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We'll have Celtic looking to run referee academy next and be in charge of recruitment.

A question regards the point raised in the CRO article needs to be researched, carefully framed and very publicly asked by Rangers. It could serve as part of a follow-up to the Robertson interview.

I get that McCoist tends to be motivated by money (it's not uncommon) but he'd be a good person to contribute in an effort against BBC Scotland because he's very good at media and he's had an up close and personal negative experience in the same fight against PQ. Whether he'd be up for it, I don't know but you can only ask. We should let Gerrard get on with managing the first team as much as possible but yes, he'd definately be an excellent voice when and if we really wanted/needed a specific message to reach a UK audience.

Ally McCoist is one such person who was directly affected by BBC Scotland when employed by Rangers and has media gumption in spades.

You need ex-players/others who have a level of knowledge of the subject and sufficient media gumption to be able to put points accross and probably field a cross-examination. To simply push forward any Xplayer and give him a line to put accross would end up working against you. To have any hope of success, the whole effort has to be carried out with due care to detail.

Best article on the subject that I've read. Cheers Rick !

Mixed messages from SG since the game, he'd be better concentrating on Kilmarnock. He needs all the players onside or what's left of the season could get messy.

Interesting chat on tic tacs.

I know that is laughable, you know it's laughable but we've got to find a way of convincing a sceptical third party. I think this is where groups/websites not directly connected with the club can help if the expertise is there to put together various short online productions that put forward actual examples.

I thought the Robertson interview was long overdue and needs to be followed up. Too often we've seen a play that is made at a time to appease disgruntled fans that isn't followed-up. #strategy

What does DEFCON 5 look like ? (As Scott pointed out, I take it you mean DEFCON 1) Lay it out in some detail I'm curious because whilst the line may sound good to disgruntled fans, I don't think it realistic unless it has a solid legal base. However, I may be wrong, if you could explain how it would work.

There are areas around the game that you could call corrupt and at various levels Celtic (the PLC and the Celtic-Minded politicos on the fringe who are often indirectly linked with the club, eg. CQN, RTC, SFM, etc) have taken advantage of opportunities this decade and forged a path where they hold sway on most things. A poster on FF (the Gub) once coined the phrase, 'Espanyolification' and it has been proven to be disturbingly accurate. In 2015, when Paul Murray came out with the phrase "building bridges", he was villified by much of our own support (at least online). Understandably, there was little to no appetite for it.... but I said at the time that he was right and we had to get our foot back in the door at various levels of influence and start building our way back. What the more confrontational approach has done is more or less put us where the Celtic-Minded wanted us and made it easy for them to help grow a general off the scale hatred and contempt for us amongst much of Scottish football, rather than only the other side of the City. Since then, a lot of the clubs reaction to events has seemed to be based in what they think the supporters would like to see and hear at the time. However, much of the time there has been little in the way of strategy or even tactics wrt follow-up. Although tbf, I think that has gradually changed in recent times. You can shout about it all you want (the timing is down to the poor reslut at the weekend) but it doesn't change things. The club can only go so far with a confrontational approach, as it will eventually take you to a cliff edge of sorts. The bottomline is that Celtic have taken advantage of the spiv era and now dominate pretty much all areas of Scottish football and our board have to continue to work at the politics with the administrations and BBC Scotland but it's a long game of inches that have to be played with the head in a strategic fashion. As far as the support is concerned, the main thing is the team on the park and that is one area that we can better control. That said, again it's a difficult game of inches due to relative financial constraints.....and Again, it should be about strategy and not ripping it up every summer to start again and getting no-where. Another thing Paul Murray talkd about in April 2015 was the Football Operation' as a whole and the importance of youth development. I said last week that this was the area that had to work if the club was going to make a significant step forward. The more you think about it, the more obvious it is and sooner the better it starts having a major influence. Already Ross McCrorie is leading the way.

I understand what you are saying but best to lose the 'Man City' reference asp and let the guy get one with his development. Young players that come from big clubs seem to have it constantly referred to in the media and by many of the fans and I don't think it does them any good. Bottomline, he'll be a Rangers player come the summer.

In Spain, you tend to use the first surname only outwith more informal events or administration.

I kind of agree with what you are saying whilst making the point that a good attitude will only get you so far. A blend of decent ability and good attitude tends to be the hallmark of a successful team. The three players you mentioned represented that very well.

We can't all be a self-proclaimed Captain of industry who needs a football messageboard to get his financial ideas thrown out

A pleasure, yes, but you can do a job well or not so well. Considering the extra pressure, I simply thought you did it very well. I'm thinking you put in a fair bit of prep.

The era you refer to is like comparing apples and carrots in terms of ability. It'd certainly help at times but no amount of bloody mindedness will see you put a consistent winning run together.

Credit where credit is due,...Ross certainly stepped up to the plate in what must have been a relatively pressurised situation and played a blinder in his quarter-back role.

Very probably and it's no surprise. Look generally at the politics of the country and it kind of runs parrallel with much of BBC Scotland. Again generally, when the club and it's support is on the outside of that, both politically (in Scotland/Glasgow this seems to include football) and literally (current ongoing dispute)........ then we are going to be treated as outsiders. It is far from justified from a public broadcaster but that's where it seems to be and is headed wrt the new channel.

Couldn't manage to listen live but just caught it there whilst eating my porridge. Sounded like a normal podcast in as much as there was very little in the way of awkard silence or any kind of mistakes, well done you guys are getting sort of professional at this. As for the content, interesting conversation and well worth the listen. Thanks to all involved.

At a football level, it fair cheers you up watching that !

Brown does that all the time. It's what happens when there is no deterrent.

Parents obviously liked a surname or three !!

You can argue that either way and make a case. However 90%+ of managers would have taken D&D over promising youngsters in these particular circumstances.