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Celtic Meltdown Explained | Scotland Friendly Opponents & Squad Talk · Scots With A Mic

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Listen to the noise. Listen to the passion in hand
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and path. It's John again.
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It's Donnie's. Let's me.
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Oh yeah, the green dump by the fish chance.
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The one for Scotland. Hello and welcome back to the
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Scots for the Mic Podcast. It's great to have you back on.
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It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks in Scottish football
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that's seen a lot of turbulence for a lot of clubs, most notably
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Celtic. I'm joined by Celtic fan Niall
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Kavanaugh and Aaron Mackintosh to discuss everything that's
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been going on. How are you both?
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Good. Thank you.
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Yeah, very good. I'm not a Celtic fan.
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Just to make sure that. You wanted.
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You wanted. My like I was a.
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Celtic fan. As well, Yeah, we've got wreath
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Rovers of fan iron on, so we can start quickly by going over the
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would you call it a disaster class at Celtic, Obviously
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Wolford nonsense coming into the job, 4 losses in a row, first
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time that's happened since 1978. Yeah, it's been a, it's been a
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terrible start for Wolford, Nancy.
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It's just it's never really got going.
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He came in and said that, you know, I had a quick chat with
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Martin O'Neill, I'm not going to change anything.
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And then he's implemented his feet at the back and it's just
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been an absolute disaster. Yeah, I mean, his press
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conferences haven't been that much better as well.
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Obviously some comments turn in the heads of Celtic fans said he
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doesn't need to prove anything to anyone, which I think in
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football, especially Scottish football, a club like Celtic,
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you definitely do. And on social media, obviously
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that infamous new profile picture, if you've not seen it,
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then it's a Venn diagram of things you can control, things
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you care about, and it's what you should focus on in the
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middle. So what were your thoughts on
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all the the press conferences and media?
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To be fair, I think sometimes he gets a little bit maybe lost in
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translation. But yeah, they saying that he
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doesn't have to prove anything to anyone, to me was that was a
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major red flag because he clearly does at at the time you
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said that it was free defeats and at all it's No 4 defeats and
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at all. So he does clearly need to prove
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something and is watching every game.
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He's not shown me anything that I can get behind.
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He's not proved anything. I think his tactics are a bit.
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There's certainly question marks over them, over these tactics.
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I mean, the players don't look like they know what they're
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doing. They touched off night there
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about Callum McGregor at least four or five times.
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Again is getting pulled over to the dugout and then she's giving
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them instructions. So it looks like to me the
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players don't even know what to do.
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Another noticeable point is, and it was last night at Tani Dice,
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is he's very animated on the touchline.
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If he waves his hands about a lot and it like gives a lot of
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instructions. And I was looking at the players
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when she was doing it and not one of them, not one of the
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players were looking at them. So that to me is a major sign
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that I don't think the players believe and what he's trying to
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coach. Yeah, horrible results.
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Obviously first starting with with Hearts at Celtic Park, that
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was going to be a tough one coming straight into the role.
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I think you had one training session maybe before that, maybe
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2, so you could maybe give him that.
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But then obviously the the result in the League Cup final
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most notably where Celtic for the maybe the majority game,
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fair to say were second best. Stephen Robinson obviously
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winning his first major trophy after losing 2 Celtics against 2
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finals against Celtic as as Motherwell manager.
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Were you watching that one, Aaron?
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And what did you, what have you made of his time so far?
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Yeah, I was watching. I've watched Sunday's game.
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I actually watched all four games, to be honest with you
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that he's been in charge. It's yeah, it's it's so funny to
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as a neutral to see this happen to a big team.
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And I'm so sorry to say that to you on on a podcast as well.
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It's it's well to to to Celtic and Rangers this season as well.
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I. Know yeah, it it no as a as a
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lower league supporter, you know, it's good to see the
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bigger guys, you know, being a little bit of pain, you know,
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because we've been in pain and we've had so many things happen,
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financial issues, you know, you you see it and you're keen that
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happen to them that yes, this is this is payback for domination
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and stuff like that. So it's great.
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But yeah, Sunday in particular, I think if there was one team
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Celtic did not want to face at that point was probably St.
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Mirren, just because you see what they've been like against
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Celtic this season. Very hard to beat, even though
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it's been they've won more games very, very late on.
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I think the first one was 89th minute and the other one was
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95th minute in both games. So, and you can tell what we're
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going to do. I think, you know, they are the
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people say they're a little bit of an interactive team.
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I think they played good football, to be honest.
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I think they play as good as it was you can possibly get for a
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budget they've got, yeah, and a squad size they've got.
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And I think that they were the best team on the pic.
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There was only one team that was going to win that cup.
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I think they wanted it more. I think they wanted it a lot
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more. I mean, 1st St.
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Mirren, that's I think the fifth major trophy in what is 149 year
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history, something crazy like that.
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Yeah, yeah. Whereas Kel McGregor sitting on
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8 league cups just itself. So I think if you put it into
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comparison, it's obviously Celtic fans will care.
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Yeah, they said to me, yeah, exactly.
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That it'll just be another, another piece of silver, another
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like, you know, like. Yeah, I mean like.
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You're on the year on the board. Yeah, obviously Celtic fans will
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care. I think they'll care more about
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the embarrassment of the loss rather than not getting the
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silverware from Saint Mirren. That whole squad, well you know,
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Michael Mann drawn top, top scorer in the whole competition,
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He will be looked upon as a St. Mirren legend.
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And I think Stephen Robinson put it best where, you know, he said
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you won't get life changing money at Saint Mirren but you
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can be a cult hero. You can be one of these guys
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that in Paisley and across Scotland for Saint Mirren
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supporters, you will be remembered as a hero.
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Yeah, absolutely. And I think you just seen the
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scenes of celebration in Paisley.
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Just I think everybody was out. I don't even know if they were
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also. Everyone was in Vienna.
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Everybody was everywhere. Time Membership.
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Yeah, yeah. Honestly though, fair play.
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I mean, as I said already, as a lower leagues supporter,
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somebody in the lower leagues, you know, it's good to see like
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those clubs, like you're Saint Maron's, you know, Motherwell's
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as well. You know some both sides of
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clubs try and get like a you know that they're they're day in
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the sunshine even though it was a day in the freezing cold at
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Hampden Park. Yeah, and it's two cup finals in
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a row they've lost. Now, obviously I was at the the
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one before that as an Aberdeen supporter.
