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The Warm-Up team select the early frontrunners for this season’s William Hill Premiership Player of the Year award. 

Playing in a winner-stays-on format Chris Sutton, Steven Naismith and Kris Boyd rank and rate their contenders. 

With Hearts leading in the title race and Motherwell impressing under new manager Jens Berthel Askou, could this be a year when a winner emerges from a team outside of the Old Firm? 

Going on form so far, who do you think should be crowned William Hill Premiership Player of the Season? Will a high-flying Jambo take the g...

How will a week of managerial changes impact on the WIlliam Hill Scottish Premiership title race – and relegation battle.

There are new men in charge at Celtic and Kilmarnock, while Aberdeen’s hunt for a manager could unsettle the newly crowned League Cup winners, St Mirren.

Sitting down for a special edition of The Warm-Up, brought to you by William Hill, Chris Sutton and Kris Boyd reflect on the ins and outs and what it could mean for the top and bottom of the table.

They look at title contenders, key matches and disc...

Who is the best goalkeeper to play in Scotland in recent memory? 

This is the question being answered and debated by Kris Boyd, Steven Naismith and Charlie Mulgrew. 

Playing in a new ‘winner stays on’ format, The Warm-Up team pore over the records and rank the SPFL’s rocksteady keepers, several of whom they count as former team-mates and opponents. 

How does Stefan Klos shape up against Allan McGregor? Is Celtic’s former Holy Goalie the best player to don the keeper’s jersey in Paradise? 

Listen now to find out.

Chris Sutton, Kris Boyd and Steven Naismith assemble in the wake of Rangers’ decision to part company with CEO Patrick Stewart and Sporting Director, Kevin Thelwell.  

The team discuss what this means for a club which has already made managerial changes this season.  

In this special emergency podcast they also look to Celtic, their recent AGM and the work that needs to be done to repair relations between an embattled board and fans. 

Also on the agenda are Scotland’s World Cup heroics, a chance for Tony Bloom and Hearts and Celtic’s search fo...

Kris Boyd and Steven Naismith are joined by Rangers and England legend Terry Butcher for The Warm-Up's latest big interview. 

Captain for club and country, Butcher goes back to his early days with Bobby Robson at Ipswich and charts the path that led him to Ibrox, where he became a key figure in the club’s nine-in-a-row run. 

He reveals how his career could have taken him to Old Trafford and talks about the culture shock that awaited him in Glasgow. He also explains how an early encounter with the late Davie Cooper convinced him to m...

Kris Boyd, Steven Naismith and Charlie Mulgrew answer your questions in the latest edition of The Warm-Up mailbag. 

Sliding doors are on the agenda as the team reveals the very different directions their careers could have taken with some different choices. 

Sticking with alternate realities, they also reflect on which SPFL managers they would have loved to have played under – past and present. 

SPFL movie plots, memorable advice as a youngster and favourite partners are also on the agenda. 

And Kris takes us on a trip down memory lane to Portland and hi...

It’s the morning after the big game at Hampden and Steven Naismith and Kris Boyd are joined by a special guest as Charlie Mulgrew steps in for Chris Sutton for The Warm-Up. 

The team pick over the remains of the Scottish League Cup Final, covering the key flashpoints and moments. 

Should Trusty have seen red for his intrusive thoughts? Did Aasgaard deserve to walk? Was it a penalty for Rangers? And who were the stand-out performers in Celtic’s 3-1 win at Hampden?

Looking beyond Sunday’s game, the Warm-Up team discuss changing...

Who is the undisputed Scottish football hard man?  

From the silent assassins to the ones who played the man and the ball, the team go studs-up on the fearful foes and terrifying team-mates.  

No stranger to going in hard on the pitch or the punditry studio, Kris Boyd, Steven Naismith and Chris Sutton rank Scottish football’s hard men. 

The Warm-Up team debate the ingredients of a hard man and lay bare their brutal experiences on the pitch, training grounds and even in the dressing room. 

What is Chris Sutton’s biggest weakness? 

Who was the goalkeeper who broke Kris Boyd’s heart? 

What prompted Kris and Steven Naismith to admit ‘Celtic are the best team’? 

And a viewer gets in touch with a story from the past. One Chris Sutton would rather forget... 

Watch the latest edition of The William Hill Warm-Up mailbag where the team answer your questions on the latest developments within the William Hill SPFL and about their careers for clubs and country. 

Leave your questions for the team in the comments belo...

His time in Glasgow was brief, but brilliant.  

Three decades on, Paul Elliott is still considered one of the best centre backs to grace Scottish football.  

Joining Kris Boyd, Steven Naismith and Chris Sutton for The Warm-Up's latest big interview, the defender talks us through his career, starting from his early days in England with Charlton, Luton and Aston Villa. 

A career cut short following a horrific tackle at Chelsea, Elliott also covers his time in prime Serie A, going head-to-head with van Basten, Maradona, and other legendary stars. 

Now working as a...

Russell Martin has been sacked as Rangers manager after just seven league games. 

Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton bring you a special edition of The Warm-Up recorded hours after Russell Martin’s departure from Ibrox. 

Chris and Kris discuss what went wrong for the Rangers manager and why his vision for the club imploded so quickly and so spectacularly, with just one win in his opening seven William Hill Scottish Premiership matches. 

The duo look at what is going on behind the scenes at Ibrox at boardroom level and in recruitment and ask who w...

Sutton calls Full House on Boydy Bingo as our hosts feud over Old Firm and Edinburgh derby comparisons and put themselves in the frame to replace Brendan Rodgers as Celtic’s managerial Dream Team. 

The Warm-Up team of Kris Boyd, Chris Sutton and Steven Naismith discuss Hearts under Derek McInnes, their progress so far this season and ask if new shareholder and Brighton & Hove Albion owner, Tony Bloom, will go ‘blooming big’ in January. 

The team also look to Easter Road and the missing piece of the jigsaw at Hibs, who failed in a deadline move for...

With Rangers failing to score in their UEFA Europa League defeat to Genk and Celtic wrestling with the question of what to do with a problem like Maeda, The Warm-Up asks which of the Old Firm sides will be the first to get their frontmen firing. 

Will Daizen Maeda persevere up front for the Scottish champions or is it vital that Brendan Rodgers gets new signing Kelechi Iheanacho match fit and starting in a central role. 

Russell Martin faces a different issue at Rangers. Will £8 million man Youssef Chermiti start to make...

In our new RANKED feature, Kris Boyd, Chris Sutton and Steven Naismith debate the biggest Premier League stars who crossed the border… and FLOPPED in Scotland. 

Watch for 👇 

The Bhoy from Brazil 

Joey Barton’s time at Rangers 

Rangers' UEFA Cup Final villain 

Not so Keane on Roy 

& a whole lot besides. 

Join the conversation:  

Give us your reactions in the comments as the lads will be answering them in our Mailbag episode. 

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Kris Boyd, Chris Sutton and Steven Naismith answer your questions on The Warm-Up. 

Listen for 👇 

Kris Boyd – Football Manager 
The signing of the summer 
Aberdeen’s defensive troubles 

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Kris Boyd, Chris Sutton and Steven Naismith are joined by Gordon Strachan on The Warm-Up, as the former Celtic and Scotland manager reflects on Old Firm pressure, criticism in football, and his remarkable career. 

Watch for 👇 

 An Old Firm baptism of fire 

Character assassinations 

His time at Celtic 

A Scotland player and manager 

The future of Scottish football 

His return to Dens Park 

Leeds and Manchester United memories 

 & a whole lot besides. 

Join the conversation:  

Give us your reac...

Join Scottish football’s odd couple Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton as they sit down with co-host Steven Naismith, fresh from his appointment as Steve Clarke’s new Scotland Assistant Coach. 
 
Topics covered 👇 

Old Firm now in crisis? 
Beyond Celtic and Rangers, do other Scottish clubs really want European football? 
Who has done the best business in the transfer window so far?  
What Dundee United can learn from Dundee 
Would you watch a Boyd & Sutton World Cup Roadshow?  

CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Start 
01:37 – a job for the boy 
02:46 – the Old Firm derby  Duration: 00:42:21

Your Scottish football questions… answered (and argued over) by Boyd & Sutton. 

Every month The Warm-Up will tackle your biggest talking points, from boardroom bust-ups to dressing room secrets, from the pitch to the stands. 

This month, Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton are quizzed on title contenders, who really is the third biggest club in the country, and the surprising truth about their “wholesome” bromance. 

Get involved in the comment and post sections to have your say next time around.
 
00:43 Sutton switch to stand up 
1:37 Hearts are the third biggest club in Scotland...

Who are the SPFL’s GOATed strikers? 
 

Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton are joined by Charlie Adam for The Warm-Up's first big debate of the season. 

A few special caveats are in place for this one with Boyd and Sutton OUT of the running along with Celtic legend Henrik Larsson, who is widely accepted as Scottish football’s greatest forward of all time. 

Several key names are in contention, with Chris Sutton identifying the man he succeeded at Celtic Park as one of his favourites.  

Boyd looks...

Steven Fletcher joins Kris Boyd, Chris Sutton and Charlie Adam in the studio for The Warm-Up's first big interview of the season. 

The Scotland striker talks about a successful career which began at Hibs, in one of the greatest young teams to emerge in Scottish football in recent decades and includes record moves in England and a recent transfer to Wrexham. 

Fletcher also reflects on some unusual highlights among them an appearance in a French cup final in what was legendary Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s last game in France and a starring role with Channing Tatum in a...

The Warm-up is BACK! Join Scottish football’s odd couple Kris Boyd and Chris Sutton as they are joined by debutant Charlie Adam and they dive into the game’s the big stories; 

Will we have a genuine title race this season? 

Will Russell Martin be able to turn Rangers’ fortunes around? 

Who has impressed in the transfer window? 

Will Derek McInnes’ Hearts be aiming for top-six, or higher? 

Who are the guys predicting for the title, Europe and the relegation spo...