Option One: Trust The Board And Hope For The Best.
This is always an option, of course. Celtic fans could have done this back when the White’s and the Kelly’s were running things. Our club, if it had survived, would be in a more perilous place than it is right now, but it’s not impossible that we could have won the odd title or two. Certainly, we wouldn’t have a 60,000 all-seater home, a hotel planned, a museum on the way, years of success, a glittering balance sheet and been at a European final.
But hey, what do I know anyway?
So trust and hope. Is that a viable strategy?
It might be, at another club but this is Sevco. This is a club which believes it has a divine right to rule the game. Waiting for this board to suddenly “get it right” is not really an option because the people on that board are, like the White’s and Kelly’s, so clearly clueless that it would have the same success rate as wishing on a star.
There are a lot of their fans who believe that one of the problems of the last few years has been the swirl of chaos that has surrounded them. It’s been the constant chopping and changing, the lack of any stability, which has got them here … and there is some merit in that view. But they’ve failed to take something into account; King himself.
A lot of the uncertainty before King’s arrival, a lot of the turmoil the club was in, was a direct consequence of King’s campaign of destabilisation. He was the author of much of their previous uncertainty. His aim was to drive down the share price. It was to break the link between the fans and their board. And with the Scottish media on side it worked.
The thing with King is that this is what he does. He is a wrecker. He is not a consolidator or a builder like Fergus was. He seems to thrive on chaos. His entire tenure has been about picking fights and starting fires. And it’s no surprise that the mayhem has continued … except to the self-same Scottish hacks who were telling us just one year ago that stability had returned and that “the banter years (were) over.” This whilst Pedro Caixinha was in the dugout.
So the “do nothing and hope for the best” strategy is doomed because it depends, in part, on Dave King acting honestly and professionally. He never has. He never will. Anyone putting their faith in a board with him at the helm is a pure fool.