Happy Annual General Meeting Day, everyone. The Grande Questions for the board thread.

and Happy GHD as well, what a day one of my tippy top top ten tip top Carrow Road days of all time. Electric ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Anyway, let's hail St Grant and then move on... time to look forward to the future and the immediate future is tonight's AGM where we happen to have a couple, maybe more, embedded wrothers who might be able to table some searching burning questions from the great and good of the Wroth to cut through the usual waffle and get to the heart of what is going on at NCFC.

As an aside, I was reading the press report of the recent Celtic AGM this week and the shareholders weren't shy in coming forward questioning the CEOs salary and so forth...

"Peter?" [Lawell CEO], "I've been looking at the pay packets of the directors of the club," said an ominous voice in the crowd. "You got paid £3.5m - perhaps you can you tell us how many goals did you score last season?"

Cue the mirth. "Since your first full year in the job you've had a 600% increase. Bizarre." Cue ripples of applause and a top table gearing up for a response involving a chocolate bar. "It's easy to say that in 2003 a Mars bar cost 20p and now it costs £1.50," said Celtic chairman Ian Bankier, before adding firmly: "Peter Lawwell is worth every penny we pay him."

Does anyone ever question our Directors pay?

It was also noteworthy (apols for the following TL;DR but there is a point after) that Lawell was very critical of the Celtic "ultras" known as the Green Brigade:

In response to one question about the antics of the Green Brigade, Peter Lawwell, the chief executive, laid it on the line for them. "It's a small minority that let us down and it's a challenge in terms of safety and of protecting our reputation," he said of the banners and songs that have repeatedly brought the opprobrium of Uefa down on top of the club.

"The concerning thing for us is that they don't seem to believe that they're doing anything wrong. In terms of overcrowding, pyrotechnics, abusive banners, abusive singing, alcohol in the stadium - these things can't go on. They're against the law, against ground regulations, against rules of the competition.

"When you see a banner or you hear a song, your heart just sinks because that's not who we are. It gives our enemies an opportunity to class us as the same as other clubs and portraying it as two sides of the same coin. We're different but it gives our opponents an opportunity to class us as the same."

Lawwell got applause for that. A veteran Celtic fan stepped up to the microphone and said that he loved the best of the Green Brigade - as Lawwell did - but that he was weary of their self-defeating ways.

"We might need to shut it ourselves [their section] because Uefa will shut it for us. Lazio was one of our best results in Europe but the banners were terrible. Nae humour. See when they started off, the Green Brigade had humour. The tax man an' that [a tifo mocking Rangers]. Just get a grip and get back to the way you were in the beginning."

Another season-ticket holder questioned why, despite their capacity to get the club into trouble, the Green Brigade always seem to get tickets for away games while he always struggles. Again there was appreciation from the floor.

"Regrettably, we have taken action here," said Lawwell of the decision to close part of the ultras section on Thursday. "And if things don't improve at away games we'll have to take action there as well."

That ^^^ is almost alien to me, why tf aren't the club working together with the fans concerned? We really are blessed at NCFC, there's no need for us to question the Directors pay.

Anyway, feel free to post your burning AGM wroth questions to the board in this thread, maybe BWOD or WY will pipe up and ask a Q or 2 and the AGM can be a bit different and a bit less run of the mill stadium expansion and a lot less "Pakerstarney" 🤦🏻‍♂️?

come on norwich

Posted By: Tombs, Nov 28, 08:37:54