RGC - A Celtic Podcast

The plan was to hold off on recording an episode until the full managerial team was confirmed. However, nothing involving the Celtic board is ever straightforward or professional, so we decided we could at least have a chat about Martin getting the job. Obviously, there's a bit more enthusiasm from some of the pod team than from others, but essentially, among the available options, we accept...

The host returned from his holiday, meaning we could finally record the end-of-season pod. Paul and Chris talk us through their day at the cup final sponsored by Baby Guinness, it would appear. We then review the current squad and play a very sh*t version of Shag Marry Avoid. "Staying, Going, and Should Be Going" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. The outcome is that a major ov...

As the pod heid bummer, Paul was up that Italy over the weekend he takes the host's chair for this week's episode. Obviously, there's a huge amount of joy about Saturday, and it appears that the utter headloss from everyone about the Motherwell game increased the desire to win on Saturday. We discuss the game and the post-match scenes like the grumpy old men we are.  Of course, we t...

What should be another incredibly giddy recording is somewhat derailed as we react to people absolutely losing their sh*t over what was a handball. The level of outrage has taken us all by surprise. As Paul is currently honing his spaghetti wrangling skills in Italy, Davie Farrell steps in for this recording Davie does an excellent ex-pro explanation of what happened, and Chris calls all of Davie&...

What a fantastic day, actually, that was a good weekend, wasn't it?  As you can imagine, there's a lot of giddiness to go around. Our review of events at Celtic Park takes up the first bit of the pod and we have a right good laugh at 'thaym', their manager, their captain and their fans Then we move on to the carnage that followed in the pub afterwards, and there's a gig re...

That was the weekend that was... Our men in the East and West were both at Easter Road on Sunday and we get their views on a game that wasn't short of incidents. A game that we should have won, easing up, ended up in a nervy last ten. It's as if Celtic have forgotten they are based in the heart disease capital of Europe. We look forward to the Derby on Sunday and have a right good laugh...

As you can imagine, there is cheeriness by the bucketload in this week's episode. We came within a bawhair of the perfect footballing weekend.  An unconvincing convincing 3-1 win for Celtic, a hilarious win for Well and were it not for Hibs doing what Hibs do, we could have been in the box seat for the run-in. We look forward to next week, and arguably, by the time we record the next episode,...

You’d think a six-two victory in a semi-final against Premiership opposition would be a cue for an upbeat and giddy podcast.   Well, no, it wasn’t. Podcast big boss and head honcho Paul is in Spain, leaving his two underlings to hold the fort. Davie Farrell steps in and, unusually, he gets to talk about a game we actually won. However, it has to be said, he isn’t entirely positive about Sunday’s p...

There was a full turn out of the podcast team at Saturday's game, so Chris has taken over hosting for this week's episode. We look back at Saturday's game and the post-game sesh before looking forward to Sunday's semi. Despite the win the mood in the camp isn't particularly cheery. We take the opportunity to look at each department of the team and in truth there's not...

Finally, a win in Dundee means there's a bit of a change in the mood from the last pod after a game up there. We go over the events of a welcome win at Dens, look forward to Saturday's game, and discuss the potential post-split fixtures, too. Our man Paul chaired the most recent Collective meeting, so he gives a little update from Thursday's meeting. Martin's suggestion that he...

As it's International week, we took the opportunity to record a special episode with a friend of the pod and all-round GC, Stuart Braithwaite, leader aff from the least shite Glasgow band, Mogwai. After we establish his RGC and Celtic credentials, we get his view on the current state of affairs at Celtic and his thoughts on the season so far. Paul gives us a little update ahead of Thursday&ap...

It won't surprise you to hear that the mood of this episode is somewhat different from the last two weeks. Chris and Paul get the opportunity to vent about the game, which hopefully they found cathartic. We asked semi-regular contributor Davie Farrell to join us to give some informed content on Sunday's shambles from a coaching perspective. Spoiler alert - It's a grim listen. In fac...

