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A View from the Terrace - Season 8 Episode 2
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03:49I've got long hair and I can't wear a shirt and tie because I'm too sweaty on the sideline, I'll wear it to the games that I respect but I just can't wear it during the game so you're never going to please anyone.
04:00Some of the nicknames as well, some of them like Neil Quornick, Asparagos McPherson, I've not heard that one.
04:09I made that one up, that's right, but there's so many, obviously Brussel Martin, all this kind of stuff and it's just, you know, you begin to feel sorry for him because I don't think he's a bad guy, I think he's a bad manager.
04:20And you need to separate those two things, you need to kind of realise there's a human behind it as well but in Scottish football you're not going to get that.
04:25I just don't think, despite him being a Scotland international, despite him playing for Rangers, he just didn't get Rangers, he was trying to win when building something rather than trying to build something when actually winning and I just don't think he got it.
04:39Yeah, from one man who had a great centre parting to a man who would love to have some kind of centre parting.
04:44But I think the biggest winners from Scottish football over the past seven days are Edinburgh City, getting to zero points by the middle of October, it never felt as good as it did for the citizens.
04:56I mean, you could look at the game and the win over the Spartans, a gritty game, but it was the scenes afterwards that had the most enjoyment, had me beaming.
05:03This one hit a little bit differently because this has taken them to zero points.
05:19Of course, at the beginning of the season they were hit with a 15-point deduction after a provisional liquidator was appointed.
05:25That has completely decimated any chances they had of winning the title.
05:29When you get these sort of points, deductions and stuff, the siege mentality that comes along with it, it properly galvanises and brings everyone together.
05:36The peak moment of happiness, I think, was, I don't know what Edinburgh City player was, but bouncing around as he sang it with two slices of pizza in his hand.
05:44I was like, is that another dream?
05:47Robert, we'll head to East End Park and we'll talk about one of the losers from the past week, and that was Neil Lennon's Dunfermall Athletic.
05:54Everyone, looking back, expected quite a big season from Dunfermall.
05:57They got Neil Lennon, they paid the money to get him in a US analytics firm, headed up by a guy called James Board, who's like a pro-Ev James Bond, coming in and giving the money.
06:06And it looked like it should click, but then you dig a bit deeper and it's just not.
06:10They drew 0-0 with Queen's Park at the weekend, that came off the back of three consecutive defeats.
06:14It's not looking good.
06:15Are we just seeing what Dunfermall and Neil Lennon are?
06:18It's just because Neil Lennon's gone, he's kind of fallen down Scottish football's pecking order in terms of management,
06:24and then Dunfermall just a middling Scottish championship site?
06:27I think it's just two things that are very confused when you put them together.
06:30So you've got analytics that are really ruling the recruitment, and you've got Neil Lennon, who's a raw, passion, energy, sees brick walls as doors sort of guy.
06:38And when you mix those two things together, it's showing right now that it's not working.
06:42And I mean, look at a couple of weeks ago against Partick Thistle, they were 2-0 down after about 20 minutes anyway.
06:46And then the new Peruvian winger brought in to bring a bit of flair, score goals, get assists.
06:51Jefferson Casares, he uppercuts Dan O'Reilly, just punches a guy, punches him, and then he gets sent off.
06:57And even Neil Lennon, even Neil Lennon came out after him and said, that was a bit much.
07:00So he's taking guys that are signed based on, you know, technical ability, and he's giving them the Neil Lennon team talk, and it's just, it's not working right now.
07:08Just like the idea of Neil Lennon saying, listen, Jefferson, that was a wee bit much.
07:10Joe, we have been eating around the margins of this big Scottish football pie.
07:17It's time to take out a great big bite.
07:20Let's talk about Craig Halkett.
07:22Yes, if I could, I would like a cigar to discuss this section.
07:25There's no better way to win a Derby than in stoppage time.
07:28And you think, oh, it might be one of the new signings that scored the winner.
07:32It might be Lauren Shanklin, who the club did everything to retain.
07:36Nope, it was a player who last season struggled, a player who many fans thought could be out the door this summer, and he was just the magic.
07:44And it wasn't just Halkett scoring the winning goal.
07:47Halkett was the man of the match.
07:48A really imperious performance in the back.
07:50He really kept him to be.
07:51He's done it all season long, Craig Halkett.
07:53He's been, I think, our most consistent performer in the heart of defence.
07:57And like Joel says, you know, there was maybe question marks about him coming into this season, but then he showed up and he was in incredible shape.
08:03And he's shown that consistently.
08:05He's played 11 games so far this season.
08:07And he's just been, he's been outstanding, both, you know, in the opposition box, but in our boxes.
08:12Talk about outstanding, Robert.
08:13Your commentary for Hearts TV for this goal was actually incredible.
08:18Left foot, whipped into the box, not a bad ball.
08:20Chant to the back ball.
08:20Yes!
08:23Yes!
08:26Yes!
08:27It's exactly what you want from your TV commentary, where someone is just so completely ecstatic with what they've seen.
08:36And it just comes spilling out there.
08:37And it was just, ah, it's great to watch, great to listen to.
08:39I've never heard myself celebrate a goal.
08:41I didn't realise I said the word yes so precisely.
08:44It's got a Y and an S at the end.
08:45But no, I mean, I'm still a bit hoarse afterwards.
08:47It's, yeah, one of those moments, like Joel says, yeah, everyone talks about 5-1 and all this kind of stuff.
08:51Winning in the last minute is always better and it always will be.
08:54And on top of that as well, it was Craig Halkett was signed by Craig Levine.
08:57A lot of the focus now at Heart of Midlothian is all about, like, Jamestown Analytics bringing these punts from unheralded divisions.
09:03But you've got a guy who was recently signed from Livingston.
