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I've had a sad week so far for the jails, but we'll get into the long and the short of what why it's where we're maybe being brought down a wee bit, but I've got a great cast of my friends tonight to discuss it. Firstly, Bill, you've shown me up again with your dress since. How are you, mate? Ah, very well. Thank you. Thanks for the compliment. I had this blazer hand made by a tailor in Edinburgh, so I'm glad to be getting a wee bit of attention, cos it... I mean, it was so easy to give you it, cos it does look very, very dapper indeed. David T, how are you, my mum? Yeah, fine, thanks. Mr. Fine, he got over the Italian job from Tuesday Night. I think we can call like that, but now I was looking forward to the point. This is my second podcast tonight, so I'm on double time here. I'll be putting out a bill into calling. Are we getting the overtime paycheck? Yep, cash in on that, because you're too right, I would as well. And Jack, running off our squad tonight, how are you, man? Hi, good to meet you, good to come and have a blazer. We'll use a bit of a meeting, and everyone that's going to win with Angels. Well, that's the good thing about running a podcast, is that you're never sure of things to discuss when it's revolving around Rangers, as we had our second leg of the qualifying rounds of the Champions League. I was, I could sum up by saying it didn't go to plan and we could end the podcast there, but Rangers being rained, just doubled down on the heartache with a certain thing that happened yesterday. But we'll get on to that as the day goes on. I think the pod goes on. We'll start with, we'll always start with a post game kind of podcast, the lineup for the gills. Jack Bolton was in goals, James Tavernier, Robin Uppropier. I'm enjoying the comments, the stadium announcer at Hamden, deciding which one he's going to pick on the day-to-day basis of how he was to pronounce his name. John Sutter, Red Van Yomaz, Mohamed Diamandé, Connor Barren, Ross McCausland, Tom Lawrence, Jeff Day and Sergio Dessos. Jeff Day, I said the name, so it makes me feel a wee bit better now, we've got over that hurdle. I'm sure we've only got another, what was it, 54 minutes of game to talk about before everything went on its head. Obviously, Bill, second leg, we clawed our way back into the tie in the late stages of the first leg. How are you feeling with that squad being put out somewhat, taking the second half, D-momos, the better part of that second half performance, having Jeff Day in that left wing. How are you feeling when you see that team shoot count? Yeah, I was quite optimistic and actually I thought that probably whatever team we put on the night would have got the job done. I was quite pleased to see Jeff Day in the starting line-up. I thought that he kind of earned that after coming on a playing at left wing in the first leg. I thought it looked really good and still thought it looked not too bad in the game the other night. I don't think there was anything in that line-up that I was really going, "Oh no, we can't have thought." I know that people were sort of a bit surprised or disappointed that Cherney was on the bench. I didn't really have too much quibble with that. I thought that it was maybe more important to get him on the second half when the game could be one and bearing in mind that it would have just been the second half potentially where you could have played extra time. So I thought, well, say them till half time or whatever and then bring them on then. I thought McCausland had done enough in recent games to kind of earn his place in the line-up. So yeah, overall for me, I wasn't too worried in terms of the defense, which is one of the bits of the Rangers team that's really concerning me at the moment. I think proper or prepare and Sutter looked at a decent partnership. I wasn't too concerned about that going into the game and I thought that for the vast majority of the game, they defended not too bad. So yeah, overall no real big surprises and no big concerns from me in terms of the starting line-up. I'd say it's about it's on par as I was feeling at the time. And on the supporters' bus I was on, there was an audible why the air is generally not playing from one of the games in the back of the bus, which I could understand if I had had to time when the squad came out. You couldn't see why you generally didn't play. I think you're probably spot on with- he has had a lot of impact coming off the bench. DBT, I think we are definitely short in the midfield three, if you want to call it that. Do you mind the Baron and Lawrence for me? He scored some free kicks in pre-season, he had a nice finish against Berlin, but I still feel that that's a position where we could maybe do better. I wasn't a big fan of his performance overall, to be perfectly honest. But is it kind of we just need to get on with it because he's really willing to play where we have available in that position? Well, it's not real, get Todd Cangle, haven't we? But obviously the manager has decided that he's not going to play him, which I think is a pretty stupid decision. As long as we're paying his wages, then he should be allowed to play. I don't get the point of putting a number. I can understand why he's a Glenn Camara, just chopped it last year, and Maria was chopped it as well. But I don't think Cangle would do that. I think Cangle would give his best. And I think that's the way we should go. I'm afraid I'm in trouble with my internet. I don't know whether people could still hear me or not. We can hear you, Dave. Thanks. Okay. Thanks. I seem to get a good problem with internet at the moment. And I think that's what I was going to say now. Yeah, I think we do need to boast of the midfield. I would all prefer a number six to come in. And I think we need somebody to back up, bar, baron and the Armandé. I think they've got far too much to do. They've got far too much space to cover. And I think we need whether Raskin is a player to do that. I don't know that. Only to be seen when he first came in. He was absolutely brilliant. And then after that, he sort of disappeared, virtually. Obviously, he's had injury problems. So I think he was out for four to six weeks, I think. So I think he must be on his road back now. And could maybe even make it a show no one sounded their Sunday. Hopefully. Jack, I'm just looking through the rest of the subs that the bench that we had. So we're churning, Sterling, Davies, Matondo, Kelly, Rice, McKinnon, Double, King, Fraser, Danilo and Scott Wright. We're mentioning, obviously, Todd Cantwell being Louis here. He's not really here. And by personal opinion, that Lawrence hasn't been the best I've seen of him. The only other way