No Manager, Season Ticket Uncertainty and Poor Communications but New CEO Promises Celtic will Improve

Celtic’s incoming CEO Dominic McKay got his first taste of interaction with the Celtic support last night and certainly was given a first hand account of the unhappiness that is out there among the wider support through the way that the club has pretty much ignored the support and failed to communicate at all this season. It was bad before but got much worse as one thing after another piled up and Celtic’s potentially historic Ten-in-a-Row collapsed around the club. Much of it of course was self-inflicted and the Govanites could hardly believe their luck as Celtic self imploded.

McKay has some job on his hands, but he probably knows this already. The support has to be convinced to renew – despite not knowing yet who the manager will be and whether we’ll be allowed back into games. The long promised ‘Added Value’ has not been delivered and calls to simply move on will leave a bad taste in many supporters mouths.

The terrible communication with the custodians of our club was addressed last night but the proof is in the pudding. There was a fans media conference yesterday with Scott Brown and there’s another meeting next week when the fans media representatives will meet with the club to discuss how we can work together next season.

Incidentally at any of these fan media events to-date, there has been no sign of the old guard sites who traditionally like to cosy up to the outgoing CEO. The new wave of Celtic Fan media are unlikely to be controlled quite so easily.

Ginty1888 from the Cynic attended the Celtic Fan Forum last night. Here’s his summary via his thread on twitter.

Dominic McKay introduced himself and gave a brief summary of his vision.

He wants to:
• modernise the Club on and off the field
• engage with supporters worldwide
• hit the ground running

— Ginty1888 (@Ginty1888) May 13, 2021

Celtic will lead planning and preparations as they have all along.

— Ginty1888 (@Ginty1888) May 13, 2021

Myself and other fans raised concerns around the poor communication from the Club.

Again, Dominic reiterated his intention to modernise this area of the Club to rebuild the relationship between the fans and the custodians.

— Ginty1888 (@Ginty1888) May 13, 2021

I found Dominic to be engaging and personable. His positivity is infectious, I’m sure this will spread throughout the entire Club. I look forward to seeing the first signs of modernisation within the Club as we begin the rebuild. pic.twitter.com/IRzEh5DXO6

— Ginty1888 (@Ginty1888) May 13, 2021

Absolutely, a massive job.

But this Club is at a real low just now. This is the type of positivity we need to turn this massive ship around.

— Ginty1888 (@Ginty1888) May 13, 2021

From various conversations with people from Celtic yesterday there seems to be no definitive date on when the new manager will be announced but the hope is that it will still happen this month. Season tickets are going to go on sale from the end of the month too.

It would be remarkable if Celtic went into June trying to sell 60,000 season tickets, with no guarantee as to when the stadium will be able to accommodate everyone buying a ticket and with no manager in place.