Alan Reynolds

But that's not to say the league captain, Akeem Burns and so on that we've had, they've been excellent for us.

So look, we've tightened up all over the pitch, not just the back four, and we felt we needed to do so.

No, look, come here.

People will say we're overthinking it and all that.

They don't know what's going on in pre-season with fellas with niggles.

We played Conor Parsons as a striker.

Then I hear it's a false nine we played.

So it was just a different type of striker.

So we have to be careful not to complicate it too much.

We know our strengths and how to play.

But I hear people, I laugh at people talking about what formations we play and all this.

I think it's lazy journalism.

Yeah, come here, fantastic, I've worked with him with the Irish 21s, was part of it, I was up in Derry when he came up there, he was unlucky with injury, he's had a really good pre-season, he came through last year injury free, without playing loads, had a good pre-season, but what I expect and demand from Collie Whelan is he gives it, he works really, really hard, you know, and extremely hard, and...

make the most of his career that's what i want you know and i think he'll score goals without comments but delighted with him and then you know hopefully he continues how do you find a balance between you brought him and douglas james taylor up top who we know if both can stay fit they're both going to score a lot of goals how do you find the balance between keeping both of them happy maybe knowing they won't be in the team every week yeah but look at me there's so many games coming up and there's obviously option to be played too like in sligo um look we come into

three games in a week and all that so look there's no problem and one plays the other backs the other up and then we have Huey Martin and Josh there who were itching to play good young strikers so look there's no it's healthy healthy Can I ask you a quick bit about some matters off the field obviously we saw the scenes last Friday night in the loud derby you're going to have another huge derby this Friday night I was speaking to Ciarán Culduff last week and he said the loud derby is the biggest derby in the league

I don't think there'll be a problem with the atmosphere.

It's Friday night in Daly Mount.

I think the place will be electric.

Obviously, don't cross the line.

You know, when you look at the flares and the fireworks, you need to be careful with that.