It was a manager-captain heart-to-heart aimed at finding a conclusion to why the script went so badly wrong in Scotland’s attempt to write themselves into the history books in the summer.
Steve Clarke turned to Andy Robertson to get his trusted lieutenant’s view on why a squad that travelled to the Euros with great expectations ended up limping out in the first round.
Again. For Robertson, who spends his club season pounding up and down the left flank providing assists galore for a Liverpool side that’s romped to Premier League and Champions League glory in the last four years, the lack of punch in his country must have been particularly alarming.
But while the skipper was keeping the details to himself, he was clear within 60 seconds of that call he and Clarke were on the same page.