Hard as it is to believe from the coverage, this is not a Celtic team in crisis.

When you look across Celtic cyberspace right now, it’s almost hard to believe that we’re sitting atop the table with a 13-point lead. The League Cup is already in the bag, the Champions League campaign — which was better than many of us expected — is comfortably behind us, and we’re staring down the prospect of the Scottish Cup to complete a domestic treble.

One of the problems is that so much of Celtic cyberspace is dominated by mainstream media outlets and their versions of fan blogs — like The Celtic Way and other publications I’ve highlighted recently. You know the sort, people who think Kris Boyd — The Village Idiot — is the font of all wisdom in the land and should be quoted as he attacks half the Celtic first-team squad.

I mean, the day we’re listening to him is a bad day. The day we really start listening to him, we’re in a proper mess. And right now, we are not in a bad place. We’ve had a couple of disappointing results, but any suggestion that we’re in some sort of collapse, or that this whole team needs ripped out and rebuilt, simply does not wash.

I’ve said that I don’t fear a summer rebuild — but does that mean I think we need one? No. We need a few players in key positions. We need a dominant, ball-winning midfielder. We need a better central defender. We need a reliable back-up striker. We need a quality wide man to cover for Maeda on the wing. And we need left-back cover. If we trade out players in some of those positions — say we lose Hatate and bring in the ball-winner — that’ll probably be satisfactory.

But the suggestion that this team, which is still on the brink of a treble, needs to be completely ripped up and rebuilt? That’s not just wide of the mark — that’s hysterical. Hysterical. And it bears no resemblance to reality whatsoever.

Put simply, hard as it may be for some to believe, we’re not actually in crisis. This club is as strong as it was at the start of the year — and at the start of the year, it was as strong as we’ve ever seen it. This club has Scotland’s best squad by a country mile, and the best manager by a country mile. The players being targeted right now are easy targets — from a media desperate to scapegoat as many of them as possible and sow as much dissent as they can get away with.

Three signings in particular — players the manager brought in last summer — have been getting stick almost from the moment they arrived. Trusty, Engels, and Idah. You’d never think that Trusty had played in the English Premier League. You’d never think that Arne Engels was signed from the Bundesliga with a sky-high reputation. You’d never think that Idah had worked miracles for us at the end of last season and turned in some fine performances in this one. You’d never guess that he’d proven himself a big-game player — at Ibrox, at Hampden, and in the Champions League.

Does it really only take a handful of bad performances and bad results before people convince themselves we’re back to square one again?

Engels has been excellent for months — not just good, excellent. But because he plays in one of those no-frills positions that doesn’t hog the headlines, you get geniuses like The Village Idiot claiming he should be doing “more.”

More than what, exactly? If these people had any inkling of what he actually does that would be one thing … but they don’t. This is a young kid growing into his game, into this team, into his role — and doing it very well.

Yes, we’ve lost a few games since the turn of the year. But at the turn of the year, we were so far ahead in the league that the Ibrox club couldn’t see us for dust.

If some of the players have taken their foot off the gas, that’s only because in the first half of the campaign — and for the whole of the previous calendar year — we had set such phenomenally high standards.

Don’t forget that we’re not being judged against the standards of the rest of this league — because if we were, the league lead would reflect just how dominant we’ve been. We’re being judged against our own standards, the standards we’ve set in the course of this campaign, with these same players.

Of course The Village Idiot and his ilk are going to claim that this is a Celtic team that’s underperforming, that this team isn’t living up to the hype that surrounded it earlier in the campaign. But that hype was fully justified — fully earned — not just in terms of performances, but in results and the league table. Naturally, those who aren’t of a Celtic persuasion are going to come after us right now, because we do look like we’re stumbling a little as the finish line approaches.

But come on — this narrative of crisis? It’s more than a bit overblown.

And yes, I think there are lessons to be learned by the coaching staff. I think a change in style, a change in approach — maybe even a change in formation — wouldn’t be the worst idea right now.

I highlighted last night that Rodgers is a manager who will make changes when he feels he has to. Only those who weren’t paying attention at the weekend could have missed him saying clearly that he has to look at his own performance, what he’s doing, and what he could do better. The influence is clear — this is a guy taking stock, considering all the options.

It’s good to do a little introspection when form has fallen off a bit. It’s good for everyone at Celtic Park to be sitting down and analysing what they could be doing better — not just the manager, not just the players, but the whole club.

But we’re two days into the week now, and I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of wearing the hair shirt.

I’m tired of the doom-and-gloom narrative already. It does not reflect reality. This is still a good team. This is still a great manager. And those things together are still more than capable of powering us through the rest of this season in a manner befitting the Celtic side that got us here in the first place.

We’ve had to postpone a title party, that’s all. That title party will still take place. And on the day it does, all of this will be irrelevant. On the day we stand at Hampden and watch this team win the Scottish Cup to complete a domestic Grand Slam and write another page in the history books, it won’t even be a distant memory.

No media narrative of any kind will turn this triumphant campaign into a disaster then — not unless it ends in one. And it won’t.