Celtic Fans Collective meeting with club’s board branded ‘a complete waste of time’

A crunch meeting between the Celtic Fans Collective and the club’s board has failed to improve the strained relationship between the Celtic Park faithful and the board, who are becoming increasingly unpopular with supporters of the club.

Monday’s meeting was called after it was announced that the supporters group were set to stay silent for 29 minutes from the stands in their Europa League clash with Braga.

It had been 29 days since the supporters sent their ‘no confidence’ letter to the Celtic hierarchy. The group hadn’t received a response until the news of the breakthrough between them and the board broke last Wednesday.

The group held their protest against Hibernian. The protest involved fans avoiding the first 12 minutes of the action inside Celtic Park.

Missing the first 12 minutes was intended to represent the ‘missing 12th man’. The protest was supposed to show the hierarchy that the club are little without the supporters.

Summary of Celtic Meeting (06/10/2025) pic.twitter.com/TeuClXdMJB

— Celtic Fans Collective (@CFC_Collective) October 7, 2025

Celtic Fans Collective pressure brought board to the table 

The group had held their first protest against Hibernian. That protest involved fans avoiding the first 12 minutes of the action inside Celtic Park.

There had been growing support for the planned Braga protest, but eventually the board gave in to fan power and organised the meeting, which led to Celtic fans calling off the aforementioned protest last Wednesday.

Celtic Fans Collective meeting with Celtic hierarchy meets dead end

Celtic fans have called for members of the board to walk away all season, and those calls will only get louder. After the news, Monday’s meeting was virtually pointless and achieved nothing, and they released a statement on social media expressing their disappointment at the fact that the club wouldn’t acknowledge or accept the fans’ concerns: “A recurring theme, through all answers and discussions, was a lack of humility, awareness and accountability.”

The message posted by the group on Tuesday afternoon said that club officials defended Celtic’s footballing strategy and transfer approach and that the board have “no belief that substantive change may be required”.

The statement continued: The Collective expressed disappointment that the club remained unwilling to engage meaningfully on questions of leadership, governance, and accountability.”

The statement ends with a plan to consult with members to plan next steps, while concluding with a message that will resonate with the Celtic support. “It is our strong belief that yesterday’s meeting compounded the necessity and urgency of change.”

Celtic fans furious after Celtic Fans Collective meeting makes no progress

As you can expect, the news that fans’ concerns and questions were met with arrogance by the club board hasn’t gone down well with the Celtic faithful.

One user reacted by saying: This is what the Celtic board think of us btw (by the way). No accountability, no responsibility and overall no care for the club or us. Further minutes from the meeting has yet to be published – and will be shared asap.” While another expressed his anger that it was a “complete waste of time”.

While a third user reinforced the opinion held by the majority of the Celtic support that the board must walk away from the club: “The experience of long-serving non-executive directors” says it all to me. No matter how they dress it up, Peter Lawwell runs things, and Nicholson is merely a puppet. The board is outdated, out of touch and needs to go.”

Amongst the reactions from Celtic fans, the theme of calling for the board to resign is one that can’t go unnoticed, and it makes you wonder how long things can go on like this at Celtic Park before things get really toxic.

“The club defended its transfer strategy”

But this was there comments a few weeks ago,

Totally unfit for purpose. https://t.co/O9bnJxzwUI pic.twitter.com/ylDOpJopZe

— Arne Pengels (@DaleBhoy) October 7, 2025

This is the biggest takeaway from this “meeting”

Nicholson by the reading of this could be calling Rodgers a liar for his “unsubstantiated allegation” and didn’t feel the need to investigate because they either think he lied or they just didn’t want to investigate https://t.co/1lHNw3FPc2 pic.twitter.com/pDdZHytHAN

— Kieran (@Kieran_Sellick) October 7, 2025

No more silent protests. They do not work.

Protests must be full voices and visually impacting.

Banners, pyro, chanting… constantly in and out of the stadium.

— keithr5808 (@keithr58088) October 7, 2025

Now we see why there's been no communication since their previous statement. They believe they are right and we are wrong. We're nothing to them. Every one of them has got to go.

— . (@scm9977) October 7, 2025

Hit them where it hurts most – in their pockets.
Bhoycott the purchase of all merchandise whether that be in the club shops, JD Sports or in the various concourse around the stadium.
Back The Team,
SACK THE BOARD pic.twitter.com/3uydORnUWQ

— John (@Goose1167) October 7, 2025