What do you mean? It's like the Premier League is like Harrods, right? Scottish football is like Morrisons.

Good shot.

Right? I was going more Lidl.

Nah, it's not Lidl.

What's it, a co-op? oh it's not bad but you said you said Scotland can never Scotland's quickie mark you said Scotland can never claw that back and listen as we said Scottish football in Europe this season last season embarrassing two year ago you talk about the regression two year ago Celtic played Bayern Munich in a knockout knockout phase game it took them two minutes to set your time five year ago Rangers got to the Europa League final the regression's actually been really quickly but drastically bad why why why I feel as if they're miles behind in finances, but they're also miles behind in terms of way of thinking.

I mean, Celtic, for a long period of time, didn't have a director of football, didn't have a technical director, didn't have a head of recruitment.

What big club operates like that? None.

but for that

Although Kilmarnock, when they were just a goal down, actually they were spirited but maybe quite open.

Yeah.

Well, similar to what Broony was saying, it's n- it wasn't so much about the chances, the chances he missed against Dundee, but you see Dundee took a man for man approach.

And quite often in the game against Dundee, that Celtic tried to hit Kasper Huagh with his bis- big physical pr- uh, frame, sorry, and get him to try and bring others into play.

And I thought it was his hold-up play, his link-up play that was probably a wee bit more of a worry for me last week more so than the chances he missed.

So often do we talk about there's, you know, you feel as if a striker's getting chances week in, week out, then more often than not he's gonna put them in the back of the net.

But it was the overall link-up play throughout the game today.

But today, did you see that coming, that 4-nil victory against Dundee United?

It would really shift the parameters as far as what Rangers could then use that money for to bring in to the club, couldn't it?

Yeah, I said a couple of weeks ago, uh, Jonathan, that I think Nico Raskin, you know, leaving the club, I think, I actually think it's best for all parties.

I think, uh, he's off the back of a, a fantastic World Cup, uh, a decent season himself personally.

I think Rangers have not done a good enough job over the years of selling players when their, when their stock's probably at their highest.

They keep talking about this player trading model.

I think Nico Ras- Nico Raskin's, uh, stock, sorry, is probably at its highest at this moment in time, and it's an area of the pitch where Rangers have heavily invested over the summer Probably with one eye in mind thinking that they're going to lose Nico Raskin this summer.

So I, I think it's best for all parties that they, they get that money in an area where they're pretty strong at this moment in time in terms of numbers, and they try and reinvest it in areas where they're not as particularly strong.

I mean, I don't want to be all doom and gloom, but I mean, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if that was, after all that, maybe six defeats, which is, um, it's just such a contrast, isn't it? And it feels like the, the hangover from the highs of last season and the ultimate disappointment still lingers in the air around Tynecastle.

Unless there's a way of incentivising the club.

Which is why I was going to say, can you find a middle ground by taking out the equation where you bring in these homegrown rules and you incentivise clubs for bringing through Homegrown players are, are, are under, uh, 21 players.

And you take...

I, I think we, we do brilliant at copying other leagues for things that don't actually matter compared to the things that do matter, i.e., B leagues, uh, uh, B team, sorry, i.e., reserve leagues.

And you look at what we talk about how small a nation we are all the time in, in the context of the World Cup.

I'm gonna use two clubs, an Athleta club and Real Sociedad as exa- uh, as an example, and their pool of players is in the Basque nation, which is half the population of Scotland, and they're both extremely competitive.

Real Sociedad, 60% of their squad has to come through their academy.

No one's buying any of those.

He's almost the... polar opposite of Ali McLeod in terms of his enthusiasm for even questions he's been asked and whatever and

that left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth to be honest with you Stuart when I watched it because listen when you talk about Scotland and the national team and the manager you're just giving your honest opinion you're never going to take a personal attack on somebody but I thought the way he was speaking to people was a disgrace I genuinely did and I mean we all speak about the money that was spent by the Tartan Army to go over to America to celebrate with the squad and they had a brilliant couple of weeks don't get me wrong but there was also probably two or three million here staying up to listen to hear what the managers got to say at the end of the tournament and I got offered a difficult question it was the most generic question to then shut down Connie and then Aileen that's me I'm out of here And you

Gut reaction to that?

Delighted.

Well for me I think it's been 10 years in the making.

I feel like every time a Rangers manager was let go and it was time to be replaced I think Derek McInnes was on the tip of everybody's tongue.

And it almost feels as if it's been the perfect timing.

I think what he'd done with Hearts.

