Obviously, tonight is Be?ikta?, and obviously there is a lot of other stuff going on.

Some of that stuff I will get to in due course, and some of it is a little more complicated than I’m comfortable going into until I have more details in front of me.

But the AGM has been set, and one of the things the club is doing is holding a general meeting before it. One of the provisions they want to write into the Articles of Association is to give themselves the authority to hold future general meetings at arm’s length, without shareholders being physically present in the room.

Now, understand what I am saying here.

They are not abolishing AGMs.

They simply want the authority to conduct future general meetings online, or through a combination of physical and electronic participation.

And whilst this can easily be presented as a fairly routine modernisation of the Articles, I do not believe for one second that the timing is a coincidence.

Of course I don’t. These people do not want to have to sit in a room with us, and when Brian Wilson says that the club has no intention of putting AGMs online, I have one very obvious question for him:

Then why the hell are you changing the Articles of Association to give yourselves precisely that power?

That is a question for a much larger piece; all I am going to say for now is that Brian Wilson has made it a point to speak out of both corners of his mouth in almost every communication he has had with the fans.

And the more I hear about the Greenock meeting, the more obvious it becomes to me that the people in that room were fed a banquet of bullshit by everyone representing the club.

Everyone. Including the manager.

So, when we are now told that this change is not being introduced in order to move future meetings online, and that it is simply a mechanism to ensure that meetings disrupted in person can later be completed electronically, I am afraid I do not buy it.

Not for one second. I do not trust the people making that argument because I do not think they have earned that trust.

And I do not think anyone else should simply take their word for it either.

If the purpose really is as narrow and innocent as they claim, then fine. Write that limitation into the Articles. Make the restriction explicit. Make it impossible for the provision to be used more broadly later.

Because once you give a board a power, you should always assume that at some point someone will decide to use it.

And that is the issue here.

For almost every manager in Celtic’s recent history, with Martin O’Neill’s present record, tonight would be a do-or-die event.

A defeat tonight would be regarded as so unthinkable that the talk everywhere would be about whether the manager would survive the night.

But the board has its lightning rod. O’Neill has his guaranteed salary, and that is why we are here. That is why we are going into this game tonight with this team, with these coaches, with ideas from 30 years ago, at a time when what we desperately need are modern ideas and modern thinking.

That AGM announcement is horrific because of what it portends for the future.

And it is more than just that one proposed change to the Articles of Association. There is a lot more in there than that. The online meeting provision is the headline item. It is the one which is going to get most of the attention.

And maybe it shouldn’t.

Maybe the proposal to remove the cap on the number of directors who can be appointed to the board is an even bigger problem.

We’ll see. As I said, I will discuss all of that properly at another time.

But there is no let-up in the crisis we are in. There is no change in the situation we find ourselves facing. This is a bad, bad place we presently inhabit, and the problems we have right now are only going to get worse under this board of directors.

Let me make this absolutely clear. Everything in the way they conduct themselves suggests that they believe they are doing just fine.

They are not doing just fine.

And we are going into this game tonight facing what I fear could be another humiliation at the hands of a side we should be capable of beating.

At this point, I don’t think we’ll win the title. We have a squad that is good enough to win it, but I don’t believe the players understand what they are being asked to do. I don’t believe they look fit enough to do what they are being asked to do. And I don’t believe enough of them are buying into what they are being asked to do.

We have players we do not even know how to use.

And when Martin O’Neill sat the other night and said that he still doesn’t know what his best eleven is, I don’t think he’s ever going to know.

He chops and changes too often. He has so many strange ideas, or someone on the coaching staff has so many strange ideas, that we are never going to know what the best starting eleven is. We are never going to know what the best formation is.

Because we never stick with anything long enough to find out.

This is a depressing place to be at the moment. It is a depressing club to be following right now. Instead of change, these people are bunkering in and preparing to keep doing things the same way.

And they will keep doing things the same way until something major breaks, something they cannot fix with bluster and bullshit.

Looking at where we are as a club, and looking at where these people seem content for us to remain, I cannot say anything other than that I fear for our immediate future.

There is no encouragement to be found here. There is no positivity to take from the AGM announcement or from going into this game tonight.

I don’t want to sugarcoat it. I don’t want to pretend optimism where I don’t feel any. I could come on here and act like a happy clapper, fish for applause, mouth all the faithful-through-and-through slogans and everything else.

But it would be a lie. And I’m not here to lie.

The people leading this club have placed us in major peril, and I don’t even think they understand that. I don’t think they realise how serious the position is.

This game tonight will be played in front of virtually a full house. Which I find astonishing and a source of great concern. I will certainly not be there. And eventually supporters are going to have to ask themselves what they are doing to make this better.

Because faithful through and through was never supposed to be a suicide pact.

But under these people, that is exactly what it risks becoming.