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What a day. That was probably the best day
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I've had as a football fan grow. Up on this podcast, right?
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Oh, at least at least 10 so far. I'm trying to get in one in
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every every episode. But no, touching back on Dundee
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United, obviously Peter Lowell resigning as a Celtic chairman.
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There was fans going around on social media of the toxicity and
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Tana Dice, you were there. How was it?
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Obviously chatting towards the board and they were, they were
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filming at one point. Yeah.
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So obviously as the teams came out the tunnel, the Green
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Brigade and Boys, who are the Altus Celtic fans group was sat
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next to kind of the directors box.
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So they had a banner seeing Scotland Shame And Midway for
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the game of about 10-15 minutes in the Sky Sports cameras panned
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to Michael Nicholson, who's another member of the Celtic
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board, and it looked like he was in dialogue with police, maybe
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pointing at a few members of these groups.
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So it's been a very toxic, it's been a toxic season to be
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honest, on and off the pitch. But I think last night, last
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night was the the final knee when a few people's coughing.
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I think because it was just, I've, I've never seen anything
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like this at Celtic in the 21 years I've supported.
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So it's just, it's a very toxic environment.
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And now there's a a clear dispute between Bald and fans.
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Yeah, obviously a lot of fans are are for the manager to be
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sacked. He's not been despite reports
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today that will be yesterday when this podcast comes out.
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Do you think he will be? Well, first of all, do you, do
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you want him to be sacked? And secondly, do you think he
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will be sacked if there's another loss against Aberdeen on
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Sunday? So first of all, yes, what?
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I want him to be sacked because as I touched on earlier, he's
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shown like nothing in full games for me to give him a reason to
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go. You know what?
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I'm going to back this guy because as as a fan, I'm
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watching us play. I don't know how we can go from
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winning seven out of eight games to losing 4 games in a row.
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It's standing in tactics. And do I think you will be
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sacked? No, because that will mean that
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the Celtic board will have to take a bit of credibility and
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admit that they got it wrong and.
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The pay off. Yep and the pay off and based on
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the track record I don't think that they have that in them.
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So I don't think he will be sacked unless if he gets beaten
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Sunday. I think he'll have no other
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options because the Sharks will be back out and I don't think
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he'll be able to walk out of Celtic Park if Aberdeen win on
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Sunday. Yeah, it's like the Russell
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Martin when he drew against Falkirk.
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I think he had to get escorted off.
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I think when it gets to that point, yeah, it's not just about
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results on the pitch, it's about what's going on off the pitch.
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As an Aberdeen fan, I think we're gonna absolutely squander
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that opportunity. I think you're gonna get an easy
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3 points and. Hopefully.
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No, I think on the, I think it was the STV or podcasts, they
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had Craig Levine speaking about the situation and I think he
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said the best thing that could happen to Scottish football is
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for the Old Firm to go play in England.
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Obviously this is a rhetoric that we've heard for a long
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time, not just from Levine but from a lot of people.
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There's been offers for for leagues involving the Norwegian
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teams, Swedish teams, as well as the idea of English teams going
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in or sorry, of Scottish teams going down to England.
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From an outsider's perspective, I think it's something that will
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never actually happen. But what do you think of of
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those comments and what do you think of the idea?
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Well, I think, I think now as you said, that is interesting
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because Hearts on the top of the league, League Cup holders are
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sent Madden and Scottish Cup holders and Aberdeen.
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So maybe if you sat down and asked that question a year ago,
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you could go, yes, in terms of football on the pitch, it'd
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probably make it fairer. But a year down the line, this
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is the worst that Celtic Rangers have ever been.
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So it is making it more competitive.
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But how long are Celtic Rangers going to be this bad for?
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Historically if Celtic and Rangers are bad, they tend to
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spend to make it better, which then would fall back into the
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point of that's why they probably should move on because
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because they're bad and then they can just kind of buy it
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away. Exactly.
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I think, yeah, in January we'll see that as well because
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especially from Celtic, I mean Rangers are on on good form now
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under Danny Roll, 11 unbeaten I think, if I'm not mistaken.
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But with Celtic with all that money in the bank, you've got to
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feel that they need to spend, especially the board to at least
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save their arses if nothing else.
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And I think that's where the real issue lies.
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I mean, if there was a level playing field or even A at least
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a bit better of a playing field where budgets are not too
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extremely different than we could maybe talk about a
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situation where, you know, as I said, that I've heard from
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English media, Oh, is this the downfall of Celtic?
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And I'm like, no, no, they'll be back next season with with 20
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million spent and St. Ern will have got free agents in
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the summer. I mean I think it's just because
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of the vast different and not just fan base and ticket sales,
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but revenue in clubs where even if you have a bad season isn't,
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it's still going to be dominance for forever.
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But Celtic, so I know you're talking about money, Celtic only
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stuck in a dilemma of the back, Wilfred, Nancy in January and
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get the players in to shoot a 343 system.
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So that will be wing backs and attacking midfielders.
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You back them get the players in and then five months down the
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line you sack them and then a new manager's left to come clean
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up his mess a bit like what Rangers is in Danny Rose kinda
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walking with the mess of Russell Martin and and Kevin farewell.
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So Celtic and lay in that position of the cut ties with
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them and back from the ocean. January of the double down and
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back of Fid Nancy and run the risk that it might not get
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better and then 345 months down the line you have to shack them
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and the new manager's left with his signings I think.
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Well. There's a bit.
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There's a bit that reminds me just just when you said that
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about a few years ago when Sean Maloney was the Hibs manager,
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If. You were I.
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Can't remember. He replaced that was Paul
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Higginbottom. I think he released at the time
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and he spent some money in January and you know, they were
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saying we're going to back him. We're going to back him for this
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long and we're going to, you know, he's going to be here for,
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you know, gears years in the very common.
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Nobody lasts years anymore. But yeah, they they spent some
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money, not a lot, but you know, they still got a few good
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players in the into the dressing room.
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And by the time they lost the the Scottish Cup semi final to
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Hearts, he was out the door and that was what, four or five
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months later. So, you know, it's an
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interesting point what you're seeing there, and I think it's a
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risk both ways. You've got to look at both
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because you think you don't want to double down on like sack of
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the manager so soon. But then if it doesn't work out,
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how long you know, how long do you?
