IF Ronny Deila hasn’t completely lost the dressing room then he’s currently fumbling for it behind the back of the couch.

Quite apt, don’t you think, as this is the best place from where to watch Celtic right now. That’s if you could bear to sit through 90 minutes of football played with zero passion, no tempo, little imagination and at the end of it all, as was the case on Wednesday night, a Dundee side minus some of their better players left cursing their luck. They should have won.

The word from inside Parkhead is that the dressing room is not a happy place. Senior players, previously supportive of the manager, have run out of patience. They are fed-up with formation and selection. The feeling is something had to be done some time ago and it wasn’t.

Too often in games, and you saw this again in midweek, when things are going badly players look across to the bench as if to say “are we going to change this or what?” The changes were putting on James Forrest and moving to a 4-4-2 having refused to play that system all season. It didn’t work.

There was a team meeting held at the training ground on Thursday afternoon. Celtic supporters must hope there was not a lick of paint left on the wall by the time the air was cleared.

Some harsh truths had to be told. But words are not enough. The supporters have got to see improvement on the field, not the same personal putting in the exact same dreary five or six out of ten performances.

The players, I am told, feel frustrated by the tactics and some have expressed this opinion. In saying that, the players themselves are far from innocent.

Leigh Griffiths gets an obvious pass, so too Nir Bitton although his form has deserted him, and one or two have done okay at times over the last eight months.

But it says a lot that Kiernan Tierney has been the one in the last two games constantly looking for the ball and actually doing a bit of shouting. The lad is 18.

Stuart Armstrong was honest enough to admit he’s found it difficult to cope with life at Celtic. After over a year at the club. That says a lot about the state of play. He’s not the only one struggling.

Celtic could win a league and cup double and yet this has been an awful season. Every supporter has a story about some pal giving up a free ticket because they couldn’t be bothered going along.

And, anyway, just winning the league in a Ranger-less era is not enough. They might not even manage that.

In the 1995/96 season, Celtic won nothing, Rangers won a Double, and yet the Celtic fans had a great time because they were at least entertained.

It is now unthinkable Deila will be here next season. Ask any agent and they will tell you that the word around the campfire is the club are looking elsewhere. The name of Michael O’Neill, the Northern Ireland manager, is dropped an awful lot. It’s not the only one.

An adult season ticket at Celtic starts at £416. That’s a lot of money to watch one striker going up against Partick Thistle and the rest. Perhaps this is why so many who have already forked out aren’t going to matches.

Those supporters who refuse to acknowledge there is a problem really need to get a grip. Celtic should be ten years ahead of Rangers and they are not. Aberdeen could win the league and, if that were to happen, Deila’s head would not be the only one to roll.

The Celtic team right now is broken. There are ten league games to fix it plus those in the cup.

And let’s just say Celtic beat Morton on Sunday and it’s their old pals waiting for them in the Scottish Cup semi-final. The fact is that even those whose lives seem to depend upon Rangers being seen as a new club and that we should all use the name Sevco would seriously worry that their own team would lose that game.

If Celtic were beaten by this supposed ghost club then that would be it for just about everyone.

Too often, it has seemed to me, the focus has been at the goings-on at Ibrox when all the concentration should be about, you know, Celtic and what they are up to. Perhaps that’s not the case but eyes have been taken off the ball.

Deila looks scared. He fears the worst. You can see it in his eyes. That’s not what you want to see from any Celtic manager. It's not all his fault, far from it, but he should be the head of youth development.

It's a sad state of affairs. The thunder Neil Lennon brought back has been reduced to a slight breeze.