Ibrox Benefits From Woeful Defending And A Scandalous Amount Of Time Added On.

For the second game in a row, The Mooch’s team were all over the place and heading for defeat, and let’s give them their due; they did what Aberdeen could not. They played for 90 minutes. Or rather, they played for 97 minutes. There is a difference between late goals and goals in “time added on from God knows where.”

Aberdeen got what they deserved for the second time in under a week. Their decision to play nothing but defensive football against Celtic cost them. Their decision to try and hold onto a 2-1 lead, and then their grotesque failure to hold out when it was 2-2, is damnable in a game where the Ibrox defence looked petrified whenever they got forward.

The Mooch will get kudos for looking like a tactical genius; nobody at Ibrox should be convinced by that for one minute, and some of their fans will not be. The truth is, seven minutes time added on is another farce in a season which has had already had plenty of them, and he came within a kick of the ball of dropping points tonight.

That’s the story here. The Mooch came within mere seconds of falling further behind in a race where he was brought in to close the gap. I’ll tell you, if there is a plan being put into action I am not seeing it from his team. Throwing bodies forward in reckless abandon is not a plan. Aberdeen’s defence was woeful in that two minute spell … a more robust one would have held out and the fans over there would already have serious questions for this guy.

They should anyway. It was nothing that he pulled out of his bag of tricks that accomplished that this evening; unless what he pulled out was his Lodge membership card, for the guy with the minutes board. Two games into his “reign” and I think they’re all over the place. That is not a team capable of sustaining a challenge to us.

Aberdeen came within that appalling time-added on period of wrestling him and all his pretensions to the matt. They got past it. They got the points, just as they did with Hibs who for reasons only Lee Johnson can explain decided not to show up for the second half at Ibrox.

They may even scrape past Ross County on Friday night; I expect that they will.

But we’re coming, and we won’t show mercy and we won’t cave as easily as that. The worry, ever the worry, and especially after tonight, is the Fraternal Brotherhood Of SFA Officials, which has certainly had an influence on the game this evening.

But a bigger influence was the continuing managerial incompetence at Aberdeen, and not just from Goodwin. He was, after all, the choice of a board of directors which went out with the mandate to hire the best candidate for the job.

I have a secret to tell them; he wasn’t in Paisley. If they’re still struggling to figure that out that’s part of the reason why their club is not achieving what it should be.