09:06He's played more minutes already than two of his previous three seasons.
09:10And a big thing was the work he did in the summer to turn it around because he, going to Spain for pre-season, you notice Craig Halkett was like, he looks in good shape.
09:18And then he turns around and said he's 9% body fat.
09:21So he's really worked it and he's reaping awards and he's deserved his goal there.
09:26Yeah, sorry, who needs a supercomputer when you just get Craig Levine turning up on his open-neck t-shirt and a pair of shorts, just go and get that big boy for the rest.
09:33Easy as that, who knew?
09:35I would like to talk about a winner and a loser from Scottish football over the last seven days, but it's a winner and a loser from the same family.
09:42This is Robbie Leach and Jack Leach, who were on the same pitch together when Clyde drew 2-2 with East Kilbride on Saturday.
09:49Who won, who lost? Tell us more.
09:51Well, East Kilbride were winning 2-0. They were a pretty comfortable performance from them, but then Clyde got themselves back into the game and it was Robbie Leach who scored.
09:59But what's so good about this goal is that it really sums up everything good and bad, the beauty and the pain that football can provoke.
10:07I mean, Leach's goal, very, very well taken goal and the celebrations at Follard are fantastic, whereas teammates are chasing him around, the fans in front of the stand, they're all just joined together in this passion.
10:18The fact that Clyde's a good run continues. Great scenes, Robbie Leach scoring that equalising goal, but what really sums up how great this is, it's the camera that's behind the goals where Jack Leach, his older brother, runs into the net, a side of just chucked away a two-goal lead, the fourth game without a win, and he's clinging onto the net with his head bound.
10:37A real, a real tableau of despair there.
10:40You see Robbie coming back when wedges him as well.
10:41Now, if that's the winners and losers from the past seven days, I think we should take a deep dive into the big issues that are affecting our game.
10:50At the beginning of the season, Dundee United field an entire starting XI that didn't contain a single Scottish player, and St Mirren did that at the weekend against Kilmarnock.
10:58Of course, this, as usual, prompts a lot of hand-wringing, a lot of nasal-gazing about the future of Scottish football,
11:03but it does provoke an interesting discussion about the pathway for our young players to bridge academy football into first-team football.
11:13And I think you can ask a hundred different people about the best way to develop youth players in Scotland, and you'll get a hundred different answers.
11:19But one of the novel initiatives that is in place at the moment by the SPFL clubs is the cooperation agreement.
11:25Joel, what is a cooperation agreement?
11:27So the cooperation agreement allows premiership clubs to have partnerships with teams further down the ladder and allows them to send players who are eligible for the Scotland national team,
11:36aged between 16 and 21, on loan, a maximum of three, and they're able to move freely between the two clubs.
11:42And it opens up the opportunity of players moving out with the window, and it just offers a lot more flexibility to get players game time.
11:50I think the main thing is, it's been the age-old question, and no-one's ever cracked it, how do we get the 18- to 21-year-olds more first-team football
11:58and get them involved in first-team environments without necessarily having to throw them in to a really high-pressured premiership game?
12:05So I think, on the face of it, it's a really positive start.
12:08I think the proof will be in the pudding come the end of the season.
12:10You know, if, for example, Gus Stevenson, who's on loan at Montrose from Hearts right now,
12:14if he maybe comes back and gets onto the first team, stuff like that.
12:18But I think, on the face of it, really, really positive.
12:20I'm going to put my lower league perspective on it, and I think it's been a mixed bag so far.
12:24I'll talk about one of the successes, and that's my club, Stenhouse-Muir.
12:27Stenhouse-Muir's recruitment department worked long and hard to find the right team to go into partnership with.
12:32They actually took presentations out to other clubs to explain what they were looking for from it.
12:36And some of the bigger teams were actually even rejected because they weren't quite the right fit.
12:40But they eventually settled on a cooperation agreement with Motherwell, and it's looking really good so far.
12:45There's one player that's come in on loan, Ollie White, and he really looks apart.
12:49He's 18 years old, big physically, athletic boy, can handle the rough and tumble of League One football.
12:54But on top of that, he's actually fundamentally a very good player.
12:58He's bags of energy, bags of enthusiasm, fits into exactly what Gary Naismith wants to do.
13:02And I think he will leave Stenhouse-Muir a better player than the one who came in and will be able to contribute for Motherwell.
13:08What about the inverse in terms of the lower leagues you'll know better than us?
13:12Is there any that's not quite worked?
13:14Yeah, there's one example.
13:16Aaron Athletic have got a partnership with Kilmarnock, and they took four players on loan from Kelly.
13:22Now, two of them, Xander Craig and Josh Gilmer, they've been all right.
13:25They've contributed to the first team, and they are making an impact in Willie Gibson's team.
13:29However, two other players, they didn't, and they were sent back, basically Willie Gibson in a post-match interview,
13:35just saying that the players just aren't ready to contribute to first-team football.
13:38So, well, you've got some players that can make an impact, some players are, I don't like saying this,
13:42but just jersey fillers and just not quite ready to contribute for their low-knee clubs.
13:47At the same time, it can only be a positive thing if there is that freedom to just go,
13:50right, OK, they're not quite ready, come back in a year, whatever.
13:53Let's look at the other end of the spectrum, where some of the best and brightest young talent in the country
13:58are being plundered at the age of 16 years old and going down to big academies in England.
14:02I hate it.
14:03I don't like it. I know there's arguments for both, but I think, you know, there's been loads of reports,
14:07nothing confirmed yet, but young heart starlet Kieran McMeekin looks like he's going to choose Manchester City,
14:13having spoken to Manchester United as well, and moved down there when he turns 16 at the turn of the new year.
14:19I just don't like it.
