09 Feb 2017 13:13:21
Who'd have thunk it wee Roger Mitchell the ex spl supremo a self confesed celtic fan, in the rags today waxing lyrical about our Peter saying he's the best chief executive in Europe and after the figures the other day who can argue HH.


1.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 16:11:59
I'm sure he does well to meet his targets set out for him but it could be argued he hasn't protected Fans and Shareholders interests with respect to resolution 12.


2.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 16:53:19
He's been a grand financier, broker, negotiator and arbitrator. He's somebody I'm really comfortable with at the thought of him being our rep in any boardroom, fighting our corner. However from a football perspective, he hasn't had us looking as good as we could have been for several seasons up until the recent rocket up the rear. Now we have a proper manager in place, PL can stick to what he does best. Not football, business.


3.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 17:02:16
Just want to add I'm not trying to be negative and from speaking with Friends and Family not all fans are too bothered by things like resolution 12, not as much as me anyway. I'm just reluctant to celebrate things that come from the people who run/ ran the game, I'm sure Lawwell isn't compromised in any way but remember it wasn't too long back Scottish football had the world's best administrator.


4.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 17:23:47
I'd accept he does a good job but you could argue that his penny pinching has cost us serious money . Employing Ronnie as a cheap project cost us massively in Europe. We only have to look at the turnover we have just had to see the difference it made. I know we won two league titles under him but let's be realistic to say that probably most of the managers in the league would have won the league if they were in charge of us the past couple of seasons. If we had pushed the boat out more the previous seasons and qualified our turnover would be massive over the last few years.


5.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 19:01:56
Ronnie wasn't took on as a cheap project, Ronnie was employed because he was a young forward looking, modern, innovative, inspiring, successful manager, but as it turned out, he couldn't manage at all. the Celtic board had the right idea, but were let down by Ronnie's ineptitude.


6.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 22:32:06
I agree with you aindoh we took a gamble with RD and the intentions were in the right place.

But as many have pointed out would BR be so successful at celtic if it wasn't for the previous gaffer's groundwork.


7.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 22:06:35
I agree, but Ronnie was there when a few of our best players now were signed. But, we have always had a tendency to be scared of really having a go.

Hopefully we get off our knees and start moving in a direction that sees teams truthfully fear us, as opposed to the pat on the head shite they all troll out.

I think we have and will.


8.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 22:10:07
Ronnie was an experiment they knew they would still win the league and a cup but what backfired was CL the fact they had malmo beat at PH and went on to blow it was bad management imo they were well capable of getting there.


9.) 09 Feb 2017
09 Feb 2017 23:02:58
Ronnie was the cheap option. He was a gamble that scraped bye by winning the league. He wouldn't have gotten near the job if sevco were in the league. He was a good guy who couldn't turn the job down but he was a mediocre manager at best.

Mr Lawwell gave him the gig as he knew even John Barnes would've won us the league then so gamble paid off. Just. Ok, I ripped it a bit with the John Barnes bit but you get my point!


10.) 10 Feb 2017
10 Feb 2017 11:10:57
Rodgers has came out and said we should strengthen from a position of dominance so that will do for me. As long as we see continuous improvement in the team.


11.) 10 Feb 2017
10 Feb 2017 11:47:29
marco that's definitely the key. Strengthen from a position of dominance, move so far ahead of the competition that it takes them a lifetime to catch up. HH.