Don't get me wrong, at the time I was loving it. It oozed how much he cared, I think it was also a massive out Flow if relief knowing that season was very much game on.
In hindsight, it really did send the wrong message to the players. It was more like a cup final win reaction. Told the players we've achieved our goal when the job was so far from done.
Personalally, I'm on the fence about him staying on next season. He's taken us forward immensely, but a league win is the only thing that matters. I think getting a new manager will be too much change on what is last chance saloon to stop 10iar, but also feel Gerrard still lacks that experience maintain a challenge for a full season.
Are you Hugh Keevins?
Cos this is some Keevins level garbage.
Winning at Ibrox last season, for the first time since we were promoted, was a landmark. We are on our way back to where we belong.
Winning at Parkhead in December was another one of those landmark moments. We are getting closer to where we want to be.
OK. We are not there yet. We are going in the right direction at least.
Yes. We should celebrate. Players and managers. That's what we want to see.
We want our team going to Parkhead next time hungry for that same feeling.
I hate this turning round in hindsight and trying to downplay our improvements because actually we've decided that we want the league and we want it RIGHT NOW.
I get the impression here that had we won the League Cup but then had the same, or worse, results in the league that many on here would move on to a Keevins-esque "but the league is the big one" and slag us off for celebrating a League Cup win like we'd won the champions league.
Even the improvement in Europe gets played down by people saying it's just a bonus or a sideshow or, get this, that it might even be better for us to get put out because we won't be distracted.
It would be madness to roll the dice on a new manager next season.
2018/19 was better than 17/18 by a significant distance.
Now 2019/20 has been better than 18/19 by some distance too.
I'd say we are more likely to improve again next season than to not improve. So we need to stick with that.
The main thing we should be looking at from Gerrard now is if he can stop this slump and turn it around. If we continue to spiral and go out of Europe with a whimper, lose the cup game vs Hearts and fall even further behind in the league then we would for sure need to ask questions.
We are not yet at the point where a different manager is a reasonable consideration and "a league win is all that matters" is an unreasonable reason to fire a manager who is improving the side.
I think some on here do not realize the gulf that still exists between us and them.
This is going to take a lot more time than "we need to win the league ASAP" allows for.