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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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Imagine the headlines if another football club had decided not to pay its debts in such a public manner.
Then imagine if it had been us.
I’m sure Ashley expected this result and has his next move carefully thought out.
Billybear…
Give the man a chance?
He has no financial backing to get his squad up to the 24 quality players he reckons he needs to do his job properly.
The job at this moment is a poisoned chalice.
He will have been promised the earth and will end up with muck on his face and hung out to dry.
There is no money in the coffers. The players agents that they approach will steer them clear of the debacle.
The big hoose needs sorted oot before they can even think about making a challenge, surely you can see that!
Plenty to do down Govan way.
1 – get some money in to keep the lights on;
2 – get some more money in to pay the wages;
3 – even more money required to bring in a dozen players and pay them;
4 – yet more money to carry out essential repairs to the Victorian lavvy;
5 – Geez money!
HH!!
Billybear
12:28 on
16 June, 2015
Bawsman
12:23 on
16 June, 2015
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Says it all, really. Better than Wenger and Jose. Rangers will be lucky to hold on to Mark for very long.
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I think you’d be better occupied with what Big Mike does next.
Must have been those M.I.6 postal votes that tipped the balance :-)
It might be good if Pan Loafy was successful in a strategy of young raw recruits that don’t cost much. It might help those who attend Sugar Daddy Loaf Mountain to see there is a different way…
It’s all a bit irrelevant though…
The master baker, King of Milanda Milk and Honey, only has enough flour to last to the Fall and that’s all been paid for by advance loaf sales on promissory notes of fresh cream cakes for all later in the year…
Doesn’t matter how well the Loaf kneads his dough, there is no yeast and it’s only gonna be a flat bread result…
Delivery Van crash predicted through driver error around October…
HH
I reckon Warry and Weiry will be gone before Christmas.
The penny will drop that GSL has sold them a pup – no warchest, very little for player wages
When Big Mike starts to turn the screws it’ll be a bloodbath over there and Warry at least will head home when he realises what a shambles it is and that all those reassurances really meant hee haw
Auldhied, BRT&H……….How’s Res 12 coming along please?
The Green Man
11:32 on
16 June, 2015
Hope Warburton gets toasted by the worst fans in the world, as they boo him to rafters.
About…3 games into their season:)
Warburton is Toast
HH
Please,can we all stop calling this guy Warburton.The Hun media seem to have taken to calling him”Warbles”.Yep,you read it right,”Warbles”.
Oh,and can we start calling Weir by his new name,also bestowed by the cretins on Hun Media,”Sir David Of Weir”.
Subservience is something they are born with.
Here’s a couple of questions for Mark:
Tell me Mark, Sevco struggled last season to overcome the European heavyweights such as Alloa and Queen of the South. Having now lost almost the entire first team squad, including several with a wealth of Premier League experience, do you feel confident that you can assemble a squad of players able to overcome these hurdles next season, bearing in mind that you have absolutely no money to spend?
And, now that you have been in the job for many hours, have you any regrets?
‘The 52-year old is here for the long haul, and there is yet to be a negative word said about his abilities; a very valid comparison is Alex Neil, Norwich’s outstanding boss. Neil got Accies promoted, then moved to Norwich and got them into the English Premier League at the first time of asking. A very similar kind of path to Warburton.’
-so the path to actual promotion is very similar to actual non promotion?
Nae wonder the ole journey is taking so long.
Hunguffometer bein’ re-calibrated.
billybear
12:17 on 16 June, 2015
Lots of (wishful) predictions of Mark to fail miserably. FFS give the man a chance.
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If you were a Celtic supporter trying to post on FF or RM, you’d have been banned long before now. Don’t waste your privileged position of being allowed to make comment here by posting utter pish all the time.
Have read both sets of questions as asked at both press conferences. The tone is pretty much the same in both. What is the difference that is apparently blatant in these question sets? Are we so conditioned by history we are looking to be offended? Song and dance about nothing.
BILLY BEAR
I recall being home in Kilwinning in October after Green had taken over. I was out for a few beers wi some mates,Rangers men all.
