My early hunch this season is that Celtic are playing a lot better domestically, they got off to a terrible start last year but have picked up two good away wins where they may have faltered last season (Aberdeen and United). They also played well to come back against us at home, something they couldn't do last term. If this ICT side was up against last years Celtic then we would run them a lot closer.
Can we win the league? Of course we can, we just need to avoid complacency unlike last year. We need to avoid all talk about 'special' seasons and we need management to be ruthless in making changes on a game to game basis pre match as well as during. Just because we go out and beat Hearts 2-0, it doesn't mean we automatically have to play the same starting 11 against Kilmarnock the following game.
Getting a game the week after a win shouldn't be seen as a reward, winning the game is the reward, by the Sunday morning it should be forgotten about and we start again for the next with all 11 places up for grabs in training.
We obviously have the players to do it, we just need the mentality to do it, all talk about budgets and squad depth have to be kept to a minimum. If anyone in our ranks doesn't feel capable of winning every game they step out onto the park for then they shouldn't be at the club or management have made a mistake in putting them out there.
I wouldn't care if we finished bottom and got relegated, as long as it wasn't complacency, stubborn management or stupid mistakes keeping us there.