Stephen Rice

but I'm trying to mould myself into a Glenn Whelan head coach or manager's role and that's what I want to be again like I said it's fuelled the fire for me to push on at disappointments when I was a player and I used that to kick on and reach the very top and I'll do the same again

Have you been talking to some of your fellow former Irish teammates and obviously their coaches as well currently Keith Andrews or Stephen Rice or Robbie Keane, Damien Duff have you kind of spoken to them since you left the job at Livingston?

I've not spoken to him since I left I've obviously I've had to take a little backward step and reflect on myself first and foremost but over the next couple of weeks yeah it'll be definitely a chance obviously I've spoken to Keith quite a bit about possibly getting in and obviously seeing Damien and Stephen and what they're doing obviously Robbie is at the moment he's probably in the same situation as myself now waiting to see what opportunities not will arise but yeah listen there's loads of people that have bounced off there's loads of coaches and managers have been in touch and they're the types that now I want to speak to there's a lot of people that I've not spoke to I've never came across and I've reached out because of the situation that they found ridiculous after five games that now managers are losing their jobs and now the words were said it's results based well results based is tough when you've lost oh sorry only won two games in the previous 36 the season before now it takes a bit of time to turn around so Yeah, I'll reflect on it.

I'll reflect on myself first and foremost and then bounce off the people that I'll rely on.

I mean, Chelsea's defending was covered on Match of the Day.

It was diabolical, leaving, I think it was Barco... um their left back and another like fairly short player at the back stick with all of their giants at the front stick and seemingly not marking jayden anthony in the middle but a nicely worked corner craig the thing that i loved the most about it was keith and the coaching staff stephen rice i think it was stephen rice going absolutely bananas on the touchline um but yeah really enjoyed that goal

We scored so many goals through pre-season like that, where the ball would come towards the back stick, someone would win it at the back post, knock it back across and then we're there to tap it in.

We actually scored a few goals like that.

It's...

It's Keith Andrews.

It's Stephen Rice.

It's Damien Duff.

It's, it's difficult though, because as I said, those players, they're experienced, they know what the league's about, they've been around the block, they've, they've come in, they've helped you stay up.

And remem- remember Longford in 2015 stayed up with the likes of Rice, Flynn, et cetera.

Right.

And then-

Well, they only got rid of Rice

...

Tony Cousins moved a few of them on, or a few of them left, and, uh, Rice was gone.

Yeah.

All these matches approaching the break in the Championship, Shane.

on that other game last night that we mentioned that you were watching John Liverpool and Alexander Isak too strong two goals too strong for Premier League new boys Ipswich Town the club had their first victory under Andoni Areola after the couple of draws to open their Premier League campaign Swedish striker scoring both in a 2-0 win for them in the action today as we said aside from this early kick-off Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 2 you have this is a strange one 5 3 o'clock kick-offs in the Premier League John we don't have that too often with television or whatever else usually it's 2 or 3 these days So it's great to see Brentford and Keith Andrews and Damien Duff and Stephen Rice, Nathan Collins, Queevin Kelleher are at home to Sunderland this afternoon at three o'clock.

So we'll keep an eye on that one as well.

Brighton host Leeds United, Fulham against Crystal Palace.

I never used the nickname of a man you don't know on a personal level.

Damien Duff and Stephen Rice came out and yeah, we had a good chat with them.

They were telling us, yeah, just having a little chat.

They're about to drive home actually from Leeds all the way down to Brentford and you get the feeling.