Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly. It's Thursday. It's the 12th of March 2026. I'm your host, Christopher Galaher. And we are going to talk Celtic. We have an exceptional panel. We have a full house at Cynic Towers.

The first, I think it's the first panel of four we've had on the Cynic Weekly in a number of years, number of seasons, and it's an absolute delight to introduce them one and all. Barry Galaher. Hello, Barry. How are you, sir? Very well, thanks. Mark's here from Ibricks. I know there was a concern from me, for me, on the reaction which I really enjoyed.

The content's been great this week on the cynic.com.

What a boy.

So. from ibrooks i know there was a concern for me on the reaction which i really enjoyed the content's been great this week on the cynic dot co what a boy um so hopefully we can add to that with a smattering of

class i don't know you had it you don't have to say i don't know but that's great um chris boutia

part of the b roll the B unit the B team how

the hell are you about it I'm all right I'm all right I'm cold I'm wet I'm bold but I'm very

very happy about pumping Rangers no no at the weekend lovely I thought you were going to

make a dan I'm bald I'm cold I'm Roll. I don't know something along those lines.

I'll make it. I'll make it happen. We're also joined by the wonderful Stuart Dugan, Stuart back in the weekly studio to discuss sell tickets. Good to hear from you, Stu. Good to see you. How the hell are you? Yeah, I'm good. when you announced it was the 12th of march the only

thing i've been able to think of since almost like a tick that i have to get out is that i went to

school with a guy whose birthday was the 12th of march and he was a prick that was all i've been able

to think about he's having a unhappy birthday i hope he is i'm glad it's raining great stuff

odd yeah definitely weird.

Quite weird. I'll be the first to hold my hands up to that. That is weird. Lovely stuff. There's plenty of to talk about. We're obviously going to talk about the game at the weekend. I think we'll talk about some of the kind of post-match fallout from that as well. We've got some news. I think the news stuff is just kind of not a lot of kind of depth into it. It's more kind of thoughts moving forward with the season and next season as well. If we've got time, we'll do the squad contracts feature that I've got. Again, if we don't, if it doesn't work out this week, we'll knock it on to next week. Then we'll look ahead to Motherwell. I've been enjoying that that's become like Roger Mears arriving. It's been about a month you've been kicking that can down the road. Absolutely. He's all better way. Yeah, he's just at the roundabout. But yeah, so we'll certainly, we'll talk through that.

And then obviously we've got the Motherwell game, which is exciting, scary, intimidating,

and a huge opportunity for Celtic to lead in a marker.

But we're going to start with a question, an opening question.

And it's quite a huge

blow if Calla McGregor

is going to be unavailable

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