21 Dec 2015 15:11:46
Hi ed

Hope all well with you and that festive plans are on track

I was hoping you could clarify something for me.

You seen to be concerned about life after RD. you seen to think that RD is the best it there or at least that there are few better than him. Or that Celtic would have difficulty attracting anyone who is better or who can tease out improvement from our current squad

I accept that you may have a better inside track than I do and that the progress being made is actually there ( but just a little difficult to interpret or distinguish)

What has happened to us? Have we dropped so far to be in a position whereby we cannot even attract managers who are out of work?

In my view we need to work out what it is we want. A winning team in Europe ( in either competition ) would be phenomenal but i accept that this is fast becoming less likely. The RD idea seems sensible at its core IE coaching our own and rearing our own and ensuring that average and promising players play to a European system built on pitch intelligence possession and fitness. It seems sensible in a great many respect

But we now have a very soft centre and our possession stats seem to be detract from the bigger picture. Lack of penetration. Lack of fight. Lack of defense. Lethargy. Is there no other RDs out there who could take us a little further faster?

RD may be making progress but there is a break in the chain somewhere. The fan count is miserable. The lethargy on the field is enveloping the terraces. Part of RDs job is to energise the fans. I accept that this is PLs job too. My point is that PL may be meeting his job spec / criteria. Love him or loathe him he will have his own KPIs and he doesn't write his own cheques

Back to RD. he isn't meeting his KPIs or at the very least, if he is, his KPIs need reviewing!

I have little faith or confidence that RD can turn around our fortunes at a European level. At a domestic level I think there has to be other people out there with the relevant coaching ability to put a team on the park who will play to a standard that will out backsides back on seats

I believe that there are hundreds of RDs out there if we like the philosophy of what the PLC where attempting to do. There is no disgrace in a change in regine. It needn't be a change in direction

RD appears weak. He appears a little lost and the job does seem to be a little too big. Away to Malmo we did seem to be afraid and unsure. We took to the field looking defeated and that definitely had something to do with RDs messaging

RD has hinted that the pre match messaging isn't reflected in on pitch performances. That is the managers ultimate responsibility. I am less sure today that RD can take this squad to greater heights

Do you think a good enough reason to back him is fear of what would come in after? That says a lot about a club and fan wide self esteem issue and that is the cancer that could engulf our club and lead us nowhere fast in the coming years

Surely as fans we deserve to think a little bigger and to hope for better. Surely?

Ed?

{Ed007's Note - Ask the people that have been holding the club back for years.}

1.) 21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 17:21:40
Getting rid of RD won't solve the problems on the pitch because it all stems from the board never backing the manager fully or at the appropriate time. It's this policy which has led us to taking a punt on RD to begin with. A new manager might reinvigorate the players until the summer but when we then sell players and don't get decent guys in it's back to square one.

2.) 21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 17:47:33
Kevbhoy spot on mate. Trouble is some supporters don't realise this. Big changes off the pitch are needed, not the manager. Only way we will progress.

3.) 21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 18:20:07
Paradisewon, very good post, agree with the vast majority in fact will go even further Ronny deila from a short time after he came in never had the dressing room fully, and with every passing week loses more and more players and the truth is we are running out of players to hand long contracts to so they are kept onside, not really Ronny s fault solely as he was purely a pawn in lawwells gamble, and in the weeks ahead I feel a lot more fans will be viewing the glass half empty, rather than some who view it as half full and still support Ronny as a suitable manager of celtic, can only end in tears I just hope the real men to blame lawwell and his cronies when the sword falls it fall squarely on them.

4.) 21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 19:05:28
DN its the managers job to get the best out of the players he has. No one else can do this not PL JP or DD, do you think Ronny has done this?
You consistently criticise your friend Lennon on here it seems to be your favourite past time lol, but Lennon got his players playing beyond themselves at times.
In the recent CL history we have beaten Barca, AC Milan, Juve, Lyon and Man Utd.
All of these teams were better than we were and had better and much costlier players but the relevant managers got them to raise their game.
Ronny has not done this against teams at our level or below never mind much better teams.

5.) 21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 19:41:03
Marty c. Sword wise Mr Lowell has little to fear. Highly paid executives rarely fall on pointy swords

His next move will be some place in Zurich l!

6.) 22 Dec 2015
22 Dec 2015 22:52:17
Paradisewon approx 80/90% of clubs in the SPL and EPL have managers struggling to meet their K P I .
I have yet to see any club divulge their Key Performance Indicators to all asunder
Why the Hell would you expect Celtic to demean themselves and Celtic by doing so?

7.) 23 Dec 2015
23 Dec 2015 19:10:38
Paradisewon starts off with enquiring how Ed is And if his festive plans are on track .
And there we find out all that is wrong with Paradisewon, the true traditional Celtic support starts his Christmas planning and shopping on Christmas Eve and finishes in the pub by mid afternoon Hen packed husbands boyfriends and mummy's boys are running around all November and December listening to their bossy half telling them to ignore Celtic and go Christmas shopping with them . When they go into work they are ashamed to say they wern't at the match as they were with "her" who must be obeyed and so they condemn RD to change subject .

{Ed007's Note - Hahahahahaha! That's a belter!}