We're not robots, it hurts, but we have winners who can bounce back

RALSTON'S RALLYING CRY FOR CELTS

- By FRASER WILSON

AS part of a senior group inside the dressing-room at Celtic, Anthony Ralston has been programmed for success.

But for all the trophies he's gathered up alongside skipper Callum McGregor and James Forrest, the club's most decorated player of all time, the right-back insists they're not robots.

They are hurting right now. And badly.

Reeling from the pain of a spectacular turn of events that have seen the Hoops malfunction to a point it's not a question of Trebles this season...

It's wondering if Celtic will win anything at all.

You have to go back almost 50 years for a run as bad as the one that has marked Wilfried Nancy's arrival in Glasgow as manager.

He's lost all four of his games in charge and fans, already seething at the board on a weekly basis, have added the new man in the dugout to their hitlist after just two weeks at the helm.

The sights and sounds at the Tannadice away end in midweek, as Celtic cheaply gave up a lead for a fourth-straight defeat, confirmed a club teetering on a crisis.

This afternoon's visit of Aberdeen offers a chance to start reversing the slide.