you could potentially have worked that is maybe demanded to be pushed forward, maybe set Sterling into the midfield. It's one of these things we mentioned with Raskin, if he was to be back fat soon, that maybe that gives you another option to move the middle forward as well. Keating Double, obviously, he's made a couple of sub-appearances. To mix the pain to the sub-appearances, some people are saying that I didn't look too bad. And honestly, he's available now. He's hit that patch of being match-fit, which we should enjoy whilst at last. Do you think even from taking the lungs off to tonight, he'd maybe be an option for the weekend? He probably should be getting more minutes in the game this weekend than he's had. In recent games, where are the major ones today that are known as a thing? Because it looks like he's sticking their lungs for that role. Where are we like it or no? I totally agree with David Tea. When we are playing this guy's way, geez. We should be using him. I know that's no popular up to say once to leave. Better players in him have made it clear in the past that bad affair because he wanted to leave in 2003. He's still played the first few early games and played against Copenhagen in a very important qualifier and where he was allowed to leave. I'm sorry, I thought that once was Robbie Sharon night, you need so much more. You've only got one strike or so. Anybody behind tell me that a bit more. Sorry about that. I thought Lance was awful. Adrian, I can't wear a game. If it's no other kind of world, there was probably off a chance because, nah, I'm no having it. Tom Lones unfortunately. We're seeing as well we've made field. I totally agree with David. I think most of the other day, sorry, our number six is very important because we can't have played these two every single game. A near young and experienced players relatively bad in him. Diamandé? Well, at a point I've been making when watching the previous games and also even felt a wee bit about last night watching the beat team, was that the midfield three, it was almost like bad in the six. Diamandé in the eight and Lones is the 10 and it's just a straight line of midfielders. It feels like at a time just the way that they're moving about in play. I feel like that doesn't help their disjointedness. It feels at times. Maybe the first and second pass will come off, but the third pass is maybe the players are retouchfully getting free or it's maybe over hit. It feels just a wee bit too fluid. I know that's been a lot that's been about the fluidity of the players and the team. I always expected to maybe see it relaxed a wee bit and maybe more structured as taking it as an learning from the previous games, but it seemed to be just the same on Tuesday. It's definitely the reason why Lawrence is too far up the park at some time, which is the irony of the can't move thing is that I feel like that's perfect for Todd because he doesn't defend anyway at times. He maybe would have profited off of that can I roll? Do you see the same kind of disjointedness? Yeah, and I don't think Lawrence has got the legs. I think there's two aspects to that. Lawrence does need the pace, but he also does need the stamina. He's not quite getting about and he tires quickly as well. Yeah, I'm in the midfield, right? I feel as if not just under Clemente, but underbiel and Van Drunkhurst, we seem to have this thing where a lot of the time, especially against teams that fell on midfield and especially against Celtic, we seem to get overrun in midfield. That's where we're losing games. I think I was wondering, given that Cantwell and Hadgy are both on the way out, I was wondering if it was the manager's vision. I feel like this season to go to a flat midfield three almost, or maybe just a sort of a six with two eights in front of it or something. And we do sort of have the players, I think, that could work if that's what the manager wanted to do. So I don't think that is what he wants to do. I think he wants to stick with playing a 10, which is fine, but the 10 that we've got available, which is Tom Lawrence. He has some good qualities, but like I said, he doesn't have the legs really to play in that role and to be what we need to come in closer to the other two midfield players when we're setting deep in all of that, and then get up the part quite clearly. He does still have that thing of being able to play a pass that was split defence. He has a good creative player, but I just don't think he's got enough to be the primary number 10 in our squad. I can see why the manager is obviously getting rid of Cantwell and Taiji and that's fine. I can see why Lawrence is there for the one in the team, and the reality is that Cantwell and Taiji, you can see them going another club. I don't think that you can see Lawrence, you know, you can't see anybody coming in for him and picking up the wages that he's on. So while we've got him and while he's a part of the squad, the manager will be wanting to play him and get something out of him, I thought that the other night they're taking off the Mandy and leaving Lawrence on. I was a bit unsure about that. I get the point that Lawrence perhaps is still there and can still play that one pass that you need to be able to create an opportunity, and perhaps he's better at that than the Mandy is, but I thought at that stage of the game Lawrence already looks pretty tired. So I wasn't really clear on why the manager took that decision. I think, like, you know, thinking ahead to when we please say all tick, it's sort of the first time, but I think as I would prefer, I'd be more comfortable with going with the flat midfield three, something like barring the demand in Sterling all in midfield, and by the way, I do think in response to one of the comments earlier asking a bit whether Sterling should be in it right back instead of Tai. I actually think Sterling's place is in midfield and this code. I don't think the manager will put him it right back, but I'd prefer as this to see his going without flat three in midfield and three really sort of not necessarily defensive minded midfielders but midfielders are pretty solid and can come back and defend and intercept. I think we'd fear a lot better against Celtic where midfield looked at, done with the likes of Diamandé Barin and Lawrence in front of them. I think we're on a heading in nothing if we start that midfield three against Celtic. Still, to my mind, there's a big problem area. I do think the Nicko Raskans get something to give. I did like him as a player. I think I'd like to see him back to the form that he showed to when he first came to the Rangers and hopefully that happens. And I do think that we have enough in midfield if Raskans back, inviting Fett