It's nine months since Steven Gerrard waxed lyrical about fixing roofs while the sun was shining and not waiting for problems to appear.
The then Rangers manager - standing before us as a champion to be fair - was talking about the early arrivals of Scott Wright, Jack Simpson, Fashion Sakala and Nnamdi Ofoborh to bolster the ranks for their title defence.
It was a brilliant soundbite. Gerrard was never short of them to his credit.
But it’s maybe just as well the 55-delivering boss is now away inspecting the slates at Aston Villa.
Because on Wednesday night that roof he was talking about at Ibrox looked like it was about to well and truly cave in on Rangers.
Blown-away by a hurricane of intensity from a Celtic side driven by a new manager with nine new signings in the starting XI compared to a Rangers side containing just a single starter who wasn’t part of last year’s title triumph.
Gerrard’s vow about “it’s always about fixing the roof when the sun is shining rather than waiting for problems” has been turned right on its head.
The truth of the matter is Rangers recruitment for the past three windows has been nowhere near good enough and right now looks like it’s set to cost them their title and the £40m Champions League group stage spot that goes with it.
That criticism may be premature on this winter version especially after they blew the top off deadline day with the arrival of Aaron Ramsey on loan.
Fair play to deadline day and Rangers on that one - it’s proper theatre and the arrival of Ramsey is certainly box office.
But is the Welsh wizard - deemed not fit enough to take the banch against Celtic - going to be enough to transform Gio van Bronckhorst’s side for the 14-game run-in?
Put the two rivals’ recruitment over the last two windows side by side and you get the picture.
For Celtic: Joe Hart, Liel Abada, Kyogo Furuhashi, Carl Starfelt, Josip Juranovic, Jota, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Liam Scales, Giorgios Giakoumakis, James McCarthy, Liam Shaw, Osaze Urhoghide, Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate, Yosuke Ideguchi, Johnny Kenny, Matt O’Riley.
At Rangers: Fashion Sakala, Nnamdi Ofoborh, John Lundstram, Juninho Bacuna, Charlie McCann, Juan Alegria, James Sands, Amad Diallo, Mateusz Zukowski. And of course Ramsey.
Among those Ibrox acquisitions are three midfielders - one on big bucks who has made zero impact in six months in Govan, one who hasn't kicked a ball because of an underlying health issue and another who was so bad he's already been moved out.
John Souttar will arrive in the summer.
How they could be doing with him in light blue this weekend rather than maroon to help patch up a defence that in the last three games has conceded more than half the number of goals they did in 38 matches last season.
Time will tell if failing to stump up the half million to Hearts to bring Souttar in now was another mistake.
Rangers’ signing record over the past four windows has been nowhere near good enough.
This season they’ve been left relying on the men who hit an all-time peak last season and who now find themselves suffering an ill-timed collective dip in form.
The big problem being there’s nobody in reserve ready to step in and fill voids such as the absence of Alfredo Morelos at Parkhead. And that's inexcusable.
Last year’s sensational surge to the title was driven by men who had been in the building long before the season began - Allan McGregor, Steven Davis, James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, Ryan Kent, Glen Kamara, Morelos.
Only one of them stepped up to the plate at Parkhead. And thank goodness McGregor was wearing orange.
Because that makes it entirely accurate to say in that first 45 minute Parkhead pummelling everyone in blue failed including the much-heralded Amad Diallo who looked every bit a player who only has 16 professional appearances to his name.
All that being said there’s only a point in it at the top. Fourteen games to go including two more Old Firms.
For the first time in over a decade it looks like there’s a genuine race to the line.
Rangers better hope Ramsey’s arrival sparks a dramatic upturn in standards.
Otherwise there will be very little sunshine when those roof repairs come around again in May.
