Whatever strategy Lawwell is working to a team picture that stretched to 33 players was released last week which is probably 10 too many
Apart from Sunday’s blemish on Sky Sports News Thomson is about is dull and predictable as it gets with his trademark monotone delivery.
Rodgers will have to decide whether he puts Phillips in for just his third match since January or go to Carter-Vickers for his first match since lasting 45 minutes away to Aberdeen on August 13.
Lampard is on the back of two disastrous spells in charge of Everton and Chelsea but is vain enough to think that he can go up to the My Nan League and surpass the modest achievements of Steven Gerrard.
Over the seasons Celtic fans enjoyed regular spells of Rogic magic, most famously during the 2016/17 season where he found his niche under Brendan Rodgers, those standards never quite returned but 20 or 30 games a season offered much more than most others could produce.
We’re certainly the second best in Scotland- tragic bears wake up to reality after the Denial Decade
The drive for revenge over their enemies was strong but watching second rate players being captained to failure by James Tavernier is forcing some to question how their club is being run.
Despite spending too many mornings in the company of White, Jordan has a decent grasp of what went on in 2012 rather than the Continuity Lie that the former Sky Sports presenter likes to comfort himself with.
The complete absence of an obvious candidate says it all, if some bears can see their club as a basket-case then it will be difficult to find a credible manager that views things any differently.
For some reason the cliches just weren’t matching up last night as Thomson tried to convince viewers that the Ibrox vacancy was highly desirable.
Do I think we could have taken it forward? I definitely think we would have won the league. When we left, we were still four points in front. There is no way they (Celtic) would have come past us.