along with the likes of Devil and Barin Diamandé, Sterling. I think that is enough in midfield. But again, what concerns me as the manager seems to want to continue playing in number 10, but really the only number 10 that we've got is Tom Lawrence. He doesn't have a legs, as we said, in B, you can't count in him to play 60 games a season. He's just too injury prone and he's not got the fitness for that. So that is a big concern, I think, is that number 10 thing? David, in the game itself, I mean, I would have said, you know, first leg, we maybe started under the course. Obviously, that was the game's home match and, you know, with the crowd getting up for it and having to go early doors. I felt we were wearing a bit of the storm in the first leg early doors. I think we, you know, we were separated and we were going to have a goal with the backing of the support. I thought, across the first half as a whole, we had a joy going down to have an other side at times. I thought Geoff certainly had the opportunity to put in crosses. I said I have time to my dad to visit the game with. There were a couple of chances in there that if we don't come out of this tight with the favourable result, we were really rude, there was chances. I mean, there was the name when it sprung to English, David and Lauren's both had the cut back and miss it. To have miss it, it's glass and an attempt to swing his leg at it and it falls to Lauren's who does the exact same. Within, all within about 10 yards of the goal and you're thinking, if this isn't going to go in, what's going to happen? At half time though, I still had a good feeling that we would turn this into a centre goal. Did you feel something similar to that? Am I just being a hopeful, optimistic person as I always am? I always thought we were going to win that game. I had that dad just down for 2-1 and I really thought that wasn't just my range of saddle and I went through range of glasses. I really didn't think we would beat them. I think with 11 players, I think we would have beat them as well because I think they would have tired quite easily. You could just see when we could quite the high press. They really didn't know how to break it. I don't know why we don't go with the high press. I don't know if that's what I'm saying. I believe David has cut the horns out and you'll probably come back at some point, but we'll carry on in the meantime. I think, as he was mentioning, I had to spot on. There was a lot of times where we put a key of back line under pressure and it resulted in kicking the ball into touch and I was getting the ball back, which is, you know, the difference between the press as seen in the other night and the press again, Motherwell, for example, is that we were right on them and it caused them to be hitting the ball into touch and not hooking it towards the back line, because during pre-season, which was the kind of sign of we're starting to press, but we're not quite got under. I got a good idea of how we're going to do it was, like, Ix, for example, were managing to hook the ball back towards our back line and put the back line under pressure, which doesn't take much to do. I'll bring this to you, Jack. Obviously, we were definitely piling the pressure on and making some really good chances off the back of that press. It's clear that, actually, one of these things, it's getting better with time and I feel like it's definitely going to start properly paying off and it's starting to really take chances. I see the play out wide in the opportunity with a tournament with Miss Kipter. I was, overall, I was annoyed at that. I was encouraging and I thought we kept meeting the moments and I'm definitely thought that if we keep a living menu and we win that game, because I go was coming and I don't think I go was probably coming for opening them up and it's going to be able to, but I think we're going to get a break in a ball or a deflection or something, so I thought, right, we're going, right, we're playing because we're going to be breaking a bit of luck here. I thought that was going to happen and then I got the full statement, we're going to get one on the break. Maybe see if it was Kipter, get the guy sent off or make the first go, it probably goes in early. They did for Dean Moquiev. There's some encouraging signs but the players that were constantly playing, as I've mentioned enough times now, I don't know if they're good enough to follow that instruction. I don't want to go to park head with Tom Lones who's a number 10 trying to keep up the car with McGregor. Let's no kid on. Now that'll be a walk in the park. I'm going to be realistic about that. They see what we'll try today and I take Bo's point a bit for go for a flat-med field, but if you were to see a flat-med field with Sterling, Baron and Dean Mandy going to park head as well, that is a very young and inexperienced midfield for a big fixture like that. We need desperately add numbers in it. We know that anyway, but as you see, we are trying hangs, you can see, but with this no, maybe it's good tactical, maybe it's good coaching, but we've just got the players to carry it out, unfortunately. Right, I've had a look at the clock on the live streaming. It's 21 minutes and we've only had a rough jab at the Italian job, as David mentioned. Obviously, Jeff, they picked off these first yellow on the 31st minute. I'm going to mention the antics behind that first yellow. Giving the referee something to look at when the key of players go down as if they've been hit by a double-barrel shotgun. The way the cards and the VR can be with yellow cards, and obviously, reactions don't call in referees into giving reds that they can't then pull back. If you're pretending he's being slapped in the face in a straight red, they can look at it. There's the grey area with the yellow card as we found out in the second half. 51 minutes on the clock, both floated towards Jeff, the key thing is that he rises the highest and gets up very early and gets up the highest. When's the header? Key of work was down as if he's had his head cut off by guillotine. As soon as he's hit the floor, the referee's already hit his hand in his back pocket. For me, my assessment of the second yellow in the red was that referee has not been educated in the rulings of what the VR can look at. My first instinct was he made a decision and he's going to wait to hear because as soon as he pulls the card out and shows it, the card goes back in the pocket and he goes to finger teaser. That's pointless. They can't overturn it from that point on. For me, it felt like it's alright, they'll back me up here. If I've made it, if I missed it, and I've gone too gong-ho, they'll tell me if I made a mistake. But that's obviously