Keith Treacy

your life is much, much, much more important than being able to play football.

And James has had a brilliant, brilliant footballing career.

I would assume financially he's absolutely sound.

So, although it's probably not the best thing or anything he wants to hear out loud, if it's going to impact your health and, you know, playing with your kids moving forward...

don't do it but what I honestly is in the back of my head as well is he has a hip injury a long standing hip injury it wasn't a surprise that Dirty played on an Astro so when he was signing that contract surely he said that Astro was not going to be any good for me maybe I shouldn't sign for Dirty

You've got to put family first.

I mean, even now with my back injuries and hernias and stuff like that, like in the winter when I get out of bed, it takes me probably about 15, 20 minutes to be able to stand up straight when I get up.

And that's just wear and tear.

So I can imagine what James is like and going to the well time after time and being as fit and as athletic as he is.

it's worrying but he's been a brilliant servant to football for so, so many years now and gone, you know, as we said, to the well so there'll be absolutely no problem.

He's had a wonderful career if he does finish it now although the dirty stuff hasn't worked out as well as everybody would have liked.

I think that's what we're all worried about.

In the back of my mind, I'm afraid the Shamrock Rovers could win tonight.

Pats probably draw with Bowes and Rovers just run off into the sunset.

If I'm...

almost 100% sure that if Shamrock Rovers have any sort of lead by the time we get into Europe the season's over and nobody will ever want to admit that you know because we want the title race but somebody needs to be north of Shamrock Rovers going into Europe because they will click into gear and how often have we heard Stephen Bradley saying when the chips are down we will start to play

they already look like they're going through the gears and it looks ominous for everybody like you say Pats look like they can beat Bowes Bowes look like they can beat Dundalk very few teams look capable of beating Shamrock Rovers consistently

It's difficult to tell with Jack you know I've watched so many players in the League of Ireland you think he'll go across the water and he'll be fine the first person that jumps into my head would be Sam Curtis at Pat's playing right back and you're thinking when he goes across he'll be absolutely fine that hasn't quite been the case so

It's always very, very difficult to tell, but one thing I will say, whenever I'm working at the League of Ireland games or I'm just going as a fan, when I see Bourke and Bourne on the Shamrock Rovers starting XI, I think, lovely.

I can't wait to watch these two.