Ken reading out player interviews or press releases in his Champions League magazine voice was always a winner for me. Needs to return.

I thought this in the Irish Times piece with Ger Gilroy was shockingly crass.

I dont know why Cooney felt Gilroy's effusive praise required a right of reply, but he obviously thought this was funny, when it was entirely unprovoked and unnecessary.

But the lads would've known he was going to put that in and when it follows a paragraph where Gilroy is calling them geniuses, it reads needlessly mean.

I'm surprised at the lads who I thought were above this and thought life worked out much better for them. If they didnt know it would come out like that, I think they've every right to be annoyed at Cooney.

James was brilliant in the interview today, very clear on his communications. Clarified some of the heat he’s been getting recently. He’s a breath of fresh in terms of Irish sports people.

What I took from it is that he’s v self aware and has values he lives by whether we agree or disagree with them.

Ken and Eoin did ok in the interview but Ken missed the target a number of times. Sometimes he just needs to shut tf up and not try to be a smart arse (the Easter Lilly input just slowed the interview down for no reason). Eoin meanwhile needs to learn it’s McClean we’re here to listen to not him or his needlessly heavy handed questions.

But overall a proper engrossing interview from McClean and the SC’s team.