‘Aye,Charlie’s got ye on the run’ says one. At which most joined in.
I thought they were kidding,but went for a smoke and asked Mark to let them know what I’d told him in a few e-mails.
I came back in,and they started again!
‘Aw ffs,lads. I’m back in May. We’ll see who is right then’
In May,they didnae want to discuss it. Next May,I reckon you won’t either.
Some have spoken of the ‘gullible’ media but that term implies that journos are easily taken in by PR.
The journos are not being gulled. They know that it is moonbeams. They are willing partners of the PR.
They, like fans, want to believe !
Its not”warbles” its pan loafy.i lke that better,still chucklin.
Mark, just going back to your targets, have you been told by Dave King you have to win the league this year?
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Errrr, Dave who?
Ole Warbles decided to take the piss at the Ibrox welcome party last night.
http://imagecache5d.allposters.com/watermarker/30-3009-7V5BF00Z.jpg?ch=775&cw=775
Warburton is the best thing since sliced bread.
According to those deluded lemmings over in Govan of course.
Warchest on its way from South Africa.
HH!!
Thompson twin wrote
Last word on this subject – and please stop the name-calling.
The energy issue, like the currency, the central bank and FFA are all fudge issues for the SNP – properly examined they just do not ‘hold water’
I have no interest in winning back those who foolishly voted for the SNP – they will crawl back when the SNP tripe-fruit blossoms.
Yep,then we can all get back to the Shangri-La we were all living in when Labour and the Tories were in power.Oh,how are the £12.5 billion cuts from the Welfare coming along?.
Deluded trumpet.
Ascot
My fancies
Solow in the first and gleneagles ( 3rd race i think ) could be a decent short price double
Finnegan in the 2nd. Though buratino and war department have good chances
My big bet of the day is on Elishpour in the 5.00. Ladbrokes paying 5 places and at 25s it’s a great each way bet. Hardstone is another irish long shot in that race and he is worth an each way also at 20s.
Ah well beats discussing the team doesn’t exist anymore, that we never liked anyway,that we never want to play again etc
HH
please remember folks,do not get caught up in the Sevco fantasy.. Repeat after me – RFC are dead,they were liquidated …from that day on, EVERYTHING is a lie..they need us to talk of them,to justify the lie…
Hence the near meltdown when they were miraculously drawn against us in the cup last season..
Tell EVERY Sevconian you know, they live a lie EVERY day..How can they look their kids in the eye & talk of honesty,when half a country leads a lie..
Moreover,remember the names of the SMSM who support the lie and laugh at their lack of professionalism ..
Wilson,Jack,Lindsay,Traynor,STV,SSB,SKY…
NEVER forget Regan,Ogilvie or the main men Murray(SD),Masterson..
I never worry at all about Sevco..
They are a fantasy,lauded by desperately sad grown men.. Weak,incompetent men..
That’s good enough for me..
There is only ONE team and that is Celtic..
The WORLD actually knows that..
HH
justafan
12:00 on
16 June, 2015
To be honest, other than the “many many congratulations” didn’t think there was much between the two sets of questions. Maybe a couple more softballs but actually less difference than I’d imagined there’d be!
Maybe I’m in a minority of one???
Make that two.A lot less cringeworthy than I expected.Sure it will come,but not yesterday.
Luckily for Big Mike he voted against his own resolution… Phew! If he had voted for it he’d have won and his strategy would be in tatters… ;-)
HH
Ashley called the EGM to demonstrate a specific point at Law.
My guess is – and it is only a guess – that he wanted to show that the differences he has with the Board are irreconcilable, and extend to the body of the shareholders.
He asked the Board to pay back the dough. They said no.
He then asked the members to pay back the dough. They’ve said no too.
All parties have made their decisions with full disclosure of the conditions of the loan.
Only one party it seems is aware of the consequences of the decision. I expect there will be a bit of a reckoning as far as the shareholdings in Rangers Retail is concerned, and the forward ownership of the IP.
