It's beginning to feel like a recurring theme to a perfectly confusing league campaign.
Almost everywhere you look there’s a manager in a bit of a muddle.
Yes, a couple of late winners got Steven Gerrard and Ange Postecoglou out of jail on a dramatic Sunday, but the men in charge of the big two are making hard work of it nonetheless.
They are not the only ones. True, Jack Ross and Robbie Neilson are taking turns of being king of the castle in Edinburgh.
While both can be satisfied with the gains being made in the capital, not everyone else can be feeling just as content as the domestic game goes back into cold storage.
At Pittodrie, Celtic managed to win a top-flight match away from home for the first time in almost eight months, yet it was almost achieved by accident against an Aberdeen side which also continues to bewilder its own boss.
Languishing in ninth place in the table, things are not exactly going to plan for Stephen Glass.
He chooses to say and do all the same things as if he’s waiting in hope of some dramatic change of fortune rather than doing anything substantive about facilitating it.
The decision to part ways with Derek McInnes - rather than back him with the sort of financial muscle which has been afforded to Glass - is in danger of looking like a major error by chairman Dave Cormack even if there were signs of encouragement in yesterday’s second half.
The truth is, this was a contest which did not deserve its own big Sunday lunchtime billing. A 90-minute ordeal for the viewer and both sets of fans.
That Postecoglou got out of town with all three points will come as a huge relief for those who believe the Aussie is capable of moving the club in the right direction. Yet this was another inexplicably hard slog.
Up against an Aberdeen side which has been in a tailspin for weeks, his players flirted with the idea of tossing away another two points despite an early opener from Kyogo Furuhashi.
The striker’s phenomenal stats continue to make a strong argument for his manager’s judgement even if Celtic’s form and position in mid-table does quite the opposite.
It was another of Postecoglou’s summer recruits, Jota, who stabbed home a late winner just when it seemed this wretched run of results was about to be extended.
Despite failing to turn up for the opening 45 minutes, Aberdeen looked on the verge of taking all three points after Lewis Ferguson levelled the score ten minutes into the second half.
The lack of urgency about Celtic’s play at that critical point in the match was the most alarming feature of all. That Postecoglou attempted to fix this malaise by sending on the lacklustre Albian Ajeti and shifting workaholic Furuhashi to the left flank, did not appear to make any sense.
Nor for that matter did the decision of Glass to substitute Scott Brown, removing him from a midfield battle which he was pretty much winning hands down, even if his legs were cramping up.
Had Brown still been out there, given his vast experience in closing games out, perhaps Tom Rogic may not have bought enough time and space on the edge of Aberdeen’s box to create the winning goal.
A little later, at Ibrox, Gerrard was left in a sweat even though Hibs were reduced to ten men with less than half an hour on the clock when Ryan Porteous allowed the red mist to take over, as he tends to do in this particular fixture.
With his side 1-0 up, Porteous lunged into a reckless tackle on Joe Aribo. On the sidelines, Ross must have rolled his eyes to the heavens.
Just when Kevin Nisbet’s opener had set the stage for Hibs to leapfrog Hearts into pole position, they were a man down and all hands on deck.
Gerrard got there in the end and he celebrated in the centre circle at the end as if the title itself had been won.
It’s another sign of the difficulties with which he’s been wrestling since the season began.
Gerrard has been tying himself in knots over these last few days, cursing his bad luck one minute and complaining that he can’t field a settled starting XI. Then making changes for changes’ sake the next.
He’s been at it since the start of the season, routinely swapping Allan McGregor with Jon McLaughlin in goal and rotating his front three on a game by game basis.
Last week he went out of his way to point out Steve Davis has been the only player available for every one of Rangers’ matches since the start of the season, yet he seems determined to leave the 36-year-old on his bench.
He even jabbed a finger towards his own boardroom last week by pointing out that the club has frozen all transfer activity over the last two windows.
It feels as if Gerrard is starting to realise that he was brought to Glasgow for one reason only.
That the be all and end all for the men in charge of the purse strings was stopping Celtic from winning a tenth successive title.
The board was prepared to throw the kitchen sink at this myopic project but as soon as it was accomplished the spending stopped.
If Gerrard suspects his own ambitions are not being matched at the top of the stairs then it won’t be just his starting XI which feels a little unsettled.
