Rookie boss Graeme Murty will leave his derby day preparations to Frank McAvennie.
The Reading legend will be in charge of Mark Warburton’s misfits on Sunday and hoping to escape back to reserve team duty with the arrival of Brother Pedro as soon as possible.
During the week McAvennie suggested that with an early goal Celtic could put eight past Wes Foderingham.
Murty is obsessive about preparation but feels that he can put his feet up now and watch Andy Halliday and Martyn Waghorn respond to the thoughts of McAvennie.
“It’s easy for me,” Murts told STV. “I just show them everything that’s been written about them, how they’ve been written off and Celtic are fantastic and we’re going to get an absolute doing.
“I don’t actually have to motivate them, I just have to say ‘this is what the world thinks about you’.
“You can either listen to the noise or be really close together and go and show them what we’re about. Thankfully, you [in the media] have all done my job for me.”
Murty added: “I’m merely here to make sure the players have the detail on Celtic, have the detail on the occasion, make sure we get all of any extraneous detail out of the way and out of their heads so they can go and focus on being excellent on the pitch.
“It’s difficult, it’s hard but that’s the job. The job is purely to concentrate on the game.”
In three previous derby matches this season Sevco have lost 5-1, 1-0 and 2-1.
Other than the first 20 minutes at Ibrox in December it’s been one way traffic towards the Sevco goal.
If Aberdeen win at home to Motherwell on Saturday Sevco will kick off on Sunday nine points behind the Dons with eleven matches left to ensure a strong second as demanded by Dave King.