We’ve talked about the big changes needed at the end of the season for a while now, specifically in terms of the manager’s position. I was never in favour of firing Ronny midseason. By that stage the die was cast for European football, and we were nip and tuck with Aberdeen in a fight for the league.
My guess was that Ronny could deliver the league, and I expected a cup or two as well. The cups have gone – and may have been won had we changed manager months ago, but we could also have appointed the wrong caretaker (a high probability) and reduced our title prospects. The decision then was what was the greater risk to the league title. All other things being equal, sitting tight was most probably going to deliver the league.
We’re now three wins from becoming champions. Ronny is one of only two Celtic managers never to have lost a league title, and whatever disappointments there have been, he’s applied himself honestly and openly. He’s also a title winning part of our history and we need to handle our history well, even as a project concludes. Lessons from ’78 still rankle with some.
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So, Ronny’s leaving I’m genuinely sad it didn’t work out. I thought he was a progressive appointment.
Oh well. Alea iacta est.
Cracking post Snake!
CELTIC Football Club today announced that Celtic Manager Ronny Deila has decided to leave the Club at the end of the season. Ronny has already led Celtic to a League and Cup double last season and is currently aiming to deliver Celtic’s fifth consecutive Premiership title.
Ronny Deila said: “It is vital that the Club comes first and instead of me being the focus, hopefully now the team and the Club can be the focus as we enter this final important period of the season.
Be nice to think we have someone lined up. I won’t hold my breath the way the board has performed I n recent times.
Moonbeams (ball retainer)
Your just a kite flyer and a BS merchant, tossing accusations all over the place with no prof, playground bully, and a keyboard blawhard, I wouldent give you the steam of my pash never mind meet you, I’v no interest of meeting with you at all, and I didn’t believe it was a threat, I asked you if it was one? And if you know my history, keep it in mind, what ever you heard, more lies?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 20TH APRIL 2016 10:36 AM
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I just thought that yeez were due a break – from my guff for a wee while.
Sorry to be a cause of concern.
The other stuff will be staying off the blog.
So, if I disappear again…just move along Timmy :)
HH
Thank you Ronny Deila for all your efforts..
The Next Chapter Begins…
Snake
That is the first post I have read that has shaken a little my current stance of non attendance. Good for thought.
Great post.
MWD
That should read
Food for thought :)
MWD
Ronny to leave at the end of the season…………
Y Not67
;)))))))))
That’s me just laughing at you now.
MWD
We’ve lost three games this season if my memory serves me correct,however,we are in a fragile state after the weekend even though we didn’t lose the game. Sunday coming is huge. Win and we’ll make it over the line fairly comfortably in my view. Drop and we’ll have jitters although will still get there.RD’s team selection is very important. Put a team on the park that will overpower County,play the same as Sunday? and watch the fans get nervous as our midfield is overrun again.
If he’s leaving he should leave now. Any competent board of directors should have a contingency plan in place if manager leaves/is sacked. That should either be the replacement waiting to come in or someone within the club ready to step up in a caretaker role.
Club’s who announce their manager is leaving at the end of the season usually suffer a slump in form, we’re taking a huge risk with today’s announcement and inaction until the summer.
When will a chapter begin with, the fans ‘not’ on the outside looking in ?
Don’t fall for the PLC spin, they’ve burned the bridge…time to get rid.
Because, if ye don’t….they’ll just do ye over…again!!!
Fool the Celtic supporters once….shame on them!
Fool the Celtic supporters 5 times….shame on the support!!!!!
1. WGS
2. BTM
3. NFL
4. Ronny
5. ?????
Snake Plissen 9.41
A very thoughtful post let’s hope we see more like it.
Thanks for trying Ronny.
Best of luck in the future.
Now just a similar statement about our CEO and I’ll truly be a happy Bhoy.
MWD
So thats that. Right to announce it now and give him the opportunity to see it over the line. If the league was closer he may not have had that chance.
We need a manager now who agrees with Davie Moyes assertion that a number of the current Celtic team are not good enough for where we want to be and will insist that assertion is acted on.
HH
Moyes will be mistake of the century.
Don’t do it Celtic.
I am told Ronny Deila is a very nice guy, a good guy and I am sure in a different league, in a different position and situation and with different management around him he will find success in life.
More important for the man himself is that he finds peace of mind and happiness in whatever he does and wherever he goes.
Being the Celtic manager is not an easy job and it takes a big man to be able to do it properly and successfully.
MOONBEAMSWD on 20TH APRIL 2016 10:54 AM
Y Not67
;)))))))))
That’s me just laughing at you now.
