In the absence of any known Recruitment Team Nicholson and McKay are tasked with improving the playing squad to give Rodgers a fighting chance of competing in Europe with last season’s dead-rubber win over Feyenoord highlighting how far Celtic have fallen on that stage.
Rather than taking advantage of automatic qualification for the group stage of the Champions League that status seems to have increased the levels of complacency throughout the club.
The board know how I feel on Adam, that was the reason for bringing him in. He’s been a real catalyst for us, especially over the last few months.
Those sort of incidents don’t do much for morale, as Lawwell worked on the Balance Sheet towards a pay day of £3.5m of salary and bonus the squad suffered and the manager became disillusioned.
Nicholson has watched Robertson and Beaton perform on a regular basis, their performances are predictable, at Tynecastle they combined to cost Celtic three points resulting in Brendan Rodgers serving his first ever touchline ban.
“Like many other clubs, we will continue to press for the highest standards in relation to the VAR process in Scottish football.”
For describing it as incompetent Brendan Rodgers got a one match touchline ban, bearing in mind Beaton’s background most Celtic fans would have used another description for his decision making from Tynecastle.
Today from a match that they have won Celtic have the opportunity to ‘press for the highest standards in relation to the VAR process in Scottish football’ which is apparently something that they continue to press despite the lack of any evidence.
The group were made aware that the Jock Stein would not be made available due to certain safety concerns relating to this specific area, but arrangements have been made by the Club to allow the group to attend within the Rail Seating Section.
Michael Nicholson asked if club would challenge any appointments by him. Nicholson said “we won’t grandstand like other clubs”