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It is, yeah. It's such an awkward time
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because because even if you do sack Nancy right now or after,
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I'd say after the Aberdeen game, that's the 27th of December,
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then January transfer window opens, 1st of January.
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You've probably got who Martin as interim.
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Do you give him it to the end of the season or do you try and
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identify a manager that you want long term?
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I mean, that's obviously Martin being a certain style of
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football, but it's more common, it's more direct, it's played by
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more managers than the 343 or whatever 352.
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So yeah, like you said, it's a bit of a sticky situation where?
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And Martin O'Neill would notice how the players would want to
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play, yeah. You know, because he knows the
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club. Exactly.
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And but also looking at the squad of players, I mean last
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night in particular, you put Ralston on the right side of a
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three or you know, Tierney as well.
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I mean Tierney can play that. There's we've seen that in
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Scotland for Scotland, we've seen it for Celtic a few times.
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I think he's done it for real. So she died a couple of times as
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well when he was there. So you could do that.
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Ralston's not somebody that should put him in in the.
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Same. I don't, I don't rate Ralston at
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all, whether it be for Celtic or Scotland.
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We've we've had this discussion before and I think I hate
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singling them out, I really do, because I don't, I want to like
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the guy, but there's just something about him.
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I mean, but I think we said this before the Greece game.
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I've just watched him the whole time.
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And. He was like, yeah, my eyes were
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glued to. Him, I go back to Switzerland
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game when I was there, but no, I think I think you touched on it
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there where O'Neill would know how the players want to play
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because he gets Scottish football.
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And I think, yeah, it's clear to see that Nancy doesn't get it
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because I think that quote came out.
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I don't know if it was yesterday after that I think it was, yeah.
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I think it was his match reaction where he was questioned
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on if he does know Scottish football and has response was
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that he doesn't know Scottish football because he almost
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signed for Carlisle, Yeah. I think he's been taking a bit
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of a context, I think. I think, well go on, give me the
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context then I. Think he's mean in British
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football more than anything British.
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English football is so different than Scottish.
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Football I know, but I think what he said was I almost signed
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for Carlisle United. I know who you know that was.
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Then it was like stopped. I know a little bit about
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Scottish football. I mean I.
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Don't know it's it's not a good look.
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It's still not a good look, but I kind of get what he's trying
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to say about it. But it's like when you said I.
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But what does he mean by British football?
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What does he mean by British football?
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Does he mean Manchester Cities football?
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Or does he mean Burnley's football like?
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Yeah, it it, but it's a hypothetical thing because he
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said. I know a bit, you know, it's
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like me saying I know a little bit about the MLS because I was
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in Florida for three weeks. I mean that at.
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Least that's in America. Exactly.
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But it's just so it's it was just a comment that didn't need
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to be made. He could have said you could
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have just said yes or no. And.
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That he's not helping himself. Yeah, he would.
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Have made more of a deal than that.
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Yeah, it's been a whirlwind. I think can move on to to
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massive scores in the lower league, one that Aaron, you'll
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have greatly enjoyed watching. I think you were there as well.
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Race Rovers beating Ross County 6 nil.
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I know, I know, you messaged me saying it's the biggest league
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win. Since when?
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When was that? 1992 was it was opening game
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1927 nil win against St. Mirren.
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St. Mirren got relegated the season
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before from the Premiership and so they were the favourites and
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there's a good clip on YouTube. Ross Keitney the favourites this
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season as well. Exactly.
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Yeah, there's a good clip on YouTube just to plug it in.
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There's somebody's filmed it from, if you know, Star Spark
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you, there's the main stand which is like the L-shaped stand
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that you see on the TV and somebody's filmed the goals from
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there. And there's a brilliant goal
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scored by Ronnie Coyle who used to play as a centre back and he
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was a Celtic youth player and he was, he's been around the blocks
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and he's was a centre back and I think he scored the 6th or the
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7th and he's literally took it from, I think he took it for a
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run to like 70 yards. He's managed to score from
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there. So yeah, my dad said to me,
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because I was with my dad on Saturdays, like minds me the
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good old days, I was like, that's only one day.
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Yeah, exactly it was. Just yeah.
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It was I was kind of, I had the fear because Rath Rovers do
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historically with somebody's in a bad run, Rath Rovers normally
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on the team now that that. Give them the win.
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Yeah, that's what happened to the.
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Season. That's Aberdeen.
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Yeah, hopefully, yeah. But we played county in the
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season. Exactly the same thing happened.
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No, they were on a bad run. Yeah, they're.
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Losing run, they're winning on the streak and then they we were
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the first team to lose against them at the end of the season.
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You lost in the playoffs to them as well, right?
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Exactly. Yeah, about revenge for them so
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but. But yeah, you got Tony Docherty
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sacked. Well done.
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That's that's them. Got rid of Don Kelly, Tony
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Docherty. And I think that the, I don't
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know who it was, maybe the chairman of Ross County saying
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they've had so many applicants to the job and I've that.
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Earlier, they've got 80 candidates.
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Sorry, 80. People.
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Oh, that was it. Yeah.
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And I bet one of them is Stuart Kettlewell, I'm telling you.
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Derrick Adams because he's. All.
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No, yeah, Stuart Kettlewell got sacked of Kilmarnock there from
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Kilmarnock after their two one loss to Aberdeen.
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What a turn around. Definitely deserved it.
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With the second-half we could have scored about four or five.
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I think they had about 3 cleared off a line that puts Aberdeen
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top of the form table actually in the Premiership.
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Seven wins, 2 draws and one loss.
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And obviously Kilmarnock were on that 10 or 11 game winless run
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where it couldn't go on like that.
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And then touching on Inverness, 9 nil win against Dunbar and I
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think it was 7 nil halftime. I mean, crazy Alfie Babbage,
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Aberdeen Loney scored four inside 37 minutes.
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I don't know if that's the quickest or the quickest.
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Someone scored four goals or something like that.
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That is crazy. Biggest one in their history.
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And yeah, crazy, crazy. Couple of scores there it.
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Was good because there was a bet there was because I've got the
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tweet here. So the Dunbar and twerk page.
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I'm still saying twerk. I'm not saying X.
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Yeah, old school fair. So.
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So. 37 minutes. Goal for inveness.
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Babbage sons No. Kali 6.
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Somebody's replied to them. Azman, go home, please.
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You went. I can't.
