Why why why Deila?

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The msm are just desperate for anything that might derail us. They know that no matter how **** we become, we are still gonna come out on top! so, pricks like Keef Jackson crying into his mornin coco puffs just makes it all that bit sweeter.

So, **** them all, and any ****in idiots that listen to their ****ey wee agenda.

Compliance officer woke up yet?
 
ND Niall said:
The msm are just desperate for anything that might derail us. They know that no matter how **** we become, we are still gonna come out on top! so, pricks like Keef Jackson crying into his mornin coco puffs just makes it all that bit sweeter.

So, **** them all, and any ****in idiots that listen to their ****ey wee agenda.

Compliance officer woke up yet?
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Seems not.
 
keith jackson piece was a load of ****e... criticising the fact he wants players to have a better diet!

god forbid <doh>

Thats the problem with scotland... our teams are not fit, especially in europe.
 
It would be 100% pointless getting rid of Ronnie after 4 months ...

Lawwell said it was Delia long term vision/plan that got him the job. 4 months is not long term.

He trying to change the culture at the club ... a culture learned through people who know the scottish game.
 
pud said:
keith jackson piece was a load of ****e... criticising the fact he wants players to have a better diet!

god forbid

Thats the problem with scotland... our teams are not fit, especially in europe.
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Ronny Deila didn&#8217;t arrive here with much of a reputation to lose. For the most part the Norwegian was unheralded and, yes, even unheard of. His work at Stromsgodset may have made big news in Gulskogen but it hadn&#8217;t travelled as far as Glasgow which is why Deila was up against it from the outset. He has an army of doubters to win over and quite frankly, the more the fans see of Deila&#8217;s work the less there is to convince them. Yes, a victory was cobbled together at St Mirren but this was another strikingly sub-par performance from Deila&#8217;s side.
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I wonder if Keef will be so damning of Derek McInnes after last night's performance?

I doubt it.
 
I completely accept that the all round performance at Salzburg was poor but we came back with a 2-2 draw. For me, that was a great result regardless of how many shots on target we had. League form has been pish and the CL exit to a team like Maribor was shocking but it's happened and our level is definitely the EL. i'd love to see a run in it rather than us claim 20m for being the group whipping boys. If we'd got to the CL we'd have been ghaped and then the knives would have really been out. If anything, it's a blessing we're not in it and he can get some European experience for himself and the team in a more fitting competition.

Like Fake Taig Pud says, nothing would be gained by sacking him now and, if anything, would cause more disarray and uncertainty than anything before. He needs the time and, for me, so long as he wins the league and in doing so with a noticeable improvement in our play and fitness then I will be content.
 
Spiers has torn McCoist a new one in the Herald.

McCoist's team played the sort of abject football supporters have grown used to in the 3-1 home defeat to Hibs on Monday night. Nothing new, nothing surprising, but a kind of dross three years in the making under the current Rangers coaching staff.


To some, it remains utterly mystifying. How can McCoist's Rangers repeatedly play such poor football? How can a team stacked with seasoned top-flight Scottish players perform so woodenly?

Well, it probably isn't such a mystery. Lord knows, the politics at Rangers have been a mess in recent years, and so there are always extenuating circumstances. But the truth is, few people believe McCoist is an able football manager.

The evidence has piled up that he can't sufficiently plan a team, inspire a team, and make Rangers better. Weeks, months and years all appear to have confirmed this.

Even the most ardent Rangers supporter admits that, let alone all the other miseries off the pitch, watching this team on it for the past three years under McCoist has been a grim task. Little of it has been a pleasure.

I don't believe for a second that McCoist does not understand football…of course he does. But you find many in the game, in McCoist's position, for whom knowledge and ability are two distinct qualities.

An able and gifted football manager doesn't just have knowledge. Far more pertinently, he has a strategy, he can motivate a team, and he wins people round with his brand of football.

The cruel truth is, McCoist has failed to convince anyone on all three of these counts.

It won't do here to rake over all the openly cited failures of McCoist's reign as Rangers manager so far. There have been too many games, too many competition setbacks, to tediously list. But amid it all, there has been one constant.

McCoist's team recurringly fail to change or improvise in times of adversity. On the contrary, with setback looming, they grind on. People duly ask: is this a lack of imagination in the players, or in the dugout?

Another aspect which has disheartened many about McCoist's reign has been his instinct to go with gnarled, tried-and-tested players rather than youth.

McCoist has not ignored youth - by no means. But his sense of safety, and lack of risk, in going for the Richard Fosters and Jon Dalys of this world has been blindingly obvious. As a manager, he appears absolutely risk-averse, which might be a trait he inherited from Walter Smith.

Even with an impoverished infrastructure at Ibrox, can McCoist really not know of Scotland's best young players, and want them at Rangers? His team actually played against Andrew Robertson's Queen's Park, yet McCoist's instinct is to sign a Foster, a Stevie Smith.

