Celtic fan teams are encouraging supporters to affix a pre-match protest on in opposition to the membership’s board on Wednesday night time to “ship a transparent message – it’s time for them to go”.
The Celtic Followers Collective is an umbrella group shaped following discontent over the membership’s summer season switch enterprise in addition to the failure to beat Kairat Almaty and qualify for the Champions League.
The group have deliberate a pre-match protest earlier than Wednesday’s recreation in opposition to Falkirk at Parkhead within the wake of main shareholder Dermot Desmond’s of Brendan Rodgers, who resigned as supervisor on Monday night time.
Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney will lead the membership on an interim foundation.
“Supporters maintain differing views on Rodgers,” the Celtic Followers Collective mentioned in a press release.
“However no matter how anybody feels about our former supervisor, the final word duty for our present place lies with the board who appointed, reappointed and managed the supervisor in addition to holding duty for all different operational issues.
“[Chief executive] Michael Nicholson, [chief financial officer] Chris McKay and the remainder of the board have proven they lack the energy or independence to face as much as Dermot Desmond.
“They’re incapable of creating and executing a technique that can permit Celtic to achieve its potential and have repeatedly let down each the supervisor and the supporters.”
O’Neill referred to as Monday’s occasions “fairly gorgeous” after returning to Celtic Park 20 years after his five-season reign ended.
“It’s actually unhappy to see that,” he mentioned of the breakdown in relations.
“I do not know what has been occurring, as a result of although Dermot introduced me right here to the soccer membership 25 years in the past, since I left, I’ve not had that many conversations with him. So there may be little or no that I can add to it.
“Naturally, I feel it is the best factor on this planet to say that when a membership is profitable, it has everyone getting in the identical course. That does not appear to be the case at this second.
“Whether or not I am ready to do this or not is within the lap of the gods. However I feel successful soccer matches has at all times been the primary contributor to followers and the membership being collectively.”