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I've got a job to do. Yeah, long night, long night for
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him. Exactly.
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I feel so sorry for that, for that, for that admin.
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But yeah, it was such a crazy game.
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I did, you know, it's one of those games that kind of expect
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that was going to happen. I didn't think was going to be.
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Yeah, because obviously Inverness top of top of League 1
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despite A5 point deduction and they're just absolutely walk in
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the league. Yeah, I think Babbage is such a
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good player as well and it didn't work out for me.
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United and you know, it was kind of questioning why I didn't
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because I thought he would fit the championship he's gone to.
21:20
Let's go to see County. That's not a good sign.
21:24
He's going to Cali. He's going to Cali and I think
21:26
there is that family connection up there because I think his dad
21:29
played for Cali, didn't he? Or somebody's family played for
21:32
Cali. So there's that family
21:33
connection there, which is good for him.
21:36
I'd be interested to see what happens to him in January.
21:39
I don't know if they've got a recall clause, but it's whether
21:42
he would stay at Cali or he would really go up to the
21:44
championship. So be interested to see what
21:47
happens to him. He's more than capable of
21:49
playing in the Championship, so you know, be interested to see
21:52
what happens, but good for him to get the four.
21:54
Yeah, I was. I was going to say that a United
21:57
could really do with Alfie Babbage this season.
22:01
So I don't know if you're aware, but I commentate on the United
22:04
home games. Yeah.
22:06
And like, we do everything right except score.
22:10
So I think Babbage would be a good sign indefinitely.
22:15
Get talking to Scott Brown, then.
22:17
Yeah, yeah, get any easier, get any easier.
22:20
But yeah, boss county. I mean, where do you where do
22:26
you start? Terrible, terrible season.
22:29
Obviously, as you touched on Finn bookies favourites to to
22:32
vault the leak. I think they just threw the
22:35
kitchen sink at it, but prime example of that from the kitchen
22:41
sink at it always doesn't doesn't pay off.
22:45
Certainly not paid off for the Staggies this season.
22:47
When? You look at their squad as well
22:48
and looking at Saturday's squad as well, because I've got the
22:51
team sheet here and there's still good players in that team
22:54
because they've still got, you know, they've got Jordan White,
22:57
they've got Ronan Hale, they've got Jay Henderson, you know,
22:59
they've got Jamie Lindsay, you know, they've got good player,
23:03
they've got Trevor Carson who's a decent enough keeper for
23:05
champions level. But it's just not clicking.
23:07
And I mean. If you, if you look at the type
23:09
of players they had two years ago as well, Jan Danda, Simon
23:12
Murray, I mean, they were a brilliant, brilliant squad and I
23:16
don't think. That's how we didn't get
23:18
promoted because. Yeah, that's why.
23:20
No, because those two in particular just were so good
23:23
against us in. That and I don't know if they
23:24
can afford to get relegated to League One either.
23:27
I mean, they've got, they'll have a massive wage bill.
23:30
I imagine that they're going to prove.
23:32
I mean, it's hard. We don't know what's going to
23:33
happen. Yeah, Yeah, January, Yeah.
23:35
I imagine because they need to appoint the manager and they
23:37
need to throw as much to the money manager as possible, and
23:40
no doubt they will because they've got the money available.
23:43
Because McGregor back to his managers, there's one thing that
23:46
you can't criticize him for. Yeah.
23:49
Yeah. So but I would just want to know
23:51
who would get that job though, because it's such it's becoming
23:55
a lot bit yeah chalice now though, because Kyrie.
23:57
And. We had Ramsey on this podcast.
23:59
I was with them on there, and you said that, yeah, it was time
24:01
for him to go. His favorite was Tony Dockerty
24:04
to come in. I thought the same.
24:05
I thought you should have. Who did they appoint?
24:07
His assistant manager. So where they appointed the
24:08
assistant? Yeah.
24:09
Yeah, So they had like 2 actual managers they had, they had John
24:12
Robertson. That was it.
24:13
Yeah, they. Had so they they they had
24:16
they've got 3 managers, 3 managers who capable of managing
24:19
the championship all. And they're all gone.
24:21
I. Was thinking, let's just say
24:24
that on I think they've got too many cooks in terms of
24:27
management, in terms of there's too many voices.
24:30
You need the hierarchy exactly where there's a clear boss.
24:33
But no. I think touching back on on
24:36
Alfie Babbage as well. It's so good to to finally see
24:40
real promising attackers coming through.
24:42
Hopefully. Fingers crossed obviously,
24:46
because for so long it's been, you know, Scotland are a great
24:48
team, but they don't have a striker.
24:50
Scotland are a great team, but they can't score the goals.
24:52
So hopefully in the next couple of years, you can kind of see
24:55
those players like Alfie Bavage, Kieran Bowie, Tommy Conway,
24:59
Emilio Lawrence, a Man City, you know, these kind of really
25:04
attacking players, Harvey Barnes, which we can we can
25:07
touch on as well where Harvey Barnes obvious isn't coming
25:10
through it, but others are where you can you can bring that kind
25:13
of attacking flair if you want to use that word, where we've
25:17
kind of been really well, really good defensively.
25:21
We've got arguably probably the best midfield in the world
25:23
outside the top eight nations, but at the top end of the pitch
25:28
we've kind of like that. Yeah, certainly.
25:31
I think looking at the forward areas in particular, like the
25:35
younger players as well, like you were saying about Babbage,
25:38
and obviously it's far too early, but I'm.
25:40
But you look at Conway, we know what he's capable of.
25:42
You know what Bolton Valley is capable of.
25:45
And obviously I'm a big boy fan because he's no local connection
25:48
and stuff. So I.
25:49
Will throw is yeah, yeah. Well, he's a crocodia boy as
25:51
well, so you know. Yeah, we'll always be on, always
25:54
back, not always back. Our local boys to pay that won't
25:57
back. You know, Ollie Burke, one of
25:59
ours as Wells, you know, he's a Kakodi boy even though he's got
26:03
the nut in the Maccent. And so, you know, they could
26:07
have the cubation out of those two Kirkcaldy boys in the in the
26:09
Scotland scored for the World Cup.
26:11
Who knows. But certainly the young players
26:13
coming through, I like the look of me or Lawrence.
26:16
I think he's got. Something.
26:17
He looks really good. Yeah.
26:20
And who's, I don't know how to pronounce it.