not the real one. What was your thoughts on it? I don't know that that's the case. Like, the referee runs over, Bixim produces the red card. And by the way, I do think that VR should be able to review a second yellow. It's not the rule right now, so that's fine. I'm not saying the VR team the other night should have done anything we can. But I do think VR should be able to look at second yellow. But the thing with the referee touching his earpiece or whatever, I just take stuff like that to be, remember, all the officials are linked up, and although VR can't do anything or say anything about a second yellow, the assistant referee, the lineman, can still be talking to the referee in his earpiece. So, you know, he's maybe less than his lineman or something like that. You can't tell. I certainly, I wouldn't think that referee, like refereeing in a championship game would have any confusion a bit whether or no foul could step in on something yield, no other rules well enough, I'm sure. It was it was never a yellow. The first one was never a yellow. It was a foul, but it was never a yellow. The second one was even a foul, you know, just absolute ludicrous play-acting. And yes, it may be looked at an overturned or something like that. I don't know. You probably can appeal it, but that is cost 30 or 40 million quid in Champions League money to my mind. And actually after the yellow card and they're both sort of sending off, I thought Rangers still played pretty well. You know, how many times have you seen it that somebody gets sent off and the team that's done attend men was up in scores or something like that? You know, it can happen. And I thought there was a reaction for the team. They got in compact, they defended well, we looked like we were still dangerous on the break. Their goal killed us. So, you know, absolutely killed it. We talked just a bit more on the Gallant Fuse Daily news show about the decision after that to put Robin through a pair up front and the dying stages of the game, which I didn't really have a problem with because when you're already one no-turning, you're doing the 10 men and it's the last few minutes of the game or whatever. Desperation strikes. I mean, you're as well as two goals, but I don't know, like, I just, I felt as if had Jeff do not gone, like others have said, we'd probably do when that game. I don't think that the hand-dringing and the gnashing of teeth and the complaining is necessarily warranted about the squad and the performance and all that. I thought that we played all right on the night. They are a new team. There's lots of new players on that team. They're still jailing. It's going to take a while. And, you know, the stuff with the press, like, that's something that they'll get used to. It does take a while. I think the press works well when the sort of four or five players that are in the press all go at the same time and it's communicated well and clearly. And they are all still learning to play together as a team. You know, like, Jeff, the being part of that has only played a handful of games competitively with these guys. And it's going to take a while, if you imagine any work situation that you're in, that you've got to do something reactive and quite clearly, that works much better way, a team of people that have been together for a while and doing the same thing for a while. And although they've been getting coached on it, it's a different environment in an actual match. I'm pretty confident that that law come together. I don't necessarily think that the, as I say, the handling and the nationalities and the upset about the performance is particularly warranted. I think what's going to lead me more is the red. I think without the red, if we go on and win that game, I don't think people are nearly as annoyed in complaining as much about the performance as they are. Jack, I'll get your thoughts on the red card because I'm going to spend some time after the red and we can discuss the final result, where we stand and where we go from there. For me, as we further away from me, I thought, I mean, the same as everybody and I was a lot further that it's just an aerial battle and one plus won the ball when nothing more than that, apart from the reaction, like that's the long and the short of it, that the reaction has given the referee a decision to make. And for me, that's, that's what's called that. They're going down holding his face as if he has getting on board and he's broken his nose or something on that, it's clearly just he got jumped and he got out, battled in there and I think that's, you know, propped to Jeff's day, but in the end it's going to hit his heartless. It sees a lot. It sees first looking. I couldn't, I would like to see if it was definitely a book, I don't know what I was sitting right, but it sees a lot it handed when you can tell something that's happened when you're far away. I was actually, I thought, I'd geed a foul and I'm, and I'm like, we have got an advantage. I thought about what's getting a good day out for us. When I seen he actually got a foul at him, because I had never seen Jeff did anything where I'm sitting, I can see Jeff did jumping clearly. Then when I seen the same guy, I went no way. So I assume as I've been, I have a miss something, because at the time, but then it's no taking long for the phones, they're going people talking. Nothing's happened there. My last, I said, "Marie Gerro sent me a picture." It's just a guy, one and a he done there. I don't buy the guy of what he did their own about. This experience that I'm wearing for he must have seen the finders and midfielders roll about to when I fail. We've seen it enough in a tally. You know what I mean? This guy's grown up with that culture. So it's very disappointing and I know there's nothing we can do with a certain year-old, but I have no idea how that works. How you can disallow two Rangers going to take a look at a set in yellow, so that desperately needs to look at it, because that is done as a play-off game to get a lot of money, and I think we were the one in that game. So I really hope Rangers commute with something but it's because we have been done with that one. If that's a foul, then what's the point of jumping for a bow in the air if you're going to play Europe? You know what I mean? Oh, he's got here has been stronger than the defender. If you're taking care of a senior loved one, then you know it can be hard. Remember, it's okay to ask for help. There's a reason why 29 million families have turned to care.com. Experienced senior caregivers can help with everything from meal prep to taking your loved one to doctor's appointments, and every caregiver you hire is background checked, so important for peace of mind. Find full-time, part-time, or even occasional help that fits your family schedule and budget. Get the support you need with care.com. