RESETTING THE SCENE

Season has been a mess but Celts need to start afresh.. and again it'll be up to their go-to Bhoys to do the heavy lifting

- >> CHRIS SUTTON

CELTIC have been in constant chaos since this season started.

Bad planning, stuttering displays, infighting and fans fuming but the line has to be drawn right now.

On the park it's time for reset, almost start afresh. And it's going to need the regular go-to men to spark them because, unfortunately for those lads, that's the pressurised situation they have been dumped into.

I don’t need to go over old ground regarding what has gone on since the summer as we all know the story.

Quite frankly it’s been a mess leading to supporters staging protests and having meetings with the hierarchy.

Through it all, despite being nowhere near it, Celtic has managed to win five and draw the other two of their seven Premiership games to sit just two points off leaders Hearts, a team everyone has been raving about.

But Celtic can't keep scraping by. It'll catch up with them, especially going into a key period which is going to have a massive say in their season. They have to lift it.

The fact the squad is not in the top form and wasn't properly strengthened is deeply frustrating to their punters.

That's down to a recruitment policy which was incomprehensible. At the same time, it's done. The squad is the squad until the New Year and now they are going to have to somehow successfully deal with a monumental period.

Given the situation I feel it’s going to fall on to the tried and tested from the recent past - Callum McGregor, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Daizen Maeda, Liam Scales, Reo Hatate, Alistair Johnston, boys who have been over the course.