Could that be a way forward, or is that just, um, too much of a stretch?

I think for me personally, the, uh, it, there's, I think it is a little bit of a stretch, but I can completely understand, Jonathan, why we'll be looking for solutions however maybe we can.

Uh, but I think a lot of Scott McTominay's strength for me is arriving into the box, so late runs from deep.

He scored...

The amount of goals he's scored in qualifying tournaments for Scotland from that deeper position and that, that kind of number 10 role playing off a striker.

But that being said, I think Scott McTominay in term, you know, in terms of individuals within the squad, I think he was probably as disappointing as any, and that's probably due to the high bar that he's set over the last two, three years.

He's, he's been a talisman.

And I just feel like in this country, we don't seem to have that same kind of a culture of football coming through, and I just wonder in terms of grassroots how you see it in terms of are we teaching the kids the right things coming through, do you feel? Or is it too much to do with organization and work rate? Or can we change something in terms of that to bring more players through with the, with the skills required?

So anyone who's got an e-com website online, then why is Googlebot activity and why is tracking that Googlebot activity very important for e-commerce websites?

Yeah, so it's important for a number of reasons.

First of all, if you are changing prices regularly or products going in and out of stock, then you need Google to reflect that, especially if you've got the structured data set up right and it's appearing in the SERPs.

Then if your prices are saying one thing in Google and then they're clicking through and the price has gone up, it does lower conversion rate.

So the only way you can do that is by having Google-optimized core budgets so Google are hitting your pages every single time.

But the other issue I've come across recently is as more and more suppliers are getting more advanced, they're sending the e-commerce businesses CSV daily files of new products.

So historically, an e-commerce business would have to go and buy all these products and stock them in their own warehouse.

Is there a way of me being able to increase my crawl budget? And if so, how do I increase my crawl budget on my e-commerce website so I'm getting more Googlebot activity?

yeah and then with regards to crawl budgets is there any how do you track whether your crawl budget is going up or going down is it is there specific tools or services that you can use to track that crawl budget

so you need to look at there's several ways but basically you need to look in your server logs to pull out the files to see how many times Googlebot's hitting you every single day.

You don't really want to look at a day in isolation.

You want to trend it more over time.

So you don't want to say, actually today I only had 200.

It's more how many you get over the week and a month.

It's really your monthly crawl budget because Google does have spikes.

Yeah, so obviously then, if I couldn't afford, let's say, your professional service of doing server log analysis, and I wanted to try and load the server logs into, let's say, Screaming Frog or Jet Octopus, is it just the Googlebot activity that I'm looking for? Is that it? I'm not looking at anything else? Am I looking at Bing as well, or is it literally just Googlebot?

So just talk to us about Derek McInnes, what you expect to see from him at Rangers.

Well, it feels as if it's been years in the making.

I think that, um, whether it was 2015 when, when Mark Warburton left, whether it was 2018 when, uh, when Pedro Caixinha left, I feel like Derek McInnes has been at the, the tip of the tongues of Rangers fans for, for a number of years now.

Um, and it just felt like the, the perfect time for it to happen.

He, he, he ran so close to win Hearts the league last year, considering they finished seventh the season prior.

Um, and I feel as if he's done a fantastic job there, a brilliant job at Kilmarnock to get them for the championship up to the top flight, get them into the top six in the first season, what he'd done at Aberdeen for years.

Um, so I think for me, I think he ticks so many boxes, and I think there's a lot more boxes to tick at Rangers and Celtic than there is at most clubs around world football.

Of course, fantastic for all involved, but talk to us about the, the strain balancing European football with a domestic campaign puts on a squad.

Why do you think that is? Is it instruction? Is it a lack of fitness, mentality? What do you think it is?

Well, I thought, I thought Yusuf Chamati led the press really well for, for Rangers in the first half, and I don't know if him getting a booking so early in the game then kind of changed him being as, as, as aggressive, then the rest followed.

But for me watching the game, I thought it looked pretty clear that Rangers were man for man in scenarios.

So top end of the pitch, goal kicks for Celtic, man for man.

When it was in Celtic's half, it was like a kind of 4-4-2 mid-block.

But again, so clearly coached in that scenario.

On the ball, again, nobody can tell me Rangers are coached.

Mm

How do you see Hearts getting on against Falkirk, who obviously lost at home this weekend against Hibs?

Hibs?Yeah, they had two really tight games.

I think it was m- uh, roughly about the March time when Falkirk obviously won the Scottish Cup tie on penalties.

