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It's the regular trio as the two John's and Krys are on. They start off by trying to avoid the football chat. We give a shout out again to our guest from last week Aaron whose Fauldhouse United team advanced in the Back Onside derby. Filthy John covers some of the other Junior Cup results. It's the Glasgow and Edinburgh teams who advanced to the semis. The two John's aren't too keen to talk about what happened in the cup. The Premiership saw Celtic drop their first points of the season. We discuss the poll we ran from the last few days with regards to McInnes and fan views on whether he should stay. We move on to the lower league and debate whether Shankland may get called up for the Scotland squad. Congratulations to Glasgow City who advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League and are on the verge of clinching their 13th league title in a row. We finish off by talking about the upcoming European games. Thanks as always for listening. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffp

The two John's are joined by Aaron Connolly ahead of his team's Junior Cup tie this weekend. His team Fauldhouse United play Carnoustie Panmure in the Back Onside derby. Aaron kicks us off by talking about the upcoming game and how things have been going this season. He also lets us know how Carnoustie get involved with Back Onside. Friday night saw the First Round game between Kelty Hearts and Auchinleck Talbot on BBC Scotland. It was expected to be a tough tie but Talbot went through comfortably. This leads us on to the Lower League chat with Talbot drawing Cove Rangers in the next round of the Scottish Cup in a repeat of their tie last season. Good John leads us with a tribute to Fernando Ricksen who sadly passed away last week. This leads us on to Europa League chat with both teams getting positive results. We start off the Premiership chat with Sunday's games. The top two both won comfortably after struggling a bit earlier on. The podcast concludes with our #pickitoot winner and a preview of League Cup q

It's a busy podcast tonight as the regular trio of the two John's and Krys are on. They're joined by Lewis. We start off by talking about the two Edinburgh clubs as Lewis is a Hibs fan. He tells us what's gone wrong this season and what he expects to happen this Sunday. In the other half of Edinburgh, it's going even worse with Hearts failing to win a league game this season. Can Levein avoid sacking himself? We cover the rest of the games in the Premiership where Celtic continued their unbeaten start. The chat moves on the Championship and starts with the game on Friday night where there was a questionable offside decision. Ayr won the top of the table clash with McCall having a sly dig at Dundee United. The other leagues are covered in terms of who is doing well and who is struggling. We move on to the Europa League group stages which starts on Thursday and sees two Scottish teams in it. The guys discuss whether they want to see both teams do well in terms of the coefficient. The chat leads on to the Scotti

The two John's are joined by Iain from the Famous Tartan Army magazine. You can find it online at www.tartanarmymagazine.com Unfortunately as it tend to be recently with Scotland games there is doom and gloom. We went in to the games low on confidence and things haven't improved. The guys go over the two games with them not having much positive to say. Iain promotes the latest edition of the magazine and tells us about what is featured. The two John's cover the Challenge Cup which saw a few games go to penalties. They agree that the competition has lost some of its appeal with clubs competing from other parts of the UK. We give special mention to friend of the podcast Aaron Connolly who scored at the weekend. His team Fauldhouse United sit top of the East Region Superleague currently. Good John finishes us off with a preview of the upcoming action that takes place starting on Friday. Thanks as always for listening. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffpodcast

Good John returns to join John and Krys on the podcast this week. We start off with the news of both Scottish teams advancing through to the group stages of the Europa League. This leads on to us talking about their chances of advancing further. There was two Friday night games in the Championship where 13 goals were scored. It's not often you watch a game with 5 goals in it and have envious glances to other game. The lower league chat continues as we include the Highland and Lowland leagues which leads nicely on to chat about Scottish Cup draw. The Premiership chat involves a bit of yellow tie chat as it's deadline day with a few deals being done as we record. Comical defending is a feature of the chat and there is even some praise for a referee. We finish off with some Scotland chat after the women did so well against Cyprus. Let's hope the men can surprise us in their double header. Thanks as always for listening. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffpodcast

F Bomb John is joined by Krys who returns after a two week break. We are joined by special guest Scott from Footyblognet. The podcast starts with an introduction from Scott on what he does and covers some non league football chat. It's good to hear Scott champion the Junior game too. The European games for Rangers and Celtic are covered with good results for both. The guys are in agreement that both teams look likely to go through. We cover the lower leagues starting with the Friday game. Lawrence Shankland looks like he is going to run away with the top scorer award already while Arbroath picked up their first win in the league this season. In League One, Falkirk slipped up which let Raith go top. In League Two, Cove continue their fine start. The chat leads on to the Premiership where Celtic and Rangers continued their 100% record. We have some detailed chat about Celtic and where they need to improve before finishing off with previewing their game against Rangers. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Fo

It's the two John's on again as Krys can't make it unfortunately and we have no interviews or special guests. We start off with the lower leagues with news of the first managerial sacking in the senior league with news of Barry Smith leaving Brechin. That leads us on to us discussing the lower leagues and leads us on to chat of some #pickitoot contenders. The top two leagues saw no games played due there being League Cup action. Five of the ties went to extra time which is probably unwanted at this time of the season. This leads us back to last Thursday and mixed results for our Europa League participants. Rangers went through comfortably while Aberdeen went out. We extend our warm wishes to Fauldhouse United manager Jon Connolly who has been struggling with his mental health recently. Once again Back Onside have been helping out. Check out the great work they do @BackOnside on Twitter. The podcast concludes with our tweet of the week and we pick our #pickitoot moment. Check out Fantasy Football Scotland, dow

It's the two John's on this week with plenty to talk about in Scottish football. There's European action, League action and a few different Cup competitions too. This week starts off with talking about Celtic as their second leg tie comes to a conclusion as we're recording. We discuss what's gone wrong for Celtic and the lack of transfer activity. It's something that has frustrated their fans for a while. There were mixed results last week for our other teams competing in Europe with Rangers having a fantastic win, meanwhile Aberdeen struggled and have it all to do on Thursday to advance. It leads us on to talk about Rangers destruction of Hibs and the strength of their attacking options. Celtic continue to score goals for fun domestically but have issues at the back with their new signings. We cover the lower leagues which is where most of our contenders for our #pickitoot moment come from. Before we preview the League Cup, Good John managed to secure an interview with East Fife's manager Darren Young. We ho

Good John and Krys are joined by former Grade Two referee Derek Crothers this week. F-bomb John missed out in case he got a red card for foul language. Derek gives an insight into life moving up the ranks as an official for 13 years and the stumbling blocks that prevented him getting promoted to a Grade One official. In an open and honest interview, Derek elaborates on the cliques that exist within the SFA and how certain officials move up the ranks as a result, case example Andrew Dallas! However, he does point out that referees are not biased and how much he enjoyed being an official before calling it a day. Onto football, Rangers and Aberdeen made it into the Third Qualifying Round of the Europa League. Both learned their possible opponents for the playoff round should they get past Midtjylland and Rijeka respectively, whilst Celtic will face Slavia Prague in the Champions League playoff if they overcome Cluj. Back to domestic action, the Champions began in emphatic style with a 7-0 trouncing of St Johnsto

F-Bomb John shows off his proud new nickname in front of Good John and No Nickname Krys on this week's podcast. We start off with a review of Celtic in Europe as they advance in style past Nomme Kalju and onto Cluj, with Krys firing off as many bad puns as he can manage. There's previews of both Rangers and Aberdeen later this week as they both hope to Progres to the third qualifying round of the Europa League. The League Cup sectionals come to an end and there's a couple of surprise names in the second round, with East Fife particularly happy to get one of the big names in the draw. Forfar got there thanks to another defeat for St Johnstone, leaving Tommy Wright unsurprisingly one of the favourites in the sack race. Meanwhile Albion Rovers came close to getting out of their section ahead of St Mirren, which leads us nicely into Good John's interview with Albion Rovers manager Kevin Harper. Kevin tells us about his time in charge at Cliftonhill so far, saving Albion Rovers from the playoffs in the process, an