MWD
As I’v been doing to you since I saw your first post on CQN.
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN SUPPORTS OSCAR KNOX, MACKENZIE FURNISS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FIGHTS NEUROBLASTOMA on 20TH APRIL 2016 10:40 AM
Celtic need a new owner, or a change of heart and mind by the current owner.
My view is that The Great Desmondo acquired his stake in Celtic because he thought he could get us into the EPL, and, at a stroke, make money and enhance his reputation among his buddies on the golf course and at the race track. Make money and boost his reputation, Adam Smith’s two motivational factors.
The problem is he didn’t have a Plan B, and when Plan A didn’t materialise he lost interest and was content to let the Club tick over in the hope that something would turn up sometime. The death of the huns was a bit of a hiccup but that looks like it’s sorting itself out quite nicely, so nothing to worry about really.
The problem he has now though is that the Club has sunk so low it’s becoming a bit of an embarrassment for him, so rather than enhancing his reputation his association with the Club is detracting from it.
And therein lies a source of hope. He might now actually feel forced to review his approach and consider a change of direction. Here’s hoping.
MWD. :))
Happy Birthday tae auld Lizzie.
When she paid her respects at the memorial garden of the bhoys of the old brigade by, laying a wreath and, bowing her head as she prayed for them….that was grand mham:)
Agree with HT’s post. Lets get this team over the line and hopefully in the future when we’re up at 12 in a row we’ll look at this as a crucial point in time.
Thought for the day:
Could Jock Stein have worked under Peter Lawwell?
My little theory is that Ronny was told some time ago that he would be leaving at the end of the season, so if that was the case then I’d expect a competent board to have a couple of options up their sleave, or even have someone sounded out. Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised if they hadn’t.
The support needs galvanised and shaken out of a malaise just as much as the players. The appointment needs to do both.
Had a feeling of sadness when I read that Ronny is leaving even though I knew it was coming. He’s been hung out to dry in many respects although he’s not been good enough admittedly.
Podium merchants limbering up?
Sad to see Ronny go. He seemed like a decent guy and certainly talked a good game.
Fundamentally, however, he didn’t deliver on what he himself promised.
Looking more closely, I suspect something pretty drastic happened within the team last summer. We finished last season strongly, held our own against Inter Milan, and things looked set fair for further improvement after a rocky start. But the catastrophic decline in form of many key players is a real concern.
Johannsen – gone from being stick on for the EPL to a dud. Bitton – gone from classy holding midfielder to slow, ponderous and soft. Armstrong – form completely collapsed. Boyatta and Gordon – ditto. Lustig and Brown – ditto (though injuries maybe catching up with these 2).
Also, Ronny was never protected by the board nor seemed prepared for the intensity of the hatred Celtic inspires in Scotland. His alleged remarks about a hostile media earlier this week suggest our PR dept have not done their job. Overall the feeling is of a nice, honest guy being hung out to dry by a club with a truly sclerotic management and administration.
That’s why Ronny’s departure should only be the first of many.
ernie lynch
Podium merchants?
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You mean there are people selling the podiums? And there was me thinking it was a good, honest sport just like Scottish football ;)
Thank you Ronny, for all your efforts on our behalf.
As BRTH said, a nice man. Maybe therein lies the problem. The three Lions BRTH wrote about a week or so ago were all critical of the current side and none of them liked Jock Stein but they all respected him immensely. None were saying Jock Stein? Nice guy…
No more Mr Nice Guys please.
For us we need to get behind the team for the remaining games. I will be at 4 out of 5 and if I can get a Hearts ticket make that 5 from 5.
Let’s give Ronny a great send off. He deserves that from us.
Gary67,
The announcement has been made, leaving at end of season, that not good enough?
I wish him well
HH
gsu
http://www.clyde1.com/sport/news/ronny-deila-to-leave-celtic-at-the-end-of-the-season/
Sad day.
Good luck Ronny Delia, and thanks for the memories.
It’s only fitting that Ronny stays for the remainder of the league games – It’s his title, he will have won the damn thing fair and square – Ronny deserves the credit.
Peter Lawwell – Go now, please.
KTF.
People are really underestimating how much Dundee Utd’s collapse has helped Aberdeen and Hearts.
Davidopoulos on 20th April 2016 11:08 am
ernie lynch
Podium merchants?
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You mean there are people selling the podiums?
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The little smart erse won’t like that
HH
How many of the back room staff will be leaving?
I knew nothing about the man.I was prepared to be pragmatic and to wait and see.That lasted till Legia..I wish him well…