Roddy Collins

Yeah, I mean, I did quite a bit of work in Berlin.

Actually, I went to Berlin with Roddy Collins for that TV show High Road, Low Road, and Roddy got the high road.

Sorry, just

to explain to people, given that we're in Dun Laoghaire again, Roddy Collins is a famous football manager, OK? LAUGHTER

thanks for that Matt he loved that so yeah I got the low road so I was staying in he was staying in the presidential suite of the Westin Hotel where he bumped into Angela Merkel one day he had a sauna and a steam room in the suite I was staying in the Three Little Pigs hostel where there was three bunk beds in the room with other human beings sleeping in the room and no toilet and I had a lot of time there to kind of research, like I did a bit of research in the library about unification, because I think Germany is a really good example when we're looking at, you know, in terms of the scale of what we're imagining here.

Well,

He's a legend now.

That's Roddy Collins, isn't it?

Yeah.

So we

of a pudding And everything

He's some character I love him to bits Everyone has a

Roddy Collins story And a Roddy Collins impression

Oh yeah yeah Jesus yeah

Was

Roddy Collins proven right? I think he said that this would be the worst signing of the season.

I can't remember exactly what words he used, but I think it was along those lines, wasn't it? I mean, he wasn't wrong, was he? I don't know.

It hasn't worked out.

I know it hasn't worked for some other managers that have tried to go abroad.

Pat Fenlon, I think, went Roddy Collins to Carlisle.

Did

Pat Fenlon go? Did he go on?

Just have to be able to talk to people.

I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of like the Roddy Collins management book versus the Terence Powell management book.

The last time Roddy was in, he was giving us tips.

Because you

Yourself, Nicky Byrne, et cetera.

We had Roddy Collins on the show, and we got you on remote, I think.

Yeah.

We got you on for a few minutes.

I'd say the last one was when Longford and Athlone were slugging it out in 2013.

Roddy Collins got the better of Longford.

Oh.

Uh, they, they had a massive, massive game in Longford.

Yeah, it's mad.

Like, you think back, was it 20...

I'm gonna say 2016 that Roddy Collins was there for a short while.

Oh, yeah.

I signed a four-year contract, or a three-year contract, and then, uh, I got to a couple finals and great years there.

And then I went out to Longtown where, where the famous Roddy Collins signed me.

Uh, I went down there and I won the League of Ireland down there with Roddy.

And, uh, yeah, look it, I, I, I had some great years and that, but, look it, it's like anything, Barry.