Clyde’s Idiotic Panel Should Be Taking A Pounding Over Their Dire Celtic Title Prediction.

The Clyde phone-in is on right now, and I’m not listening to it.

But I sincerely hope that those on it are taking a pounding from the audience over their myopic predictions from the start of this campaign where five out of six of them picked the Ibrox club to win the title.

They watched what we did last season; a Celtic side made up of superb players, exciting to watch, blazing a trail, and which had righteously thumped the Ibrox club at Celtic Park and beaten them at Ibrox, and with a manager pledging we would get even stronger and better – a promise that he has kept – and with guaranteed Champions League cash to spend … and they took the club across the city, based, in no small part, on their bizarre European run.

There is a part of these Peepul that has such disdain for our club that it can overlook its strengths even when they are blazingly obvious.

They were blazingly obvious this time last year.

Our fans were openly debating the treble in this campaign, and expectation levels were through the roof. We knew much might hang on the boss convincing Jota and Carter Vickers to sign up for the revolution but I think there was a general confidence in that.

There were great players in every position and you knew that some of them were just going to get better and better.

With a proper pre-season behind us, and a peaceful one without having to worry about Champions League qualifier, there was little doubt that we would start like a thundering train.

How were they able to ignore that?

They did anyway. Five out of six of them, with only Mark Wilson demurring.

That’s the “standard” of their panellists.

But then we are, after all, talking about Keevins, Dalziel, Halliday and whoever the Hell the other two are. (I don’t know and don’t care enough to Google it.)

This is not exactly The Brains Trust.

These people are generally thick and those names already reek of anti-Celtic sentiment and bias.

Still, it’s pretty remarkable that they didn’t have either the basic professionalism to set aside their own grievances and predispositions or the skills necessary to analyse this stuff in the right way.

I think it’s more about the former than the latter, because you don’t have to be a genius to work out that our form was exceptional last season and that anything that bettered it would leave the club across the city an uphill task regardless of their own form.

So this really was about their own pitiful inability to be objective.

And for that, the channel should be shame-faced for employing them, not sniggering over their ignorance and unprofessionalism as it was on Twitter earlier today.

It’s dwindling band of listeners should use this opportunity to hold them to account.

Otherwise they are going to continue getting this lousy standard, this sub-par analysis, the third rate freak show, and they will absolutely deserve to.