The Cynic Weekly – 22.10.2025
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Barry is joined by Stuart and Scott as they sit down and discuss the current state of play at Celtic.
We start by discussing the manager’s comments at todays press conference. We then look ahead to the Europa League tie against Sturm Graz at Celtic Park.
We discuss the Celtic Fans Collective protests and the need for change at the club and we look ahead to the huge game on Sunday at Tynecastle against Hearts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Cic Weekly on Wednesday the 22nd of October 2025. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm your host, Barry Galaher. |
| 0:30.1 | And as always, I'm joined by Stuart Duggan. |
| 0:31.9 | Stuart, how are you? |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, Barry. |
| 0:34.0 | I am loaded with the common cold. |
| 0:45.9 | So, to quote Brendan Rogers, I'm not in a crisis, but I am in a difficult moment, which is perhaps appropriate for tonight's discussions. |
| 0:54.4 | Oh, very good. Also joined by Scott Fleming. Scott very kindly assisted with putting the run down together today. So thank you for that, Scott, and how are you? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm not too bad. |
| 1:06.7 | Kind of looking forward to the Champions League games tonight, and just a night of European football doesn't involve Celtic, which is a pleasure at a moment. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:17.0 | And just not to kind of jump ahead, but I think we all kind of watched Rogers press conference that came out earlier this afternoon. |
| 1:21.3 | And just as you mentioned, Scott, the Champions League there, did you hear these comments about Eddie Howe? |
| 1:25.8 | And he said, like, Eddie Howe said, like, oh, that's a bit of a tough place to come in the Champions League. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm like, do you really want to be bringing that up, Brendan? |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah, that was a classic Brendan name-dropping anecdote, isn't it? |
| 1:38.5 | There's no real prompt to introduce it, but he done it anyway. |
| 1:41.5 | And it just reinforced us how long ago that seems now. |
| 1:45.9 | I think that was quite an enthusiastic time when you're beating Newcastle 4-0 and a pre-season friendly and Negrin's playing well and Johnny Kenny scoring goals and all that |
| 1:50.8 | and it just seems a million years ago doesn't it? Yep but also the game that they charged 25 quid for |
| 1:57.1 | so not a million years away from the current practice of the road, Stuart. No, no, that's very much set the tone. Although, to be fair, you could argue it's about the only game that you got your money's worth from this whole season, so they were on to something with that. Yeah, that's it. So we'll go straight into the opening question, and Stuart, I'll stay with you for the first part. I'm now at a stage where it's worth taking the risk and first part are we now at a stage where it's worth taking the risk |
| 2:20.0 | and getting rid of Rogers even taking into account |
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