14:20I don't like that our best young players are getting taken away and put into academies downstairs.
14:25I don't know, Robert.
14:26I think there's something to be said about the fact that some of our best young players are on the radars
14:30of some of the biggest clubs on the planet, like Manchester City, the academy is there.
14:34McMeekin will have access to the best of everything down there, the best coaches.
14:38He'll be working an environment with the best other young players at his age level,
14:42and I'm sure he backs himself to go down there and be able to make it into Manchester City.
14:47first team. I think he'll be displacing Haaland in a couple of years' time. Hopefully.
14:51Very different positions.
14:52If he's replacing Haaland, then something's gone wrong.
14:55I think what it all boils down to is young players playing first team football at a high level as possible,
15:01and I think a stat from last month really summed up from the Scotland under-21s.
15:06They got beat by Czech Republic 2-0 in the under-21s European qualification.
15:11The Czech Republic start in 11 that day had over 22,000 minutes of first team football.
15:16Top flight first team football compared to Scotland, less than 8,000 minutes between the start in 11,
15:21and the vast majority being made up of James Wilson and David Watson.
15:26David Watson had played over 5,500 minutes of those.
15:29So that's what this is about, is trying to get players playing regular first team football
15:35as high a level as possible, essentially at top flight as well.
15:39And that's what you're getting with these players going down south,
15:42is that it's taken them a long time to get that exposure to first team football at the highest level.
15:49To pluck an example out, Rory Wilson left Rangers Academy, Rangers B team,
15:53and went to Aston Villa a few years back now.
15:55And he's a really promising, really good striker, and you know, Aston Villa rating very highly as well.
15:59And he's doing well, he's scoring goals.
16:01He is, yeah, he's just signed a new two-year deal, so he is doing well.
16:04But at the same time, he's now 19 years old, and he's not played a single first team professional game of football.
16:09James Wilson got capped at 18 because he was excelling at hearts.
16:11Lennon Miller, I think they were two great examples of the path,
16:14and then the ideal pathway of playing football in the Scottish Premiership,
16:19getting 50, 100 games under your belt, then making that step.
16:22And then get your move to Aston Villa.
16:23Yeah, but that's one of the things, though, you're talking about guys that aren't playing for the old firm.
16:26There's Motherwell and Hart and Midlothian.
16:27The old firm aren't fantastic at bringing through the young players,
16:30so maybe Wilson just thought, well, you know what, I'm not going to get game time.
16:33I might as well move south of the border, make a lot of money in the process,
16:37and then a football career can start.
16:39I just, I don't know, I don't like it, because you're essentially, from a fan's point of view,
16:42you're taking away any form of enjoyment of actually seeing these players turn out for your club,
16:46and having that claim over them.
16:48You know, Aaron Hickey, great example, came through at Hearts, 16 years old,
16:51played in the Scottish Cup final, played 50-odd games, and then got a move to Bologna,
16:55eventually ended up in the bright lights of the Premier League.
16:58Hearts fans can claim, like, Aaron Hickey's one of ours.
17:00He scored in an Edinburgh Derby, he gave us great moments.
17:03This is just completely eradicating all of that.
17:05Plus, from a financial point of view, we're not getting transfer fees.
17:08They're basically just taking them for training fees, and that's it.
17:11And I just, I don't like it.
17:12I think it's negatively affecting the way the players are coming through in Scotland.
17:16Well, let's look at some of the great white hopes that are out there.
17:19I'm going to give you an example.
17:20This is Kyle Ewer, who is currently on loan at Air United from Celtic.
17:25The clubs have got a cooperation partnership with them.
17:27Kyle Ewer is the son of East Stirlingshire legend Derek Ewer.
17:31Of course.
17:31Of course.
17:32You don't know Derek Ewer?
17:33When I heard Ewer, I was like, it must be.
17:36Well, you see, he's been a bit of a standout for Celtic at youth level.
17:39You know, he captained the team to the Scottish Youth Cup.
17:41He's already got three caps for Scotland's under-19s.
17:43He is beginning to really make an impact in Scott Brownside.
17:46He got his first assist from the club against Airdre Onions.
17:49He turned up really well in the 0-0 draw against St Johnson.
17:51And there's hopes, I know that Celtic aren't particularly good at doing it,
17:54but that he returns to Celtic Park and can go on to make an impact on the first team.
17:58That's a good example of the cooperation loans in process.
18:02I think I've got another one here that is an example of someone choosing to stick.
18:06And it is the wonderfully named Aaron McSporran, the most Scottish-sounding man of all time.
18:10I feel patriotic just saying his name.
18:12Too Scottish.
18:12Too Scottish, actually.
18:13Yeah, he is.
18:14Aye, take the Mick away.
18:15Just Aaron Sporran, fine, but Mick Sporran.
18:17Here he is, looking resplendent in his Hibernian kit.
18:21He's a guy who was making waves a few years ago.
18:23At the age of 14, he started playing under-18 level for Hibs.
18:25Right-back, centre-back.
18:27And now he's playing at the highest level of Hibs development at the age of 16,
18:30having just signed a full-time deal.
18:32This is what I want to see more often,
18:34as kids backing themselves to make their name in the team that they're currently at.
18:38Hibs, obviously, a really fantastic track record of bringing young players through.
18:42And Aaron McSporran will be looking at that, hopefully, looking at that and saying,
18:45like, right, OK, hopefully I can be the next one that goes that way.
18:49So I think it's a really positive thing that, you know, capped at various youth levels for Scotland,
18:54properly well-known name in terms of youth development.
18:56I'm glad that you're staying at Hibs.
18:57There's something quite sexy about that.
18:5912 years' time Scotland lifting the World Cup,
19:01captained by Aaron McSporran,
19:03wearing a CU Jimmy hat and his chest-painted blue with a white cross across it.
