Vinny Perth
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Yeah, I think it's huge.
I mean, the biggest criticism of, again, going back to my own experience that at Dundalk team was involved was the pitch we played on.
But we actually had a better record away from home.
We love grass and the summer football and ball moving across the top of it.
And I think for Derry...
it might look maybe even better than what Oriol did Oriol Parkers had a new surface late as well but it was really poor very poor to walk on there was no give on it all of that stuff so I think it's a positive move and
It was that bad that I don't think he could train on it on a regular basis.
They didn't.
And therefore, they weren't on it as much as people thought, you know.
So I think that's a real positive.
And again, the owner has really backed that club.
They've built the stand at the back of the goal, which is a huge sort of... It's a council-owned...
but they've built the stand themselves at the back of the goal which is huge and they're going to invest a lot of money in relaying the pitch and going back to grass so that's a real positive and the players will be thankful of it they've picked up a lot of injuries there over the last sort of
Getting called a banker with a W is not the biggest insult and it's fine to have that.
I'm okay with that.
But there is a line, to be fair.
And James has his own lines and we all have our own line.
Whatever it is, one of the highlights of my career was standing in front of the new stand in Tala Stadium and 1,400 people saying Vinnie Peart is a banker with a W. I loved every minute of it, right?
But the stuff about being an orange bee is not good enough.
But that is, James is going to have to deal with that.