Celtic is starting to resemble the Titanic, and a collision with an iceberg is inevitable

Back in April of 1912, one of the worst maritime disasters in peacetime occurred with the sinking of the Titanic.

Most people know the basic premise of the Titanic’s story, but not everybody knows the Luxury Liner’s sinking was as a result of egotism and astounding arrogance.

The loss of life after the sinking of the Titanic was also due to colossal arrogance.

Because the owners and designers of the ship at the time believed they had built a ship that was unsinkable, they decided she only needed to be fitted out with 20 lifeboats.

This was only sufficient to carry 1,178 people.

At the time of her sinking, there were 2,224 crew and passengers aboard the Titanic.

Effectively, the deaths of a minimum of 1,046 people was inevitable.

But due to the disorganisation after the ship had collided with an iceberg, many lifeboats left the ship only half full.

As a result, over 1,500 passengers and crew died.

The three main reasons they died were as follows:

As previously discussed, the men who designed the Titanic believed she was unsinkable, she clearly wasn’t. Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, was a passenger on the ill-fated voyage.

J.Bruce Ismay, the White Star Line’s managing director was also aboard. It is rumoured that with the prospect of an earlier arrival in New York and favorable press attention, Ismay influenced Captain Edward Smith to go faster.

Smith himself also firmly believed the ship was unsinkable. In addition, he was confident that an Iceberg could not sink the ship either, hence the reason he continued to cruise at almost top speed, despite repeated warnings of Icebergs from ship in the surrounding area.

So why, you ask, am I comparing Celtic to the Titanic?

Well, I could say that a lot of things about the Titanic are comparable to Celtic.

Arrogance and egotism are definitely in evidence when it comes to Celtic.

But it seems to me, that Celtic is inevitably ploughing towards it’s own collision with an iceberg, which could end in catastrophy.

The overriding observation here is that the people who run Celtic believe we are indestructible, or unsinkable, if you want to make this comparable to the Titanic.

We are too big and too strong to founder.

But as the Titanic proved, nothing is ever too big or too strong to founder.

Ironically, Celtic has already foundered recently, in 2021, and no lessons were learned from that.

This displays the arrogance and egotism of the people running our club.

They take huge chances, and expect that because luck has been on their side in the past, it will also be on their side into the future.

Just as Captain Edward Smith took a huge chance by ploughing the Titanic headlong into a well known iceberg field at close to top speed.

Smith thought luck was on his side, and of course, that his ship could not possibly founder.

I’ve used the Titanic as a metaphor for what we see unfolding before our eyes at Celtic.

The people at our club are taking immense risks in their current recruitment process for a new manager.

To all intents and purposes, the longer they delay this, the more they set us up for disaster.

But the repercussions of the possible disaster that awaits us could be far reaching.

What’s even more concerning, is that we don’t seem to have learned anything from the Eddie Howe debacle of 2021.

The board feels that we are currently insulated by the interim management team of Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney.

Or more to the point, that they are currently insulated by the interim management team.

The word interim, by it’s very definition, means something temporary that is meant to be used until something permanent exists.

Temporary, a limited period of time.

But in reality, the time limit of that temporary appointment are known only to Celtic’s board.

It could be until January, it could be until the end of the season, it could be beyond.

Because the Celtic board does not deign to communicate to us beyond the next game, we have no idea how long they intend to retain the services of Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney.

In fact, I would suggest that they themselves have no idea.

But the longer this drags on, the more dangerous our position becomes.

We have no idea how the transfer window in January will go.

It’s clear we need several right sided players and a striker.

Is Martin O’Neill going to be in charge of this process?

So many questions, which if unanswered, will chart our course towards disaster.

The longer we let this drag on, the less prepared we are for our Champions League qualifiers next summer.

That is, of course, if we manage to win the league.

Dermot Desmond is content to plough on without a strategy, without a plan.

He is content to ignore the concerns of the fanbase, who are making it clearer by the day that they are not happy with him or his board.

We are on a course for disaster.

And just like the Titanic, it is inevitable that we are going to hit that iceberg.

When we do, everybody will have seen it coming, except those in charge of our club.

As the Celtic fans collective pointed out today in their continued campaign of awareness against the board, Dermot Desmond is now out of control.

Thus meaning Celtic is out of control.

Out of control, and headed for disaster.

Unless change happens, it is inevitable.