The worrying thing isn’t Celtic’s score today, it’s the fact they and Rangers are now so far ahead of the SPL, Hibs blip aside, that it’s becoming unsustainable.
Pre-kick off, Rangers were on top of the table with 14 goals in 5 matches. Celtic will top it afterwards with 21 goals at least at the time of writing.
Sure, Utd are an absolute shambles of a club at the moment, conceding 9 in 4 before today, but both sides of the Old Firm are rattling in 4+ against most teams this season, and we’d like to know how that can be sustained.
To have Rangers and Celtic 4+ nil victors every week makes it utterly absurd, and we don’t know if it’s more the fact the two clubs have got too good for the league or the SPL has gone completely backwards third from down.
Maybe both?
Of course, we don’t care about what Celtic do, but the wider implications for our club is that the teams third from down are offering less challenge every season.
Even the side who doesn’t win the league will still steam roller the teams below, and we can’t help wondering how the rest get a bit better.
This matters because at UCL level, Rangers need strong domestic competition otherwise they will struggle against world class sides.
This is why big teams in smaller leagues struggle to excel at the very peak of UCL – Benfica, Porto, Brugges, Anderlecht, Ajax – compare how these league giants do in the UCL with Barca, Real, City, PSG etc.
The better your league, the better prepared you are to take on the best in Europe.
Rangers defied every odd in the UEL: but that wasn’t the absolute cream of Europe at the highest level.
UCL is, and gubbing Utd and County by cricket scores is great for ego and morale, but not so good for development.
Que sera.
Sadly this will be the norm for the tin pot league we are in, United are and have been a basket case for so long now, the score is hardly surprising
Clubs in Scotland basically write off the games against the Old Firm and go into the game with the sole intention of not getting thrashed. Clearly they are failing so why not be a bit bolder and try and make a game of it. The best parts of the Old Firm teams is middle to front. Why not have a go at the weakest part of the team, their defence.
And the most amazing statistic from today’s game is that Dundee Utd picked up just ONE yellow card, and that came after 4 minutes when the score was still 0-0. Surely as the 4th, 5th, 6th goals are flying in players must be getting angry or frustrated or they just want to show their fans that they aren’t going to lie down and accept what is happening. It’s shameful and embarrassing.
PS: I’m expecting Dundee Utd to turn up at Ibrox next month fighting like dogs and kicking everything that moves to get a result. Just you watch.
Another slightly worrying thing about this is that I don’t think we have a 9-0 in us. We tend to apply a more patient approach before gradually wearing teams down. The problem with that is that we keep opponents in the game longer which is always risky. Yesterday was the first time in 13 matches that we’ve scored in the opening 30 minutes and even then it took 24 minutes. On the other hand Celtic go for the jugular and have scored in the first 15 minutes in 4 of their 5 games. It immediately removes any hope their opponents had and gives them the platform to get these results.
There is not really much we can do unfortunately ,as was proven with the others European results ,the standard is pretty shocking out with the old firm ,with even that other mob expected to take a major humping or two with Stavros lack of all round tactics and their shocking record in Europe .
The only thing we can hope for is that we improve along with continued involvement in Europe with safety net of conference now .Sadly our chances of getting in to England remote ,so stuck with what we have …utter shite week in week out and league decided by 4 old firm games …bit farcical really .
I don’t care if we win 1-0 every game . Its about winning this league ffs. Robrob57 is spot on those green leaning Dundee Utd players will turn up at Ibrox no doubt ,
as will Aberdeen as will others. They
all hate Rangers FFS . It’s a total symptom of this country, its not paranoia its staring you in the fucking face every season is the same they all only turn up for 2 games against us. Its not the gap its not they are supremely better its the mental mindset that because they been fasley been dominating our game it should continue
Also noted few pumpings dished out in “best league in the world” recently with liverpool one the other day, also bayern on 11th title in as many years in germany,with them regularily handing out thrashings may be a case of the rich getting richer in each competition .
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