Unusually there was a very high standard of questioning at today’s Celtic AGM.
Normally there are a variety of bizarre questions that leave you shaking your head. About the quality of catering, puddles in the car park or a leak in the roof that the podium lap up, go into detail with their fake concern eating into the hour a year given to answering questions.
This year there were two questions about ticket allocations, one about stadium expansion and another about the club’s carbon footprint which included using rainwater from the roofs to be used on the pitch.
Other than that there was a lot of detailed comment, critical of the board of directors as they tried to airbrush over the multiple failures of last season just as they did with the events of summer 2011 and 2012.
Q #ticagm Corporate governance – what is boards strategy for last 10yrs. We have gone from a UCL qualifier to a team struggling for Europa League qualification. It is a strategy about staying ahead of a zombie club. As a board you should all be ashamed and resign
— Celtic Underground (@celticrumours) November 17, 2021
#ticagm cont
You have stood by and watched a club call themselves what they are not, accumulate trophies they don’t have and said nothing.— Celtic Underground (@celticrumours) November 17, 2021
The only criticism would be that there were more statements and comments than detailed questions.
Ian Bankier was miles out of his comfort zone, trying to deflect questions to Michael Nicholson or Chris McKay, off script Bankier is even more underwhelming than he is when he is reading out a statement.
The contempt from the board to their customers has been obvious for years, today they got an hour of it back in their direction before they returned to the bunker to congratulate themselves on what a wonderful job they are doing.
Ange Postecoglou was used and name-checked often by Bankier, Nicholson and McKay. The manager is nobodies fool and will have picked up that the only motivation of the folk that he was sitting alongside is self-preservation. Whatever it takes and costs.
