Hello and welcome to the first Cynic Weekly of 2026.

It is Thursday the 8th of January and we're excited.

It's a new year, same old Celtic, but we're certainly going to talk through all of the sort of things that have went on since we last recorded, obviously in December. I'm your host Christopher Galaher. I'm delighted to say I've got a stupendous panel. Stuart Duggan's here. Hello, Stuart. How are you, sir? I'm very well, thanks. Happy new Year. I was going to try and make a shiupendous joke, but I realised that you just did it. So that was, I'll just stop. I'll just stop and say, I'm very well, happy new year. Looking forward to, what, I mean, what's this? Whatever this ends up being. Yeah, look forward to talking about celtic um we're also delighted

to be joined by the wonderful paul carlin hello paul how are you sir hello gal hello stewart may i be the

first to wish you both a very happy new year thank you um great to be here uh i'm actually quite

looking forward to talking about this it feels like there's been about 10 10 years worth of Celtic events over the space of like a month

and my brain's bursting and I need to evacuate my brain.

Yes.

We've done, obviously if you sign up to the Cynix Celtic podcast subscription service.

Over the festive period, we had reactions to all the games.

We had a couple of news shows as well.

Stuart, you were on reactions.

Paul, you were on reaction.

So we've had some reaction to, obviously, games as they came.

The news that Wilfred Nancy had been relieved of his duties on Monday with Martin

Neil returning, which obviously came a few days after.

We've not got either of your kind of comments on it.

Paul, we had the reaction to the Rangers game at the weekend.

And in that podcast, essentially, you highlighted the fact that you thought Wilfred Nancy needed to leave. He's gone. What's your reaction? I feel bad for the guy first and foremost, just on a personal level, because I am a nice guy. But from a football perspective, he had to go. And I had been saying that for quite a long time I think it was like after the cup final

was the cut final the third game or was that the fourth game

It was a third game, yeah

Like it was just so obvious to me that this was not going to work

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