Celtic Fans Will Soon Be Asked To Buy A Pig In A Poke And Most Of Them Will.

As we head towards the end of this season, there are still things that we just don’t know about the summer. We don’t know if Rodgers will be there, although more and more I suspect that he will be. We don’t know if Lawwell will be there, but it seems incredibly likely although he should long ago have reached a point of no return with the majority of the fans.

Home games are not what they ought to be. They should be volcanically hot for that board of directors. They have gambled with this campaign.

Their failures on so many fronts might cost us big time.

You would not know that sitting in the stands at Celtic Park. These people feel under no pressure at all. In another few months it won’t matter.

Because this club is hurtling towards season ticket renewal time, and Lawwell and the rest of them can, at this moment, be supremely confident than when they ask for the fan’s money that they will get it. Most fans are not going to boycott, few are even going to delay buying tickets, but if the atmosphere in the ground was sufficiently hot that might put some doubt in their minds … they have no reason to worry at this point and they know it.

What makes this especially nuts is that Lawwell will have convinced himself that he still has the majority of the fan base on his side.

What’s crazier still is that the club will ask fans to put down their money when we have no idea at all what kind of team we’re going to be watching.

We’re being asked to spend that money blind.

No-one has presented a plan. No-one has told us what sort of transfer strategy we’re following. It’s not even clear the club knows.

Nobody has the least bit of confidence in those running our club. They don’t even bother to pretend they are offering us a vision any longer. The silence is deafening.

The arrogance of it is breathtaking, and the only reason they continue treating fans with this contempt is that they know they can.

They know that because they are comfy in their directors’ box seats. They know it because when they put those season ticket forms out they’ll sell them all.

In the meantime, we’ve watched a team go backwards and seen these people suffer the embarrassment of having their hand-picked yes-man in the recruitment department resign.

Probably to stop the manager from doing it instead. They think that single sacrifice will be enough, when his daddy is the real source of our angst and mistrust.

Our manager is going to spend the Ibrox game sitting in the stand because these people have utterly failed to reform Scottish football. Fans aren’t just being asked to buy tickets to watch a team when we don’t know how that team is going to look but these people are also asking to buy tickets to watch a game which some of us believe is corrupt.

These people shouldn’t be allowed to get away with their grotesque mismanagement of this club, and they have. The time to put them under pressure was at any one of those home games where the anger was freshest and the disgust at the state of the season was at its peak.

By the time we know how this story ends a lot of people will have already committed to next season, and we do not have a clue whether we’ll even be ready for it or not.

They have a damned cheek even attempting it. But they will.

It’s the egotism that they show in every facet of how they run Celtic. And all the talking shops and proposals for fan boards in the world are not going to shift these people one millimetre when in the meantime they can sit in those soft seats of theirs and watch our manager struggle to work with the tools at his disposal, knowing they tied his hands, and will get away with it anyway.

We’ve done nothing to motivate them to be better.

When it comes time to hand over the money, that’s all the vote of confidence they need.

That’s why aside from some quality matches over in America I am very, very worried that the summer will be long, and frustrating and way before it is over a lot of the people who paid upfront will wish they hadn’t.