Kilmarnock’s Derek McInnes remains another potential candidate and this one really would have interested Smith, who was always more than happy to act as a mentor and sounding board for his former player.
All of which points to a club which is running its managerial recruitment process around what is being posted on online message boards and social media sites.
Brendan Rodgers’ arrival in 2016 suddenly made Trebles fashionable with the demand to ‘Stoap Selik’ proving too much for successive Ibrox managers.
The main activity was at the other end of the park with Celtic’s two first half goalscorers the main sources of creativity.
Bitton spent nine years playing for Celtic, well aware of the support that the Green Brigade has for the Palestine movement.
With another SPFL campaign on the brink of collapse Boyd knows that he will almost certainly be looking on at a Celtic title party in the spring time as he takes the trolling from Chris Sutton.
Even for the Gullible & Deluded there seems to be a tipping point- possibly when you are getting told that Rabbi Matondo/Ben Davies/Ridvan Yilmaz isn’t last season’s dud but is actually a key part of this season’s Revolution!
Ibrox CEO James Bisgrove missed out on the sunshine jolly to Cyprus and was reported to have held talks in London with Lampard about the job vacated by Micky Beale.
Since the turn of the year Edgar has been cheering every move from Beale, hailing the coaching genius and subscribing fully to the Brains Behind Gerrard delusion.
Davis looks a completely underwhelming manager, sticking to the party line is going to shorten his honeymoon as Caretaker as anger among fans goes off the radar.