Keith Treacy

And I think they're both just as important as each other, but

The brilliant thing with Jack is he went over to Dubai.

A lot of, well, personally, I was thinking he's gone off into the sunset, play a little bit of football and he's winding down now.

That wasn't the case.

He comes out and says, I'm not drinking strawberry daiquiris on the beach.

I was over there walking.

He looks fitter than I've seen him in a long time.

I remember being in Chicago a couple of years ago when Rovers were playing Pats.

Just by chance, I'm chatting to him on the halfway line.

He's giving out about his calf injuries and he can't quite get fit.

and he just looked annoyed you know I'm looking at him thinking he's not in love with football he's annoyed with his injuries can't quite get the fitness levels goes to Dubai gets a certain level of fitness comes back looks really sharp and he looks in love with football again and why wouldn't you be when you've got that amount of talent but he fell out with Steve and Bradley and the two of them have just put their egos to one side so I want to play I want you to play so let's get you back into the team and I think it's the best thing for everybody it's great to see a fella fall back in love with football and showing everybody what he can do and

I know it's probably not going to happen but we're even hearing murmurs of people saying get him into the Ireland training camp that's how good Jack has been since he's come back in

Yeah.

It's very easy to lie to yourself.

Like, if you're Jack Bourne, you're thinking, people are saying I'm not quite good, people are saying I'm over the hill.

It's easy to look in the mirror and go, I've done everything.

how dare they question me and go the other way and just go do you know what I will finish but he's going no I'm not I'm going to prove everybody to have that mentality is something that I didn't have as a player I always thought everybody knows I'm a good player I don't have anything to prove here whereas when you go out with that intention I think you can see it and Rovers are looking a lot better for it

That's the difference.

And it's the same in every tournament, but it's exacerbated by the, again, by the golf course at Augusta.

It's just the margin for error is so small and the potential for disaster is never very far away.