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You and I know how Celtic are reported in the media but it’s seldom we have an opportunity to objectively analyse how we are portrayed in comparison to others. Yesterday’s media conference at Ibrox, was, frankly, irresistible.
Below is a transcript of questions and other comments made by journalists at Ronny Deila’s media conference when he was announced as Celtic manager a year ago, followed by Mark Warburton’s yesterday.
There are a few gems. Care to guess which conference these were put at “you’re actually a strong advocate of not spending and working on a tight budget”?
Or “You said he was at the top of the list – just for clarity, were any job offers made to other candidates?”
Or “There’s an expectation or a fear that top talent… will move to pastures new – is that a fear for you?”
Although to be fair, one brave soul did ask Davie Weir, “How different do you feel this Rangers is to the one you left?”
Let me know what you think. I know what I think…. some clubs are so well run they don’t need campaigning PR companies. Others are up to no good to such an extent they can hardly go through a day without one.
Don’t forget the 4-in-a-row DVD!
Ronny’s conference:
Many congratulations Ronny – how do you feel?
Easy decision?
What do you feel you can bring to Celtic?
This is your first experience of British football, how big a step up is this for you?
Peter, you’ve been linked with many candidates in the past few weeks, why is Ronny the right man?
Has number two been chosen yet?
Is John Collins a candidate?
How much time are you going to have to put your stamp on the team before the Champions League qualifiers start?
How do you rate the squad you’ve inherited here at Celtic?
Your first task will be to try and get the club to the Champions League – it’s your first experience of the competition, what do you think of the task?
You have three qualifying rounds to get through to get to the Champions League, it’s a difficult task.
Are you Norway’s answer to Jurgen Klopp?
On the issue Peter mentioned about unearthing raw talent, not only have you done that, you’re actually a strong advocate of not spending and working on a tight budget. Is that the case and why is that the case?
You played under Roy Hodgson, did you speak to him – what did you learn from him?
Can I ask you about the process of when you first became aware of Celtic’s interest?
What remit has Peter Lawwell given you as manager? There hasn’t been too much by way of a challenge for Celtic domestically, so what challenges do you face as a manager?
Peter, when did you become aware of Ronny’s abilities?
Was Ronny the only person– (cut off)
Comment made by Neil Lennon in the papers – was Ronny identified to replace Johann, was that the case?
You said he was at the top of the list – just for clarity, were any job offers made to other candidates?
Ronny is it important— (cut off)
Have you started talking to Ronny about what sort of budget he may or may not have?
Have you talked budgets Ronny?
Peter have you established a sufficient budget that can help Ronny?
Ronny what can you bring to Celtic?
I have to ask you about the pictures circulating in the Scottish papers in the past few days – can you explain them to us?
Will you do the same– (cut off)
Do you expect the same here then?
Just in terms of players – there’s an expectation or a fear that top talent like Fraser Forster and Virgil Van Dijk will move to pastures new – is that a fear for you?
You’ve spoken about developing players, things that take time – you don’t have the luxury of a long-term deal, it’s a rolling deal – have you been given assurances that you will be given longer?
What’s more important – results or development?
Warburton’s conference:
Many, many, congratulations, I’m sure you’ll be very excited about the prospect, but how big a challenge do you face here?
How easy was it for you to feel that this was the right job for you?
How prepared do you feel you are for the scrutiny you’ll be under here?
What do you feel is your first priority here?
Paul – you have said in recent weeks since you have come in that the club is broken and it needs to be rebuilt – why do you think that Mark and Davie are the management team to take it forward?
Mark – David from BBC Scotland here – at what point did you realise you wanted to be Rangers manager, and did you have any other offers?
And you’ll be expected to win automatic promotion straight away, yes?
And you and Davie have been characterised as good cop-good cop from people at Brentford, how can that help Rangers?
Your background is very different from most football managers, probably more akin to someone who would be on the board – but are there any parallels about how you’ll go about your business as a manager compared to your days as a high flying city slicker?
You said your first priority is to strengthen the squad, some players have left the club after their contracts were up – how far are you down the line at identifying new players?
How confident are you that you’ll be able to get this club promoted at the first attempt?
You’ve signed a two-year contract, how quickly do you think you can get this club back competing at the top of Scottish football?
Mark – what assurances have you been given, if any – about what your size of budget and what you can spend – it’s not just about numbers, it’s about the quality of the players you can get in as well?
David – did you ever believe you would be back here so soon?
As much as anything else, do you feel you’re going to have to help Mark get used to the surroundings of Scottish football and what it means to be at this football club?
How different do you feel this Rangers is to the one you left?
Davie what would you say Mark’s particular skillset it, his particular talent – how does he go about his business?
Did you speak to any of the guys who worked with before here, Walter and Ally?