Um, and then I, I think it was a couple of weeks later, Hearts got a one-nil victory in the league, and it took the 78th minute or, or something like that for, for Hearts to go over the line.

So, I agree with Daz.

I think it is, um, probably shaping up to be a Hearts win.

Uh, I don't personally think it'll be resounding.

Mm-hmm

Did it, did it take a bit of soul-searching?

Uh, it did.

I mean, I, I was thinking about it for, for a few weeks.

Um, it got to the point maybe just before Christmastime where I came home from training one day, and I just said to my wife, "Aye, that's, that's enough." Um, but even though it's been a few months now that I've already made the decision, it still felt a wee bit surreal almost, it coming out and, uh, telling everyone, basically making it public.

So, uh, 18 years as a full-time football player, ever since I was 16.

Every day I'm working through a routine.

I need to be somewhere at a certain time.

I mean, just how much did it mean to you to play for Rangers, and will you always be grateful that in the midst of your long 480-game career, you got the opportunity?

How big a player do you think he'll be on Sunday?

Massive.

I even think when Daizen Maeda's not in particularly great form, I feel as if he's always, uh, rising to the occasion of the, uh, this game.

Um, you know, you mentioned earlier, Andy, about Celtic not hitting their heights.

I think Celtic are pretty much at their heights.

I just don't know if this team have got another gear or two within them because, uh, we've seen a, a well below par Celtic side for such in the majority of the season.

But what I will say is I think they've hit new heights out of possession.

[laughs]

What, what do you think changed for you? Because you'd obviously been struggling with results, putting in decent enough performances, but back to the weekend, it was like all guns blazing again.

Yeah, I think there's a few layers to it.

Like you says, I do think the performance levels have still been good.

Um, but maybe not as good as it's been in the final third.

Uh, you know, the manager throughout the week had a game plan to, uh, tweak it slightly.

Obviously we went into the game playing with no striker.

I think your, your, your standard football fan, I think if you're playing with no striker, it doesn't give you the best opportunity to score goals at the top end of the pitch.

Do you feel like this is them maybe finally finding that killer instinct and that scoring streak?

Is there any home advantage in these games? Like Hearts have a great record at Easter Road, but how was it when you played in them?

I think, I don't know how many Edinburgh derbies I played exactly, but I'd only lost one and it was my very last one at Easter Road.

Kevin Nisbet scored and we lost 1-0.

I think the atmosphere is amazing in both grounds.

And listening to the game that we've seen before at Easter Road, then to go by we're in for an absolute classic because the opening 60 minutes Hibs were outstanding and go 3-0 up.

But I do think a big moment in that game is Josh Mulligan going off because one thing I do think Hearts have in abundance, I think Hearts have a lot of competitive midfielders.

I think they play with a lot of energy, a lot of athleticism.

Um, do you think Rangers are gonna be able to give him the sendoff that he deserves after, what, 11 years of service?

I mean, surely if, if he wins this game on Sunday, he puts himself in a very strong position for being a serious contender for the permanent job.

I think if he wins this game Sunday, there'll be a contract for him Monday morning, [chuckles] uh, if anything.

But listen, I've been really impressed with him.

I think he's came into a, a side that were really, really struggling.

I think it was six or seven games without a win before he took charge.

Uh, and I was there in Paisley for his first game against Rangers, uh, and I came away from that game thinking, "I think St Mirren are in, in real, real trouble." I think, you know, Scotty touched on it earlier.

I just think the lack of, the lack of goal mouth action in the opposition's box, uh, struggling to create chances.

Why, why can't they do a third?

They didn't yesterday, and that's why it was so comfortable in the end for United.

Ma- uh, my feeling, Brian, in terms of Martin O'Neill, is I, I don't think Celtic are even close to a title race if Martin O'Neill's not there.

I, I, I think before Martin O'Neill comes in, if it continued or, or it wasn't Martin O'Neill that comes in, I think there's a very real possibility that Motherwell, eh, sorry, that Celtic ar-ar-aren't even third in the league, such as the quality of the starting 11 at this moment in time, given all their injuries, given the Wilfred Ndidi.

Um, obviously the debacle when he was in charge.

I think Martin O'Neill's done ever so well, uh, with what he's got at, at his disposal to win the amount of games that they have, even though performance levels haven't, haven't been great since he's came in.

And like Scotty says there, I, I think he's always been open and honest.

In terms of the, the coaching and the, the plans in place, I think that's more down to, to Sean Maloney.

But what about from a Rangers perspective?