Stephen Bradley

Completely blindsided.

The board, it was concealed from the board, concealed from Ciarán and concealed from Michael and his family.

So nobody within was the board, Ciarán or Michael or his family.

None of us knew about it.

Listen, the relationship that I have with Michael, his mother Sandy and the Nuno family, his grandad, is an incredibly strong relationship.

This club have nothing but love and respect for Michael and his family.

There's been, like I said, total alignment in how we've acted and I can't make it any more clear, Michael and his family knew nothing about this.

We knew nothing about this as a board and Ciarán Medlar knew nothing about this.

And like I said, when it came to light, it was very clear and we were all very aligned on the action that needed to be taken.

Unfortunately, I think my word in the studio is just going to be nuance.

Nuance?

Yeah, it's kind of good.

That's just my word in the studio.

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Off the Ball.

First of all, we were good to little Steve and he's such a big part of what we've done.

I'm sure we'd still lean on him for a voice and just have a chat with him about how we're going.

I felt Rowan was the natural one to come in and thankfully the club felt that as well on the board.

and Ronan will do it in a slightly different way to Stephen.

Stephen was more really hands on on the training ground and in the coaches room, which was brilliant for me.