Stephanie Roche | Representing Ireland, Women's Football & The FIFA Football Awards | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have Irish international footballer Stephanie Roche on the show to discuss How she started football and representing Ireland, The rise of women's football & being nominated for the Puskas Award at the FIFA…

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Kind: captions Language: en okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized today we have a very special guest on the show we have boyars international football and superstar Stephanie wrote Stephanie how are you doing I'm good thanks arias don't go to Stephanie thanks a million for coming on the show no problem yes that beat us um I was always late in treating you and how is your training going will with this all going down it's been going really well the last few weeks I've been able to kind of just get over the backyard and then when it kind of home gym sessions are sorts check it out for wounds as well but obviously the weather has changed today slightly so it's a little bit I don't know it's be gonna and that bought him yeah it's been going I said just trying to do all the things I feel I need to kind of work on it's so fun it's given me time fit to do what our sofas which I feel like I had didn't really have the time to kind of the interim or training schedule before so it's been okay yeah the talk about any niggles or anything just before the quarantine happened hey no no see you want to present yeah yeah that's brilliant well Steph like yeah obviously you'd be like Aaron's most known footballer well dad for a second in football and I started playing when I was really young obviously my brothers played football on my dad with my brothers coach so it means go watch their matches all the time and Shankill and I used to always gonna play my older what have you playing having me and my younger younger out the T will be playing a halftime and the goal of and stuff like that and then they play with their lives and we stand Chanticleer sunshine koe used to play in the street all the time I was a proper little tomboy just out on the pit on the street playing football every day so kind of started there and I didn't really know much about what kind of girls playing in themes when I was growing up so I kind of just didn't think anything of it and I was 11 I think I haven't gone on twelve and one of my friends mom said to me would you knock open July the p.m. and at this time there was no girls in the team or in the league so I kind of didn't really know without it to be fair and then the last are you kind of played with hung around what we knew about her so this is kind of all right let's go and give it a go and I just kind of started there and I started playing with Shankill value Bellevue Shankill back then the Shankill I see now so I start playing for him when I was 11 I just took on from there under those are those a boys team yeah oh boy yes you believe yeah yeah yeah isn't it the underage football does no I think it's like 15 you can't play I was playing it was turned in so I only got two seasons with a lot before I had to move on see I'm gonna complain for coming see you girls in for yeah always I think mister game when I stop playing with words yeah like that's obviously they definitely helped you they playing alongside the lads you know yeah I think even just growing up as I said in the streets and playing with the lads like I used to be a loose take coatsy quite low key in terms we had low as a football areas playing so we had like a green in front the White House and we had an actual pitch down the road and what we called around the block there was a little patch of grass so it was like we almost had like little different stages that we play it was great so to be fair in terms of playing football that was all we ever doing and that definitely did help me book I think I play with the lives of the 70 level 80 and 90 and even later on we used to go out and play sorry hold on wait phone just serious quite looking in terms of where I grew up that's brilliant who did you actually usually like look like look I wanted to sort of be like would you be more like looking at it like a Marta from Brazil or to be looking at a Ronaldo from Brazil and I probably to be honest with you when I was younger wasn't it no no about women's football I wouldn't have known Mercury until I kind of got into the Irish so I'm just playing kind of maybe senior international and that was kind of later on even when I was on the writer than we know a lot about many international like female exuberance and such so it's a real bonus Roy Berbatov later on if there's just a little bit you know obviously when it shows a great gold score so he would've been somebody that I really like to watch play and stuff so it would have be a more male kind of I suppose footballers that I would look to initially for either got older and obviously I learned more though more women female players I mean your money no I found them haha please pray out here three's a crowd that's all three of us yeah I saw you gave a darn Conway a muscle shout out as well on Twitter saying a because easy you know where to find you look more yeah yeah we actually had Darren on the show reasoning the legend yeah when the when did they wouldn't they come and plan for our underage teams I think I think I saw that like he didn't make you in 15s but then also in your straight into the universe 16 to 17 yeah that's what happened the way he got a trial for it and 15 at the time which skills to him and I didn't I got picked I've got the second phase and I didn't get peace and I was devastated I remember King tonight that's it and it's not gonna happen and I was actually playing a match for Calvin see you again stella maris in Oscar Traynor Perry I know King was actually after much because his daughter was playing Stella Maris so he ended up seeing me play and he said to me he looked me and without after the match and was like ah he played with you else