By Graeme Young
Copyright dailyrecord
Furious Celtic supporters’ groups are planning a protest with a call to arms for fellow fans to forgo the first 10 minutes of their clash away to Kilmarnock on Sunday. Celtic Supporters’ Association chaired a meeting alongside the Celtic Trust, Green Brigade and other leading fan groups as they ramp up their attempts to seek drastic change within the boardroom. Punters have been left miffed by a misfiring summer transfer window with recriminations escalating following the club’s widely-panned statement attempting to explain a summer of frustration over recruitment or lack thereof. Now followers of the Premiership champions are mobilising with an incoming statement expected to tell fans to not enter Rugby Park until after the 10th minute for the clash which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports. Ire towards the club’s decision makers has escalated with claims emanating from the emergency meeting stating out of more than 40,000 surveys there was a 99.4 per cent no confidence rating. The incoming statement to fans is expected to urge thems to back the team once they enter the stadium and direct their frustrations towards the club’s hierarchy. Celtic fans have honed in on three figures they believe are to blame with chief executive Michael Nicholson, principal shareholder Dermot Desmond and non-executive chairman Peter Lawwell the subject of graffiti and banners outside the club’s stadium. But there were also calls from the meeting for fans to zero in on other board members’ roles beyond the three biggest names. The Celtic fanbase is on tenterhooks ahead of Brendan Rodgers’ highly anticipated first press conference since the transfer window which failed to deliver true replacements for both Nicolas Kuhn and Kyogo Furuhashi and the statement which has fanned the flames among a support seeking accountability from the top.
