Do you really think they’d only be 7 points clear if they didn’t wrap the title up months ago? They wouldn’t be losing at Hibs or drawing v St Mirren at home. This nonsense always comes up at the end of a season when they drop a few points, it lures people like you into thinking the gap is just a couple of close decisions in old firm games, when in reality, its how we approach every league game.
We are far more profligate than them against run of the mill sides - that’s a fact. They pick up more points against the other teams, score more and concede less.
They finished on 99 points, and it probably would’ve been 103-105 had then needed to get that. We need to do better in old firms I agree, but we especially need to take the bins out v Livi and St Johnstone. Firstly it’s easier to beat them, and 3 points is the same no matter who you pick it up against.
In the words of Graeme Souness, I’d accept 4 old firm defeats and a title win at the end of each season. There’s 102 points available to collect against the other 10 sides each season - we need to collect those and the old firms take care of themselves.