Three episodes into the new season and we've dropped to the standards of Kilmarnock with a podcast which finishes about as effectively as the home strikers at Rugby Park. It started so promisingly too. Two Johns and a Krys for the first time this season and they rip into Kilmarnock like... well, the Connah's Quay Nomads. Thankfully the rest of the European chat is positive as Celtic and Aberdeen both progress while Rangers double down on that and progress to Progres. There's also some chat about hopefully Nomme meeting Shakira... or at least it's possible that was one of Krys's attempts at saying Shkendija. The League Cup chat picks up where last week's podcast left off and rounds off the midweek games from Wednesday before looking at the weekend fixtures. St Johnstone, St Mirren and Dunfermline all have their own disappointments and Krys dreams of Celtic getting Edinburgh City in the second round draw. Then we run out of things to talk about so Krys starts browsing the pyramid system on wikipedia and talk ab

It's episode two and this time Good John is unavailable. John returns and is joined by Krys. The season may have just started again but there has been plenty of football player already. We had our European contingent starting off last Tuesday with all four teams winning their first leg which was pleasing. The teams not involved in Europe kicked off their season in the League Cup which saw a few shocks take place. We start off our new regular feature of tweets of the week with talk of Livingston's dump and Shay Logan's rant at ScotRail. If you've seen anything yourself on twitter relating to Scottish football that has amused you then send it on. Another feature will be goal of the week so again send your contenders on to us @sffpodcast on Twitter. The podcast concludes with chat about the upcoming Scottish Cup preliminary round draw. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffpodcast

It's our ninth season in a row as the Podcast team return for another campaign - just four weeks after the last podcast of season eight! We are one John down but John B and Krys are joined by special guest Aaron Connolly of Fauldhouse United. The guys start by summarising the cruel ending to the Scotland Women's World Cup adventures, where they went out in typically Scottish fashion. Whilst we are gutted for them, there is a recognition of how far the Women's game has come in the last two years and we hope that they learn the harsh lessons going forward. The subject of mental health has always been a talking point and few know more about the depths of depression than Aaron. He talks very openly about his darkest and lowest moment when he was ready to take his own life, only to hear the voice of his son as the starting point to saving his life. Aaron goes into detail about the moment he was found by Police, his visit to A&E, four weeks at Leverndale Mental Hospital and being in a better place now. Aaron is

It's the final podcast of a long season which means it's a long one. The good thing is it's the regular trio of the two John's and Krys that are on. There is some more treble chat but thankfully it's not about Celtic. Auchinleck Talbot secured a treble of their own so that gets a mention. We move on to discuss some of the transfer chat in Scotland with a few confirmed deals already. This leads us on to Scotland's double header where we got what most fans expected. The Women's team have started their World Cup campaign with defeat to England. They acquitted themselves well and have positives to take in to games against Japan and Argentina. The podcast concludes with our highlights from this season on the podcast and on the pitch. In true podcast fashion though we are distracted by pies. Thanks to all who have listened this season. We'll be back. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffpodcast

It's the usual Trio on the Podcast this week, and it's trebles that take up most of the theme for this week - but that's not where we start. The Scotland Women's National Team played their final World Cup warm up game against Jamaica at Hampden and came through an entertaining game with a 3-2 win. Over 18000 turned up at the National Stadium, a new record for a Women's International in Scotland, to lend their support to Shelley Kerr's side ahead of the big event in France. We wish them all the best and hope they can do something the men's side have never done in advancing to the knockout stages. Speaking of the men's team, Steve Clarke named his first squad as Scotland manager for the upcoming double header against Cyprus and Belgium. A minimum of three points from those games is required to kick-start our Euro 2020 qualification hopes. Our focus then turns to the Premiership Playoffs between St Mirren and Dundee United. A forgettable first leg at Tannadice was followed by a penalty shootout at the Simple Dig

