Dom McKay leaves Celtic

Roger Daltrey said:
dunno but the way i told is the way Ive been telling it for years. i was gutted when he died i can only remember about 3 jokes and i had to put it on furlough for a while in the interests of decency and good taste.
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Same, that and my Captain Kirk final front-ear joke, saved for Halloween and parties
 
BlueMeanie said:

Check last paragraph !!​

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Michael Nicholson – current Acting CEO​

Nicholson is a man who knows the day-to-say running of Celtic, having been there since 2013.


He was brought to the club by Lawwell having previously been a Partner with law specialists Harper Macleod and a Council Member for the Law Society of Scotland.

Nicholson has additional qualifications from Harvard University in the United States having studied law at Glasgow University.

His first role at Celtic was at Company Secretary. A role he held for more than six years before being promoted in December 2019 to the newly-created post of Director of Legal and Football Affairs.

He also works on the Scottish FA’s Professional Game Board alongside Ian Maxwell and Neil Doncaster, as well as an Arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Ah, all those bodies, completely impartial…
 
alba73 said:
Wouldn’t falsifying these just mean they’d need to pay more tax so doesn’t make sense

I could be missing something
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But if you say that you’re getting more money, an unscrupulous businessman could then insert some of his dirty money into it to “clean” it. Same as you would with falsifying high ticket sales. Which is interesting based on the number of empty seats last week.
 
StuGers said:
But if you say that you’re getting more money, an unscrupulous businessman could then insert some of his dirty money into it to “clean” it. Same as you would with falsifying high ticket sales. Which is interesting based on the number of empty seats last week.
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They quite attendances as opposed to ticket sales (post match) and like most clubs they count s/t holders irrespective of whether or not they attend.

The big thing about the scum is; they give a shítloada tickets - tickets that they couldn’t punt - away and ( technically legitimately) incorporate them into their published attendance figures
 
The hierarchy at the tims seems one big clique. You wonder what shady things they’re hiding.

they don’t appear to like outsiders
 
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Virgil Hilts said:
They quite attendances as opposed to ticket sales (post match) and like most clubs they count s/t holders irrespective of whether or not they attend.

The big thing about the scum is; they give a shítloada tickets - tickets that they couldn’t punt - away and ( technically legitimately) incorporate them into their published attendance figures
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I am extremely suspicious of the figures they quote. I understand that they quote with STs included, but even then they don’t match up.
 
Pepe Silvia said:
The sun reporting 4 people in the running, this Nicholson c*nt and then...wait for it... 3 of Desmonds sons :D really seem to be casting the net far and wide to get the best possible candidate
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Hopefully it gets more and more like an episode of Succession and they start carving each other up.
 
There’s always going to be ST holders at any club who can’t make a game for a number of reasons, I’d guess mostly being work commitments, illness or holiday. I think more than half will pass on STs to family or friends, or through a bus if they travel via a supporters club.

Thats not an easy number to quantify, but I can’t see more than 10% at most who can’t go, and at least half of those tickets will be passed on.

For us, that would mean at most 2,000 - 3,000 unused STs for an “average” game. Even then, that’s probably over estimating unused seats.

but the Filth expect the outside world to believe that up to a THIRD of their (claimed) ST holders - about 18,000 - regularly don’t attend games and also have no family or friends to pass them on to ?!?! And nobody seems to notice this except us? It’s bizarre
 
htws said:
If this guy has all these qualifications , Glasgow , Harvard , Partner at top law outfit , why would he spend six years as Celtic secretary. Hard to comprehend.
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Because it's such a massive (and well rewarded) job keeping the lid on at the chamber of secrets?
 
Athletico Parsnips said:
How do they manage to get so many people in influential positions?
Do we have any staff on any board other than SPFL which is a year on and off?
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Played the long game and got people involved with all these organisations.

We did at one point have some influence - Campbell Ogilvie was very influential in both the SFA and UEFA, but Murray wasn't interested in playing football politics and Bain got rid of/forced out anyone he saw as a threat to his own position.
 
When you have success on the pitch you take note off less off the non footballing dealing!
But no success on the pitch and everyone gets questioned!
We need to keep winning and there fans will turn on there own board!
This new boy coming in for them won't moderenise anything he will be told what to do which will hold them back over the long term.
 
