I

think they came to town with almost a point or a score to settle after perhaps what happened two or three weeks ago.

And as you said, who else but Noel Murray to score an opener.

But yeah, no, it was, it was, it was a tight game.

I thought stages shells to me personally, it looks a little bit tired and then they'd come back with a surge.

It was a game of very few clear chances.

As you may expect, when you got to sort of juggernauts clashing, the midfield battle was, was tight and ferocious and titles, nothing, nothing dangerous, no attitude tackles.

I'd sit them down and let them watch the men start against Pats and say, do the total opposite to that.

as well.

Yeah, well, I'll start with the Derry one.

Yeah, Derry, great win for them today into a Cup semi-final.

I think, yeah, look, they found a bit of form.

But like every team, it's hot and cold.

Like yesterday, Pats did a typical Pats.

You know, they...

They want to

Sam's Club.

Now, folk will be listening and say, fucking hell, you've got low standards, Andy.

But I really think there's more to come for this team.

I really think that we're still finding... uh we're still testing what's happening we're in the learning phase mckinnis is in a learning phase we're going through a big big change once again it would have been great to have the breathing space of a victory against hubs or a victory against dundee united or baith but we've no go to it but it doesn't really change much we're still in the learning phase and we're still going to know what the squad never mind the first 11 complete we all know what we need to add to the team so It's for the fans.

I go back to it.

It's natural.

You react.

up and doing...

two bites at it.

Not really the type of goal.

Like, if we had conceded that the week before against Galway, we would have been pulling our hair out saying, like, that's not good.

But I don't know.

Look, maybe it was just one of those days where slightly, possibly after the Lord Mayor show, you know, the highs of the week before in Talker Park, trophy lift and so on.

But, yeah, there was some slight changes to the team from Sean Russell.

But when you look through the team, it's still packed with quality.

if what you're saying is we're a cup team this year and you're happy with that, do you see this year as a bit of a transition year from where we were, where we're going? And does, does Sean Russell need another season to get to the, to be the competition of winning the league where we think we, where we think we should be rather than where we actually are?

absolutely uh andy since we have you on and i know you're a big shells fan yourself and one thing collie mentioned there was timing of the departure um and a comment from dave brennan the club addressed the joey problem well overdue in my opinion i don't know if you agree with that or what you think of the whole joey situation in general uh were you a fan of him or was it time to for him to go

I don't think it really matters whether I was a fan of him or not, to be very honest.

But I think anybody who's in a job for four and a half years at a professional football club, it's a tough, tough business.

And this year, as a fan, it hasn't gone as I'd wanted.

Let's be honest about that.

I had mixed feelings after, I think I heard you guys last week recording after the Bowls game, the day after, and I thought you were very fair, but you're comments because emotions run high especially as we saw in talk at that night but my head sorry my heart i did have an element of sadness to see any manager any full-time staff like that depart someone who's given so much but my head really sort of as dunny would often say that the stats the stats just don't add up and it's it's a tough tough business but having reflected on it over the weekend, I think the right decision was made.

Interesting question now is whether or not, not that Shell's right off this season.

Andy, do you think we can kind of double the numbers even from the Bows game and get a healthy crowd out? I love that it's on in Talca as well.

So what exactly has happened and what does the industry need to get out of this dire situation?

This is probably as bad as it's been for a generation.

It's a combination really started with Spain getting African swine fever, but really the price pressure that has come from that has really ripped the bottom out of the market.

Although the consumer side is going quite well, the combination of a very low price pressure and a very good productivity on farms has just meant there's a huge amount of product on the market and the processing side is really starting to get a good price for it, all of which has trickled back to the farm end.

So we're seeing a lot of notice being issued to farms and a lot of uncertainty and that lack of security is really making people question their future.

We've lost some herds in Scotland for the first time in a long time.

And I think if we don't see some improvement, there may be more.

Now, that's

like, honestly, God, the old sort of phrase, if you saw that in the Phoenix Park on a weekend, you'd be pulling your hair out.

All the hard work, all the chances we had created, and a simple just lob it into the box.

And I think they scored a similar goal earlier in the season when it was a Twardek, I think, scored a similar scrappy goal on Tolka.

That's killing us.

And that sort of is reflected in the goal difference after 19 games where one goal up.

um so look we've had our injuries is there any news on oren casey coming back you know it's i don't i certainly don't blame individuals i think it's more of a unit issue because as you said i think sam bone has had moments of brilliance this year but then a couple of weeks ago he was arguably a fault for two of the goals forgive me i can't remember the game Paddy hasn't been...

And I think that there should be a way to say to do the roofs for example in stages that don't require having to to to go down the planning permission route and look with the people at the head of the club now andy i'd be very confident that we will make sure that we have our eyes dotted and our t's crossed and and get every um the maximum use that we can out of this uh wonderful news