Celtic will be looking to give captain Scott Brown one last derby day send-off with a win over Rangers tomorrow afternoon as John Kennedy challenged his squad to pull together and send him off on a high.

As quoted on the Celtic official website, the interim boss has said it would be good to send Brown out on a bit of a high note after such a disappointing season as he prepares to join Aberdeen in a player/coach role next season.

“Certainly, going into the game it would be good for the team to collectively pull together to send the team out in a high. He’s been a real iconic figure in these games and it would be nice for him to have one more before he bows out.

“Football can change very quickly and it’s the same going the other way. With every opportunity, you receive you need to try and make that the turning point. We have to turn it around, and at a club, like Celtic you have to do it as quickly as possible and get back to winning ways. We don’t like being starved of silverware. We’ve been used to success and this season has been very alien for us.

“This next game is about beating Rangers and trying to set our stall out to make this the starting point for the next era for success. We have to do that and get the wheels in motion in terms of how we move forward.”

This season can only really be described as a disaster in all honesty. Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong across the space of the last six or seven months.

Tomorrow is probably about as big a ‘dead-rubber’ you would get in this fixture. But as the old cliche saying goes, there are no dead-rubber games in a derby like this, so it would be nice to send the legendary captain off with a victory tomorrow afternoon.