Again, this is only a guess. It’s supposition. But Ashley has gone procedural for a specific reason, and I doubt it’s motivated out of fondness.
doc
10:59 on 16 June, 2015…
Well said mate, I worry everytime my bhoy goes to the game with his mates as I remember what I was like at his age.
Yep, times have changed but has the indiscriminate lifting of youths by some officers with an agenda changed?
Btw..not just our bhoys, all the supporters action groups should put the rivalry behind us and fight the act together.
Maybe it is already in motion.HT might be best to update on that.
South of Tunis
I read on Russian websites that Fabio Capello will be sacked for sure. Very poor work with Russia team. I did not like his interviews. Always happy with the way his team played, blamed no luck and other things. He was always “perfect and kind”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33150308
Sad story emerging of deaths of young Irish people in California and others with life threatening injuries.
No surprise yesterday in line of questions. It will always be the same though I see what you did with title of article Paul.! :)
I always disliked that Neil Lennon was always “Lennon” in Scottish Media whilst Cheeky Gardener and Cardigan were always referred to by first names.
You know, it always astounded me that everything at the old huns was always about wars & numbers! This new zombie mob are just as obsessed- any budget will be a ‘war chest’, n the new manager is leading a ‘revolution’! Who is it they think they r fighting? They were apparently fighting Celtic before, but bit off more than they could chew, n died! U would think this new mob would have learned from their mistakes! But no, n the numbers thing is just as bad- 54 supposed league titles, 45,000 season tickets (aye right) n now 15 managers, n its all complete pish!!! Anyway, if they keep concentrating on wars n numbers, hopefully their chances of catching us will be as doomed as they were the last time!!!
Aw naw, Warburton has fallen for it! Just a you think be might be a bit different from all the rest, he says Castle Doom has to be a ‘fortress’!!! But Ralston n Berry really take the ‘succulent lamb’ biscuit! Ralston describes Warburton as ‘the Educator of Edmiston Drive’, Ffs!!!
Love the BBC Headline : Rangers Win The Vote Against Ashley
Just like they “won” the vote against HMRC.
I know some people think these Sevconians are off this planet. I disagree, they aren’t even in the same constellation as the rest of us.
Billy bear
I for one enjoy reading your viewpoints though I naturally disagree with a fair amount of what you say. Unless I’ve missed some of your stuff you seem a polite and decent type of guy. Keep your posts coming especially as the season unfolds. Yours in sport. ..
TnT
Thompson Twin wrote,
I know some of us want Celtic to respond big in the transfer market, in an attempt to ‘snuff out’ this media fawning. It is a attractive idea, however why should we dance to ‘their’ tune.
A wing-back, centre-back, creative midfielder and a striker, are our priorities, together with cutting-loose the deadwood – we have around three weeks to get it righ
So “A wing back,centre back,creative midfielder,and striker”would not be “Dancing to their tune”by going big in the transfer market.
Do you ever read back what you write?.Unbelievable.
MR HENRIK
Mibbe they’ve given up doing the lottery and are trying for a full house at the bingo?
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/an-epic-tale/
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
12:28 on
16 June, 2015
Imagine the headlines if another football club had decided not to pay its debts in such a public manner.
Then imagine if it had been us.
I’m sure Ashley expected this result and has his next move carefully thought out.
Sure thats what it was all about.They have now officially reneged on their loan.
Eagerly awaiting Mikes next move.
Billy Bear….
I’m still unsure if your a tim at the wind up, if so :))
If not, I doff my cap to you, I’ve a few friends that support the zombies and the fun I have with them is off the radar.
Anyways, if you are a hun (obviously ugly) keep up the fight …been there, seen it and done it…differance being….your a new club…no history. HH
Whatever else Warbut is there for, it is not merely the team on the park.
I still reckon that most of his attention will be on cash in- cash out, no questions asked.
It’s what he is apparently good at……..good enough to retire at 40 from the financial scene.
FFP is it? Aye, right.
So the guy that buys Rangers only player worth any kind of sum (McLeod) then turns up as the manager of the team he bought him from.
Newco needed that cash to keep their head above water.
Trevor Steven transfer smelled, boumsong wiffed…