Ugly Sisters still centre stage as pantos cancelled
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Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen directors prepare to take the stage this week.
Well, kind of. Covid restrictions mean it will all be done online and those of us who’ve been Zooming around since March will know exactly how much use that is.
Dodgy connections, folk all trying to talk at the same time and the occasional toddler walking around in the background have made these things about as productive as Wishy Washy’s Laundrette.
They are pretty handy for the people in charge, mind you. It’s funny how the sound quality goes out the window when there’s a tricky question posed.
There shouldn’t be too many hard ones for the Rangers board. In fairness, there isn’t usually as Gers punters tend to be a trusting bunch.
Their faith in the current suits in charge is paying off right now but there should at least be a couple of questions about the long-term financial plan, given the club still needs more than £20million to keep the lights on.
Not that Rangers fans are too bothered about down the line when they are rightly salivating at their team in the present.
Still, there’s bound to be some who would like to know the grand strategy.
Across the city, it’s maybe just as well the Celtic AGM is virtual.
It has been a fairly tame affair over the years. Questions about Tories on the board, complaints about cold pies and the now familiar Resolution 12 from those guys not quite content enough with Rangers being liquidated and forced to claw their way back from the bottom.
This time they’ll need to provide answers to why the Canter Years are heading towards the Banter Years.
The Hoops board will hold up the balance sheet as a virtual force field but it might get more awkward explaining how the club has only made the Champions League group stages four times in a decade.
How they keep going out to inferior sides in Europe and have allowed their rivals to come back from the dead to stand on the verge of denying them 10 in a row.
It will be interesting to see if Dermot Desmond logs on as it’s usually ‘Oh no he didn’t’. Son Ross has stood in and could be about to take up a permanent seat.
Peter Lawwell will need to tell shareholders the plan. It’s all got a little hazy and the promised structural changes put on hold until after the 10 will look a bit like bolting the stable door if this season goes down the cludgie.
Up north Aberdeen’s AGM should be box office as well. Dave Cormack is good value and there’s plenty more he will want to get off his chest.
Everyone has copped it from the Dons chief from Nicola Sturgeon to Jason Leitch via
Neil Doncaster.
He’s a man worth listening to, though, as he represents just about every club outside Glasgow’s Ugly Sisters and has been making a lot of sense during these bonkers times.
But these AGMs rarely make much of difference when the curtain comes down.
It’s all a big show and while it’s unlikely there will be any guys in dresses, they will definitely drag.
Audience likes to get involved, a villain gets booed and there will be a few lame jokes