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Geerfc19 said:
The hierarchy at the tims seems one big clique. You wonder what shady things they’re hiding.
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Hugh Keevins is actually a 'Boys from Brazil' type laboratory creation and was intended to be the first of a super race of tims to propel the club into world domination. Tragically, some unwanted DNA from a proboscis monkey contaminated the test tube resulting in (according to the parkhead lab notes) "the creation of a short, myopic and speech impeded wee bastard."

Tommy Burns green trenchcoat was lined with the skin of dead orphans. The remaining skeletons were ground up to produce a protein tincture which Jorge Cadete fed to his parrot.

When Paul Mcstay used to say there was 'a buzz about the place' he wasn't being metaphorical. There was actually a huge diesel powered vibrating sex doll within the main stand which was required to keep the violent urges of Mark McGhee under control. Once Tom Boyd forgot to get more diesel from the garage and Mark went on an unrelenting and frenzied sex-murder spree which required all of Jack McGinn's influence and power to surpress.

etc etc.
 
Alex Venters said:
All depends on how you define close.
40,000 is close to 60,000 when compared to 10,000.
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It’s actually a serious issue that some financial auditors should be looking into - how is it that Celtic appear to have near “sell out” figure crowds yet there are large swathes of empty stadium. I’m sure a some forensic financial analysis would come up with some strange goings on.
 
Bristol_bnose3 said:
Hugh Keevins is actually a 'Boys from Brazil' type laboratory creation and was intended to be the first of a super race of tims to propel the club into world domination. Tragically, some unwanted DNA from a proboscis monkey contaminated the test tube resulting in (according to the parkhead lab notes) "the creation of a short, myopic and speech impeded wee bastard."

Tommy Burns green trenchcoat was lined with the skin of dead orphans. The remaining skeletons were ground up to produce a protein tincture which Jorge Cadete fed to his parrot.

When Paul Mcstay used to say there was 'a buzz about the place' he wasn't being metaphorical. There was actually a huge diesel powered vibrating sex doll within the main stand which was required to keep the violent urges of Mark McGhee under control. Once Tom Boyd forgot to get more diesel from the garage and Mark went on an unrelenting and frenzied sex-murder spree which required all of Jack McGinn's influence and power to surpress.

etc etc.
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Christ, someone's been reading too much Mac Giolla Bhain.
 
EH47 said:
So we can add money laundering to the list that already includes unrepentant support of the IRA and other terrorist organisations, corruption, and a paedophile ring 50+ years in existence?
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Also dont forget DDs starting off in the financial world, where has all the monies came from Ahemmmm?
 
Tbh the figures will include season tickets and even then the flight to police will have some sort tie in with that

We im sure generally report season tickets as well it was part of why seat sub was created as we had at one point a couple of thousand seats empty each hand due to people buying them and not using them all happens

I know some one that has 2 tickets and had on occasion turned the empty turnstile to get his my gers points on both

Ironically I think seat sub makes our accounts more reliable from a ticket sales perspective as they will have to operate a plus negative re seat sub to keep track of season tickets the next year
 
Harper MacLeod have far too much influence in the corridors of power in our game, their placemen are involved at every level. With their tentacles reaching out from the Hub of Horror at Parkheap. Strange how one law firm has so much interest in football in Scotland, from low level paper gatherer's to Sport Arbritation to the Professional Game board.
 
Bristol_bnose3 said:
Hugh Keevins is actually a 'Boys from Brazil' type laboratory creation and was intended to be the first of a super race of tims to propel the club into world domination. Tragically, some unwanted DNA from a proboscis monkey contaminated the test tube resulting in (according to the parkhead lab notes) "the creation of a short, myopic and speech impeded wee bastard."

Tommy Burns green trenchcoat was lined with the skin of dead orphans. The remaining skeletons were ground up to produce a protein tincture which Jorge Cadete fed to his parrot.

When Paul Mcstay used to say there was 'a buzz about the place' he wasn't being metaphorical. There was actually a huge diesel powered vibrating sex doll within the main stand which was required to keep the violent urges of Mark McGhee under control. Once Tom Boyd forgot to get more diesel from the garage and Mark went on an unrelenting and frenzied sex-murder spree which required all of Jack McGinn's influence and power to surpress.

etc etc.
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I'm choosing to believe all of this.
 
fmp said:
There is an article on The Athletic which basically says:

1) Their board blocked him from trying to appoint a DoF
2) The appointment of Strachan, against his wishes, undermined his authority
3) Everyone and their mother (including Liewell, DD, DD's son and several others) were sticking their noses in to transfers and contacting agents etc.

