Ben Symes

For him to come on, Yves Boss in a while, who I feel like we've been waiting for his debut for a long, long time.

He eventually makes his senior debut and looks like he's going to be a big player for his team going forward.

James Abankos made his debut.

We're, you know,

So we're looking for the future now.

We're looking towards the future.

And we have been given those green shoots towards the future.

Stephen Kenny, I think, started the process of reintegration between the feeling between the fans and the players and bringing young players through from under 18 levels to under 19s, under 21s, to senior level.

And a lot of this team was...

were kind of given a pathway by Stephen Kenny and allowed us to kind of connect with this generation of players.

And what this campaign has done is just moved that on a little step further, saying, yes, we know what we've all this brilliant talent, but here's what they actually can do.

And we're now at a stage of their development where they can compete.

And Hamer said to me after the game yesterday, he feels it's only a matter of time before we're competing to win groups and we're competing to win games against the top teams, as we did against Portugal in November.

And I think watching these players and the likes of Troy Parrott and Nathan Collins and Queevin Keller, who we heard about for so long before they ended up making the debuts for the senior team, seeing them grow and blossom and flourish into the players that they are at club level and senior level is...

And then if you combine with that with the sheer delirium that they managed to give us in Budapest, there's really no greater tonic to...

to make sure that connection between the players, staff, the playing group and the fans are really as one.

And Prague was kind of that perfect bubble of everything and the perfect city in the middle of Europe.

A city that was just built for that.

To go and travel to there and we were there.

We saw Irish fans completely take over the city.