Andy Reid

The goals you can see are difficult ones to take as well, aren't they?

They're really poor avoidable goals.

So, so poor.

yeah the question is going to come up and like you say we lost a penalty shootout and we didn't practice them Wales practiced them and they lost their penalty shootout so not to say that there's right or wrong if it was me in my personal opinion I would have had the team practicing penalties I just think that

kind of, I suppose, muscle memory, getting into that, striking the ball well, you know, just kind of looking to try and hit the side net and getting good pace on it, keeping it low at times or aiming for that top corner and just getting the kind of repetitive nature of the practice in, for me, would have been something that I would have liked a team to do and if I was a player, then I would have liked to kind of do that and to... I mean, what we've done before is...

I'm talking about club football when you've got a big game coming up, it's a cup game, could go to penalties or whatever it is, you line two teams up and you line them up in a halfway line and you actually replicate a penalty shootout.

Now, look, I fully understand that it's not the same as when there's a crowd in there and when there's loads of pressure on that.

I fully get that, but I still think the walking up, the placing the ball,

just the kind of the feeling around practicing a penalty I do think helps.

Yeah, I think so.

I think there is, if I'm being totally honest with you, probably two years ago, three years ago, I personally felt kind of a little bit detached.

And I know that a lot of Ireland fans did.

I've still got a lot of family over there.

And I suppose what the team has done over the course of the last year or so, I think has re-engaged people.

You know, I think it was...

as opposed to true Irishness, great heroic failure again last night.

You know, we all get sick of saying that.

You know, we definitely get sick of saying that.

But what I do think, I think there has been an emotional attachment kind of, and it's been kind of,

Fans have been re-engaged.