Martin O'Neill

If you had been asking that question to any of my managers about me as a player, they would have stared right through you and said it's up to him as the player.

This is it.

Ray has been a really fine footballer here and it's been a tough old season for him.

It's been a tough old season for the football club.

So if he could maintain that form...

and then he can be an asset to us.

In terms of encouragement here, which is something that we can give him, absolutely, yeah, he gets all the encouragement in the world.

Trip to Ibrox is going to be difficult in itself.

But we certainly can't spend 45 minutes on the back foot and not really competing properly.

And that's against any side, never mind Rangers.

So from our viewpoint, yeah, I think that we've got to try and get

get a grip of the game earlier than we're doing.

Yeah, that's the message.

But the players know that themselves.

We've left ourselves in this position through one thing or another and we've got to try and see it through.

I think this total focus is on the game.

No, we've got a couple of niggles, but we'll see how they are by the end of the afternoon.

I will travel up today to the game and Casper's still not feeling great, so I'll leave him to recover properly.

And he spoke about Senesalo and Schmeichel.

In terms of illness, I'm hoping that I've got just the medical side to keep me right and I think that...