Lawrence Donegan really is on the warpath to defend his heroes in the Celtic boardroom.
It seems that any time he thinks of Celtic he switches to politics and hits out at the Fans Collective. Apparently they are Trots, an evil political movement that has managed to dupe over 400 groups of Celtic fans into backing their aims.
The Trots theme seems to have become an unhealthy obsession for Donegan, a former Westminster political aide to Brian Wilson.
CELTIC FAN DONEGAN
Since partying ways Wilson has sat on the Celtic board as a Non-Executive Director for over 20 years of stagnation in every area.
Hipster Donegan has moved to the USA where he covers golf for the Guardian, becoming more and more detached from Celtic and the Celtic support.
Someone should tell the Trot numpties running this circus that the transfer window is still open. https://t.co/VP0i8EXaNI
— lawrencedonegan (@lawrencedonegan) January 26, 2026
Whatever he knows about the Celtic Fans Collective is at best second hand.
The Collective has no leadership, it has a Steering Group of 19 members which covers a huge element of the Celtic support.
COLLECTIVE STRENGTH
Traditional groupings such as the Association, the Irish Association as well as fan media groups and ultras are part of the Collective.
Donegan seems keen to get attention. Both as a martyr calling out the collective and hoping for some favours from his former boss Wilson.
Wilson is likely to be embarrassed by the OTT attention from Donegan, just as Peter Lawwell did by his leading online fan-bhoy and his daily posting.
As interim Chairman Wilson is brilliantly filling the boots of Lawwell.
A policy cocktail of silence mixed with contempt seems to be in the Celtic boardroom DNA. With fools like Donegan lapping up all the contempt for fans that haven’t reached the same ‘heights’ as he has.
The Collective are acting entirely in bad faith and are just gagging for us to fail. FWIW, we’ve got a couple in, both 1st team starters. (Aruajo will be the best player to come to Scotland this window, and it won’t even be close.) I want more but not bad so far.
— lawrencedonegan (@lawrencedonegan) January 27, 2026
Yeah, putting pressure on the board when there’s still time for them to take action in relation to signings is plain daft. Better to stay quiet and assume this window will go as well as the two before it
— King Jobbie III (@kingjobbie) January 26, 2026
Someone needs to tell the celtic board the window is still open
— Ged (@gedpostecoglu) January 26, 2026
Do you think the business has been good enough?
derby at beginning of the month still with no striker , lost
tynecastle- new guy just in door no time to settle in , scraped a point, Ralston on at left back?
1/6 in massive games where the manager could have had more help
— Gerry Cameron (@GerryCameron13) January 27, 2026
You’re the type who said after summer that kelechi was a masterstroke and wait for the January window. Last January you probably said we wait till summer to get kyogos replacement in the summer. Next week you’ll say January is a notoriously bad window and we concentrate on summer
— GeneHunt81 (@GeneHunt81) January 27, 2026
Apparently January is a notoriously difficult month to do business. Particularly if you are having to do a large patch-up job having failed to reinforce from a position of strength during the summer, you are unwilling to part with any money and you insist on using the CEO equivalent of Frank Spencer to do the negotiations.
Oooh, Betty.
Hahaha!!! I now have that tune in my head and a picture of Nicholson (in a beret) running about the boardroom. At least Frank had Betty to love him, not sure about our CEO though
I know, but he does appear to be about as assured as poor old Frank.
You can just imagine Martin turning up in his office demanding to know if he’s managed to make any progress on signings to be told by Iron Mike that’s he hasn’t, because he’s “had a bit of trouble!”…..
Please Mr Donegan shut up these guys your criticizing spend good money travelling all over Scotland and Europe supporting Celtic,unlike Mr Wilson getting free travel and Board.Maybe he does contribute something for his place on the board,as for you,well you could possibly be another free loader getting all the perks because of who you know rather than what you bring to the table
Why do the board not look at what THEY have cost the club . Selling their best player and not replacing them, not strengthening the squad which cost 60 million in Europe bringing in a Dr football with no transfer strategy. Bringing in a manager paying the compensation for him, we lose the cup and fire him and pay compensation
The board have probably cost Celtic 70 million. If you lost a company 70 million would you still be in a job?
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Yeah all members of the collective are also members of a fringe political party what the hell is he smoking,lickspittle
He reckons two loan deals so far is not bad
Clueless knobhead
All the usual sycophants out to try and gaslight us.
I’ve heard of Lonnie Donegan, but never heard of this guy.
Might be unfair, but is our esteemed Chairman using this guy as his mouthpiece?
In search of “unity”, why doesn’t Wilson just speak directly to the support?
It’s pathetic.
We now have a mute Chairman AND CEO! 🙁
If Wilson does absolutely nothing (before he is removed) then he will still be a huge improvement on the pieca shit he replaced. Lawwell actively worked AGAINST Celtic FC and its supporters for the gain of his ‘leader’, Desmond, and himself, and the undying hope that some day they would somehow get the deceased Old Firm into the EPL. That would make absolute fortunes, even by their standards, for both of them.
Just imagine a leech from Eire, that land of wonderful rebels, getting his son to ‘have a go’ at Celtic supporters for being anti-establishment? It’s preposterous and then some. But that’s what uncontrolled capitalist bastards are all about, they shouldn’t exist, EVER!
Not Another Penny
This guy is one of a slowly diminishing band (much akin to the Daily Record readership)of happy clappers which is preventing lots of Celtic supporters from using their season book for the foreseeable.
The ones I know of say they would be unable to keep their emotions (or fists) in check if another one of them offer up a board supporting excuse.
They see no reason to take the chance of doing a 15-20 stretch cos they’ve battered some boardroom sycophant to a bloody pulp.
I may add that none of them are in the habit of having it out “on the cobbles” but enough is enough.
To be honest, I am amazed that Nicholson didn’t get more than a wee bit of verbal abuse in Bologna last week when he did his ill advised walkabout.
Ah – We tried, we tried, but it’s not easy you know in January…
We’ll make amends in the summer we promise youse – This time we really mean it…
Coming to an official Celtic FC website near you soon !
Leading us all a merry tribal dance.
The club is in chaos while lost Chief Michael “Standing Still” Nicholson is playing at soldiers with the GB at the battle of Wounded Pride. Heap Indian giver Brian “Passing Wind” Wilson sends the GB backsliding smoke signals with his peace pipe and the happy eagle-eyed snapper Chris “Grasping Wolf” McKay harvests the ST corn produced by the Collective.
Instead of Lonnie Donegan blowing his trumpet it be should be the sound of Dermot bringing the cavalry.