26:21
Who's the boy that went from Sheffield Wednesday to Man City?
26:23
Oh, got a Mccamer. I don't, Yeah.
26:28
I've got a lisp that's not. The the son of Danny, right?
26:31
Danny, yeah, he used to play for Dundee United.
26:34
Yeah, and I'm not going to try and pronounce his surname Never.
26:36
I've never been able to. But that's how he's eligible for
26:39
Scotland because he was, he was living in Cooper when he was
26:41
playing for Dundee United and. Yeah, so he's his son is 15 or
26:46
maybe 16 now and he was playing under 19 level for Scotland and
26:51
scored a hat trick. So he's went for over £1,000,000
26:56
to Man City now his. Dad said.
26:58
Because if there's people on Twitter saying things like.
27:01
Yeah, I was going to touch on that.
27:03
Yeah, yeah. Soon as England comes calling,
27:04
he'll go to them and you know, it's like the Elliott Anderson
27:07
situation, like he's in hacked. He's done as well a little bit.
27:11
And Harry Gray and Archie Gray and the rest of them, yeah.
27:15
Traitors, if you like to call them.
27:16
Yeah, but his dad pretty much says on Twitter like he wants to
27:21
play for Scotland or Jamaica. Yeah, his reply was I don't know
27:24
if it was in our comments or someone elses comments where
27:27
yeah, someone said. Tagged into it, yeah.
27:28
Yeah. So someone said he'll switch
27:30
thing on as soon as they come call and then he replied they
27:33
already did and he said no. So hopefully that's one to
27:37
watch. I think he feels Scottish.
27:38
He is Scottish. And he definitely wants to play
27:40
for Scotland or Jamaica. It's one of the two.
27:42
And he said he wants to give Scotland because he was born
27:45
there, his. First priority His.
27:46
Priority. But who knows?
27:47
It's one of those that might yeah, you know, you can't.
27:51
You want to throw good things at young players, but you don't
27:53
want to throw too much of them at the such an early stage
27:55
because. Caramel code, then Billy coming
27:57
to mind, Yeah. You know, you've got such a, you
28:01
know, the highest prospects and this is the game.
28:02
Just let them. Just let them develop, you know
28:04
what I mean? Exactly.
28:05
Yeah, let them, let them develop to their to their full
28:07
potential. And then once, once they're
28:10
ready, it could be a time when. Yeah, I mean, we can we can
28:13
focus on the World Cup next summer rather than, you know,
28:18
let them develop and maybe come 2028 when we've got three games
28:22
at Hamden, at least for the EUR, we can talk about them and wild
28:25
cards for their. There's been a lot of talk for
28:29
Harvey Barnes in the last couple of days.
28:32
Steve Clark did an interview where he's a they both got each
28:34
other's numbers and that Clark will reportedly reach out to him
28:40
after the new year. He also said that he's he's kind
28:42
of confirmed that he's going to take a 26 man squads.
28:47
Obviously we saw something similar for year 2020 where Chay
28:49
Adams came in kind of not last minute but pretty late on.
28:54
Do you think well would you have asked us about 3 podcasts in a
28:57
row to different people Now would you take Calvary Barnes
29:01
and what a great from my, in my opinion, what a great addition
29:04
need be to the squad. Yes, I think MD that wouldn't
29:10
take Calvary Barnes, I think is silly.
29:12
Yeah, I get I. Get.
29:14
Yeah, I get the point that the players who've got you there
29:18
like deserve to be on the plane. But like, say, for instance, if
29:23
you swap him for a a Conor Baron, you're not going to
29:26
you're not going to be missing out.
29:28
You know what I mean? Conor Baron, I don't he's not
29:31
even he's been even played in like the last two camps.
29:34
So albeit he's been on the bench to get you there, but he's not
29:39
like you're not going to miss out on what he brings, albeit is
29:42
a good player. So I think that and as well with
29:46
the World Cup qualifying as in the past, we're now at the
29:50
tournament. Surely you'd you'd want the best
29:53
for at the tournament and not what's best for the previous
29:57
qualifiers. But I think it'd be a great
29:59
addition plus Scotland to have one winger, Ben Ganondoke, who
30:04
is probably going to be 5050. And even if he does go, how much
30:09
football is he going to play before the actual World Cup?
30:12
Whereas Harvey Barnes is has been starting we can recount
30:16
from Newcastle. I think if you get enough of
30:18
these wingers and it allows you to, to switch system within
30:22
games, which is something that we've kind of struggled with.
30:24
Obviously we'll play 4 at the back now before, you know, in
30:28
the kind of EUR 2020 qualifiers played five at the back.
30:30
But that's the only two systems we've really seen on the State
30:32
Park. And you kind of need that if
30:36
you're wanting to to attack the game, you're you're trailing and
30:39
you need a goal if you want to be able to switch to that kind
30:42
of attack in formation. Obviously Ben Ganondoke against
30:45
Denmark in the 1st 20 minutes or so before he got injured was I
30:49
think his best game I've seen. I think he was absolutely
30:51
electric. Yeah, exactly.
30:53
Yeah, I think he was the best player in the park.
30:55
Yeah, Dorgie couldn't get anywhere near.
30:57
Him that's yeah and that's two world class field backs.
30:59
He'd done that to Dorgu and Fardeal in the Nations League.
31:04
So I think he's obviously you know the main priority for
31:07
winger, but if you can get someone like Harvey Barnes and
31:12
which allows you to play 2 wingers, that's a big, big plus.
31:16
I. Think the one thing as well
31:17
about people will say why would he?
31:20
Because he's not committed, but he's not saying no, you know
31:22
what I mean? He's not because he's had the
31:24
opportunity to be on TV a couple of times.
31:26
Remember, I think he was on TV a few weeks ago after the Man City
31:29
game, I think it was. And it was also straight after
31:32
we qualified. Exactly.
31:33
And, you know, I think who was it that was saying that, you
31:36
know, joking with the Micah Richard?
31:38
I think it was, was joking with them.
31:39
He was saying. Like Mick Barnes, Scotland World
31:42
Cup, No, he could have said there and no, no, no, no, no,
31:45
I'm not that's that's no, but he's never ruled it out.
31:48
So you want to you've got unless he actually comes out and says
31:51
no, you've got to still keep him under consideration.
31:54
I've always considered him under, you know, for
31:57
possibilities until you actually get the no or until he gets his,
32:01
you know, full allocated caps. So coming behind me as.