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man, then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laugh at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linked in the place to be, to be. Yeah, but I'll do my best not to linger on, you know, the referee himself. There was obviously some talk about previous incidents having in the Italian league spirit. I was giving a suspension after complaints from Josie, but I knew two years ago something like that. So it's just the case of it. It's been very, very pure luck and a mistake, in my opinion. And it's cost us £4 million for that one tie and £34 million plus. And if we were to go into one the next round. Now, being said, we just doubled down on heartache with some news about a potential addition to the off-field team and the running of the club. We're not going to get into too much about what we said, potentially, in some posts made by the person. I'm not going to name the person. But there was a kind of notion going about, from anyone I've seen discussing it, that it took the supporters that long to find it, which wasn't that long to be fair. As soon as it started to come out, people were well on it. How did the people in charge of making appointments of that importance not see that? I think that's one of these men just being incredibly gaff prone. You know, that's hence the title of tonight's show, though. It doesn't rain at polls, you know. Right, well, I'm going to be the voice reason, as I tend to be on the gallon for you. And yeah, I mean, it looks stupid, doesn't it? Finding somebody's social media posts, though, if you are a prospective employer of that person, the regulation of investigative powers Scotland Act considers that to be covert surveillance, which you've got to have police-style powers to be able to do. So prospective employers, despite the fact that many well, are not allowed to go looking at their employees' social media, with at least informing the employee first. So I can't honestly say that Rangers should have found that, because you're not allowed to but later in the law. And I appreciate that. It's quite a niche thing for people to know or understand. I've just been in that kind of line of work before wearing a needed to know about that stuff. So they are not allowed to do it. Yeah, it looks ridiculous. I think to the wider thing, like we talked about this on the the gallant few group chart, yes, viewers, we do have such a thing. Very niche and selective club, as you can imagine. We talked about this on there. And the guy was apparently a Celtic supporter. And I think there's a range of views on that, like somebody come to work for the club and all of that. I think most of his probably would struggle, it'd be upset by that. The thing though, like one of the things that was pointed out with the way that we are struggling to get in the players that we want and stuff, and somebody said, we seem to keep having new blazers appointed at the club. And it's possible more of that of a kind of thing for the fans. A prospective perception of what the club is like and the fact that we seem to keep appointing new officials. And this person was supposedly, I think, appointed on a short term consultancy type deal. Yeah, the club's going to go and do stuff like that. Every private enterprise does. I think had the guy not been looking known Celtic supporter and not had that stuff out there. None of this would ever have been particularly in the news or even talked about. It's only that that's made it be talked about. So, yes, what else that does look stupid, I still wouldn't expect range to use social media to go in their prospective employees. There you go. Bill, not just hand someone a suit, you will represent you in a court of law, if it's absolutely necessary. To an 85 years, to an 85. Jack, I mean, it just felt as the comedically perfect timing. If there's everyone on Tuesday, it doesn't. Some of the things maybe do seem a bit silly and you go, "Ah, it's very dangerous." But it's not as much a crisis seen from some people on social media. I feel like two bad days rolled into one good, wetter meltdown from some people. It just feels like it's the timeline of a range of catastrophe almost, of unfilled and off-field issues in the last kind of 24 to 40 hours. I always seem to be at the moment good that before and after the games, same things and then things and you're like, "Can we just concentrate on the match there?" I mean, that's kind of good for the players and the manager, I don't know about that. I think it was the Birmingham game I was doing. It was like, announced before the game goals and had a bit accepted and after the game can't be able to put a request in and work for God's sake. Surely, this could be used for before or after. Just like when I came up yesterday, first I'd seen it in a couple of months. I was quite busy at what I'd seen it before. A lot of people were talking about it and I looked and it was showed, "J, this guy's new at Angel's employee." I thought, "I don't know what he's doing. I wasn't even out annoyed about it, Ben." I was like, "For the guys, I see how deep finding videos with you in my job, Ben. That's what happens. There'll be a lot of employees with Angel's that are Celtic friends. That's what happens when you work at a Glasgow." But when you started seeing the things that the guys had seen, they're sitting in the classroom. The time of the day, I said, "It's just terrific. The board are having an absolute nightmare." They are, I mean, we're no in the stadium. We don't know when we're going to be in it. I'm not putting that in the board, but if we'd backed the manager better, we'd be in a position where they'd killed when their heart is that much. So we're feeling angry about the board and then it comes with that. He's been sacked by the club because it was just a short term like an emergency goalkeeper lowing in a term. It was going to be in for it. It was just dead, amateurish. It was definitely we brought a fitting in. You know, goalkeeper and he'd double in or something. The way he just dismissed the guy was, "I thought I'd probably have a job like that." Would have been a job, you know, but I'd just move on for that one. It's probably best never mentioned again after the next couple weeks. That's pure bad. That is bad. I mean, you'll sort of stuff that. The joys of our schedule now is that we don't have to wait too long to get back to it. Obviously, the cup fixture this weekend back at Hamden. So not just just evolve and get on with it. The cup, obviously, we're retaining, are looking to retain our cup as we won last season, under