Which Team In Scotland Can Actually Stop Us?

[TMB 14,167]

St.Johnstone

[cumnockbear 2,446]

Agree with the above...depending on who we sign in summer I may agree with the strike through!

They are beatable though, it's 11 v 11 at the end of the day, Celtic are no Barcelona, they're the best of a poor bunch in the Scottish league..... That is all.

[delamonty 992]

Hearts are doing ok .. And we are light years better than we were last year.. Have Hearts improved as much as we have? Anyway... I see moments of brilliance and moments of heartache in the next year. 2 years from now.. I expect us to win the top league.

Agree that we would be bullied by the 'top' teams in the 'premier' league..

[Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 299]

St Johnstone?

[rosco88 66]

bit of an extreme reaction buddy

True mate, hate being thought of as one of them though ? you have my apology (I think) ?

[MasterD 7,435]

[centenarystand 2,227]

Once we sort out the defence and stop conceding every other game then let the lunatics start these moronic threads.

[Johnny Dangerously 7,562]

As others have said, Killie will be a good test. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[loyalfollower 1,543]

You can't measure how good we are compared to the top teams on cup runs. On that basis Oxford are better than Swansea. Only highlights I see of hearts Aberdeen etc is their goals and it's not great viewing- it's almost like Sunday league punts or mccoist football

[.Williamson. 82,400]

You probably owned a Celtic top at some point

[markem 7,287]

I think the way we set up we could beat any team in Scotland however for the same reasons I also think on the day a few could give us a hiding.

[50ShadesofBlue 667]

Lets come back to this after the Kilmarnock game.

[RFC55 109,065]

Lets come back to this after the Kilmarnock game.

After a decent 4-0 win

We will fuck Killie

[allgers 735]

As we have found out through the years cup games can make a fool of any team, we have lost cup games to much inferior opposition in days when we had a team full of international stars, Killie might come with tactics to beat us, but I doubt it, if we lose it will be because some part of our game is off, as ever it's all about the Rangers.

[6superbarry6 14,159]

Getting a bit ahead of ourselves we're still far too slack and open at the back and would be punished against better sides imo we still need 2 center backs,probably 2 center mids one defensive and a wide right who can both create and score goals or move Waggy there permanently and sign a striker,we've improved massively yes but still far from the finished article we'd struggle against the Sheep,Hertz and the Taigs just now imo but we're definitely heading in the right direction and no doubt we'll be back at the top before long

[Bakbear 3,586]

I am all for keeping our feet on the ground but as others have said, Hearts were not a million miles ahead of us last year at our worst and I don't see that they have progressed that much since then, whereas we are light years ahead of where we were

Over the course of a league season I think we could hold our own against them or Aberdeen.

The filth, maybe not quite yet. But we are not far away

[gmcf 34,263]

I think consistency could be a big problem once we get to the premier league , where every game will be tough.

I fancy our chances against anyone in a one off , but I don't think we're at the stage yet , where I think we would be beating teams 4/4 in a season like we did before.

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,752]

No one on our first half form. Plenty on our second half form.

We can be sensational or awful, and need consistency

[AlBear. 8,499]

There's not a team like the Glasgow Rangers. No, not one and there never shall be one.

[Gaz52 11,837]

IMO Celtic would destroy us.

I think on any given day, us playing our best we would beat anyone else - but I don't think we are at the level yet that we would beat the likes of Hearts and Aberdeen on a regular basis like the days of old.

We will get there, though.

celtc had a better team last year and it only finished 2-0 against by far the worst Rangers side in history with no manager... They definitely wouldn't destroy us

[Moody Blue 9,395]

I think part of our issue is we are HATED by them all so each one of them will raise their game against us, We'll have to put up with that (as it always has been), which includes the mhanky mob as e.g. Ross County, Hamilton or St. Johnstone's of this world will raise their game against us far more than they ever do against the other lot. That's what makes the mentality of a Rangers player so much more than anyone else.

Over a season, this team would finish mid-table, we need a bit more physicality about us so when games are close we can get over the line, we're still a bit lightweight across the park.

[Pure_Quality 3,295]

I haven't watched a full 45 minutes of a game featuring a Scottish team other than Rangers since Division 3, so it's difficult to say where we are in relation to other SPL sides like Aberdeen etc.

However, we went into the St Johnstone game with a hubris that we were going to go unbeaten through the year, win a treble etc and we were badly, badly beaten.

I think we're better now than Hearts were last year when they beat us comprehensively in the league. Given that, I'd expect us to be ahead of wherever they are in the league this year, and with some good, clever strengthening we should be able to push on quite significantly.

Massive positive improvements made, but not a Premiership winning team at the moment IMO.

[Da Kool Blue 139]

Until we are playing regularly against top tier ( ) professional teams, it's really hard to say.

[gazza27 15,283]

Always baffles me how anycunt would sit and watch them play,fucking vermin

[BlueGates 406]

celtc had a better team last year and it only finished 2-0 against by far the worst Rangers side in history with no manager... They definitely wouldn't destroy us

They never got out of first gear last year.