Keith Treacy

Maybe they're not as willing to go to it.

I don't know.

Regardless of who shows up, it'll still be higher attendance than it would be if it was at the usual venue.

Are you broadly, Barry, in favour of this as an opener for the season?

I think it's black and white if you were a player and you said do you want to play in front of five and a half thousand or do you want to play in front of twenty thousand it's class for it yeah now I was wondering should it happen more or is the season open enough and don't do it again kind of thing because then it's a novelty isn't it it's basically an ad

Big fans love the stands.

What about Stephen Kenny, right, for Pats?

Because he was a lot of people's favourite to lead Pats to the league title last year, wasn't he?

Who was thinking that?

If only somebody deluded would have been thinking that.

Well, didn't get European football, right, so he finished fifth.

Now, he was supposed to go on a winter holiday, Stephen Kenny.

Do you hear this?

But instead, he cancelled that and he went to spend time with Keith Andrews at Brentford and John Eustace at Derby.

And I guess, I don't know the reason, but you can probably guess why that he did that.

But it feels like, I don't know, is this a huge season for Stephen Kenny particularly because of the reputation he comes into the league?

It was almost like...

Was he taking a step down to return to the league?

It was a long-term contract.

There's a lot of talent in this squad.