The Board

[Gary67]

It is said that a non-executive director who has served on a board more than 9 years can no longer be considered independent.
Celtic's non-exec directors have been on the board since
Dermot Desmond - 1995 (29 years)
Tom Allison - 2001 (23 years)
Peter Lawwell - 2003 (21 years), 18 years as CEO (5 years is best practice)
Brian Wilson - 2005 (19 years)
Sharon Brown - 2016 (8 years)
Brian Rose - appointed July 2023

A collection of DD yes men (& woman) who do as they're told.

Listening to the excellent Celtic Exchange podcasts on 30 years since Fergus and the takeover (one with Matt McGlone and one with David Low) and found a comment from Low very interesting. He said that Fergus surrounded himself on the board with people who were not only very clever and established in their respective fields, but they were people who would tell him when they thought he was wrong and as such he didn't always get his own way.
Hopefully the rumours (as per Roger Mitchell on X) that DD is having a clearout are true
"I was told by 2 different sources that DD is going to have a total clear-out of the Board and Csuite. He’s had enough they said."

 

[JamSam67]

It is said that a non-executive director who has served on a board more than 9 years can no longer be considered independent.
Celtic's non-exec directors have been on the board since
Dermot Desmond - 1995 (29 years)
Tom Allison - 2001 (23 years)
Peter Lawwell - 2003 (21 years), 18 years as CEO (5 years is best practice)
Brian Wilson - 2005 (19 years)
Sharon Brown - 2016 (8 years)
Brian Rose - appointed July 2023

A collection of DD yes men (& woman) who do as they're told.

Listening to the excellent Celtic Exchange podcasts on 30 years since Fergus and the takeover (one with Matt McGlone and one with David Low) and found a comment from Low very interesting. He said that Fergus surrounded himself on the board with people who were not only very clever and established in their respective fields, but they were people who would tell him when they thought he was wrong and as such he didn't always get his own way.
Hopefully the rumours (as per Roger Mitchell on X) that DD is having a clearout are true
"I was told by 2 different sources that DD is going to have a total clear-out of the Board and Csuite. He’s had enough they said."

Mmm

HH

 

[Brimcbhoy]

It is said that a non-executive director who has served on a board more than 9 years can no longer be considered independent.
Celtic's non-exec directors have been on the board since
Dermot Desmond - 1995 (29 years)
Tom Allison - 2001 (23 years)
Peter Lawwell - 2003 (21 years), 18 years as CEO (5 years is best practice)
Brian Wilson - 2005 (19 years)
Sharon Brown - 2016 (8 years)
Brian Rose - appointed July 2023

A collection of DD yes men (& woman) who do as they're told.

Listening to the excellent Celtic Exchange podcasts on 30 years since Fergus and the takeover (one with Matt McGlone and one with David Low) and found a comment from Low very interesting. He said that Fergus surrounded himself on the board with people who were not only very clever and established in their respective fields, but they were people who would tell him when they thought he was wrong and as such he didn't always get his own way.
Hopefully the rumours (as per Roger Mitchell on X) that DD is having a clearout are true
"I was told by 2 different sources that DD is going to have a total clear-out of the Board and Csuite. He’s had enough they said."

We never did find out why they got rid of the Rugby Guy.

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

We never did find out why they got rid of the Rugby Guy.

I heard from a good source that Ange did not want to work under a Director of Football. And the board backed him rather than Dominic, probably because he was different from their buddy Lawwell who had influenced and worked with them - they were comfortable and did not want a different way of doing things. They then leaked that he had been at fault with a couple of transfer negotiations to discredit him once he had left, whereas we have never had any other bother in transfers in the last 25 years!

The whole point of that role is to oversee things and ensure that there is a fairly smooth transition from one coach/manager to the next, which did not happen last summer.

 

[Gary67]

I heard from a good source that Ange did not want to work under a Director of Football. And the board backed him rather than Dominic, probably because he was different from their buddy Lawwell who had influenced and worked with them - they were comfortable and did not want a different way of doing things. They then leaked that he had been at fault with a couple of transfer negotiations to discredit him once he had left, whereas we have never had any other bother in transfers in the last 25 years!

The whole point of that role is to oversee things and ensure that there is a fairly smooth transition from one coach/manager to the next, which did not happen laat summer.

The one transfer window that Dom McKay oversaw was our most successful ever. We signed Hart, Kyogo, Jota, Abada, CCV, Juranovic and Giakoumakis.

 

[Smelltheg-love]

The one transfer window that Dom McKay oversaw was our most successful ever. We signed Hart, Kyogo, Jota, Abada, CCV, Juranovic and Giakoumakis.

Yes but Ange said it was Nicholson that was instrumental in the deals

 

[Gary67]

Yes but Ange said it was Nicholson that was instrumental in the deals

It was probably Ange's mate Frank Timboli who was involved with a lot of them, but McKay was CEO so he would have had sign off on all deals. Nicholson did all the legwork when Lawwell was CEO as well, only for Billy Big Bawz to come in and deck up many a deal