21 Apr 2016 11:37:45
So that's it,the ending of the RD era,why oh why have Celtic allowed this to be announced before season end and the league in the bag,why was RD allowed to announce this,we have so many connections with Man City,could we not have looked at the Pelligrini effect. I hope that the players come off the Go Slow now and we can push on to the title.
21 Apr 2016 12:08:53
Well said Malika. I think everyone knew Ronny would most likely be going but it didn't need to be made official just yet.
21 Apr 2016 12:40:42
Apparently he told his family and friends in Norway TWO WEEKS ago, so he knew it would get out, he went into an important cupsemi final not bothered.
I hear people on hear say he is a "nice man" and "give him a good send off" sorry but in my eyes he sold my club down the river and made us a laughing stock in europe.
Sutton said yesterday if he had stayed he would have been the tribute act's biggest asset, Hartson said in Deila's 2 year reign he alone is responsible for the gap closing between us and the new club. I agree with these sentiments.
I will boo him on Sunday every chance I get for the shambles he has left behind.
21 Apr 2016 12:50:59
To be honest I think it's to do with season tickets for next year, the board will panic that people wouldn't buy unless they punted Ronny. However they will probably bring in someone like John Hughes after the season ticket allocation has been taken up.
21 Apr 2016 12:51:45
They've announced it because there was going to be hardly any fans in the stadium and those that were there were probably going to voice their displeasure
21 Apr 2016 12:56:55
Timalloy c'mon. "The gap"? They won promotion, of course RD will get the blame for that too before he goes. They beat us in a cup game, hard to stomach, but they've still got a way to go before they think about pushing for titles. What's important this summer, and every window after is what we do.
21 Apr 2016 13:16:20
I think it was announced so they can officially start looking for a replacement while RD is still there, they will want someone to start the day after RD walks out the door.
The board cannot make the mistake of waiting as the CL qualifiers won'#t be far off when the new man comes in.
21 Apr 2016 13:24:02
wee boo boo timbo eh.
21 Apr 2016 13:44:31
This is a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. The clamor for his removal post Sunday was extreme (yet understandable) and had they waited, with no news, the very same people on here complaining about the timing would be complaining about inaction. The board is a joke, but the contrariness is painfully transparent.
As for the gap, I said directly after I got back from the game that emotions were high, and that we were shockingly poor, but a sensible head was needed. Rangers played fantastically well, the best they can in all honesty, we had one of our worst performances since Tony Mowbray, and yet it still took a wonder strike from them, and an open goal miss and dreadfully lucky freekick bounce for them to even get to penalties. There is still a gap, as Hibs proved last night. What the club, and players need, is a huge kick up the backside. A real injection of energy. Where that comes from? I'm not so sure in the short term.
Finally, booing him? Come on Tim, that's ridiculous. You used the word "apparently" before your charge sheet. I assume you have concrete proof of this? And even if he did discuss leaving two weeks ago, this is the guy you (and a lot of others) have been asking to leave for months. He simply can't win.
21 Apr 2016 14:04:22
Knowing PL it's most definitely season ticket sales. Feed a few mistakes to the press through the odd "leak" via the pr department to fuel the rumour mill and get people excited
Whoever the new manager is I won't be excited or debating much more until I see the newbie on the back page with a scarf above his head.
21 Apr 2016 15:39:51
He can't win. Without naming names there are people who have slagged him for playing his favourites, then slagged him for making changes.
We get beat, he gets slagged We win 8-1, it's becuase Scottish football is p*sh.
The nature of the job means RD gets the blame. And sone of it is his. But he has been desperately unfortunate. If it were plausible I would get rid of PL, JP and an enture team of XI before RD.
RE sunday, his system has been called a joke and clueless, yet it was that system which created 40 odd shots compared to their 12 (I think) . It was RD that missed an open net and didn't capitalise on two missed pens, or couldn't make simple 10 yard passes. Going further back I could talk about ifs and buts against Ross County, Allan, Gordon and Ambrose gifting EL results away, players admitting to not working for him. I really do feel as if it just wasn't meant to be. But people haven't given him a chance because he's no Neil Lennon or Henrik Larsson. 2 seasons in he's still getting called Ronnie Delia . Yet compared to previous managers stats he's sitting pretty. The treatment from his own has been abysmal.
God bless the next manager. And they better read the small print on the best fans in the world claim. If he doesn't get a team of LG, JF and Ambrose into the CL, he's lost half the support. If he celebrates a win with people who also enjoy a win he gets called a fanny. And somehow gets the blame for Aberdeen improving and Rangers gaining promotion? If PL and JP weren't enough to put people off. Sone people really make things worse.
21 Apr 2016 16:05:48
Should have censored it myself Ed sorry. Also should have been added:
He celebrates a win, get's called a "f*nny".
21 Apr 2016 16:13:02
Spot on Jim, absolutely spot on. Brilliant post.
21 Apr 2016 17:45:23
Ronnie, let us all praise him, praise him.
21 Apr 2016 19:32:51
Just been scrolling through - TPP and Jim Tim absolute greats posts. I completely agree with your sentiments.
21 Apr 2016 19:47:40
Cheers Island.
Aindoh, you are making a mockery of the point you're trying to make, just by making it. At least you've learned how to spell our managers name. Oh wait. Still, on the plus side, only a month and you don't have too.
23 Apr 2016 23:16:29
If any Celtic supporter is truly happy with Ronnies tenure in the post of mananger let him speak now or forever hold his peace, tpp?