Ben Symes

And I thought Cork and Dublin for the whole 17 minutes played the exact same way, seeing that it wasn't going right and that it wasn't working.

Off the ball.

Rugby.

yeah every so often I think I'm coping and then I just remember like 23 minutes how I felt 23 minutes into the game in the Fortuna Arena and that kind of feeling where I probably let myself go a little bit and started planning exactly how my summer was going to look like going back and forth between Mexico and Atalanta or Atalanta I should say maybe I'll be in Atalanta now who knows Bergamo does Atalanta exist?

well Bergamo I suppose it's a guy wrestling

Yeah, I just keep remembering it.

Every couple of hours it'll pop into my head, that feeling, and I think that was exasperated by watching Czechia come out on top in a penalty shootout again last night.

Look, I'm in two minds with this and the Ireland camp are in two minds with this as well.

We were speaking to Hamer and John O'Shea last night and one thinks it's, Hamer actually thinks it's quite good that we lost on penalties to the team that ended up going there.

John O'Shea is in a bit more of, oh God, we were so close to that and we should have had that over the line type of camp.

My takeaways are that, as Gavin Kearney called it, the contractual obligations game happened.

It was there.

It happened.

And it's gone.

That's pretty much all you can say really.

If we're being real, we kind of knew the game was going to pan out the way it did.

Masoni tried to kill the game like five minutes in.

There was a moment where I think it was the left-back Sebastian Herrera who was only second cap for Masoni.

He's only received citizenship quite recently.

Yeah, born in Colombia.