32:05
Yeah. I know he's been capped once for
32:07
England but I was a friendly so he's still.
32:09
Capable. To play for us and it would have
32:12
been the same for Tina. Left me until until he got
32:16
capped. I was going to say, I think,
32:18
yeah, I feel like this is the first one where it feels like it
32:21
is going to happen because obviously there's been there's
32:23
been rumours of like there was God, there was Gerald Kwanza
32:27
before he played for England, Tina Liverman, So Chris Brady,
32:30
the goalkeeper, Chicago Fire, Archie Gray, obviously Elliot
32:36
Anderson, Hayden Hackney, so many.
32:39
But I think so. There's still some that you
32:41
think that might happen, I think, yeah, I think one of
32:44
those ones, as long as long as he's at middle, yeah, I think
32:47
he's. You've got to cook though,
32:48
because he's not going to get in that England squad anytime soon.
32:51
Yeah, but I think this one, this one feels like it's going to
32:53
happen and speak. Speaking of friendlies, there
32:56
have been a lot of news on the Scotland friendlies in
33:00
preparation for the World Cup. So this these are not confirmed
33:04
officially, but it seems like we're going to be playing Japan
33:07
at sometime in March. They've got a game against
33:10
England at Wembley, the 31st I believe that is 30 first.
33:14
Yeah, I think that is, yeah. So they're really doing Auk tour
33:18
and they've chosen Scotland as their second opponent.
33:20
Obviously they're preparing to face, I think it's two European
33:22
nations in their group. We've got Kuruko and a send off
33:26
game at Hamden on I think 6th or 7th of June.
33:31
We've got an African side reportedly at either Saint James
33:33
Park, which would be the perfect location for Harvey Barnes debut
33:37
or Everton's new ground. So that's the African side that
33:42
obviously Steve Clarke said he wanted to face a nation from
33:44
each confederation that we're going to be playing at the World
33:46
Cup and the South American team that we're heavily rumoured to
33:50
be facing as Argentina. So yeah, that would probably be
33:54
the other March friendly. Yeah, I.
33:55
Think there's there's a friendly going to be held in Florida.
33:59
They want me because I was reading.
34:00
Yeah, I read that. Yeah, you want to get to, they
34:03
want to have a, a. Warm waiter.
34:05
Yeah, and I think Argentina want.
34:07
Yeah, acclimatized. Yeah.
34:08
So, and it's a good reason for us.
34:10
I mean, I know somebody was criticizing why they should, why
34:14
Steve Clark needs to play the friendlies.
34:16
The fact is you've got to play these friendlies.
34:18
It's, you know, it's if you weren't in the World Cup, you
34:20
need to play 10 games minimum during a, you know, the course
34:22
of a calendar year. So the friendlies have to count
34:25
it. So that one against Curacao at
34:28
hand and one have a funny feeling.
34:32
Nothing's been confirmed, no rumours, but if that Argentina
34:34
is going to happen, it's going to be in Florida.
34:37
But it's one of those that is it's a good, it's a good one to
34:41
have. If you can play against like the
34:45
bigger nations, I think it's good as well.
34:46
We're not playing anybody from Europe as well.
34:48
I think that was one thing, Clark.
34:50
Said as. Well, yeah.
34:51
But we've played enough different teams.
34:52
Yeah, we've played enough. That's that's what the World
34:54
Cup's all about. We've waited long enough.
34:56
We've waited long enough that we don't play.
34:57
We don't want to play any more European teams.
35:01
Obviously last time out before year 2024, I think it was the
35:05
Netherlands that we played. I remember, I remember Lawrence
35:09
Shanklin started that one. That was the main debate if
35:11
Shanklin would start up front and then the send off game was
35:15
Finland. I think it was Finland.
35:18
So yeah, it's good to play some teams that we've we've never
35:21
played and some teams that we've not played in in a long, long
35:25
time. Obviously that was different
35:26
scenario because that was European champions.
35:27
Yeah, obviously you had. To play, I think it was the
35:30
right thing to do that time. But no, no, I'm just, yeah,
35:33
certainly playing. I'm just saying it'll be
35:34
definitely nice to because because with a lot of teams you
35:37
don't with a lot of these teams that are not European, you don't
35:40
actually know what to expect. Yeah.
35:41
I mean, I think it was Ecuador that were in Part 2 or Part 3,
35:46
Part 2, where I think they're arguably one of the dark horses
35:51
for the tournament. They've got one of the best
35:53
defenses in the world, really good midfield, really good
35:57
attack. I mean, they're one of the dark
35:59
horses. But going into those games, you
36:01
don't really know what to expect because obviously a lot of
36:04
people aren't included up on South American football or
36:07
African football. So yeah, it'll be good to play
36:10
those games. And if we can get that game,
36:14
that St. James's Park, that will be a
36:16
good away there I think. Know that Dan, who's in our
36:18
group chat for Football Park Scotland, You know he's one of
36:22
our admins as well. No, he's from Newcastle.
36:24
You know he's 10 minutes away. He's.
36:25
About 10 minutes away from from Newcastle.
36:27
So as soon as he heard when did the news break?
36:30
I think it was Monday it broke could.
36:31
That be. Doing it his eyes immediate
36:33
love. He doesn't respond.
36:34
I mean our chat if you if you can get to if you can get to
36:37
Scotland Supporters Club points for for that away day.
36:40
Yeah. Oh, I will be.
36:41
I will be there. It's it's such a good place to
36:44
play a game of football, though, somewhere different, you know, I
36:47
mean, and people are saying why are we doing that?
36:48
It's like, well, first of all, I don't think they want to play
36:50
two games at Hampden. No, Yeah, you need, you need the
36:53
neutral venue friendly. Yeah, I think, I think you don't
36:56
want to fly them mid season to Africa for let's say we're going
37:01
to be playing South Africa. We don't know who we're playing
37:03
yet. So let's say we're playing South
37:05
Africa. We don't want to fire in the
37:06
gate town. So let's put them as neutral as
37:09
possible. I know we could probably have
37:12
flown them to France or somewhere like that, you know, a
37:14
little bit for a journey for both places.
37:16
For us it's like a 2 hour bus journey down the road.
37:18
So it's a whole lot different compared to that for them.
37:21
But you know, I think it's a good certainly going to
37:24
Newcastle is it's only it's not that far.
