Title already slipping for Rangers?
Just two games into the new season, and questions are being asked about Rangers.
Russell Martin's side are still searching for their first Premiership win, following two draws against Motherwell and Dundee FC – the latter of which saw Nasser Djiga receive a red card.
Languishing in mid-table, four points adrift of joint-leaders Celtic and Hearts, Rangers look a long way from convincing challengers.
Up next is a visit to St Mirren, which is rarely an easy task, unhelpfully wedged between a Champions League play-off tie with Club Brugge.
Cyriel Dessers picked up a knock in the second leg of Rangers' laboured win over Viktoria Plzen last week, which gives Russell another issue to address.
Celtic could go seven clear
On the other side of Glasgow, Celtic have wasted no time in setting the pace of this season's title race.
Two wins from two have them level with Hearts at the top, and the reigning champions are already in a position to stretch clear before the first Old Firm clash at the end of the month.
An expected win over Livingston, combined with another Rangers falter, could see the Celts go seven points clear by 31 August.
Celtic haven't exactly charged out of the blocks, but two steady early victories have established a familiar tone.
For Rangers, it's hardly an insurmountable margin, but watching their bitter rivals begin to pull away so soon is a sobering prospect.
Hearts or Hibs for a top-two finish?
You have to go back to 2017/18 to find a Premiership table that doesn't feature both Celtic and Rangers in the top two positions.
It was Aberdeen who claimed second that year, but there could be a case for Hearts or Hibernian to disrupt the Glaswegian supremacy this term.
Hearts are level on points with Celtic, and eye-catching wins over Aberdeen and Dundee United might suggest Derek McInnes' side are capable of testing the duopoly.
Hibs, too, have reason for optimism. With four points from six, there is a quiet belief at Easter Road that they could force themselves into an exciting position after claiming third last term.
Whether either Edinburgh club have the depth to sustain that challenge is another thing, but the small sample of evidence from the opening fortnight suggests a top-two finish may not be out of the question.
(Editor's note: Hibernian's match against Falkirk has been postponed.)