Alison Miller

So it was one thing in your life and it was rugby.

Yeah, at the time I tried to be more well-rounded because I understood that it's not good to be like that.

So you try and be more balanced as a person to have hobbies, because when you get injured, then you can't just see yourself as a player.

So I was well aware of the contradictions of my personality.

But people are like, do you want to coach?

And I'm like, I don't know if I want to be obsessed.

that obsessed with anything ever again.

So do you stay back from coaching then?

I'm getting asked to do a lot of coaching at the moment, but I have two young kids, like a five-year-old and a 15-month-old.

And if you're coaching, I don't like to have to do something.

So if I was going to do something, I would like to give it my all.

which is great in a way but yeah i think any there's probably a lot of leash footballers out there or carlo footballers i remember my dad same same deal similar but and i do help out like i like to just kind of give advice to teams or go in and do some guest sessions or just help out go in and do i still like that because i i might like to coach in the future and you but that's you have to kind of keep your foot in the game too and not get left behind

Yeah, 2018.

I was thinking of retiring that year.

So in the second game of Six Nations, yeah, I broke my leg, double leg break, compound fracture.

So that, yeah, that was really bad.

Same as what Seamus Coleman did in around the same time.

kind of didn't think I'd go back and play but I just I couldn't leave it like that I couldn't leave the last memory being stretched off the field so went back the following year and retired and it probably suited because we were going through a difficult time on the pitch performance wise it's great to see that it's moved on like you know that the girls are playing really well because they were difficult times at the time we just you know the support wasn't behind us

Do you keep in touch with the setup and do you keep in touch with how... Yeah, I wouldn't know as much as probably I should, but like I know from talking to players, yeah, look, they're contracted.

They had a really good World Cup.