Obvious mission- Celtic stalwart quickly resets the target

Joe Hart has quickly nudged the focus of Celtic’s season back to the SPFL. 

There will be no treble for Ange Postecoglou, the achievement that Celtic managed just once between 1970 and 2015. They don’t come along as often as some fans think. 

The Scottish Cup defeat at Hampden was a massive disappointment, the culmination of a number of factors that can’t be resolved in a post-mortem. 

Hart has experienced everything that the English and international game has to offer and now has to assist a very new look Celtic squad through five more matches- without dwelling on the issues from Hampden on Sunday. 

Picking up on an interview with Celtic TV, The Herald reports Hart saying: 

At the end of the day, we have stuff to play for, we’ve got supporters to show up for, we’ve got a club to represent and just because we have lost this game that won’t change.

It was a tough game. We had chances to put them away, we didn’t take them and ultimately that’s the story of the game.’

There’s still plenty to play for. We put on a good show but not a great showing to win the game. Over the course of the season, we still have stuff to fight for and we are looking forward to that fight.

We just learn from it, it’s as simple as that, there’s nothing more we can do – we can’t take it back or replay the game. We are out of the cup so we can only learn from it and use it as fuel to go on.

We’ve got an obvious mission between now and the end of the season and we want to complete that.

The obvious mission is to take seven points from their next three SPFL matches to clinch the title at the earliest opportunity. 

That run of fixtures does include a Glasgow derby but to maintain the focus on the obvious mission Hart knows that full points away to Ross County on Sunday is a must.