RGC - A Celtic Podcast

A slightly more upbeat episode this week. (Only slightly mind you)

We discuss the Flag Day victory against St Mirren and reflect on Brendan's Friday press conference, which did have a whiff of "Back me or I'm off" about it.  There's a bit of actual xG chat but largely in a "point and laugh" context when discussing the game at Motherwell at the weekend.

Sunday's game against Aberdeen gets a prev...

Sadly it’s a familiar theme in what should have been an upbeat pre-season episode.

Three grumpy Tims of a certain vintage railing against Dermot and the unacceptable way he's running the show. Even the new Dundee manager making a James Hunt of his first few weeks in the job isn't enough to lift our mood.

Hopefully, in a few weeks time we'll look back at this recording and laugh. 

As always thanks for your...

Yes, the RGC lads are back for a Summer Special, but if you're looking for laughs from a Summer Special, then you're probably better off buying the one The Beano releases.

We talk about the impact on the squad of the departures this close season and discuss the arrival of what appears to be a number of projects in the window thus far.

Our absentee Irish landlord and his transfer fee ceiling and his tatouazophobia* come in f...

Well, compared to the RGC lads Rev I.M. Jolly is a ray of f*cking sunshine. Maybe it's entitlement but in a season where we won the league and the League Cup and did okay in the CL, it's a very downbeat episode.

None of us has shaken off that absolute shambolic cup final performance and there's not a huge amount of confidence that the summer is going to cheer us up. 

The manager's contract position is a concern as...

It's a packed programme 

The host's professionalism is tested 

We have pre-match pints with two Pat Nevins and a Mad John

Post-match nonsense in the Press Bar with a somewhat pished host recording a "drop in" from a special guest

There's a discussion about the supposed East End War zone, and we offer a simple solution.

We have a cup final preview and some chat about the managerial merry-go-round.

And for Southsid...

As the host was otherwise disposed and our man in the East was poncing about up that Italy our man in the West is the only one of the team who saw Saturday's 90 minutes. 

Not a huge amount to say about the game. Was it a bafflingly toothless performance from Hibs, or was it really professional game management by Celtic?

We have a chat about Wednesday's "gonnae gie wee Jamesey a goal mister" match against...

It could have been another giddy pod had Maeda made the right decision but he gets a pass as he's got a LOT of credit in the bank.

We have our very own Kate Adie's report from behind the Tarrier barrier, and our reflections from the game. We all get the fear when we consider who the back four will be in the game at the weekend against Hibs.

There's a moan about tickets for the cup final, and the host shameles...

As you can imagine, the mood on the pod this week is officially giddy AF.

We have a great time talking about Saturday's game, have a moan about Sky and their presenters pulling players away from the celebrations so they can ask them mundane questions at time up.

We return briefly to the issue of ticket prices and applaud the two protests during the game although we do feel sorry for the poor b*stard who had to blow up all those ...

A two handed episode this week as Chris joins Jim as Paul is having a mid-life crisis in Santa Ponsa.

We have a message from the Remy McSwain fan club and reflect on Sunday's semi-final  and we couldn't miss an opportunity to have a chuckle at the Jambos and Chris revels in a Craig Gordon "masterclass" from the other semi.

That brings us to a preview of Saturday's game at Tannadice, and we then have...

An extra "mini-pod", recorded as a test of yet another recording set-up by the useless aul' b*stard of a host. Fingers crossed that it works.

We decided to have a chat about who gives Maeda any kind of run for his money in the Player Of The Year stakes and it's fair to say that second place was a LONG way back.

In fairness, at least there were a few candidates for second place, as when we considered Young Player O...

We've mixed it up a bit this week.

As Chris was in Manchester for the weekend and Jim seized the chance to use his seat, we have a stand-in host for this week's episode. (With Taylor making his return to the starting lineup, it was probably for the best.)

We reflect on a great first-half performance on Saturday and a perfunctory second half. A remarkable explanation is offered about the Man Of The Match award by the stand-i...

Welcome to this week's pod. 

The "gid-ometer" should have been off the f*cking charts after Saturday's fixtures, however...

Despite pre-record protestations we had all calmed down after Sunday's game it didn't take much to get us foaming at the mouth after an absolutely abject performance in Perth.

After a cathartic discussion of the St Johnstone game the  pod host *may* have triggered one of the con...

It's fair to say there's not as much grumpiness on our first proper pod since "that" game. Well, we say that, bearing in mind both Gordon and Shankland were playing for the opposition on Saturday then there's *some* grumpiness.

We have a chat about people leaving the game early and ticketing issues. Should fans have the ability to give up their seat a few times a year to allow people on the waiting list...

As it is International Week and  there was no game we got a guest in. A man who played in the SPL and had an 18-year professional football career and coached too and he's a right good c*nt into the bargain, Dennistoun's finest Davie Farrell.

We quickly realise that the three regular podders are still pissed off after last Sunday and Davie gives us an idea why it went so wrong on the day.

There's a bit of chat about ref...

It won't surprise you to hear that the "g" in Pod xG this week isn't Guinness, it's Grumpiness.

We reflect (well, rant) on the events of Sunday, as you can imagine there's not a lot of positivity and no one escapes without criticism and that includes the manager.

The only light moment comes courtesy of a "Toon Tim" Ricky as we got his on-the-whistle reaction to their win. (It seemed like a...

The boys reflect on the Hibs cup game but not until we had the pleasure of listening to the view from the Hibs end delivered with frankly magnificent levels of profanity by, friend of the pod, Raymondo Broon.

Ahead of this Sunday's game against "Thaym", we discuss our view of the away ticket situation and give an unbiased and balanced preview of how we think the game will go.

As a bit of a spoiler, we did get...

The pod starts on a more sombre note as Chris pays tribute to Sweeney, an RGC who passed away at the weekend.

We then look back at the Aberdeen and St Mirren games and then have a chat about Sunday's game against Hibs.

There's then the inaugural "Sweeney Section" where we have a cheery wee "point and laugh" at Trackie Baz and say a heartfelt goodbye to The Baldy Banger.

On the 31st anniversary of the take...

Celtic out of the Champions League?

An away defeat to Hibs with a questionable VAR decision?

A recipe for a downbeat pod recording you would think, however...

An incredibly cheery podcast where we reflect on the two games with a special guest all round good guy Martin from Mogwai who watched the game with one of the hosts in Leeds Irish Centre. There is a LOT of 'Espanyolification' chat as we say a fond farewell to The Baldy...

The curse is real...

The episode title will make sense when you get to the RGC nomination at the end of the pod. Before then we cover both Bayern games and reflect on Saturday's game against The Arabs.

We also chat about Saturday's game against Hibs and how one of the podcast team will go "Prawn sandwichless" as he won't be able to attend. 

It does allow the other two podders to go in two-footed on his Hi...