Stephen Roche
Q1. Nickname: “Midget”!!
Q2. Favourite Position: Midfield.
Q3. Club Honours: Under 10 Ground hurling, Under 13 Gaelic & Hurling, Under 16 East, 2 Minor Gaelic Football and 1 Minor hurling and 1 Eastern Junior Football.
Q4. When and where did you first play hurling (who was your coach, friend etc.) School yard with Brother Dowling and Brother Griffey!
Q5. Childhood heroes: The White Power Ranger!!
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Getting Old and Dying!
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Chinese
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? Hangover
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? Anything in the charts really!
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? Ibiza
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: Munster Final 2004
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? Winning Minor in 2008 after a replay vs. Ballygunner
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? Same as above!
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Thurles!
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? Orlando Bloom, I think I’m the image of them!
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? Balancing college & training as well as everything else, not enough hours in the week.
Q17. Least memorable game and why? Munster Final 2010 vs Clare, getting bet without really putting up a fight!!
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? An Eagle, Love to be able to fly and have a stuff on someone and nothing be said to me!!
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Television / Laptop – The main causes of my insomnia
Q20. What is your secret skill? I can fit 2 fingers up 1 nostril!!
Q21. Who is your ideal date, why? Georgie Thompson – Knows her Sport and she’s under 5ft.
Q22. If there was a transfer market, what player would you like to see on the Waterford Panel? Why? Joe Canning , You don’t need a reason!!
Q23. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Jedward and Justin Bieber!! Burry the 3 of them alive!!!!
Q24. What is your signature dish? Beef in Peking Sauce No veg, Fried Rice in Jumbos
Q25. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Although sometimes he goes for jugglers best would be Michael Frisby , Worst couldn’t go to one person, – Ozzy for his whole wardrobe, Pugsy for them skinny jeans, Kinger and The Cat get a mention also.
Q26. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Eoin McGrath, – Enough said!!
Q27. If you could go back in time, where would you go? 5 years ago to Waterford, I’d know all sporting winners for the last 5 years and could make me very rich from the bookies!!
Q28. If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional with whom would it be? Why? Any NFL or NBA player, 2 unreal sports
Q29. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? 2 points for a sideline, a very good skill in itself!
Q30. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion and why? Anyone that is up there more than 4 times a week either training themselves or training team, The commitment some people give on their own time is brilliant
Q31. Advise to younger players…. Listen to your coaches and Winning is everything haha
Q32. In ten years time, I hope to be ……… Still playing Senior, Healthy and hopefully have a family of me own, and please God not in a recession!!