they're like are you really come here and he was aghast me to a plague a baker just was no just football he's like okay and he said to me like oh I can see you playing for and then the few just to make sure you keep it open that was a huge boost to me and then the couple weeks later I ended up getting a try for 70 and that went through kind of more or the Turek on a face I think those four different trials and I ended up getting paid for seven beans and just kind of took on from there that gotten through nine beans and then I'll see you later into the senior souls it was kind of like from that moment on I kind of knew that I could play at an international level but when you first got into the 17 is what was the roach household like was a big party I was I don't wait for parties to bring me to every training session every March as you can imagine like most parents grown open on and bringing their kids everywhere so we died and my brothers obviously totally in mind the football my mom my sister obviously very pro wouldn't you know wouldn't maybe into football as much but my brother's definitely I'm a guy were just the lightest anywhere and yours get something though babe we're not the top of the table recklessly another person another like Irish legend who actually played around as well Andrei's level oh and senior as well as Kate Taylor did you ever play alongside Katie yeah I did actually I made my debut and my home debut against Kazakhstan and turner's cross so I'm official debut and 7/8 against they sound away at my home debut was in Kazakhstan and I came on and Katy was painting back game so I play okay a couple of times and I think she kind of always box and was obviously always our main sport but she was trying to obviously balance and seal and then I canceled stage where she had to kind of pick one and I think she's kind of shown she picked the right one at the end quote yeah cuz I saw the crossovers were very very it was just like you got in like the end of 2008 and she left him says annoying so I was wondering if you actually got time there yeah yeah it was quite close in the time and the crossover really was kind of like I understand and that was it yeah was it like being around Katy and and seeing her career become like I was probably the most blue loves sports that ever yeah Keo it was quite a few songs clay is a little bigger like she's very down-to-earth and you've never tinged that she's a superstar that she is because she's very very Chisholm very very humble she's always been a reader nice girl I remember when I first met her I didn't really I knew a little obviously about our new she's a box and so she kind of just she just was a normal girl and onaconda way and I was kind of I'm very close to Anya and Anya Oklahoma would have been close okay so it was kind of like we're a mingling and as I said I think she she's just a really nice girl I'm obviously very very happy to see her do so well because she's such a nice person yeah did you see her documentary yeah thanks I think it's great to someone like yourself and then someone like yourself like really sort of breaking down the barriers in sport I'm like bridging that gap and equality in sports as well so I think that's something that's really been more prevalent as of late like you know me and the women's ice hockey team were obviously fantastic and the women's rugby team was getting a lot more TV time do you think that gap is getting slowly but surely more an era between women the men's sports yeah definitely I think obviously we're still a long way off being on par with them and I think that's something that we're gonna have to just face reality but we are a long way off for as you say the more TV publicity the more iconic just media activity that we can create and have people actually look and unknowing about what's known about again it's been able to come and watch to being able to watch them on TV that can only be good for women's sports and hopefully continues I think obviously everything that's going on now you're hearing a lot about women's football being quite vulnerable because obviously the men's teams are obviously you know in a situation where this is all gonna affect them so I just hope that in the long term it doesn't kind of take another step back because it's very easy to score it to put the women's team aside especially within football where there are huge clubs who have women's kind of teams affiliated I think the easiest thing to do when there's some sort of financial trouble this is kind of maybe he's take a step back in the women's side so I really hope that doesn't happen and what kind of scene a little bit when I was at Sunderland so I kind of have a little bit of experience in terms of what can happen when there is financial trouble a club so as I said I just hope it doesn't take a step back and not just women's football see women sports in general yeah I already know think they can do it at all and I don't see happen here's the reason why because I I'll see over the last few years and more and more people who get more fit like a bond they want to use that Fitness and like in sports and games like and then like more and more girls that like out there like other most recent Irish women's games those things have been absolutely packed and are doing amazing like oh that like you know top the league the groups are just ahead of Germany I know Germany of gaming on board that did people are really really buying into it now and like all the girls like this standard has just gone up so much like like some of the girls are our online City I'm like on yourself as well it's like user like trailblazer for the open comers yeah that's thing I think if we keep an eye on the head there well in terms of girls being fitter and Connor obviously raisin today I think that reading he helps think because it's been so much more potent so I think obviously the strike that we had a couple years ago in terms of 20 get better better better kind of access for players to be I would say go to James to get programs to do