a couple of months. So Johnston then, that's the way I've just been saying that is that now what? So Johnston then, let's go. Two games. So Johnston, Ross County, Parkhead, away. It's Johnston and County are going to be massive, massive, massively looked at by the support as how we're going to be going into that first home from the season. How much progress can we make into a game to maybe feel a wee bit of reassurance, potentially, and overall judge of how confident we are of not being humiliated, because at times, after Tuesday, a lot of people were the instant reaction was within real trouble. A lot of people were at the panning button, and given the fact we are to Johnston County and then straight into the first home from the season with already being behind on points. It's definitely not the, you know, I'm not saying that we shouldn't be nervous potentially, but yes, we're not in a great spot. It has to be said. I mean, I'm like a self-ball, trying to be as positive and optimistic as it can be. We're not in a great spot, but we've got two games that we need to focus on ahead of time to try and make as much learning as we can to go into that game and the best possible food we can. Yeah, it's looking like it's going to be difficult, like, stuff hasn't jailed yet, and it could take a while. I think getting a bit of consistency in the lineup will be a good thing, and I know I was speaking earlier, and Jack and I were looking back in on the point that I made, but they're going to flat-med field three, and, you know, I still think that's what we need again, Celtic. Maybe not that specific system, but more of a compact and sort of potentially deep-setting midfield just depending, whether it's going to bar in day and day in stairlink or any other personnel I don't know, to my mind, that's the three best personnel at the moment that we've got in terms of playing across the middle. So if you're asking me to make a choice, that would probably be my choice. But, you know, the important thing for me is, I say, against Celtic, the last three seasons, probably, right back to when I think, back to when Gio was in charge and we lost three nil, I think, at Parkhead. In that game, we totally got overrun in the field, you know, absolutely overrun. We needed an extra man in midfield, and it feels like it's been more or less the same in almost every game since then to create our lesser extent, possibly with the exception of the game where we beat the M3-Nell, which was a deadropper anyway. And the definitely Clemon score, as there is no beat in Celtic yet, really, is no, you know, should they can do it against them. The game, I think the two, two, or it was a 3-3 eye-prox last year, I kind of mind, whatever, I was a 3-3, Cima scored. I think that was a good performance against them once we got over the jitters and, you know, the real panic that we were in in the first half, we played pretty well, but we seem to do this thing, but we play against them quite often and we'll lose early goals and we need to stop that. I don't know that I'm any more confident in the defence as it is now than I was in last year's defence, in particular. I think I've been a long-term defender as everybody knows of James Tavern here, but going into this game in the first of September, that has absolutely given me the fear. I think that is invited to Tavern on toast and they, you and I, were having a chat, I think, before we come on the year, a bit Tavern here against Kiev and how, no, not just against Kiev, but in general, but we talked about the Kiev game, how the Tavern here seems determined to always try and win the foot race, you know, and he's getting less and less able to win foot races as time goes on, I don't think he's got the pace that he once had. He was never an ultra-fast player, but he was quick, you know, and I just don't think he's just as quick as he was, and I think he needs to be a bit smarter sometimes, but that, that can area, the pitch, gives me the fear, going into this game against Celtic, but realistically, who have we got that will come in instead, the Tavern here, I don't think the manager will play, sterling it right back and I think sterling, to my mind, his best position is in midfield anyway, I'd rather see him there. So that's a big worry. The two games in between, there will be different games, there won't be anything like the game against Celtic and not just because it's an old firm, but the actual nature of the game and the teams that we're playing against and the tactics that they will use will be wildly different from what will come up against with Celtic, you know, Celtic will come out with it, so I can't help to imagine. And, you know, sometimes when we're playing against Lexus and St Johnson, we will dominate possession, we will dominate the game, we will create the lion's share of the chances, we'll probably miss all of the chances, but Celtic will match us very evenly as a minimum, you know, and we're actually, we're playing at the earth ground, so they'll probably be more than a match for a certainly in the first half. What's tended to happen certainly last season and certainly under Clemente is that we're not creating the first half, but we grow into the game. And then in the second half, we tend to finish stronger. So for me, if that's going to be the pattern that continues, then I think the defense really needs to be in top of things, you know, we really, really need to make sure that we keep it tight in the first half. And part of that for me has to be getting more compact in the midfield. I said earlier on that, you know, if we play a midfield three like Baron Diamandian Lawrence and really it's a bit Lawrence, I think if that's the case, we will be overrun in midfield. They will just run amok. You know, you can expect, as you said, Andy, I think, can expect Lawrence to try and keep in top of Callum McGregor. That's not going to happen. I think Staling could stick to Callum McGregor and give him a really difficult time. I think that's the route the manager should go. And as I said, Jack and correlation to your point, Baron Diamandian Staling probably are the best three at the moment. I think that's who we have to go with, accepting the fact that yes, they are all kind of young and to an extent and experienced. I don't have any big concerns about any of the three of them, though. I do think that that would be the best in midfield. Jack, I think, you know, these two games feel similar to, I mean, obviously, it's almost the exact same feeling when we played PSV. But Bill is a manager ahead of the first-old from the season when you were thinking, you know, I expect to pull this off against PSV through the world of confidence going into that first-old from game. And