“We are playing Leverkusen in a big game tomorrow night. Don’t waste the opportunity.<\/em><\/p>\n “I have no desire or any incline to get involved in ticket allocations, that is not my brief.<\/em><\/p>\n “I will let you pass on that one. I will give you a freebie, give me another question.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The big game is tonight, and Leverkusen require only a point to guarantee progression to the next stage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Celtic require a point to make the final game against Betis a winner takes all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’d say that if a draw suits both, then a nice , friendly evening kick about is the most likely outcome.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The players should be intstructed to take it easy, be nice, ask the Germans how they’re doing, can we get you anything, how’s the kids and so on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course, I’m not suggesting that our club would have anything to do with helping another club because it suits us…. our board is stacked with honourable men.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So it’s quite surprising that. for instance, they’re looking to hire Bernard Higgins, a former Police Scotland gruppenfuhrer who was behind the persecution of Celtic supporters when they did outrageous things such as wear brightly coloured shirts in front of oncoming traffic, walk on the cracks in the pavement and speak before they were spoken to,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Higgins is not a popular choice, and an open letter was put together this week, which has almost universal support among the support….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There has, as yet, been no response from the board, which kind of fits their “hope it all goes away ” model of dealing with customer complaints.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The honourable men have form for this kind of thing, as anyone who has been following the Resolution 12 story will tell you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the last AGM the Celtic Trust gathered some signatures and put forward a resolution that was voted up in the room but voted down by the larger block vote that is always used against this kind of insurgence. It kept Bankier and Wilson in their\u00a0 jobs as well..<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n All of which means the whole episode was pointless , right ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, yes and no.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It certainly brought attention to the issue, again, if not an explanation of what it was all about.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And there are one or two things that aren’t quite sitting right with me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the Celtic Trust website, there is a summary of the AGM , and this is the conclusion they came to…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a result of some extremely hard working and creativity by the Celtic Trust Communications Sub-Committee, the number of individual proxies to the Trust were as high as they have ever been.\u00a0 However, that amounted to 390 individual shareholders out of a total of almost 28000.\u00a0 Think about this \u2013 if you knock 30 at most from that figure as those who are the \u2018big guns\u2019 then that leaves\u2026well\u2026almost 28000 of people like us \u2013 ordinary supporters.\u00a0 We got less than 400 to proxy their vote to us.\u00a0 In terms of shares voted, around 80.3 million shares were cast \u2013 that is around 75% of those shares that could be voted.\u00a0 The vast and overwhelming majority of that 75% is in the hands of the big investors.\u00a0 The missing 25% is mainly ordinary, small shareholders who, year after year, don\u2019t bother to vote.<\/em><\/p>\n The votes in favour of our resolutions and against the re-election of Bankier and Wilson were between 940,000 and 989,000.\u00a0 That amounted to around 1.2% of those cast.\u00a0 A paltry figure in itself but one which could be increased significantly if we could get those other 25% of shares (held by around 28000 people) voted.\u00a0 Just over 26.8m ordinary shares were not voted and if even half of these were voted then we would start to see change.\u00a0 The change would not come because this constitutes a majority \u2013 it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 Change would come because of the dynamic effect of a real challenge to the power of the existing Board.\u00a0 Minds would start to turn towards to possibility of change and some of the larger shareholders, who themselves are not happy with the Board, might start to believe that change can be achieved and join with us.\u00a0 Most of the people we regard as the big guns now have a far smaller stake than 25% so our combined power is not insignificant if we can only mobilise it.<\/em><\/p>\n So, to sum up, they got their vote out and we didn\u2019t get ours out.\u00a0<\/strong> That is the long and the short of it.\u00a0 Hence that is why we need to now turn our attention to the Drive for 5 campaign and really get to work.\u00a0 This is a long game, and it might take us a while yet, but change is possible, it is necessary, and we have a clear mechanism to achieve it.\u00a0 Join us and make it happen!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In short, the Trust altered the original resolution because it was defamatory, against company law and incoherent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quite how an accusation of misgovernance and a demand for clarity can be defamatory is unclear, it’s fairly simple. There’s evidence that there was misgovernance, and clarity is needed on how the club dealt with it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Company law is open to interpretation, and as for incoherent…if someone at the Trust didn’t want to back something because they didn’t understand it, then perhaps someone who did should have dealt with it….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n To my mind, the low level of support for the Trust is down to a lack of trust, and before they start lashing out at that, they maybe want to look inside themselves first.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do they really represent the wishes of their members ?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ve seen a few things that cast a little doubt on that assertion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And bear in mind, I rarely ask a question I don;t already know the answer to.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s becoming perfectly clear to me that whilst we already knew we couldn;t trust the board, it’s disappointing that there’s a feeling we can’t trust the trust.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n But I’m sure they’ll clarify any doubts I have.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The offer of a right to reply is extended to any and all of them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elsehwere, and maybe this is part of what we need to fight against, and why we need to all be singing from the same hymn sheet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Celtic B played Clyde the other night, and whilst our youngsters are learning their trade, it appears Chris Gentrie, the referee, is excelling at his….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1463512862408728578<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So\u00a0 , bringing back an old favourite, today….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Using your skill and judgement, study the clip above and using your knowledge of the laws of the game, tell us, in your own words, how the suffering fuck that was a penalty.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took the dogs out as usual yesterday morning, and as I passed one of my neighbours house, I realised I hadn’t seen the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/0b69a0cee775ebef8bceb9c75b409712.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-4v0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17300,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions\/17300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Win](\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/3o7aD8Hyt3q3IrhLIQ\/giphy.gif\")
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