SPFL Premiership Season Preview 2017/18

In a departure from previous seasons (where the whole preview went up in one block), a choice has been made for brevity, a word never before used to describe this site, and to have one Preview hub with links to club by club breakdowns.



Breakdowns were certainly the order of the day last season - be it Rangers breaking down after going for, but getting nowhere near, 55; Hearts breaking down after the radical restructuring in the winter didn’t pay off; Richie Foran just breaking down or Celtic breaking down history to complete the invincible treble.

Unsurprisingly, much of the early part of the summer break has been ruminations along the theme of dominance - from the obvious “was Celtic’s history breaking run a good thing” to the ridiculous “Celtic should be further ahead” from Dave King.

Few would predict Celtic will put together such an impossible record two seasons in a row. At that point, for a start, Celtic’s dominance would begin to transcend the entire league. There is nothing wrong with making the impossible possible, but making the impossible probable makes it a bit less special.

Keeping Celtic in sight, never mind challenging them, will be a central theme of the season but, even in advance, we can see plenty of stories waiting to play themselves out. To quickly go over these, that will all be explored in far greater depth in the individual club pieces, they range from:

Celtic trying to be Twinvincibles

Celtic in Europe

The end of the Cycle

Is Pedro Caixinha another Paul le Guen

Can Cathro redeem himself

Can Lennon prove himself all over again

Can St Johnstone still maintain 4th

Can County truly replace Liam Boyce

Can Lee McCulloch recruit

Is this the season Accies finally go down…

Etc, etc ad infinitum. It is almost impossible to look at the coming SPFL Premiership season and not see depth in every story and more layers than a giant onion.

So, this page will act as a hub for all the individual club pages. Links to each are below and, should you feel inclined, you can share either this hub page or the individual club pages.

Without further ado…

Aberdeen: Restarting the Cycle http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163369772506/spfl-201718-season-preview-aberdeen-restarting

Celtic: To Improve on Perfection http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163369909096/spfl-season-preview-201718-celtic-to-improve

Dundee: From the Studio to the Sideline

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370055121/spfl-201718-season-preview-dundee-from-the

Hamilton Accies: A Bridge Too Far?

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370184856/spfl-201718-season-preview-hamilton-academical

Hearts: Second Chance Season

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370348101/spfl-201718-season-preview-hearts-second

Hibs: Back In The Big Time

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370478796/spfl-201718-season-preview-hibernian-back-in

Kilmarnock: Settled at last? http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370597591/spfl-201718-season-preview-kilmarnock-settled

Motherwell: Get Last Season Tae…

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370695926/spfl-201718-season-preview-motherwell-get-last

Partick Thistle: End of the Cycle?

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163370997231/spfl-201718-season-preview-partick-thistle-the

Rangers: Hope from the Hopeless

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163371276586/spfl-201718-season-preview-rangers-hope-from

Ross County: Have the Stars left their Sky?

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163371356831/spfl-201718-season-preview-ross-county-have

St Johnstone: So, Fourth, yeah?

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163371487956/spfl-201718-season-preview-st-johnstone-so