Well, Celtic appear to have gotten the message.
A lot of fans wanted a statement and a decision on the Resolution 12 issue today at the AGM, and in a way they got one, but not a definitive one. The Celtic board wants to meet with the Requisitioners next week, to discuss the issue in some detail.
We’ll all be keeping a close eye on that meeting and what comes of it, but there’s been a key admission today from the Celtic chairman Ian Bankier that there are outstanding issues here and questions that need to be answered. This is encouraging.
Bankier even got right to the heart of it and put it in the proper context; this is an issue of governance. There is nothing more important to the Celtic fans who look back on years of cheating and corruption at one club whilst the SFA essentially stood and watched.
On other issues relating to governance there was little progress. But the views of the fans have been heard; now we wait to see what comes of that. The Requisitioners will make sure that they are pushed as far as the fans are able. The rest is up to the club.
But the signs are good. Things moved forward today; it might look like they were advanced only a little but that’s a start. Scrutiny and change is coming to the SFA. It was always going to. The question for them will be how they deal with it, whether they accept it or whether they mount a challenge to these things and deal with the fallout.
I am under no illusions; these people don’t accept that they need to change or that they require to be scrutinised. They’ve been enclosed a wee bubble of arrogance now for too long to change. There are some people who think that because of that reform is impossible, that what the game needs is for the old structures to be torn down completely.
They may well be right, and if they are the SFA will find itself fighting just to survive.
For those at Hampden with the wit to see it, the writing is on the wall.
It says “adapt or die.”