Rab's Verdicts on Scottish Football: A Delusional Perspective

Rab from Edinburgh took delusions to new heights on Super Scoreboard on Monday night as he shared his verdicts on Scottish football after he watched his beloved Tribute Act draw 3-3 with Hibs at Easter Road.

With two wins from seven matches for Phil Clement’s exciting young team things are looking ominous for the man that was revered a year ago for being A Proper Football Manager.

While some bears have realised that the win over Celtic was a complete freak, a flash in the pan, the majority would rather hold onto one freaky match and convince themselves that that is the norm with all other results to be disregarded.

Over 20 SPFL matches this season Celtic have picked up 13 more points than Clement’s mob from the same fixtures, that’s on top of winning the SPFL championship in each of the last three seasons as part of winning 20 of the last 25 domestic trophies.

From his voice it seems that Bill enjoyed the ill-gotten gains of the David Murray years when trophies were secured thanks to players recruited on a scheme of disguised remuneration.

The Supreme Court, July 2017 will explain to Bill how those joyful trophy wins were secured.

Even in recent years the Gullible & Deluded have been able to boast about being the Most Successful Club in the World while everyone else pointed and sniggered at the stupidity.

To reinforce that message the 2012 Tribute Act painted the claim across Murray Park and Ibrox, again other laughed at the doubled down delusions.

Which brings us to 2025, Bill probably knows that Celtic won their 119^th trophy last month, they are short odds to take that to 221 by the end of the season.

In order to rank clubs league tables are published, in Scotland Celtic are the best team in the SPFL Premiership with St Johnstone the worst, the other 10 teams are between top and bottom place.

If only there was some sort of team performance ranking system where teams could be placed in order to illustrate who is “a better side” https://t.co/ArBbqQgKGQ pic.twitter.com/NC4OkOjwQG
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Rab: Right, at the moment, Rangers are a better side than Celtic, right? Ah know that it is an ongoing thing with the league and all the rest of it but it was obvious to see, and that’s why Brendan Rodgers is a wee bit upset but Rangers are a better side than Celtic.

Gordon Duncan: When you say that is it purely based on the last game?

Rab: Well obviously the last game, you’ve got to say Gordon, we ran them, we should have won the cup game y’know. Really, to be honest, and Celtic fans I’m sure will look at that and say ‘we were very lucky’. I think what Clement is doing at the moment is brilliant, right. The guy is a Rangers man, he’s dain what he can wae the people there, there are some fantastic football players there, lets just carry on you know.

Rab continued explaining how much he loved the 3-3 exchange of defensive howlers at Easter Road, how brilliant Scottish football is and how the grounds are packed out for every match.

Getting back to Rab’s delusions Marvin Barley could hardly keep a straight face when he was asked his thoughts on ‘Rangers’ being the best team.

Rab sounds like he rarely has contact with the outside world, settling for online interactions to find views and FACTS! that match his own.

Should Celtic beat Dundee United on Wednesday night the gap at the top will stretch to 16 points before his side face Dundee at Dens Park.

Having dropped points away to St Mirren, Motherwell and Hibs over the last fortnight Dundee will fancy their chances of taking something from Thursday’s match.

Whether the Ibrox board can afford to sack their manager is a question often asked but in a few months the loyal bears will be getting asked to renew Season Tickets, other than Rab that one could be a hard sell with Clement fronting the renewal campaign.

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RODGERS CROSSES A LINE WITH BARB AT CELTIC SUPPORTERS

Brendan Rodgers made a serious misjudgement when he criticised the Celtic supporters following the 3-0 win over St Mirren.

The Celtic manager was highly critical of supporters but got two issues and areas badly mixed up.

Around 45,000 fans turned up for the match against St Mirren. With severe weather across many parts of the country, a Sunday kick-off ahead of the big return to work for many and the nature of Thursday’s defeat at Ibrox it was far from an attractive fixture.

For just £12.99 you could watch the match from the comfort of home.

Those that attended the match are the absolute bedrock of the Celtic support. Many might not be the most emotive but they were there and willing the team on, from the Green Brigade it was business as usual, non-stop support from before the first whistle.

Rodgers has clearly been stung by the criticism that followed the 3-0 defeat at Ibrox, more so the nature of the performance than the result on its own, the first defeat after 19 SPFL Premiership matches.

Online there has been stinging and in some cases brutal criticism, as much of the manager and his tactics and especially the use of substitutes.

Those criticising online are largely a different group to the supporters that were inside the ground for the St Mirren match.

In his anger at the personal criticism directed at him since Thursday Rodgers pulled in a couple of smaller issues to criticise the backbone of the Celtic support, the fans that cheered the team onto the park on a bleak January afternoon.

I have a big respect for this group of players, especially when it was 0-0 for the first 20 minutes and when we’d make a backward pass, the crowd would be onto the team.

That cannot happen. When teams come here, they’re going to make it really difficult. You can’t turn up every single week and score three or four in 20 minutes.

Teams are well organised. You have to work the game. So sometimes you have to play a backward pass to change the point of attack.

You only need to look at the facts and how this team plays to know they’re an attacking team.

So when we decide to go back to change the point of attack, clap the players, don’t panic. Don’t start getting on to them. Because we’re trying to get to another level.

The consistency of the team has been incredible, be supportive. And then you get even more out of the team.

That criticism of the fans was misjudged, connecting a chant for Kieran Tierney to criticism of Greg Taylor is the sort of judgement that Cyriel Dessers specialises in. It was off the mark.

Rodgers has never been slow to praise Tierney- those comments have been closer to disrespectful to Taylor than supporters singing about someone that identified closely with the Green Brigade, taking the megaphone a few times.

Asked about Tierney Rodgers could easily have answered that he won’t discuss someone that plays for another club.

Instead he has praised the Scotland defender to the hilt, both as a player and person. It isn’t too hard to join the dots.

There were no loaded questions thrown at Rodgers yesterday, his post match audience didn’t have the capacity to dupe the Celtic boss.

Entering the media room Rodgers had a few issues that he wanted to offload, he could have criticised the online ‘over reaction’ to the defeat at Ibrox but for whatever reasons decided to focus on those that had been inside Celtic Park to see the lead at the top of the table stretched to 13 points.

Rodgers isn’t really the type to compromise but at tomorrow’s media conference for the match against Dundee United he really needs to clear things up.

Those in attendance at the St Mirren match deserve praise not criticism, the online critics can be tackled at any time with the full force of Celtic’s own media team.