Andy Reid

You know, wherever the starting point is, by the time they finish the course, we believe that they're going to be better players, physically more developed, and that they'll be better people as well.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

And it was really important for me when we spoke to them about the assessment day, we wanted them to come in their tracksuits.

Because I think that that's important.

Everybody understands that this is open to every single club.

There's no favouritism at all.

We want to help all the clubs develop.

But to do that, we need to work together.

And if we work together with the clubs, then we know that the players are going to get better.

So it's very, very important that we work together on that.

I think in some, there's some similarities, I think there's some differences.

I think I look at the technical ability of a lot of the players today and I think there was some really good technical ability on show there today.

You see some of the goals that were scored, you see how they manipulate the ball, how they can move the hips, which is really important in terms of changing direction and being able to manipulate the ball.

But I still feel that we can make a really good impact in that and

I've been pushing for so long over in Ireland for us to really invest into the Irish market and really have our finger on the pulse with the players and I think that's what this will help with.

Yeah, you know, look, I'm the same as everybody.

I'm so disappointed at how it turned out because I felt it was such a winnable game, you know, and then you see the Czechs going to be the Danes last night and you think...

you know it could have been us so it is kind of what if but also when the kind of the dust settles we think there's a great degree of positivity that we need to take we need to support the national team we need to kind of get behind them as much as we can and hope that the last few weeks I suppose probably since the Hungary game right up until the Czech game gave us something to kind of hope for again so more of that please more of the same on that front absolutely well Andrew thanks a million

I mean, like, nothing else.

And I want to inspire them.