15 Feb 2015 20:17:48
i like where RD is taking the scottish game. He has been the first in a VERY LONG TIME to highlight something that is so obvious in terms of football "up here"

we have a game "up here" that has tradition pouring out of every part of the game
we like our game up here
we can do with our game up here what we want to do with our game up here
we can play to full houses up here if we want to
we can have fierce competition up here and be happy with the competition
we can play whatever style/brand of football we want up here

RD basically reminded us that we don't have to be anything else other than ourselves

we don't need to apologise for our game up here
we can embrace our game up here
we can promote our game up here (within) and care less about the wider world out there (or should I say, be less concerned about doing a Manchester United or Bayern)

we should focus on what makes our games good and build from there

we are not english and we do not have to compete with the EPL

we are celtic and we have our battles to win and trophies to accumulate, and so long as we are given a product that we can consume.and the game maintains a sufficiently high level of professionalism, scottish football can prosper (even if it is contained within our shores commercially speaking)

imagine for a minute a well run, competitive rangers and a steadfast aberdeen. a financially healthy hearts and a young and dynamic Hibernian with dundee united on the coat tails.

add in a colourful celtic with swagger and class and we have ourselves a professional game worthy of our interest

well done RD for saying that we should look within and stop looking behind to things that will never become of us

1.) 15 Feb 2015
Good post. What you have in fact highlighted is this was Scottish football pre souness and murray.

Clubs lived within their means and transfer cash was, generally, kept in the game up here.When murray, aided by his pet monkey masterston, started throwing cash at rangers every club seemed to do the same.Remember murderwell, on appalling gates signing spencer? Aberdeen too ran up huge debt spending fortunes on players they could not afford.

Time to go back to the future I think.

2.) 15 Feb 2015
Well said mate actually brilliant piece there and so true I took from Ronnie from day one bought into all his new methods and the direction he was wanting to take our great club and is great to see people changing there minds about him and everything he's trying to do breath of fresh air for someone so honest.Thursday will be our hardest game to date so we can see how far we have come then

3.) 16 Feb 2015
I may have started out a doubter about Deila but I quickly realised he is probably the best manager we could get . I think he really appreciates been manager of Celtic and he wants to change the playing structure upside down so that we can be successful not only in Scotland but in Europe.

4.) 16 Feb 2015
I liked deila from the start but I thought it would have taken him a season to get his brand of football up and running so I think we are ahead of schedule