There's plenty of cheeriness to go round this week. A good result and a half-decent performance against the best-coached team in the league keeps everyone in a good mood.  The mood is so good that Chris graciously allows Paul to take the second half of Saturday's game, meaning he didn't get the poisoned chalice for once. There's a chuckle about the game in Kilmarnock on Saturda...

It won't surprise you to hear that there's some cheeriness among the three contributors.  There's a deep dive into the game at Pittodrie (No' really) and we discuss a few of Chris's previous jobs, before moving on to events at Ibrox. Both Paul and Chris were at the game, so we talked penalties, competition winners, and a podcast exclusive on the location of one of our stri...

First pod in a while where we have the luxury of only talking about the football. Stuttgart and "Thaym" away, and the upcoming league and cup games.  In addition to talking about the games, we started our own conspiracy theory about the FDC being nowhere to be seen on Sunday despite the fact that his jersey did make the trip to Govan. Talking of Govan, there's a plug for the fundrai...

After last week's pod title unfortunately turned out to be bang on the money we revisited the question of the goalkeeper. After an absolute shocker of a week on the park we moved away from our usual format and basically had a moan-in for half of the episode. The keeper, the defence, the midfield and the forward line all get a bit of a shoeing as does the manager. There is concern about the up...

Quite the week where Celtic appear to have forgotten that Scotland and Glasgow in particular has a problem with heart disease. The two games, Livi and Killie placed enormous strain on the hearts of our pod's target demographic but all's well that ends well. We look back on both games and it's quite cheery in the main. Mind you there is then some discussion about players in the squad...

A week of big games not just for Celtic but our "baw tickling" rivals too. We chat about Saturday's Great Escape, the return of The Free Broomloan and this week's league games against Livi and Killie. With our main rivals facing potentially tough games, it could be a pivotal week.  Mind you, we do emphasise that it's up to us to take care of our business. There's a bi...

It's fair to say that the last few days have been eventful after the Collective meeting on Tuesday night. As two of our number were at the meeting and one of them is on the steering group we thought that we'd record a podcast discussing the events at the meeting, the fallout and what we maybe should be doing once Saturday is out the way. Thanks to  @fitzpas.com for the artwork and @arsen...

Ah'll give ye world class basics Recorded four hours before the transfer window "slammed shut," some of it may not date well, but depressingly, we suspect it will probably still be bang on the money. We look back on two decent performances with decent results and then have a quick preview of the upcoming league and cup games.  We then discuss the transfer window, and it's fair...

In a Sweeney's Law heavy episode, Chris and Paul discuss our draws in Bologna and Edinburgh. Both with a sense of what could have been. Of course, it couldn't be a game against Hearts without their keeper and manager getting it tight. We then go on to discuss the two home games this week, and that leads "nicely" into another discussion about the transfer window, which is very &...

Another "What a riddy" episode. We pick over the Falkirk game, but as we said last week, all that mattered was the three points. And we got them Sunday's game joins Stranraer in 1988, Whitehill Welfare and a few other " cup classics" as embarrassing performances/results against lower league opposition.  Both of these things would be okay had we had a couple of new faces in...

The episode title will make sense, but not until the very end of the recording. It's a mixed bag tonight; technical issues forced us to restart the recording. Some Phil Collins-related GOLD  fell by the wayside, much to the annoyance of our man in the east. Paul gave us a bit of an update from last week's collective meeting. As you can imagine, Nancy getting bagged changed the mood at th...

Well, developments on Monday had already made one of the contributors' voice notes redundant, and we were winding up for a lengthy debate about the new manager when a text message brought any speculation to a halt. With Paul away on Collective SG business we got Davie Farrell in to take his place. We had a chat about why the emptying of Nancy was the right decision and then we had a fairly sp...

As you can imagine, there's little in the way of cheeriness in this week's episode. We reflect on the Livi game, the Fir Park Shambles, and it's fair to say no one is looking forward to Saturday. We are grateful to Davie Farrell for his voice notes, which accurately capture the mood of the other three lads. It's a tough listen but we are sure that it reflects how the (silent) m...