Celtic Fans Must Be Laughing At The Ibrox Captain’s Latest Big Talk On The Title.

They never learn, do they? The Ibrox players never learn. Always, no matter the situation, they have to mouth off. Their disrespect for other clubs is unreal. This morning it’s Captain Marvel from over there, Tavernier (Penalty), saying they will win the six games that are left. Is he serious? What contempt that shows for every other side.

Now, look, every team in a title race talks its chances up. But I find when you have to keep on telling people that you have “the right mentality” that says something. If the doubt exists then there’s a reason for that, isn’t there? Our own mentality has been questioned this season, but not one of our players has felt the need to constantly bang on about it.

You know why? Cause the allegation that we have a weak mentality is manifestly ridiculous. Most of our players have been over the course before. This is essentially last season’s players we’re doing this with, a weakened version of last season’s team. And the thing about that is that those players won a domestic treble. They know how to win. They know they can.

Tavernier and his team are ever wracked with self-doubt.

“We go into every game trying to win the game, nothing changes there,” he said. “We are obviously going into these six games and win every single game, that’s the (club) mentality to win games. We go to win games in Europe so nothing changes there. We obviously have to earn the right to deliver the performance that we know that we can.”

Ibrox making big predictions. Nothing changes there. Tavernier (Penalty) talking rubbish. Nothing changes there. Their team goes out to win games. Wow. What a great insight into their “mentality” that is. I thought every team went out to win every game.

Let’s look at what they are talking about here though; winning six games in a row, including all five after the split. It’s not impossible. But only one club has done it since the split was introduced. That was us, and we’ve done it three times.

Their club never has. Not once. They haven’t won at Celtic Park since Gerrard was boss, and not in front of our home crowd for even longer than that. But this team of theirs, which looks out on its feet, is going to win six league games straight?

When presented with questions about their mentality he had this to say; “I think we have shown it plenty of times, the mentality.” Ask their fans about that, and listen to what they have to say. You’ll hear the words “loser mentality” and “bottler” a lot.

Celtic fans love this stuff from these guys. How often did we hear it in the last two years? Other than the COVID campaign, when they didn’t have the pressure of having to play in front of any fans, they have never lived up to all the big talk.

Their own fans excoriate this guy every day on social media now, and there are questions as to whether he and Goldson and others should be retained next season, although, as I wrote yesterday, there’s little interest in either of them when they are earning the sort of stupid money they are on.

I hope our players express their confidence, but make it clear about that they recognise that the hard work that will have to be put in by every player as we advance down the road towards the title. Confidence is great. We always avoid sounding arrogant, and I hope it stays like that. The manager exuded confidence this weekend, but he’s been doing that for the last two months when the media was calling it false bravado. What do they call it now?

We are entitled to have a good snigger at Ibrox trying to put a good face on this stuff. Two wins in the last seven games does not suggest blistering form or the phony “momentum” we’ve heard so much about. Tavernier sounds like a man trying to convince himself more than anything else … and that’s worth a laugh or two. Nothing changes there.