19:07No.
19:08I think if I was to have a son who was good at football,
19:11I would immediately quit my job and become his agent.
19:13I would see myself as, like, Neymar's da,
19:16like, completely insert myself into every aspect of my son's life.
19:19I would want percentages, kickbacks, transfer fees, cuts,
19:23anything like that that I can fat in my wallet.
19:25I would post things on social media if he was dropped from the team
19:29that slag off the coach.
19:30He'd be really snide, be really cryptic.
19:32And I would give really incendiary interviews with the local press and all that.
19:37And then as soon as my son had no monetary value to me,
19:39I would simply stop loving him.
19:42And all this is while my son is playing League One football Thursday in Housemur.
19:451985, I was a joiner, living in Dunbar,
20:11not an army fanatic.
20:15I lived with my parents in Falkirk, in a local garage.
20:24I followed Scotland all over the place.
20:26I never missed one.
20:28It was just part of my life.
20:31In fact, it probably was my life then.
20:33It would have been the end of the world for me to miss a game.
20:40In a fortnight's time, Scotland are hoping to secure their place
20:43in the World Cup finals in Mexico.
20:44They completed the first leg of their play-off with a 2-0 victory over Australia at Hamden.
20:51We were behind the goal and I turned round to a friend and said,
20:56do you fancy going to Australia?
20:58I started to panic.
20:59How am I going to save up here to go to Australia?
21:04I knew people used to emigrate there.
21:07And there's got kangaroos.
21:08The Scottish-based members of the 18-strong squad began their trek to the other side of the world at Glasgow Airport this evening.
21:17By the time they've returned, they'll have completed 24,000 miles.
21:21It's the longest trip ever undertaken by a Scottish international team.
21:24I have no idea how we managed to buy flights.
21:29We didn't bother with dates.
21:31We were just going to make it up as we went along.
21:34I did try to save up, but I only worked at a garage, so it was kind of hard to save up.
21:39So, eventually, I asked my parents.
21:43It must have been the best day of faith.
21:45I phoned up and they said, yep, we'll get you on the flight with the team.
21:51The squad have two supporters travelling with them.
21:54One is 27-year-old garage mechanic Bobby Gentles from Falkirk,
21:57who forked out £1,200 to follow his team.
22:01Well, I've never missed a game since 81, and I'd just like to go to Australia.
22:07It's a good opportunity to see Australia, and time off and work's no problem.
22:13It's a fair bit of money, though, isn't it?
22:15I mean, this is going to make a big hole in your savings, isn't it?
22:17Well, my mother and father have given me tremendous help to go,
22:21or I would have never, ever seen Australia.
22:2329 hours, 29 hours.
22:34I probably slept most of the way.
22:38We got off the plane into the middle of Melbourne.
22:45I'd mercy Fort McKenzie killed.
22:48Full military spawn, full battle dress, as we say.
22:52You were always getting stuck, because you were like something that landed from Mars, you know.
22:57They said, we can't believe you've come all the way to see your country.
23:02Where are you staying?
23:03I said, well, we'll have to get digs.
23:05No, you can't stay with me.
23:07No, you can't stay with me the night.
23:09We stayed in Melbourne about four, four days,
23:12and we stayed in a different, every night.
23:16I stood in the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne.
23:19Richard Goff was walking about at the foy,
23:22and Mr Ferguson, he was there as well.
23:25I'm dumbfounded that anybody probably was nuts, you know, to travel that distance.
23:32The place was buzzing.
23:34Absolutely buzzing.
23:37The majority were expats, without a doubt.
23:39It was a good atmosphere, you know, you thought you were it, it's hand and pad.
23:47Kick-off at nine this morning saw many of the Glasgow pubs with special licences more full than at nine most evenings.
23:55These men came in their working clothes straight from the city's fruit and vegetable market,
23:58and work all over the city was abandoned.
24:00It was a very good game.
24:17It's boring.
24:21It was nothing each.
24:23The supporters that were watching it in the bars back in Scotland,
24:26they've took the morning off their job to watch it, and they're expecting a better performance.
24:34It wasn't very spectacular, was it?
24:36Nah, what a rubbish one.
24:38Pretty terrible.
24:38If they can't do it now, what chance to go to Mexico, like, you know?
24:42It was a disgraceful show by Scotland's football, national football team.
24:45We should have made Australia a right good government.
24:54I've often went abroad to see Scotland and come home disappointed, so it's just how it is.
25:02To me, the main thing was to qualify for the World Cup, and that's what they've done.
25:11It's one of the best trips I've ever done.
25:14No, it's the other side of the world right now, but I was only wanting to go and see my football team.
25:20If you solely go to see the football, you're going to have a lot more lows than highs.
25:28I've still got my Scotland travel club.
25:31There, there, the number there, 747.
25:35If I hadn't been for the football, I never would have been in Australia.
25:38We had to befriend people and, oh, come and stay at my bit.
25:42And, OK, you can stay there that night, but you're coming to me the next night.
25:48It's all to do with a friendship.
25:51You just can't put a price on that.
25:52Scottish football has been dominated by one thing this week, and that is managerial meltdowns.
26:05There's something about that hot seat that really has the capacity to fry the brain.
26:10Every manager will walk into the job thinking they're the one that can take this club to glory,
26:15but sometimes they can't even stand the heat in their own kitchen.
26:18So let's explore the journey right from day one to the inevitable sacking.
26:23And if we're starting with managers, you get one chance to make a first impression.
26:27Let's talk about Stephen Presley at Dundee.
26:30Yes, Mr Stephen Presley.
26:31He was fun to start with.
26:34He was offered the job whilst he was doing like a jungle adventure with his wife for their anniversary.