The two John's are joined by a special guest this week, Cove Rangers striker Paul McManus. McManus talks about Cove's historic promotion from the Highland League to the SFPL set up, and his moment of joy in scoring the final goal of the 7-0 aggregate win over Berwick Rangers, consigning them to the Lowland League. He talks about the rise of the club, how they overcame disappointment of last seasons playoff heartache against Cowdenbeath to go one better, the standard of football in the Highland League, his partnership with Mitch Meginsson up front and his battles with injury this campaign. Naturally, he talks about the celebrations over the weekend and not needing to buy a drink in Aberdeen! A tactical substitution sees Paul depart and replaced by Krys to round off the rest of the weekends action. Clyde sealed promotion to League One following their playoff win over Annan Athletic. It wasn't to be three out of three promotions from the playoffs as Queen of the South comfortably saw off Raith Rovers to preserve

It's the two John's and Krys on this week to discuss what's been going on in Scottish football. The race for the final European places continues to the last day of the season after Aberdeen and Kilmarnock both won at the weekend. St Mirren managed to beat Hamilton to give them hope of avoiding the playoffs. There's a wee bit of chat too on Rangers improvement this season and Celtic's options for their next manager. Flanagan's elbow is discussed with news today of potential retrospective action even though he was given a yellow card. We record as a couple of playoff fixtures are getting played with there being all to play for. The result of the weekend saw Cove win the Rangers derby convincingly. The guys discuss how well they could progress up the leagues potentially. We finish off with a bit of chat on Women's football with the Scotland squad being announced soon for the World Cup. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffpodcast

It's Krys and the two John's on this week to cover the going ons in Scottish football. It's getting to the business end of the season with plenty more being decided on who will play where next season. We record as some of the playoff games are being played with most ties finely poised going in to the second leg. John has managed to arrange an interview with title winner Scott Brown though not the one Krys would have hoped for. Thanks to Scott for agreeing to the interview. Dundee were finally relegated and Celtic finally won their eighth title and trophy in a row as Krys is keen to talk about for some reason. There is a wee bit of chat about pyramid system and calls for an expansion to the Championship in 2020/21. We conclude the podcast with talk about mental health and urge anyone who feels they are struggling to get in touch with us or many of the organisations available. Please check out the SAMH website for a number of options. Tweet us @sffpodcastFacebook - Scottish Football ForumsInstagram - sffpodcast

Series 8 Episode 42 featured a tribute to the late Lisbon Lions duo Billy McNeill and Stevie Chalmers, who lost their lives to dementia. As part of the tribute, we spoke to Aberdeen fan and former Celtic TV presenter Ally Begg, and former Celtic midfielder Billy Stark. Now you can hear the interviews in full and unedited. Begg recalls the sound advice McNeill gave him during his time at Celtic TV, in particular how to better himself in the face of hate mail. He also recalls McNeill's legacy at Aberdeen and just how fond he was of the great man and the respect McNeill showed him, even if he did call him "Sheepie." We spoke to Billy Stark on the same day of Chalmers passing. He recalled how good a striker, and how good a person, Chalmers was and both his and McNeill's roles in Celtic's great 1967 side. However, it was mainly Stark's time as a player and the impact Billy McNeill had as a manager during the Centenary year, where Celtic won the Double. We hope you enjoy listening to their memories to two legends f

We're one John down this week but Krys is back. We start off with a special tribute to Lisbon Lions Billy McNeill and Stevie Chalmers, who lost their lives to dementia this week. The tribute features interviews with former Celtic player Billy Stark and Broadcaster Ally Begg, who was a presenter on Celtic TV. The topic moves nicely onto Premiership action and it was fitting that Celtic's No.5 scored the only goal of the game on 67 minutes to claim victory over Kilmarnock, which takes them to within a point of the title. Rangers clinched second with an easy win at home to Aberdeen, whilst the Edinburgh derby ended in a 1-1 draw. At the bottom, Dundee look doomed after a last minute loss to Motherwell, whilst both St Mirren and Hamilton snatched late draws to move them closer to safety, though one will end up in the Premiership playoffs. Ross County sealed Championship promotion in style, Falkirk need a minor miracle to avoid dropping out of the Division whilst Queen of the South, Alloa and Partick Thistle are s