KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 15: Celtic's Julian Araujo celebrates scoring to make it 3-2 during a William Hill Premiership match between Kilmarnock and Celtic at BBSP Stadium Rugby Park, on February 15, 2026, in Kilmarnock, Scotland. (Photo by Rob Casey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
The Celtic Fans Collective have repeated their call for the club to end the bans.
The call came the day after the emotional scenes at Rugby Park highlighted by Julian Araujo running into the away support after scoring the winning goal.
Those scenes went global as the fans surged forward to embrace the player who clearly loved the moment.
After the match Araujo praised the 12th man but as it stands the atmosphere for the next SPFL match will be very different.
CELTIC PARK MINUS GREEN BRIGADE
Since the start of November the Green Brigade has been suspended. Around 250 Season Ticket holders based on an incident which has resulted in four fans being charged by Police Scotland.
Celtic fans were in fine voice throughout at Rugby Park, proving once again how inspirational a vocal support can be.
With a monumental few months in store, it would be beyond negligent if the Celtic board continue with their suspension of the Green Brigade.
End the bans. pic.twitter.com/b05APA41sx
— Celtic Fans Collective (@CFC_Collective) February 16, 2026
Since becoming interim Chairman on January 1 Brian Wilson has spoken three times about the need for unity within the club.
There is an obvious issue there with the club suspending 250 fans for an issue involving just four supporters.
Wilson made a public call on Celtic TV on February 5 announcing that he would be meeting with supporter groups to resolve the issues around the club.
That call came ahead of the Scottish Cup tie at home to Dundee which attracted a boycott invite from the Collective.
No attendance was given for that match by the club but it seems to be accepted that just 24,000 turned up.
Celtic Park witnessed dramatic late goals against Dundee and Livingston but there was something flat in the stadium about the whole experience.
With six home SPFL Premiership matches to be played Celtic are in a three way fight for the title.
Small margins are often decisive in football, Celtic need everyone possible rooting for Martin O’Neill’s side.
With Hibs coming to Celtic Park on Sunday fans will be watching carefully to see if Wilson delivers on his calls for unity.
It looks like Mr. Wilson is aw mooth and nae troosers!
Caught this somewhere else this morning….worth letting our greetin media know about eh? And that wee rat McCann’t.
Total 11 mins.
Kilmarnock players down for treatment
53 minutes : 1 minute
58 minutes : 0 minutes 50seconds
60 minutes : 2 minutes 40 seconds
79 minutes : 1 minute 50 seconds
87 minutes : 1 minute 40 seconds
Total : 8 minutes
Substitutions
77 minutes : 1 minute 30 seconds
Goal celebrations
2 goals : 1 minute 30 seconds
Almost EVERYTHING that’s wrong around Celtic FC is down to just 2 men. Desmond and Lawwell, both megalomaniacs who think they can do no wrong whilst doing just about everything to do with the running of our FC wrongly. Celtic FC is a huge football club, a global entity with supporters worldwide but it’s also a small company and hence a fairly simple operation to run. Desmond should be challenged for his illicit interference in running the club which would not be hard to prove and possibly in concert with, e.g. Lindsell Train or others. Check the history of voting at AGMs including the last one even though it was abandoned. Desmond should be forced to bid for all shares (why wasn’t he already?) or fuck off and I know which I’d prefer. Lawwell, placed by Desmond, surrounded himself with no-mark, hopeless cases as he wanted to run the whole operation as he pleased and with too much regard for other clubs or, more specifically, ONE new company, TRFCL. With Lawwell being rightly chased we’re left with utter confusion as his appointees were his poodles and clearly did nothing without his say so. This is what happens at a plc when there is zero input from non-execs and ONE shareholder and ONE ‘organiser’ run everything. We should, with the help of, e.g. the Celtic Fans Collective as the main voice of supporters, be pursuing Desmond and Lawwell for their illicit running of Celtic plc and with the aim of nothing like this EVER being allowed to happen again, EVER. I’ve made my 1st donation to the new CFC and urge everyone, especially (now) armchair supporters like myself, to do likewise. ST holders already do their share. We’ve got a worldwide, largely untapped supporter base so potentially we’ve enough power to remove ANYONE, including billionaire parasites like Desmond and have a Celtic FC fit for our largely wonderful supporter base to flourish and also remember its roots in helping those worse off.
If you know the history…….and all that.
Brilliant finale to the Killie game and much improved 2nd half which even that new freemason ref couldn’t scupper though he tried his very best. We’re still a defensive joke, at set pieces especially, but if we could just convert more chances we’d get through games with a lot less drama. That’s three games on the trot that my auld mind and body have battled through but the tension’s becoming too much, almost. Brilliant celebrations though, just like Julian Araujo which make it worthwhile! 🙂
Spot on TicToc.?
Cheers Johnny Bhoy. It’s worse than infuriating as it’s all self-inflicted on our club by arseholes who have nothing whatsoever in common with most Celtic FC supporters. They should be made to pay………
We need Unity and Unity more than we ever Fu**in well did !