What if the treble becomes an annual event for Celtic?

Scottish football rarely gives the impression it has the time, or the inclination, for sober reflection. But Sunday's League Cup final win for Celtic would surely have provided such a moment for even the most impetuous of fans.

Aberdeen? They came. They saw. They quivered.

The side who have been the most consistent threat, if that is the appropriate word, to Celtic in the league over the past few years capitulated at Hampden in a way that was jaw dropping.

Celtic? They came. They saw. They delivered.

A one hundredth major trophy for the club. A first for Brendan Rodgers. But certainly not the last.

It was a landmark day for Celtic. A watershed moment for Aberdeen.

But what about the rest?

Rodgers must still get a twinge of irritation when he thinks about the draw at Inverness earlier in the season which now deprives Celtic of an absolutely flawless start to the domestic season.

Having torn the home team apart, Celtic were defied by a goalkeeper having the game of his life and then got careless to concede a late equaliser.

But, as things stand, the manager is on course to do something that is wonderful for Celtic and terrifying for the rest of Scottish football.

Brendan is odds on to win the treble this season and become only the third manager in Celtic's history, after Jock Stein and Martin O'Neill, to achieve that distinction over the course of the last 129 years.

But there is nothing on the horizon to suggest Rodgers and Celtic won't make the winning of the treble an annual occurence.

Aberdeen and Rangers meet at Ibrox on Saturday with both clubs having at arrived at a crossroads at the same time.

Aberdeen have shown plans for the development of a new stadium in the city with a capacity greater than that at Pittodrie. They will require a team the supporters can believe in before they put additional bums on seats, and clubs who get stronger by improving the quality of their squad while having to pay for a new building are rare.

Rangers' chairman, Dave King, has laid bare the truth of the matter at Ibrox in the meantime.

Rangers have entered a period of austerity where Mark Warburton has all the money he's going to get for the moment and the chairman is taking a critical look at what's going on with regard to performances and the club's activity on the transfer market.

Aberdeen and Rangers are in no fit shape to challenge Celtic for the title or, it would, appear on any other domestic front.

This is great news for the Celtic fans and a concern for the game as a whole.

And there is no quick fix other than Celtic suffering some totally unforseen collapse, or Rodgers going away as quickly as he came, which amounts to the same thing in the eyes of the supporters.

Celtic are pre-eminent, relatively well of and managed by a man who is meticulous in his ways.

Domestically, the club will rule the roost for the forseeable future. But lording it over those incapable of challenging them will only sustain Rodgers' interest for so long.

In the short term it surely makes sense for the club to allow the manager to strengthen the playing squad for European competition.

There have been times in Celtic's Champions League group this season when Rodgers' side have looked as helpless as Aberdeen looked against Celtic on Sunday.

If the domestic programme is something Rodgers continues to negotiate with characteristic thoroughness, he will undoubtedly want to test himself properly as a manager in Europe.

That will mean a little judicious spending. No bids for Lionel Messi, but a Scott Sinclair level of purchase ought not to be out of the question.

This, of course, will have the side effect of making Celtic even more dominant at home.

And the antidote to that happening?

There are times when even I am lost for words!