Evolution is the way forward for Celtic, we are not the same prospect we were at the start of last season

In February 2019, Celtic ground out a result against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park which would define that season.

Scott Brown scored in injury time and sent the away end into raptures.

His exuberant celebrations ended up with him receiving a red card for a second bookable offence.

Not that he cared at that point, but if Celtic hadn’t won that game, the Ibrox club would have closed the gap at the top to 6 points.

Celtic were heading into a tough round of away fixtures after the upcoming home game against Motherwell, which would turn out to be Brendan Rodgers last game in charge.

That game was followed by tough away fixtures against Hearts and Aberdeen.

At the outset of this article, I said Celtic ground out their result against Kilmarnock, but if truth be told, we had been grinding results out for quite some time before that game.

His steadfast refusal to change them was becoming a bit frustrating for our support and sometimes the tippy tappy football he insisted on playing was hard to watch.

We were consistently being found out in Europe using this system.

We had just been knocked out of the Europa League with barely a whimper against Valencia, before Rodgers headed South to Leicester City.

Neil Lennon maintained the status quo, changing very little of what Rodgers had implemented and despite the continued grinding out of results, we won the league pretty comfortably in the end.

His refusal to change Celtic’s way of playing, combined with poor training practices, ended up with us mounting no challenge whatsoever in the 10 in a row season of 2020/21.

Realistically, Celtic didn’t evolve during that period, they devolved and that was what ultimately led to the clubs complete capitulation in 2020/21.

He is clearly aware that