Mark, what do you know about the players you have here at the moment?
The average age of the players last year was 28, is that something you’re looking to bring down?
So the youth system here is something you’re targeting as well?
There’s also no scouting system here, is that something you’re looking to sort out soon?
Rangers have been criticised in the past for overpaying players, particularly in the past few years, is that culture changing now?
So you reckon you’ll be going for players that are out of contract or loan deals rather than players who are in contract?
Mark, you say there’s no quick fix and it won’t happen overnight, how difficult will that balance be given there is such pressure to get promoted this season?
How many players do you think you need?
Will you be bringing Lewis McLeod back?
What type of footballing philosophy will you bring to Rangers?
There’s obviously been a thing about trying to get fans back buying season tickets, what message do you have for fans?
You spoke about the accent on youth and young players, but Davie played here until he was long in the tooth, will you be looking to bring in experienced players?
In your previous career, you would have been familiar with risk and reward – are Rangers taking a risk in your appointment?
Mark, just going back to your targets, have you been told by Dave King you have to win the league this year?
Will your management style be a bit different to Jock Wallace’s?
Paul – as far as your concerned with the management structure is concerned, you spoke about a director of football is something you would like to move toward, and the academy needs sorted, do you think there could be more appointments further down the line?
It’s already the middle of June, how soon can we see bodies in the door because the first competitive game is in five weeks?
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BMCUW
Yes indeed.
The pubs also do a roaring trade today!
HH!!
Tallybhoy
I’m working just round the corner from the start off point on Kelvin Way
Damp and cold just now I’m afraid
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Over recent years the only months which have not shown a rise in average temperature are June and December.
DBBIA/ wee Carol Kirkwood CSC
Parkheadcumsalford
08:10 on 17 June, 2015
Morning all.
Bleak is the word for the weather down here today. Radio Scotland were saying earlier what everyone in Scotland knows: May was the wettest and coldest for 105 years. June is doing its best to match it.
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This is good news.
It shows that the Nats policy of covering Scotland’s coutryside with windfarms is reversing Global Warming, just as promised.
dontbrattbakkinanger
Did I miss the Scruffulous Post this morning :-)
That link takes you into a Facebook page, will need to pass onto my ghirls to vote, as don’t do Facebook :-(((
Good Luck to Mouldy 67
Hail Hail
Hail Hail
BT
Hear it’s raining in Troon!
But they’re not due to arrive ’til 1.
Here’s hoping.
HH!!
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
00:05 on 17 June, 2015
‘Were any of those sceptical questions from SNP MSPs?’
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Unlikely, I would suggest.
SNP politicians aren’t allowed to criticise party policy.
Dissent is not tolerated.
Cowiebhoy- I ‘m not a facebooker either; I completed the form and submitted it without having to go through facebook.
ernie lyncg,
As you know, I’m no friend of the SNP but I am in favour of renewables of every shape and form and Scotland is rich in wind and wave power. So, they have my support in this area.
ernie lynch
08:37 on
17 June, 2015
Parkheadcumsalford
08:10 on 17 June, 2015
Morning all.
Bleak is the word for the weather down here today. Radio Scotland were saying earlier what everyone in Scotland knows: May was the wettest and coldest for 105 years. June is doing its best to match it.
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This is good news.
It shows that the Nats policy of covering Scotland’s coutryside with windfarms is reversing Global Warming, just as promised.
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Must cost the country a fortune in electricity just to keep those windmills going – that should be the first thing they switch off when they’re looking to meet their environmental targets…
Good read for the financial types
https://twitter.com/swissramble/status/611042547868241920
HH
Oops here’s the blog link
http://swissramble.blogspot.com.au/
HH
To avoid any ole confusion the link to nominate Mouldy is the FIRST one highlighted in green; the second one is the web address of his JustGiving page, which is needed to complete the nomination.
Top of the morning to you all from a windy and wet Fife.
Just the six stories on Rangers in The Scotsman Sports section this morning then.
Not the ole DBBIA and wind farms debate again.
RSPBcsc
Dbbia
Your correct (again) now completed :-))
Hail Hail
B/tim- like the turbines themselves the ole windfarm debate generates more heat than light.
Now Warburton and Lewis McLeod…..
What was that about?
Im thinking in Souness at Newcastle terms
Warburton plans Dallas swoop
MARK Warburton is planning a summer swoop for Brentford midfielder Stuart Dallas – who could cost Rangers £1.5 million.
The Northern Irish midfielder has two years left on his Bees contract, and scored eight goals in 44 appearances last season.
However, it is thought that the seven-figure price tag will not put Rangers off, as Dave King has already pledged to splash the cash in order to ensure the Gers win the Championship. (The Sun)
Hahaha. Talk about silly season.
