Andy Reid

What's the body shape like?

What's the timing like?

And this gives us a good gauge of character as well.

Can they stand up to the challenge?

Who are the ones that don't give up?

And then we went into some small-sided games where we can see players' technical ability.

We can see the clever players, the ones that come into the pockets.

We can see the good defenders who are able to step in at the right time.

So we didn't have them in for an awful long time.

But what we did when we had them in here, it gave us a great indication of where we need to go with these players.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

So, you know, the athletic side, the technical, tactical side are all very, very important.

But us kind of motivating these players and making them believe that these can be top elite players.

The players that we're seeing out there today and the players that we want to take on the course, I mean, if you look at elite, it's on the badge and it's purposely on the badge.

We're aiming this at the top level players.

We want to help some of these players become future senior international players.

There's players out there today who have already played for Ireland at underage level.

We want them to be the next ones that really get to the top and we see them playing at the Aviva and see them playing in the games like we've seen this week and being able to perform at a big level.

And I think it really helps them.

I think probably the other bit there that is really important for me to kind of state is that we've had great contact with all the League of Ireland clubs over the last four to six weeks since we launched this and all have been very receptive to what we're trying to do.