26:39Already quite funny.
26:40You know, receiving a phone call on a satellite phone from John Nelm saying you've got the job.
26:45And I'm thinking, I can't remember applying for that.
26:47It was a bit heavy night.
26:47It was an anniversary holiday with his wife.
26:49An anniversary holiday with his wife.
26:50But even take away from, you know, the fact that he was hired in the first place.
26:55He hadn't managed in years.
26:56He hadn't completed a full season as a manager in years.
26:59He used to play for Dundee United.
27:01Everything was saying no about this appointment.
27:04Did he even apply for the job?
27:05The way you're talking, it doesn't sound like that's the case.
27:07They located him while he was in Bali.
27:09But no, nothing about it made any sense whatsoever.
27:12I've tried for Dundee United fans.
27:14So you begin to think, it's like, right, well, what is the point of this appointment?
27:18Let's see what he's going to say to introduce himself to the fans.
27:22What wisdom is he going to give us?
27:23And we ended up with this interview here.
27:25It depends what lens you're looking through.
27:28You know, if you look through a certain lens and you're looking for a manager with history of winning titles,
27:32then I'm not your man.
27:34I've not demonstrated that yet.
27:36Do you know how you guys like winning games from time to time?
27:38You can forget that.
27:39It's not going to happen that often while I'm in charge.
27:42Season tickets are going off now.
27:44Yes, I can't wait to go and win nothing this year and sign me up.
27:48You know, there's an element of truth in that.
27:50I think everyone was expecting Dundee to have, like, a tricky season.
27:53That is proving to be the case at the moment.
27:55Don't say it, though.
27:56I know.
27:56We all know.
27:57We all know to be the case.
27:58Don't say it.
27:59Don't be a sayer.
27:59He said the quiet bit loud.
28:01But, you know, what is winning your impression of Steven Pressler?
28:04That is absolutely spotting.
28:05If I close my eyes, it's almost like he's sitting there right next to me.
28:08I hope you're not expecting to win games.
28:11You've met the media.
28:12You've met the players.
28:13You've had your first couple of games and they haven't gone well.
28:16You have to step out and face the media and explain what's gone wrong.
28:19A terrible example of this, and quite a brilliant example of this,
28:22is your old manager, Ian Catherow.
28:24Yes, they say that pressure makes diamonds.
28:27Pressure also makes people forget how to speak, apparently.
28:30How difficult is that to take?
28:33That's OK.
28:34I mean, it's a situation that was...
28:39How is it?
28:41Difficult.
28:42What's difficult?
28:42It looks like somebody who's been pulled over for a drink drive-in
28:45and is trying to explain to the police officer that,
28:48No, I just said, water.
28:51At nightclub till 3 o'clock in the morning
28:53before I'm trying to get behind the wheels of my vehicle.
28:55I honestly can't watch it without feeling really sorry for him
28:57because just being in that situation, I'll go to pieces.
29:01I go to pieces in normal situations, but pressure situations...
29:04You know when a TV goes in the blink and you just whack it in the top
29:07just to bring it back?
29:08You kind of want to do that with Ian Catherow,
29:09just bump him right in the head and get him started speaking properly.
29:12It's so, and I'm using the right word here, but it's so difficult to watch.
29:15Well, Ian Catherow didn't instil a lot of confidence in the Hearts fans
29:20while watching that.
29:21There's also the aspect of a manager speaking to his players
29:25through the media, and there was a brilliant moment
29:27from a couple of seasons ago with Derek Adams.
29:30His third spell in charge at Ross County,
29:33and he eviscerated the team, but he did it in a very...
29:37It was like an angry manner, but it was just the way
29:40he put his point across, and it was a damning comparison.
29:43Morecam. League 2, Morecam.
29:45The standard's rubbish, and it really is.
29:49And, you know, I've left a team down in League 2
29:52that's miles better than this team.
29:54Miles.
29:55And that's saying something.
29:57You know, we had the bottom budget in League 2,
29:58and we're 100 times better than this.
30:01100 times.
30:02When someone, particularly someone as unpopular as Derek Adams,
30:05a man who looks like a sweating Pillsbury doughboy there,
30:08in that interview, when he comes out and starts slagging off
30:11Scottish football and campaigner to Morecambe,
30:13that just got everyone rallying round the cause
30:15and just absolutely bawding him.
30:17You also find it was a unifying moment
30:19for the Ross County dressing room,
30:21because he didn't win another game under Derek Adams
30:25before he was sacked after a final defeat to Motherwell.
30:27I think that perhaps the greatest example
30:29of a managerial meltdown we're ever likely to see in Scotland
30:32is the then East Fife manager, Billy Brown,
30:34losing his mind after his team were defeated by Stennis Muir.
30:38One of the all-time moments, I think, in Scottish football, this.
30:41Yeah, you need to put this into context.
30:42This is May 2013.
30:45East Fife have been on a dreadful run.
30:46They'd gone 14 games without a win,
30:48and fans were well and truly on Billy Brown's back.
30:50They were playing the Warriors at Bayview,
30:52and after the match, where he gives this incredible interview
30:55that was captured by Warriors TV here.
30:57I mean, you didn't make any difference to me.
30:59I've been places and done things,
31:02but the players here have tried to go out there and do their best.
31:06Right?
31:06Their best maybe isn't good enough,
31:07but as long as they try and we keep supporting them,
31:10you've got half a chance.
31:11But, nah, no, no, no.
31:13I'm showing them all out of the team.
31:15It's just an astonishing piece of footage here
31:18for a man who really is mad as hell
31:20and he's not going to take it any more.
31:21He pitched up on Tuesday the next week
31:23and pretended like nothing had happened.
31:25He trained us normal, and you know what happened?