we lost to PSV in quite a, you know, humility and fashion, I believe we could kind of run over by, you know, the talent it has in that team. And then, you know, it's, you know, doubled down with the one-old defeat at home, with the whole death's fill in the midfield and the roof goal that gets this allowed and everything that went along with that. It does feel like where it's the same, when it's groundhog day, but these two games could potentially give us a little bit of a boost, you know. If we can find our shooting boots, if we can, you know, be compact at the back and, you know, get some clean shots, it would do us if we were the good. I mean, we should be fine in these two games. If we have any problems in any of these two games and see these questions, then that's never meant for a Celtic game, you know. Going into a Celtic game, I get a bow's point. It was also a problem with a life back as well, last season, rather, but see some's Camara and Ryan Jack of the other team, right. That, they guys protect your fillbacks today with more than fillbacks do. I think Barren could actually do that job. And if you say to Barren, look, Tavern, you're one of your guys, we need to go up. Can you keep an eye on me either coming in? Just help them out, because remember the goal that tab for half my other last year, I'm sure the amount of those in no man's land when a ball gets played through. In the game, I ran after 20 seconds or 30 seconds last year. That is so naive. And see the team it gared about, and even Geo, whoa, the midfield get over Ryan, there was times where, yes, that midfielder would cover the fillbacks. See, as much as Tavsk started to decline and Bon had to decline, a lot of that's today with a midfield that's in front and the shape, you know, you'll know back them up. When, I remember it was a point where loving clients used to rip sell to apart for about six months a year. And then what happened? We played sell to, it was New London, then across a half really. That was the hangings if he critiques Baldi or whatever for how he's running and takes him out of the game. Do you seriously, I'm no saying it, they've no going in the locker, but you ain't going to ever have it in the same go. Just take a yellowing hand, just take him out, you know, like what you would, Ryan, Jack, where they're done, even launched them, to the extent where they've done it, was they very good, they've went for it. That's it. It was very like yellow cause I've asked, but I know what he's tried today, you know, I mean, he just went a bit over the top. We don't have that in us, we don't have that, we McCollock player and McCollock's no wonderful player, just that street wise guy. Oh, my head is gained Tava toward a time. I'll just go one tackle and that stokes up. Yeah, I think, again, you can allude to their corner bar and possibly could be that player. You know, I do think that's what I think we need it. And I, you know, the midfield three, I keep talking a bit about a more compact midfield way, a bit of sort of steel. And I do think bar and could be that player. And I think, yeah, you know, we said that I'm going to go bar and maybe a bit younger and experienced or whatever. He has looked fringes best player, as far as I'm concerned so far this season, I seriously do. He's one of the few and that line up right now that I trust to play well and to go into the Celtic game with the right mentality and know what to affect him, play the game and know the occasion, et cetera. I do think he could be that guy to to kind of play that role. And, you know, if all things going well, he could play that role for Rangers for like six, seven years to come, you know. All right, I think, Byron, to get Cal McGreggers placed in Scotland, the way he started the season. I don't think that's, you know, I'm not a Scotland fan, so when they bore me, but that's a level he's playing. I think he looks like some day straight at a play on a national level quite comfortably. See these tackles I'm talking about like going, I don't mean going to do some day and make a leg. I'm just talking about, I remember I beat Celtic for 20 years ago, 20 years ago, Clay Dorena done Bobby Payton in the first cut of minutes. Just let him know he's there. You'll know getting a free run, you go, it was a six to a game you had a free run. And the next time played my eyebrows in, Rainer has been, you'll know getting a free run, you go. The last time, no leg breakers, nothing mad, just let them know you're there. And when's the last time an angel's player took an early booting, no, a silly early booting while they call him would give it for nothing, right? When did they need to play a last take of booting an old firm game early on? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, Gerald's going to have time probably, I think, I can't even affect me, but that was something we always put a mark on. And then what happens is when you're doing that, where midfield is getting around, when your wingers getting around on us, and it's a good usual day, it would have been born a last year in Tav's still getting a blame. The manager has not lined up for an old firm game properly in a long, long time. If we were to go to park, he didn't run it to their throwbacks, you could bet that McGregor will be taking a yellow card in the first 10 minutes, or Hitati, or also Johnson, would be going in taking a yellow card, Greg Taylor. That's to be, I've got street-wiser players in us, and actually even you taught, that's something a manager I coach could see at you, you know what I mean? That's a big feel, no real part in these games. Yeah, it's definitely something that it should be an addition to what, and I think having a player like Baron who, although he is young, I mean, these players have brought up in Scotland, no less story, I mean, you know the old firm, you know what these games, and Baron, as we both said, I think even back in the games and pre-season where we weren't looking particularly good, it was always the bright spot. Baron for me is 100% the best player I've seen in our shot, regardless of home or away, and what game, and every game he's played. I said that after the Memorial game, I said I'm yet to see him do. In the Memorial game, I felt like I was yet to see him make a mistake at times. Everything he did was, you know, two passes ahead of whether he needs to be positionally. I think he was always not free to try and make the forward pass as well, so it's not just being defensive for being defensive sake, going and contributing, and again against Memorial World, there's no excuse for him maybe to not to be, you know, we should be going and taking the game to Memorial, doing both sides of the game and doing it at top level. I think a spot