that sort of stuff I think we've shown that if they're lucky is ever put in boy the associations are quite a team that you're with but we're willing to kind of rise with that as well I think that's what's happened over the last few years you've seen as you said clothes like Arsenal mind city really putting a lot in so what I need to see them even the English players with the FA putting so much money into that the English players are completely transformed they're really all really really athletic really fit and as you say raising their games according to make sure that they compete at that professional level so I think it definitely has helps people have tried to get behind it and that has to continue for us to be able to grow and grow and then maybe one day as I said try and be on prior with the men but I think we are a little bit far off that at the minimal as I said I hope in the future I can kind of happen you're also you're also you like almost a veteran in the squad as well like like 10 years border what is that what like since they like your first cap to now like what is like can't even describe the difference in that in those 10 years yeah definitely I think I've seen in women's football grow a lot I think particularly in the last maybe five years or so five six years of these things are changing share in Ireland and put around the world obviously when I was growing up as I said don't even me know anything about professional women's football I didn't you know I knew but the Orlan team until I have my first try with the 15th whereas now with our young girls local say no look at the women's matches on TV like and they can explore it's a chronic to play international football and be at that level because they can see in front of them whereas as I said T when I first start playing football Rubin destroyed my chest you know I know Brazilian Ronaldo these are players who I looked up to where is I think the footballers and have that aspiration to get a level where we're hopefully gonna be Alex yeah I think it's definite gonna happen like also what you've done over the last few years all see you got you propel to stardom with that which are unbelievable goal but like there's so much more behind that like yeah like just it's really really driving like women's football for it on there even the camaraderie that the girls have on the page as well yes like it's very easy to buy into and then caught up a Koi gig as well yeah yeah that's that's one thing I would say about the artisan has always been that you say that kamar camaraderie we've always had a really really good team spirit and I think every one of the girls kind of work hard for each other and what we obviously enjoy our train and then enjoy just because we all enjoy playing each other as well so it's definitely that's a huge crowds of walk on it I think will make us successful in the future but we found really vehicle teams over the years I'm not made at the kind of major tournaments so I think it's a huge goal for everybody in the squad now at the minute to get to a major tournament and hoping I can happen because I do think a lot of the players that are still in squad who have been there for a long time you deserve a sort of hook up and happen in the near future yeah you you bear played in France it played in Italy you played American your plating and how does the earth league stack up against those league just in terms or you know to set up the bakken how do island compare against your release and women's the ball and I think the biggest corner issue is obviously that we're still part-time or still an amateur league like this I think in terms of the standard of the play there's a lot of cool players and a lot of players all I would say would definitely succeed in in England France and Italy in America as you say it's where I've been there's definitely players in the league it would go over there I make it for the biggest I think hurdle for us is that a lot of the girls in the league are also working full-time jobs whether in college that are working all week some people are working in college I'm playing football so it's very really hard to kind of juggle that and then go out and perform care very best at the weekend so I can kind of make the games maybe a little bit less like a slower tempo maybe that's probably the only thing that I would say but I do think the quality in the league is definitely up there with some of the best players that I've seen there are a lot of very variable players in Ireland again I've said this before I think the hardest thing is keeping these players here because we've seen it over the last few years with myself going away and Katie went the way we Anna Teresa's gone away but these are players who are going to play a higher level because they know when they go to pay for and they have to to be at a good level and I think the harder biggest problem for for the leaving arm just to kind of maintain a high standard by keeping players here and how you do it I'm not sure because I think the only way you can do is by making the league professional and I think we're a long way off yeah Big Show no to Rihanna as well she's run amok she's a friend of ours here on the show as well board am you vocally playing them as Ross first on your play in America you played in England like if like I say girls come to you all the time what should i do she did go to college there college there they go what would be for any girl or boy watching now like what would you like they keep doing both now what would you what would you sort of what would you well what we do sort of recommend and I was asked to go to college a couple of times in America when I was younger and I got a few scholarship opportunities for i remembereth time kind of hair and horror stories about girls who've gone away and being promised this that and the other and not got it and I just remember always been a bit reluctant to do it and also at the time I remember no Kane was the senior manager and he kind of was just trying to say like okay pickle