Jackson Irvine

I guess you would normally go down a level to kind of progress back up.

But fortunately I was able to play both my loan seasons in the Scottish Premier League.

So for me, it was an immediate success.

I was immediately playing at the top level in the country and playing against the... So you play against Celtic?

Even though you're a Celtic player?

No, you're not allowed to.

Can't play that day, yeah.

That's interesting.

Yeah, it's a little bit of like...

it negates elements of risk.

You know, if you're involved in an incident or a tackle or, you know, I don't know, you score the goal that, you know, denies them the league title at the end of the last day of the season or something.

And then you're, you know, and then you have to go back.

It kind of takes away the drama a little bit.

I get it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So no, I was never able to play against him when I was on loan, but those two, it's invaluable experience for a young player to go away and play against

um senior football and be around because even the jump from a youth environment to a senior environment is completely different and you know i found out that you know the hard way especially at kilmarnock my first year where i was you know

Yeah, dealing with, again, things that I'd never had to, challenges I'd never been faced with.

Like what?