Nice of the media to let us know that the bookies have changed their odds on the destination of the Scottish Premiership title. So now Ibrox are “title favourites.” Wow. Stop the presses. Hold back the late editions, we need to change the front page.
I never cease to be amazed by how much attention the press here gives to crap like this. The bookies don’t decide titles. They work on the basis of mathematical formulas which reduce everything to data sets and numbers. Any gambler knows how misleading a lot of those numbers are.
Odds can move just because a lot of people are betting on a certain outcome; that’s how a race favourite can go from being an outsider to a favourite whilst the horses are still in the paddock.
In short, it means precisely nothing at all. It’s a joke. It’s a complete non-story. A week from now they could flip them again with no significant change just because a lot of our fans finally see betting on the team as worth sticking a few quid on.
It’s like those articles about Five Thirty Eight, the US stats site which uses its own algorithms to predict how this stuff is going to go. The media loves those, but only when they predict good things for Ibrox. It’s pathetic.
You know what decides title races? Whichever teams wins the most games and scores the most goals and wins the most points. Simple as that.
And tonight, we need to get back on form, points some of those points on the boards and then move onto the cup at the weekend.
Whatever trials we’re enduring at the moment and whatever’s going on off the pitch, I am still 100% certain that we have a better squad than the one at Ibrox and a better man in the dugout.
We’ve already beaten their club once under the so-called superstar boss and if we get our act together and start putting together some form, we’ll be champions when this season ends. Our transfer window was shocking, we’re not done on that subject by a long way, but I don’t think theirs was any great shakes either and we’ve got the better squad.
That squad is what will still get us over the line. We’re in a race, we’re in a contest, there is no doubt that’s true, but we’ve still got the tools to finish this job, and Ibrox’s arrogance is always going to be a problem for them and right now it’s through the roof.
Their managers are always full of themselves but this guy, you can tell already, is going to take the God Complex to new heights. That always comes back to bite them, and it can’t wait until it does.
In the meantime, we need to start winning … and then keep winning. We’ll see who the bookies are paying out at the end of the season.
All valid points James but it’s understandable why given the amount of points we’ve given away over the last two months and our apparent difficulty in putting the ball in the net.
I get BR’s style of play isn’t hardly anyone’s cup of tea given how we played in recent seasons but there’s a couple of bit differences
1/ We do make chances including penalties but no one seems able to put the ball in the net
2/ Jota. I didn’t think his loss would be as negatively impactful as it appears to be.
Still the board raked in £25m for him and as much as I hate to say it; it was probably the right decision for the board to take the money.
3/ The shame is the board just won’t replace Jota with some quality investment in other areas of the team.
Palma started well and maybe Kuhn will come onto a game, Kyogo needs an operation and a rest but I still don’t see why if we could get another decent striker we can’t play two up front on occasions.
Tonight has to be the night we change those bookie odds and some pride back in the club. HH
My worry is that with O’Reilly breaking the lines he was playing like a second striker but all to often Kyogo looks totally isolated. Notwithstanding that we had a mid against Killie Hearts and 2nd half against Aberdeen which was posted missing. The performance against Sevco was the benchmark and our mid need to get with it and cut out the across the park stuff which is threatening nobody anymore. And we need a barrowload of goals tonight not just a win
Your right, we need to start winning and pretty quick because at this point we don’t look like doing that!!!! Its just as well we scored in the first minute against Ross County because we halfed and puffed the rest of the game. That lot from Ibrox came close at Celtic Park and we were hanging on against 10 men. Now Aberdeen at Pittodrie, huffed an puffed again (more points dropped). We look totally disjointed these days and keep running out of ideas. Sure we have the majority of the ball ever game we play but when comes down to where it matters (goals) were not cutting it. Chris Sutton is absolutely correct, we are gambling with this title because we didn’t shore up this struggling Celtic side so maybe that lot are genuine favourates.This team hasn’t been the same since Ange Postecoglou left.
Will Sevco win the league ?
On tonight’s Celtic showing – you bet they will…
Pleeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzeeee Sort yourselves out Celtic !