31:26They managed to stay up via the play-offs,
31:28so maybe then Billy Brown's meltdown
31:30actually helped Galvat...
31:32The Galvatising Affair Galvatism!
31:34It's fine.
31:34You know, the boys watching...
31:35I was orchestrated!
31:37I was orchestrated!
31:38Billy Brown playing 4D chess there.
31:40And then, inevitably,
31:41once you have screened down a microphone
31:43or down a camera,
31:45you will get sacked.
31:48There's a lot to unpack
31:49about Russell Martin's exit
31:50from Falkirk Stadium.
31:52I mean, on a human level,
31:54you know, not great.
31:55You know, the manager couldn't get in the team bus
31:56because the union bears were stopping it
31:58from leaving the car park.
31:59But taking the human aspect to one side,
32:00it was deeply, deeply funny.
32:02I think one thing that he's sort of flanked
32:04by this little squat female security guard
32:06while he's wearing this big, giant backpack...
32:08It's the backpack that kills him.
32:10It's the backpack that kills him
32:11because it's...
32:13I wear a backpack,
32:14Robert wears a backpack,
32:15but Russell Martin, the Rangers manager,
32:17shouldn't be wearing a backpack.
32:18It's very reminiscent of somebody
32:20that had been kicked out
32:20of the Big Brother house for cheating.
32:22Like, he'd perhaps spoken about nominations,
32:25he'd broken the rules,
32:25he was kicked out there,
32:26and then into a baying crowd.
32:29To me, it felt, just with the backpack,
32:31that he was being escorted
32:32off the school premises
32:33and getting picked up by his parents.
32:35He just threw a smoke bomb.
32:38And as he'd been waiting,
32:39I had to stand outside the grounds
32:40for his mum and dad
32:41come to collect him.
32:41A really ignominious end there
32:43for perhaps one of the most crackpot
32:45managerial periods in Scottish football.
32:48Now, if that is managerial meltdowns,
32:50let's look forward
32:51and let's look at the big games
32:53that are taking place
32:53in Scottish football this weekend.
32:55It's a bit of a curtailed fixture card
32:57owing to the international break.
32:59However, there's still plenty of action
33:01for us to take a look at.
33:02And Joel Sked,
33:03let's take a look at the best of the SWPL.
33:06Yes, the standout fixture is on Sunday
33:09as last season's Champions Hibs
33:11take on Rangers.
33:13This looks like a pretty big game.
33:15I think this is a game that could have
33:15big ramifications for the destination
33:17of the SWPL title.
33:18Yeah, all these games do.
33:19It's just the nature of the SWPL.
33:22And I do think it's actually Rangers
33:24who's the more interesting case here
33:26because they have new manager,
33:28Leanne Crichton.
33:29It's a really interesting appointment.
33:31And I think there's a real opportunity
33:33for her to land a statement win
33:36because you're going to be judged
33:38in the SWPL in terms of the games
33:41against the other big clubs.
33:44Leanne Crichton has drawn against Hearts.
33:47She's beaten Celtic,
33:48but she's lost to Glasgow City.
33:49So it's a wee bit of a mixed bag there.
33:51But it's beating last season's Champions,
33:54the team that beat Rangers
33:55three times last season
33:56would be a really, really significant result.
33:58Leanne Crichton is maybe
33:59the jury's still slightly out.
34:01I think, you know,
34:02these teams tend to beat
34:03and take points off each other anyway.
34:05But this would be a massive statement win
34:07if she can get the victory here.
34:08And the SWPL as well
34:09has been restructured,
34:10which will make a big difference
34:11in terms of the title race.
34:12Yes, I mean, it's kind of, you know,
34:14the big five and then the other five
34:15a little bit, to be honest,
34:17obviously like Celtic Rangers,
34:19Hearts Hibs and Glasgow City.
34:20But I think that the restructure
34:22maybe did have to happen
34:24in getting it back to 10 teams
34:25making it a smaller league,
34:26making it a bit more competitive
34:27for the teams that are in there.
34:29If you were being honest,
34:30you could have just restructured
34:31it to the five teams
34:31because that is,
34:33if we're being honest,
34:34that is what the division's judged on
34:36is the results against those five teams
34:38because there's just such a big disparity
34:40between the top five and the bottom five.
34:42Now, I'm going to go to the big game
34:44taking place in the Scottish Championship
34:46and this is between St Johnson
34:48and Ross County
34:49and McDermott Park.
34:50It absolutely should be
34:52some sort of, you know,
34:53title-deciding match-up
34:55but it's just not worked out like that at all.
34:56And it's not the match you were expecting.
34:58However, I think there's so much more
35:00on the line for Ross County
35:02than there is in St Johnson.
35:04I know that's quite a big thing
35:05to say so early on in the season
35:07but you just look at the league table
35:08and where Ross County are.
35:09You come into this season,
35:10the two teams relegated from the Premiership,
35:12the two teams that a lot of people would think
35:14would be challenged at the top,
35:15it's not been the case.
35:16St Johnson having a brilliant start to the season.
35:18Ross County, that hasn't been the case.
35:20And they were favourites as well.
35:20And they were favourites.
35:21You know, they think they'd brought
35:22a lot of players in there,
35:23a lot of money's being spent
35:24in the Highlands there
35:25to make a squad good enough
35:26to win the Championship.
35:27That hasn't been the case.
35:28They did beat Wraith Rovers last time out.
35:312-0 win,
35:33perhaps a bit fortunate in some cases there
35:34but a 2-0 win nonetheless,
35:36they got the first win of the season there.
35:38And Tony Doherty in his post-match interview
35:39said how it's like a relief
35:41that they've won that match.
