The Cynic Weekly – 19.03.2026
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Gall is joined by Barry, Boud and Stuart to dig through an eventful week at Celtic both on and off the pitch. We discuss the revelations from Kasper Schmeichel about his long term future and look over comments from Maloney about his role moving forward.We also discuss other recent news and look ahead to a huge game against Dundee United on Sunday.
Key discussion points:
- Kasper Schmeichel’s shock media appearances
- Questions over professionalism, communication and responsibility within the squad
- Shaun Maloney’s role, reputation rebuild and uncertain future at the club
- The ongoing managerial situation and doubts around potential candidates
- Recruitment failures and structural issues behind the scenes
- External perspective on Celtic’s untapped commercial potential and boardroom stagnation
- Fan unrest, protests and whether momentum for change is fading as results improve
- Balancing a potential successful season with the need for long-term reform
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly. |
| 0:26.4 | It's Thursday, the 19th of March, 2026. |
| 0:29.5 | I am your host, Christopher Galaher. |
| 0:31.9 | And we are going to talk to you about Glasgow Celtic, |
| 0:34.4 | the greatest football club of all time. |
| 0:37.6 | We've got a great panel. |
| 0:38.8 | Plenty to talk about as well. Barry Geller's here. Hello, Barry, how are you, sir? Very well, thanks, enjoying the changing weather. The nights are fair drawn in. Is that something like things? Is that the other way? Drawn out. They're drawn out. Oh, God. After a bad start. But no, I'm just happy that it's not pitch black on the way over here. |
| 0:56.2 | Great stuff. |
| 0:57.6 | About DC. Sorry, my God. I have to a bad start. But no, I'm just happy that it's not pitch black on the way over here. |
| 0:56.2 | Great stuff. |
| 0:57.6 | Bowd, how are you? |
| 0:59.6 | Hello, yes, I'm good. |
| 1:01.2 | Can you put your mic down? |
| 1:02.4 | Just put it down at the air. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah, but I'm a chin, that's when it needs to do. |
| 1:08.6 | We've all been there about. |
| 1:44.3 | Stuart too much? I don't know. I'm good, I'm good. I did find out next week is when the clocks go forward and I am working on Sunday morning, which is a fucking disgrace. I don't want any part of that. Whenever less. Yeah, no one really cares about. Stuart Dugganz here, Stuart. Hello, everyone well. We're all doing well. Great. Excited. Great. Good, swell. Good. I'm excited to talk about it all. Lovely. There's a part of me that's like, should we really? It's crazy. We're going to keep on going. |
| 1:47.1 | Right, we've got lots to talk about. |
| 1:49.3 | There's some pretty big news that's happened this week since we last recorded that we'll certainly touch on. |
| 1:54.6 | Casper Schmeichael, some quotes from Sean Maloney, Robbie Keene, the other kind of points, |
| 2:02.6 | some general news, |
| 2:04.8 | some interesting news. |
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