Ange Postecoglou blanked Celtic title talk after watching his side restore their nine-point lead over Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premiership as he insisted his champions can get even better.
The Aussie praised his players for overcoming a testing McDiarmid Park pitch to put on a show with Andy Considine’s own goal, Kyogo, Aaron Mooy and David Turnbull goals earning a thumping win. Considine was sent off in stoppage time on his 600th senior club appearance for the home side who had a glimmer of hope when Drey Wright’s screamer pulled them back into it briefly after conceding two early goals.
The travelling legions chanted about another title success but Postecoglou was cool when asked about the league. He said: "I'm not interested in that, not thinking about that because I think for us what's worked really well what's been really important is that we don't look too far ahead.
"It's not just about a week at a time, we're looking at a day at a time. I still think we want to keep improving and getting stronger. I think we have and we are with every performance I think we're just getting a little bit stronger and we've got a really strong squad.
"We've got a really strong squad, we've got guys that didn't even play today some weren't even in the squad who are going to be massive contributors for us. From our perspective, we're certainly not going to be sitting here trying to put a ceiling on what we can achieve this year.”
Mooy produced another superb display in the middle of the park but Postecoglou said: “There's more to come from all of them - there's no reason for them to stay where they are or to be content with what they've done so far. All of them should improve and want to improve... my role is to make sure they do."
On the conditions, he said: “They weren’t easy, particularly the pitch. We had to overcome that and not steer too far away from our football. We did that and because of the nature of the game, and the pitch, we had to defend and I thought we did that really well too which was good to see and we scored four good goals.
“As the game wore on the pitch got more and more cut up which meant there was going to be more mistakes and hard for us to move the ball quickly but some our football was excellent and getting the early goals helped us get a foothold in the game.
“It was disappointing to concede the goal we did but we reacted to that in the right manner. We gave the ball away cheaply in the midfield which we spoke about before the game, on this pitch, but I don’t want to take anything away from what was a great strike.”
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