35:42It's a monkey off their back
35:43and they should be looking to climb the table
35:45but it's a very difficult challenge
35:47coming on against St Johnson.
35:49If they lose, that's the aim.
35:51They're not winning the title
35:53but if they win,
35:55you actually think
35:55there could be something in there
35:59for Ross County.
36:00They would go up the table
36:01and you're thinking
36:01definitely into the playoffs
36:03and then they've got a really strong squad
36:05but you just wouldn't rule them out
36:06kind of trying to track St Johnson down.
36:09Yeah, I think it's a game
36:10that St Johnson can maybe afford to lose
36:12but I don't think certainly
36:12I don't think Ross County can.
36:13But nevertheless,
36:15we will look at the big game
36:16that's taking place
36:17in the Highland League, Robert.
36:19Let's stay in the Highlands
36:20and yeah, listen,
36:21I'm a Highland League fanboy.
36:23I'll say it.
36:24It is my favourite league
36:25outside the Premiership
36:26where Hearts are
36:27in Scotland.
36:28I think there's always
36:29a tremendous title race
36:30and with this weekend
36:31we've got Banks O'De
36:32playing Fraser
36:33but our two teams
36:34that are up towards the top
36:35and have been consistently
36:36the last couple of years
36:37I think it's going to be
36:37a barnstormer.
36:38This season's edition
36:39of the Highland League
36:40looks like a really interesting one
36:42because in previous years
36:43it's been between
36:43two or three sides.
36:45This time, however,
36:46there are a number of teams
36:47that are in the mix
36:48to win it.
36:49Well, that's it.
36:49I mean, Fraserburgh
36:50last won it in 2022
36:51and since then
36:51it's been the three Bs,
36:52Bucky, Brick and Broder.
36:54So I think that, you know,
36:56there are the established
36:57bigger sides
36:57and Fraserburgh
36:58you can add to the three Bs.
36:59Banks O'De have come in
37:00and made a real fist of it
37:01since they've come into the league.
37:03Now you've got Clark and Cudden.
37:03What are you doing there?
37:05And teams like that
37:06who are actually starting
37:07the season really, really strongly.
37:08Banks O'De are actually sixth.
37:10They're at the kind of bottom end
37:11of the teams that you can see
37:12are challenging for the title.
37:14So this is just going to be
37:15such an interesting match.
37:17And it's changed the dynamic
37:19of the Highland League.
37:20You talked about
37:20it's usually between
37:21two or three teams.
37:22The fact that there's
37:22five or six teams there
37:23that it's not like
37:25if you lose a match
37:27it is the end of the world
37:28that has been in the past
37:29because you need to win
37:30every single game
37:31whereas there's teams
37:32that are capable of taking
37:33points off each other
37:34and it just makes it
37:36a more interesting
37:37and competitive division.
37:39They've beaten Breakin.
37:40They've beaten Brora
37:40already this season.
37:42They've also conceded
37:43the most amount of goals
37:44from any team in that top six.
37:45So it's really interesting to see.
37:47I think this will be
37:48a lot of goals in this game.
37:49I don't want to, you know,
37:50jinx it or anything.
37:51There'll be a lot of goals
37:51and Breakin, Bucky, Brora
37:53clacking the Cudden again.
37:55What are you doing there?
37:56We'll be looking at Banks O'De
37:57and hoping that they can
37:58get a result here
38:00because that will just bring
38:00Fraser Brown again
38:01closer to the rest
38:02to the chase.
38:03And Pat, such a good league,
38:04always goes down
38:05to the final day
38:06and I think this is going
38:07to be a great game.
38:07And that leads us
38:08very nicely into the Banker.
38:12Yes, you know how it works by now.
38:14Every week we have been guessing
38:16the outcome of Scottish football matches
38:18and we get points
38:19for every correct prediction we make.
38:22And as always,
38:23we are competing
38:24for the Eamon Brophy
38:25Lone Wolf Trophy.
38:27It looks even better
38:29than it did before.
38:32Now, last time out
38:33it was very successful for me.
38:35I correctly predicted
38:36that Stennis Muir
38:36and Edinburgh City
38:38would win.
38:39Two points for me
38:39and a big fat zero
38:41from your lot.
38:42Now, here is the stipulation.
38:44This week,
38:45with Scotland in action
38:45over the weekend,
38:46we are all about
38:47the lower leagues
38:48and the SWPL.
38:49And so you can choose
38:50from anybody playing
38:51in the Championship,
38:52the Challenge Cup,
38:54the SWPL,
38:55the Highland League,
38:56the Lowland League,
38:57but you can only choose
38:59a team that starts
39:00with one of your initials.
39:02JS, RB and CGT.
39:06And Joel Sked,
39:07unusually,
39:08I'm going to come to you
39:09for the first pick
39:10for your team.
39:11What's it?
39:11Really?
39:12Yes, I like to say.
39:13Let's try.
39:13You know,
39:14it's a new studio.
39:15Let's have a new way of thinking.
39:16No, that's not what it is.
39:17This is mind games.
39:18This is mind games.
39:19It's trying dirty tricks
39:19to try and get the win.
39:21I am a master of mind games.
39:22I'm going to throw it back at you.
39:23I am going to pick
39:24your team,
39:25Stenhouse Muir.
39:26to beat Motherwell B
39:28in the Challenge Cup.
39:29I'm not going to give it
39:30its new sexy title.
39:32They're playing
39:32in the Challenge Cup
39:33this Saturday.
39:34And I am backing
39:35Stenhouse Muir.
39:36And I'll get you
39:37to explain why.
39:38That's a very astute pick.
39:40And I think
39:40you're absolutely correct.
39:41If my name was
39:42Craig Skelford,
39:43that's the match
39:44that I would have gone for.
39:45Yeah, Stenhouse Muir
39:45are on an absolute tear
39:46at the moment.