on with the Scotland shirt, I think if it's not in the early call, up to the first internationalist season, if he keeps going like they'll have no excuse not to, I'm happy with Baron, I think it's been probably one of the best bits of business we've done a long time trying to think of someone, because it was an open goal, it was an open goal and we didn't put it wide as opposed. For me, it was as soon as he was getting down to the run and down the contract, I'm thinking we need to make the move, we need to pounce with it and it's paid off, because a lot, you know, a lot was made of making that stay a pop, going from an apple dine to rangers, I mean, that's one of the arguments of the whole Shankland debate, going outside, he's doing our hearts, but can't do it at rangers. Having a wee bit of confidence in the player and going, no, I'm sold on him, I think he can do it and he's proved it tenfold. I'm losing track, going in a bad and rad, and I can't do it. Andy, can I just come back in on what we were saying, like, Jack, you talked about, you know, that thing about taking the early book and know this early one, but, you know, just leaving a Marco and letting somebody know you're there and all that. I can't even believe, you know, Alex Ray is on her coaching team still, you know, and, you know, is he no telling guys that, I mean, you know, the old firm games he's played, he's watched all of that, he knows with it sort of, I'm really surprised that that message is Nick coming through for the coaching staff. Maybe no Clement, who's no been in Scotland, very long still in all of that, but, gosh, you think Alex Ray would kind of do that, but Andy, I agree with your point as well about, you know, watching Bar and it being an excellent move, like, it is one of the best bits of business we've done in a long, long time, because you've got this young Scottish player who we could build a team around for the next four or five years, where you could sell on, perhaps, for big money, and how many times have we sort of, whether it's been on the podcast or just talking off the air in the group chats, whatever, and we'll talk about all these great young Scottish players that we didn't say that we should have signed, you know, we like to hear Lewis Ferguson's. I just, it's fantastic that we've done this, but a business with Bar and there is other young Scottish players I would like to see it's going to get in, but really pleased we bring in Bar and in, so I just thought that was worth that going there as well. Yeah, definitely. I think he's fit perfectly in the gels that he's been given, taking over from Ryan Jack's number eight, I think I've been very, very impressed with him, and I'm sure there will be for the foreseeable. More wrap up there, obviously, not a game to go in the cup, as we mentioned, games coming thick and fast, as we're really starting to get games ticked off ahead of that very, very important game at Parkhead, but the live pod will be back on Sunday night to discuss that there are the cup match, as we said, against the Johnston. Hopefully, a win, it would just be been just to go and ruin our kind of nice positive end to the podcast this evening after what was a very rough start, but all it's left to do for me is to thank my guests and get a kind of prediction on what we're expecting against the Johnston belt. Thank you for being on, it's good to have you back on the podcast. The first time we've been on a pod since actually meeting up face-to-face, so we're happy to have you back on the live show. Yeah, I said that earlier today, I was looking forward to being known by you and David, because it's a while since I've been on with either of you, so it's been really good. Thanks for having me on. In terms of the game against St. Johnston, I could say that's been brutal. I do think we'll win, but I can see Rangers having to work for it. St. Johnston, they look alright from, you know, they studied Kelly, didn't they? The other day, so I don't think it's going to be a cakewalk for us. I'm going to say 3-1 to Rangers. I still don't think we're necessarily that capable of that competent in terms of keeping a clean sheet. I think we struggle with a long ball over the top or the ball down the sides and then into the box. We were losing that goal every game last season just about, so I do probably think we'll concede 1, but I think we'll get 3 on the day and hopefully trigger us on the next round. 3-1, Jack. Thanks for coming around again, buddy, and what do you see us going for? I'm not as confident as Bill, how are you feeling? I do think we'll win, but I'll tell you a bit. It's not going to be easy. Sorry if St. Johnston has started, no bad. CEO of all of no terrible playing wise, Craig Lavino Smell, but there's no right there, just upsetting him, getting their faces, he's experienced in always. He's done that job for a few different teams again, Rangers, but like, he's smelt blood away a bit, no, I'm not feeling Craig Lavino, but it's ridiculous. An experienced Scottish guy knows when an old firm said he's struggling. It'll be time-wasting, diving over, making it hard. A longer it goes on it now now, but I'm going to go for one, no Rangers. Maybe I don't go with a parent or something. I can't see any. One, no, but I'll tell you about it. If we don't win, then it's going to be chaos. There's no other way of seeing it now. I hate to see it, but we must win, as mad as obviously we always must win every game, but probably for the longest time for the whole club in the world's sake, we must win, because real corporate, big style, if we don't. I think, although I wasn't going to be as positive as better, I do feel it'll be 2-1 to Rangers, but I think it's going to be one of those where the clock's going towards 90, but it's not going fast enough, and I won gold. It's similar to maybe my other way when that shines again, they try and look through everything in the kitchen sink towards the end to try and find the goal, and we're going to have to hold out. But I think we will pull through, so I'll say 2-1. I'm not going to ask you scores, because I think you echo me in saying I don't care who scores, as long as the result is a win, and it gets through. Would you agree it's not only a home advantage this weekend, like if it was I would have said feel a bit, I could do it in my eyebrows, but it's not entirely a home advantage this game. I did the whole 58 minutes, we didn't even mention the elephant in the room of champions. I'm sure we'll keep discussing it as the season goes on, that the elephant in the room have hammed in part. But yeah, as I could have said before, back on Sunday night for the next live show as we discussed that game. 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