Not always. A nervous Ibrox after 20 minutes of not scoring artificially ramps up the pressure of the players massively, which can effect the players negatively.
Our team is comfortably able to beat every team in our league. One of the main reasons they don't is when they are not comfortable. I agree they should be able to cope with the pressure of Ibrox, but it is a disadvantage that no other team has on them.
Take the mhedia coverage for example. Even if we take their '10 in a row' narrative they are so keen to push. This year should be all about Celtic. The pressure on them to hold it together. Not to slip up as they put the final pair of cards on their massive house of cards that could fall at any second. Tp ruin 9 years work in the making and a pipe dream their fans have been singing about for most of the last decade.
But no. Its all about how Rangers must stop it. How Rangers will feel a pressure like never before. How Gerrard will go if he doesn't stop it. Etc etc etc.
'10 in a row' has nothing to do with us. We were out the league for half of it for a start, and paying next to no attention to the SPL in our absence. Yet some of our more fragile fans buy into this narrative inexplicably, despite how clearly tainted the whole thing is. Unless the mhedia pretends that every (even any!) other club has a chance to win the league and should be pressing to stop 10iar (not just us) , then they can hardly glorify the 'achievment' when they are basically admitting that for 4 years when we wernt in the league they simply had to turn up.
I say this as I feel it can be the only place the negativity from some of us originates. Otherwise, why would we not be happy with a hard fought win at Pittodrie. And if we can't celebrate a win like that here, can we really be trusted at Ibrox yet?
The fans will return. But I feel the players will get a short term confidence boost in our absence.