“I am here to win. For sure we will have our day,” Brendan Rodgers | OneFootball

Brendan Rodgers spoke brilliantly this afternoon, sounding like the manager we had the first time around when he could do no wrong with the Celtic support. That admiration  that the support had for the Irishman contributed significantly to the huge backlash he had to endure when he left for Leicester City.  He understands this himself.

Yet Rodgers has seemed subdued in recent weeks and his side’s performances has mirrored that, causing concern among the support that the title could be lost. Hearing the manager today will certainly raise spirits and optimism that this is going to b a successful season.

Seeing off St Mirren in Paisley was always going to be a tough challenge. Hugh Keevins was saying that he wouldn’t have put two bob on Celtic’s chances of still being in the Scottish Cup at four o’clock this afternoon.

Well, we are in the Scottish Cup and got a decent enough draw, at home to Livingston where theRangers face a tough task of their own, away to Hibs.

Brendan Rodgers took the chance to call out his critics who have been talking down the team and talking up a developing crisis at Celtic. “I don’t think it’s a crisis. It’s obviously a narrative that’s been created outside. But I don’t expect anything less to be honest. We just focus on ourselves.

“We are a winning club. When you’ve won consistently over a number of years, people will look to jump on you and bring you down – and bring me down. I am here to win. For sure we will have our day, and have many days going forward. We’ll get our influential players back and the squad will be very strong to the end of the season. We’ll continue to fight.

“We just have to prove a point to ourselves and our supporters. I think that’s always the best attitude. We are compared to the squad of last season but one, it’s not the same squad as last season, and two, a lot of these players who were starting last season have not been playing all of this season.

“We’ve missed some important players for long periods and we made some changes in the summer. This is a young group of players here who are giving everything, who are looking to develop and improve. I said to the players afterwards that I had great pride in them today.

“It’s a very young team when you take out Joe Hart and Callum McGregor, a very inexperienced group. But how they are reacting and sticking together is very important. There’s a lot of noise around but we continue to win football matches.”

Well said Brendan, very well said.

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