tonight it's gonna be very difficult to get you back in terms of getting into schools and stuff so that kind of made my decision easy from you I was like okay well I'll go to college and then I see what happens Stan but in yeah I would say anybody who is no ganas don't believe everything they tell you because they're gonna give you and tell you everything to try and get it to go well just make sure you have somebody look over everything cause even when I went to America in terms of kind of professional football my contracts I read through our nation drone true and I never really knew that I could get my contracts gone like that I just thought ok I'm going for two years I've got material contract I'm I'm gonna buy into this and do really well over the two seasons for it ended up being obviously a shorter time yeah I wanted to be able Y con it was a bit naive in terms of as a saint just believing everything the Colombian I didn't really look into everything so if you are being offered kind of scholarships and on different things just make sure that the college is in a first of all go to area because that can be a huge thing if you're in the middle of nowhere and you've just got your college and you don't over by yourself you're not kind of guaranteed you're gonna make illegal fringe and what you're gonna find a hard fitting in you might not really but everybody straight away so that would be the hardest person usually the first maybe three or four them once the hardest first so but just say make sure that you're near kind of like a cold city so that you can obviously we don't have too many people around you can go and occupy yourself and do things and also obviously look into everything that they promised me and make sure that stuff and you're gonna go ahead because I've seen as I said horror horror stories inherently really bad things that happen in terms of people being promised things I'm not getting them so that would kind of be my more you bit of advice there if you are it ain't about going to America on scholarship or or to play maybe in the Wasl or the USA I think it's the men's team immense kind of semi-pro need as well so yeah just look into it best you can and make sure that everything you're promised to do get well brilliantly so I actually think I think once you retire you're gonna be like like you're gonna be like on a board or you're gonna be I don't know exactly but you'll be going to be a mentor to so many girls you know that that's pregnancy I think it's people save me fuse on your little Book Awards it was a well I think a lot of people might think it's fiction because right importing wouldn't believe it yeah yeah but like okay we may as well get into like people keep bringing you do they know we may as well get into like it your own believe will go and then you came runner-up in the post cast Ward um first of all when you scored that did you even know some record that and second of all like can you believe what happened after and I think what I scored originally I didn't know it was being recorded like a corporate of the games have been reported that season so I knew it was possibly boy didn't think about that straight away as I was going to go on thinking he was coming back in from Haskell am because was just out to have fun I miss Florida and I think he just about Cena he was walking by either party or would I go on these like he's just as well I came out and I did like it went inside and I'm John in Florida at the time it was according the game had the laptop on the table me with him an oily and we're sitting there and he just caught me over and was like here have a look at this I seen it then obviously on the replay okay that was easy I mean brilliant and in fairness wanted it was the same at the time was joking I'm just gonna go where or you're gonna be famous after all this and obviously it took off the way it did you put it there you put as your flash box and Bebo and shared on Facebook and that one it was all oh yeah it was crazy to a talk on for a bit yeah I saw like James Corden real Ferdinand and like so many people are between it like a you just like what is going on here yeah yeah it was just obviously the initial team was just that when oiled so obviously seen all those people credit suite and then v2 Union and even just talking about the goal and it was just nice to see them talking about the goal as as a great goal and not kind of saying I like this girl scored a goal it was just actually admire in the goal for what it was so that was kind of a crazy time and I was special thing to see people out there calling to caliber particular footballers you know oh yeah it doesn't matter mom woman or alien if your score go like that your own real poor that like only only slightly touching the negatives because I saw that like a like it people were saying negative things here as well and like why I think it's just people's automatic reaction isn't it when you see somebody doing well or getting some sorta conic positivity they always want to have you could criticize what happened there you know I know I think it seemed a lot of people require just the fact that I was a woman I think the fact that the goal was pasted to be on the stage at the place that it was all especially later on when it was picked for a course obviously I think you're always going to get people and don't get me wrong a lot of the people who said things were obviously idiots like and someone on my kind of boy and we could say so I'm gonna play Kuwait and I think I remember I fear I'm one of them I just said something back and the next day it was in the in the Herald haters gonna hate from Washington all myself when we first saw the girl I was like that was a bit like honorees goal against a you know it's you know the virus has go yeah no actually back always know where the errors go to selfies and then when I was look at the post awesome when I was coming I was like I was like Jesus rubbed my perky Betty wrote how Mary goes I was like no like that's insane like yeah yeah well I thought Percy's