Welcome to the Andy Goode suite everyone. I'm here and I'm joined by a man that I now call a friend

It's not often you make friends with referees

But I'm delighted to be joined by some people don't know this but an ex international rugby player

Alongside a current international referee my good friend

Andrew brace aka bracy how are you mate? Are you well?

I'm good. I'm good. Good to be on

Yeah, I'm very good. Great time. You're on your lucky sharp. You must be going out for date night tonight. Are you well?

I haven't been back for the last couple of weeks since we got engaged so

So she's putting the pressure on me to actually have a night out. Yeah lovely lovely

We'll come on to that later firstly congratulations, but I will get on to that later on

Let's go back. Let's rewind. I mentioned that you played international rugby not many people know about it

I certainly know about it because we had a night out in Marseille after the European finals didn't we and that's all you talked about you being a

Tier one international rugby player as well as an international referee

Let's talk about your rugby career to start off with you used to be a bit of a nine bit of a player back in the day

How was that for you? I was a terrible player as most referees will tell you they yeah

Yeah, gone over to the dark sides

But yeah, no look I never never thought I'd actually go into the referee and I would laugh at anybody

Who said I'd be going down the referee in route when I when I moved to Ireland 10 years ago

But yes, it's strange how one door shuts another door opens

I landed on my feet coming over to Ireland

Working with monster rugby gave me opportunity to work as a coach development officer and then it was Johnny Lacey who is

Who's my fellow colleague in the office? I think he was sick of me giving out about referees every Monday morning

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