘ came to mind. :-)
weeminger on 11th May 2016 3:31 pm
Oh I’ve seen it!
DAMO LENNON on 11TH MAY 2016 3:29 PM
ernie lynch on 11th May 2016 3:23 pm
You’re undecided on the acceptability of jihadism and anti-Semitism?
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I’m not sure how you’ve got to there.
If you’re going to argue with me please try to stick to the normal rules of logic.
Anyone remember the Conservative MP who complained about the Labour Party site that was running ads for people who wanted “Arab wives?”
MULLET AND CO 2 on 11TH MAY 2016 3:31 PM
You got it in one.
The money spent was not the problem.
It was the money badly spent that has done the damage.
ernie lynch on 11th May 2016 3:35 pm
So for the record, you are opposed to both anti-Semitism and jihadism?
ELLBOY on 11TH MAY 2016 3:30 PM
On the evidence of your previous post I’m not sure how exactly you would assess what is, and what is not, rational.