All Good Points.  Reja's mentality is just the medicine this team needed and beyond our goal of fighting relegation he is the perfect fit for this organiazion for future success.  If you consider the demise of both Balla and Rossi they fall apart becasue they can;t stand against Lotito and lose respect from their players.  Remember Rossi had a good run, didn't get the reinforcements in the market, stendardo conflict etc fell apart.  Only wish this could have happened sooner.   

 ^ Absolutely, let's not get aghead of ourselves. But I don't think anyone was terribly impressed with the way we played in those first three matches under Balla. Against Parma, we looked like the better team.

I think this is totally out of Reja's hands. He's stuck coaching a team made up of mostly has-beens and never-was players of overall mediocrity.

Even after mercato this team is still in the same position as it was before since lotito failed to bring any REAL talent to improve the team.

Including myself, most of us slammed Delio .. but he's totally turned Palermo around and on the weekend despite losing they have proven to be a high quality team much superior than Lazio. Goes to show they had good players but a bad coach while we suffer the opposite which unfortunately can't be remedied since lotirchio doesn't give a shit about Lazio.

If Lazio gets relegated it should be no surprise ... in fact according to their track record they deserve it.

getting the best of what we have is still difficult, rossi changed formations constantly in his remaining years probably out of frustration.  All coaches make mistakes, players to and on the best of teams.  We need investment plain and simple, when rossi was here you could kind of imagine how disappointing it is to make CL and then get no reinforcements.  Like the boss saying good job well done here is a lump of coal for your Christmas bonus. 

The main problem with this team is the midfield.  Two crucial games we lost at home this year were catania and bari.  Both games we dominated possession but did nothing with it.  Our midfield cannot compete in the serie a.  In my eyes, ledesma is shit.  Matuzalem is hurt again, whatever he is mediocre neways. Im anxiously waiting for foggia to come back.  With him back i would play 4 mids with kolarov and foggia on the wings and brocchi and hitzlsperger in the middle.

agreed, ledesma is useless in relegation battle (as i expected)
hitzlsperger has to improve, i think he gives everything if he gets more playing time.


And brocchi... I changed my mind about him. I like him :D

Reja was brought in a little too late IMO.  On the field, there is a palpable lack of self confidence. Reja may not be perfect, but he's proven his abilities previously at Napoli, the difference is the team he has. Baronio doesn't see the field anymore, but Ledesma isn't much better (i've never been a fan). Hitzelsperger  has been completely disappointing - and that's from a person i had no clear expectations of in the first place because he was generally unknown to me previously! 

I've said it before, you look at this team on paper, given the alleged interest in so many of our players by so-called bigger teams and there is ne way they belong in a relegation fight. But football is played on the field and they ain't playing football. If I'm the coach of this team I'm pulling my hair out. When so-called superstars like Kolarov, Zarate, Ledesma and Foggia play the way they do, what the hell can you possibly do with the rest of them? 

Again, Lotito is completely at fault that that we are not a top ten team, but bottom 4? That's mainly the players.

Fine, but the only thing that concerns me is the position in the table, and the fact we have a manager that promised to (and continues to promise at the start of every week before training begins and pre-match) knock down the mental barriers that are in the players and help them perform. But now it's gone from that, to... "Mummy, where is the talent? I do not see it  "


To answer your question - when the players cross the white line, it's mostly down to them. But not all. What state of mind the players cross that white line in is down to Reja, and no-one else, not Lotito, but Reja. Yes Palermo have some good players, but Zenga wasen't very good at getting the best out of them, and when Rossi has since had success from taking over he said one thing, he said he didn't do anything different, but he just worked on the players psychology. Yet again, I'm repeating myself that Reja said identical things, and yet the results are completely different - that is why I will not defend Reja on this matter.
P.S I'm pretty sure that, rather then throwing abuse left right and centre and getting himself banned, that Reja should be on the touchline, using his arms to push us up if by some miracle we score a goal - but no, we score, and I see nothing - he needs to convey to the players non-stop what he wants to do, just like Mourinho does every game. Clearly left to their own devices our moronic players don't know their asshole from their elbow.