Here is the worst bit. Even down amid the snottery fields of the lower leagues in Scotland, how many games can any Rangers fan recall in which they felt their team was roused by McCoist? The answer is, precious few.

On the contrary, on the odd occasion when Rangers have staggered over the line against seemingly inferior opposition, too often it has resembled a drunkard finally making it home over the threshold.

The fact that the re-founded Rangers under McCoist have barged their way up through two divisions - and been champions by 24 pts and 39 pts respectively - is beside the point. With a budget of their size, Rangers seeing off small, part-time clubs is no evidence at all.

Now we are seeing harder evidence in the Championship: clubs, still way below Rangers' size and might, being able to offer a stiffer challenge. This season, for McCoist, may provide more damning evidence.

The Rangers manager is actually in quite an awkward position just now. No matter how poorly he fares, it is common knowledge, due to the absurd remuneration he has been on, that sacking him would be expensive, maybe even impossible, for the club.

It was McCoist who made the phrase "we don't do walking away" famous in the context of Rangers. But, would he walk away himself, if he believed he was hurting Rangers? People say this is a naïve view, but I firmly believe McCoist cares deeply for his club.

He is a very engaging and likeable character. He is also a Rangers legend. He just isn't a football manager.
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The 46th Chromosome said:
I completely accept that the all round performance at Salzburg was poor but we came back with a 2-2 draw. For me, that was a great result regardless of how many shots on target we had. League form has been pish and the CL exit to a team like Maribor was shocking but it's happened and our level is definitely the EL. i'd love to see a run in it rather than us claim 20m for being the group whipping boys. If we'd got to the CL we'd have been ghaped and then the knives would have really been out. If anything, it's a blessing we're not in it and he can get some European experience for himself and the team in a more fitting competition.

Like Fake Taig Pud says, nothing would be gained by sacking him now and, if anything, would cause more disarray and uncertainty than anything before. He needs the time and, for me, so long as he wins the league and in doing so with a noticeable improvement in our play and fitness then I will be content.
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<laugh> FTP
 
deila is nowhere near getting sacked just now

haunting a draw at Salzburg has helped him and a win at home to Zagreb would as well, win that game with a decent performance and he will shut a few up

i hope he is more forceful with the fitness stuff, double training hours, ban the fizzy juice and crisps, its absurd that he even has to at a professional football team, too many jokers up there having a laugh at training picking up big money far too easy, none of them are good enough to get away with taking it easy at training

stein said he was confident against inter at 1-1 on the basis of ability and fitness vs ability and fitness

we will never have the ability to match the best now but no excuse for not having the fitness to match the likes of Bayern and Dortmund

we would be overrunning teams in scotland in the last 10-15 after playing at a high tempo and be able to at least put a shift in without losing concentration against teams in europe

normally this is not something I would advocate, a couple of good engines in the team should be enough when you have class players but we dont
 
I'm in agreement with Dev, specially about that Etims article

Sparta wasn't built in a day and like them the players that don't meet the grade will end up being thrown off a cliff and left for wolves

That'll take time, and a bit of suffering before we see the results

I want Ronny to be given that time no matter how the season goes

I'll probably change my mind though
 
Ronny gives the press both barrels


IT all started with a question about Leigh Griffiths. And an answer which again underlined Ronny Deila&#8217;s unbending ethos on players getting out of football what they are prepared to put in . But yesterday&#8217;s pre-match media briefing at Celtic &#8217;s Lennoxtown HQ quickly developed into something very different. Perhaps even before Deila knew it he was unburdening himself in public. Pouring out his inner frustrations in passionate defence of the methods which, thus far at least, have made managing Celtic look a great deal more difficult than it ought to be.

Neil Lennon, Louis van Gaal, Paul Le Guen, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Andy Murray. There were name checks for all of them during an impressive and heartfelt address which lasted just shy of 25 minutes.

At times his back stiffened in his seat and his cheeks began to redden as the Norwegian launched a salvo at his critics, some of whom were sat around the very same table.This was no meltdown. At no time was Deila ranting and raving. But after a turbulent first three months in this, the biggest job of his fledgeling managerial career, Deila sensed the time had come to speak up for what he believes in. Planning long term while battling to keep his credibility above water on a weekly basis. It&#8217;s a balancing act which is personified perfectly by the free-scoring Griffiths who cannot seem to get his head around Deila&#8217;s lifestyle demands. That he is in his plans for tonight&#8217;s Europa League tie with Dinamo Zagreb &#8211; a starting place has not been ruled out &#8211; was a sign it&#8217;s not yet too late for him to be reformed.

