Ben Symes
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first heard Jan 2026
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I w I would be surprised just because of the words that Hamer has used over the last couple of months.
That he does seem fairly wedded to this back five.
But there's no natural wing backs in the squad other than Ryan Manning.
Yeah, I would be very surprised.
Um, like Dave brought up there the talking about identity.
The key thing of the identity is being hard to beat.
Yeah.
And when you think about how we would shape up outside of a back five, it looks really attacking.
Like it looks like Ryan Manning being given a licence and the fullback's been given a license to go up.
Then you're left with, you know what I mean, a holding midfielder and two centre halves behind them and we know like the first thing would be hard to beat.
is being able to control the game when you don't have the ball.
And that is one of the biggest things that Hamer wants his certain team to do is to try and control and limit chances for other teams when we don't have the ball.
So I would be very surprised to see him switch out of the back five.
But having said that, it is very interesting to note that we don't have a right wing back.
Um and even before we had James Coleman playing there who, you know, was a brilliant wing back in his day, but was very much a
A full back in a back four at this stage of his career.
So look, it's nothing new that that is a kind of a problem position for Ireland in terms of finding someone to play there.
But it definitely is heightened by the fact that now there is no there's no even what what you would say a a traditional right back in a back four.
No like Darrell O'Shea is playing there, Jimmy Dunn can play there, but there's no one who actually, you know, would have spent
spent their whole career being a right back.
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