“Have you lost your minds?” Board the problem, not Rodgers argues Bob

Anger at the Celtic Board is mounting as this season unravels with Celtic now in second place in the Scottish Premiership, badly out of sorts on the park, with a manager who seems unable to contemplate changing a system that clearly is not working and a fanbase who are well aware of how we got here and who is to blame.

An article on The Celtic Star yesterday, titled Celtic’s Gathering Storm,  looked at Brendan Rodgers’ role in this mess and suggested that he wouldn’t stay around of Celtic lost the league – he actually promised the support on the steps of Celtic Park last June that he’d be back in the same spot come May celebrating another title win. He had after all just taken over a treble winning squad.

One of the comments on that article from a chap called Bob, reckons that our writer, indeed The Celtic Star as a whole, has lost our minds and didn’t want to hear about Rodgers being the problem but wanted to highlight the real reason we are in this mess and it’s according to Bob, down Lawwell & Co in the Celtic Boardroom.

The Celtic Star is a site for Celtic supporters and we always welcome supporter input and allow everyone to express their views provided that they are within the scope of what is publishable. Bob was well supported in his reply in our comments section, so to do his contribution justice – and his view is clearly shared by many supporters – we thought we’d publish it as an article in it’s own right.

So here’s what Bob had to say in reply Just an Ordinary Bhoy’s article Celtic’s Gathering Storm…

My god, talk about short memories, have you lost your minds? Sack Rodgers? He wasn’t properly backed in January never mind last summer! Lawwell & Co are going out of their way to shaft him (as he wasn’t THEIR man, he wasn’t THEIR pick for the managerial role). Rodgers is being set-up to fail, to help cover for their incompetence, to have him removed in order to put in place another ‘YES Man’, that won’t rock the boat and does what he’s told!

What about Sack the Board, where are the calls to have Liewell & Co removed, for they are the root cause of all of this sudden upheaval? Lawwell is only in the door a year and look what’s happening. They’ve deliberately gone out of their way too caused division among the fanbase by stoking the fire, they had the Green Brigade removed, and now they are using Rodgers as a scapegoat to protect themselves and their money hoarding operation from within Celtic Park, to line their pockets and starve us of any sort of success on the European front.

Our pitch looks like a cow-field, our recruitment department is full of wasters, we have a youth academy that doesn’t work (hasn’t worked in years) but systematically destroys the fragile careers of any aspiring Celtic first team teenager, we’ve £70 million (or more) in the bank, with an additional £15 million line of credit and they claim they can’t afford to buy players.

And while all this is going on, we have a board simultaneously handing themselves millions in pay rises, just to stay a hair breath ahead of Newco, seriously but what the hell? Open you eyes, the board is the problem, not Rodgers. Lawwell & Co are going out of their way to steal your hard-earned cash every year, in order to manufacture a false sense of competitiveness with our city rivals, to prop them up and push them on, to save them and the SPFL long term, in order to negotiate rubbish sponsorship deals that have us the laughing stock of European football.

Do you remember when Lawwell & Co (along with Lennon), screwed us over with the 10 in-a-row and when the fans righty kicked up a storm, they attacked us, the fanbase, with the following actions.

The Board:

Celtic fans backed us during a global pandemic, we flushed £35 million down the toilet and blew the 10IAR, we the board erected barricades, we the board ignored you and we the board used the blue nose tainted elements of the British media to insult and labelled our fanbase (Celtic fans) with untrue, deceitful slurs of ‘entitled’, ‘mob’, ‘scum’ & ‘dirt’, yet, after all that, faithfully blind as they are, they still came back for more of the same, renewing in their thousands? Beggars belief, they cant see the woods for the trees when it comes to this club. you want Champions League fitba, aye right, we’re downsizing! now shut up & give us your money, idiots.

Lawwell, The enemy within, Celtic’s keyser soze

1. He constantly interfered with the recruitment process
2. He continuously undermined managers to pursue his own agenda
3. He flushed millions on project players and journeymen
4. He held back on money needed for European qualifiers
5. He and the board have regressed Celtic to a joke and a laughing stock of European football, to the point we’ve become the whipping boys for Europe’s smaller clubs
6. Under his mismanagement, we’ve only qualified for the Champions league twice in the last eight years
7. Under his mismanagement we’ve lost out on £280 million of much needed champion’s league revenue
8. Under his mismanagement he and the board flushed £35 million down the toilet, blown the 10iar & called it progress
9. Under his mismanagement, theRangers have been resurrected to save the ‘old firm’ brand & the long-term financial future of the SPFL.

Bob

Do you agree with Bob or would you like to outline a counter argument? Please feel free to have your say in the comments section below…