Competing against the bheggars and not getting smashed 5-0 is seen as some sort of achievement. People are still stuck in the Caixinha and Warburton days even although it's 2020 and Gerrard is heading into his third season at the helm. That's small club mentality. Standards have slipped, greatly. There are limited expectations within a large number of our support. They will bang on about how we are the best team in Scotland, have the better players, are more than a match for the bheggars yet mention why we've not put up a league fight and won a trophy and they trout out; but we are an improvement on three/four years ago.
We moan about teams raising their game against us then dropping points in the lesser games. That's what we are doing.
In one off games we are a match for the bheggars. Over the course of a season we aren't - still a good bit away. We still regularly cannot beat the dross; Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Hearts as an example and any time we have an opportunity to apply pressure or open up a lead, we bottle it.
Sorry but standards haven't been lowered. We have been to the gutter and back since we last won leagues and cups regularly up against a team that have had a free shot in our absence to rake in millions and build a winning league squad while we have directors bailing us out even to this day so we still have a club to support.
I also don't think you can downplay the results against them as mentally that squad were done for getting turned over time and time again. The win against them in December 2018 was huge they knew they just couldn't turn up and turn us over liked they used to do.
The collapse this season has been disappointing nobody can deny that. For me the winter break came at the wrong time as momentum in football is huge and we lost it. We came back from the break with 3 big players missing and sadly the squad depth isn't there. Individual mistakes and not being ruthless enough is what has killed us since the break Tynecastle a perfect example of that Kent misses 2 sitters and Aribo as well before we go 1-0 up. The collapse from 1-0 was unacceptable but they equalised through Kamara getting caught in possession and if Goldson never slipped they wouldn't have scored anyway.
If we didnt have that collapse and went on a winning run like the scum have done we still wouldn't have won the league this season anyway. They maybe crap but they have been relentless they've had some helping hands along the way with decisions especially after the break but they have improved in their points total they're at least 13 points better off.
We should have won the cup final it was one of those days where nothing went our way it's football it happens.
I don't think we are far away at all and if we can recruit better this summer which I think we will now Allen is away then there is no reason why we can't win the league next season.