Deila said: &#8220;First of all he has to up his fitness. That&#8217;s something he is also aware of. He&#8217;s a good player and he scores goals. But I know he can be much sharper and stay on top of his game for 90 minutes. Once he has that he&#8217;ll be so much better.&#8221; It&#8217;s a message which Deila has been attempting to hammer home to more than just Griffiths. But the more he has demanded from these players off the field the less he has been getting from them on it.

And that&#8217;s a problem because, here of all places, results are demanded yesterday. A victory tonight would see Deila notch up three consecutive wins for the first time. He knows he needs more of them.

He said: &#8220;I knew it was going to be difficult at first. It is very tough to make results while at the same time also bring improvement to the team. &#8220;Doing things the right way while results are not good can be very difficult. But you have to stay with what you believe.&#8220;You can push me as much as you want but I believe in what I&#8217;m doing and where we are going. &#8220;At first I was controlling a situation, trying to go through to the Champions League. But now we have time to work and we&#8217;re improving.

&#8220;But we also need results. That&#8217;s the hard part &#8211; but also the fun part.&#8221; Ultimately, it was results which forced Le Guen to throw in the towel just seven months into his attempted overhaul at Ibrox. The similarities between the pair are striking and it was put to Deila yesterday that being a foreigner in Scottish football&#8217;s curiosity shop might count against him too.He said: &#8220;Yes, maybe, but it&#8217;s hard to say. It is important to do the changes you want. &#8220;Look at Norway, you don&#8217;t find the solution to get to the Champions League. But if I want to get to the Champions League you f*****g have to look towards the Champions League, look at the European level.

&#8220;And if you see the fitness in the Champions League it&#8217;s unbelievable. Celtic is a big club, we want to go there. If we want to do that then we have to look outside the country, not inside. "That&#8217;s because the levels are not inside the country, they are outside. There are many roads to Rome but I have to believe in my way. When you come to a new club, of course it takes time. &#8220;You can ask van Gaal about that. He has hard discipline and knows what he wants. &#8220;But if you don&#8217;t make mistakes, you don&#8217;t improve. If you always play the same way, you will get the same things. If you don&#8217;t want to develop, you will never get anywhere. You will always be the same &#8211; boring for a long time.

&#8220;I want to do something with a big club and you don&#8217;t do that in days or weeks. You do it in months or years. But are we talking Scotland or are we talking Europe? To win in Scotland we can do the same things as before. But to succeed in Europe, you have to adapt to Europe. &#8220;If you tell me that a player can be three or four kilos too heavy and play against Ronaldo then good luck.&#8220;I get irritated discussing it. You have to understand the fitness is unbelievable out there. If you see Gareth Bale, that&#8217;s Champions League level. So are we not going to try to adapt to that? Do you think Andy Murray eats chips? &#8220;This is not easy for a Norwegian to say. If van Gaal was coming in and saying all these things you would be sitting there nodding your heads.
&#8220;But I come from Norway and they are only good at ski-ing.&#8221;

Deila now in full flow and bristling on his chair added: &#8220;If Celtic or Scotland are not ready for that then I will go back to Norway. It&#8217;s no problem.&#8220;I&#8217;m here to do something, I want to make something here. If you don&#8217;t do it, then okay, I tried. But I really believe the players are enjoying it and they want to adapt. I am so satisfied with their attitude. &#8220;The best athletes and teams are always thinking that, that they have to adapt to do even better.

&#8220;It is very hard to do it at a club where the result pressure is so high. You have to do more than just think short term every day. I want to think long term and short term.&#8221; There have been murmurings of disquiet form behind the scenes, particularly over Deila&#8217;s dietary demands which are based chiefly around two main planks, no carbs and no sugar. Modernisation always encounters resistance. But Deila will not back down.

He said: &#8220;I hope the players question things. We have arguments about a lot of things. But it&#8217;s about understanding and talking. People have choices. &#8220;But Celtic is going one way and that is upwards. We are going to develop. If you are going to be into it you have to make changes yourself. I have to adapt, I have to be a better manager than I was in Norway. I have to learn new things, sacrifice things that I would have done in Norway. &#8220;It&#8217;s the same for my players. They are playing for Celtic, the best club in Scotland, and we are going to compete in the Champions League. You have to make sacrifices for that.

&#8220;You have to be professional 24 hours a day. If not then you should go back and play part-time. For Andy Murray to win Wimbledon he did something different to what he did four or five years before. He looks much sharper, much fitter, and if you ask him about that you will get good answers. &#8220;I have spoken with a lot of good athletes and looked at a lot of top teams. Everywhere they are into these things so I don&#8217;t think it is just me.

&#8220;Nothing shocked me when I came in. The result pressure is unbelievable and it&#8217;s very hard to do something new. You don&#8217;t dare to do it because you are afraid to lose. &#8220;The players also have to adapt to that way of thinking. If you win, everything is okay. If you lose, all hell breaks loose. &#8220;But you have to keep on and I believe in what I am doing.&#8221;
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