What are we worried about?

Quite a f*cking lot by the sounds of this episode.

Paul is off on his travels, so Davie Farrell joins us this week to discuss Sunday's game and the squad in general. It's fair to say this isn't a cheery, upbeat listen. 

No one at the club, including the manager and the captain, escapes criticism. Thanks to Davie's insight, we are pretty confident that the criticism has some weight to it and isn't just "bin ra lorra 'em" (Although it does sound a bit like that)

In fairness, this is a pod to be endured rather than enjoyed, but it does at least attempt to identify where the issues are and provide some suggestions about what we should be doing next.

We finish with a bold prediction from Davie, and an optical and fried dough product expert gets this week's RGC Award

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Our man in the meeting, Paul, performs a podcast tour de force as he walks us through the minutes of Monday's meeting.

It won't surprise anyone that the minutes weren't the whole story of the meeting, and Paul fills in some blanks. It has to be stressed that Paul is only speaking in a personal capacity, and how he managed to keep going and make it interesting is a miracle.

Chris and Jim mainly repeat back what Paul has just said to give him a bit of a breather 

It's a long record, but there was really no way we could do it justice and keep it under an hour.

Hope you enjoy it

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First of two pods this week.

There's a brief discussion about the meeting between the Collective and Celtic that we'll cover in more depth once the minutes are available. There is some frustration that certain people weren't able to wait for the collective to release their view on the meeting.

Anyway... We then had a nice change of pace when we discussed the Braga game, and then moved on to the Motherwell game on Sunday. Neither is a particularly upbeat discussion as you can imagine.

There's then a bit of a discussion about the manager's position, again, not exactly cheery.

If you have any questions you'd like Paul to answer about Monday's meeting on the basis that he was actually there then post it on our Blue Sky / Twitter accounts or email us at the address below

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Change of host this week. Chris takes the "I was south of the border, so wasn't at the game" role. He was in Manchester, we think he might have been at a gig and unlike an un-umerellaed Jim as he walked into town after the game he was thinking Please Don't Stop The Rain (wee clue where he was on Saturday night there)

Jim had Chris's seat and hooked up with Paul after the game, where they were reasonably positive about the team's performance, and that carried on into Monday's recording.

We have a bit of discussion about the protests, and there's a little bit of follow-up to the DAF (Dull as fuck) edition from last week, and tentative plans are made that may result in a Pod day out at the AGM. 

As always, we are grateful for your kind words, and thank you for all the positive feedback about the DAF episode.

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Ah'll give ye Corporate governance.

The steering group campaign is focusing on achieving change at board level so we felt we'd use the experience of two of the lads to record a special episode.

 Essentially, we discuss the roles of CEO, CFO, Chairman and Non-Exec Directors and what they look like in a well-run organisation. We then compare them to how they operate at Celtic, and I don't think any of you will be surprised at the result.

It's the longest episode we've recorded, it's a dry subject, but in the coming weeks and months, these roles will hopefully be getting discussed a bit more, and we thought a jargon-free guide to corporate governance would be helpful. 

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We got together to record a corporate governance special so we took the opportunity to record a short pod talking about the draw in Belgrade.

It's fair to say that the point away from home left the lads all a bit underwhelmed. We are sure that a victory against Braga next Thursday teatime may change our view on that result.

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It's a busy pod with Thistle, Red Star, Steering Group and Celtic's accounts on the agenda.

Firstly, we appear to have had some sound issues that we'll try to get to the bottom of for the next record. 

We look back on the Thistle game and briefly discuss the Red Star game this week. 

As Paul is on the steering group we get a first-hand report on the early days of the campaign and we have a bit of a general chat about where it is going. The mood among the lads is still "cautiously optimistic". We then get a pod title from the discussion about the accounts as well

The RGC is a young man and his family from the host's home town and we get a lovely message from the family of another young man who passed too soon.

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It's a two-hander this week as our man in the east is in Poland and we *might* have taken advantage of his absence when it came to the RGC nominations for this week.

Chris gives a first-hand account of the 12-minute protest at Rugby Park, and we discuss the game and that last-minute penalty, which, as well as bagging all three points, upset all the right people. Nice.

Of course, we had to have a hearty chortle about events in Govan on Saturday and the WhatsApp group unpleasantness it triggered. And if that wasn't hilarious enough, then the Take The High Road Team Bonding Exercise just put a cherry on the cake.

With the steering group potentially moving forward this week, there may be some issues surrounding corporate governance getting discussed. Now, we know it's dull af, but if you'd like some of the corporate gobbledegook explained in layman's terms,  drop us an email at [email protected] and we'll ask Chris and Paul to try and make it interesting.

Finally there's a lot of discussion about who warrants being RGC this week, and we know someone isn't going to like it.

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As a follow-up to Tuesday's episode, we recorded a pod as we had a representative at Wednesday night's meeting, our man in the east, corporate schill, and all round good guy, Paul.

He gives a brief summary of what happened, and it wouldn't be an RGC pod if we didn't flex our "cynical aul' gits" muscles, so we do voice a few concerns. That said, all of the concerns are ones that we feel can be easily addressed and overcome.

As the pod title suggests, we are cautiously optimistic that we are on the right road.

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They drag us back in.

Welcome to The Godfather 3 podcast. The plan to take advantage of the International break went up in flames thanks to an "accidental" leak of a conversation about the manager, followed up by a simply incredible statement, released at ten to nine on Saturday night. A statement sponsored by Chateauneuf-De-Pape and Chat GPT by the sound, length and accuracy of it.

Chris Paul and Jim discuss both events and we also got some input from Kieron O'Connor, the man behind the excellent football finance site @swissramble on social media.

Unsurprisingly, his expert view on the statement is exactly the same as the "amateur" view of almost every Celtic fan who read it.

There's plenty of moaning, some discussion around what next for the fans in terms of attempting to effect change. There's a consultation document here that we'd encourage fans to engage with

https://forms.gle/F2hwGqkiiQCeTbDc7

We then finish with our suggestion of how a new board set up should look.

We won't lie, it may sound a bit dry, but if you want change, you should have some idea what you want that change to look like.

Thanks as always for the support

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