04-10-2014, 01:19
Yeah, but a 2 horse race is still better than 1. There's no glory in it for players when there's no competition at all. Celtic now simply can't attract players who are wanted elsewhere or who want to stay in Scotland for more than a couple of years max. Even their own fans don't give enough of a shit to turn up most of the time. Rangers have suffered from the same ennui too, with players doing just enough and no more for a lot of last season and still easily winning our division. The problem came when we've had to lift ourselves for big matches and now we struggle to do that at all. No worthwhile player looks at that situation and says 'Brilliant, that's for me!'. We've always had the mercenaries, but that's been mixed in with guys who were really up for the fight. Now...not so much of the latter coming in.