Stephen Kenny

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

Nuance?

Yeah, no, it is a new development, of course, over the last couple of years.

And it's great to kick it off in the Aviva Stadium.

It's great for the players, really, and supporters.

So looking forward to that.

Yeah, it's an underutilised stadium from a football point of view, for sure.

up to in the last decades only cup finals have been back there and it's only right so it's great that the league games are there.

It means we can get a much bigger attendance of course at the first game and it's something the players look forward to because the winter months starting on it because it's come back it used to be March and then come back a week every year and now it's

Now it starts February the 6th, airs February the 8th, so you're in the midst of winter in your first game of the summer soccer season.

So it's always a test, so it's good that it's in a good venue like that and the pitch will be good, so that's excellent.

Yeah, I don't mind.

I don't mind at all.

I think you want the fixtures to be reasonable over the season.

You don't complain about it.

When you are in Europe, you get those five games put back in, in two weeks, periods, twice.

But listen, I've no complaints at all.

Yeah, it's the way it should be.

Yeah, and I've lived, like I've managed in the Midlands and Longford and I've obviously lived in the Inishowen Peninsula for over a decade.

So I've lived in different parts.