If This Celtic Team Beats Their Records, Will They Be Better Than The Invincibles?

Big Ange sets lofty targets for this team. He really does. I find it amazing that he has set the team a target of winning the last eight games and thus breaking the records set by our best team in the modern era.

If he wins a treble on top of that, whose side is truly the most impressive? And how do you judge that stuff anyway?

I never thought I would see a higher points total than that campaign. I thought that the idea of an Invincible Treble wasn’t a complete stretch – teams have had unbeaten league campaigns on several occasions – but I believed that points total would stand the test of time, never to be repeated and certainly never to be bettered.

That it’s even a possibility at this stage in the season is incredible.

And if the boss actually pulls it off, I think this team has a great claim on having the greater accomplishment. They might get a fancy title – The Invincibles is a pretty great one – but they will have proven themselves even more consistent.

Which is faintly miraculous.

I think this team plays better football than the Invincible team. I think it has more goals in it and it has a better defensive unit. I think they are more a front foot team and the squad, overall, has a much better balance to it.

The manager is another thing entirely. Rodgers said all the right things, but he never handled the media the way this man does. He didn’t do humility in the way Ange does.

Rodgers always came off as slightly saccharine even when we believed that he was broadly sincere. Ange speaks with such passion, and obvious honesty, that it’s night and day.

He also fights for the club more than Rodgers did. I think we’re happier, overall, than we were then, and with the direction of the club in the main. We trust that Ange is in total command. Did we ever have that impression about Rodgers? Certainly not by this stage of season two when there were already obvious cracks developing.

There are no obvious problems here behind the scenes. Some players might be considering their options for the summer, but that would only be an issue if the manager didn’t have such a fine strike rate when it comes to successful signings.

The form of the team is as good as I’ve ever seen it.

The form in Rodgers’ first campaign was absurdly good. But there was a drop off in form in the second. Here the reverse is true. After a tough settling in period Celtic has just continued to get stronger.

To me this is a better side than the Invincible team, and they are on their way to proving it. I think whether they hit the points record or not, if they win the treble they’ve have proved it although they might never get the title.

For some fans, I understand that it will take breaking the record before the conversation can be had. For others there will be no discussion of the Invincible side being compared with a team which isn’t Invincible, and there is merit in both of those arguments.

This is one of the times I hope for a lot of responses in the comments section, with people stating their own view on this. It’s a nice debating point, and one I look forward to having if we do manage to go on and achieve what would once have been thought impossible.