It was about being patient and waiting for the opportunities.

Yeah, I felt we probably went a little bit too direct in the first half, which probably lended itself a little bit to a two-and-throw game, which is not something I really like.

I like being in games where we can control them for periods of time.

and probably the pitch didn't lend itself to lads taking risks and he had a couple of late withdrawals from the team and we had to play players in positions that they weren't used to like I thought Shane Barnes in the six was going to be an epiphany that came to me but you know listen he did unbelievably well in there and even before the game it's not something that he would have been used to doing but I thought he did really well in there and you know Having players like him and players like Coyle and players like Dean that can come in and do jobs anywhere on the pitch is just great.

So we're very lucky to have them.

Today was much, much improved in that department, wasn't it?

Yeah, so we worked on a lot of things and I went back to look at some things and we haven't really conceded a lot of set plays.

It was more people switching off or at crucial times we'd make substitutions and different people were doing different jobs.

That's something you'll have to rectify going forward for the final couple of games if you wanna-

Yeah.

Well, like it's, it's, uh, it's tough for us now.

We need to win the next two, and that's what we need to do.

And obviously, everything we need to do, we'll get right.

Like, you know, we can, we can make excuses and say that we hadn't got time to work on anything before this game.

We're straight from one game into another.

So for that to not happen today, do you feel like that kind of set things back a little bit?

So how are they making up that shortfall? Well,

I think that just that headcount, you know, the numbers in Dublin Bus, recently 3,341 bus drivers.

You know, there was a point in time when there was about 2,200 bus drivers.

So that will show you the extent of the development of the network.

But, like, the license, it's not for everybody.

Dublin is a concrete jungle, a sprawling labyrinth, you know, driving the bus around there and being responsible for a 10 to 1 plus vehicle on the streets, watching out for cyclists, pedestrians.

And I was a bus driver for 20 years, so now from first-hand experience...

Who would do that job?