build was the best what's called a year I had a was like phenomenal you're making immense alz stencils the back she was like how is raviga I was like I've seen a few of those girls before I mean but like if I'm personally floated the head of it I'll see you sport you know it as well you would have been like yeah what was like to me all those people all those superstars cause like you actually became famous and for like walking boy and that's you know you tank and when that happened like cause like Ozzy I know you said you ride to the airport or get in the VIP treatment get like on grand or I can just get a taxi or something like it's like so able to get comped them like you like with rubbing shoulders with the best like what what was what was a life it was probably like a dream it was just honestly because I remember we got off the plane like we had for spicy some see we were in English and stuff I name was so nice was like I'm ready took my dress and hope somewhere so we wouldn't get ready notice are really nice and I think they were just anyone you know his people and then we got off the plane and there was literally I've never know it was to perform I only know it was a nail because I can understand wait wait our he'll get to use so when you got off the plane and half the whole thing said oh there's a little door that I left and that was open and there was a guy standing there in a suit and everything and he was like and I was like what's going on and then we looked down there was like America down the runway ready to pick myself and it was only self and being big talk and I was like but don't want to leave me brother carried you what I'm slipping away and he was gotta meet them outside anyway so it was just crazy like I said it was VIP treatment the we got all in the car and we went and got her stole from them when we found me and after and just went on to the pity event itself and it was just crazy cuz even like the whole town itself was like literally a five minute walk or if even two minute walk to being sure where the ceremony was on they always got on three in Zurich Erica so we stayed in like the Hyatt I think it was and the Hyatt was here and it case was here and I was like we walked over during the day so I got the car I'll be here I don't know what's it's a six o'clock I'm sure we can walk over it's only across the road like no no no it's okay we'll give you care and Isaac okay that was just like it was crazy if we were looked after really really well we had our own and FIFA official kind of delegate to look after us as well as she kind of done everything for us all day it was just it was mantle's and when we first arrived we kind of went in there was like a little kind of bull fail on Sean and my brother and my dad got the corn with us and being my boyfriends and sister came as well and then obviously just a few media from where and so we all walked into this little room and we just sitting there chatting away and we brought her was sitting that happened to me and I can just look over her shoulder I was like help you there's to hero and like Saturday bureau was I can record right behind him he got a twenty thousand home week on and it was like that for the day like every time we looked around there was somebody kinda walk and boy-like on we and then Rodriguez came in there later as well to be fair literally every one of them we're all really nice Primus went over and we didn't want to beat up on it like fine girl and he was reading I said I seen your goal that was really good I miss the books and I was just amazed and for him to say something like everybody we met that they kind of said similar things so it was just it was nice to see I'm kind of nice to be able to forget as I said that was kind of compliments from from work last four bars that's most people's dreaming these players for that I'll see you meant Messi or Ronaldo like what was it like when you met them because I met Roy Keane before and they just they can or off and you're like as fun as different like Oh same thing when I met Conor McGregor ball like like what was like meeting these two lads as well cause like that how many people do that how many people it was a it was just like particular because I didn't really get a chance to speak with Messi boy I got a chance to speak with another one we got a picture in the-- in a corner chat to him and it was like as you say there's an aura around when you just kinda like being come in the flesh it was crazy to see him coming as I said in person and again this is what you like on it yeah exactly my father I actually stayed someone's gonna come back to you nominee is Connor room so we're all the kinda people who were nominated for awards were all kind of mingling and walking around and we just mingled with them all and work on again looking kinda calm there's around there's him there you know he went Diego Simeone was there we got a picture with him and my new one lawyer was there we just kind of shot at the dam for coconut minutes like it was just it was weird like it was crazy because I said everywhere you look there was somebody who you're like and it was just mad to be there and with them you have to get like a runner surprise or what do you get from that night out and there we're Deportes known actually the girls in fairness the girls gave me when I went so I think I'll straight into camp with the Irish team and Giuliano San Antonio Lauren made me move very young Oscars award because they thought I should win it so that's actually bring you come for a friendship yeah you know it was nice it was great I said it was just nice to get back to normal because I had been just a crazy crazy talking before it is always nice just a fact occurring it - no I'm gonna play football and just get back to what I was kind of doing before ya go back to your craft so it was with was the best person he met was an Alabama was up yeah yeah let's say so just because as I said I'm a night of fun that was like before I went I was thinking South Lake look at if I wanted to meet