Scottish Premiership
The Warm-Up: Stephen Mcginn and Rory Loy, a deep dive into the lower leagues, regrets and the McGinn family group chat
It’s a lower league football special on this week’s edition of the Warm-Up, with Stephen McGinn, Rory Loy, Gordon Duncan and Steven Naismith talking through the most competitive leagues in Scotland.
While Scotland took centre stage after a win over Greece on Thursday night, our guests take you through the SPFL Lower Leagues as they reach boiling point. McGinn and Loy tell us about their early steps in football, the moments in their career that felt like turning points, what they regret, what they would change, and how they’re now using that experience as coaches now.
The guys give a deep dive on the William Hill SPFL Championship, League 1 and League 2, with their predictions on winners, play-off contenders, relegation worries and their Player of the Year contenders.
The full episode is available on the Warm-Up YouTube channel and can be found here.
BARRY FERGUSON VOLLEYED ME – Rory Loy on a ‘competitive’ Barry Ferguson in his early days.
“Everyone was winding Fergie up, because his team were getting beat, the ball has been kicked up in the last mini-game and I’m like ‘it’s coming straight to me here’, and Fergie’s pressed me as hard as he could, and I’ve taken a terrible touch but it’s just gone straight through his leg and the full of the place has just went “WEEEY!” and he just volleyed me, and I was scraping myself off the pitch that day.” It’s just a sign of the mentality and the competitiveness of the squad back then.”
MCGINN GROUP CHAT – Stephen McGinn on ‘asking questions’
“I’ll give a nod to John because you only have a specific time of the day or week we’re actually allowed to ask questions, I like asking questions so I’ll say ‘How’s Rashford looking, how’s Asensio looking’, if he initiates the conversation about Aston Villa, then you’re allowed to unload and he wants to talk, but only in a specific time. He treats me like a journalist, in fact not even like a journalist because he’s good to them!”
STEPHEN MCGINN’S CHAMPIONSHIP POTY – Spencer or Henderson?
“I can’t decide between two. Brad Spencer is my favourite player in the division, I love watching him play football, I think he’s a key player.
I can’t really decide because I have to give a special nod to Liam Henderson. I think he’s had an excellent season, it’s probably the goals, I know it’s six goals, but they’ve often been really important, even at the weekend and such a big performance you hear the goal come in and it’s Liam Henderson. I can’t decide between those two.”
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