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 bit of reflection on the boycott and the possibility of a meeting between the board and the collective. It's fair to say we are all hoping for positive news on that front.

There's an RGC Award for the "Unknown Editor" and a Peruvian bear* comes in for some well-deserved abuse

*Mogwai's drummer

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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.

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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 to say that we're very much in the underwhelmed camp. It's been a while since we've got a window "right" and it's fair to say we don't think this one has been any different.

We've got a bit of a left field RGC but quietly applaud our "Wiki terrorist" listener

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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 "deja vu" heavy.

We then have a chat about the upcoming collective meeting, which gets interrupted at one point by Amazon literally knocking on our door.

It's not as downbeat as previous weeks and had it not been for VAR, it might actually have been quite cheery.

As always, thank you all for your continued support and kind words

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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 stand, or heaven forfend, actually on the pitch.

The transfer ineptitude is the main focus of the lads' ire, especially ahead of two huge games this week.

Mind you, there is some optimism about Sunday from one of the contributors, which is a welcome relief from what goes before.

An ex-Celt gets a unanimous RGC award for outstanding shithousery in a penalty shootout

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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 that meeting as it did on our podcast recording.

The two boys discuss Saturday's game against United and we asked Davie Farrell to drop in a voice note as we'd leaned on him quite a lot and thought it would be nice for him to be positive about a Celtic performance.

The positivity dissipated somewhat when we turned our attention to the transfer window. Let's just say there's not much confidence that whoever is pulling the strings at the moment will get the players we need through the door.

The pod finishes with another voice note from "Part-time Tim", Justin Moorhouse, one of the best comedians in the country and host of the Manchester United podcast "The Good Days Are Coming", who was at the game on Saturday, sitting with Chris.

You can decide who gets the RGC of the week from the people he mentions in the voice note

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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 spirited discussion about Martin O'Neill getting the job until the end of the season.

It's fair to say that, amid the happiness that Nancy is gone and Martin is in, we discuss whether he should be given longer. Two say no, one says yes.

We have an absolutely incredible RGC nomination from the boy Farrell, but the host exercises his veto to nominate the two lads in row CC in section 138 of the Jock Stein Stand.

It's a cheery episode that none of us saw coming around half two on Saturday.

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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) majority are feeling about the club just now.

We would like to thank you all for your support and kind words about the pod, and wish you all a peaceful and happy new year.

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