39:47They're doing very well
39:48in that competition.
39:49They've won all their matches.
39:50Motherwell are not doing
39:51very well in that competition.
39:52And all you need to do
39:53to see how badly
39:54the B teams are struggling,
39:55just look at that league table.
39:56The bottom eight positions,
39:58they've all got
39:58kiddies sides in them.
39:59And I think Stenny
40:00will absolutely wipe
40:01the floor of them.
40:02So, yes,
40:02a good pick.
40:05I hope it comes up,
40:06but I hope it doesn't
40:07come up at the same time.
40:08I'm going into
40:09the Lowland League
40:10for the Craig G.
40:11Telford Derby
40:11where Clyde Bank,
40:13who will be given
40:13the letter C,
40:14are taking on
40:15Gallifrey Dean Rovers,
40:16who will be given
40:16with the letter G.
40:18Craig Gordon,
40:19the Craig G.
40:19Telford Derby.
40:20And for this one,
40:21very straightforward.
40:21I'm going to back
40:22Clyde Bank for this one.
40:23The Bankies are having
40:24a great season
40:25since coming into
40:25the Lowland League.
40:26They made a really
40:26strong impression there.
40:28And I think there's
40:29a really interesting
40:30battle at the top
40:31of the table
40:31between themselves
40:32and Linlithco Rose.
40:33It feels like
40:34a bit of an arms race,
40:35similar to what we spoke
40:36about the Highland League,
40:36where you need to win
40:37as many games as possible
40:39in order to stay on top.
40:41And I think that
40:42Clyde Bank will be looking
40:43at Gallifrey reading
40:43and thinking,
40:44we need to beat them.
40:45That's exactly what
40:46they're going to do.
40:47Win for Clyde Bank,
40:48and one point to me.
40:50Robert,
40:51what is the second pick
40:52for your team?
40:53I am going to use
40:55my surname initial
40:56and I'm going to go for,
40:58yes, thank you,
40:59I'm going to go for
41:00Brecon City
41:01to beat Inverurie
41:02Local Works.
41:04And I think this one's
41:04quite simple.
41:05Brecon, although they are not
41:06hitting the Heady Heights
41:08that they were
41:08in the last couple of years,
41:10they're still by far
41:10and I'll be one of the best
41:11teams in the Highland League
41:12and Inverurie
41:13just aren't.
41:14They're down towards
41:15the bottom of the table.
41:16They're kind of
41:16mid-table fodder.
41:17I don't think they're
41:18going to be in any real
41:18danger come the end
41:19of the season,
41:20but it's a fairly simple one.
41:21I think Brecon,
41:22even though it's away
41:22from home,
41:23I think they'll have
41:24enough to beat Inverurie.
41:25You don't need a Highland,
41:26you need to be a Highland
41:27League expert.
41:27Look at the table.
41:28Brecon, Inverurie.
41:30Which team's going to win?
41:31Brecon.
41:32For my second pick,
41:34I am going to follow
41:35Joel's lead and go into
41:36the KDM Evolution Trophy
41:38and I am going to back
41:39the Spartans,
41:40who are taking on
41:41Montrose at Lynx Park.
41:43Craig G.
41:44Selfer.
41:44No, no, no,
41:45it's Craig G.
41:46Spartans.
41:47Both teams lost
41:49last time out
41:50and I think that
41:51this has got a feeling
41:52Montrose were in a good run
41:53until that game
41:54against Stennis Moon
41:55and I think that
41:56that defeat where they were,
41:57they got their asses
41:57handed to them
41:58by the Warriors,
41:59that is going to have
42:00such a negative impact
42:01against them.
42:02Meanwhile,
42:02the Spartans doing very well
42:03at the top of League 2.
42:05They did lose
42:06to Edinburgh City
42:07last time out,
42:08but this is their
42:08perfect opportunity
42:09to bounce back.
42:10So basically,
42:11I'm just taking what I'm saying,
42:12I can bend language
42:15to support the outcome
42:16that I want,
42:17but no,
42:17I'm going to back
42:18the Spartans
42:18for this one
42:19and then another point
42:20comes to me
42:21and just one step closer,
42:22inching a little bit closer
42:24towards taking the trophy
42:25back to FK5.
42:27It's a thrilling prospect.
42:28So how are you guys
42:29going to be spending
42:30the weekend then?
42:30I was considering going to K Park
42:32to see Hearts B
42:33against East Kilbride?
42:34I've not done K Park yet,
42:36I've not been to East Kilbride
42:37and I've got 40 of 42.
42:39I've done 40 of 42.
42:40I need to go to K Park
42:41in Kelty.
42:42I went to K Park
42:43earlier in the season
42:44to watch their match
42:45against Inverness,
42:45Caledonia and Thistle
42:46in the League Cup
42:47and it was perhaps
42:47one of the most uncomfortable
42:48experiences of my life.
42:49Not in a sort of emotional
42:51or spiritual sense,
42:53but physically uncomfortable.
42:54The chairs were really sore.
42:55I had to sort of get up
42:56and stretch my back
42:57at half time.
42:58There was an old boy
42:58behind me who cramped up.
43:01So just watch yourself
43:02while you're going there.
43:03I don't want to get into a seat
43:05and then be able to get back out
43:06and just be at K Park all day.
43:08Joe's head just hunched over
43:10in a little chair.
43:11Getting cut out
43:11by the measures of services.
43:13Jaws of life.
43:25I'm not mad
43:25and I used to sit
43:26and I'm in the middle
43:27and I wasn't young
43:28so much for the 70s.
43:30I don't have a sense
43:31but I'm amazing on the side.
43:33And you know the kind
43:34of just ignore us
43:35and now I say.
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