Even last season they were still close to us going into the winter period.
With the Motherwell game we came perilously close to having only a 4 or 5 point gap.
Had they won the January match then our lead would have been chopped to 4 points.
As it turned out we extended the lead to 10 and then they dropped 9 points from the next 15 points and that was the end of it.
In Walter's last season to be fair we did win the first 9 matches in the SPL.
Then we drew 1-1 at home with Inverness and 2 weeks later Hibs beat us 3-0 at Ibrox.
We lost home and away to the tims before the final match at Ibrox finished 0-0.
Dundee United also beat us at Ibrox.
We had a draw in Inverness and Hearts beat us at Tynecastle.
The season before after 9 games we had dropped 8 points.
Three 0-0 results back to back and a 1-1 draw at home to Hibs.
When we lost 1-0 at Aberdeen in the 12th match of the season Mowbrays tims were 2 points ahead of us (but we had a game in hand).
14 games later (we dropped another 6 points in that spell) we beat them at Ibrox to go 10 points clear with a game in hand.
Season before that we won the league on the last day with only 86 points. 8 draws and 4 defeats.
As people always say, it's a marathon not a sprint. So if we are going to win the title there will be highs and lows.
The next round of 11 games will be very important. We are away to Tims, Hibs, Hearts, Motherwell, Aberdeen and Livingston.