Rangers are planning a renewed challenge to Celtic this season.
For Celtic fans it is a little like Groundhog Day, Rangers appoint a new coach and plan to win the Scottish Premiership.
Rangers have to believe this time it will work, while Celtic would be forgiven for not taking them seriously.
Complacency is the one thing they must avoid, and Brendan Rodgers will not want to be embarrassed by his former player and new Gers boss Steven Gerrard.
Ever since Rodgers took over, Celtic have been unassailable.
They have been fitter than the opposition, and simply better.
Rodgers’ experience competing at the top end of the English Premier League gave his approach a real intensity, and Rangers bosses Mark Warburton, Pedro Caixinha and Graeme Murty have been unable to match it.
In appointing Gerrard, Rangers might have found the key to toppling Celtic.
Gerrard has spent two decades competing at an elite level with Liverpool, and brings with him highly rated coaches Michael Beale, Gary McAllister and Jordan Milsom.
The trio know the high standards required to be successful, and are bringing their high standards to Rangers already, with a gruelling fitness camp in Spain, designed to test and improve the players.
Rodgers’ advantage of being better equipped for the modern game has been negated by Rangers bringing in Liverpool legend Gerrard.
Rangers might fall short, Gerrard is unproven after all, but the Gers might just also be onto something, and could have found the ingredient they have been lacking to really stand up to Celtic.
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