somebody and get a picture with somebody it was going to be him and I actually said it today if he was open around for us from FIFA I just said look at the only person I would like to meet will be Ronaldo and fairness as soon as she seen him she called us over and got us in shout would haven't got a picture so that was kind of nice of her as well but yeah he would have been the main person that I wanted to see in me because obviously is just he's a superstar and obviously wasn't the best player in the world in my opinion starting to war here now it messy your island career because obviously 155 caps which is absolutely amazing like you have a dream of getting tougher on alone wotnot on that pitch fish five points well a lot of the female games would recently have been in Tala Stadium do you think all the older female games should be in the Viva no matter what I'm sorry I'm gonna put you on cuz I'm think this is gonna go there and I'm worried someone's charged real quick Daphne just in terms of our doors women's football obviously a lot of games previously being held in palisade him and do you think all those women's football games should be held movie with the exact same as the man's I know one or two have recently but you think they are shorts every single time and oh I think not because in my opinion I think when you're cleaning the avivit it needs to be full in order to Connie get the same atmosphere obviously getting the plane the idea is it's great for it girls are playing the FEI called final and stuff for I think with the Irish team with the way we are in air we're just starting to fill Tyler Stadium we're just happy to get the crowds to fill that so I think the goal should be to make sure that we sell tyler stadium and then maybe in a couple years or getting more and more people and more demand for tickets then maybe you can move to a bigger location but i just think of the minute if we were to go and play a match there would just be a little bit of a lesser atmosphere if that makes sense plane in a bigger stadium with less people so i think right now we're a better off plane as I said in Tyler stadium we've kind of made that a home over the last couple years so hopefully you can kind of continue as a city to send out that and get people want in the comedy game and then it will be obviously a great problem behalf that we haven't got enough space yeah that's actually a very good point because I was watching sorrel until I die I'm sure you've watched it for their like it's shown as they've got more that again relegated more and more their stadiums the stadium stays the same but the fan base goes down in the stadium and it looks a bit it doesn't look right you know yeah yeah yeah have you actually what you I'm sure you watch them down killer do I have it yeah watch the first Syria they're known as the second series different series on the girl with the minute so I'm trying to take a break and I have so many torches when you play with Sunderland as well we train and we in the same facility as the senior team yeah yeah I coached on later on when I was talking about obviously witness in the clinic financial downs for a new men's team having an affair women's like oh when I first went along the lines we everything remember getting there and kind of been like but this is what it's all about you know the kalua train and being the walk got in every more and you had your breakfast may if he trained you came back had your lunch like everything was just looked after it's access to the gym so hydro cool everything which was top class and like the first few seasons that I was there it was brilliant and obviously the men's team got relegated that championship at McLaren and knew there was gonna be a couple effects from that cuz obviously financially they lose a bit of money from nothing in the Premier League and then I will see it was disaster and they got relegated again like we heard it about Sun and I'm Brian a financial advisor and and obviously the first thing the hidan was the core the women's team knock or make a court would in the women's see him so we had and i think it was like 14 or 15 full-time fairies and the rest for all part-time so we had a meeting just before christmas one of the years and it was just i said he got the new you're gonna get around to get it again and they told us basically that the courting the women's teams just prior to him so I was quite lucky cuz I was sit on the contracts that we had to fulfill my contract until June oh it was like everybody he was a contract then decided okay well I'm not staying here for a parrot on wage because it was players like that's me just playing for Arsenal now and he were being chased by asking for a couple of seasons but she done really well and we've broke Chaplin he went on to play for red and ferny you Rachel Furness was a favorite Redden's now at Liverpool these are really really good players within our team who decided look I can stay here and be peritoneum because they wanted to play at the highest level and and obviously and deal well that level but yet it definitely did have a knock-on effect as soon as the man kind of Sarah will be easy kind of go to was to try and save money or to do what they can to kind of make more money yes to get rid of the kind of the deaths that we were and look what annoys me as well annoyed us all the time was that we weren't even getting that much and I like on the way it wasn't like we were a card in the floor millions that was just connect it was a kind of fact from what was happening and obviously always there for three seasons and my last season we were sitting WI Sarah won the following season the team and the dogma actually put important forward for the WSL they didn't get paid for wsl seal because they didn't make a bit afraid because did one out there to pay for us and their the floor NL playing in the Northern Premier League so a club that was once a woman's club that was once con it in the top four and WSL one that was my first season the club I know playing in Northern Premier