TIMALOY29
The Brentford owner is a professional gambler,apparently. But I doubt he’ll be daft enough to gamble on Rangers paying the fee in instalments.
Cash up front,Kingyboy.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
08:08 on 17 June, 2015
bgx
23:17 on 16 June, 2015
Neganon2…And You and your ilk on CQN are Dinosaurs, Holding Back this Country as much as the OO..
Now we disagree on Everything, Scroll past , dont engage, best allround…
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Next you’ll be inciting a Krystallnacht. The intolerance from nouveau SNP towards any form of dissent is astonishing,worrying,and an affront to free speech.
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I find all this kind of chat tiresome – as if political debate was all about the Marquis of Queensberry rules until the SNP arrived. Politics is by definition confrontational -maybe Labour supporters are too used to seeing their Party cosy up to the Tories that they’ve forgotten how to oppose crappy ideas and legislation. I’m not an SNP supporter btw.
Timaloy29
What is silly about clear signs of a ressurected The Rangers?
The guy is also from the six counties and the fact GSL is paying such a fee just emphasises things. I’m not too sure what things, but I’m worried anyway.
No doubt the bearz will pony up and buy, buy, buy, as always.
Don’t The Rangers already have a Dallas or two on side?
For all you that don’t like windfarms, the Tories are pretty much going to kill off the industry. Big announcement by the government on this tomorrow apparently.
Great for people who don’t like windfarms, support fracking and nuclear. Terrible for the Environment and Scotland who leads the UK in renewables and employs the majority people working in the sector.
Obviously I am not objective, I work in the industry. I haven’t renewed my season ticket yet as I am worried about being made redundant. To be honest I have a toddler and new born and they are my main concern.
The production figure record is 43% of homes were powered by wind, last December.
Lastest subsidy levels, onshore wind is cheaper than nuclear.
CHAVEZ
Politics is confrontational,of course it is. But it allows for debate.
The defence of any questioning of the SNP-or should I say,the attack on any questioning-is astonishing. It really is redolent of brainwashing. There is no rhyme or reason,no argument or debate,simply attack and rubbish the accuser without answering the questions raised.
That’s the aspect which I find worrying. So too should anyone who is interested in free speech.
However, it is thought that the seven-figure price tag will not put Rangers off, as Charles Green/Craig Whyte/Dave King (delete as appropriate) has already pledged to splash the cash in order to ensure the Gers win the Championship. (The Sun)
It must be renewal time
Have any of you guys given some thought, that Dave is beavering away building another incubator? A plan to preserve all that is good and magical (copyright Big Hauns) about The famous Glasgow Rangers 143 year (definitely) unbroken (continuous) history?
a ceiler gonof rust
07:42 on 17 June, 2015
Jobo, it bloody boiling here un Phnom Penh.
And, the interthingee is now working.
Those pesky AGPL guys are everywhere ! Awright ACGR ?
KJam
09:14 on 17 June, 2015
Wind is intermittent. When the wind doesn’t blow, the turbines don’t generate. If you want power when the wind isn’t blowing you need a back up supply from a reliable, continuous source. If the justification for windfarms is that they don’t generate greenhouse gasses then it follows that your backup supply should likewise not produce green house gasses, otherwise what’s the point? And what’s the only way to produce electricity in a continuous reliable form without greenhouse gas emissions? Nuclear. So the notion that windfarms replace nuclear power is wrong.
Can you confirm that landowners get around £50,000 per annum for each large turbine, without any capital outlay or financial or other risk?
Maybe GASL will pay for it with this!!!
@MWilliamsHT: #Rangers chairman Dave King stands to get £1.4m out of £10m oldco creditors pot http://t.co/l9J3KNtuRC http://t.co/gzoVLSS5H2
HH
What about a hot air farm…..how much energy would that use ?
Seems to be a constant replenishable supply.
Earnie Lynch at 8.43
“Unlikely, I would suggest.
SNP politicians aren’t allowed to criticise party policy.
Dissent is not tolerated.”
I wonder who they might have learned that from?
If you want to understand the challenges of Sustainable Energy Security, read Dave MacKay’s Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, which can be downloaded for free from : http://www.withouthotair.com/
You’ll then be able to make informed comment on a complex and multi-faceted problem, and it will have cost you only your time.
Alternatively, don’t bother, and continue to spout ill-informed prejudice and/or disingenuous party politics.
It’s a free choice and it’s yours to make.
With all due respect of course.
TBB
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
09:36 on
17 June, 2015
What about a hot air farm…..how much energy would that use ?
Seems to be a constant replenishable supply.
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There is one already in existence – it is called Level5PR
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33141588
When do the SPFL publish the fixtures up here?
LB
Tamrabam don’t forget souness at Blackburn
livibhoy
Friday
HH