37:26
It's the 25 LB train to get. To Newcastle.
37:29
From Edinburgh, so you know, it's quite good that we've got
37:31
this in at stake. I think it is good in Newcastle.
37:34
Every paper said it is going to be in Newcastle and but
37:39
Liverpool is still in contention.
37:41
Personally, I'd I'd like the whole Dickinson just purely for
37:45
the fact I think the new stadium is like an absolute not saying
37:50
not saying St. James's a bad stadium, great
37:54
stadium right in the heart of the city.
37:56
But I just, I just love to try the the Hill Dickinson Stadium,
38:00
but probably far in a way the ancient James's would just just
38:06
slightly edge it. Yeah, it feels more appropriate
38:09
for Scotland. For some it was like fairly pubs
38:12
within a 5 minute walk of the stadium as soon as.
38:14
You get off the the train. Station.
38:16
Yeah, literally not that far away.
38:17
From the stadium. It's like 5-10 minute walks,
38:19
it's literally a dream. But I've never been to
38:21
Liverpool, so I wouldn't have. A clue I've got some some family
38:25
down in England that are Everton fan, so I'd get some yeah, I'll,
38:29
I'll take them if it's if it's Liverpool, but yeah, exactly.
38:33
No, but I I hope it's St. James's because I think that
38:37
it's renowned for having an amazing atmosphere and I think
38:40
that's a lot to do with the stadium and I think pairing that
38:43
with Scotland fans, that would be some atmosphere.
38:46
Thank you everyone point even if it is a friendly.
38:48
Yeah, I think people are saying why are we doing this a friendly
38:51
in England. My simple question is why not?
38:53
We've done. It, I mean, we played, we played
38:55
Brazil. What was it?
38:56
Wembley, right? Yeah.
38:58
Emirates, Emirates, that was it, That was it.
39:00
Played Nigeria at Craven Cottage and yeah, no, the Emirates at
39:04
the time was Brazil's neutral ground and I don't know why we
39:07
played Nigeria. OK, I can't remember, but I
39:10
think it might have been for the World Cup and that was like a
39:12
stop off place for them if I remember greatly because.
39:14
They yeah for. Brazil, I think we're 2014 that
39:18
we played them. So I think there was a stopover
39:20
point more than anything. But we've no, we've played them,
39:22
we've played a few teams, you know, at a neutral ground
39:25
elsewhere. So why not go to Newcastle?
39:27
Why not go to Liverpool to play this against an African team?
39:31
It'll be interesting to see which African team it's going to
39:33
be. I've got a sneaky feeling it
39:35
will be someone like Cameron who are a really good side, but
39:38
they've not qualified for the World Cup.
39:39
Yeah, so. I think I've seen rumors of
39:42
Senegal. I'm not sure if that's true, but
39:45
I'm sure that sure I read that my only.
39:49
Players, like many teams, as close.
39:51
To as possible you know as. Close to, yeah.
39:53
I mean, like you don't, you don't want to be playing like a
39:56
Botswana or something like that where they're nowhere near the
39:59
level of Morocco. I think it's to get a sense of
40:02
what the football would be like against an opposition from that
40:05
region of that same strength. So I don't know who would.
40:09
I mean, Morocco I think is probably the best African
40:11
nation. Full stop.
40:14
So I don't know who would get close to yeah.
40:16
Afghan start, yeah. And that's what I was going to
40:18
say. It's like if nobody's aware of
40:20
it, it's starting on Sunday. So it's a good preparation for
40:22
us to see what. We're going to be doing hate
40:24
watch. Yeah, hate watch.
40:26
Hopefully they go into the worst run of form I've all done.
40:29
Yeah, can. We get a hate watch in Brazil as
40:31
well somehow. Just like who do they play?
40:35
Haiti hate watch. Yeah.
40:41
I think it'd be good to see Morocco action though,
40:43
especially because if you're not used to seeing these national
40:45
teams because. We're not, yeah.
40:46
I've not watched them since, since the last World Cup,
40:48
obviously. That's.
40:49
What I was going to say about Japan, like we've not seen them.
40:52
Certainly I've, you know, seen the results, but you don't see
40:54
them in action, you know. I've not watched a single Japan
40:58
game since they lost to Belgium, I think.
41:00
Yeah, I think. Oh no, no.
41:01
When last World Cup, when they did that?
41:04
Yeah, I think I've seen one of their their qualifiers.
41:07
I can't remember who was against.
41:08
I think it was Australia. I can't remember, but certainly
41:12
it's good to see these teams in action before you play.
41:15
And I think that's one good thing about Afghan for us is
41:17
that we've got you know, we could have been drawn with them
41:21
Croatia from Bot 2 and obviously we don't have we knew all about
41:23
them, whereas now we've got an African team who is one of the
41:26
best to that see them in action. Let's see if other teams can
41:30
into the weaknesses and we can probably try and exploit it as
41:32
much as like. I'm sure Steve Clark will be
41:35
watching them. Yeah.
41:37
Yeah. I don't think you'll be going.
41:40
Yeah. No, no, I know.
41:41
Are you heading off to the to the US Nile?
41:43
Yes, I'm only going for the first two games IET in Morocco,
41:50
so I'm doing 10 nights in Boston, flying out on Thursday,
41:56
Thursday the 11th of June, which is day nice to meet kicks off,
41:59
and then I'm back on this Sunday the 21st, which is two days
42:05
after the Morocco game show. Nice.
42:08
Should be good, hopefully. I need to check check with what
42:11
you're on because I'm flying out from on the 11th as well.
42:13
Oh nice, nice Dublin, Dublin direct.
42:17
I just hopefully I can get a ticket and I've swallowed my
42:24
parade and accepted that I'm going to be paying silly money
42:27
for a ticket, but I've done. I just don't want to go.
42:31
I'll be over there and not go so.
42:33
And they're charging for fan zones now.
42:35
Yeah, I've seen that. Twelve, $2.50.
42:38
Yeah. So it's going to be an ideal
42:41
one, but hopefully it's a memorable one.
42:43
Be interested to. See what happens like because
42:46
obviously we've got a culture of like drinking outside the pubs
42:49
and stuff. Yeah, and we.
42:50
Call America actually doing stuff.
42:52
Like that, you know? Yeah.
42:53
So actually sitting watching the TV, watching the football
42:56
outside. We did that in Germany.
42:57
If you can, you get down hands on.