He was quite understandably pissed off at being undermined and not having any autonomy and just said "%^*& this".

There is a token mention of their board apparently being "unimpressed" by him but clearly the article writer does not place any stock in this bit of PR.

*edit* the article fails to mention the obvious elephant in the room of the CSA court cases last week and the current and future civil cases
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This is much easier to believe, so I’ll just believe this - until something proves otherwise.

Glad it’s been cleared up; next thread for me now.
 
BlueMeanie said:

Check last paragraph !!​

​

Michael Nicholson – current Acting CEO​

Nicholson is a man who knows the day-to-say running of Celtic, having been there since 2013.


He was brought to the club by Lawwell having previously been a Partner with law specialists Harper Macleod and a Council Member for the Law Society of Scotland.

Nicholson has additional qualifications from Harvard University in the United States having studied law at Glasgow University.

His first role at Celtic was at Company Secretary. A role he held for more than six years before being promoted in December 2019 to the newly-created post of Director of Legal and Football Affairs.

He also works on the Scottish FA’s Professional Game Board alongside Ian Maxwell and Neil Doncaster, as well as an Arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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No surprise reading that they definitely get them into all the right places don't they. New Director of Legal and football affairs 2019 is this around the time these compensation claims began?
 
DechmontLoyal said:
There’s always going to be ST holders at any club who can’t make a game for a number of reasons, I’d guess mostly being work commitments, illness or holiday. I think more than half will pass on STs to family or friends, or through a bus if they travel via a supporters club.

Thats not an easy number to quantify, but I can’t see more than 10% at most who can’t go, and at least half of those tickets will be passed on.

For us, that would mean at most 2,000 - 3,000 unused STs for an “average” game. Even then, that’s probably over estimating unused seats.

but the Filth expect the outside world to believe that up to a THIRD of their (claimed) ST holders - about 18,000 - regularly don’t attend games and also have no family or friends to pass them on to ?!?! And nobody seems to notice this except us? It’s bizarre
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The outside world don't care and the inside press will run a mile from making pertinent observations such as your own.

If I knew I couldn't make a game, the first thing I thought about was making sure my ST was used. It was already paid for, so as long as a bear was there in my place, happy days.

The amount of empty seats last week, was very noticeable. All round the hovel.
 
jweebear said:
Harper MacLeod have far too much influence in the corridors of power in our game, their placemen are involved at every level. With their tentacles reaching out from the Hub of Horror at Parkheap. Strange how one law firm has so much interest in football in Scotland, from low level paper gatherer's to Sport Arbritation to the Professional Game board.
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And not one journalist in Scotland asks this question?

Truly beggars belief.
 
Porto Loyal said:
Played the long game and got people involved with all these organisations.

We did at one point have some influence - Campbell Ogilvie was very influential in both the SFA and UEFA, but Murray wasn't interested in playing football politics and Bain got rid of/forced out anyone he saw as a threat to his own position.
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I agree with that but not all.

Have we ever had a director who was President of the SFA? If we have it might probably have been in the late 1800s. Can you name any Ranger in the last 50 years who has been a head honcho at the SFA?

Ogilvie had some influence I suppose.

Renfield, I mean Bain was simply a disgrace and only at Ibrox to back up his master.

I'm sure it was August 2000, and this nugget openly boasted that Rangers wouldn't employ a Rangers fan in some capacities over a certain pay grade. (I think 30-35k) The absurdity here is breathtaking and sums the Murray era up.
 
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Bankier is supposedly going and Sharon Brown becoming chairperson. I can see one of Desmond’s sons being put in somewhere if Liewell doesn’t make a comeback.
 
Wilkinsvolley said:
Bankier is supposedly going and Sharon Brown becoming chairperson. I can see one of Desmond’s sons being put in somewhere if Liewell doesn’t make a comeback.
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I can't see Lawel making an appearance at that kind of decision making level again unless it's very short term. It would be a step too far for the hordes of finger pointers.
 
Wilkinsvolley said:
Bankier is supposedly going and Sharon Brown becoming chairperson. I can see one of Desmond’s sons being put in somewhere if Liewell doesn’t make a comeback.
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Given it seems Liewells house is under the monitoring of those jolly bombing craicsters, I’d imagine the most he will ever do will be well behind the scenes.
 
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