Ben Symes

I think Rory Finneran was someone who was a shout last week as well.

Like, you know, maybe... I'm looking at that in my field and I expected more than four midfielders in the squad.

That was something that kind of shocked me.

So to throw us in Vuna...

and Finneran in there there's no harm in doing it there's only 21 players in the squad as Hamer said we will call up definitely one more maybe two more if Bacon drops out so there is still time to bring these players through I'd just like to see more hopefully this is the start of a trend where the players get faster through to the senior team

Yeah, look, Hamer did say that, look, the exact quotes he said for me were, you know, I double checked, will there be League of Ireland players in the squad for Canada and Qatar?

And he said, yes, definitely.

So I do think that, I don't want to say rectified because Hamer's thoughts were he didn't think players would be allowed to be released from the League of Ireland clubs.

And that's why he didn't give any kind of thought at all.

Part of me kind of goes, you know,

Would a phone call suffice?

Like, you know, if you ask these managers, would they maybe release these players?

But I don't know what the conversations were there.

Dawson Devoy is one who I'd like to see, and Ozzy Boone is probably the main one because of the excitement that we will have for him

for the next 15 years for Ireland.

But look, yeah, if you're a disappointed League of Ireland fan, the only thing that I can say is that there will definitely be League of Ireland players in the squad at the end of the month.

And Hamer did say only about two or three players from this camp will be involved in the one against Canada and Qatar, which is interesting because we've got a couple of senior players in here, like, you know, the likes of Jason Malumby, Dara O'Shea, Jason Knight are all in the squad.

So to know that only two or three of them will be in this camp,

It's exciting.

It's also exciting for these players to know this is your chance to stake a claim.