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We got back to winning ways on Monday night, beating Sligo Rovers 2-0. Were you happy overall with the 90 minutes?

“Really happy. I’ve been saying a lot of what we’ve been doing has been good and I’ve been saying it because it’s what I really feel and meant. I think the players also felt that. We know where we needed to be a bit better and to tidy up as a group and we did that against Sligo. We scored two and possibly could’ve had more and didn’t concede which is obviously important. So really happy overall.”

Our second goal just before half time on Monday really put us in control. Sligo did come out strongly second half, but unlike recent weeks, defensively we held firm and Ed McGinty needed to be at his best twice.

“Ed did make some good saves. Sligo had good opportunities in the game which again, in any game, the opposition will have opportunities. But Ed did make those saves which were important.”

Aaron Greene scored that second goal with a great volley from that outrageous assist from Graham Burke. It was Aaron’s 100th league goal. How important has Aaron been in this era, on and off the pitch since he came back for his second spell at Rovers in 2018?

“Aaron has been so important. I don’t know if people understand the full extent of how important Aaron has been. On the pitch, he’s been really good, but every day in training in everything we do, Aaron has helped build our culture set our standards. He’s one of our leaders around this club. He’s a brilliant example for our young players within the Academy to look up to. If they want to play for this football club as a centre forward, you have to look at Aaron and think, yes, the goals aspect is important, but it’s everything else that comes with it. It’s the full package and it’s a credit to Aaron that he’s still able to deliver all of that at this age and to still have the hunger and desire to do that.”

So our third game in eight days sees leaders Drogheda United come to Tallaght. They were leaders when we beat them 2-1 away recently and remain so. This will be as testing game as we’ve had this season.

“Yes it will. Drogheda have been up there from the start, fourteen games in and they’re still there. They deserve to be there, so we need to make sure we give Drogheda the full respect tomorrow that they deserve and what they’re good at, which we will.”

Kevin Doherty is doing a great job for Drogheda since going in there. Has Drogheda going full time been the main reason for their form this season and what do you see as their dangers tomorrow?

“I’m sure going full time has helped them. It’s great they are full time, it’s obviously what we want. We want all clubs in the league full time. So it’s a positive step that Drogheda are that. The threats they have are good, Drogheda are really good at what they do so we need to make sure we’re ready for that, impose ourselves on them as soon as possible and do what we do.”

Did everyone involved on Monday night against Sligo emerge ok and how are Aaron McEneff, Danny Mandroiu, Dan Cleary, Dylan Watts, Seán Kavanagh and Seán Robertson?

“Everyone came through the Sligo game ok. Seán Robertson has been in the last week, he got some minutes with the U20s last week so we’ll keep building that up. Seán came with a little knock and had a recurrence of it, so we’ve had to be patient with that. Aaron, Dan, Danny and Dylan are close, we’ll see how they are today in training, but they’re close. Seán Kavanagh is still a bit behind the others.”