42:59
Go to Germany was Germany was best two weeks of my life yeah,
43:03
apart. From the football.
43:06
Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. I always say when I when I go
43:08
with Scotland it's it's it's such a great holiday apart from
43:11
the football. That's what I said when I went
43:12
to Athens for the Aberdeen game as well.
43:14
Landon Donovan said on him Fox Sports, because they're the main
43:19
broadcasters for America for the World Cup.
43:22
He he was saying if you want to see anybody in action, go and
43:26
see a Scotland game because just for the fans, because, you know,
43:30
he commentated for Fox on the opener and you said he didn't
43:34
care about the football, you cared about the fans inside.
43:36
And it was just the atmosphere and we could have outnumbered
43:39
those German supporters that. Day Oh my God the price of those
43:44
tickets though, because I I got the Switzerland and hungry
43:47
tickets to supporters club and they were extortionate as as and
43:52
then for the Germany game it came around then I got the
43:54
opportunity to buy it for 400 each is.
43:58
That not for your dad's was it? Did you not want to surprise
44:02
your? Dad, I want, yeah, so I was in
44:03
the Germany game with my dad. Well, originally I was just
44:06
going with my mates, but we'd gambled on flights, so we were
44:09
flying in on the 15th. So the only game of the whole
44:12
tournament, the only game of the whole tournament we were going
44:15
to miss was the Germany opening game.
44:18
And we're like, yeah, so one in 12 chance or whatever it was,
44:21
one in eight chance. And obviously be in Scotland, we
44:23
get the opening game and then I booked flights, a second pair of
44:27
flights with my dad to go to the Germany game of him and then
44:31
spent £900 on 2 tickets to see us get absolutely humped I
44:36
imagine. He wanted to disown you after.
44:39
That. I paid.
44:42
I paid for the ticket. So do you.
44:43
Ever know about the prices? Could I just say.
44:46
That yeah, about a year a year later, he.
44:48
Doesn't know you if you're listening to the podcast.
44:51
He does. He does.
44:52
He does. Yeah, it's a good of a culture
44:53
shock time. It's like a heart attack.
44:55
What? No, but it was a great
44:58
atmosphere and obviously I'll never forget that.
45:00
I'm glad we don't have the opening game this tournament.
45:03
I'm there from the 11th to the 27th, I think it is.
45:08
Got all my flights booked, I think for the return and then
45:11
the two internal flights that came to 900 for the flights.
45:14
So I got lucky with that because when I'm looking back now, it's
45:17
God, it's 3 or 4 grand if you want to do that now.
45:21
Yeah. And I'm in staying in
45:23
Providence, which we're doing a travel and accommodation guide.
45:27
I'll put that in there for anyone that wants to keep an eye
45:29
out for that because Boston Stadium is so far a Boston, it's
45:34
the equivalent of from Glasgow to the Kelpies.
45:38
So it is a long way of the the city.
45:42
So Providence is is a bit closer.
45:45
So I'm staying there for 10 or 11 nights, I think, and then
45:50
flying down to Miami. Picturesque.
45:52
Hopefully last game beat Brazil and I'll be off to Mexico City.
45:56
I'll be changing my flights. Is that in Mexico City or?
46:02
Wherever it is, yeah. My return flight from Dublin to
46:09
Boston was like 700 lbs. And then so that was, I booked
46:16
this Saturday morning, the day after the draw, and then the
46:20
Sunday morning it was like €3000.
46:24
Yeah, wild. So that's like 2700 LB rank,
46:30
something like that. So jumped up at 2000 LB It's
46:33
easy. Yeah, it was great.
46:34
I'd. Like to use this podcast to
46:36
actually probably shame a company.
46:37
If that's OK, go. On go on.
46:41
There was a literally just remembered that and now.
46:43
So there was a hotel pretty much where you're staying, friend,
46:47
and I think it was because it's new.
46:48
England in Providence. So there's somewhere in there
46:52
and I was like, right, I'll do that.
46:54
So it was not bad like 1500, but then you go onto your thing,
46:59
onto the booking and they said do you want to take your
47:01
suitcase? If do you that's $500.
47:04
I was just like, I'm not going for. 10 days for that.
47:06
Suitcase was that I'm not going to wear the same clothes with
47:10
that you. Know, yeah.
47:11
With no. You need all the Scotland tops.
47:14
Well, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I booked, I booked my
47:18
return flights direct from Manchester for six hundreds, so
47:22
I'll just get the train down. That's good with my dad and
47:25
Nepal and some of his pals. And then the the outbound flight
47:31
was 450. The return flight was 150 or
47:34
something like that. And then we looked two days
47:36
later at the outbound flight and it gone up to 1.8 grand just for
47:39
the outbound flight. So very happy that I was rushing
47:44
when the ceremony or circus was going on.
47:47
I was I. Was on a train going into
47:50
Edinburgh. I know I remember that me and
47:53
James were in his flat ready to book whatever because I'd booked
47:56
15 different accommodations. I'd booked 15 different
47:59
accommodations. Refundable.
48:01
It was my past 30th on the on this Sunday before so we.
48:06
Were in. Edinburgh and as soon as I have
48:09
like why have I not booked it came to me like why have I not
48:13
done this street? Why am I here instead of trying
48:16
to pick up my laptop? Can.
48:18
I just jump in whilst we're talking, why have you just
48:21
mentioned that Anthony Joseph, Sky Sports journalist, has just
48:25
tweeted there that Celtic boss Wilfred Nancy has the full
48:28
backing of the board despite losing his opening for matches.
48:33
The article reads that the board are happy with the changing
48:37
system and basically the previous full games and the
48:42
games from now until January is basically an assessment to see
48:47
who's good enough and who isn't good enough to fit his system.
48:51
So I think he's going to be backed in January.
48:54
Yeah, so that's a big admission from from from the Celtic board
48:58
back in Wilford, Nancy in January.
49:00
We'll see how that goes. Obviously next game against
49:04
Aberdeen's massive to attempt and try and get the Celtic fans
49:08
back on board. Is that possible?
49:10
Not sure about that. We'll we'll see in due time.
49:13
Thank you both very much for coming on.
49:15
Hopefully we have an amazing World Cup, an amazing time in
49:19
America. Hopefully my bank, it's not in
49:20
the Reds and I'll I'll catch you guys on the next podcast.
49:23
Thank you very much for joining.