Bruce_Wayne
Well-Known Member
The gaffer is a victim of his own 'success', if I can use that word for the moment, because he's raising expectations all the time and maybe we get a bit carried away with it.
Last year we went from the horror show of Progres to the Group Stages. Improved our league form but stumbled a bit in December, clawed it back by beating them at Ibrox. Expectations were raised again due to this but the squad fell short.
This season we have improved in every aspect of last season. League Form, Cup Competitions and Europe. We beat them in their own midden to top off a brilliant 1st half of the season and rightly so we were all expecting the same after the break. It hasn't happened but even with this last 2 months we're still better off than we were at this point than we were last season and have a points record eerily similar to when we last won the league.
At Xmas there was no chance I thought both us and them would keep up the excellent form of the 1st half of the season but there's no denying that even at the moment, taking into account the last 2 months of bad results, we are still showing a vast improvement.
Unfortunately the form of Celtic has been exceptional all season to be fair to them. Oddly we are having a relatively 'normal' title winning season whereas they seem to be having a season similar to Rodgers' first. Even Walter's title winning team of 2010/2011 wouldn't have been able to keep up with this Celtic team's form.
Last year we went from the horror show of Progres to the Group Stages. Improved our league form but stumbled a bit in December, clawed it back by beating them at Ibrox. Expectations were raised again due to this but the squad fell short.
This season we have improved in every aspect of last season. League Form, Cup Competitions and Europe. We beat them in their own midden to top off a brilliant 1st half of the season and rightly so we were all expecting the same after the break. It hasn't happened but even with this last 2 months we're still better off than we were at this point than we were last season and have a points record eerily similar to when we last won the league.
At Xmas there was no chance I thought both us and them would keep up the excellent form of the 1st half of the season but there's no denying that even at the moment, taking into account the last 2 months of bad results, we are still showing a vast improvement.
Unfortunately the form of Celtic has been exceptional all season to be fair to them. Oddly we are having a relatively 'normal' title winning season whereas they seem to be having a season similar to Rodgers' first. Even Walter's title winning team of 2010/2011 wouldn't have been able to keep up with this Celtic team's form.