BACK in my school days the favourite saying of my History teacher Mr McStravick was the old phrase of "nothing changes, if nothing changes", and normally he applied it while mocking humans repeating history despite knowing where things ultimately needed to change.

Strangely enough, I've seen that phrase apply to Celtic Football Club more often than not in the past decade, and I've been rolling those words over in my head these last seven days after the Hoops crashed out of Europe's elite competition despite, at one point, holding a four-goal lead in Austria.

Without really going back for another slice of that pie, we'll try and move on and address the last week which involved a domestic win and the Europa League draw.

Let's start with Friday when we learned the four home and four away ties for the Hoops in the Europa League, and despite dropping a level some of the ties are a mouth-watering proposition.

Benfica away was the first draw and that is arguably the dream tie with the Lisbon Lions connection. Marseille at home was up next, followed by Celtic brothers Celta Vigo with Turkish giants Besiktas, and Hungarian champions Ferencvaros at home.

The final ties saw Portuguese second-tier minnows Torrense and Neil Lennon's former side Cypriot champions Omonia Nicosia and Belgium side Union Saint-Gilloise all being drawn as the away ties.

And yes, as soon as Sunday's dates were released I was on Skyscanner and inevitably booked Lisbon flights as who could miss the opportunity to see the Hoops in Lisbon on the 60th anniversary since that very famous day on the 25th of May 1967.

On to Saturday, where the Hoops were without their captain and new talisman Kasper Hogh, but nonetheless Duran was on hand to burst the net twice for the Hoops in his favourable position as the centre-forward.

The Hoops had a nervy ending to the game with Falkirk managing to find the equaliser after Coby Donovan sliced a clearance and bobbled the ball into his own net.

Although, just days after the disaster of Linz, three points is three points and Celtic's domestic form continues to be flawless.

With that in mind you'd think after the Europa draw Celtic would show some ambition and finally stake some financial risk to earn them a knockout victory. You'd think that the men who almost orchestrated a title loss to Hearts last season would have learned their lesson.

The entire Celtic kit design was formed around the success of those Lions 60 years ago and rather than create new heroes the Celtic board see the cash cow for what it is and know that nostalgia is a never-ending cycle of money.

But God forbid they ever want to achieve anything remotely close as the men who are heralded as Celtic's greatest ever team for their European glory, though don't dare dream to get your own memory like that again.

Even the Celtic Chairman Brian Wilson begged supporters to "give us time to do the job right", and yet as we gaze on the final hours of the transfer window, and Celtic are scrambling for loan signings and short-term replacements.

Don't get me wrong they have a place in the Celtic squad and not every transfer needs warranting a five-year deal, but do not give me nonsense that Celtic are onto their fifth choice over "failed progression in the Champions League" when some of the reported top targets have headed for lesser leagues and lesser European levels.

Fans often go into the season full of hope and breathe a sigh of "give them time" but after the past week where social media clips have gone viral completely embarrassing the men in suits at the football club surely it would signal a change of leadership.

You see the problem lies in with the fact that the Hoops' board live in an echo chamber where they just parade around the boardroom and pat one another on the back for another year of adding to the pot, even if it could have been tens of millions more.

Celtic fans judge Celtic on two things;

1) Domestic dominance

2) European ambition and success

Celtic Board judge themselves on two things:

1) Building a sustainable entity

2) Making a financial profit each summer regardless of the on-field antics

If the measure is not the same, then how can the ambition or plan be so?

Quite simply, it cannot, and these measurements allow for a continuation of some board members who in any other business would have lost their job for a 20 per cent hit rate (two-in-ten UCL qualification).

The Hoops host Aberdeen on Wednesday night before a trip to Paisley to face St Mirren on Saturday evening, hopefully the squad has been inflated with quality and not quantity this time around.