so like I've definitely seen the effects as I said that's what I was saying that I hope what everything that's going on now that doesn't happen again but I hope I like to think that as you said it's guys gone far enough that I don't think they'd be able to kind of deal as as easy as they would have been back there yeah it's must think like how much like a relegation actually read those affect like the whole community but it was only code like I wanted to ask that because there I'll see John Shea was there as well at the same time you were and like obviously play for uniter Irish like football imagine as well I was just wondering we did you pick his brain what's to try and give him a girlfriend like came to my okay and yeah to be fair West Brown I'm John Shea were really really nice cause we you know V I'm obviously like we would have been training the mornings and they would been trained the more so you would have kind of off off competing in to say in the canteen having breakfast with them and they can furnace to Joe and always come over and say hello see her getting on like a lot of the logic we go into areas like most some of them there are a few here work on it you know thinks they're better than everybody else kind of come on in with her Gucci trying it on and they're playing in that for most of the footballers in fairness that's when I'm already down yeah Johnny Unitas remember actually after we went on strike that's when we kind of came all of them was like asking me about a story to be nice going on the way in terms of given whatever policy could give and where's Brown yes I was look after seasick send them boots I was bring down a lot of boots from the man will get pins every day from Adidas and Nike or whoever they reckon is sponsored by like the lads we have fibrous experience already sitting mean eat them so he used to always kind of bring down this idea girls better if he was sir whether we passed more than a parrot's on Paris yeah they're about reading those guys that's great three more games to go on the group as well go to if I still gonna go ahead next year because I'm so you going to move they're going to move the man's euros there as well I don't know whether it's being confirmed for that's being put back that's why you hate to it's gonna be it's gonna be a knock and a knock on effect from with a man obviously being pulled back so obviously for me yeah I was one of the older players as you said the veterans in the team it can be a little bit you're thinking okay a lot more work that kind of just keep myself taking over before it any one of lights would be it to be and 2021 boy no I think obviously it's it's it is what it is I think everybody's being affected by what's happening so you can't just have to get on Britain and obviously we'll have hopefully the World Cup there after that as well yeah that's the main hopefully doesn't push that back for it if you but maybe he thinks will just go back to normal Dan you know yeah yeah hopefully rock bounces oh yeah other than the obvious you've made your a heroic return to payment and tell us about that was their parade off you know when you came no no I think because I trained up a man quite a bit when I was back home I offseason and so obviously I got no degree I was quite a bit and obviously I know oniy O'Gorman and current Oconee were there Jack Walsh is obviously part of the Irish team le as well as a few players who've been playing with in the Irish guard as well so it was it's grandis been quite a good kind of Slav back and I've just been back into the seam and trained and she's been disappointing because obviously I wanted to get going again in the league and the league the weekend their league was with me at the side against cork all this happened so it's been a disappointment for that in terms of that I just can't wait to get going again and last year was neck-and-neck it was actually late almost reminiscent of a Liverpool vs Man City in the Premier League were mad city win the league by a point sort of thing and then it was like you win we win you and we win who do you think when this doors come back around he will be your biggest challenge this year what we shall burn off see works for you to record defi not cook any don't the league for last three seasons unlike each year like any you have like a Moyes know into your mind say do different I was like geez they should take a break for a season for their own mental health [Laughter] burn well they're she'll burn now so I think it's always being kind of female she'll burn Wexford I think that would be the same again and I think if you Tim my surprise people this year I think I've been following the airwaves on on Instagram and they have obviously Graham Kelly in charge and there was a very very good coach and I think they went with people it was practiced you see I think they could do well I think they've got the right people in the cruel when trying to do the right things so I think they could feel quite wearable again I think it might be or so so extra don't PR and she'll burn so we'll see what happens yeah I do be top goal scorer is hope before so I need to get back to scoring buttholes I haven't done that no right why would I give John O'Shea a ring now holy water Steph you're an absolute legend for coming on the show and I feel like it's been a long time coming cause like we're all talked about football as well as much as other sports border to talk to an actual oil agent doesn't happen every day so rot in this we're a tingle no a Stefan times mean for coming on the show and I felt like I live a little bit one of my dreams through you and saying hey you met Aaron oh he's no more person on my list people who I have to meet for a bike so I'm sure you're a little you know that noise so like good all the way he's not dressed to take a look pair of Moorhead on yours but anyway both of us rattly to see so that worked out there but no times million and if you did enjoy the show which I'm sure you did make sure like share subscribe and as always stay energized