I've got nothing against other teams winning, indeed I'm happy enough for everyone to get a turn...it's seeing teams rack up multiple cups since we've won is the sickener for me.

That said, we're not going to end that run in May. There's no point in being a damp squib straight after the semi and come the Monday of the cup final I'll firmly believe because mindless optimism is much more fun the grim reality...but we're not going to beat Celtic. The odds of everything coming together that needs to come together are huge, absolutely huge, and while you have a default 'chance' in any game, there's no logic at all to think it's going to happen.

Celtic are decent by Scottish standards - top 10 post-war, probably - but football is a relative rather than an absolute game and the gap they have to the rest of the country is simply unprecedented, as you'd expect with the equally unprecedented gulf in resources.